Internet or lack of!

All fingers crossed and double crossed.

The internet has been stable overnight

and the green light is still green

so with a lot of luck I will be round your blogs

asap.

I gave up trying to use predictive text on my Ipad.

That was just one nut too far!!!!!

Pansies

It's time to reveal the card I made 

For the March Swap at the

Society of Stampaholics

Card Chain Challenge. 

I haven't played in such a long time. 

I chose the colour theme to work with 

which  was  Pink, Lavender and Yellow.

I decided on a Trifold Shutter Card

and sent to Jo in England.

I used the excellent instructions
on liz's blog here.  Just making a slight
 adjustment as my card was not 12 inches long. 

I used pink card stock to make the shape
and design papers from my stash + lavender
plain card  and cut and layered up each panel.
Flower print is a Penny Black Stickeroos
called  Sun Kissed. 
Sentiment is Outline stickers by Anita's.
This makes a total of 30 new card shapes 
I have tried so far this year and  there
are many more to follow.! 

Entering into the following challenges:
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned  Paper # Anything goes. 
The Pink Elephant # 292 Anything goes
The Crazy  Challenge # 194 Floral 
Make My Monday # Flowers
Crafty Card Makers  #135 Spring has sprung.
Craft Your Passion# 255 Anything goes. 
613 Avenue Create # 117 Anything goes,
Simply Create Too # 82 Anything goes. 
Scribble and Scrap #41 Anything goes.
Everybody Art # Anything goes.

Fancy Fold Card.

Another 2 weeks has sped by again 

and it's time for the girls in the 

Christmas Card Club to show our makes.

The challenge was set this time by Maureen 

and her theme was  'Feature a Critter or Critters'.

A quick look through my used Christmas card pile

turned up 3 possibles.

I spent ages waffling on the 1st picture but nothing 

seemed to work so in the end I went onto the 2nd

card of my choice and so glad I did as I love the result.

I found a great tutorial by Brenda of Floral Fantaises 

for this Fancy Fold Card.

I did change my measurements slightly to accommodate the 

card front I was using.

The Artists name is 'Audrey North'

and I cut the shape of the card to

 leave  it showing. 

The detail on the mice  is fantastic.

I did a search on the web but all I could

find out about her is that she is a

British Visual Artist.

Her prints sell well on auction sites. 

I cut the card down using my XCut  Oblong Parenthesis die

and backed it with a further die cut using gold pearlescent card.

Base was made using cream card stock and then the panels layered up

using cherry red card and the gold pearlescent card. 

I had thought that bit  was the most time consuming part

until I got to the Ivy die!!

The die is acutally a Joaanna Sheen Ivy corner

but the snippets of  green and brown card I wanted to use

were just that  'snippets' so I ended up cutting the leaves

with the die individually from the scraps. and then pieced/glued

the trailing  leaves down the outside side panels.

Sentiment is Briannia word dies.

Maureen  also runs the Rudolph Day challenge 

which is just as well as I spent so much time on this card

I can enter it there too and not miss the deadline!!

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnuts Extra#   Christmas cards only

Christmas cards All Yr Round # Cute critters.

Rudolph Day #  1  Chrismtas  card only.

Me and Mine #14 Beat the rush.

Fab 'n' Funky #252 Christmas.

Southern Girls # Punching above your weight.

Allsorts #304 Feature a creature.

Hiding In My Craft Room #193 Any holiday.

A Gem Of A Challenge #141 Shaped cards anything but square.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #170 Use up your snippets.

It is going to be all go here for the next month 

as we are having a major refit done 

starting tomorrow with the electrics.

So if I go all quiet you'll know that our

temperamental Internet access    

has not rebooted when the switch gets flicked back on!!

Butterfly Corner.

It is new challenge time over at

my Butterfly challenge with the theme being

#27 Butterflies + C is for Corner

I have chosen to use a die cut as my corner piece.

I have layered up with Papermania cardstock in pink

and then white card ontop onto a scalloped edge card base.

The butterfly corner die is by Tonic from their 

'Butterfly Blooms' Set. 

This is a NUBUS (never before used schtuff)

so I will be playing over at Darnell's challenge.

Sentiment is a magazine freebie stamped

using Versa Magic chalk ink in Perfect Plumeria.

Quite a CAS style card for me and the only other item 

added is the one pearl on  the seperate butterfly.

Entering into the following challenges:

Through The Craftroom Door # Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly # Die cutting, fussy cutting, punches.

