Cat Nap

Time for another challenge over at 

Crafting From The Heart

#95 Anything Goes.

The sponsor for this week

is

Patties Creations

I chose to work with this  image called

'Nap Time'

The Doc's Aunt has a Ginger Tom

who seems to spend more of his time in her house

than in his own !

Aunty Eileen always insists that she doesn't

actually feed  him just a few nibbles put down in case he

gets pekish!!

So when I saw this image I just  knew exactly how to colour

it in and who the card would be going to.

Back with the acetate card front which I have 

perfected a way of enclosing without showing any

tape marks. 

Image has been coloured using my Copic pens

(they are growing on me) and a gold gel pen

to create the tabby markings. 

I created a pocket fold on the inside of the back

of the card to hold the thankyou  note.

Orange /yellow and green cardstock to make the 

card base from my stash along with the 

gold sticker embellishments.

The theme is Anything Goes as usual

and we would love to see you enter 

your projects .

Entering into the following challenges:

Where The HeART Is #5 Anything goes,

Crafting By Designs # Anything goes,

2 Creative Chicks #6 Anything goes.

Lets Craft & Create #109 Layer it up.

Natalie and Amy's challenge #40 Thankyou.

A Bit More Time To Craft  #12 Anything goes

Crafting With Friends #12 Anything goes,

Wags And Whiskers #169 Anything goes,

Football Mad

Our other grandson had his Birthday

on 24th December

and this is the card I made for him. 

He is football mad so I managed to find 

this footballer image by 'Pink Gem'

which I have coloured in using the new

2016 strip for his local team!

I found the foottball papers on Etsy by 

'Betsy Rainbow.'

I coloured the digi using promarkers.

 8 is  from a sheet of black glossy numbers and 

the sentiment is  black plastic stickers from my stash.

I used blue card stock to make the card tent style.

His other Granddad has his Birthday next week 

so I will be making another football themed card shortly!

Entering into the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Tuesday Taggers # Letters & numbers.

Fab 'n' Funky #287 For a child.

Create and Inspire  #37 Anything goes.

Inspiration Destination #68 Anything goes.

Penny's Paper Crafty #260 Anything goes.

Little Miss Muffet #129 Anything goes,

Creative Knockouts #124 For a child.

I is for Inking.

It is  a new Theme

over at my Butterfly Challenge

#46 Butterflies + I is for Inks.

 I would like to see coloured inking somewhere on your project.
ie. Stamped image inked using coloured inks, or an inked background or distress inks/markers to colour your image.

Here are my inspiration cards for you.

The 1st one  uses a stamp set by 

Imagination Crafts.

It has stamps which are both outline and solid infill

This enables you to build up a stamped image  using different 

coloured ink pads for each stage of the stamping.

I first stamped the flower out using 

distress ink in 'Peeled Paint'.The outline stamp of the 

flower heads and buds was used next . I coloured 

with  Versa Magic  'Perfect Plumeria' and lastly

the infill stamp using Versa Magic 'Pink Petunia.

The sentiment came in the same set.

Then I had a mishap. 

I used the small butterfly infill

stamp to stamp off 2 small butterflies at the top of the flowers.

They looked awful  and ruined the card 

so I had a hunt through my other

butterfly stamps and found a Clearly Besotted 

'Elegant Butterflies stamp which just about 

covered the mess up.  I stamped onto a scrap 

of the same white card and layered up using 1st green

then plumeria and lastly petunia just overstamping 

lightly with each colour.  Fussy cut out and then drew

round the stamp again. Fussy cut to give a slightly

larger image and inked up with the green.

I layered the white card up with  pink and dark pink

card stock from my stash that matched the inking 

perfectly. 

Layered inside with the pink card stock

and another flower head that I fussy cut out

after inking up.

Entering into the following challenges:
Craft Your Passion #294 Anything goes.
In The Pink #85 Anything goes,
Crafty Catz #306 Flowers.
2 Creative Chicks #6 Anything goes.
Sweet Stampin #  Flowers.
The Crafty Addicts #6 Anything goes/celebration.
Crafts Galore # Anything goes.
Addicted To Stamps #176 Anything goes.

