Mary Poppins

The library craft challenge is

 

 

I ran with the idea of a lady in a hat and made this card for my sister's birthday

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Paper Pizzazz Plaids and stripes

Flat backed gems in champagne

20 April

A rather large hat

These inspired challenges has this photo

 

 

and Time out challenges has this similar one

 

 

 

I decided to ignore the obvious choice of hearts and go with the colours instead 

 

 

as well as over at Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge were it's

'Anything goes'

7/13/6 feb

 

Black, white and pink

CAS on Friday have a colour cue

'Black, white and pink'

I made another small card

 

 

Supplies:

Cardstock: 160gsm in white 

2 may

Hand bag tag

Just add ink have a colour challenge

 

 

I made a little tag using a bought felt embellishment

 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Scrap book embellishment: NS Scrap 2D handmade stickers

Pentel gel pen in pink

Die: wPlus Timeless tags 2

Cuttlebug

7 march

 

Cake

CASology has a new challenge and it's

 

 

I made this card for an avid baker

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

pattern: Form-a-lines cookery_baking_a_cake

Paper: 80gsm in silver

          Scrap of silver and white tissue paper

Words have power

AAA cards have this cue

 

 

A couple of years ago I made this card for Mother's Day

 

 

The letters where hand cut and I stitched some of my Mom's favourite things onto them.

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

                    160gsm in white embossed

paper: 80gsm in lime green

Bought dragonfly

Patterns: Doves: Form-a-lines Willow_pattern_bridge

               Fork and flower pot: Stitching cards wheelbarrow

               Cat: Form-a-lines cats_on_a_wall



8 July

 

Girl on a swing

CASe this sketch has this one

 

 

I turned the sketch sideways and made this card

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in cream

Paper: Free page with Ideas Magazine SA

Satin ribbon in lime green

Pattern: Stitching cards bookmark-girl-on-a-swing

Ink: Colour Box in chestnut 

22 june

Soft tone hand bag

Pinspirational challenges have this lovely soft picture as inspiration this week

 

 

I picked up on the colours when I made this little handbag card

 

 

The die cut card stock was store bought. I just had fun decorating it.

Glitter glue, ribbon and a flat backed gem 'clasp' completed the look.

I decorated the envelope to match and popped some cash inside to be given for a birthday.

 

 

 

 

Supplies:

Store bought card and matching envelope.

Paper: Free download: Source unknown

Satin ribbon

Gold glitter glur

Flat backed gem

Craft glue

Lace from my stash

A stylish boot

Inspired by all the little things has this great photo

 

 

I think this stylish boot fits the bill perfectly

 

I made a template of  boot and then cut it out by hand. A plastic buckle and a piece of ribbon finished it off.

 

Supplies:

Scrap of black paper with silver dots

Plastic buckle

Red ribbon

Hand made paper

21 april

 

Girl, you'll be a woman soon.

I'm thrilled to be the Guest designer over at Uniko studio for challenge 35 and this is my second card.

 

The challenge is to take inspiration from a song or the lyrics of a song.

 

Here is my first card and for today's one I have used a line from the song 'Girl' by Sundance Kid.

It goes like this

"Girl, you'll be a woman soon"

and I came up with this card

 

 

Initially I pricked the pattern and then added the watercolour working from the left across the page. Once it was dry I stitched the topper, added some glitter around the edges, a couple of gems and it was all done.

 

I will also be entering this over at CASology were the cue is

 

 

 

 

Supplies:

Pattern: Stitching cards bookmark-girl-on-a-swing

Thread: Grey DMC 317

Paint: Reeves water colour 'Violet'

Glitter: Glitzin' Glam in crystalina

Flat backed gems in mauve

 

 

 

 

Serenity

This week's Split coast stampers Featured stamper 496 is Mandi
I decided to CASe this card of hers.

Here is mine made for a young lady who is turning 18 this year.

 

I used a large oval die, placed long ways to make the curved lower edge. It took a bit of working out so that it didn't leave a mark on the card stock but eventually I realized that if I just rolled the card stock half way into my Cuttlebug and then backed it out, that would work. It was worth the extra brain power to work that out. I'm very happy with the end result.

