Get Spooked

We're getting spooky this week over at My Mums Craft Shop. I've gone with a triangle card for this one, just because the shape is a bit like a witches hat. So pop over and see what the rest of the DT have been up to -  if you dare!!!!!

My tip for Top Tip Tuesday is

 - highlight dry embossing by lightly patting embossing ink on the raised design, then add clear embossing powder to heat emboss. 

Challenges Entered

Top Tip Tuesday - Trick or Treat

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Black

Passion For Promarkers - For A Child

Addicted to Stamps - Halloween

Sentimental Sundays - Halloween

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Look at the Stars

look how they shine for you- this has been in my head all week! Hopefully now the card is made I can change the record. I don't like to blow my own trumpet, but I LOVE this card - I love the image, the colours, the PATP punch, and the embellishments. The flourish and the label are brand spankin' new and only arrived this morning; I was so lucky to win $25 to spend at Simon Says Stamp from Just Magnolia so I bought 4 Memory Box dies - they are sooo lovely. The stars were a Hobby Craft bargain from years ago and are really for flower arranging, bit I removed the wires, put them away and forgot about them until I was searching for something else and re-found them.

Challenges Entered

TOMIC - Bingo (top left to bottom right -metal spacer, lace punch, leaf doohickey)

Paper Sundaes - Sparkle, Flowers & Distressing

Passion for Promarkers - Stars

Winter Wonderland - Vintage Christmas

Christmas Stampin' - Sparkly

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Unwind

The restful colours of this Crate paper seemed perfect for Yoga Tilda. To continue the theme, I de-stressed (sp) the edges (get it!) and added some watch bits. The zipper rose? I made myself; I had a look on youtube for tutorials, but the ones I saw weren't quite what I had in mind, so I had a play and this is one of the results.

Challenges Entered

TOMIC - Let's Get Sporty with a Sketch

Magnolia-licious Challenges - Colour challenge

Crafts4eternity - at least 1 metal Embellishment (zipper rose)

Fab n Funky - Distressed or torn

Clear It Out - Trims

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Get Well Soon

Yesterday, I saw this brill tutorial on Stempeleinmaleins What a lovely idea? So I started thinking I'd probably throw my first attempt in the bin, but it went so well and grew into two get well projects.

Challenges Entered

Magnolia Down Under - Getting Punchy

Its A Magnolia Challenge - Gift Box/Bag

Magnolialicious Highlites - Get Well

Just Magnolia - Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Totally Papercrafts - Layer Upon Layer

Crafty Ribbons - Ribbon & Lace

Little Darlings - Use Scor-pal

Flutterby Wednesday - Butterflies

The Sweet Stop - Sketch (left hand card)

Whimsy Stamps - Make your own flowers

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The Count

I had fun with this card - I haven't made a shaker card for ages. It also gave me the opportunity to use a bandage I got from the chemist, which I dyed using distress inks - by the time I'd finished, my hands looked like I'd been digging coal.

Challenges Entered

C.R.A.F.T. - Autumn/Fall

Crop Stop - Halloween

Paperplay - Use Black

Crafdting For All Seasons - Halloween

Little Red Wagon - Fall

7kids - Halloween

Stampavie and more - Halloween

Truly Scrumptious - Shaker Boxes

Creative Card Crew - Halloween Fun

Papertake - Spooky Hues

Dutch Magnolia Chickies - Halloween

Magnolia Mania - Small Scene

Magnolia Down Under - Sketch

Fussy and Fancy - Black, Border Punch & Bling

Cupcake Crafts - Buttons and Bows

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Let It Snow? no thank you

It's so lovely to look at snow, but I'm not a fan. So the best place for it is on a card!

Challenges Entered

The Sweet Stop - Sketch and recycle (fence)

Top Tip Tuesday - Layers

Just Magnolia - Distressed Edges

Anything Goes - To The Letter

I Love Promarkers - Cute

Ooh -La-La  -Let It Snow

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Fancy a cuppa?

The theme this week at My Mums Craft Shop is food and drink, so I thought I'd make something other than a card and this is what I settled on. The mug is just card wrapped around a cylinder until the glue dried, then I added the circle base and curled card handle and decoration. I added 2 'options' sachets and put some mini marshmallows in a cello bag.

Challenges Entered

Ladybug Crafts - Pink, circle, chocolate

My Time To Craft - Punches and dies

Top Tip Tuesday - Layer It

Tuesday Throwdown - Shaped Card

Stamp with fun - gift

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Hubble Bubble

I've had this card floating around in my head for a few weeks, and I had the shadow box all cut and ready but that was as far as I'd got - then it all seemed to fall together at once - maybe a bit of Halloween magic?

