CCM #259 Masculine

Our challenge today is Masculine, which should give you lots of scope. And as it’s Father’s Day next weekend any of those lovely projects will be very welcome too.

I used a die set from Crafters Companion to make my masculine card. It very much reminds me of the trophy shields that they used to dish out in school for sports winners.

The brown happy birthday card has been in my stash for soooooooo long, it’s nice to find something to use it on!! The diecuts on the bottom half of the easel are from Tim holiz I think, and the sentiment again from Crafters Companion.

I am entering this into:-

CCEE Stampers – #2024 Father’s Day
Crafty Gals Corner – #208 You’re the Man
Cute Card Thursday – #638 Masculine
Dare 2B Artzy – June Masculine
Dragonfly Dreams – Make It Masculine
Paper Fun Day – #18 Anything Goes Twist Make It Masculine
Papercraft Business Challenge – #30 Fathers Day/Male
Try It On Tuesday – Make It Masculine

DV #227 Summer Colours

Today’s challenge at Dream Valley, sponsored by Crafty Sentiments, is Summer Colours.

I have used one of their lovely images, Ladybird and Butterfly, for my card.

I coloured her with copics, and the dots on her dress and stripes on her hair ribbon are stabilo 0.3 pens. They have a lovely range of colours and are super fine for adding detail like the dots. I die cut the image out with one of my Sue Wilson octagon dies, along with an orange polka dotted background. The rainbow striped paper is from the same pad that the polka dot orange came from, Studio Light PPSL129.

I die cut an orange layer, also with Sue Wilson dies. Sadly the paper is only A5, so it wasn’t large enough to get a matching mat from the polka dot paper. The Sunshine sentiment is from a Studio Light die. The final touch, the enamel dots came from a very large chinese version of ebay!!!

I am entering this into:-

A Bit More Time to Craft – #117 Anything Goes
A Perfect Time to Craft – June Anything Goes
Angie’s Digital Stamps –#43 AG twist Summertime
CCC Digi Creations – #115 Eileen’s Anything Goes
CD Sunday – #37 Anything Goes
Classic Design Challenge – June Anything Goes
Crafters Castle – #30 Anything Goes
Crafty Friends – #137 Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore – #76 Anything Goes
Crafty Hazlenut’s Patterned Paper – June Anything Goes
Die Cut Divas – June Summertime Fun
Just Add Ink – #508 Just Add F (flowers)
Just Us Girls – #539 Word Week: Sunshine
LeAnn’s World 101 – #27 Anything Goes
Love to Craft – #47 Anything Goes
QKR Stampede – #400 Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations – June Make It Colourful
The Crafting Challenge – June Anything Goes
The Paper Players – #494 Sunshine and Rainbows

CCM #258 Wedding

I hope everyone is keeping well. Our challenge at Crafty Cardmakers today is Wedding. I had no idea when I chose this challenge for the 1st of June, a traditionally popular month for weddings here in the UK, that there would be no weddings! What a surreal situation we find ourselves in.

So my card started with the gorgeous Tiddly Inks image, which comes in both jpg and png formats and also comes with or without the veil. I obviously plumped for the one with the veil.

I coloured the image with my copics, and glittered over her veil with a combination of a lovely soft pink and some white very fine glitter. I also added gems for her ring, her heart pendant and her tiara.

My papers are from Crafters Companion’s Garden of Love set. They have several with lovely dots of gold foiling on and I chose two to complement the colours in my image. I Cut an aperture in the rose background paper and placed it over the image. I then created both a frame for the image and a frame for the card itself with Sue Wilson double stitched dies in both the square and the circle from some lovely soft pink paper with more gold foiling.

The sentiment is a Spellbinders Glimmer foil plate and I foiled it in rose gold foil and cut it out with the matching die.

  

My flowers and the gems and glass teardrops dotted amongst the flowers are all from my stash.

Once again I must apologise for the quality of my photography. I desperately need a new camera but I keep buying craft and can’t afford both!!!!

The image right at the top is closest in colour tone and hue to the original, but the warmer ones beneath do show the floral arrangements better.

I am entering this into:-

A Perfect Time to Craft – #6 Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments – #252 Flowers and a Sentiment
Colour Crazy Challenge – #21 Anything Colouring Goes
Crafty Friends – #135 Anything Goes
Crafty Hazlenuts Patterned Paper – June Any Patt Papers goes
Creations in Pink – #22 Anything Goes in Mainly Pink
Di’s Digi Challenge – Include A Sentiment
Digi Doodle Studios – #28 Anything Goes
DL Art – June Anything Goes
Just Us Girls – #538 Two or More Patterned Papers
Krafty Chicks – #509 All Occasions
Love To Craft – #47 Anything Goes
Polkadoodles – #22 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday – #273 All About Occasions

DV #226 Add Some Sparkle

Today at Dream Valley we are sponsored by the lovely Paper Shelter and we all got to play with one of their fabulous digis. I have used Angel for my card.

