CAS(E) this Sketch # 141

Well, it's Saturday again - where does the time go???  Do you ever get things that "speak to you"???  Well when I saw the latest sketch challenge over at CAS(E) this Sketch I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  Here is the sketch:

And here's my card:

I started off with an image from Sylvia Zet Wee Stamps called Silver Fairy and used Lil'Inker stitched squares to die cut the image.  Matted onto some embossed card from my bits box.  I then used Tim Holtz Sizzix Scribbles & Splats and Dienamics Fishtail Flags to go behind the image.    The sentiment was cut from a piece of white card which I'd stuck a piece of adhesive glitter paper to.  Popped it up with a little Pinflair for a bit of dimension.  Final touches were some matching sequins.

Thanks for dropping by today.  Hope you're all having a great weekend.

Happy crafting.

Do it with Digi's - It's all about the boys..................

The current challenge over at DIWD's is It's all about the boys.  I have used a John Byers Nostalgia digistamp which was a free download from DoCrafts.  I have made a centre stepper card and hunted around the internet to find a free image of a football ground.  I then printed this out to the same size as the centre stepper card and cut it into three - the centre panel and two outers.  The two friends have been coloured with Promarkers and cut out and stuck to the centre panel with silicone glue.  The grass was achieved by using one of my quilling dies to add a fringe to the green textured paper.  The rosette has been die cut using my Tim Holtz paper rosettes die.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine!!

Bah Humbug Challenge 17 - Pleats & Ruffles

It seems ages since I last posted but we've been busy with all these bank holidays, visitors and also the builders!!!  So many apologies.

This weeks challenge over at Humbug Hall is pleats and ruffles.  After pondering for a while I thought I would use my Tim Holtz mini paper rosettes die which I think would fit either with the pleats or the ruffles side of the challenge.  I have made three rosettes using paper from a Papermania Classic Christmas pad and have covered a square white card blank with the same paper.  I had some of the strips left so pleated one piece and backed with red mirri for another element across the card.  The two sentiments are digistamps from Sentiments4You which I printed out on the computer and used a 1" punch to cut them out.  I then edged them with a gold pen before attaching to the rosettes.  The centre rosette has a red mirri flower punched using a Stampin Up punch.  I've added some gems and a couple of punched snowflakes.

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Boys & Girls come out to play

Challenge number 6 over at Do It With Digi's is Boys & Girls come out to play.

I decided to use this digi stamp from Di's Digi's which was a freebie.  Coloured with Promarkers and die cut using nesties and mounted on a piece of sage green Bazzill card.  I decided to make it up into a twisted easel so I scored and folded the top flap of a 6" square card diagonally.  This is covered with some paper I had in my stash and I used the remainder on the inside and created a border out of pink bazzill using a Martha Stewart punch.  The pinwheel flower was created using the new Tim Holtz die.  The sentiment has been die cut using Whimsy Stamps ticket die and sponged with a pink chalk inkpad.  The addition of some flowers and a parchment butterfly completed the card.

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All White Christmas Challenge

This week's challenge at Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club is to make a card with the predominant colour being white.

I started off with a white 6" square card blank and cut a slighly smaller piece of white card which I put through my Big Shot in the snowflake Cuttlebug embossing folder and mounted this onto the main card.  I then found a piece of white and silver handmade paper in my stash and used one of Tim Holtz' new dies to cut a fancy edge - unfortunately it doesn't show up very well in the photograph.  I stamped the largest snowflake out of the Stampin Up snowflake set and embossed on parchment in silver.  This was cut out using a Nellies die and mounted onto a piece of silver mirri also cut using the larger Nellies die.  The sentiment is a silver peel off mounted onto white and silver mirri punch out with my SU oval and scalloped oval punches.  I used some diamond gems in the centres of some of the snowflakes on the embossed card and the main image and added a white and silver irridescent ribbon bow and some silver peel offs down each side.    For some strange reason the silver mirri looks like gold in the photo!

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Bah Humbug Punched Borders Challenge

Yet another card to meet the Bah Humbug challenge - this time it is punched borders. Unfortunately I don't have a particular Christmas border punch so have used my Tim Holtz "On the Edge" die to cut a border from a piece of My Mind's Eye Christmas Glitter paper which I attached to a burgundy square card. I had run the main card through my Big Shot in a Cuttlebug snowflake folder to give it some texture. I then just had to use my new SU stamp "Dasher" which was matted onto some more of the glitter paper and then a plain card mount. The sentiment is a peel off on SU punched ovals and I have added a burgundy ribbon to the side. Things have been very hectic this week and I have been out at a pastel workshop today and only managed to finish the card before I went out. On looking at the photo I took I realised it needs something........... so I am going to add some Stickles to Dasher's antlers which I think will make it zing.

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Treasure Box and a new Tim Holtz Sizzix Die

A friend telephoned yesterday and asked me to bring along my fabric boxes and doorstop chicken to show her next time we meet. This is fine except when I went to unearth my boxes I found I had sold out of the treasure boxes so had to make one up quickly. I had some really nice paisley fabric which I used for the outer and some black fabric for the inside of the drawers and lid.

This afternoon I received one of the new Tim Holtz Sizzix dies called "Ornate" and just had to try it out. It actually gives you a multitude of options as to positioning and I think it's lovely. So just to let you have a quick look at it I have just cut two pieces of card and combined them to give edges to three square cards. Sorry that there is nothing else on the cards but I thought it would show off the edges nicely.

Thanks for looking.