S J Crafts August Challenge

Today's card is one I made for Aimee and her friend Ella May  to give to their friend at school who was going back to Korea to live. It also fits in with the new challenge which went live yesterday over at S J Crafts where this month we want to see projects with the theme of Holidays / Travel and also for you to use something new and something old.

 So for my card my something new was this cute digi from Zlatoena's Designs called Travel Bunny  I coloured him with promarkers adding some glossy accents to his googles. I decided to paper piece the plane slightly fiddly but worth it I think all the papers are from Prima Hello Pastel collection. I added a banner to the back of the plane with some paper twine. My something old was my Fiskers Threading water border punch which I think is the first border punch I got. 

I decided to make a cross over card so I could put a photo I took of the three of them playing in my garden a few days before she had to go home. On the reverse of the insert I printed a poem which I thought was fitted the occassion.

 " Our friendship with you is special

And we hope it never ends

Even though you'll be miles and miles away

Let's stay the best of friends."

 I haven't put a photo of the reverse of the insert as it has our address and Ella Mays address on it so that they can all keep in touch.

Don't forget to hop over to the blog a check out the rest of the DT fantastic projects.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafting For All Seasons - Feature A Creature

Mod Squad - Paper Piecing

Hanna And Friends - Animals

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterened Paper Challenge - Patterned Paper

Stempelgarten Challenge - Paper Piecing

S J Crafts Sketch

Today we have a new challenge over at S J Crafts. Jennifer has drawn us up a sketch to play with, now although it's more of a scrapbooking sketch I have managed to make a card with it ( at least I hope you can see the sketch in my card!).

In a few weeks it is my darling hubby's 40th birthday so this card is for one of the kids to give to him, now 2 of his favourite things are dragons and superheros so this fab digi set from Dustin Pike was the perfect choice for him I have used the coloured images this time round although it does come with black & white images as well. I printed all the images of onto photo paper several times and then fussy cut them and layered them up. The DP is from MME Cut & Paste Flair pad I've embossed lots of the card stock with 2 different star embossing folders. For embellishments I've die cut some stars out of mirror card and added a couple of Basic Grey Candy Buttons in red. The sentiment is a computer generated one which I fussy cut and then popped up on foam pads. The 40 is form an old set of alpha stickers which I coloured to match with my promarkers.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Seize The Birthday - Birthdays & Chevrons

My Time To Craft - Superhero's
The Crafty Bloggers Network - All About Boys
Crafty Cardmakers - This Is A Mans World

Altered Diary

 

Today I have an altered diary to show you I started off with this very plain and boring black diary which I bought for a £1 and this is what I turned it into.....

 

I made this diary for my DD Shannon who has a thing about all things nerdy and as soon as I saw this glasses paper I knew I wanted to use it for something for her having recently started work she needs a diary to write her shifts down in. I started off with sheet of kraft card which I cover the whole diary with. I then matted the glasses paper which comes from MME Cut Paste Flair pad onto a piece of black card. I have used some Basic Grey Candy Buttons in the corners to add a little bit of interest to them. 

The glasses are from a necklace which I took apart I have used a set of numbers from an old set of Alpha's which I had tucked away. I stuck the glasses down with glossy accents and then filled the lenses with it to give them a more realistic appearance. I added a couple of flat backed gems to the corners for a little bit of sparkle.

I would like to enter my diary into the following challenges:
Crazy For Challenges - Let's Frame It ( Hope the glasses count as a frame)
Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything but a card
4 Crafty Chicks - Anything but a card
Craft My Life - Anything goes but no cards
Creative Creations Challenge - Sparkle & Shine ( gems are sparkly and the glasses are shiny)


Six On The 6th

 Wow can you believe another month has gone past and it's time for S J Crafts series Six on the 6th the idea being that every month you join in and make 6 Christmas cards so that when it's gets to Christmas it's not so much of a rush, having counted my cards the other day I have almost 30 ready which is good for me. This month I decided to stray away from the normal (for me) cards with DP and a coloured stamped image, I have heat embossed a background stamp using Versamark ink and silver sparkle embossing powder and then inked all over it with Festive Berry Distress ink.

 The back ground stamps are both from Visible image, the sparkly silver ribbon is from my local haberdashery shop. In the card above I have tied a double bow and added some tiny jingle bells and a sentiment and the one below I have cut a snowflake with my spellbinders die adding a hero arts red gem to centre.

 

 

 

I would like to enter my cards into the following challenges:

Visible Image - Make It Sparkle

Fab N Funky - Traditional Christmas Colours

Holly Jolly Christmas - Traditional Colours (sort of)

My Christmas Notebook

Every year at Christmas time I have a little notebook in which I keep a record of all the presents I have bought so I don't forget anyone or more likely buy another present when I've already got one squirrelled away for them. This year I thought I would make myself a pretty one so I set about altering this notebook.

It was a pretty bog standard spiral bound notebook, which I think it cost less than a £1 when I bought it. I started off by levering the spiral open to remove the covers.

 I used a promarker to do this so I didn't bend the spiral out of shape.

  

I have covered the front and the back with kraft card and then added a panel to the front using papers from Teresa Collins Santa's list pad. I've cut an aperture in the paper and put my image behind the hole. I have used another of the cute penguins from Angels Landing stamps coloured with my promarkers. I have heat embossed the silver on his hat and scarf and given him some stickles snow to stand on. For the finishing touches I  added some red twine and punched snowflakes with red gems to and tied a variety of ribbons to the spiral bound once it was back in place to pretty it up.

