Week 208 Sketch time

My Goodness our challenge last week hit a chord with lots of you!

What an amazing number of entries!

Thank you all so much!

This time we have a sketch for you!
Sketch 14

Here it is!

Chrissie

Here is a card inspired by Lisa (I'm in Haven) who used a Memory Box die to make a flower. I loved it immediately and wanted to get the die for myself, but then thought that maybe I could adapt one I already had.

This is how I did it, I apologise for forgetting to turn the image the right way up for you!

There are more cards on my personal blog!

Sarah

Firstly using Paper Smooches balloon dies I die-cut 2 heart shaped balloons

and inked them up with Distress Inks in Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry & Barn door.

The Eiffel Tower stamp is from the Je T'Aime set from Clearly Besotted

This is heat-embossed in Hero Arts white EP onto a panel of white cardstock

 which is also inked up using the same distress inks as above.

(In line with the sketch I promise I did die-cut half of the heart balloon 

from the panel at the top - before popping it up on 3d foam)

The sentiment is also Clearly Besotted: Paired Up and the balloon ties

from CBS: Build a bug set.

Anne

I've combined Avery Elle Storybook stamps with some washi tape for this fairly literal interpretation of the sketch.  The balloon is diecut from a scrap.

There are more examples on our personal blogs so we would be delighted if you could pop over via the links above our names to see what else we have done for you!

We hope you'll enjoy this simple sketch.

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ShowCASe Week 130

It's celebration time once more for those crafters who have made it into our showcase .

We are constantly amazed by the wonderful creations which appear for our challenges each week and so without further ado here are our choices for our Pinterest Inspiration picture challenge!

Pat

Great silhouette effect.

Tara

Couldn't resist these babies!

Margaret

Using the bow as inspiration!

Congratulations everyone, please take the badge to display on your blog.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for our latest challenge.

ShowCASe week 129

You really did amaze us with your handmade flowers for week 129.  As always it was so difficult to decide on the showcase but after much deliberation here are our choices...

Neets

Fabulous technique

Rosi

Simply stunning and great sentiment

Gillian

Love this flower!

It's always difficult to limit our showcase choices, but we're sure you'll agree these are fab!

Please take the badge to display on your blogs ladies and well done!

See you tomorrow for our the new challenge!!

Week 130 A Pinterest Picture Inspiration

For our recipe this week we have a killer picture inspiration for you.

Are these shoes fab or are they fab?

We'd love to see where these take you!

Chrissie

Here I have a super image from Bugaboo, coloured with Copics and accompanied by a computer generated sentiment! If only I could wear shoes like these, but those days sadly are long over!

 

Same sentiment, different image. This time with a stamp from Hobby Art! Simply stamped in black, clear embossed and given a frame! There's another on my personal blog!

Jen

I only have one card for you at the moment but I used the picture as inspiration in a different way to Chrissie.  I was inspired by the colour combo, the ribbon and the stripes to come up with this little card.  The sentiment is from a new Stampin Up set, ribbon and paper are also from Stampin Up but are retired.  The punch is the large curly label.

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ShowCASe Week 128

There were so many fabulous shaped card creations it was so difficult to make a decision on our favourites this week.  After much deliberation here are our ShowCASe choices for week 128

Christine

Alina

Vicky

It's always difficult to limit our showcase choices, but we're sure you'll agree these are fab!

Please take the badge to display on your blogs ladies and well done!

See you tomorrow for our the new challenge!!

Week 129 Theme

For our THEME this week 

we would love to see

Hand made Flowers

You may use any medium you like... felt, paper, card, acetate, fimo, embossing powder, whatever you can conjure up!

Jen

My first card uses one of the new Penny Black dies and I have layered up the iris to give it dimension. The sentiment is from simon says stamp.  The die is memory box.

For my second card I used a die from Die-Namics and cut out in lavender felt. The colour is pool party from stampin up.

Chrissie

For this card I decided to make a little daisy from embossing powder, using a silicone mould.

I heated some WOW Melt it powder mixed with some Sea foam white powder, in a small aluminium  foil pie dish. I heated it from underneath so as not to send the powder flying everywhere, holding the dish using a peg as it gets quite hot.

When molten, I poured it into the mould and waited for a short while until it had set and then turned it out. I coloured the centre of the flower using a Copic Marker.

The tag is stamped and cut with a Sizzix stamp and Framelit, using Versamark and Wow Satin Pearl Gold embossing powder. The backing strip was made using SU Friend background stamp and embossing in the same way, The sentiment is also from SU stamped and embossed in a similar manner.

