Card for a Grandson

I thought I'd better make a card for my youngest grandson a.s.a.p. as his birthday comes so soon after Christmas I need to have it ready to post. I have used a sketch from the Sketch Saturday challenge site - which this week is to choose any of their previous sketches that you like. I chose Sketch 16 - one that I hadn't done before and that I thought wasn't too fussy (O.K. for a young boy hopefully).
Edwin is coloured with pro markers and the green backing paper is from a magazine (I really want to use it up so I can start using all my lovely CDs more. The two backing squares and the corners have been made using a Cuttlebug.
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Beryl xx

Tanda Teaser 78 - Punch Drunk

I've missed taking part in the challenges over the last few weeks and now need something to get my brain in gear again. I hope I'm in time with this one for the Tanda challenge which this week is to use punches or die cuts. The black border is a Fiskars punch which I have only used a few times, the top backing paper is from a magazine and the lower backing is a piece that has been covered in Glimmer Mists and then put through my Cuttlebug. I know it's not the usual misted and speckled effect you get from Glimmer Mists but this piece was used to clean up the craft sheet(waste not want not) and just matched the roses in the other paper. The image is from Dancing with Shadows and the ribbon and flower from my stash.
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Beryl xx

A New challenge for the New Year

I'm looking forward to taking part in some new challenges in the New Year on the new
Sketch and Stash Challenge blog run by Becky.
Becky says it will be a sketch challenge with a twist. Check out the sight Here to see what's in store.
Becky, Chrissie and Lisa make up the design team so I'm sure we'll be in for some great challenges.

Beryl xx

Merry Christmas

This post is to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Now usually, I don't like to wish my life away but I know that lurking in amongst the boxes and bags are some crafting goodies so I can't wait to have a play on Christmas day.
I hope you all have the best Christmas possible and I look forward to seeing you all in the New Year if not before.

Hugs from
Beryl xx

Sketch Saturday # 27

This is the first time I've used my new stamp from the Pollycraft Winter Elves range. I've stamped the image with Stone Gray Stazon and coloured it with pencils. Both the grass and flowers (from the Meadow theme plate by Elusive Images) and the little bird (from Sir Stampalot) are coloured with Superpoints pens.
I finished it off with some chalks to give a background. I followed the theme from
Sketch Saturday and used papers from my stash.
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Beryl xx

Chilly Tilda

This card is for the Secret Crafter's Saturday Challenge. It's a sketch card and I've taken the liberty of turning it round. The paper and vellum are from magazines and the stars in the corner are navy peel offs. I did punch out a die cut greeting but it was too big so had to use peel offs for that too. Tilda is coloured with pro markers and the trim on the suit given some glitter.
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Beryl xx

Navy Blue plus Blue

One last Christmas card (for this week anyway). It's for the Tanda Stamps challenge to use navy and one other colour only. White is allowed. The village scene is a Serendipity stamp and the ink is Adirondak Stonewashed. It's stamped onto white card and backed onto navy card. The greeting is from Cute Companion's and coloured with a Superpoint pen. It's given a bit of sparkle with some stickles but may look a bit lumpy on the greeting as it hasn't dried yet. (I wanted to photograph it before the light faded.) The backing paper is also from Crafter's Companion and it's finished off with a little navy velvet ribbon.
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Beryl xx

Suzanne's First Challenge

I only found out about Suzanne's challenge yesterday but had made this card a couple of days ago. It seemed to fit the bill so here it is.
The letters are from the Cute Companions Christmas cd, just glittered a little and matted on to a DL card covered with paper from the Artylicious Season's Greetings cd. It was finished off with a little matching velvet ribbon. I'd like to say thank you to Suzanne for setting up a new challenge and for all her wonderful tutorials and thanks to you for visiting.
Beryl xx

Not Quite How It Started Out

This card was going so well!!! The Secret Crafter Saturday challenge this week was to use decoupage. Fine. I used a Crafters Companions Father Christmas image to decoupage. Fine. I layered it up onto some circular nesties, mounted it onto a 5 x 7 pale green card already decorated with Christmassy paper from a magazine, some peel offs and a sentiment. Fine. No! When I stood it up I had forgotton to check which way round the card opened. I haven't done that for a while. I wasn't going to bin it with all those nesties on it so I cut it in half and put the front half on an A4 red card. Waste not want not I say. Anyway - here it is.
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Beryl xx

