No Girls Allowed!

It's time for another Copic/Promarker challenge over at The Outlawz.  Our theme this week is Colouring Wood. For my project I've used a digi by one of our lovely Outlawz DTeamies, Amy Beaver. As soon as I saw this image I knew what I wanted to do with it :)  I've made a door hanger that would be perfect for a boy's room. I'm not sure if Amy is selling her digis yet but I'm sure if you paid her a visit and contacted her, she could arrange for you to get it :)

Here's the hanger:

The wooden door hanger is from Kaiser. I've painted it black on all the edges and the back, then papered the front with some retired Kaiser DP. I grunged the DP up a bit with some grey ink sponging and printed the wording on the computer.

Thanks for looking. Hope you'll come on over and play along with us this week.
Have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  X-Press It blending card
DP:  Kaiser (retired)
Stamp:  Treehouse by Amy Beaver
Colouring:  Copics, glitter pen (for the nails)
Other:  Kaiser wood door hanger, SU Going Grey Ink Pad, Foam dots, computer generated wording

Youth Fairy

It's Friday and time for another challenge over at The Outlawz Copic/Promarker group. This week's theme is Anything Goes...an easy one...so come along and join us. We'd love to see what you create :)

I saw this fairy at Mo's Digital Pencil a while back and loved her 'real woman' body lol...there are 3 of these fairies to choose from and they are all very cute! I wanted to make a birthday card for a friend with a good sense of humour and remember seeing a card on a blog somewhere with a male fairy and this wording:
"Many years ago the Youth Fairy flew into your bedroom and, waving her wand, said  "..... shall be forever young"  then inside the card it says...  "but you rolled over and squashed her and now look what happened!!"  I'm generally pretty good at noting where I find things I want to use, so that I can give credit to the creator, but this time I've been very remiss and not noted the blog address :(  If anyone knows who posted the original card, could you please let me know so I can post a link back to their card.

The frame around the gorgeous fairy is one of Penny Duncan's Shaplies files. Penny is the most amazingly generous lady...all her cut files are FREE to download from her blog HERE. So if you have an electronic cutter, go check out Penny's site...and leave her some love for all her generosity :)  I think some of the files are also available as PDF for those who don't own a cutter. Penny also has some free digital stamps to download...so hop on over there and say hello to her :)

Here's a close-up of the lovely lady :)  She reminds me of a sassy fairy godmother lol!!

Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  X-Press It blending card, SU River Rock & Purely Pomegranate
DP:  Basic Grey from the Lemonade paper pad
Stamp:  Fairy 3 from Mo's Digital Pencil
Colouring:  Copics, glitter pens
Other:  Sewing machine, superfine glitter, PDC Shaplies, KNK Maxx, American Crafts rhinestone brads, fairy charm (was an earring!) & jewelry spacer from stash, computer generated wording, SU Ticket Punch, foam dots

Easter Bunny Box

Well, I'm on a roll since getting back to crafting. The poor house still looks disgusting coz I haven't done the housework yet :(  Tomorrow maybe...today is work...YUK!

For the Pollycraft challenge this week I thought I'd make a treat box. The theme is Easter so I wanted something big enough to put small eggs in. This is what I came up with:

 

The cute little bunny is from Spring & Summer Things by Pollycraft. I've coloured him with Prismas...more practising lol  I'm really enjoying the pencils. They are very different to Copics of course, but that's what I like about them...a completely different effect :)  The box template and instructions can be found on Splitcoast under the resources tab. It's a really quick & easy box to make up. The Easter egg paper is digi from Digichick.

And open:

Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  Splendorgel 190 for image, SU Blue for mat
DP:  Digi paper from The Digichick Shop
Stamp:  Spring & Summer Things Bunny from Pollycraft
Colouring:  Prisma pencils & OMS, glitter pens
Other:  SU Crystal Effects, glaze pen, foam dots, SU Large Oval & Ticket punches

Flower Girl

I'm baaaack!! Sadly I missed last week's challenge at The Outlawz...I had to use a card from last year as I just couldn't get any free time to create a new project :(  We've had visitors, conference and more visitors over the last 2 weeks...not to mention still keeping up with the work stuff!!  I loved having the visitors and the conference was fun...but...I missed my creative time soooo much. I've been having withdrawals!! So it was very nice to sit and make something for this week's challenge...which is Grounding Your Image.