For my second card I have used Cardio stamps

 from ' Oriental Blossom Flower ' and 'Summer Wreath'.

I used a white card blank and cut a circle from 

the front of it using my X cut dies.

Having removed the inner circle I then closed the card

and drew very lightly round the aperture using a pencil.

This gave me the shape to start building up my wreath design.

I used  Distress ink 'Forest Moss' for the base and then 

Versa  Magic dew drops in Plumeria , Petunia and night sky

for the flowers. I stamped the butterflies one in each 

colour into the centre of the circle.

I die cut another circle front and repeated the same pattern

around the outside edge sandwiching  a piece of

acetate in between. Stamped off another 3 butterflies and fussy cut out.

these were applied to the front and raised up slightly with 3d pads.

Silver sticker sentiment from my stash.

Inside of the card and below the card closed to show

the sentiment but I caught the glare from  the camera

on the acetate. 

Do hope I have given you some ideas and hope to see you

play along.

Entering into the following challenges:

Stamping Sensations # anything goes with a die/s

The Crafter's Cafe #140 Square cards.

Creative Knockouts #123 Anything goes.

Where the HeART Is #5 Anything goes.

One Crazy Stamper # Anything goes,

Crafting By Designs # Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop # Use your snippets( snippet of acetate).

Alphabet Challenge #W = window.

City Crafter #294 Butterfly, my butterfly.

Festive Food

It's the 1st meetup of the year

for the girls in the Christmas Card Club.

Margaret has started us off with the theme

'Festive Food'

Now over the past few years I have always

used my supply of used christmas card fronts up.

So you could be forgiven for thinking that I don't

actually own any  christmas  themed stamps, digi's, 

stencils, die cuts or punches but I do and they

never get used. Therefore my intention this year

 when I make a Christmas card

 is to  do one using up an old card front and

another breaking into my huge stack of unused supplies.

The only card front I had to fit the theme had glasses 

 of wine on it so when there is no food let them drink wine.

The Doc would endorse that idea whole heartedly!

My love /hate relationship with acetate is coming 

along in leaps and bounds. So much so that I'm 

in danger of running out of the darn stuff and need 

to get some more supplies in pronto!!

Card base uses green card stock that matches

the green glitter in the bauble perfectly.

Ribbon, gold sticker edging, sentiment

and the faux gems were from my stash.

Inside of card showing extra panel cut to hide

the d/s tape holding card in place on acetate front.

Entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner #53 Anything goes.

Craft Rocket Challenges #6 Happy anything.

Brown Sugar #180 Anything goes.

Creative Fingers #100 Anything goes.

Jo's Scrap Shack #120 Anything goes.

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #25 Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #211 Use your snippets (cut down christmas card front).

Crimbo Crackers #97 anything goes christmas.

2 Creative Chicks #6 Anything goes.

Creative Ladybirds #11 Anything goes.

For my 2nd card I delved into my supplies

and found this  'Gingerbread Scene'

digi set from Imagine That

bought way back in  Dec 2013.

I teamed it with another digi product

'Sweet Candy Canes'  paper from the 

Joyeux  Noel collection by Pink Petticoat.

I purchased this more recently end of  Dec 2015

just before they closed their shop.

Card shape is one I have used before but it is

one of my favourites a 

Joy Fold Card. 

I used  matching brown shimmer cardstock to make 

the base shapes. 

Half and then fully opened. 

You can't see them  in the picture but I used

small round magnetic discs to hold the card shut.

This was a tip I learnt from the  card class

I  did on line. They work a treat.

Entering this card into the following challenges:

Penny's Paper -Crafty #259  More than one fold.

Polka Doodles #51 Anything goes.

Scrapping 4 Fun #57 Anything goes + use a digi.

That Craft Place # Anything goes.

ABC Christmas Challenge # A is for anything goes.

Jingle Belles #  Something old (Digi), Something new ( Design paper).