Challenges Entered

One Stop - Halloween

Craft Your Days Away - Halloween Colours

CES - Forever Autumn

ABC - B for Boo

Simply Magnolia - Halloween

Cute Card Thursday - Trees/Leaves

Deep Ocean - Fall Colours

7 Kids - Halloween

Crop Stop - Falling Leaves

Cupcake Crafts - Halloween

Sparkles Forum - Halloween

Challenge Up Your Life - Halloween

Crazy 4 Challenges - Something for an upcoming Holiday

Our Creative Corner - Totally Transparent (recycled packaging acetate-window)

Alphabet Challenge - Soon to be Halloween

Card Making Mamas - Halloween

Fussy and Fancy - Halloween

Totally Papercrafts - Acetate (window)

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Think Pink

We're at the halfway mark over on Let's Ink It Up so there's still time to enter and maybe win a great prize.

Lavender and Lace

I love a non traditional colour scheme for Christmas cards, and I thought this Tilda looked so pretty in lilac.

Challenges Entered

Colour Create -Lilac, grey, white & optional snowflakes

Charisma Cardz - In Stitches

Just Magnolia - Distressing - (inked edges & sanded, embossed card)

Aud Sentiments - Winter theme

ABC Christmas Challenge - Unused Stash - Verse Stamps by LOTV used for first time

Bearly Mine - Easel Does It

The Stamping Boutique - Someone Special (in greeting)

Fun With Shapes - Sketch

Creatalicious - Distress your edges 

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Three French Hens

If any bird should be singing at Christmas, surely it would be a hen - the pressure is totally off them for once! These three happy chooks make me smile, and they're surely belting out the 12 days of Christmas.

Challenges Entered

Passion For Promarkers - Christmas Critters

The Sweet Stop - Sketch

C.R.A.F.T. - Recipe - 1 ribbon, 2 shapes & glitter

CES - Seeing Red

The Paper Shelter - We Love Animals

Cards For Men - Make us Laugh

Jingle Belles - A Caroling We Will Go

Christmas Inspirations - Bird or Flowers

Sparkles Forum - Christmas Songs

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Warm and Snug

I think this new release Tilda looks so snuggly in her PJ's, all ready for Santa.

Challenges Entered

Bunny Zoe's - Lace It Up

TOMIC - Seated Tilda & Doohickey

CLP - Sketch 41

Winter Wonderland - Autumn Colours

Just Magnolia - Anything Goes - Coffee & Cream optional

Magnolia Mania - Stripes

Top Tip Tuesday - DP & homemade flowers

Tip - make silver charms gold by inking with versamark and then embossing in gold powder

Little Red Wagon - Just The Ticket

Paper Sundaes - Fave Colour Combo ( Browns/Creams)

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Blessed

This is my first Design Team project for My Mums Craft Shop and this weeks theme is 'Reminds you of a Song' - mine is Blessed by Elton John. I do hope you'll visit us and see what the rest of the fab DT have come up with. This week we are sponsored by Prairie Fairy, who are offering 4 free images to the winner.

Challenges Entered

Oldie But A Goodie - Wings

Top Tip Tuesday - Use DP and handmade flowers

Tip -  save the acetate from packaging- It's ideal for using as windows etc in cards as well as for strengthening  between layers on flimsier cardstock.

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Wings

Papertake - 3 Different shapes

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Boo!

After our warm and sunny week last week, autumn seems to be back with a vengeance here, so it seemed appropriate to be working on a Halloween card this weekend. I think Tilda looks so sweet, if a little bemused, all dressed up and ready to spook.

Challenges Entered

Top Tip Tuesday - Sketch

Tip - If I cant find right shade of card for die cuts to embellish my cards, I use promarkers on white card instead to get exactly the right colour. 

I love Promarkers - Spooky

Paperplay - Autumnal

7 Kids - Fall

Crop Stop - Dainty Doily

Stamping for the weekend - Colours of Autumn

Fussy and Fancy - Fall or Halloween

Crafty Ribbons - Pretty Spooky

Crafting For All Seasons - Fall Flowers

Little Darlings - Fall or Halloween

Magnolia Down Under - Halloween

2 Sisters - Halloween

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Fall

Dutch Card Lovers - Halloween

Totally Tilda - Halloween

Cupcake Crafts - Halloween

Thanks for spooking!

What's Cookin'?

Cake without the calories!

Challenges Entered

Magnolia Mania - Sketch

Cute Card Thursday - Time For Cake

C.R.A.F.T - Bright Colours

Dutch Dare - Special Fold

All That Scraps - Anything Goes

Anything Goes - Die Cuts/Punches

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Got Bling?

A couple of years ago, my mother in law received a black and white Christmas card - she was outraged! ' why would anyone send a black and white Christmas card? It's awful!' I was so glad I hadn't gone monochrome that year!! I actually think black and white can look really elegant; traditionalists probably wouldn't agree, but each to their own.
It's not showing too well on screen, but I have gone a bit mad with the bling with this card - I made my own paper and added Perfect Pearls Mist, used stickles on the die cut poinsettias, then a few diamanté to finish.