Here's what I came up with:

I've used Flower Girl from the Swings & Slides Set 2 available at Pollycraft. Isn't she sweet :)  I've given her a footpath , some grass and a sponged sky to ground her. The footpath was created by following a tutorial HERE by Amy R at Prairie Paper & Ink.

I also christened my new SU Ticket Punch...sent to me by a lovely Outlawz teamie friend, Maureen.  I've tried everywhere in Aus to buy one of these and they're just not available :(  I LOVE this punch...thanks sooo much Maureen...*waving* :)

AND....drum roll....I've PUT A FLOWER EMBELLIE ON MY CARD LOL!!  I'm not good with embellies...put them on and then usually take them off again!! Especially flowers...love them on everyone else's cards but struggle to use them on mine!

Here's a close up of the lovely little flower girl:

I hope you'll come and join us for this week's challenge...we'd love to see how you ground your images.
Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  X-Press It blending card, SU Always Artichoke
DP:  Tea at Elsie's from Kaiser
Stamps:  Flower Girl from Pollycraft's Swings & Slides Set 2, SU Teeny Tiny Sentiments (For You)
Colouring:  Copics, Glitter pens, SU Baja Breeze stamp pad
Other:  Copic Olive Multiliner, foam dots, flowers from stash

Just For You

Well...we've been to our conference, all the visitors are gone and I think I'm nearly up-to-date with the work stuff...YAY!  I'm sooooo tired that I can't really be bothered doing anything (meaning the housework, which badly needs done) so last night I sat and played with my poor neglected Prisma pencils. I've been wanting to practise colouring with them since I bought them and haven't seemed to find the time...or the confidence to have a go. Thanks to some awesome tutorials and advice from the lovely (not to mention very talented) Dorcas & Dana, I had a much better idea of how to start :)  Thanks so much girls for all your help and encouragement.

I coloured three images last night and decided to make this one into a card to enter into the POM challenge this week over at The Outlawz, which is "Get out of your comfort zone and use a new technique or product"  Well, I can tell you that using the Prismas to colour is well out of my comfort zone right now lol  Here's my card:

This is Teatime Teddy from Cuddly Buddly...isn't he cute :) The gorgeous DP is from the Eva 6" paper pad by Basic Gray. I really enjoyed using my pencils and will be alternating between them and my Copics from now on :)

Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  Splendorgel 190 for image, SU Bravo Burgundy, CM Heritage Pink
DP:  Eva from Basic Gray
Stamp:  Teatime Teddy from Cuddly Buddly
Colouring:  Prisma Pencils & OMS, glitter pens
Other:  KNK Maxx to cut circles, glaze pen, SU Crystal Effects, Kaiser rhinestones, superfine glitter, foam dots

Time for Beauty

Our challenge theme for the Copic/Promarker Challenge at The Outlawz this week is to Colour an Embellishment.  This one had me putting my thinking cap on for a while because, in case you hadn't noticed, I'm not very good in the embellie department lol. While I love them on everyone else's cards, I struggle to get them on mine and be happy with the end result...I think that's why I stick to fairly CAS layouts...or make 3D stuff!!

This is what I came up with:

 

I've coloured the Kaiser rhinestones on the mat with my Y26 Copic marker...the photo below shows them better :)  The beautiful image is from Gingerloft Designs. And woo hoo...I stitched on this card! My sewing machine is very happy :)

Here's the bling :)

Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:

CS:  Express It blending card, SU Choc Chip

DP:  Origins from Basic Gray (6" paper pad)

Stamp:  Beauty from Gingerloft Designs

Colouring:  Copics, glitter pens

Other:  Superfine glitter, glaze pen, metallic gel pen, Kaiser rhinestones, foam dots

Pot o' Pansies

It's time for our Copic/Promarker challenge over at The Outlawz. This week's theme is Colouring Flowers...hope to see you there :)

Here's my card:

I've used Pot of Pansies from Digi Doodles.  To do the colouring I downloaded a free pansy image from the internet and then proceeded to do my best to copy the colouring. I really wanted to put the image in this gorgeous new CB embossed frame that I recently bought....made the card quick & easy to put together...and it really makes the image pop :) Then I masked the centre oval and sprayed the embossing with shimmer mist. That's it. There's not even any glitter pens on this one lol...my fave accessories!

Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  X-Press It blending card, Dark Purple CS
Stamp:  Pot of Pansies from Digi Doodles
Colouring:  Copics
Other:  CB embossing folder, Pssst! Frost Shimmer Spritz

Thinking of You

WOO HOO...it's only Thursday and I'm getting my Pollycraft entry in!!!! It's not a last minute rush at the weekend :) The challenge this week is Swirls & Pearls. I've made a card to send to one of my cyber friends who recently lost her mum...such a sad thing to happen to this lovely young woman.

I used one of the beautiful Lillybean fairies from Pollycraft.  I haven't used one of these for a while and was having withdrawals lol...I use them a lot b/c they are so versatile as well as being beautiful :) The gorgeous DP is from the new Magic Happens paper pad from Kaiser. I love the little paper pads...they have a few specialty papers and 4 pages of borders & die cuts. This is one of the specialty papers...the swirls are glazed...very pretty IRL.

Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  X-Press It blending card, SU Whisper White & Perfect Plum
DP:  Magic Happens from Kaiser (6.5" paper pad)
Stamp:  Clover Dreams Lillybean from Pollycraft, Sentiment from SU
Colouring:  Copics, glitter pens
Other:  SU Crystal Effects, superfine glitter, Kaiser pearls, foam dots

Codi Stylin' Bag

Well, it's Sunday and I'm doing my Pollycraft entry again...*sigh*...one of these weeks I'm going to get this done before the weekend and shock myself!!  The challenge this week is Teen Cards. I haven't actually made a card but my project is teen themed, so I hope that's okay.

I'm into bag making at the moment...loved making the little totes from my last post so thought I'd keep the bag thing going while I'm in the mood :)  I love sewing bags and have made quite a few over the years but I'm not back into the sewing as yet so I'm getting my fix with paper lol.

I had a brainwave in the middle of the night, sometime during the week, and decided to have a go at a denim bag...perfect teen pressie...although it's not all holey and ragged, so it might not pass muster :)  In the past I've made bags from old jeans, so thought I'd give that idea a go in paper. I've had the denim DP for years...from my scrapbooking days...so set about creating this after working this morning. It's taken me all afternoon to create...I can see why I couldn't make a living out of papercrafting...reckon I'd be on about $2 hour lol!!!

I even SEWED the pieces with my poor, neglected sewing machine :)  Then I made a tag to hang from the handle using Codi Stylin' from Pollycraft.  The DP was a bit tricky as it was single sided so I had to do everything twice to 'line' it...would be much easier with d/s DP :) I really love how this turned out and will make another one one day, if I can find some more denim patterned paper.

Here's the back :)

Please excuse the difference in colours of the 2 photos...I had a terrible time trying to get this to photo true to colour and I don't know if either is exactly right...the bottom one (no pun intended...does look like a bottom doesn't it lol) is probably the closest.

The bag open from the side:

Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  X-Press It blending card
DP:  From my stash...have no idea where it came from :(
Stamp:  Codi Stylin' from Pollycraft
Colouring:  Copics, glitter pens
Other:  Sewing machine, SU Antique Brad, star & round eyelets, beading wire & wooden beads, ball chain, all from stash, SU Brocade Blue stamp pad for sponging edges

March 18th Challenge at The Outlawz

It's that time of the week again...our Copic/Promarker challenge over at The Outlawz this week is either an Easter OR Mother's Day theme.  I decided to do one of each...and something a bit different :)

First up is an Easter treat bag:

I've used the gorgeous little Leisel with her wheelbarrow from CC Designs and filled her wheelbarrow with Easter eggs.

My other project is a couple of cute little totes that could be used for Mother's Day:

I've had the template to make these for ages but hadn't got around to trying it out...I LOVE them!! I'll definitely be making more of these. And I'm going to stitch the next ones :) I used stamps from the retired SU hostess set called Time Well Spent...one of my fave SU sets :)

I hope you'll come and play along with us this week. Thanks for looking...have a wonderful day :)

Supplies:
CS:  X-Press It blending card, SU Passion Pink (retired)
DP:  Doodlebug (treat bag), Jack 'n' Jill from Prima and digi papers from Go Digital
Stamps:  Leisel with wheelbarrow from CC Designs, SU Time Well Spent (retired)
Colouring:  Copics, glitter pens
Templates:  Haute Tote from Creations by AR &  2,5,7,10 Treat Bag from Splitcoast Stampers
Other:  SU Crystal Effects, SU Circle & Scallop Border punches, fine glitter, brads & ribbon from stash, ball chain, foam dots