Butterflies at Totally Gorjuss

Wow it's been a long week we have had stock take at work this week so I worked my day off to help get everything ready. As it's Saturday it's time for a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss which this week is a nice easy one Butterflies. I have been busy making gifts for teachers this week and here is one I made for a friends little boy to give to his teacher. I was asked to incorporate butterflies into the present as that is what his class is called. I bought some plain black memo blocks from work in the sale recently for 50p each ( I think they thought I was mad at work as I bought 15 of the things lol but as a crafter I could see the potential of them!!). I started of by printing a verse onto some white card and then got my distress inks out to play on this one I have used Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers. The swirls are the Grunge Flourish stamp from Visible Image. The butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch which I embossed with the Divine Swirls folder in my cuttlebug and then inked.

Here's an angled photo so you can see the sides of the block as well sorry about the path I had a nightmare trying to take this photo's as the sun was really bright and all the others had terrible shadows on them. 

I would like to enter my memo block into the following challenges:

Visible Image Challenge - Anything Goes

Bloggers Challenge - Quotes 

Flower Power at Totally Gorjuss

Morning all time for a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss where this week our challenge is Flower Power . I have used this fun image from Bugaboo stamps coloured up with my promarkers and some glossy accents on the flowers on the tortoises shell. The paper are from MME Quite Contrary Summer papers. The doily which is tucked behind the image was coloured with a promarker as was the punched flowers and the thin green ribbon. 

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

Creative Corner Challenge - Summertime

Craft For The Craic - Something Summery or With Flowers

Dad at Totally Gorgeous

Morning time for a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss where this week we want to see cards for Dad. My card today is for my Father in law for Fathers Day which here in the UK is tomorrow. I've used this fun sheep image from Scribbles Designs, I used woodwares fluffy stuff to give his head and body a woolly appearance.

I'm not sure where the spotty paper is from as it was a loose piece in my drawer I mounted it on Kraft card. The sentiment is one I did on the PC and continues onto the inside of the card as you can see below. I added another smaller image of the sheep adding some grass around his feet with a pro marker.

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

Creative Corner Challenges - Just For Him

Papertake Weekly - For The Boys

Try It On Tuesdays - One For The Boys

Aud Sentiments - Any Sentiment For A Guy

Fab n Funky - Laughter Is The Best Medicine

The Male Room - Fathers Day

Scrap Creations - Fathers Day

Embossing at Totally Gorjuss

Good morning my card today is for the new challenge at Totally Gorjuss which starts today, this week we want to see some Embossing on your creation. Our sponsor this week is Which Craft UK. I seeing a bit of a pattern with my DT cards the last few weeks they all seem to have used Digi Stamp Boutique images completely unintentional they are just cute fun to colour images. This weeks image is Dexter Holding a Sign and I have coloured him with my promarkers adding glossy accents to his nose and eyes and some silver perfect pearls on his colour. The papers are from Fancy Pants Swagger pad ( these are just about the last of these papers now I really need to find some more male papers) and I added a few silver card candy as embellishments. 

Digi Stamp Boutique - Customer Challenge

Lace at Totally Gorjuss

Good morning I hope it's lovely and sunny where you are it certainly is here on the south coast. As it's Saturday its time for a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss where this week we want to see you use lace on your project, it can be real lace or a lacy diecut / paper. I've been playing with my distress ink this week and decided to alter a beer mat / coaster.  I used peeled paint, dusty concord, milled lavender and iced spuce distress inks and a white ink pad along with retro dots and grunge flourish stamps from visible image to create the background. The flowers were cut from another piece of inked paper using the tattered florals die.

The sentiment is from a set at Pink Petticoat called Simple Sentiments once I had printed it out and cut it into a banner shape I inked it with iced spruce.

The flowers were cut from another piece of inked paper using the tattered florals die. I added a piece of cotton lace and a piece of lacy raffia under my flower both have been coloured with distress inks. the little gem droplets were coloured with a promarker to match the brad in the centre of the flower.

