Card-io Medley

This is defo the most adventurous Card-io card I have tried, taking inspiration from cards on the brilliant Card-io facebook page, really fab if you want some ideas of things to do!

This is using A LOT of difference sets so I am not going to list them all, but if you have something you would like to know more about, pop me a message and I will let you know which set it is from.

 

 I actually used some of the inks and colours that Card-io recommend for the images in this, as well as distress inks. I love the combo they suggest for the wooden items, pots and even the tortoise. It's Versa Colour Ink in Pinecone and Cocoa. (Luckily Norms had already purchased them!)

 

I added some water (via a wet tissue) to the distress ink background to get a moody cloudy effect. I used some Lawn Fawn Grass diecuts to finish it off at the bottom, looked tidier with something covering it up!
Added flowers from Wild Orchid.
Font is a new fave, October Twilight.

Hunkydory!

I know some people think using kits is cheating, but sometimes it's just so nice to have lots of lovely elements to use with little fuss!

This card is made using Hunkydory's Feathered friends. Another commissioned card for someone that likes flowers and gardening.

I constructed a standard easel card and then used the kit to create the main parts of the card.
Ribbon and enamel bling from stash and flowers from QVC.
I had to include two cats, so I popped them behind the greeting,  just poking their heads out!

Chorale Pop-Up

I think pop-up box cards are always fun to make, but I loved making this one even more than normal :)
It's a Chorale themed 70th birthday card for my friend's Mum.

I spent a lot of time looking for a suitable set of digi's for the choir but in the end gave up and made some of my own. Hand drawn, scanned in, coloured with the PC, printed out, cut out and then accented with white posca pen :)

I had in a "pop up box blank" so only had to matt and layer my musical score paper onto the sections and make the "bars" to support the singers. So it took some time to assemble but nothing too complicated!

Hoping she likes it! And the choir resemble her group a little bit :)

Using the adult colouring craze for cards!

I've already posted how I'm keen to make use of the "adult colouring" pictures for cards and other projects. This time I am using one of the postcards from "Pretty Animal Postcards" by Buster Books. (Designs by Felicity French, Cindy Wilde, Hannah Davies and Hannah Wood).

I lightly sketched a circle onto the design and just coloured, with polychromo pencils, inside the circle. I added a greeting, some bling, and foampadded it onto a card blank. This was for personal use, not for sale, I gave it to my Mother-in-law :)

Our pets in our gardens.

Just sharing a picture with you today. My Mum requested one of my cat drawings for Christmas featuring our pets! This is the final image - the background shows composite parts of both our gardens. On the left are my cats" George" and "Bertie". (Brothers and rescue cats) and on the right is Mum's cat "Tiggy". (Also rescued, abandoned in a box in the churchyard with her kittens.) The two dogs are "Holly" my labrador and "Figgy" Mum's rescue staffy. First time I have had to colour in "brindle"... took me a while to figure it out :)

New Much Love Collection

I've just uploaded onto Etsy and in the Facebook Group half of the new "Much Love" Collection! These four images are on sale and will be joined by the other half of the collection next week I hope :) They are all themed around Valentine's Day, Mothering Sunday, Aniversaries, etc.

 Puddles of Kitty Love

 

Geranium Love

 Purrfect Mum

 

Tail of Two Kitties

Elegant Sakura Maiden

New Blog Challenge today at The Crafty Addicts. I love this Moonflower image and have been itching to colour her in red and white.  She is called "Sakura Maiden". I'm very pleased Moonflower are sponsoring this challenge! As normal there is a theme of "Anything goes" but also "Elegance" if you fancy having a go and winning prizes.

It's lovely to make an oriental card, I have soooo much oriental themed craft stash but never a chance to use any of it! It's all lovely stuff but unfortunately in the heart of Shropshire, doesn't ever seem to sell. Never mind, chance to use it anyway! :D

Image coloured with copics and the backing papers all came from the oriental department of my craft item hoard! :D Added gem bling, stickles glitter and appliqué fan.

Hot Air Box Balloons :)

I've been really inspired by this style of box card on Pinterest recently so decided to have a go at one with hot air balloons. Worked out ok for a tester. Cloud die from Joy Crafts. Most of the papers from American Crafts, some from the "Discovery Park" collection, but all from the stash.