Summer at the Beach

It time for my share for Die Cut Divas - in our Summer Days Challenge.   Our sponsor is Sheepski Designs

I took the image  Beach Hut Holiday - image #158 and added it twice to my card, flipping the second one to be the mirror image.  I did this as I wanted to make a mini slimline card.   I used a Gina K Master Layout to cut out the panel.  I used Prismacolor pencils to colour them huts.  I then used my Scan'n'Cut to die cut the Summer sentiment.  

Hope this inspires you to join us with your Summer Days projects. 

WWC 301 Dawn's Challenge: All About Occasions

 Hi there.  Time for this weeks challenge at Watercooler Wednesday.  It's my turn to host this week and it's an All About Occasions challenge.  

I've got another Christmas card using my Montarga Gnomes.  This time I used the single gnome together with a new die from Paper Roses (an Australian die cut company) 

I stamped the Gnome and used my Scan'N'Cut to cut it out.  I cut the sentiment from the pale green card and the shadow from the dark green card. I found a little Merry from a freebie set that went well with the die cut.  The sentiment is large, so went for a slimline card.  A few gold gems and it was all done. 

Come and join in the fun at  Watercooler Wednesday Challenge and check out the project from the other designers.  Then take our challenge and link up your project to the challenge post.    We'd love to have you join us.  You have until Monday at 5 pm Mountain Standard Time (Tuesday at 11.00 am NZ time ) to link up your project.

WWC 285- Karen's Challenge: Anything Goes with a Masculine Twist

Time for the latest challenge at Watercooler Wednesday Challenge blog.  Karen is our hostess with An Anything Goes with a Masculine Twist.

My card today is one that I was commissioned to make for a work colleague.  Her son was 40 last month.  She wanted 40 on it with his name.  And told me he likes golf.

So pulled out my go-to stamp set "For the Boys" which was a freebie a few years back with Issue 26 of Cardmaking in Easy Steps.  It was published in 2018 and the stamp set is full of good masculine cards and the magazine is full of ideas.   There were also a few pages of papers too.  I took some of the papers to make the circles with a Spellbinders die.  I used the Happy Birthday stamp and cut it in half so I could insert the little 40 die cut (from a Mama Elephant die set).  I then selectively inked the "th" in the birthday sentiment to add the "th" to the number. I also used the Mama Elephant dies to cut out the letters for his name.  I stamped the golf bag and then used my Scan'N'Cut to cut it out. 

Come and join in the fun at  Watercooler Wednesday Challenge and check out the project from the other designers.  Then take our challenge and link up your project to the challenge post.    We'd love to have you join us.  You have until Monday at 5 pm Mountain Standard Time (Tuesday at 11.00 am NZ time ) to link up your project.

WWC 264 Helen's Challenge: All About Occasions

 Hello there, it’s time for another Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  Helen  is our hostess this week with an All About Occasions challenge.

Today I am sharing a card I made using my Scan'N'Cut and We Are Memory Keepers Quill pen with a USB by Kelly Creates.

 

I took the floral heart design and incorporated the happy birthday.  I used gold foil with the black card stock.  Once I had finished foiling I took my Prismacolor pencils to colour the flower and leaves.   I added some bronze Nuvo drops to the panel before adding to the white base.

Come and join the fun.  Check out the projects that the other artists at Watercooler Wednesday

Challenge have created.  Then take our challenge and link your creation to the challenge post.  We'd love to have you join us.  You have until Monday at 5 pm Mountain Standard Time (Tuesday at 12.00 noon NZ time ) to link up your project.

Black Background

I saw that the challenge theme over at Just Us Girls is "Black Background"

I was part way through making a card with a black background when I saw the challenge, so once I finished, I'm adding it.

I had  been playing last weekend with my Scan'n'Cut and the WRMK Foil quill pens together with a USB from WRMK's.  It's a Kelly Creates one and has this lovely double line sentiments.  I used some silver foil on the black card.  So today I finished off the card.  I added three flowers from an Altenew freebie from a year or so ago.  I used some white card and stamped with Catherine Pooler Rockin' Red and Grass Skirt inks.  I added some darker ink to the centres.  Two of the flowers are glued directly to the card base and one is on some dimensional tape.   

