Chinese New Year and a bit of a laugh..

This week is the start of a new challenge over at Mygrafico.  This week for inspiration some of the team worked with a set by Deasy Designs (here)  It's a Freebie.

  

Here's what I did

I had the piece of watercolour paper sitting on my desk.  I put it through my printer with the sentiment  where I wanted it and the Chinese word at the top.  I printed the snake onto plain card and coloured and cut out .  The panel was trimmed with decorative scissors and matted onto the embossed and distressed panel.  Added some Kindyglitz to the hat of the snake.   Now I have to tell you a story about my Chinese word.... I was giving this card to the girl I sit next to at work.  She is Twainese Chinese and when she saw the card, she nearly fell off her chair laughing..... Apparently the word does not say HAPPY as I thought, but it says "ADJECTIVE".  I typed the word in my Word doc and used the Translate button.  I thought the first thing I saw must have been the translation!!!!!  But it was like a dictionary but in Chinese and what I thought was the word, wasn't!!!!  She really thought it funny.  She was going to give it to her children, who don't read Chinese.  

I also have another card to share, using the same digi stamp I used in last challenge...this time I used Copics to colour

I cut the image with a Spellbinders die, added the Hero Arts sentiment in Distress ink and clear embossed.   I enjoyed making this one as Purple is a colour I love working with. 

As usual our challenge is "Anything Goes"  There is an exciting change for you too....if we have over 100 entries in our challenge we'll draw TWO winners...that's right the more people that play the more prizes we'll give away!!!

So...Please link directly to your newly created project (not just to your blog).  And depending on the number of participants there will be one or two winners this go round.  You will have until Sunday, March 10th to link up your project!

Dawn

"The Wedding Singer"@ Red Carpet Studio

Hi there.  Back with a new card challenge at Red Carpet Studio

 

Yes, this week's card challenge is to create either a wedding or anniversary card! Our challenge is inspired by "The Wedding Singer."

 

This has to be a favourite movie for me... I really enjoy watching this... the music is so cool. 

So pop over to the Blog and see what inspiration the team has for you and also the gorgeous card our guest designer, Paula, made. 

So onto my card.

I used a Penny Black stamp as my focal image.   I cut it with a Spellbinders oval die.  To make my edging I used an idea I often see Debby (aka  A Scrapjourney) use.  She  takes an edging die or punch and snips it so it goes around the edge of the oval.  I used a Die-namics edge die in gold card.  My corners are also parts of a Die Namic die as well.   Added some punched flowers in pink to match her bouquet.

We would love to have you join us.  There are lots of fun things coming at Red Carpet Studio over the next few weeks...We have a Lucky Leprechaun Blog hop next Friday and Saturday and look out for more info on this

Had great fun this morning Scramble over at Hero Arts Flickr group managing 2 cards in the 90 mins... I'll share later in the week...

Dawn

Just for Fun

After a couple of projects for Design Team work, I had a play, just for fun.  I bought a card making kit and Magazine (Cardmaking in Easy steps) and one of the designs, I really liked.  So I used it like a sketch.  I used a Kaisercraft strip stamp for my background panel.  I then matted this onto some crimson then dark brown card.  I made the same matting and stamped a Hero Arts sentiment.  All my stamping was done with Archival Coffee ink.  I cut some circles with Spellbinders Dies and used a Docrafts stamp for the fob watch.  I used Glossy Accents on the watch face.   All my card was a cream colour.  I picked up a pad of A5 craft card for $3.99. It's fine for bases etc and simple stamping, but not smooth enough for colouring and blending.  

I like the circle rectangles together.  I've got some male birthday's coming up so this is great to have on hand.

Here is also a photo of an altered tin I recently did for the daughter of a lady at work.... Tracy was about to throw the tin away, and I rescued it and made a treasure tin for Angeline.

 

Lots of stickers, flowers and butterflies from the $2 shop and some test pot paint.  A 250ml pot for $5.   Something a little bit different.  I lined the inside with some pink felt.

Rugby season has started tonight with the Super Rugby games... Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays.... so Sky Sports gets a hammering and I have to sit through the games, or go and watch TV upstairs on my own ( which I have to say I do every now and again).  That means that Autumn and Winter are on the way.... but I hope not too soon!!!

Have a super weekend... I'm hoping to Scramble on Sunday morning with Hero Arts Flickr group.  My friend, Paula, in Australia is hosting... 8.00am here in NZ... up early for her at 5.00am. 

