Here Come The Boys

Hi All

Today I'm sharing my DT card for The Crafting Cafe.  The theme for June is 'Here Come The Boys' and this month we are sponsored by Delicious Doodles!!

Delicious Doodles are offering a great prize for the winner this month - four images of their choice!

Hop on over to the blog HERE to see all the challenge details and to join in!

So here is the card I've created using a Delicious Doodles image:

I printed the image onto High Elegance card twice from SplodgeAway - this card is great for colouring images - it is just silky smooth!

I then coloured my image of a Scottish Castle using Inktense pencils and used a water brush to blend them.  I coloured the little wooden boat again on the second printout, cut it out and mounted it onto the first image with foam pads.

I mounted my image onto navy cardstock and then onto cream.  I then added the navy ribbon and bow before attaching the whole panel onto my card blank.

Thanks for stopping by today, please don't forget to come and join in the challenge this month!!

Claire x

The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge

Hi Everyone

The challenge over at The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge this time around is 'Boys'

To see all the details for the challenge please click HERE

Here is my project to join in with the challenge:

I used a 6x6 piece of mount board and a baby wipe to paint the mount board with three different colours of acrylic paint.

I then stamped with black archival down the left side with a clarity stamp and doodled inside the stripes to give a 'zentangle' type look.

I then used some Tim Holtz music tissue paper on the background and used some stencil waste with yellow ocher acrylic.

I printed out the Andy Warhol image from The Octopode Factory and coloured him using water soluble crayons, I fussy cut him and added him to the mount board.

I'm hoping to do a whole series of these, this one is the first, and then punch holes in the side and create a book out of them by adding jump rings - well that's the plan anyway!!

I would also like to enter my mount board project into the Anything Goes challenge over at Anything But A Card - all the challenge details can be found HERE 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, please feel free to leave me a comment so I know you dropped by :)

Claire x

SplodgeAway Create and Craft Samples

Hi All, 

I'm sharing my SplodgeAway Create and Craft samples with you all today!

So here are the samples I made with the brand new masks:

Please hop on over to the SplodgeAway blog HERE to see all the other samples created by the talented design team!

Thanks for popping by today :)

Claire x

Dictionary Challenge - Letter F

Hi Everyone, it's time again for a new letter over at The Craft Barn blog!

This time the chosen letter is F but the word must be between Fe and Fr.  For all the details of the challenge click HERE. 

The word I have chosen is 'Feather' and here are my pages:

I started by masking the definition of the word feather and then sprayed my pages with white dylusions to tone down the background a little.

I then stamped my feather, from Inkylicious, across the two pages and coloured them with pencils.  

I distressed the edges of the pages with peacock feather distress ink (I felt this was the most appropriate colour for my theme!!) then added the word 'feather' down the left side with some stickers from my stash.  

I uncovered the definition and highlighted it with some stickles, which don't show up too well in the photo, I then drew a dashed line around the definition and drew around the letters also with a black fineliner.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Claire x

The Octopode Factory - Music Challenge

Hi Everyone

The challenge this week over at The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge Blog is 'music' for all the challenge details click HERE

I have created a card this time featuring Rosalina:

I created the background using distress inks in milled lavender, evergreen bough and tumbled glass and then overstamped in the same colours with a music stamp by Inkylicious.

I added a faux mount with a black pro marker and mounted the background onto a card blank.  To finish I added the chit chat words by Tim Holtz.

Just to let you know that there is a giveaway on the Splodge Away blog to celebrate their shows on Create and Craft on Friday so if you pop over HERE you could win some yummy masks!
 
Thanks for stopping by today!

Claire x

New Design Team Member

Hi Everyone,

Just a real quick post to tell you some exciting news............

I'm now a member of the Splodge Away design team!!

I'm very excited to have been asked to join the team and am looking forward to creating lots of projects with the great masks they produce.  They also have some great card on the website too - easy ink card which is great for blending ink and elegance high res card which is great for pro marker work.

To see my introduction on the Splodge Away blog please click HERE

Thanks for visiting my blog today :)

Claire x

DT Make for The Crafting Cafe

Hi everyone

Here is the card I made for The Crafting Cafe May challenge - the theme this month is Lady Luck and we are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps, to see all the challenge details click HERE to visit the challenge blog.

My digi image is from Bugaboo Stamps, I coloured it using pro markers and gave it a faux border using a black pro marker.  I then mounted it onto green cardstock, then onto gold before finally adding it to my kraft card blank.

A simple but very sweet card I think!

Don't forget you have until the end of the month to join in with the challenge over HERE

Thanks for stopping by today,

Claire x