Sketch Saturday 26

This is another Christmas card using the
Sketch Saturday layout for this week. The holly paper and the sentiment were from a magazine and the script card from my craft box. The Tilda stamp (coloured with Pro Markers) is one of my latest additions. The trim at the top is made from peel offs - stuck onto card - cut out and then glittered.
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Beryl xx

Rainbow Lady's Snowman Challenge

I'm hoping this card will do for a friend who is wanting a football themed card for her nephew. It also ties in with Rainbow Lady's challenge this week to use snowpeople.
The tree stamp is a Stamp in the Hand one and the goal is by Dimension Fourth. The others are from the Cute Companions Christmas range, coloured with Sakura Stardust pens. There's some torn, glittered paper at the bottom to finish it off.
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Beryl xx

Tanda Teaser - Fairy Folk

The Tanda Teaser this week is 'Fairy Folk'.
The background paper is from a Graphicus Guild pack and the ribbon from my stash. The fairy stamps are by Dovecraft - stamped with Encore Ultimate Metallic and embossed with holographic powder. The mushroom stamp is by Dimension Fourth and is silver embossed and then coloured with Artquest paints. The background is Glimmer Mists and the foliage is from the Elusive Images Meadow plate - stamped with Imperial Purple Versafine.
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Beryl xx

Under the Weather?

I thought this get well card would be OK for the My Time to Craft challenge this week - It's Raining - It's Pouring. The stamp was coloured in using crayons and the backing paper was in my stash. The sentiments were on a sheet I got from Joanna Sheen.
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Beryl xx

A Button and a Bow

This card is for the Secret Crafter's Saturday challenge to make something cute and with a buttton(buttons). The image is coloured with Pro markers and pencils and the paper and ribbon is from my stash. The sentiment was made using a cuttlebug embossing folder.
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Beryl xx

Sketch Saturday 25

I thought I'd try another sketch challenge - this one being for Sketch Saturday . All the paper and card is from my stash and the image is a Cute Companions stamp coloured with Pro Markers and glittered a little.
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Beryl xx

Artylicious Angel

I really can't take much of the credit for this card as it was made using the fabulous Artylicious Season's Greeting CD. I just printed the decoupage sheet and the backing sheet and stuck it all together. Glittered it a little and matted it onto to some purple card and a lavender base card - oh and a little piece of cuttlebugged pearl paper. The sentiment is from Cute Companions. The colouring is a bit warmer than it shows but it's a dull day here and the light isn't too good. I thought it would fit in with Rainbow Lady's challenge this week to make something with wings and also to do with Christmas if possible.
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Beryl xx

Snow People for MTTC

When I put the snowman globe card on here Beryl pointed out that the My Time to Craft challenge this week was to make something with a snowman/lady on it. As I've been busily cutting out lots Cute Companions this week I thought I'd try them out on this challenge. The little trees in the background are from A Stamp in the Hand Nature Set 1. The 'snow' is a white glaze pen, dobbed around and then glittered. The snow people coloured with Sakura Stardust pens and the mouse with Pro Markers.
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Beryl xx

Tanda Teaser - Meow

I've been recycling again this week as the backing paper on this card was a paper bag from a shop. I've had it so long that I can't remember what came in it but I couldn't just bin it. The challenge for Tanda Stamps this week was to make something with a cat on it. These kittens were on a decoupage sheet that Terrie gave me quite a while ago. The sheets are pearlised but with no distinct colouring. I've tried different ways of colouring them and this time used metallic rub-ons. It's finished off with some gold peel offs (coloured with markers pen) and some brown ribbon.
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Beryl xx

Christmas Sketch Card

I though I'd get another Christmas card done with this Sketch challenge for Secret Crafter's
Saturday challenge. The paper is from my stash and the cuttlebugged pieces are on pearl paper (which I though was white but now it's daylight I can see that it's more ivory). The image in the centre is my Chrismas bauble stamp which has been coloured with pencils and triple embossed, hopefully to make it look like a globe but this doesn't show up on the photo'. It's finished at the bottom with a strip of the same paper and a peel off.
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Beryl xx

