A Card for the ArtbyMiran Facebook Challenge

Good Morning Crafters I know I dont post many posts these days I do find that I seem to have lots to do running my other blog but as I had already made this card for this months progressive Challenge over on Facebook I thought I would treat you to seeing it as well.
This image is the one they give you free if you have taken part in last months progressive Challenge and I printed her onto white card before colouring her with my copic pens. I then cut her out using the Justrite dies and used the larger one for the mount out of pink card. I always ink around the edges before removing the die to give it more body or it looks rather lost if you leave it all white. The sentiment was stamped and for this one I used for the smaller die a Sue Wilson Noble die and for the mount the circle die from Justrite.
I do love Justrite stamps and Dies also Sue Wilsons dies and stamps Im a bit of a horder of both so dont be surprised it you dont get to see me use them more.
The base card is a 7"x 7" white card with a first mount out of pink card the papers I used this time are also from ArtbyMiran and these are called "Happy Days" I printed three papers, the first is a pink background with hearts on, the second is a blue one and this one I have used border and corner dies from Martha stewart, the third is pink background with white spots and this was cut into a strip and mounted on a piece of pink card, then layered up as shown in the photo. I also used a heart doily which I tucked behind the mounted image.
I then placed my mounted image in the center with the sentiment in the bottom right hand corner. I have a confession to make I accidently bent the side of the heart doily when I turned it over to stick to the black base card and to try and anchor it down I used a bit of glue, unfortunately it looked so dark against the white I had to cover it up and I used a pink and blue organza ribbon to create the two bows and then placed a bow around the knot with the glitter drops from Tonic, I also used them in three of the corners. At least it covered up the black gluey mark.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://www.2creativechicks.com/
http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.uk/
http://blog.dreamtimecraftsupplies.com.au/ 
http://diesruschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://doodlepantryblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://papercreatorscrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 

A Card for the Sugar Nellie Challenge

Good Afternoon, Crafters, its been quite awhile since I have used any of my Sugar Nellie images and I had this one in my craft box I take to Craft Club so I decided to try and colour it with my coloured pencils and this is the result.
I cut her out with a Nestabilie Die and a larger on for the Mount, the sentiment is one from my stash and has been stamped onto a piece of card and mounted in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 6.50"x 6.50" white card with a first mount out of mauve card, and the papers I have used are from the Nitwits and I have used several of the papers as shown in the photo I mounted some of the pieces onto card and with one of them I created a doily and layered that first then the rest on top.
The mounted image was place in the middle with the sentiment at the bottom right hand corner, I also used some mauve pearls in all three corners shown.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/
http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://sweetstampsblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://sugarnellie.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge

Good Morning Crafters, well I suppose you will be aware that another month has flown and Im sure like me your not all that impressed so far with the weather, anyway lets keep our fingers crossed that it wont be long before it settles down and gets warmer.
Anyway here is my card for this months Challenge over on Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge Blogspot

And for this card I have used one of the ArtbyMiran images and I printed her onto white card and then coloured with my copic pens, afterwards I used my Nestabilitie Die to cut it out and mounted it onto blue card. The sentiment was stamped and finished in the same way as the image.
The base card is a white 6.50"x 6.50" card and on this I have placed a first mount out of blue card, the papers are from Sweetshoppe Digi Papers and this set is titled "Enchanted Roses" and I have used 5 papers and placed as shown in the photo.
I then stuck my mounted image in the middle with the sentiment down in the right hand bottom corner. I also stuck a fancy flourish which has gems in it.
Now that youve seen my Card I do hope that you will pay a visit to the Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will want to take part in this Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftyfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/ 
http://imaginethatdigistamp.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

