A Challenge!

This is a little late but here's my challenge! I know that we are all cardmakers but I love making non-card items! So the challenge is to make something that is not a card!

Here are some ideas!

A Bookmark



A Pencil Tin




A Card Holder

A Cardholder....

 

It's been a while since I posted last! Life has been hectic and crazy since Christmas. I made some cardholders as Christmas presents for grandparents. I got to try out the Cuttlebug for the first time - you can see it on a few of the cards!



Here are the individual cards that came with the cardholder!

Some Christmas Cards!

It has been a while since I posted anything - or made anything! It's the end of the term which means it's the craziest time of year for me! But I had my craft group a week ago and made a couple of Christmas cards. Sadly - I think these are the only Christmas cards I'll make! I wanted to make some quick and easy cards that I could make quite a few of. But time is running out so I think I will be buying my cards this year :) I embossed the image and the sentiment on the cards.



Here is another one:

 

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Kreativ Blogger Award!

I had a nice surprise this weekend! I was nominated by two great SCS friends for a blog award! Thank you Lisa and Melissa ! You made my day!



Here are the rules:
1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to their blogs
5. Leave a message for your nominees.

I'm nominating the following people: Melissa , Christyne , CraftyC , and Deb !

Some Blog Candy!

Bev has some wonderful Whiff of Joy Blog Candy on her blog until November 11th!

Angeldrummer has some great candy up for grabs until November 18th!

Michele is offering some fun stamps on her blog until November 15th!

Cathy is celebrating 10000 hits and is also offering some really great blog candy on her blog until November 16th!

To celebrate her 40th birthday Elaine is giving away some Promarkers. Her competition is open until November 15th!

Dutch Dare Card Challenge!

I should really be studying but this project has been sitting on my bookshelf unfinished since Thanksgiving (Canadian). And well...it's driving me crazy! I found this idea for decorating a coffee tin to hold prismacolour pencil crayons somewhere on someone's blog. I wish I could link to them but I have no idea where I saw it. I did a lot of embossing on it and I was happy to find out that I could still colour in the sunflowers with prismacolours/baby oil even though they were embossed. And I'm entering this into this week's Dutch Dare Card Challenge since the challenge is to make anything but a card. Here's the finished product:

 

One thing that I did add of my own for this was the dividers. I wanted to somehow keep some of the pencils separated so I cut a cereal box and made four sections for the inside of the can. The only downside to this project is once your pencils get to short they can get lost in the can. I'll probably add something to the bottom of the tin eventually so that the pencils will get a boost :) Here's a view from the top with the pencils:



And then without the pencils:

A Birthday and Friday Sketch Challenge!

It was my husband's grandfather's birthday today and I made him a card. I find making cards for guys really difficult and I have no 'guy' stamps! So I enlisted my husband's help for this card. He draws very well and I asked him to draw me a Lancaster plane from WWII. His grandfather was a mechanic during the war and this was one of the planes he worked on and he loves airplane models so I thought this card would be appropriate! It was drawn on watercolour paper and then I painted it using Distress Inks - painting the camouflage was interesting and I hope it looks realistic enough! The papers are all from K & Co and I'm not sure if you can tell but the bottom paper is a map of the world which I thought worked well!

 

Here's a close-up of the actual plane. Then again that might be a bad idea - all the imperfections are a lot more noticeable :)



I'm also going to submit this to the Friday Sketcher's Challenge - it's been a while since I've done a challenge!

Thanks for visiting and I do love hearing what you think about the cards!

And...before I go...here's a bookmark that went with the card. It's supposed to be a propeller for a plane - guys seem to get but I'm not sure about it!

Some cards!

I went to a stamping up meeting recently and had fun trying out some new stamps. I really like the daisy one. It's called "Upsy Daisy" and it was stamped with the Stampin Up ink. It was a lot of fun but I'm looking forward to getting back to some Sweet Ebony stamps. I'll be lucky to get anything done in the next few weeks since I'm studying for my last exam!

