Anything but a card,

Hi Its my  first official week joining  Abbie's Team A at Artistic Inspirations

  This weeks challenge is anything but a card and 

our sponsor is

The winner of this weeks challenge will receive 5 digi images.

I decided to use

I love sunflowers, I decided to make a wall hanging for the kitchen. I used the large size of the MDF hearts from Indigo Blu.

Which I painted with white Gesso mixed with a yellow acrylic paint,once dry I added green acrylic to the paint and using a stencil brush added it around the border. This was left to dry overnight in the morinig I added some gold giliding wax around the edge. While the heart was drying I coloured my 2 sizes of sunflowers with Pro-markers. Then I cut them all out, most were just the small flower heads but for the border I cut out the full flower. I then used "live your dreams" stamp from Visible Image and stamped in Black Stazon. Once I decided where I was placing the flowers I stuck them down with PVA glue which dries white. Once dry I  painted with clear gloss due to it being hung in the kitchen.

 Close Up

Hung in the Kitchen

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Challenges entered
Visible Image       get stamping
Challenges 4 everybody     always anything goes
Creative inspiration paints         Spring Colours
Crafty-Emblies        Anything but a card 
Hotshots Craft blog     Anything but a card
Happy campers Challenge 14      Flower Power
Whoopsi Daisy       Not a square creation

New releases at Imagine that!

Hi just thought I would let you know its the 15th and that means Kris will have new releases in her store, (write on your calendar to check on the 1st and 15th)

 Today's releases is Skipper's pocket you can either go for black and white outline digis,
colour digis

and/ or frog in my pocket digi papers
 which are lush.
If you click on the photo's it will take to the brand new section in Kris' blog.

Here are 3 cards I have made with the new digis and papers

 This is using Skipper in the flower pocket which I coloured with Promarkers . I decoupaged the flowers and decided to hand stitch around the denim square. I finished the pocket off with a large brass brad and added a sentiment.

For this card ,I lightened the denim (which Kris doesn't mind) and then printed it off then put it back in the printer and printed the pocket without Skipper. I once again hand stitched, I used the pocket stitching  marks to stitch over, and for the seam I paper punched the lines before I stitched them, I mounted the pocket on 3 d foam on the outer edge only and added old brass  large brads . This is an ideal pocket for giving money as a present to a man or if you used the flower pocket for a lady. 

 My final card was using the beautiful flowers paper I printed 2 pieces (I usually use Picasa to manipulate my photos and it comes up with a 13cm by 18cm size and you can get 2 pieces on an A4 paper)I cut it down to the size I wanted and mounted it on rose red card from Stampin Up this was then mounted on the corresponding yellow dotty paper, then on an A5 card blank. I cut out some of the flowers and decoupaged them on with 3d tape to the image (see below). To finish off I added beads to the centre of 2 of the yellow flowers and a round sentiment from Craftworks Cards. 

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 especially if you have received your free digi from Kris.

Challenges entered

Come and get it challenge       On for the kids

One stitch at a time      Bright colours

Scrappy Frogs         Spring challenge

The craft place     for a child
Glitter and sparkle          stitching
So artful challenge                colour combo Pink.Blue and Green
Our creative corner      clothing and stitching
Digital Sweet           Animal Fun
Make it Monday        Anything goes
Craft your passions      Adorable Animals

Something to share

Hi folks, all I can say its thank goodness its got to Friday, the first week back after a fortnight holiday is a killer.

I thought I would share my cards with you.

Its 2 for the price of one .

Two of my colleagues are due to leave soon, to go on maternity leave. So I have been asked to make  leaving cards.

I am not sure what either of them are having so I have tried to make  them  to cover either sex.

(opps apologies for both watermarks but hey ho)

For the cards I have used Die Cuts with a View paper mounted up on Stampin Up card, then onto a  8 inch square backing card.

The image is Ice cream & Pickles from Saturated Canary

coloured with pro markers and cut out with a spellbinder die from the grand ornate ovals which I finished off using my brushes and pink distress ink. I then cut the next size up in plain card and mounted the topper on it then added  3d foam to the topper. I added a little metal pram charm on the side.

I used stampin up ribbon down the left side  and then punched out flowers in co-ordinating card mounted them up and finished them off with a pearl.

To finish the card off, I added Papermania silver glitter letters saying good luck.

Thanks for stopping by please let me know what you think .