A Card for ArtbyMiran Facebook Challenge

I promised last night to write up a post describing what I have done with this image and card design. The image is from ArtbyMiran, and the papers are to. If you take part in the Reserved Challenge every month you are given a free image for the following month once the present challenge is finished but you must take part in it to win it.
I printed this image onto white card and coloured it with not only copic pens but also my Tonic Nuvo pens (Id taken the image to craft club and as I have far to many copics to take I used the Tonic ones instead) they have not got the about of shades as the copics to but theyve made a decent job of it. I then cut it out with my Nestabilitie die and used a fancy one for the mount, Ive also done the same with the sentiment. (I should have said I glittered the wings and the butterfly)
The base card is a 7"x 7" white card with a first mount out of blue card, the papers are also from ArtbyMiran and this set are the Oriental ones, I have used three of the papers and layered them up as show, the second and third ones I have used the butterfly border and corner punches on them.
I then placed my mounted image in the center and the sentiment in the bottom right hand corner.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://craftyfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/
http://imaginethatdigistamp.blogspot.co.uk/
http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://scrappers-delights-challenge-blog.blogspot.co.uk/

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - April

Good Morning Crafters, well I hope you all enjoyed your Easter Holidays, ours was very quiet and although hubby did his volunteer job with the local steam railway on Saturday we spend the rest of them weekend taking the dog for a walk and taking it easy.
Anyway over on Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge its April the 1st you know All Fools Day and I hope you wont find my card in that category as this week I had a funeral to go to yesterday for a dear friend who lost her battle with lung cancer and this was the card I sent her family with my sympathies.

 Its from the Heartfelt Surprise Lily collection, I have used two stamps and coloured the flower down the left side with my copic pens.
I layered it up on a similar colour paper from the collection and mounted my image on top. I do hope you like the result and if you do I hope that you will pay a visit to Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will want to take part in this "April" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftyfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://scrappers-delights-challenge-blog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftinginabeautifulmess.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://aliciabelchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://crafting-with-friends.blogspot.co.uk/ 
 http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

A Card for ArtbyMiran Facebook Challenge

Good Morning Crafters, its been awhile since I blogged again here on my No.2 blog but there has been a reason for them firstly my friend and neighbour died from Lung Cancer on the 11th, and it really hit me hard. Then her children started to clear her house out and this is because she was on Social Security who paid her rent and they wanted to clear it before they needed to pay any rent on it.
Then to crown it all while walking towards the backgate I tripped on a cover on the drain and because I was holding a bag of toilet rolls I not only didnt see the cover I could not do anything about helping myself I fell and hit my head on a brick wall, and of course it wasnt a good thing to do, I slit my right ear which is still sore and I have bruises in my head and face plus those on my body, (knees and legs). I did get a paramedic to come and check me over and luckily it wasnt needed to take me to hospital but I have found my balance is a bit of at times and Im not sure why this is happening though it didnt start for two days afterwards.
Anyway this card is created with the reserved image from ArtbyMiran these are free if you have created a card with the last image if not you pay a nominal amount less that the usual as  you dont know what it looks like until you unzip it. This image is "Sweet Sally" and I have printed her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I used a Nestabilitie Die to cut her and a fancy one for the mount.
The papers are also from ArtbyMiran and this set is "Happy Days" I have used 5 of the papers and layered them up as you can see in the photo. The sentiment was stamped and treated in the same way as the image.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://colouringinscrapland.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://eurekastamps.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://our-crafty-corner.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 

 

A Card for Facebooks Sundays with Santa Challenge

Good Morning Crafters, well you can tell me off I know Ive not been the most prolific poster of cards but as Ive been busy with looking after the neighbour its not been possible for me to do much in the way of crafting, hopefully now that shes in hospital I might be able to catch up with myself and this card Ive posted today is the start of it.
This is a Heartfelt Xmas image and to be honest I have not inked it up before and this was the theme for last weeks challenge over on SWS and I thought it would make a nice Xmas card and Im so glad I have used it.
I stamped it onto white card then used my copic pens to colour it plus some metallic pens in gold and silver. I then used my rotatrim to cut it out and mounted it onto a piece of gold card.
The base card is a 6.50"x 6.50" card and I have used two papers from one of my Sweetshoppe Digi paper set, and Ive used play background and a green one on both there is a design of holly leaves. I then used more gold card as the first mount and the papers were cut in halve and then a piece of red ribbon around the middle.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://asnowflakespromise.blogspot.co.uk/
http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://stampartpapel.com/category/comunidad/
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/