Love Theme

The challenge for week 2 this year at Polkadoodles is to make something with a love theme and my card has hearts, kisses and bugs all from their Sugar Birdies collection. The ladybugs have been glazed with clear embossing powder.

Butterfly Charm

Thinking of ways to use ribbon I entwined some organza ribbon around a Nellie die cut on which I'd stamped an image using an Elusive Images stamp from the retro flowers range. I'm also trying to use up some of my huge pile of paper and card offcuts so these pieces are from that pile (mountain would be more like it). Finished off with some corners using a Cuttlebug die, butterfly charm and lines drawn using a fineliner pen.

Fire and Ice

The Monday challenge on Pollycraft is Fire and Ice (red and white) and I've used one of their digital images coloured with Copics. The edges of the white flower were coloured using the same pen and leaves were punched. Background paper is also from Pollycraft.

Ribbon

The second challenge at Craftwork Cards is R for ribbon and luckily I still had a small piece of ribbon left in my goody bag. The background papers, sentiments and flowers are all from the same bag with just the addition of a couple of punched leaves and a small punched flower with, of course, some card candy.

I noticed that at least two of my blogging friends have the same goody bag!!

Bah Humbug Challenge 2

The second challenge over at Bah Humbug is to make a Christmas card using something new or nearly new. My new item is the frame cut using some new Nellie dies and I also managed to include nearly new because the stamp used was from a set given away free with a magazine before Christmas. Background papers are from my stash, the snowflakes were cut using a cuttlebug die and the greeting was computer generated and cut using Stampin Up punches.

A Friend is...

I realised that I'd not used alcohol inks for absolutely ages so decided to try them on acetate. I used the heat embossable type so that I could stamp and gold emboss a motif . stamps used are by Elusive Images and the acetate was mounted onto gold mirri card. The sentiment was stamped and cut out with Nestabilities dies. Unfortunately there are some marks showing on the bottom corner which are not actually on the card but always occur when I scan anything reflective - I've worked out that they are a reflection of the 'innards' of my scanner but haven't managed to work out a way of avoiding this happening which is a shame.

The card in reality is actually lighter than it looks here - again I guess it is do with the reflective nature of the acetate and gold card.

Quirky Flowers

These quirky flowers have been cut out and layered onto a Nellies die cut shape and background paper by Polkadoodles. Card finished off with a ribbon and some card candy from Craftwork Cards.