This week's challenge from Rainbow Lady is to somehow use the letter G. Well - G is for Guy's card and also for Glimmer Misted background. I made this for a friend's birthday so thought this might fit the bill. The tree stamp is from Elusive Images and the text is from a set of Serendipity stamps. The piece along the bottom of the card started out as a piece of cream card but has also been Glimmer misted.
The challenge from the team at Tanda this week was to make a baby card. I knew the paper I wanted to use (from Crafter's Companion) but not the image. I found this one on The Greetings Card Factory programme and used it mainly because it matched the paper I'd already printed out. The text is part of some freebies sent by Graphicus with an order some time ago. I didn't have any ribbon to match so I used pale green copy paper. Not a lot else I can say about this one.
I didn't get round to posting the card I made yesterday so I've posted it with today's card. The challenge at Funky Fairies this week was to use circles and buttons. For the circles there is the penny farthing stamp - a new one from Xelacrafts and the circles/swirls stamp in the background which is a U Mount stamp. It's the first time I've used Cosmic Shimmer powders to do a background and found there's a good result on the dark brown base card. The spotty paper is from Funky Fairies and the piece behind it is left over from my attempts to colour paper with coffee. I painted the paper with coffee and sprinkled with salt - as they do with Starburst stains. I don't know if I'll be able to part with the button. It's the only one like it in a selection of buttons bought from Silly Monkeys recently.
I'm cutting a bit fine for the Truly Scrumptious challenge - Going Dotty but I've made it with a couple of days to spare. The green paper and the spotty paper are from Funky Fairies and the flower paper from a magazine cd full of their past freebie papers. (Crafts Beautiful I think.) The greeting is a Crafter's Comnpanions stamp - embossed with copper embossing powder and and the gems are some of those I bought at the NEC. The ribbon from Joanna Sheen.
There's a sketch to follow on Just Magnolia this week. I've used Funky Fairies papers again, this time peach and pale green, although the green hardly shows up in the photo. The piece of mink coloured pearlised card has been through the Cuttlebug and then sanded a bit to reveal the core. The flowers are a mixture, some layers from my stash and some layers punched out of the same papers and edged with pigment inks. The stick on pearls in the corners have been coloured with a red Dufex pen. The sentiment is a print out from a free artwork pack from My Craft Studio.
This is my first time entering the Funky Fairies challenge which this week is Flowers and Bling. I've been wanting to use this image of some Elusive Images poppies for a while and as they've got some black stickles in the centre I thought that would go towards the bling. The papers are by Funky Fairies - Distressed Dots, the ribbon is from my stash and the mats cut with my Cuttlebug from Nestability dies. It's finished off with some black stick on gems which I bought at the NEC in March.
It's the third week of the Just Magnolia challenge already and this time the sketch was designed by Bev. If you don't know her blog already it's well worth a visit. I love her style and it's a great source of for inspiration. On this card Tilda has been coloured with Pro Markers and for the dress I've copied an idea from Linnie - to just dot the colours and make a pattern. (Linnie is the lady responsible for Cute Daisy May so her place is well worth a visit too.)
The challenge for Cute Daisy May this weeks was to use gems on your creation. The image has been coloured with watercolour pencils, (but kept dry) and the papers where from a magazine quite a while ago. I've made the punched flowers from the same papers and added a gem to the centre of each. I've also added some gems to centre of the flowers on the side panels. The Cuttlebug border at the bottom was cut from a piece of Glimmer Misted paper which I just couldn't throw away and was exactly the right size for the die. It's looking a bit dull on the piccie the IRL it's a warm lavender theme.
