Another Winner

I won again. My Pnk and black digital cardfront won last week's challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges. I have such a soft spot for using digital designs in my crafting being that I did a lot of designing in Photoshop for so long. I still design sometimes and I have some images for sale at Card Making Downloads. Have a peek if you like!

I would like to thank everyone over at Digitally Sweet Challenges for my win this week and I greatly appreciate the new Lunargirl digi images I won. Can't wait to use them to!

I'm off to my craft room for the rest of the afternoon as I just printed off a bunch of new digi stamps. I want to break out the Copics and have a colour...lol.

Hugs, Dorothy

Digital Card Front

I sat here this afternoon playing in Craft Artist Pro and decided to make a printable card front for a quick birthday card. Here is what I whipped up:

 

It's pretty basic but I just loved the images in the freebie digital scrapbooking kit I used. I'm going to mount this on some pink and white matting then finally onto a blank 6" x 6" black card. I can see me using this kit for other projects as it had so many cute graphics inside it.

The kit I used was an old freebie kit called "Silhouette" by Numb Bum Designs. I would love to link to her but her blog no longer exists and she is not available in any online digital shop anymore either. But she did design some really cute scraps, ashame really. Then again I don't design digital kits anymore either. One day the designing bug might hit me again...lol. At the moment I really enjoy making real life crafts in my craft room. there is just something about having glue, glitter and inkyness everywhere that makes me happy.

ENTERING IN FOLLOWING CHALLENGE:

Digitally Sweet Challenges - Black & White + One Other Colour

My Card WON!

 I would love to thank everyone over at Crafting When We Can Challenges for giving me this Winner's award on my anniversary Bookatrix card I entered in their challenge last week. I was really surprised and very honoured!

I won some very cool digital stamps from Sassy Studio Designs...check out their blog shop! I cannot wait to get them and use them.

It was such a gorgeous day here in Essex that the hubby and I went to the seafront for the day then came home to watch The Arsenal barely beat Spurs so a good day all round...Thanks be to God!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend as well. Those of us in the UK have had such rotten winter weather that now it's warm and the sun is out, we all were at the seaside today. It was crowded at Southend-on-Sea but it was worth fighting the crowds. 

Last Minute Card

Wow...two posts in one day! YIKES Scoob! I was wandering around the challege blogs and saw this one about to end and thought I would whip something up. The first card I made was a huge fail but this little CAS card turned out cute. Thought I'd enter it.

 

When I saw the theme of Spring Flowers I immediately thought of this new stamp set I bought on ebay. I bought it used and it came with no packaging. It looks like and Inkadinkadoo stamp set. If anyone knows, please leave me a comment so I can give credit.

I stitched around the stamped floral block with my Copic 02 liner pen and I used Papermania pigment inks.

Entering in the following challenge:

Simply Less in More - One Layer CAS Spring Flowers

Hugs, Dorothy

 

My First Bookatrix

A friend of mine asked me to make her a card for her parents Golden 50th Anniversary and I agreed. I thought of a few designs and settled on an easel card...then I had an even better idea. I remembered that a long time ago someone gave me a bookatrix board. Funny thing that I foundit quite quickly in my mess of a craft room...lol. So I grabbed an old folder of peel offs and lots of white cardstock and away I went to making my very first ever bookatrix card.

I even created it's own stand and presentation box:

My friend just loved it as she had never seen anything like this before. I sure hope her parents like it as well. Thanks for having a look at my creation!

Here's my supply list:

White 300 gsm card (A3 sized) - Papermill Direct (I LOVE their card)
Gold peel offs in butterflies gold links, lines and fancy corners. Can't remember where these are from.
All white flowers  - Wild Orchid Crafts
Largest gold paper rose  - Hobbycraft  (white rose misted with homemade gold glimmer mist)
Folk Art Antique Gold paint (I painted the green leaves under the flowers in gold)

I would like to enter my bookatrix in the following challenges:

Crafting When We Can - Anniversary

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

That Craft Place Challenge - Anything Goes

UK Crafty Blog Directory

It's shameless plug time...lol. About a year ago I started a blog to keep track of craft challenge blogs here in the UK. It's now growing as I am adding UK crafter's blogs to the list. It's a great way to find new challenges all in one spot plus you can add your own blog as well to gain some more traffic. Why not stop on over and have a peek?

Just fill out the form on the front page to add your crafting, scrapping or challenge blog to the list! At the moment this list is for UK blogs only BUT I will add blogs froom other countriess as well. Just tell me what country you're in and I will add another category.

Thanks a bunch and hope you will have a peek: UK Crafty Blog Directory

Purple Heart

I was going through my paper stash and I found this old paper stack that I bought at a craft show over 4 years ago. It was a generic stack with no cover or company name on it so I don't know who to credit but it had all sorts inside: vellum, embossed card, pealised paper; all in 2 colours, pink, purple and blue.

