A Special 70th!

I had to create a special 70th Birthday Card recently and this is what I came up with - a masculine trifold card.  

I used the Hero Arts Digital Kit - Sillyscape - printed it numerous times, cut it out, coloured sections, layered it, stamped 70 (digit stamps by Papermania) over one print out, cut out the numbers and coloured them to make the numbers "pop".  I adhered these to the base with foam squares - I forgot to take a side view of it before it was handed over!  The little hedgehog (hedgehopper) in the plane is by Penny Black and I coloured, fussy cut and added glossy accents to the hearts and goggles!.

The world is part of a digital stamp By LORi Designs - the little plane and boat are by PTI.  I coloured with copics and added the dotted line with white gel pen.

 Then the full "skyline" was revealed when the card was completely opened.
 I printed the message directly onto the clouds background (Hero Arts Digital kit!).
I layered some of the buildings for dimension and added glossy accents to the clock face.  I erased the message on the inside for privacy reasons (hope you understand).

Challenges

Come and Get it - More than one fold

Here Come the Boys - Birthdays Only

Pile it On - Anything but a Christmas Card
Simon Says Stamp and Show - A project with heart

Thanks for peeking.  Sorry I have been absent from blogland - hope to rectify that over the coming weeks.  Thanks so much for stopping by today - I really appreciate all your comments. 

Where does the time go?

Supplies:  Penny Black Transparent set - trims, computer generated 

sentiment, Hero arts clear gems, pink gems by Icon Design, 

Purple Cows guillotine, textured cardstock - Papermania, purple

/blue cardstock - Canson, Range Archival ink - Blue Violet and 

Magenta Hue (new!!), tombow adhesive, copic BV08, 

pop dots and machine stitching.

I just don't know where the time goes!!

Happy Birthday to my God Daughter and Niece.

I made this card by cutting three strips of cardstock, adhering it to my craft mat and stamping with two new inks by Ranger.  I then machine stitched to the pink cardstock and added the sentiment strip.  I added gems (I coloured clear HA gems for the purple with a copic) and adhered to the base layer with pop dots.

Challenges
Celebrate the Occasion - Birthday (must use bling)
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Edited to add - Look what the featured project on twopeas is today.....woohoo!

Thanks for peeking - hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Stamped set of cards

Supplies:  Sentiments - Frame It set Waltzingmouse stamps, 

pattern - Penny Black trims set, faded denim distress ink, 

memento london fog ink, Ranger Archival inks - Chrome Yellow/

Sap Green/ Blue Violet, coloured cardstock by Papermania and Canson, 

tombow roller adhesive and pop dots.

I decided to make a patterned set of cards with stamping as my focal point.  Used this tiny four squares design from the "trims" set by Penny Black.

Challenges

Crafty Bloggers Network - Spring Time

 Stampalot Challenge - In the Garden

Cupcake Inspirations - Photo

Penny Black and more - Bingo

Thank so much for peeking.  Hope your week is going well.

Happy New Year!

Supplies:  Penny Black - Stuck on you stamp set, computer generated sentiment - 

font scrubble, copics, Spellbinders star dies, purple cows guillotine, pop dots, black memento ink

and two A6 white card blanks.

Happy New Year everyone - thank you so much for your visits/encouragement and support during 2011.  Let's hope 2012 is fun of fun, laughs, friendships and some papercrafting thrown in for good measure!

It's Paperplay Challenge time again - and this week our theme is "Happy New Year" or as it is a new year we would like to see you create a project with the theme of NEW year/baby/job/house/etc 

OR 

Use something new from your stash. Now's your chance to show us what Santa brought you :) .  We are very kindly sponsored by Simon Say Stamp.

 I created my card by printing the computer generated sentiment directly on to a card blank and a scrap card blank.  I ran the second one through my Big Shot using a star die by Spellbinders.  I also cut additional stars using some smaller dies.  Lots of layers with pop dots to create dimension.  I left the stars plain - was tempted to add some stickles... but decided against it in the end!

My little guys are still on school holidays - so my time at my computer is limited.  I am keeping up to date using my phone but it's not the same for leaving comments!  Normal routine will resume next week.

Challenges
Simon Says Stamp - New Something
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes with "new" as a theme
Color Throwdown - colors

 Thanks so much for stopping by.  Check out the other DT creations here.

