Butterfly Garden

Time for another challenge at Crafty Cardmakers and the theme of the challenge this week is pearls and gems. 

I used a butterfly die from Memory Box called floating butterflies for my card. Behind the die I used one of my Gelli Plate prints made with acrylic paints in my favourite colours of greens and blues. To complete the card I added some pearls and gems for sparkle. 

Thank you for stopping  by.  Please pop over to the Crafty Cardmakers challenge blog to see the creations that the design team have created to inspire you.

My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”  I hope you will join us in this challenge.

Christmas Sparkle Challenge at Sisterhood of Crafters

I am excited to be a guest designer this week at Sisterhood of Crafters and I have created this Christmas card for their Sparkle Challenge.    

I love silver and blue  combo on a Christmas card.  To created my card I used this lovely Christmas Bell image from Fitztown.  The image was just right for this swap .  I coloured the image with Copics and glitter pen then die cut the image with a Memory Box layering die.  I mounted the image on light blue glitter paper and added some rhinestones and a ribbon.  Doesn't my card just sparkle.

Hope you will join in this sparkle challenge and remember to check out the many exciting images at Fitztown.  Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day.

Judy

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Cuttlebug Mania - Anything Goes - Christmas
Sassy Cheryl's - Ribbon &/or Bows
Use It Tuesdays  - Winter & Holiday (last challenge) - blue glitter paper
Created With Love Challenges - Anything Goes
Digi Makeover Challenge - Sparkle
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog - Anything goes + option Christmas
Make it Monday - Always Anything Goes

A Warm Christmas

Meighan, an elf at Holly Jolly chose  this week's theme for the challenge.  Her challenge is very interesting, create a card made with warm Christmas colours or a scene, not winter.   Meighan lives in Australia and it is about time we made some Christmas card showing the celebration of our south of the equator card crafters. 

I chose to make this surfing Santa for my card this week.   The digital stamp is by an Australian company called Spesch Designer Stamps. I coloured the image with my Copics and cut out the image with a two part Memory Box die, then I layered the image on a couple of different pattern papers.  I added a ribbon and sentiment to complete the card.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a creative day and come join us at Holly Jolly this week.

 

Judy

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

 

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Craft Paper
 Through The Craft Room Door - Alway's Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Snowbirds
Cards For Men - Merry Christmas
 

Faux Turquoise

What a great technique challenge at Come and Get It this week.  The theme of the college is to use a faux technique of some kind on the card.  On Split Coast Stampers website if you do a search of the word Faux there are 30 techniques listed.

I made this card with some friends and thought it was a great technique for this swap. The technique is called faux turquoise.  The pretty tree is a die cut by Memory Box. 

To make the faux turquoise you stamp your turquoise paper with a vein pattern stamp in black and then in sliver.  The next step is to cover the image with Versa mark and emboss with clear UTEE and then repeat the embossing process a second time.  Very simple technique but I think it is very pretty.

Here is a closer look at the technique.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you join us at Come and Get It this week.

 

Judy

 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

 

 

Brown Sugar – Anything Goes

Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes

Jo's Scrap Shack - Favorite Technique

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps Challenge -Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge – Use a Rubber Stamp

Stamp-n-Doodle Challenge – Embossing

Word Art Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

 

 

Colourful Chickadee

They have a bold and sassy color combination for this week’s challenge at Dynamic Duos Challenge (#5). The colours are "real red and island indigo".

I used a few different die cutters to create this card:

• Chickadee by Dee’s Distinctively for the bird 
• Branch by Memory Box
• Three different Spellbinders Nestabilities for layering
• Tim Holtz Flora cutter

I found the red and white brad and the polka dot red and white ribbon in my stash and added them to finish the card, Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.

Judy

Happy Bird-day

This is a card I made for a friends upcoming birthday. I had just purchased a few new die cutters and embossing folders at a craft show and was wanting to make a card with them.

The chickadee dimensional die cutter is by Dee’s Distinctively. Branch is a die cutter by Memory Box and the embossing folder is by Bring Crafts-Too You. A Muse Artstamps is the maker of the sentiment "Happy Bird-day!"

I like the simple look of the card. Yellow is such a cheery colour.

Thanks for stopping by. Take time to do something creative for yourself today.

Judy

Anything Goes Challenge PTT#39

This card was created for Party time Tuesday’s challenge called Anything Goes. Kenny K ‘s Downloads is their sponsor this week and I chose to use one of his Santa digi images for this card. I also used a couple of different Spellbinder cutters for the frame and a Memory Box Co. for the fancy tree. Some ribbon, cord and bling completed the card.

Be creative. Have a good day.

Judy