I printed her onto watercolour card.. I used copics for her skin tones and Zig Clean Color brush pens for the rest of her. I die cut the image with Spellbinders Floral Ovals. I then added some shabby embossing powders in both blue and pink and edge the diecut with three colours of Pentart Wax pastes, magenta, purple and turquoise. The glitter diecuts around the edge of the frame are from the Tutti Butterfly Oval which I cut into two to place around the edge.

The lovely butterfly paper is from Tracey Hey, In The Navy. The paper is matted onto silver glitter card, the same as I used for the butterfly frame and also for the sentiment, which I created with my brand new We R Memory Keepers Word Punchboard!!! Come on WRMK, a nice set of lower case punches please!!!!

I am entering this into:-

Art Impressions – #283 All Layered Up
Arty Divas – #22 Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments – #251 Anything Goes + Sentiment
Colour Crazy – # 20 Anything Colouring Goes
Craft-Dee Bowz – May: Anything Goes
Crafters Castle – #29 Anything Goes
Creativ Fusion – #17 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers – #186 Anything Goes
Di’s Digi Challenge – Include a Sentiment
Elliebelles Crafty Wednesday – May: Make It Feminine
Pattie’s Creations – #170 Anything Goes
Polkadoodles – #21 Anything Goes
QKR Stampede – #399 Anything Goes
Southern Girls – May: Anything Goes
The Crafters Cafe – #242 Feminine
The Creative Crafters – #28 Anything Goes
The Fairy and The Unicorn – #5 Anything Fantasy Goes
Unicorn Challenge – #54 use Dies

CCM #257 Butterflies

Hi from sunny Hampshire. I hope everyone is still keeping safe and well, despite the confusing advice we are now being given about going out and about again!

Our challenge today at Crafty Cardmakers is butterflies. I have to say I am personally missing the dragonflies and damselflies that I would normally be seeing when I take my dog out down to the river on my mobility scooter, but I am shielding so we are stuck in and all we can see are pigeons pooping on my scooter cover!

I created my card with some Crafters Companion products. The gorgeous butterfly diecut is from them as is the pretty backing papers.

I diecut the butterfly from the lilac paper and then used it as a background behind the die cut butterfly, when I matted it over another of CC’s lovely papers. The other matting layer is white glitter card, which I cut the die sentiments from and also another butterfly layer. There are now two butterflies fluttering in the gap that the original one was cut from.

The sentiments are all from Studiolight.

I am entering this into:-

2 Crafty Critter Crazies – #38 Anything Goes with a Critter
A Bit More Time to Craft – #116 Anything Goes
Animal Friends – May: Insects
Aud Sentiments – #251 Anything Goes with a Sentiment
Crafts Galore Encore – #75 Anything Goes
Crafty Animals – #38 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers – #186 Anything Goes
Dare2BArtzy – May: In The Garden
Get Creative Challenges – #91 Make It Sparkly
Happy Little Stamper – May: Anything Goes with Dies
International Art & Soul – #83 Flowers & Butterflies
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #132 Anything Goes
Love To Craft – #46 Anything Goes
Not Just Cards – May: Anything Goes
The Corrosive Challenge – #5 Anything Goes
The Creative Crafters – #28 Anything Goes

DV #225 Favourite Colours

Our challenge today at Dream Valley is Favourite Colours and we are sponsored by Dis Digidesigns.

I actually don’t have a single favourite colour, but a combination of colours like my image actually is my favourite use of colour.

This is a more accurate representation of the subtlety of the colours, but the picture was too flat, and the butterfly looked flat, whereas the top picture although darker and maybe with more yellow in it, shows the butterfly’s dimension.

So I stamped the word stamp behind the butterfly in various shades of Tonic Nuvo Inks. I then stamped the butterfly over the top, and stamped the butterfly a second time onto spare card. I coloured it with Lyra Aquacolours and cut it out and then decoupaged it over the top of the one stamped directly on the card. The word stamp is from No Words and the Butterfly from Life is a Canvas both by Tracey Hey.

Using the same Tonic ink colours I randomly inked some spare card, from which I cut the Alexandra Renke Birthday Sentiment. I also cut it again in black and created a drop shadow effect with the black layer.

The shaped mats and layers were cut with Phil Martin’s Inverted double embossed rectgangle dies. which I also used to create the base card.

I am entering this into:-

A Place to Start – May: Create a Custom Background
AAA Birthday – #13 Things With Wings
Animal Friends = #86 Insects
C.R.A.F.T. – #555 Annual Blog Hop Birthday
Crafting Happiness – #48 Anything Goes Option Nature
Paperminutes – #639 Butterfly
Seize The Birthday – #190 Anything Goes Birthday
The Paper Shelter – #426 Happy Birthday
Unicorn Challenge – #54 Use Dies
Use Your Stuff – #397 Flowers and/or Butterflies
Watercooler Wednesday – #270 Anything Goes with a feminine twist

CCM #256 Celebrations

Our challenge today at Crafty Cardmakers is Celebrations. I know we might not feel much like celebrating at the moment, but friends and family are still having birthdays, Wedding Anniversaries, giving birth etc. So there is still lots to celebrate.

I created my card for a friend’s 80th Birthday.