Fabulous Folds

Try as I might I couldn't come up an ingenious fold for a card which was the challenge at Tanda Stamps this week. I've cheated and done some paper folding in the shape of a tea bag topper at the top of the card and a folded pocket at the bottom of the card. I almost gave up on the tea bag folding too as it was a design I hadn't tried before, needed no sticking tape as it was all interlocking and was a right pain. Whoever gets it for Christmas will have no idea of the amount of bad language I kept to myself in the making of it. All the parts were made from stuff in my stash except for the backing paper - which was printed from the Artylicious Season's Greetings CD.
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Beryl xx

Monotone Rainbow - Green

This is my 4th choice of colour for Rainbow Lady's monotone rainbow challenge. The backing paper was in a Graphicus Guild pack. I then used one of the pieces I'd made using Glimmer Mists (Kiwi I think) layered onto a piece of sage green pearl card. I did the same with the message tag. The main image is a stamp by Serendipity and the greeting from Cute Companions Christmas collection. For these I used Versafine Onyx Black. It's finished off with a piece of dark green ribbon.
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Beryl xx

Pink, Brown and White Tilda Sketch

Well my new Tilda stamp is having another outing as she was the only one who would fit in the circle. The card is for the Secret Crafter Saturday Sketch challenge to use only pink, white and brown. The base card is dark brown and matted onto to that piece of white card stamped with a Sheena Douglass swirl stamp in brown Stazon. The pink spotty paper is from my stash and has been used for the outers of the Nestability circles also as the reverse is brown. Tilda's jumper is coloured using Tattered Rose Distress ink and the rest of her coloured using pencils. The ribbon is from a card I bought from Crafter's Companion.
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Beryl xx

Two for One Christmas Card

The challenge set by Rainbow Lady this week is to make a card or other craft piece with two opening parts to it. The base card is A5 size and covered with backing paper from my growing stash. The peel off border along the top was coloured with Sakura Silver/Gold shadow pens and the two mice stamps are from the Cute Companions Christmas range. The 'card' on top is a Christmas cracker which has a Christmas greeting inside. I cut it freehand as I don't have a template and coloured the front with a red pigment dye pad which I sponged on. It's decorated with a parcel sticker I've had for ages, some peel offs and some ribbon. I think I might now try a bigger version of the cracker - maybe a DL size.
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Beryl xx

Leaves for a Kiwi

I made this card for my nephew in New Zealand hoping that the leaf image would invoke thoughts of the All Blacks.
The challenge for Tanda Stamps this week was to use leaves in some way and I've been waiting for the chance to use this stamp from Elusive Images. It's part of the Wild Meadow themeplate. I embossed the leaf onto the base card in silver and clear, although the clear doesn't really show up on the photo. The main image is the same stamp, silver embossed onto black card and then mounted onto silver mirror card. That is then layered onto a piece coloured with Glimmers Mists and over stamped with the same leaf stamp in black Versafine.
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Beryl xx

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

I just found out about this fairly new challenge site from Ann . It's called the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge. It's a sketch card and I've used a set of matching papers that I have in my stash. The text stamp is from Cuddly Buddly and is stamped in Teal Stazon. The Tilda stamp is a new purchase. She's coloured with a mixture of Pro Markers and chalks.

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Beryl xx

Magic and Mystery

I got the chance to use my new Dovecraft fairy stamps for this weeks challenge set by Rainbow Lady. They are stamped onto a background of Glimmer Mists with some Elusive Images Meadow stamps. The background paper is from a CD I picked up at Alexandra Palace. It's not the easiest of CDs to use but I really like some of the papers. I've edged the backing paper with extra strong tape and added glitter (from a big box of glitters also bought at Ally Pally) and made a tag with some of the backing paper and a Nestability tag bought at - you've guessed it - Ally Pally. There are a few punched dragonflies and a butterfly which have been glittered too. I've been crafty and also used this card for Joana Sheen's challenge this week - All That Glitters.
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Beryl xx

Don't trash it - Recycle

This card is for Tanda stamps challenge to recycle something. The backing paper is from a Graphicus Guild pack and the mouse and corner stamps are Cute Companions. The die cut letters on the tag are the recycled bit. I have to thank Mr Kaspersky for putting his software in such a lovely box. There wasn't much space clear of writing to use but it was just enough for these letters. They don't really show up on here but they have a holographic effect in the daylight, deep green changing to light green. The black punched tags are edged with glitter which pick up the green too.
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Beryl xx

