DCM - Kitchenalia

Websters Pages: Sweet as Cherry Pie & Cafe Vienna (digi) collab from Inspiration Lane

Every now and then I try to take part in the Daring Card Makers dare, this week the theme was Kitchenalia so, given my love of all things kitchen, I  thought this week would be a good week to make a card!

December Birthday and Christmas

It's my great-aunt's birthday early in December, she will be 91 this year and she always appreciates a home made cards.  The stamp is from Cornish Heritage Farms, coloured with watercolour pencils and painted and the flowers have been recycled from cards that other lovely crafters have given me (thanks).

I will certainly not be able to send everyone a homemade card this year but I made these two Christmas cards using Websters Pages and a little round Stampin' Up sentiment stamp.  

Two stamps used here and some more watercolour pencil painting. I'm afraid I can't remember whose  stamps they are, I was pleased that the Noel fitted perfectly across the 4" card.

Vampires in the Library!

No, not Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Just a combination of two projects I'd like to show you.

First a Library Card pocket made from a template from Mirkwood Designs and inspired by Linda at the Funkie Junkie.

Papers are Websters

Stamp is Hero Arts

I made a little stand to put on the back of the pocket so it would stand up as a Christmas Card.

So we've been to the library, now for the Vampire!  We are having a fun Art Journal challenge at BubblyFunk Forum and I am trying to find the time to take part.  The first prompt is:  

" Life is short, so smile while you still have teeth"

Dylusions Paint, Glimmer Mists Sprays, Christopher Lea and Stamp Linda by Daniel Torrente for Stampotique.

 

Dare to Waffle!

Websters Papers, bauble style stamps by Elusive Images stamped onto inked background using Dylusions inks and Glimmer Mists.

Daring Cardmakers have teamed up with Kathy's Waffle Sketch File this week for the weekly Dare!

Here is the October Sketch from the Sketch File:

Pop over to the Daring Cardmakers site to see the DT's cards and links to those entered by the 'darers'!

Multi-Tasking!

I have a few things to post that are not holiday related or Creative Boot Camp related, so I'm going to put them all in one post.

First, I won an award - woo hoo!  Deanna from Artwork by Deanna, one of my new bootcamp friends, awarded me this Beautiful Bloggers Award, thank you Deanna.

 This is one of those '10 things about me' awards so here goes:

1. I love clothes: shopping, wearing, accessorising.

2. My favourite fruit is raspberry, which is good because this is the time when you get nice Scottish rasps.

3. My best subject at school was economics but it wasn't my favourite.

4. My favourite subject at school was French.

5. I know a lot of people but only have a few good friends.

6. I've been married for 29 years.

7. I rarely leave the house without makeup, even if it is only some tinted moisturiser, mascara and lippie.

8. I like bold, bright colours.

9. I love seafood.

10. I am very fond of animals but no longer have any pets in the house due to my hectic work schedule.

There are so many beautiful blogs out there and many beautiful bloggers visit my blog, so if you are one of them please accept this award, stick it on your blog and tell us 10 things about you.

Next on the agenda is What's on your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW), I don't usually play along with this as my workdesk often looks much the same from one week to the next!  However, I thought that as I was at home, I would share my desk with you.

Now some of you might recognise that sketch...yes it is for the DCM dare and here is the card I've made for the dare:

This week's dare is being sponsored by Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker  and Sarah's Cards with some generous stash to give away.

The papers are Webster's Pages, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Come back later when I will be posting more holiday pics.

A perfect fit!

I have been neglecting the Daring Card Makers with all my busy-ness, but this week I have made time to take part in the dare.  The theme is 'Anniversary', now although Brian and I will be celebrating our 29th Wedding Anniversary in June, we don't actually give each other cards, so I thought it better to make a card to give to someone else.  

The chippie jigsaw pieces have been in my 'bag of chipboard' for a very, very long time but seemed to be just perfect for this card.  Papers are all Websters, the butterfly is K&Co Wild Saffron (I still have another two left, I'm very stingy with my favourite stash lol!) The little flower is a Wild Orchid Crafts one and the text is computer generated. 

To have and to hold...

Remember I showed you this picture of the Tando Creative horseshoe that I made for my son's wedding?  Well now I am going to show you the book that I altered to present it in.

This also features a piece of Tando Creative Chipboard, the lovely branch of leaves which I combined with Wild Orchid flowers to match those on the horseshoe.  The papers are Websters and also some K& Co.  I've smudged the date in the photo deliberately.

 It fastens at the side with velcro and ribbon.

When you open it the horseshoe is inside as well as an appropriate poem.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this as much as I enjoyed making it.

I thought I would also show you what the 'book' was made from, it was a Christmas present from my other son and his girlfriend, I'm on my last bottle of shower gel, but I hope the book will be treasured for a little bit longer.

Coasters to Calendars

The Bubbly Scrumptious Challenge Blog, Vanilla Sugar, has Coasters as the theme for January. There were lots of interesting ideas by the Design Team but I really didn't need any more actual coasters, so I had a look at Splitcoaststampers resources to see what projects there were on there and found THIS little calendar.

My coasters are not the crafting chipboard kind, they are real coasters that I bought in the supermarket when they were on sale 6 for £1.00, so they are somewhat thicker than the ones used in the project. That meant that I couldn't cut them with either my Bind-it-all or my Crop-o-dile! So I made a binding from card in the same way I did with my Christmas Album.

The project instructions link you to a place to print out your calendar. I used the photo of me with my boys that was taken at Christmas, I love this picture.

All Papers are Websters Pages 'Postcards from Paris' from Bubbly Funk Shoppie.

When it came to a little embellishment, I thought I'd make this bunch of cherries using some faux flower stamens I got years ago from Lakeland and a couple of bits of leaves from a leaf/stem ribbon.

I have to say I am really pleased with this and it is going to sit on my desk at work.

Over to you...

On Bubbly Scrumptious blog, Kathy Black has come up with a little challenge in the form of a sketch. Regular blog readers will know that I am very fond of Kathy's sketches and as she was in a bit of a panic that no one would take part, I thought I'd better get on with it!

Here is what she said: "This week I thought I'd try something a bit different and lay down a little challenge. Pretty much every day the Team here on BS share something they've made using the various kits and other fab stuff you can buy from Bubbly Funk.
This week though, I'd like to see more of what the people who read this blog are making! So I've come up with a sketch design which I hope you'll find interesting and inspiring to use in whatever way you fancy - it could be for a card, a scrap LO or maybe for the front of a book or top of a box - anything goes - I just want a chance to see the things you make!"

My card uses Webster's pages and an image from Art Freebies, the ribbon is some wired Christmas ribbon that I've had for about 3 years! Oh and a little bit of glossy accents on the cherries.