More time to craft - YAY!

Hi everyone

I just love it when the cricket is on!  Hubby is happy to watch cricket and that leaves me free to craft!

I have just got some new spellbinder dies and had to have a play!

Tilda was hand coloured with watercolour pencils, kindy glitz & bling added. 

This is also my first attempt at distressing the edges of background paper - I think I could have done a bit more ;-)

This card fits several challenges:
CuteDaisyMay - Red Christmas
Creatalicious Challenges - Christmas with sparkles & snowflakes
Charisma Cardz Challenge - christmas (I used the previous week's sketch too!)
Magnolia Down Under - magnolia christmas



I have also been working on a card to give to my niece & her new fiance.  The official engagement party is this weekend.  I have already given them their engagement card see here and since they want to buy some new furniture, I thought it would be good to use this 'money in the couch' card.  I have been just waiting for an opportunity to use this idea on a card.  I originally came across it here and here - thanks for the inspiration!

I did not use the same stamp they mention - I have used an image I already had. 

I made a few modifications to the card to cater for the larger Australian $100 note.  I think I am happy with it???

Finally got some time to do some craftin'

We had a very quiet weekend and I finally got some time to get some crafting done!  YAY

This card is for two challenges:  Sketch Saturday #76 and Bizzy Bec's Creatalicious Challenge #3

The DP has been in my stash since I first started cardmaking and I only have a few pieces of it left now, the flowers are handmade (a bit of a stretch I know ;-) ) and the navy cardstock is new.

As usual, the image has been coloured in using watercolour pencils and highlighted with kindy glitz!

The next card is for the Magnolia Down Under #26 sketch challenge

Magnolia image is hand coloured with watercolour pencils and highlighted with kindy glitz, Felt flowers form the border (another cardmaking element that has been in my stash for such a long time) and handmade flowers attached to corner.

It was nice to spend some time in my craft room this weekend.

We have a week of extremely hot weather forecast this week - up to 39 Degrees Celsius - I am not looking forward to catching the bus home on those days, let me tell you! 

Magnolia Down Under #19 - Winter

Over on MagnoliaDownUnder the current challenge is to make a card using a magnolia image with a winter theme.

I have just got a whole new batch of magnolia images and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to use Tilda & Edwin ice skating!

When I think of winter, I think of snow and ice skating. We don't get quite that cold where I live, so I have to rely on memory for my one trip to the snow when I was a teenager ;-)

this layout has been inspired by the Creatalicious Sketch again!

Metallic square card used as a base, 'winter wonderland' vellum used as background, panel embossed by cuttlebug using snowflakes folder.

Magnolia image coloured in with watercolours and highlighted with kindy glitz.

I used material paint for cuffs to imitate fur - not too sure it was successful ;-(

Snowflake was cut out using my CraftROBO and highlighted with a pearl.

Magnolia Down Under #18 - Christmas in July

Over on MagnoliaDownUnder the current challenge is Christmas in July.

My first thought was 'great', I don't have any Christmas Magnolia images!

I eventually found an image that could be used, so with a burst of relief, here is my Magnolia Christmas in July card.

off white square cardstock used as a base, Christmas DP as background. Tilda watercoloured and highlighted with chalks & kindy glitz. Embellished with organza ribbon with sparkles and paper flowers with bling. Gold Stickers Merry Christmas mounted with 3D foam tape.

Red panel embossed with Cuttlebug using Snowflakes embossing folder, spellbinder dies used to cut out oval panels.

Layout came from JustMagnoliaSketch#13

I am really pleased with the way this card turned out - I think it is a 'fun' Christmas Card - Now I have to decide who is special enough to get it ;-)

Magnolia Down Under #17

The MagnoliaDownUnder challenge have a great sketch

White cardstock, layered with DP, Bazzil bling used for panels. Magnolia image watercoloured and highlighted with kindy glitz. 3 paper flowers attached with brads. Fancy scalloped edge cut with my Robo. Green section embossed with cuttlebug.

I think I really need to update my glasses - my cutting is a bit off! ;-)

The three flowers also fit the CuteDaisyMay challenge of three of a kind!

Magnolia Challenges

Over on Just_Magnolia there is a sketch challenge, and on Magnolia_Down_Under there is a colour challenge (brown, blue & cream/white) - a match made in heaven as far as I am concerned!

here is the sketch

so here is my card - I made the centre panel an oval instead of a circle because I did not use a square card. I will most probably use this sketch again, but this time use a square card the way it was intended.

SU Choc Chip cardstock was used as a base, patterned paper used as background, cream & white paper flowers highlighted with bling, oval nesties used with cuttlebug for front panel. Tilda image watercoloured and highlighted with chalks & kindy glitz.

Wasn't too sure on what type of card this could be, so it became a 'just because' card - I think it would suit any purpose.