Kraft and more cake

Time for a new Tiddly Inks Challenge and the theme is Let’s Get Krafty: meaning using this brown paper I have used on my card. I was very unsure of what this challenge meant as I was not very familiar with Kraft and I decided the best way for me to follow the theme was to do a CAS card!

I have used one of my favourite Tiddly Inks stamps: Eat More Cake. It is super adorable and has the perfect name, don’t you think?! I coloured it in with copics, cut it using scissors (which I very rarely do) and used foam stickers to lift her off the craft paper a little. I then wrote a sentiment around the edge of the card and drew in some more little bits for fun!

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Christmas Wreath

It is time for a new Anything Goes challenge in the Art by Mi Ran facebook group, this time the optional theme is Anything but Square. For this card I decided to use a stamp Mi Ran has created for Whimsy Stamps called Christmas Wreath. I have, as usual, coloured it in with copics.

To make the card shape I used Go Kreate dies, I painted the edges with acrylic paint which I also added to the flowers and dies. The green paper is by Pion, the striped red one I forgot unfortunately. The tree dies and small bricks are from Noor Design, the lace is from KaBoks, the flowers are ribbon are by Wild Orchid Crafts, the berry looking flowers are from Live and Love Crafts and the sentiment stamp is from North Star Stamps. At the end I added glitter to the circular white dots to make them sparkle!

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This card has been entered into the following challenge:

Noor Design – Shaped Card

Fab Annie with a balloon

Friday and showcase time at Tiddly Inks! I decided to use Annie for this one. She was a freebie earlier in the year and no longer available. Tiddly Inks has a lot of other adorable images as well, though. Have a look! I drew in the balloon myself.

Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the lace and ribbon from a local shop, dies are Noor Design and the sentiment stamp is Lili of the Valley. I coloured her in with copics, distressed the edges and added frantage on top.

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This card has been entered into the following challenge:

The Ribbon Girl – Colour Challenge: Blue
Crafty Ribbon – Lace
Card and Scrap – Use Dies

Card making course with Tracy Payne

On Saturday afternoon I couldn’t shake the thought that there was something going on this weekend that I’d forgotten about. Suddenly it hit me: there is a big scrapping fair in the city, hosted by North Star Stamps, where Tracy Payne of Noor Design UK is visiting and doing courses. I’d forgotten all about it!! Oh no! I was gutted! I went to Tracy’s FB and typed a post along the lines of “Noooo, I forgot about your courses!!”. Then the sweetheart responded she had one spot left for Sunday. It was the class I had wanted the most as well! Did that make my weekend or what!! I am so happy. It is the first card making course I’ve ever attended, and I doubt it will be my last! The card on this post is what she had us making. Isn’t it the best?! I am so pleased I got to meet Tracy, she is such a lovely person!

A lot of the products is of course by Noor Design: the snowflake and mistletoe dies, the red tag, the stencils we used to cut out the window and card shape as well as the bricks, gesso and structure paste for the white elements. The papers we were provided with are by Pion, as is the adorable image. I honestly don’t know where the rest of the goodies are from, but it wouldn’t surprise me if you can get a hold of some of them at Live and Love Crafts!

And of course I made it home with a big grin on my face along with a few new goodies, including the wonderful window stencil and a few Noor Design dies!

One thing is for certain: this card is going up as one of my Christmas decorations!

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Here is a more detailed close up collage of the various elements:

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Autumn colours

Last month I was asked if I’d like to be a guest designer at Barnemix. Of course I’d like to! The image I got to work with, Madeleine with her Chic Coat, is by Milk Coffee which I thought fit the theme Autumn and Cold perfectly. It is the first time I’ve been given both the image and theme together, so it was a new type of challenge for me! I decided to pick every bit of autumn colour I can think of, which in fact are reasonably warm colours! Oh well!

Everything is coloured in with copics. The flowers are by Wild Orchid Crafts and Live and Love Crafts. Most of the leaves are made with Martha Stewart punchers and one using a Noor Designs Die. The background papers are by Papermania, which I distressed in various colours for an even more autumnal feel!

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