So I came up with this clean and simple card. I used the printed vellum as a type of banner across the bottom by folding it slightly so it pops up in the middle. The heart stamp is old too. I used it 10 years ago to make my wedding invitations...lol. It's a wood mounted stamp and we all know those last forevvvver.

Here's my suppliess list: Card stock base is white 300 gsm from Paper Mill Direct; lavender embossed paper and vellum from that old paper stack; heart stamp I have no idea; word stamp from a Studio g mini set; purple Color Box chalk ink.

Entering in the following Challenges:

CASology - purple

Paper Creator's Crafts - Anything Goes

Mason Jar Tag Card

Happy Friday all! Hope you all have a lovely weekend ahead. It  looks like our horrible rainy weather is going to calm into a sort of bright weekend here in Essex. Hope my family back in the States (New Jersey) are dug out of the snow they've been getting. Now onto my new card:

 

The card was based on a sketch for a challenge over as The Paper Players and I'm just making it in under the wire...lol. Here is a photo of the tag tucked inside the pocket:

Here is a list of my supplies:  The papers, mason jar tag, and jar topper were from one of my new 12" x 12" paper stacks called Dear Lizzy Neopolitan by American Crafts; Personal Impressions Everyday Words stamps, Distress Ink in Tattered Rose, Ribbon from Ribbon Oasis; Black Papermania ink; Heart buttons from my stash.

I love love love the papers in this stack. The mason jars are so cute. I fussy cut out the mason jar tag from a whole sheet of them then mounted it on the tan dotted paper from the set and fussy cut around that as well.

Entered in the following challenges:

The Paper Players - based on sketch

Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Creations Challenges - Less is More

My Craft Creations - Anything Goes

I'm Alive & A Box Card

Yep I'm still around. I took a long break from blogging. I didn't intend to be away so long but life has a habit of getting in the way but it's a new year and I'm back to crafting. I hope start entering challenges again and hope today's is just the start.

Today I made a box card. Here it is:

I just LOVE the dimensional effect of this card. It folds flat too! I followed a YouTube tutorial for this box card: Box Card to Fit in a C6 Envelope. I received my new copy of Simply Cards and Papercrafts magazine yesterday and as a free gift inside was a 6" x 6" paper pad and set of clear stamps in the new Prima Fairy Belle range. Goodness it was so gorgeous I went on a seach for something to make with it.

I encourage you to try out the box card tutorial and I'd love to see your results so leave me a comment and show me your stuff.

I entered this card in the following challenges:

Digitally Sweet Challenge - Anything Goes

Debbi Moore Designs Challenge - Love


Cards Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes


Natalie and Amy's Challenge - One for the Girlies


Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Show Off Your New Stash


The Crafting Cafe - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap Blog & Challenge - Anything Goes

Have a Craftastic Day!!

WOYWW # 214

The beautiful UK weather has had me out and about a little or the heat had me in bed trying to keep cool. Since being paralysed, my body doesn't like the weathers changes very much and it takes awhile to get acclimated. So when it got so warm, my body, being the rebel that it is, swelled up to twice it's size and then terrible leg pain from the swelling. (Yes even paralysed I can feel pain. It's actually a blessing.) But I have been in my craft room the last few days making (or sttempting to make) some craft goodies. Thought I would share this over at WOYWW.  Here's what I got on my desk today:

I've been thinking about doing a couple of Christmas Craft Fairs so I thought I could whip up some cheap and cheerful goodness for Christmas. So last night and this affy, I'm making some altered clothes peg sets. Here are the pegs painted. Don't mind the whitish ones. They are a major crackled effect FAIL. The crackle I used stinks!!! It's the Plaid FolkArt one, this is the second time I've used it and the second time it failed to crackle. Maybe I have a bad or old batch? Gosh I hope so because I'm going to have to throw this junk away and get a new crackle glaze...ugh!

Above I'm using my old craft sheet under neath but...on the other side of my desk is my brand new craft sheet (which I haven't used yet because I want to protect it...weird I know.) Since my desk is so big and WHITE, I wanted to cover as much of it as possible when inking and painting so I bought me a huge one! It's 50 x 100 cm and it takes up over half my desktop...woo hoo! You'll see it once I get my video camera set up and running. You want a big giant craft sheet to protect a big area and are in the UK?  I got it here: Craft Obsessions. They have 50 x 50 cm, 50 x 100 cm and 80 x 100 cm. You can also request bespoke sizes as well so you can have basically any size you need. The 50 x 100 does me fine though I wish I had bought the 80 x 100 one. Great price on them too!

That's all from me today. Hope you all have a wonderful day and those in the UK I hope you get outside and enjoy the weather while you can!

Hugs, Dorothy