Wags and Whiskers # 150 Monochromatic.

Crafty Catz # 271 No Design Papers.

My Time To Craft # 284 Silhouette.

Darnell's  NBUS challenge #4  anything goes .

Tent Fold Card.

The  Craft Club that I do swaps in

required us to include 10 embellishments in with

our January cards for our partners in turn to create 

2 cards for the Febraury swap using those embellishments.

This is the first selection that I received from my 

Partner Merry.

The pink card is from my stash and was used to make the base card. 

The pretty rose patterned card is the notelet that Merry enclosed along with the 

embellishments  and I thought it much too pretty not to reuse. 

As the pattern was the same on the back of the card I cut it down the middle

to use on each of the cards that I made .

I decided to make a 'Tent Fold' card and to use the 
printed off cut of acetate to make a window in the front. 
I used my Xcut and Spellbinders dies to cut the 
circle and trim.  I cut the flower card to fit in the back of the card.

 So 

The rest of the embellishments were used on the front. 

Merry has received this card now so I can show.

Entering into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion # 254 Anything goes.

Scrapper's Delights # 43 Anything goes.

Inspiration Destination # 25 Anything goes.

Fan 'n' Funky # 251 Spring into colour.

Decorate  To Celebrate # 96 Anything goes.

Brown Sugar # 138 Anything goes.

Fosted Designs # Think pink.

Sister Act # 98 Anything goes.

A Gem Of A Challenge # 139 Pretty in pink.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #169 Use up your snippets  

Triple Framed Card.

It is week 2 of my Butterfly Challenge.

Here is my card for your inspiration.

I saw this idea over on  Helen's blog

but I have used a completely different 

construction to make mine. I chose to layer

up the frames with  3D pads and used  a

conventional card opening.

I fell in love with these digi papers by Pink Petticoat

from their 'Isabelline Collection'.

They all mix and match so well together.

I have used Spellbinders 'Deckled Rectangles' to create

the diminishing windows which lead you into the 

Butterfly which is made using Memory Box's

Pippi & Isabella Butterfly dies.

Xcut corner rounder  for the edges of card.

Sentiment is by Clearly besotted.

Pearls from stash.

Side view showing the 3D layered front of card.

Inside of card decorated to match .

I'm feeling a lot better now and will be round your blogs

asap.

Thank you for all your well wishes.

Entering into the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Cuttlebug Mania # Freeze frame.

All Sorts # 302 Flowers and Pearls

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge #71 Anything goes + optional spots or stripes.

Pile It On #60 Use 3 of something ( 3 layered die cut windows & 3 pearls used).

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Fairytale.

It was Fluff's Birthday yesterday

and this is the card I made for her.

Yellow and purple being  her favourite colours.

I battled my innner deamons and got the 

'BRAYER'

out and actually used it for the very  first time 

to create the background  after looking at

loads of Lavinia tutorials on  how to do it!!

I knew  I wanted to use this colour palette but the colours 

were spread across 3 different stamp pad makers

that I had in my stash namely

SU, Adirondacks and Memento.

Now as I wasn't sure  if they  were  compatible I went straight 

to the oracle herself (Fluff) and asked the Q.

Back came the reply " If you tell me what your doing 

I can advise you more specifically".

To which I quickly replied nope  "It's on a need to know basis

and you don't need to know that" !!!!

Thankfully they all are.

I created the background using the Brayer 

and SU/Adirondacks ink pads. 

Torn strips of scrap paper to shape  the hills.

Lavinia Fairy 'Luna' stamped using Memento ink.

Lavinia flowers used were Wild flower,Bluebells,

Lavendar, Leaf trail and Trailing Ivy.

Sentiment is Anita's Stickers .

Card mounted onto yellow  SU cardstock.

I had fun making so much so that I made another 

scene up  in blue but that is now on it's way to Australia

so can't be shown yet.

Because the card was not a bog standard size 

I made a matching envelope for it too. 

Entering into the following challenges:
Pixie's Crafty Workshop #168 Use your snipppets.
Fashionable Stamping #93 Springtime.
Make My Monday # A scenic card.
Love to Scrap #50 Anything goes.
Craft Your Passion #253 Anything goes.
Crafting From The Heart  #51 Anything goes.
Create and Inspire #17 Anything goes.
Little Miss Muffet #107 Anything goes
Fairytale challenges #113 Flower power.
Creative Ladybirds #1 Anything goes.