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Free download from Activity village

Cuttlebug

Die: Sizzix ovals 657562 Largest die

Pattern: facebook bordandoen papel

 

 

 

 

13 aug

 

 

Handbag

Stamplorations CASeplorations May is this

 

 

I made this card using the pink and yellow background as my inspiration

 

 

I will also be entering this at Share joy challenge were this is the brief

 

 

and at Pinterest inspired challenge where the colourful challenge is

 

 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Border punch

Pattern: Form-a-lines Fashion handbag

Thread: Pink: colour code and brand unknown

             Silver: DMC E168

             Kreinik Metallics Blending Filament 095

Liquid perals in platinium

Paper: Free download from Google images 

Gel pen in pink

(30 May)

 

Sprout

Clean and simple on sunday have the challenge Flowers
and Pinterest inspired challenge for April is

 

 

Here is my card made for a friends birthday. 

 

 I will also be entering this over at CASology were the cue card is

My inspiration

Source: Unknown

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Thread: Silver: DMC E168

             Pink: DMC 730

             Blue: DMC 808

             Cerise: Brand and code unknown

Button from my stash

Paper: 80gsm in blue

 

         

 

15 April

Mariner's Compass

Color throw down have this new inspiration for us

 

 I was asked to make a card suitable for a quilter. I figured that the mariner's compass is a common design for quilts, so made a stitched version of one adding some quilting fabric for good measure.

 

 

 

Supplies:

Pattern" New Designs, new projects for embroidery on paper by Erica Fortgens

Thread: all brands and colour codes unknown

Card stock: 160gsm in white

                   Oatmeal is upscaled from an old calendar

Rolfes metallic pen in blue

Button from my stash

Scrap of fabric



 (28 March)

Going to pot

Split coast stampers Free 4 all 317 challenge is 'Going to pot'. Some kind of container needs to be included on your card.

I chose to do one of my old favourites

 

 

I omitted the stitched flowers from the pattern and added some bought punched ones instead.

This card was given to a friend for her birthday and she loved it so much that she has asked me to teacher her how to do the 'Prick and stitch' method of embroidery. I always love sharing my passion with others.

I will also be entering this over at Simply less is moore where the challenge is
"Outside my window".

 

 

Supplies:

Pattern: Stitching cards Basket of flowers

Card stock: 160gsm in white

                   recycled calendar in oatmeal

Paper: scrap of floral scarp booking paper
           Grey sugar paper
Bought punched flowers 

(24 March)

Tea cup

 I will be entering this over at Inspired by all the little things where they have this gorgeous inspiration

 

 

 

We are a family that firmly believes a cup of tea will solve all sorts of ills. This philosophy is particularly true of one of my sisters so I made this card especially for her.

 

 

I do not have a teacup die so this is hand cut. I hand drew a double line in silver around the white section, deliberately making it uneven and even overlap in places.

P.S. What I was dreading yesterday did not come to pass. It rained and so the outing was postponed until next term! (hopefully it will be a little cooler then)

 

 

Supplies:

Card Stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Paper pizzazz soft tints

Ribbon: Satin apricot and scarp of white organza

Flat backed pearls

Pentel gel pen in silver

Double sided tape



Flowers and pearls

CASe this sketch.

My take. I turned the sketch upside down and used a ribbon instead of the sentiment.

Prior to stitching  I smudged a little pale green pastel pencil in the centre of each flower.

 

Supplies:

Pattern: Stitching cards art nouveau rose 5

Thread: DMC in blanche

Satin ribbon

flat backed pearls

Pastel pencil

earbud

Card stock: 160gsm in mint

Double sided tape

 

Silhouette

Simply less is moore. have the cue of Silhouette

 

Here is my card. It was made as a Mother's Day card.

 

 

I made the pattern for the word.

My inspiration

 

 

 

Supplies:

pattern: Sitching cards Free flower bookmark

Thread: DMC Noir

Card Stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Scrap of scrap booking paper

           Scrap of black   

Stretching it

CASe this sketch.  have quiet a difficult sketch for this week and I might really be stretching it with the design I chose to stitch but here goes anyway!!!

This is the sketch

 

 

  and this is my card

 

 

This was made for a friend's birthday.

 

 

Supplies:

Pattern: Darcie floral-hibiscus-flower-embroidery
Thread: DMC in Blanch

Pearl beads

Lace edging: Paper Pizzazz lace edgers

Paper: Gold in 80gsm

card Stock: 160gsm in white

Memories of a Geisha

Splitcoast Stampers. Free 4 all F4A301 have a movie challenge. You have to make a card with a movie title as the inspiration.

I immediately thought of Memories of a Geisha.

I absolutely loved the book and the movie didn't disappoint either.

Here is my card

 

 

I made this for my second cousin when she turned 15.

 

 

Supplies:

Pattern: Bergkaarten

Thread: All brands and colour codes unknown

Card stock: 160gsm in white 200gsm in mirror red

Lace border: Paper Pizazz Laser Borders

Flat backed clear tear drop shaped gem