 

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A few more cards....

It's been a long time since my last post! I'm studying for a major exam again so I rarely have time to make any cards! These are some more cards I made at the weekend retreat a few weeks ago. These again are much more simple and will probably be given to some family members for Christmas as thank-you card gift set.



And this next card gets a lot of comments...some people are really disturbed that I coloured only one of the flowers! But I kind of like the look!



The next one is not quite finished - I'd like to add a sentiment. But someone (ahem...mom) wanted it posted to use as a model! I'm waiting for her to leave a comment one of these days :)



Thanks for visiting!

Blog Candy...

I forgot to post this morning that Camilla has some awesome blog candy to give away! Check out her blog and wonderful cards here ! Competition is open till October 11th!

Lim also has some awesome blog candy! She is giving away a border punch and some wonderful stamped images. Check out her competition and of course her beautiful cards here ! The competition is open till October 11th.

There's more blog candy out there on Renata's blog! She's celebrating by offering soem beautiful paper and stamps. Check out her great blog here ! Competition is open till October 8th.

One more...I really must get back to work! Gill has some great blog candy over on her site and is celebrating her birthday by giving away some great candy! Check out her blog and great cards here ! Competition is open till October 9th.

A Weekend of Cards...

This weekend I went away to a scrapbooking retreat. It was great - I got to sit all day with a wonderful bunch of ladies and make cards! Everyone was scrabooking and I was one of the lone cardmakers but it was a lot of fun. I'm not the fastest of cardmakers - I made a total of 12 cards. I got a lot of teasing for it but it really takes me a while to finish a card - I'm way too much of a perfectionist :)

So I'm making cards for Christmas for people who like "simple" cards. Minimal ribbon, flowers, brads...when I say simple...it's pretty simple. So this is not my typical style of cards but it was still a lot of fun! I do miss all my Sweet Ebony cards and can't wait to make a few this week!

So I'll show a few cards at a time. These three cards are all florals and I was inspired by harvest colours especially since one of the stamps was a sunflower.

 

I coloured this card with prisma colours and baby oil. You might remember a few weeks back I was annoyed that my prismacolours weren't working for me and that I was giving up on them. Well I brought them along this weekend and tried them with baby oil instead of the odourless mineral spirits. They were great and they blended wonderfully. So I actually ended up making the majority of my cards with them. And the sunflower if from Lizzie Anne Designs - it's from the singles range. I can't claim credit for this card design - I was inspired by Jeanne Streiff at Inky Paws . She makes really beautiful cards. Here's the card that inspired me!

Here's another two cards that I made. The first of these was made with Distress Inks and I layered the centre of the flower so it would pop a little. These stamps are all from Lizzie Anne Designs set called "Le Jardin".



This card was a lot of fun to make. It's coloured with prisma colours and baby oil. I had a hard time making the right sentiment but I really like the way it turned out.



Thanks for stopping by and looking at my cards! I really do appreciate all your wonderful comments! And thanks also for those who follow my blog - I love stopping in and seeing your new creations as well!
Heather

Candy is everywhere!

I really don't go looking for blog candy - it seems to find me and I can't resist it! So here are a couple I've found today:

Jeanette is celebrating 10 000 hits which is super impressive since she started her blog in June of this year! She's made a really cute wallet and is filling it with stamped images, some primas and a Magnolia stamp (Tilda at seaside). Jeanette is super talented - I just found her blog last week and I love seeing her new creations! Her blog candy is open until October 12th!

And... Donalda is also giving away some wonderful blog candy. A new Christmas Whiff of Joy stamp. She is also a very talented lady! Her blog candy is open until October 17th.

I am so bad at guessing games but Desire is offering some wonderful primas and brads! All you have to do is guess how many are in the picture - yikes! There's a lot! Her blog candy is open until October 30th.