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

Allsorts Challenge - Purple Passion

Crafts 4 Eternity - To Die For

Craftitude - That's Die-licious

Simply Create Too - Anything But A Card

Don't Be Square at Totally Gorjuss

I'm back to tell you about the new challenge at Totally Gorjuss which this week is Don't Be Square and we are sponsored by Crafters Companion. This card was for an order where the customer want a 007 inspired card. I have seen a few of these type of cards on the internet but struggled to find a template so I made one out of paper first so I could get the dimensions right.

Here's a picture of the inside so you can see the waistcoat, I used brads on this instead of more buttons. The bow tie is made from a piece of ribbon. and if you look carefully you can see I used velcro to hold the suit jacket closed.

I added some white paper to the back to give a space to write on.

Just a quick heads up for you all Sarah at S J Crafts is offering Free Postage on all orders over £15 this weekend ( from 10am Saturday 10th May 2014 to 10am Monday 12th May 2014) head over to the shop and have a look and see what goodies she has for you.

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

Allsorts Challenge - Fancy Folds

Open Minded Crafting - Use Some Ribbon

A Creative Romance - One for The Boys

Splendiferous Creations - Bloggers Challenges - Buttons And Bows

Crafty Catz Challenge - Black & White & one othercolour

Things With Wings at Totally Gorjuss

Good morning today see a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss which this week is Things With Wings. We are sponsored this week by Ribbon Girl. I decided to make a Christmas card, I know its a bit early but it's one less to make later on, I used this cute image from Bugaboo Stamps coloured with my promarkers. I added lots of stickles to the ground for snowy/ icy floor.The paper is from a pack I bought from Wilko's last Christmas and I teamed it with aqua coloured card so I could use this cute snowflake embellishment. The border at the top is cut with a woodware punch.

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

Cards & More Challenge - Sketch

Alphabet Challenge -  F for Feathers

Sweet Stampin Christmas - Glitter Gliter Everywhere

ABC Christmas Challenge - I for Ice

Cuddly at Totally Gorjuss

Morning all this weeks challenge at Totally Gorjuss is Cuddly. I got asked to make a card for a lady at Marks work who had just had a baby boy so this card is a huge 8 x 8 so that everyone could write in it. 

The gorgeous bear is a freebie that I have had forever but I checked and he is still available for free from Ellephantastic Stamps here. The spotty paper is a digi one from Pink Petticoat, as is the gingham paper in the letters for Baby. 

I used a Memory Box die to cut the hearts and bows. The letters for the word Baby I did using word art and the layering them over the gingham paper, once I cut them out I stuck the letter over the heart on the die cut so they looked like they were hanging as well. I added tiny tiny pearl hearts to the centre of each bow.

Here's the sentiment I printed inside the card.

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

Countryview Crafts - New Beginnings

Crafts & Smash - Birth

Emergency Crafters - Polka Dots 

The Crafters Cafe - Add Glitter

Fairy Tale Challenge Blog - Cute

2 Sisters Challenge - Teddy Bears

A Gem of A Challenge - Cute & Cuddly

Die Cuts at Totally Gorjuss

This weeks challenge at Totally Gorjuss is a nice easy one for you Die Cuts. For my card I started by die cutting a window in a card blank and layering a die cut trellis over it. The flowers are made up from Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, scalloped circles and a woodware flower punch, to which I added a selection of brads and pearls. Behind the flowers I added a couple of green die cut swirl to look like the stems/leaves. The sentiment was stamped and then die cut in the same shape as the window and I added a punched butterfly to the top right corner. All the papers and flowers have been inked with co-ordinating distress ink.

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

4 Crafty Chicks - Sentiment Only NoPpictures

MAWTT - A Card Containing The Word Happy

Scrappers Delight - Bloomin Lovely

Chocolate Coffee And Cards Challenge - Spring

Hiding In My Craft Room - Flowers

Charming at Totally Gorjuss

I'm late I'm late ........I feel a bit like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland this week I seem to have been chasing my tail all week. Aimee decided last weekend that she wanted a big girls bed rather than her mid sleeper and as she was almost as long as the slide to get off it we agreed, then I got some tins of pink paint for £1 each at work so we decided to redecorate her room. So working in the mornings coming home in the afternoon and painting and off to aqua fit 4 evenings didn't leave much time for crafting this week! 