Ribbon/Child's Card

It seems ages since I last posted and I must apologise to everyone whose blogs I normally visit for my absence and lack of input. I thought that when the OH went away I'd be on here all the time but the chance to have some time completely to myself took precedence. I haven't enjoyed such peace and solitude for many years. It was wonderful.
I have made some cards - specifically some 25th anniversary cards and a few birthday cards but I thought I really must get back into the swing of things with the challenges. This is a simple card which I hope will fit in with Tanda Stamps challenge to make a card for a child and with Rainbow Lady's challenge to use ribbon. There's not much to say about it really. A Cute Companions stamp - a peel off and a bit of ribbon. It's layered onto a two tone card which was from a Dawn Bibby set. I'll try to be more adventurous next week.
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Beryl xx

Tanda's Challenge - Summer

I really didn't want to miss this week on the Tanda challenge as I'm going away for week on Thursday. The challenge is Summer - and for me it's flowers so I hope this card fits the bill. It's one of the first stamps I ever bought and I still love it. It's coloured with Lyra crayons and the envelope and backing was made from paper I got in a magazine.
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Beryl xx

Rainbow Lady's First Sketch Challenge

I am honoured to be Rainbow Lady's guest designer this week. It came about because I asked her if we could have a sketch challenge and she said we could if I set the challenge. Here's my interpretation of it. The little girl is a Cuddly Buddly stamp. She's coloured with Sakura Glaze pens. The backing papers are from my stash and the greeting inside the Nestability shapes is a copper coloured peel off. It's finished with a couple of punched flowers and some brown ribbon.
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Beryl xx

Friday Sketchers 19

This card is for the Friday Sketchers challenge number 19. The blue sky backing paper is from Kanban and the spotty paper is from my stash. The cuttlebugged piece was sent to me by Ann and the Edwin image is backed onto maroon card and coloured with pro markers. I then chalked the space around him. The greeting at the bottom is a Cuddly Buddly stamp and the number 12 was punched from the same spotty paper and using my cuttlebug alphabet dies. The 12 was then mounted onto a circle of maroon card punched from the same card backing the image. This card will go to one of my grandsons who is 12 next month.
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Beryl xx

Leaves

The challenge from Rainbow Lady this week was to use leaves in your creation. This gave me a good chance to use up these images which have been stamped and embossed waiting to go for ages. They have been coloured with Artquest Brilliant Gold. I keep forgetting that I've got these palettes since getting my Lyra crayons but I must use them more often as they act very much like H2O's. The backing paper, which is double sided, is used for both the card and behind the leaves, is from my stash.
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Beryl xx

Indian Summer?

This card is for the TandaStamps challenge this week to make a card reflecting Indian Culture.
I don't know who made the elephant stamp as it's one of the images I stamped when staying with my niece. It's was stamped onto a heavy gray card and has been coloured with twinkling H2O's and the elephant's skin given a bit of sparkle with a Sakura Stardust pen. The backing paper is from my Graphicus Guild pack and the bit at the top is some pearl paper that I've had for yonks. It's finished off with peel offs as I'd run out of inspiration. (It feels like a bit of a cheat to use peel offs these days but they do give a nice edge to the "arch" shape.)
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Beryl xx

Friday Sketchers 18

I'm having another go at a sketch challenge this week. It's for Friday Sketchers - sketch 18. Sticking with the Christmas theme to help me on the way I've used a greeting and backing paper from Artylicious Season's Greetings, some holographic card, (Oh how I need some round nestabilities - I'm rubbish with scissors) and a little Tilda coloured with pro markers and crayons, then glittered over the trimmings on her outfit. The parcels in the corner were from a magazine last Christmas and the sentiment at the top (Got Snow? but it doesn't show in the photo') is part of some blog candy I got earlier this year from Chrissie.

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Beryl xx

Have an Ace Day

When Rainbow Lady set the challenge to use playing cards in our creations this week I remembered this pack of miniature cards which have been in one drawer or another for at least 30 years. (Never throw anything away!) The mouse is from Cute Companions, water coloured with Lyra crayons and the words were done on the pc. backed with a little holographic card. It looked a bit plain so I chalked the background and added a Cuttlebug border which has been sanded with an emery board to pick out the flowers.
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Beryl xx

Haute Couture?