Challenges Entered

Just Magnolia & Hanglar - Sketch

Cupcake Craft - Black & White Christmas

Creative Card Crew - Easel Cards

Papertake - Anything Goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Bingo - Glitter, 2PP(made my own) Flowers

Dream Valley - Monochrome

Sparkles Forum - Sparkles

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Too Cute To Spook.

I loved making this card! I think because it's a favourite colour scheme of mine, not only in craft, but in home decor and clothing. I was also pleased to be able to use the lace, which was a charity shop find a couple of years ago - it's been too 'precious' to use until I had a word with myself!

Challenges Entered

It's a Magnolia Challenge - Autumn

Magnoliahaaste - Embossing Folders (woodgrain)

Dutch Magnolia Chickies - Autumn

Simply Magnolia - Autumn Colours

Magnolialicious Highlites - Sketch, orange & octagon

Anything Goes - Die cuts/Punches (tattered florals &embossed leaf)

Papertake - Anything goes & something punched (Leaves)

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Tilda and Edwin Halloween scrapbook

I haven't made a mini book for a while, so this project provided the perfect opportunity. I used the Cricut to cut out the treat bag in patterned paper and chipboard; the pages are also shaped but without the handles. The cute diamanté bat cost 59p! It was a brooch, but I pulled the back off and attached it with Glossy Accents.

Challenges Entered

Magnolialicious Challenges - Halloween

Secret Crafter - Halloween

My Mums Craft Shop - Dress Up

TOMIC - Halloween (anything but a card)

Tando Creative - Halloween

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Make A Wish

My goodness - more pink! Unlike the previous card, this one seemed to just fall together, and I really like how it turned out. I did plan on it being an easel card, but in the end I decided on a PATP mat to emphasise the pink rather than the white.

Challenges Entered

C.R.A.F.T. - Photo inspiration

Magnolia Down Under - Pink, White & Gold

Deep Ocean - Happy Birthday

Birthday Sundaes - Ribbon

Magnolia Mania - photo

Crafters Companion - Pink & Green

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Pink, Pink, Pink

I've gone all pink and sparkly with this one!! This was a slow burner for me; I really like the pink holly paper and it went well with the dots then I added the doily and Tilda but was less than taken with it all. So I left it, I find it hard to move onto something new when I have a card on the go, so it just sat there for a couple of days taunting me with it's incompleteness. Today I took the bull by the horns - added the die cut flourish and it all started to come together at once and I'm quite pleased with it now.

Challenges Entered

Magnolia Mania - photo inspiration

Crop Stop - Stamped Sentiment 'plus' friend.

All Sorts - at least 5 flowers

Winter Wonderland - How Charming

CES - Pretty Girls/Gorjuss

Christmas Inspirations - Birds or Flowers

Paper Sundaes - Lots of Layers

Sparkles Forum - Christmas Song - Hark the Herald Angels

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Tag It

Boy has it been a busy week.
I was honoured to be asked to be the Guest Designer over on Craft Your Days Away this week, for the theme  Tag It. I opted for a pop up tag card, and made my own distressed ink/ embossed paper.

Challenges Entered

2 Sisters - Fancy Folds

Crafty Hazelnuts - For a male

Card Makin Mamas - Folds

Clean and Simple - Loopy

Dutch Dare - Bingo (Ribbon, Flowers, Die cuts)

Your Next Stamp - sketch

Crafts and Me - Flowers

Paper Pretties - Sentiment as focal point

Thanks for looking

Hope

This is my first project for Lets Ink It Up This month the theme is Think Pink, since this month is Breast Cancer Awareness month and our sponsor for the month is Mad For Markers, who have kindly donated a Copicendium and a stamp of your choice

I made a little book for writing inspirational quotes in to maybe help a loved one and show they are in your thoughts.

The covers are made from mountboard, which I covered with canvas; the canvas had been embossed using a cuttlebug folder, then I highlighted the raised pattern with distress inks. The heart is a chipboard, again embossed with cuttlebug, then heat embossed in silver and white. Finally I made the rolled roses and added the 'hope' button.

Challenges Entered

All Sorts - Flowers

Crafts4eternity - Anything Goes

Fairy Fun Fridays - Pink and Distressed

Fairy Tale Challenge Blog - Mini Book

Fun With Shapes - Shabby/Vintage

Charisma Cards - Love (heart)

Dutch Dare Challenge - Bingo (ribbon, flowers, die cuts)

Pals Paper Arts - Heat Embossing

Papercrafting Journey - Die Cuts/Punches
My Sheri - Think Pink
Hiding In My Craftroom - Pink
More Than Favours - Breast Cancer Awareness

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