Lexi’s Creations #63 Use Your Punches and Dies

At Lexi’s Creations this time we would like to see you use punches and dies in your creations.

We are sponsored by

I used a panel from Wild Rose Studios from their Annabelle’s Meadow range. Such a gorgeous range and I normally prefer to colour my own but actually had to get something in the post a bit quicker so used this gorgeous ready coloured panel instead.

I have cut it out with Spellbinders labels 8 which fortunately matched my main cardstock as that was also in the same shape. I made an easel card and the background papers are from the Annabelle’s Meadow paperpack which match beautifully with the images in the range.

The flower is from my stash and the garland is the new Marianne die. I placed a doily behind the image which I had inked with Memento Angel Pink ink. The stopper on the bottom of the easel is a combination of a marianne die beneath and a Memory Box ribbon buckle die above.

I am entering this into the following:-

2 Sisters Challenge – #87 Flowers

Aud Sentiments – #52 Spring or Summer Colours

Card Crafters Circle – #18 Gentle Pastel Colours

Cute Card Thursday – #112 Spring Flowers

Paper Sundaes – #116 Anything Goes

Scrappy Frogs Challenge – Shape It Up

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle – Pastels

Stamptacular Sunday – #159 Freebie Week

Sugar Creek Hollow – #7 Diecuts or Punches

That Craft Place – #9 Anything But a Square or Rectangle

Dream Valley #30 Earth Tones

Our challenge at Dream Valley this fortnight is earth tones. Your creation, whether its a card or a Scapbook page or even some jewellery just has to be in the colours of  the natural Earth! Think browns, oranges and greens those sorts of colours! Remember you can enter anything you like as long as it follows our rules!

We are sponsored by with a fabulous £20 to spend in their store.

I used Wild Tilda and coloured her with promarkers and flexmarkers.

My papers are from basic grey, the ribbon and flowers are from my stash, the crystals I coloured with promarkers to tone in with the design’s colours.

The leaf embellishments are made from double sided adhesive film stuck onto card and then the other sticky side I rolled Frantage Mica Fragments into it until it was well covered. Have to tell you there was mica flakes everywhere, so if you try this yourself do it in a specific area like inside a box! I was picking flakes up for days afterwards because I did it on my craft desk. I then trimmed them out with a couple of different dies.

Here is a close up so you can see the effect better.

Here’s a close up, and as you can see from the bottom edge of the pic bits of those flakes were still getting everywhere when I took the photos! I didn’t realise until after I had mailed it, so I hope that they didn’t spread themselves into the recipients house too!

I am entering this into the following challenges:-

Creative Belli Blog – #141 Children

Fairy Fun Fridays – #76 Anything Goes

Inky Impressions – Create Your Own Embellishments

Paper Crafting Journey - #7 Three of More Papers

Paper Sundaes – #116 Anything Goes

Peachey Keen Stamps – #13 Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday – #159 Freebie Week

Sugar Creek Hollow – #7 Diecuts or Punches

Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – #04 Girly But No Pink

Wags N Whiskers– #77 Anything Goes

ABC N for Neutral Colours

Over at ABC we would like to see your creations with neutral colours, like pastels, beiges, greys ……

We are sponsored by Bugaboo Digi Stamps with 7 fabulous digis from their store.

I used an image from The Stamping Bazaar called Josie Hat, and coloured her in with promarkers.

My papers are from Kaisercraft and the scroll diecuts is a DieNamics die. The hat and gems were from my stash.

I am entering this into the following:-

2 Sisters Challenge – #87 Flowers

Aud Sentiments – #52 Spring or Summer Colours

Card Crafters Circle – #18 Gentle Pastel Colours

Crafty Catz – #128 Animals

Cute Card Thursday – #112 Spring Flowers

Daring Cardmakers – The Hat Boutique

Fairy Fun Fridays – #76 Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes – #116 Anything Goes

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle – Pastels

Sugar Creek Hollow – #7 Diecuts or Punches

Crafty Cardmakers #65 Easter

Our challenge at Crafty Cardmakers this time around is Easter. Anything you like as long as it has an Easter theme.

We are sponsored by both  

with a $10 certificate for their store and also Hobby Art are providing us with two gorgeous stamp sheets for our second prize.

I used a gorgeous digi from Sassy Cheryl called Bunny Chit Chat, and I coloured it with my promarkers. The patterned paper is from First Edition’s Spring Drop pad and the other papers are Bazzill, I think. The border is a MS punch. A bit of twine with a cute little bunny charm, both from my stash, and a computer generated sentiment finish it off.