Dawn

CASology #31 ~ RED

Last week's challenge over at CASology had a cue card of RED

I had made a CAS white on white card and thought that one of the designs would look great with a pop of red...



These reminded me of Cherry blossom.  I used Festive Berries distress ink to stamp the sentiment by Simon Says Stamp and used the fine tip of a Marvy Marker to male the frame.  I used an EK Punch to punch out some red flowers. I added a little white punched circle and then a gem in the centre.

I really liked how this turned out.

Today, I was home as I had a headache first thing.  After sleeping all morning, I got up and have caught up with some design team work.  So the pressure is off a bit.  At least for a week or two.  Still need one DT card by the weekend.  

White on White

This week the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp is White on White.  The design team have made some incredible samples to inspire, and inspired I was!  I actually managed two cards.

My first one was textured

I started by embossing the base card with a Sizzix woodgrain folder.  I added some trellis die cuts by Memory Box.  The flower is a Tim Holtz Poinsettia die cut that I embossed with a texture folder.  I used a large white brad to hold it together.  I cut a banner with a Die-namics die and stamped a sentiment from Hastings Rubber Stamps (a New Zealand stamp manufacturer)

My second card was a very quick CAS card.



I started by stamping the sentiment from Simon Says stamp and then drew the frame.  I die cut the branches with a Memory Box Die (thanks Paula for this lovely die) and the flowers are punched with an unknown punch.  I added some pearls to finish.

 I was really pleased to get these two cards made quite quickly... I've been in a bit of a funk this week, not really feeling that enthused to create but seeing the Simon Says blog really got me thinking.  I've even adapted my second card for CAS-ology's red challenge.   Just need to take a photo in the morning. 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Dawn

Triple Treat

My blog friend Anne had an amazing Triple Time card on her Flickr photostream.  She made it for Daria's challenge here at 2peas.  Daria has a link to a video by Dawn Olchefske   that shows the technique.   Anne's and Daria's challenge inspired me to have a go

As soon as I saw the technique I thought of this Hero Art stamp

 I cut my card and inked up the stamp with Peeled Paint distress ink and then used used some Pine Needles to highlight the butterflies.  I matted them onto the green card.  Added some bakers twine, some gems and a button.   I have added this to Daria's challenge over at 2peas.

I must also let you know that over at Die Cut Diva's blog Miss Hannah has a video that talks about the different sandwiches for using with different dies.  Well done Miss Hannah on your excellent video.  Do pop over and have a look.  DCD's have re-vamp our blog and challenges.   Have a look at this months challenge  here .   And look out for some special sponsors coming up over the next little while.  We are working on getting some more sponsors, so if you know anyone who would like sponsor us... do let me or the others know.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Dawn

Mygrafico ~ Anything goes

Another challenge over at Mygrafico and it's an anything goes again.  This is proving a fun theme so we are sticking with it... and if there are over 100 entrants not one but two prizes will be drawn.

I got to use this set from Mujka Chic called Whimsy Flora Elements 2

 I printed out a number of the elements and coloured in a variety of mediums.  Today's card used aqua crayons and some pretty PP.

I printed it the flower onto some watercolour paper and used the aqua crayons to colour it in.  I took a Hero Arts stamp and added the sentiment.  The PP's are from a My Mind's Eye pack.   I made this card while I was away earlier this month and only had limited supplies, but was really pleased with the result. 

Now it's your turn.  Pop over to the blog (here) and see what wonderful projects the other DT members came up with and link up your "anything goes" creations to be in to win some Mygrafico images of your choice.

"Where the Heart is" @ Red Carpet Studio

  This week our card challenge is include a heart on your card.   

The wonderful creative Krista Smith of Saturated Canary is kindly giving the winner 2 Digi images  of their choice. 

 

  

The design team were lucky enough to get to work with Krista's images.  I had great difficulty choosing just one... but finally decided on Neveah

 I bought myself a couple of books on Copic colouring and one of the images that was in the samples was this one, so I had some help with the colours.  I added my sentiment on a heart and added some flourish dies and gems.

Pop over to the blog and have a look at what the other's have come up with.   And do go visit my friend, Paula's blog.... she is the guest designer this month with us... and boy has she done us proud!  So let's see your "hearts' .... see the blog for all the details.

Had a lovely afternoon, meeting several of our Family Group (our Church group) at a local beach to organise our monthly events for next year.  

It was low tide but the water was amazingly warm and NO waves.... so I ventured in.  Enjoy the water~ just how I like it!

Thanks for visiting.  

Dawn