It was a lovely weekend for me as I got to spend some time with my son and grand-daughter.  Kieran was on Daddy duty while Mummy was away for the day and night at a Hen's party.  Grace had her 10 month photo done first thing Saturday morning.  She was a little champ as we had to wake her up.  She had fallen asleep in the car on the way to the hall where the photos are taken.  Still managed a smile!  Then we went up to the local Mall and had a bit of early lunch... sushi for little Miss and avocado on toast for Nanny and Daddy

She is growing so quickly now.  Got her first tooth on her 10 month anniversary... and is now an independent stander.... so won't be long till she works out that she can walk.

I am feeling a bit sad, though as it seems my daughter, son in law and grandson won't be able to come at Easter as NZ has put in place a 14 day self isolating for all people coming into NZ from midnight Sunday.  It's initially for 16 days but will see what happens after that.  At this stage, it's a bit of wait and see if they will make it or whether they will postpone till later in the year.  I know Archie will be very disappointed as he is already talking about coming to see me.  

Well that's it for today.  Hope your weekend is going well.  

New challenge at Die Cut Divas....Anything Goes

Hi there.  1 March 2020 - how quickly the year is flying by! 
Time for a new challenge at Die Cut Divas - and a new sponsor this month

Our theme is: ANYTHING GOES. So be your creative self and make what you want, need or desire to do, but be sure to use dies and/or embossing folders in your creations... You can also use your electronic cutting machines too.

What a wonderful shop to offer to you, our blog readers a 20% off coupon for the month of March (Code DIECUTDIVAS20). This is a brand new sponsor for our blog, so please be sure to visit Chic Chickadee Crafts to see what products you might like.

The prize is a $20 gift certificate! 

My card to day uses a lovely set, but as I have had it awhile, it now unfortunately now unavailable. But there a lots of lovely set available to you 

Isn't this little penguin so cute... I printed him out and used my Scan'n'Cut to cut him out. I got the sweet Pennant Frame die in a mystery box from Uniquely Creative (an Australian company) and used some copper coloured card to die cut the largest frame. I also cut it two more times from white card to layer together. I had the sparkly patterned paper in my stash and as it look very party like I trimmed a piece to fit behind the frame. I used a punch to cut out the sentiment (also from the Sugartree set) I added the frame to a card base and then used my ruler and craft knife to trim it into a Pennant as well. 

My crafty friend, here in NZ, Janet's has her birthday today, so this was sent to her. 

Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas this month... It's an Anything Goes challenge

A few last minute cards for Christmas

 

I had to make a few last minute Christmas cards and I decided I wanted to do a card for The Flower Challenge - 

I brought a Couture Creations patterned paper the other day (despite telling myself I already have too much paper) and I used it to make my last minute cards.  II took the paper and added it a card base.  I had stamped and used my Scan'N'Cut to die cut some Poinsettias from as Kaisercraft stamp set.  I used Alcohol Markers to colour it in, added some Sparkle pen and a red gem for the centre.  The sentiment is from another Kaisercraft set.   

My second card uses another sheet of paper and a Kaisercraft stamp.  Very quick and simple 

Love this vintage Santa.  I added some Sparkle pen onto the fir around his coat and hat. 

I did a few more too.  The paper is so lovely - all vintage-y and soft muted colours.  

Thanks for stopping by.  Would love to hear what you think of my cards.

Christmas at Sweet Stamp'in Challenge.

EDITED: Well duffus that I am... I've just realised that I've set this post for the wrong day.... our challenge started yesterday....but here it is anyway!


It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge today and our theme is Christmas

I'm sharing another Jingle Bells card.

I have been doing a few cards with this design and using up some patterned papers.   I used Prismacolor pencils again to colour in the bells and used Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on bells.  The Spellbinders die was cut with white card and I used a gold pen to faux stitching.  As I cut my paper in half (a 6"x6" sheet) so I added some shiny washi tape to the top and bottom of the papers.  Just love the Kaisercraft sentiment.

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge with your Christmas Project.

Jingle Bells

Hi there.... Christmas is sneaking up quickly.   I sold some of my Christmas cards to people at work, so I've been making a few more.