Crafty Hazelnut's Extra # Anything goes christmas cards.

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Crafts Galore #  Anything goes.

Lets Craft & Create #109 Layer it up.

More Yellow.

Thought I would share another 2 cards

as inspiration for my Butterfly Challenge

#45 Butterflies + X is for Xanthine.

(It is a word. Honest!)

The first is  a card shape called

Folded Window Frame Card.

I recently took an online class to learn some new shapes.

Course  was by  Shirley Pando.

I have put my own slant on the card I made

but the basics are the same.

I used a 6" square blank Kraft card with a base layer

of yellow card stock adhered just slightly smaller than the card.

The 2 designs papers used were freebies from 

Making cards Magazine June /July 2015 issues.

You could use double sided paper (as per the class instructions)

to form the window aperture but I deviated and used separate

papers and glued  a square inset and triangles to the points 

that were turned back. 

I used a square of hessian  and a few of the threads made into

a small bow and attached to the front under the window frame.

Butterfly is a sticker that Amanda kindly sent me. 

I used the off cuts  to decorate the inside of the card

along with another sticker.

Entering into the following challenges:

Everybody Art #350 Everything goes.

Crafty Gals Corner #53 Anything goes.

Inspiration Destination #67 Anything goes.

2 Creative Chicks #6 Anything goes.

Crafty Calendar # Something new.(New Card Shape used).

Crafts Galore # Anything goes,

Where the HeART Is  #5 Anything goes.

Lets Craft and Create #109 Layer it up.

Crafting By Designs # Anything goes.

2nd card shape 

is called a Hidden  Message Card

from the same card class by Shirley Pando.

Papers this time are digi ones  by  Pink Petticoat

'Bold Daisies' from the Isobelline Collection

which I printed off in two different sizes.

 I used a scrap of Yellow  shimmer card

and the sentiment and flower motif  are freebies from  a magazine 

and came with papers by Nancy Watt.

More butterflies stickers from Amanda and the 

brad and snippet of ribbon from my stash.

Hope  you like my examples and will flutterby.

You have until next Tuesday to enter.

Entering into the following challenges:

Craft your Passion #293 Anything goes.

Through The Craftroom Door # Anything goes.

Creative Inspirations #342 Florals

Moving Along With The Times #11 Spots and dots.

Jade's Sparkling Butterflies #10 Anything goes/ all things bright and beautiful.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #210 Use your snippets. (yellow card and ribbon)

Scrapper's Delights #51 Anything goes.

Creative Ladybirds #11 Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Celebration

Time for another challenge over at 

Crafting From The Heart

#93 Anything Goes.

The sponsor for this week

is 

Aurora Wings

I chose to work with this lovely image called

'Stars'.

Woman with Stars in her Hair.

I'm not really comfortable with colouring but  

when I do I generally grab my Promarkers.

Today however I have used Copic pens.

I took a class  back in  Aug 2015 and now have my

Copic Basic  and Copic Advanced Certificates

so no excuse not to dust off my pens and use them!

I also used a silver gel pen along with a silver

Atyou Spica pen which twinkles like stars in her hair.

I mounted onto silver shimmer card stock die cut

using my Xcut  Rectangles dies 

Adhered onto pink shimmer card and then onto 

a dark pink card base (which is not shown ).

Flowers and ribbon from my stash.

The above photo was taken using  flash to show the shimmer

whilst the one below was using normal overhead lighting .

I also used a gem for her earing and 

a silver sentiment sticker.

The theme is Anything Goes as usual

and we would love to see you enter 

your projects .

Entering into the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks #279 Anything goes.

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #344 Anything goes.

Cute Card Thursday #406 Anything goes.

A Bit More Time To Craft #11 Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #210 Use your snippets (piece of yellow ribbon).

Quirky Crafts #25 Celebration.

2 Creative Chicks #6 Anything goes.

AnMa Creatief #52 Flowers.

Creative Ladybirds #11 Anything goes.

Happy New Yr.

Wishing You All

A

From

Mrs A. & The Doc.

Cheers to 

2016