This week the challenge over at Tanda Stamps is
Haute Couture. Well I'm the last person to ask anything about fashion but I do have these stamps from Rubbadubbadoo so I hope they fit the bill. They have been stamped with Stone Grey Stazon and coloured with Lyra crayons. The holographic turqoise card backing them is from Kanban and the backing paper is from my stash. It's finished of with a strip of pale blue pearlised paper which has been put through the swirls Cuttlebug folder.
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Beryl xx

Christmas Sketch Card

I thought I'd make a Christmas card for the Friday Sketcher's challenge. It will be one less for later. The text card is from my stash and the straight pieces are some photo paper put through the swiss dots cuttlebug folder. It's not being wasteful - it was a piece that was too small to be able to print on. The bauble stamp I've had for a while and I can't remember where it came from and the Father Christmas stamp is from a set of six little stamps - again - can't remember where from. The bauble was coloured with Sakura stardust pens and the Father Christmas with Superpoints.
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Beryl xx

Summer Holiday

Summer Holiday is the theme for Joanna Sheen's challenge this week. I was going to put it in the Friday Sketchers challenge too and then realised that I hadn't rounded the corners off so maybe I'll try again for that. The Tilda image is a present from Ann and the backing papers are from my stash. The sun is punched on glitter card using my cuttlebug and the sentiment is from Cuddly Buddly.
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Beryl xx

Pretty in Pink

This week's chgallenge over at Tanda Stamps is 'Pretty in Pink'. As the theme is pink I can make something else for my grand-daughter who is mad about everything pink. I've chosen a Christmas card so that I can use this lovely paper from my Graphicus Guild pack. The christmas tree is done using a stencil I bought at Alexandra Palace last year, embossing paste and pink glitter. It's backed onto some cerise mirror card from Joanna Sheen and mounted on foam tape. The matching sentiment was done on the pc and the snowflakes are punched out of the same mirror card. The ribbon is from Wilkinson's.
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Beryl xx

Door Hanger

This week the challenge on Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog was set by Chrissie. She suggested making a door hanger so I thought I'd make one for my grand-daughter. The card is covered with paper from Joanna Sheen's Oriental Dreams cd. The letters are cut out using my cuttlebug alphabet from a holographic peel off sheet. The butterflies are from my stash and the flowers punched from pearlised paper. I'm going to put it through a laminator to make it a bit more robust but photographed it first as I thought it would glare too much after.

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Beryl xx

French Chic?

This week the subject of the challenge on Joanna Sheen's forum is French Chic. Not having a stamp of a gentleman on a bike with stripy shirt and onions I went for a stamp with french text. Don't ask me what it says - it's too small. The stamps are from Elusive Images, colour washed with Wild Plum H2O and backed onto some papers that were in a set I was given last month. The iris was given a little more colour with Lyra crayons. The butterflies are from my stash, cream originally but also coloured with the Wild Plum H2O.
The ribbon is from Wilkinson's.
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Beryl xx

Transport Challenge

Transport was the theme for this week's challenge from Rainbow Lady. It's not the fastest form of travel but it's been around longer than most. The stamp is from Joanna Sheen and the surround is a set of Tapestry stamps. It's stamped onto mottled grey card and backed onto maroon card. I couldn't decide what - if anything - more to put on it so left it as a fairly plain card. They're quite handy sometimes though.
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Beryl xx

Tanda Shapes Challenge

The team over at Tanda Stamps wanted shapes used in their challenge this week as well as the Artygirlz. This Cuddly Buddly stamp which was coloured with crayons is sitting on an oval made from black glitter card and cut with a Nestability oval die. The background is pearlised paper which has been through a Cuttlebug embossing folder and the ribbon is from my stash.

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Beryl xx

Artygirlz Challenge - Shapes

The challenge over at Artygirlz this week is to use 'shapes'. I have chosen ovals which have been cut using Nestability dies. The blue frame was made by using two ovals at the same time. The other shape was cut freehand. I don't know what shape you'd call it. The Tilda stamped image is part of some blog candy sent to me by Ann for taking part in her challenge a few weeks ago. (It makes me want more Tildas.) It's coloured with crayons and blended with white spirit. The vellum in the background is from a magazine I had earlier in the year.