  



On the inside of the back cover I have added a pocked cut out of kraft card so that I can add any receipts I wish to keep. I cut the shape out if the top using one of my nesties shapes.

 

I would like to enter my notebook into the following challenges:

Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Recipe

Craft Ribbons - Anything But A Card

Passion For Promarkers - Beginning with P ( Penguin, Patterened Paper)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Ribbon





6th 0n The Sixth

 It's time for 6 cards on the sixth again at S J Crafts ( well I'm a couple of days late but don't worry you have all month to link up). For my six cards this month I bought a new set of digital stamps from Angels Landing and used those to base my 6 cards around and then decided to do 3 in blue tones and the other 3 in more traditional red & green. The papers were all from a Dovecraft Back to Basics pack that I bought half price in January. All the images are coloured with my promarkers and I've used stickles for the sparkle.

For the first two cards I've added flat backed gems to this one and a papermania sentiment. The border is punched with my fiskers scalloped lace punch.

 The next two cards I've printed the images twice to layer them up and add a bit of dimension. The snowflake is punched with a woodware punch.

 

 

 For my last two cards I have cut an aperture in the front of the card with my nesties and the image is actually on the inside of the card. The snowflake border is a diecut to which I've added gems and the sentiment is again a papermania one.

 

I hope that you will link up with us this month don't forget that if you join in with you are in with the chance to win a pizza box full of stash.

I would like to enter my cards into the following challenges:
S J Crafts - 6 on the Sixth

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Cats, Dogs, Pets, Animals
Digitally Sweet Challenge - Anything with Wings
Paper Creators Crafts - Punches / Dies
The Ribbon Girl - Ribbon  + make it sparkly ( last 4 cards)
Inky Chicks - 2 Different Die Cuts ( Last 2 cards)
Passion for Promarkers - Snow is Falling
 

Studio Calico Wonderland Collection Part 2

 

Earlier in the week I showed you some cards that I had made using  Studio Calico Wonderland Collection. Today I have two little gifts to show you which would make ideal Christmas presents. 

First is a little gift bag that I made out of Kraft card which really seems to work so well with many of the papers in this pad. The snowflake paper is again from the Wonderland Collection and some red twine this time. The sentiment is a digital one from Whimsy Stamps and I added a tiny button which I coloured to match and tied with twine to the centre of the snowflake.

The bag opens up and revels a little pocket into which I put a few celebration sweets. I followed this tutorial to make the bag.

 Now for something completely different papers are again from the Wonderland Collection and I think this shows just how versatile this collection is as I gone away from Christmas completely and made a tea light holder. You can see it below with the candle lit.

 

I followed this tutorial to make the tea light holder

S J Crafts September challenge

 

Time for a new challenge at S J Crafts and this month our challenge is

School/Learning + optional extra challenge - to use scallops!

 I was flicking through a magazine and came across this idea for a letter rack, which I thought would be perfect for me as I am always misplacing school letters just when I need the information in them.

First up I went hunting in the cereal cupboard for an almost empty box then set about taking it apart and cutting the top off the front of the box.

 

I've used some old MME 12 x12 papers which have been sat in my stash for an age. I've added some punched edges done with a Fiskars border punch for the added extra of scallops. The scrabble tile alpha was a free download which I printed out and heat embossed by rubbing a versamark pad over each tile and covering them with clear embossing powder.

 

On one side I have attached a loop with a brad to hold a pen.



And on the other side a bulldog clip again held in place with a brad to hold envelopes for money for milk/ gymnastic club etc.

Inside the box is an A5 pad for writing note for the teacher decorated in some more MME paper, punched edges and a pretty die cut flower.

The Olympics at S J Crafts

 Time for a new challenge at S J Crafts and this month we have gone for the theme 

The Olympics

Here's some ideas from Sarah to help you out. Did you see the olympic torch relay? - you could scrap the photos you took! Have your children had a school sports day? - Show us your sporty photos ... football, rugby, tennis, skipping or playing catch on the beach or in the garden!! The Olympics will be held in London so any photos of London will be suitable. You could use the colours or rings of the logo as a design element! Dig out your sporty rubber stamps for your cards.

And the prize this month for our  winner is a 6 x 6 Pad (of the winners choice from the shop!)

This month instead of a card I've gone with an altered notebook & pen which I made for my youngest daughter Aimee who loves to sit a write. I bought a plain black notebook from Wilkinsons and transformed it with some Portabobello Road papers from Papermania. The borders are punched with a Fiskers punch. The ribbons are all from Crafty Ribbons, I had to colour the blue one with my promarker to match as it was a pale blue colour.

The image is from Simply Betty stamps and is called Gymnast Sally, I choose this image as Aimee love to do gymnastics at school and can't wait to watch the gymnasts on the Olympics. The image is coloured as usual with my promarkers, I'm really pleased with the way I managed to get the skirt to look transparent. Whilst I was cutting the image out I cut thought the ribbon that she is twirling so have stuck some real ribbon on instead. I added a pearl to her bow in her hair to hide the skull that was on the image.

I added Aimee's name with some alpha stickers which I originally coloured blue but decided after edging all the papers with gold stickles to glitter them up too. The little pen is one I bought as a pack of six I added a piece of matching paper around the top of the pen and tied a piece or ribbon to the clip.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:



Simply Challenged Challenge - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge - Olympic Games/Sports

Saturday Challenge - Olympic or Sporty 

Craft Punked - Olympic Games

Craft Room Challenge - Sports