This one simply has punched flowers, shaped and layered and with a pearl added for the centre of each flower to match in with the embellishments on the background embossing. The flourish is from Dienamics and the sentiment panel from an SU Framelit.

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ShowcCASe Week 127 Shades of Grey

It's amazing how wonderfully you produced cards made simply in shades of grey!

We really enjoyed looking at the submissions this week.

Here are our ShowCASe choices for you.

Gay

What an arty creation!

Jenny

What an amazing effect!

Linda

Perfect simplicity!

Darnell

Stunning or what!

What wonderful inspiration ladies, please pop our Showcase badge on your blogs

DO swing by tomorrow morning to see what we have in store for you for our next challenge...it's going to be fun!

Week 128 One Layer

For our 

One Layer Challenge 

this week we like to see cards which are 

NOT SQUARE or RECTANGULAR

Chrissie

This card is made using some of the goodies I bought at the Portsmouth craft show.The base was made with the largest Sizzix hexagon of my new set of dies which was placed just over  the folded edge of the card, so it didn't get cut off.

The embossing is from a Nellie's Choice folder called Flower Corner, which I simply love for partial embossing of panels for cards etc.

The sentiment is from Stampin' Up.

This one began with a similarly constructed card base and stamped with some images from Blockhead stamps. It was coloured with Distress inks using a water brush for the detail and a sponge dauber for the shading.

Jen

My first card uses the octagonal spellbinder to cut out this mini card.  I have simply added hexagons and a sentiment both from Clearly Besotted to make this on trend card.  The colours are the new in colours from stampin up and returning pear pizazz.

My second card is made from the fabulous  bermuda bay colour from stampin up and is cut using the star framelit from Sizzix.  The sentiment and mini star are also from stampin up.  I have finished it off with some faux sticthing and a little wink of stella pen on the middle star.

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ShowCASe Week 126

We have some fabulous 'SAND' cards for our ShowCASe this week, and we were so glad to have Hannelie as our Guest designer for this special Lucky Dip challenge.

Here they are!

Anita

The simplicity and clean feel of this one is awesome.

Maria

What fabulous shells, you can almost feel the sand between your toes on this one.

Laurie

Sand for a Christmas card? Why not! It looks superb!

Maarit

What a wonderful scene!

Thanks so much everyone for this wonderful inspiration!

Please take the ShowCASe badge to display on our blog 

Do join us again tomorrow for our new challenge... everyone's favourite, the One Layer Card!

Shades Of Grey .. Week 127

It's the first week of the month which two things, a new colour challenge and a new sponsor! This month we are delighted to welcome back Liz from Pink Petticoat as our sponsor.

On to this months colour challenge. This week we want to see...

Now you don't need to use fifty shades but we would like to see a minimum of two shades on your creations this week. Don't forget that all important white (or grey space).

Jen

For my first card, I have used a cute little dog from Penny Black and simply coloured him in cool grey promarkers.  A simple doodle and some grey thread finish him off.

My second card uses Basic Grey card stock and DPs from Stampin up and tow dies from Simon Says Stamp by memory box. I have kept it very simple.

Don't forget to check out my blog to see if you are the lucky winner of my birthday candy!

Chrissie

Here I have mainly used warm shades of grey... not exactly fifty but a few!

The fabulous ginkgo leaf is from a die by Impression Obsession and I love it .

The sentiment comes from a clear set which says STM 2007 and SSC 109 whatever make can that be? I can't remember and I failed to scrawl the make on the carrying sheet!

The rectangles in this are cut with a new Framelit set which I think will be useful, particularly for sentiments!

More die-cutting here on a charcoal card base. This time some Memory Box turtles which I bought at the craft show last weekend only to find that they were reduced on the shop's website on Monday morning! Hey ho you win some you lose some, but three of the dies I bought were reduced... boo hoo!

The sentiment was typed on the computer with Dina's Handwriting font and mounted on Nesties. The scrap of DP has been sculling around for years, I believe it may be Docraft.

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ShowCASe Week 125 - Jen's Birthday

There were so many fabulous birthday creations for Jen's birthday it was so difficult to make a decision on our favourites this week.  After much deliberation here are our ShowCASe choices for week 125

Kim

Fabulous layout and love the stitched edge

Michelle



Love the panel... and the die cut

Lizy



Great colour combo and favourite butterflies

Lucy



Super cute kitty in my favourite type of cake!

It's always difficult to limit our showcase choices, but we're sure you'll agree these are fab!

Please take the badge to display on your blogs ladies and well done!

See you tomorrow for our the new colour challenge and a new sponsor!!