Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Stitch It!

Things have been very busy for me lately; as well as starting a new job I've also had a couple of exams and am in the process of buying a flat so haven't had much time for crafting. Unfortunately I think it's likely to stay that way until the new year when I finally get my new flat and all my crafty goodies shipped over from England and unpacked :)

Here is my offering for this month's Natalie and Amy's challenge which is 'Stitch It'.

The image on this card is actually one I created myself. It's coloured with promarkers but unfortunately my printer ink didn't like them very much so it smudged a little. I'm not sure what to do because I'd really love to use more digis but they just smudge if I print them on decent card and if I don't use decent card then the promarkers bleed - can't win!!

All the paper is from First Editions New Bloom

(Apologies for the blurry picture, unfortunately it's getting to that time of year again when it's impossible to photograph in natural daylight.)

Natalie and Amy's October Challenge - Colour on Kraft

Oh dear! Late again! I completely missed that it was already October and needed to upload this month's DT entry for Natalie and Amy's challenge. This month's theme is Colour on Kraft and I must say my card looked much better in real life, the lion didn't have quite such a yellow nose as it looks.

I used In the Wild from Stamp It Australia and First Editions summer breeze paper. The lion is coloured with normal colouring pencils and the brads were coloured with a gold promarker.

A bit late for Natalie and Amy's challenge this month - oops!

I completely forgot to post this a couple of week's ago for Natalie and Amy's September challenge 'Things with Wings'. It was an absolute nightmare to photograph so I gave up and then forgot that I hadn't posted it. Then my computer refused to upload it and then I couldn't find it once I finally managed to upload it! Finally, here it is...

Things from Natalie and Amy's

Local King Peacock rubber stamp

Violet Pearl embossing powder

First editions New Bloom paper

Natalie and Amy's July challenge - die cuts and flowers

Time for another challenge over at Natalie and Amy's and this month it's to use die cuts and flowers. Please pop over and take a look and join in. As always, there's a great prize up for grabs.

I thought I'd have a play with some acetate for this card, something I've not done before and I'm pretty happy with the result although I need to work out how to stop it bending quite so much.

I took a 6 x 6 card blank and used the Memory Box Cosmo Border right at the fold. I then cut a piece of acetate to 6 x 6 and embossed it with the Spellbinders Lovely Lattice M-bossabilities plate and stuck it in place with some double sided tape. I used a Spellbinders Labels die to cut out the shape for the sentiment and stamped the words from Sheena Douglass - Silhouette Grasses. The flowers are Joy! die cuts and the branches are CC Designs and they are fixed with white brads topped with diamond stickles on top.

Natalie and Amy's challenge: Summer

It's time for a new challenge over at Natalie and Amy's and this month our theme is Summer. Hopefully summer is on it's way soon; it's been fairly warm here but still a bit rainy and chilly at times. Here is my card.

Ingredients:

Stamp-It Australia - Dragonfly delights

First Editions - Summer Breeze

StazOn Brown

Creative Expressions Pearls

Diamond Stickles

Lace

Doilies

Unicorn card

Hello! I just got back from a wonderfully relaxing week at the West Coast of Sweden. The weather was good, just a bit of rain, and I learnt to fish, shoot, row a boat and celebrated my first midsummer in Sweden. Next week will be a bit different as I have three essays to write for my Swedish course but before getting started on those I decided to make a card instead...

I made this card using the technique for this month's craft stamper challenge which is called bleach blocking. I covered a piece of card with spiced marmalade, vintage photo and walnut stain distress inks then with a wet distress pad lifted the colour in the four panels to create a window. I really liked how it left some of the colour and made it look like ground. I masked off the area around the 'window' and added a little tumbled glass distress ink and stamped the unicorn from Lavinia Stamps. I wanted a little bit more depth to the card so added the kaisercraft crackle stamp to make it look like a very old wall, then finished off with the personal impressions sentiment and some beaded trim.

PaperArtsy sneak peak

I was very excited when I was asked to do a post over on the PaperArtsy blog. I love seeing all the different projects every week which are a little outside of my usual style and push me to try new things.

Here is a sneak peak of my project - if you want to see the whole thing hop on over to the PaperArtsy blog.