I used a Mini stamp from Couture Creations - bells and stamped it numerous times onto white card and used my Scan'N'Cut to cut them out so a ready supply of stamps for colouring and making into cards.

This first one I used Copic markers to colour my bells and then used an embossing folder to make my background.  My sentiment is from a Kaisercraft set.

Second card used Prismacolor pencils to colour the bell

I added some Opal Dust gel to add some glitter to the image.  I added some washi tape to the top and bottom of my panel and then ran through the Cuttlebug with an Altenew stencils and my rubber mat to give some subtle texture to the card.  The little doily die is from Catherine Pooler Designs. I didn't add a sentiment to the front of this one, added one inside.

and a third card using the bells

 I used some vintage music that I found on Pintrest and printed to fit my card.  I used my Prismacolor pencils again and added a little sentiment onto the bottom of the music panel.  I am entering this one into the Traditional Christmas challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

I've actually done another three or so bell card but will share over the next little while.   Have to say I had lots of fun doing different designs with the bells... hit on one design I've used a number of times which uses up some of my ENORMOUS supply of patterned papers.

thanks for stopping by.  I'm having a very quiet weekend at the beach - with no supplies just relaxing.  Have a great weekend all.

Sweet Friend Gift Bag

Hi.  I have scheduled this post for while I'm traveling around Ireland. 

It's my day over at Die Cut Divas for our Anything but a card challenge

I have a gift bag to show you.

I found this kraft gift bag when I was cleaning out the craft room the other week.  I'd forgotten I had them - not even sure where I got them!  I took some cute paper and die cut a tall scalloped rectangle with a Spellbinders die.   I had the friend die cut (a Winnie and Walter cut with my ScanNCut.) sitting on my desk.  I used a Copic marker to colour it up.  I also coloured the die cut circle.  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.    I had fun making this one .

Suitcase Gift box

I am trying hard to learn to use my Brother ScanNCut a bit more.  I've been using the Brother Canvas to do my designs.  There are lots of free cuts available there.  Last week a new free cut popped in to the canvas files - a cute little gift box - that looks like a suitcase...

  Isn't it the cutest.  I stamped the front with some Hero Arts stamps (Circa 2009)  I was very impressed how easy it was to cut out and put together.  It comes with a PDF recipe that shows you how to fold and glue it together.    I really had fun making this.

Counting down the days.... 2 more days at work.  Although I didn't make it in this morning as I've got another cold!  Coughing and spluttering all night, so spend most of the day in bed,  then resting, reading and knitting.  Another premmie singlet finished and some more little booties.

 

Wine bottle Label

It's my day to share over at Die Cut Divas.  This months theme is Anything But a Card.

Our sponsor is

  I have made a label for a Wine bottle.

I have used an cut file I got from the Brother Canvas.  I used some dark kraft card to cut the base.  I couldn't work out to make the inner layer so just cut it out and trimmed a little bit off the edges.  I die cut a rose (Couture Creations) from some wine coloured card and back the roses with some pink painted paper and used Copics to colour the leaves with Copic markers.   The little label is an older Spellbinders die.

I'm entering this into the "In the Pink" challenge at City Crafter Challenge 

Be sure to visit us over at Die Cut Divas for our Anything but a Card challenge

Rosey Posey

Last week I saw a gorgeous cut file coloured by my online friend - Helen .  She is a designer for The Cut Shoppe.  I was impressed so quickly popped over and purchased the cut file.   It came as a PNG so I found a site where I could convert to a SVG file and cut it out of some watercolour paper.  I misjudged the size and cropped off a portion.

It turned out the perfect size in the end.  I used some Spectrum Noir Aqua markers to colour up.  I splattered some of the pink and green markers onto the background panel, added the cut and finished with a white embossed sentiment on black card.    I loved how easy it was to make such a cool focal cut with my ScanNCut.

Thanks for stopping by.... I'm off to create my card for the upcoming challenge at Southern Girls... my sample was supposed to be ready by today and I completely forgot.  Look out for the results on Thursday!

