Carrots.

Quick post to share a commissioned card for someone who enjoys growing their veg! I used a lot of vintage images & illustrations that were free online to make this. I made a collage of them for the back image, adding some drop shadows for interest :)

Yep, same fold again, for another Man's Card, but it lends itself well to doing a card with PC generated graphics. :) Also matted and layered onto orange and then green card, with added gold bling.

Pottery Painting Day.

Last year we had a really fun trip to The Melting Pot in Bewdley where you can paint pieces of bisque pottery and have them fired. I gave my family a voucher to go again this year and  last week we went for a jolly morning glazing! :) (I've just used my instagram pics, might take some better ones sometime soon, sorry for the poor quality.)

My brother did a cannister to match his 1930's tea set.

Mum did a green and pink flowery jug.

I did two side plates (or milk saucers) with a white cat on.

It was a really great day, would very much recommend it if you enjoy doing something crafty but different from your normal hobbies.

Tiny Totoro Terrariums

 

 What people don't tell you about making terrariums is how hard it is to get a good photo of them!  :) This has been an ongoing project for a couple of weeks, of a couple of years if you count how long I have had the jars in which to make them!

I order the figures from ebay but when they came they needed a bit of retouching with acrylics.

Recipe:

The jars were from the charity shop.
The twine was left over from the last wedding invites I made.
The charm is from ye olde bead stash.
I purchased fresh cork pieces for the base and used grass intended for Minature Warcraft set ups, easily available on ebay too.
For some of the them I used bark/twig my friend Helen kindly donated me from her garden.
I added a felt base to them afterwards too.

On the bottom of the cork lid there are glow in the dark stars which add a bit of night time interest. As yet I have not found anything glowy enough to actually light them up properly at night. I shall keep up the hunt!

I have two bigger jars to have a go at next! :)

Diesel Trains.

Another commission card, this time for someone interested in just diesel trains (not steam!!). I used the internet to search for these images, reduced them and recoloured them before creating a photo montage in Paint Shop Pro and printing them out for the card.

This card is mainly just matting and layering but I always think this fold makes this shape card more interesting. It also features in the background the recipients local station, I am hoping he spots it.
(And also also, features a train at my local station, but I don't expect him to know that, lol)

After my own heart...

Commissioned Coffee Lover Birthday Card! Not hard to do for me, I understand the love of coffee, lol.

Combo'd a few ideas from Instagram to make this (From Xmyhartworkshop and Kim Becker)  and two new diesets -
Hunkydory Coffee Time FTLS140
And Lawn Fawn Love You A Latte.

The image is coloured using copics and the sentiment is printed onto yellow vellum.

Ad hoc surprise challenge!

For a bit of fun and some awesome prizes we are running an ad hoc challenge on The Crafty Addict's Facebook this month. It's an "Anything Goes" challenge and the Design Team will vote for winners at the end of the month. Dr. Digi's House of Stamps  are sponsoring it for us, so you can win two free stamps too!

I have used Peg Leg Pete from Dr. Digi's to make this 50th birthday card for a friend! I love this image, it looks a little bit like my friend too, but I might not say that outloud, lol!

As normal, it's polychromo pencils on kendall buff card. The little skull and cross bones is from a very old pirate kit I have been hoarding. The font is Le Grand.

Close up of Pete and his parrot.

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Challenge 34

Back again with another Crafty Addicts Challenge Blog post and this time it's for Challenge 34 - ATG/CAS (Anything Goes/Clean and Simple).

We are very lucky to have Polkadoodles sponsoring this month and offering a prize of £6.75, which equates to 3 digistamps from their shop.

I have chosen for my inspiraition card  "Winnie Wonderland - I'm late" featuring a very hurried white rabbit!

I have, as normal, used polychromo pencils on kraft card. I added some sequin bling from the stash and the sentiment is in the font called "Angelina".

Here he is a bit closer - 

We are also running a challenge in our facebook group this month, with a great prize from Dr.Digi's House of Stamps. Pop by The Crafty Addicts on facebook for a look at the DT inspiration and details on how to take part. I'll do a second post today with more deets too.

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Pix's Favorites.

Helen very kindly stamped me some of her new Mama Elephant set, Pix's Favorites. They were great fun to use and colour, I went with copics and tried a new colouring style, but I find it hard not to keep adding shadow! :)

I also tried a few new background techniques with the distress inks. I used water directly onto a blended background but moved the water to resemble clouds. The middle one is just a blend over a Memory Box Birch Trees stencil, and in the third one I filled in the background, then used the stencil and removed ink rather than added it. Makes a kind of spooky background I like! :)

So this is the watercolour cloud background, the grass is Grass Border by Lawn Fawn.

This is using a stencil in a more traditional way, tho oddly I don't think I have ever used a stencil like this before, normally I use it for paste and sprays.

Final spooky background. The sentiments on all the cards are from Hero Arts and are called "Messages with flourish". (CL738)

Love these stamps, they are so cute! :) Nice to have the chance to make some cards just for fun, and not for an order, don't get the chance much these days :)

We will miss him too.

Unfortunately my friend lost her dog this week, so I made her a little sympathy card. He was a really funny, loving, beautiful dog and I will definitely be missing him too.

Dachshund is coloured in Copics, E08, E31, E33. He and the Sentiment are from the "We Love Dogs" set by Apple Blossom (STOB0012). Paw prints are from the set called "Foot Marks" by Muji. Mounted on 3D foam and attached to a 7x5 inch card blank.

And the winners are....

Finally the results are in, and I am very happy to report that we have six winners!

Helen's Winner - Bunny Roo Digistamp - Jen - http://jencraftsa.blogspot.co.uk/

KT Fit Kitty's Winner - Cupcake Kitty - Tink - http://tinktime-tink.blogspot.co.uk/

Christine's Winner - Surprise Kitty Cake - Birdie - http://alittlemorecanthurt.blogspot.co.uk/

Laine's Winner - Kleokatra - Hetty - http://craftchaos.blogspot.co.uk/

Marion's Winner - Basket Case Kitties - Gail - http://hutcho53.blogspot.co.uk/

Annabel's Blog Winner - Kittiski - Carole - http://cjcrafty.blogspot.co.uk

The Knitty Kitty Digi Instagram Winner - Olga  - http://creatingwitholga.blogspot.co.uk/

Just incase I have not been in contact with you on facebook, please feel free to email me at

eekbob1@hotmail.com

to claim your prize.

Thanks for taking part everyone! We had great fun with it, hope you did too! x