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Challenges entered

Little Miss Muffet      Anything goes

Digi stamps 4 Joy      anything goes

Stamping Royalty           Oh Baby

Bearly mine         Anything goes

Through the craft room door     Anything goes

Make it Monday        always anything goes

The Crazy Challenge     add a charm

Lacy Sunshine         Anything goes

Crafting Cafe        Celebrate

Sister Act card challenge   Anything goes

Stamping sensation    Special Occasion

In the flower patch

Its a new challenge from Artistic Inspirations and this weeks challenge is Anything Goes

our Sponsor is

The winner will receive 7 digis of their choice.

 Here is my card made with Ava in the  flower patch. i fell in love with her the minute I saw her

So what did I do, 

I used Promarkers to colour  Ava and the grasses in, and used my brushes and distress ink to finish the back ground. I used a Spellbinder ornate labels one to cut the image out and mounted her on to a plain labels one in pink die shape,this was my background for the easel.

 The white card is a shaped card from Hunkydory.

I cut another labels one in pink for the bottom inner and paper pierced it the all the way round.

To compliment the daisies on the picture I made daisies with a EZ punch which I mounted 2 flower punches off set to make the flower and added buttercup colour liquid pearls for the centre.

I then cut leaves with a Stampin Up die and coloured the with my pro-markers. these were mounted on 3 foam to make the easel stopper.

To finish off the card I added a butterfly and added buttercup liquid pearls on the thorax.

Thanks for calling by please let me know you have been .

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Challenge entered

ABC challenge          Pink Green and Blue

Kaboodle doodles     any shade of pink

Make it Monday   Always anything goes

The Pink Elephant       use spring colours

613 Avenue Create            Spring Fever

Joanna Sheen Challenge blog        Spring into Spring

Allsorts                Spring has sprung 

MyShericrafts        Spring has sprung

Nutcarfters Challenge    Shaped Card

Whimsical designs    shaped card

One for the Guys

 Yes its that time again its the Gingerloft challenge and this fortnights theme is one for the guys.
Men are never easy to make cards for, so here is mine.

I have used the WOLF MOON 2 digi from Gingerloft. I think any male would be happy to receive the card young or old especially with The New Moon and Vampires the in thing at the moment.

So what did I do,

I  coloured the main image with Pro-markers and extended the rock to complete the image. I then used my brushes and distress inks to finish the night sky, to complete the look I added star shaped gems.  The image is  mounted on silver miri which is mounted on to Midnight Muse from stampin up and finished of with silver miri.

I used a Visible Image stamp for the sentiment, mounted  up on the same layers as the image topper.

Thanks for calling by please let me know you have visited

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Challenges entered

Challenge 4 everybody     Anything goes

That crafty place      Animal

Simply create too             Animals

2 Sisters Challenge        Anything goes

A gem of a challenge     Animals

Crafting By Design      All about Animals

Plain & Simple

I was asked by my Mother-in-Law to make a sympathy card, not something I like doing but when you have to ,you have to. I used a old personal impressions stamp that I have had for years. I stamped it on snow white pearlescent card from Crafters Companion in wow silver embossing powder. Then I coloured the flowers  and leaves with pastel pro-markers. I then mounted it on to silver miri board on 3d foam on to a Craftwork card, card blank. The sentiment is from Stampin up and I just added a silver line down the card.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you like my work hugs Tania xx
challenges entered
The Perfect Sentiment        Sympathy
Artistic Stamper      Texture
Addicted to Stamps     white on white
Everybody art challenge    anything but Square
Crafty Catz          Anything goes
Card Makin Mamas       no patterned papers

Sunflower baby

 Here is my card for today I have used one of the Lacy Sunshine Flower Pot pretties, this was the freebie from Heather to enter the challenge with I think she is lovely.

I coloured her with Promarkers, I then used one of the ornate ovals to cut the image out. the backing paper is a insert from Hunkydory , mounted on some of the new adorable score-able .I then added a Stampin Up butterfly and gems and finished off with a sunflowers charm and ribbon

Thanks for calling by , please leave a comment 

and let me know you have been .

hugs Tania xx

Challenges entered

Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog     Anything Goes

Emma's Crafty Challenge      Butterflies

Creative moments     Things with wings

Flutter By Wednesday    Must have a flower and butterfly

7 Kids college fund            things with Wings

Papertake weekly    Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom Door        Anything goes 

Clouds

Hi  its that time again its our new challenge at

and this challenge theme is Clouds-clouds on image or falling rain/snow.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

I have used their Molly Fairy digi image.