Jolly! - Holiday Card

Supplies:  Penny Black Star inspired flower stamp (4156K), SRM sentiment sticker, 

Spellbinders Labels 14 dies, mini bells, gold organdy ribbon by 
Europa Imports Inc, Kraft cardstock, MME Lost and Found Christmas 
6x6 pp and ribbon, machine stitching, Doodlebug gems, Copics - R22, R35 and 0, 
pop dots, tea dye distress ink and blending tool.

A few weeks ago Penny Black featured a wonderful tutorial by Jill showing partial colouring of an image.  I decided to try this technique with this fun star inspired stamp on a Holiday Card.

I added an SRM sentiment sticker and used a fab (new to me!) PB stamp - star inspired.

Challenges
Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Bling

Quick post today as I seem to be playing catch up this week!.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Happy!

Supplies:  Penny Black Hedgehopper, PTI clouds die, Sentiment  - SRM Sticker, 

Textured cardstock - Papermania, Kraft card blank, copics, 

Tombow adhesive tape runner, pop dots and glossy accents.

This cute hedgie just makes me smile!  

For this card I cut off the trailing hearts, added glossy accents to his glasses/goggles and the spinning propeller.   I adhered the plane and one of the clouds on pop dots for added dimension.  Love how large this SRM Sticker is - you can find it here.

Thanks so much for peeking.

Fly with Me!

 Supplies:  Fly with Me Slapstick Cling Stamp - Penny Black , Folia blue cardstocks, 
MME Lime Twist pp, X-Cut scallop border punch, machine stitching, 
white cardstock, Stickles - Diamond,Ranger Black Enamel, PTI cloud Die, pop dots, 
adhesive and copics B00, BG34, YG03 and B12.

 Didn't manage to get a card made last week for Summer Card Camp even though the colour combo is one that I tend to use a lot!.  This week I decided I had to play along - don't these colours shout out Summer to you? 

I know... I know... a blue cat! but maybe she/he got a new "hairdo" for the Summer holidays like a lot of teenagers do now?  Make sense?  Hope so! Cannot believe it is Week 4 of Summer Card Camp already - don't know where the four weeks went.  

Challenges

Penny Black - Summer

Forever Friends Challenge - Not Square (must include an animal)

Squigglefly - Hang Ten

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for peeking, hope you are having a great week.

Enjoy your Day - Penny Black

Supplies:  Betsy Bluebell stamp and sentiment by Penny Black, Canson 

teal cardstock, Papermania Kraft card blank, XCut scallop border punch, 

Ranger fine black embossing powder, Papermania black ink, Papermania gems, 

copics, colouring pencils, Stella Rose pp, white gel pen, glossy accents, 

clear sequins, Diamond stickles and pop dots.

A number of months ago I won some PB stamps my friend Kathy Racoosin's blog - The Daily Marker.  I have been half terrified to pull them out and ink them up when I see what AMAZING things she creates with them on a daily basis.

I decided to "bite the bullet" and inked up this cutie for this week's Penny Black Challenge - wet embossing.

I am so glad I did, I had so much fun playing with Betsy Bluebell.

I did some colouring, paper piecing, added embellishments, glossy accents, decorated the inside, the list goes on... and on.... but I had lots of fun.  

Thanks so much for peeking and I hope you have a great day/weekend.

Caardvarks - decorate inside and out!

I have a couple of thank yous to send and decided I had better get cracking! - the current challenge on Caardvarks is sponsored by Penny Black.  I love PB's stamps - you should see the prizes up for grabs.... quick... check them out here.

The Challenge is "to create a new stamped card that is decorated inside and out!".  The stamping on this card is on the cork tag and the inside message tag.

Supplies:  Cosmo Cricket pp and chipboard sticker - Early Bird range, 

Spellbinders Labels One, Docrafts A6 kraft card blank, PTI Vintage Labels 

stamps and Dark Chocolate Ink, PTI Beautiful Blooms II dies, 

PTI Ocean Tides ribbon,   buttons & cardstock, embroidery floss, 

Artist's Loft Natural Cork Roll - Michael's, felt in my stash from JoAnn's and pop dots.

I created a mat on the inside for the message with some stamping in Ocean Tides ink to match the cardstock.

Thanks so much for peeking.  Be sure to check out the Caardvarks Challenge and scroll down to find the post containing the winner of my Christmas/Holiday Blog Candy.