A big thankyou

A little card I made to say a big thankyou to someone- they know who they are.  Made using Clare's stamp range at PaperArtsy.

Fun Penguin

Can you beat a little cute penguin on a Christmas card?  This one is part of the Artic Fun set from DigiStamp Boutique and the text is the current freebie image.  The card follows the current Sketch Saturday layout.

 

Happy Birthday

This card was inspired by a recent 'Spotlight' project featured on the Stamplorations blog:

What do you think? I am quite happy with the result.
I will enter the card into the current Stamplorations sketch challenge.
 

Journal Page

It has been a while since I did an art journal page.  Clare's second PaperArtsy GDT project this semester inspired me to get into it again. 
I started with some junk cardboard- the backing board of a paper pack I have used up.  Onto this I painted gesso and then acrylic paints to make the background.  Next I stamped Clare' PA stamps in black ink.  I also stamped one of the sentiments onto white paper for the text.  This was cut out and stuck down.

 There are so many things in life that we come away from thinking 'I wish I had said...' (or the opposite- 'I wish I hadn't said ...').
OK, so after putting up with my attempt at the 29 faces in September you were probably hoping I wouldn't *ever* draw another- lol!  But I was tempted.  Not sure she is my best :-(  Eyes a bit too larger perhaps? 
Anyway, she was coloured with Promarkers and then detailed with pencil crayons.
The little embellishments are made from shrink plastic (Clare's PA stamps and the coloured with Promarkers). I added a gem to the flowers to finish them off.
While I had the shrink plastic and heat gun out I decided to have another go at earrings (see Saturday's post for my 1st attempt).  These ones turned out better I think.

Baby Bobbi

It has been a while since I used a Bobbi image from DigiStamp Boutique.  Keep seeing them and thinking they mist be printed off again.  Then was inspired to do so this week by one of  the DSB DT (plus I wanted to make a baby card for an ex-college and this is perfect for it I think).

I will enter the card into this weeks Passion for Promarkers (Kraft) and Retro Sketches challenges.

Altered Match boxes

I had such an amazing time yesterday when I met up with Clare.  She suggested a few weeks ago how about trying some altered match boxes as neither of us had done them before.  I did a little Pinterest searching but in the end I think we just went wherever our creativity took us at the moment which included getting out what must be almost every item of Clare's stash, including the sewing machine- sorry Clare!
I went for two small boxes (standard size for a box of matches you buy from the shops) while Clare opted for the larger size.
Box 1: For this I used a match box Clare had and went for the 'flap' type opening rather than 'draw'.

 Was attracted to these clown images and the sentiment ;-)

 Box 2: (probably my favourite out of the two) is a traditional 'match box' with draw made using a template.

If you have never done altered match boxes before I would DEFINITELY recommend them :-)

Birthday Buffy

Taking a break from Christmas cards (I need some birthday ones at the moment too) I made this card using this weeks Retro Sketches layout.  The card is very much inspired by one of the DT projects and I am very happy with the way it turned out- you know that feeling (that rarely happens) when it kind of clicks?)

The image is another cutie from DigiStamp Boutique.

Cute Robins

I can never get enough of cute robin images.  This one is from DigiStamp Boutique.  The card follows the current Sketch Saturday layout.

 

Festive Gift box

This is my second project inspired by Clare's recent GDT posts for PaperArtsy.  I think I have taken the colour scheme from the first project (grey and black) and used it on the third...  didn't want to do an exact copy!
Anyway, this gift box was super easy to make with Clare's PaperArtsy stamps.  I first stamped and heat embossed in clear the squares onto white card.  Next I randomly 'stamped' ink pads of different colours over the sheet.  I had hoped the white would show though more from the heat embossing but it doesn't unless you are close up.
The final bit before assembling was to stamp and heat emboss again- this time in silver.  Some of the embossing powder stuck to the ink that I used to colour the box even though I had dried it.   Never mind, I think it adds to the effect- lol!
I stuck the box together, added some blue embroidery threads to the top and attached some fimo buttons as a finishing touch.  All I need now is to buy the present to go in it ;-)

 

Artic Fun

The DigiStamp Boutique DT have all been playing a lot with the Artic Fun stamp set recently and so I had to buy it and give it a go.  This is the first card that I have made and I decided to go for a bit of an unusual colour combo.  Quite pleased with the way it turned out though :-)

The card follows this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday layout and I will enter it into this weeks I love Promarkers (snowflakes) challenge.