Panda Birthday

It's my day to share at Die Cut Divas.... Our theme this month is Animals/Pets

Our lovely sponsor this month is Frantic Stamper Inc... and they have some awesome animal stamps you could use for our challenge.

They are also providing a cute little die for a prize for our winner this month

Super cute.

So here is my card.... a CAS cutie

This adorable Panda was stamped and cut with my ScanNCut machine.  I used my trusty Cuttlebug to emboss at each end of the panel with the cute little paw prints.  The butterfly is also cut with my machine.  Love the ScanNCut now I'm getting used to it.

Do come and join us for this months Animals/Pets challenge. 

Noel Christmas cards

I have a couple of Christmas cards to share today.  I did lots of colouring over the first few days of June for Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day colouring challenge.  I have also been spending some time working out how to use my ScanNCut and had found a great Noel text image, I wanted to try out on a card.  I set it up in Brother Canvas and decided I wanted to use it as an Eclipse card.  So I decided to stamp and colour a background to die cut.

I stamped the Hero Arts Poinsettia several times and coloured it.  I then cut it with the ScanNCut.  I cut several more white die cuts and one out of dark green card so I could layer the sentiment when I laid it back in the negative space.  I quite like the result, but think the background is just a touch too busy to see the sentiment that well. 

The next card came about as I was about to throw out the negative space of one of the white layers.   I looked at it and decided it was too good to throw away.  So here's what I did

I die cut a stitched rectangle and added some patterned paper behind the opening.  I added some Nuvo drops as embellishments. 

So that's my first two Christmas cards started. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Magical Dragon - MFT Sketch challenge

I can finally enter the MFT sketch challenge as I now have two sets of MFT stamps.  I have a few of the older dies but finally got some stamps.  I stamped and coloured a few of the dragons from the Magical Dragon set and cut them with my ScanNCut.  This weeks sketch looked such fun I had to use one of them

 

 I started by embossing my panel with a folder and used a Tim Holtz diffuser so I kept the centre circle free of the embossing.  Next I sponged on some green ink (Catherine Pooler Grass Skirt)  I die cut some green PP with two circle dies (one Spellbinders and one Simon Says Stamp)  I added some splatters of Gold Spectrum Noir glitter pen  for some added texture.  My little dragon is sitting on the sentiment strip.   Finished with some green sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. 

 I'm off for a mini break over the next 5 days.... I'm off work till Wednesday 31st, then again from after work Friday next week till Wednesday 7th.  There is a public holiday on Monday  29th so I've taken a days leave each side and then there is another public holiday on Tues 6th so I've taken the Monday on leave.... I like these mini breaks.  And then on Friday 23rd Feb, it's another day off for a Mystery Weekend away.   We have to be at the airport at 2.00 and only then will be find out where we are going in NZ.  Two nights away - flights, accommodation and car hire inclusive.  It was a gift from a company my husband has had dealing with over the years, as a farewell when he finished working.   A really nice treat that I'm looking forward to.  

Hope you all have a great crafty weekend.  Hoping to get some more colouring done while I'm at the beach.    Thanks for stopping by

Hand made flowers

I recently purchased the Heartfelt Creations 3D basic flower mold...

I don't have any Heartfelt Creations flower dies, but do have some Spellbinders dies and Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die.  The poinsettia die was the one I did my first try with

They are soooo easy to get the dimension without any effort.  Cut the dies out, lay them into one half of the mold, spritz with water, and then add the top of the mold and run it through your die cutting machine... I have a Cuttlebug and it worked perfectly.  As the pieces dry they go really firm and are great to layer.   

Here is the tag I made with this flower

And here are a couple of flowers I made using the Spellbinder's Rose die

I still need to make a couple of smaller ones and then make them into a card. 

And I got a great early Christmas present.... from my very good friend Suna.... she was lucky to be the big winner in a Spotlight competition and won 2 Brother Scan n Cut machines and 2 Brother Sewing Machines.  And I was extra lucky that she gave me one of the Scan n Cuts - yes gave it to ME!

Here is Suna when she brought it to work today for me

I've got to make some space in my room for this.... so until I can organise things, it will have to stay in the box... but I've been looking at videos and sussing it out.  Thank you so much for your generosity Suna.