I am entering this into the following:-

Bugaboo – Easter/Spring

CI Paints – Inspired by Easter

Come and Get It Challenges – Bring It On Spring

Order of The Opus Gluei – In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

Pan Pastel UK – #12 Easter Week

Paper Sundaes – #114 Easter

Simply Create Too – # 10 Eggs or Bunnies

Stamptacular Sunday – #157 Playing with Pastels

That Craft Place – #8 All About Spring

The Squirrel and The Fox – #14 Easter

Lexi’s Creations #62 Focus on the Sentiment

Our remit at Lexi’s Creations this fortnight is to focus on the sentiment.

We are sponsored by Cropstop with a $15 gift certificate

I chose a Fairy Dust Crafts sentiment called ‘The Gift’ about friendship, which I manipulated the colour with my graphics program.

The papers are from Basic Grey, and the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. The diecuts are from Marianne and My Favourite Things.

Spring is rapidly opening it’s arms in the UK and all these lovely flowers will soon be blooming.

I am entering this into the following challenges:-

Allsorts Challenge Blog – 148 Photo Inspiration (I chose the lovely pink and cream flowers in the pic)

ATCs and Cards with Attitude – #10 Anything Goes

Crafts 4 Eternity – #65 Three of a Kind (Three identical Marianne diecuts)

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – #126 Use A Digi image

Digi Doodle Shop – # 101 Friendship

Little Claire Monthly Challenge – Spring/Easter

Sketchy Colors – #111 Pink And Cream

Speedy The Fox and Friends Challenge – #101 Make a Square Card

The Hybrid Chick – Card Caravan Challenge 16 Use the negative space from a die/punch

Wags N Whiskers – #76 Say It With Flowers

Dream Valley #29 Love

To celebrate our lovely teamie’s Mel’s wedding today, our theme this fortnight is Wedding/Love.

We are sponsored by One Stop Card Crafts with a £10 voucher for their store.

As you can see I went down the Love route. My backgrounds are the new Spellbinders M-bossabilities hearts folder and a Sizzix hearts folder. My image is from Sarah Kay and I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. I’ve coloured it with pros and flexies. The sentiment I created on my pc and the embellishment is a mixture of a DooHickey die cut, metal roses and heart beads.

Fed up with the way that my photos always seemed to have a bright blue white hue to them I had a fiddle with it’s settings and found one that seemed to take away the blue in the white areas. Took me long enough to find it, I have only had the camera for 18 months….

I am entering this into the following:-

Alphabet Challenge Blog – D Dry Embossing

ATCs and Cards with Attitude – #10 Anything Goes

Classy Cards ‘n Such – #4 Embossing Folders (The Sarah Kay stamp – A Little Bit of Country is sold here in their store

Crafts 4 Eternity – #65 Three of a Kind (Three silver metallic roses. and three different white backgrounds)

Crafty Purple Frog – #37 Anything Goes

Delicious Doodles – #16 Textures

Di’s Digi Designs – Emboss It Anyway You Want

Fairytale Challenge Blog – #38 Everything Goes

Fashionable Stamping – #18 Spring Is In The Air

Stampin’ for the Weekend – #6 Anything Goes

ABC Challenge M for Magical

Over at ABC this time we want to see your Magical creations – Wizards, Witches, Faeries, Mythical Creatures ….

We are sponsored by Stamp and Create with a fabulous $25 gift certificate for their store.

I have used Boo and Snookie from Emerald Faeries and coloured them with promarkers. The background papers are from Bearly Mine and the flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Below are two different versions of the image in close up, the second being alrtificially lit so you can see the glitter on the wings and and on the snail’s shell because the light was wrong to capture them in the main image shot.

The colour is definitely more the first image, but that didn’t show the sparkly bits.

I made the swirl from a DooHickey die, having first laid down some double sided self adhesive film over the blue paper before I cut it out. I then added those tiny micro beads to the shape afterwards. They are little monsters. I put my image down and it started moving across the desk all on it’s own. Eerie, lol, until I realised that I had spilled just a few of those micro beads and the image was slithering across the top of them, much like the snail might have if he was real!

I am entering this into the following:-

A Gem of a Challenge – #43 Aquamarine

Allsorts Challenge Blog – 148 Photo Inspiration (I chose flowers as my inspiration both in my floral embellishments and in my paper)

ATCs and Cards with Attitude – #10 Anything Goes

Cardmadfairy’s Digi Days – #30 Diecuts/Punches

Crafts 4 Eternity – #65 Three of a Kind (Three patt papers)

Crafts and Me – #77 Elegant Fairies

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – #126 Use A Digi image

Fairytale Challenge Blog – #38 Everything Goes

Speedy The Fox and Friends – 101 Make a Square Card

Wags N Whiskers – #76 Say It With Flowers