Today's card was a very quick affair as I got my challenges muddled up for Totally Gorjuss I thought I was up to date and then realised I had missed this weeks challenge out. So enough of my moaning this weeks challenge is Charming, either in concept or with the addition of a charm or even both! And we are sponsored by Crafters Companion this week.

Not much to say about my card  as there is not much to it. I cut 3 rectangles from a sheet of paper from MME Now & Then Mildred pad. I pricked the edges of the paper and the card blank with my cutter bug. On the 2 end pieces of paper I have added a flower which I coloured to match , fixed with a sparkly brad and a couple of flat backed gems. On the middle piece of paper I tied some paper twine around it and attached a butterfly charm to the bow.

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

Crafting Musketeers - Monochrome

Simply Create Too - No Stamped or Digi Images

White on White at Totally Gorjuss

Hello I back today with a card for the new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss which this week is White on White and we are sponsored by Ribbon Girl.

I always struggle with white on white everyone else's cards always look so elegant. I decided on a Christmas card as it's never to early to start making them is it? I embossed the main layer with a cuttlebug snowflake folder and die cut a star so it slightly overlapped the edge of the layer. Then I die cut a smaller star which I cover with glamour dust to make it all sparkly. A sentiment stamped in silver and some clear gems to finish it off. Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog to see all the gorgeous cards from the rest of the DT.

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

Crimbo Crackers - Anything Goes

DRS Designs - Who's the (em)Boss!

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Embossing

Alphabet Challenge - D for diecuts

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes

ABC Christmas Challenge - Glitter

Totally Gorjuss For Mum

Morning all it's Saturday again so time for a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss where this week we want to see cards For Mum and we are sponsored by Fantastic Ribbons.

I've kept my card nice and simple this week (seem to be making a habit of this simple cards. I've printed a sentiment from Pink Petticoat and then embossed the white card with my divine swirls folder. I mounted this onto a piece of pale pink paper. The flowers were plain white to start with and I coloured them pink with my promarkers and added a pink button with some twine to the centres.

Thank You at Totally Gorjuss

Time for a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss where this week we want to see Thank You Cards we are sponsored by Hobby House. I used this cute little typewriter digi from Pink Petticoat it comes with a huge selection of setiments. I have coloured it with promarkers and added some glossy accents to the hearts. I used Kraft card and some papers from a Fancy Pants pad called A Time For Spring. Lastly I added some Basic Grey Candy Buttons to each of the corners.

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

I Love Promarkers - Let's get Spotty

Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes

Pink & Green at Totally Gorjuss

Sorry for the lack of posts this week but it's been a busy one here with my eldest daughters birthday on Wednesday, costumes to make for world book day on Thursday and hubby's birthday today. Today's post is  for the new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss where this week we want to see your Pink & Green creations. Our sponsor this week is Crafters Companion.

I have used the fab Fairy Dust image from The Stamping Chef which I won a few weeks ago, she is coloured with promarkers and I used stickles on her wings and dust to make them sparkle. The papers are from Prima Hello Pastel pad. 

 The sentiment is one I created on the PC. I added some die cut stars covered an stickles and some Basic Grey Candy Buttons as embellishments.

And here's my youngest one all dressed up in her world book day costume her class had the theme The 3 Little Pigs so she went as a little pig in the straw house. Everyone loved her costume and she was so proud that she was featured in the school newsletter this week.

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

The Stamping Chef - Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts - Female Birthday

Fussy & Fancy - Birthdays

Craftitude - Anything Goes or add a little green

Brown Sugar Challenge - Make it Sparkle

I Love Promarkers - One For The Girls

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Mothers Day / Female

Totally Gorjuss Happy Birthday

Good morning time for a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss which this week is Happy Birthday and we are sponsored by Ribbon Girl. 

I've gone for a vintagey look on my card this week I had an order for a  card with a ballerina on it and I found this gorgeous digi stamp by Katerina Art, which I coloured with my promarkers. The papers is from Prima Fairy Belle pad and has been distressed and inked. I've tucked a doily behind the image which has also been inked.

I tied a bow from pretty organza ribbon and added a metal butterfly to the centre of it .

All the flowers were white to start with so I coloured them using distress inks and added stickles to the large rose.

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

Simon Says Stamp - Pearls