I coloured the image using pro-markers and put Sakura gel pen glitter on her wings. I used the new cloud embossing folder for the background  from Stampin Up on Core'dination card then sanded it off  and then inked the clouds up. The images is suspended from the cherry tree spellbinder die cut and to fit in more with the challenge I used the cherry blossom falling like rain.The hills are hand cut from Stampin up card. the image was mounted on midnight muse card on a 5" x 7"  card blank .

Thanks for calling by please leave a comment if you like my card

Hugs Tania xx

Challenge entered

Bunny Zoe's Crafts      Girly

Digi Makeover Challenge     anything   goes

Make it Monday          anything goes

Mema's Crafts April challenge     anything goes

My Craft Creations       Girly

A little bit Crafty     Anything goes

Spark your creativity          anything goes

Top Tip Tuesday        Girls/ Boys come out to play

Imagine That! Speeding by to say Hi!!!!

 

Yes its that time again and if you entered last the challenge the you should have received your wonderful image.
If you didn't then go along to the challenge to get your free image as challenge 4 is a "FREE FOR ALL"  

 This is what I did with mine.

 The car is coloured with Pro-markers and the background was  made using my distress inks and brushes

check out my tutorial to how I do this. I then coloured some more balloons and decoupaged them up  and added glossy accents , I also added it on the number 1's and glitter on the flames. I then used a spellbinder die on the sentiment used distress inks to match the flames while in the die. I then drew round the die to make a faux nestie which is perfect to set off the sentiment. The blue paper is from a basic grey pad and the red card is from Stampin up .
So wish I had these papers but they have only been release today to go with the images.


Kris has also brought out a image with out the presents and balloons and a "wishing you a speedy recovery" sentiment (I love the recovery as its made from plasters.) I decided to colour the car  in greys and added a plaster/band-aid to the wheel. I then made some co-ordinating paper on my craft artist.

 But if that's not your idea of fun you could always try out Kris's new paper which would work so well with the racing cars.
or her Nurse Ashley

Check out all Kris's other designs too
at

Thanks for calling by, please leave a comment and let me know you have been
Hugs Tania xx
Challenge Entered
Here Come the Boys    inspiration from picture
KennyK's Krafty Krew       being square
Send a Smile 4 Kids     anything goes

Sassy Studio     witty sentiment
Southern Girls Challenge     The kids are alright
Creative Craft Challenge       For the Kids
Make it Monday        Anything goes
Crafters blogger network    Anything goes

First on the First

Yes its a new challenge blog from

It will not only be cards but many different types of challenges all running over the month and starting on the 1st of each month. which gives you plenty of time for you to join in.

The first is a sketch

Here is my adaptation of the sketch

Our sponsor this month is and I have used

a jug full of Spring

The winner of the challenge will be able to choose t dig' of their choice.

I think the image is stunning I hope you do too.

I coloured the image with Pro-Markers and mounted the jug 3d

The backing paper  I used was from this months freebie download from Crafters Companion and complement so well.

I used Garden Green card from Stampin Up and finished off with Daffodil delight ribbon .

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment if you like my work.

Hugs Tania XX

Challenges entered

613 Avenue       Anything goes with flowers

Challenges 4 Everybody          Anything goes

Corrosive Challenge blog       Spring  Fling

Di Digi Design     Flower Frenzy

My Sheri Crafts         Spring has sprung

Alphabet challenge       D is for daffodil

Make it Monday    Anything goes

Artistic Inspiration          Easter/Spring

Brown Sugar Challenge         Flowers

April 1st but no fool

Its Challenge no 5 here at Lady Anne's challenge blog with Nana Vickies digi images and this month I have used her wonderful 

roses on latice

I printed the image off 4 times and coloured my basic image with Pro-markers and then coloured the second layer of roses up and decoupaged them on. I mounted them on to a die cut with spellbinder dies which was mounted on to a square of

 gold miri card.

To compliment the card I coloured some white roses up with the same pro-markers.

Thanks for calling by

hugs txx

The challenge runs for one month

from the 1st-30th of April

Anything Goes Challenge

If you use a Nana Vic image

you could win $15 prize.

If not it is $12 prize.

Vickie has lots of fabulous images for you to try out so check them

out. 

challenges entered

Card Makin Mamas       no patterned papers

Stampavie and more      Pretty in Pink
In the pink        Spring/Easter
Part Time Tuesday       Anythings goes
DustinPike       Girly
Tuesday Alchemy     over the pastel rainbow