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Beryl xx

Musical Card

The them for this week's challenge from
Rainbow Lady is Music.
The music is from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Companions CD and the Harlequin stamp is from Stamp Addicts and is layered onto black card. The text stamp is from Sparkle and Sprinkle, also layered onto black card. It looked a bit bare so the dots are made with Black Diamond stickles. The stamp has some on it too but it doesn't really show in the photo'.
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Beryl xx

Swirl Card

Time is still a bit short at the moment so I'm hoping this card will fit two of this week's challenges. For Artygirlz - who want something made using no ready patterned paper and for Tanda's challenge - It's all in the Words. I've used my new swirl stamp from Creative Expressions, stamped and embossed with disco black ep. The rose and word stamp is from the Stamp man. The rose is coloured with the same Tattered Rose Distress Ink pad as is used for the stippled background. The green it's a cat's eye chalk ink.

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Glenda's Stampbord Competition

This is my first entry for a competition run by Glenda Waterworth of Graphicus. The challenge is to use Stampbord. The backing paper is from the Artylicious Damask Delights CD and the stamps used are from Elusive Images. They have been stamped onto the pieces (which have been coloured with a Peacock Brilliance Inkpad) in Versamark and then embossed with Disco Black Embossing powder. I then coloured them in lightly with the ink from the same pad.

They were then mounted onto cuttlebugged pale green pearl paper which is actually a bit darker than it appears. This was then mounted onto matt black paper and then silver mirror card. The greeting was mounted onto a plate of black matt card and silver mirror card and some ribbon and a flora doodle finished it off.

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Beryl xx

SBS 20's First Challenge

The first challenge for the SBS group 20 is to make a card or something in your own style or something that you would like to receive. After not doing any proper crafting for a fortnight I feel as if my mojo's still on holiday - anyway - this is it. The stamp is from Elusive Images and is coloured in with Crayola pencils - as is the background. The backing papers are from a set of scrapbook papers that my niece brought with her when she came to stay. There are 300 sheets in all so that should keep me going for a long time. All are double sided and there are some lovely designs. The greeting was stamped onto a piece of card that we had used when playing with alcohol inks.

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Beryl xx

Christmas Tags

The theme for this week's challenge from Rainbow Lady is Christmas tags. Here are two very quick tags a) because I wanted to do the challenge this week as it may be my last for a couple of weeks - due to family staying and b) quick because my family are lucky if they get a present wrapped let alone a tag. (I don't do fancy wrapping - I notorious for my rubbish parcels.)

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Beryl xx

Monotone Red

This wasn't going to be an Oriental type card at all. I started with a poppy image but got sidetracked. The pale pink background is a colour wash using Poppy Red H20. Behind the Cherry Branch (Stamp Addicts) stamp it's just blotted but on the right side I layed cling film on it till it was dry. It does leave a pattern but so feint that I don't think it shows in the photo. There's a lovely sheen too which is only evident as you move the card about. On the left is a piece of mulberry paper which I put through the cuttlebug with the paisley embossing folder. It works quite well but ended up being mostly covered. The ribbon at the top I'm not happy with but it sticks so well you don't have a second chance, so it stayed. This is my first try at making one of these knots,(with some cord I bought at Ally Pally last year.) I don't know what you are supposed to do with the ends though! I've chosen red this time for Rainbow Lady's monotone rainbow colours challenge. I suppose if I'd stuck to my original plan there would have been a fair bit of white on it so this one is more monotone.

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Beryl xx

Absent Friends

Over on the Tanda Stamps challenge sight they are missing a few of their regulars so they decided that the theme this week would be absent friends. I always think when I see meerkats that they are on the lookout for the last one home so I chose this image from the JNM cd. The backing paper and the ribbon are from my stash and the greeting is from one of the Cute Companions sets by Jayne Nesterenko.

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Beryl xx

Gone Fishing

This weeks challenge from Arty Girlz was to make a man's card or a card with a man/men on it. I think I've covered both with this one. The stamps are from Crafters Companion. The background for the fisherman is glossy card brayered with Peacock Brilliance Ink. The speckles round the edge are a stamp from the Cloudy Day Stamp in the Hand Set. The fish and greeting are on the same background and the corners are the tan paper that I've used behind the stamped plate.

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Beryl xx