Paul's next project

It's our friend Paul's birthday tomorrow.  When I was discussing making a card for Paul with my hubby I showed him some vintage digital images I'd bought of a motorbike and plane.  But - we decided seen as he's always doing cars up maybe I should find a vintage car instead.  While searching I found this image (DigitalThings Steampunk Vintage Bicycle) which made my hubby laugh and we decided it could be Paul's next project.

The image is mounted on some black card stock and distressed. Other papers used are Lili of the Valley/Raspberry Road Designs Father Knows Best and Prima Marketing Engraver.  There papers have also been distressed.

I've made a stamped caption saying "Paul's next project" using a Dovecraft Alphabet Stamp Set and distress ink.

The final embellishments are some Tim Holtz Idea-Ology mini gears and some self adhesive gems.

Hope he likes the card I made him

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the Cardz for Guyz challenge - Vintage

Butterfly thanks

The current Butterfly challenge inspired me to make this card.  I love butterflies and when I first started to make card sI had a real thing about butterflies and I went though a patch of making only card with butterflies on :)

The image I've used is Ching-Chou Kuik's Blue Illusion.  I've chosen to colour it in my favour colour combination blue and purple with ProMarkers.  the image is mounted onto black card stock to make it look framed.  Here's a closer look at the image.

The papers I've used are from Lili of the Valley/NitWit's Solids - Promises.  I've distressed the papers to give it a shabby chic look and added some blue and purple self adhesive gems to co-ordinate with the papers.  

The sentiment was also colour co-ordinated and is from a Lili of the Valley Art Pad.  I chose this particular sentiment because of the butterflies on it and also because it was a thank you sentiment.

The final touches for the card are from Live & Love Craft's.  I've only just recently discovered them so you may find me using plenty more embellishments from them.  I wanted to try and get an extension of the image onto the card - hopefully I've succeeded.  I used some Prima Shabby Chic Butterflies and some Kort & Godt Hortensias in pink (these most closely matched the image).

Happy crafting :)

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Butterfly Challenge - Thank you with Butterflies

Sweet Stampin - New

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes

Glitter n roses

I love these beautiful images from Aurora Wings - the one I've used for this card is Gardenia.  This was a new digital image I treated myself to for Christmas :)  I chose to colour her in strong reds with dark blond hair, to do this I used Pro-Markers.  Here's a close up image below.

Instead of doing the pearls matt I wanted to make them shine like jewels so I painted on some glue then sprinkled with DecoArt glitter.

I've kept the card fairly simple with papers and only used red, black and white card stock.  the Spellbinders dies are cut our of the same red card stock.  There's some glitter sprinkled onto the lower half of the card as though the glitter is cascading like fairy dust off the jewels.

The flowers and leaves I've used are from Wild Orchid Crafts and The Ribbon Girl.  Here's a close up on one of the flower sections from the card.  I've added some glitter to the flowers with a DecoArt writer.

The final embellishment are some black self adhesive gems.

I love the impact the red in this card makes.

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Aurora Wings - All That Gitters

Graph It Colour Crazy Challenge - Shiny & New

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes

New baby girl

The start of a new year and the start of my attempt to re-stock my baby cards.  This first one for a new baby girl is using Lili of the Valley All Our Dreams.  The image was cut out using a Spellbinders die and edged with pink ProMarker.

I've also coloured the image with ProMarkers, here's a close up.  

Papers used are Lili of the Valley/ Raspberry Road Designs Mr & Mrs and Lili of the Valley/Nit Wits Always and Forever. 

The lace is from Hobby Craft.  Organza rose trim and pearl trim is from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley Art Pad - Sentiments and has been coloured with pink ProMarker.

The selection of flowers I've used are all from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The final touch is a heart banner die from La La Land Crafts.

Hope you love the card

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin - New

A Gem of a Challenge - Something New

Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Dies & Punches

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes

Vintage Wedding

The wedding season will be here before we know it!  More details on how I've created this card in Through the Craft Room Door's Magazine Jan - Feb 2015 Edition

Andrea x

GDT - Paradise of Stamps

When I won the challenge at Paradise of Stamps a few weeks ago the prize was to be Guest Designer for them.  The challenge for my GDT spot was to make a New Year card.  I had to really think about this for a while because the ideas just didn't come to me straight away.  This is where my journey to work becomes beneficial I seem to have a lot of inspiration whilst travelling up and down the motorway - I think it's a boredom releasing mechanism :)

I decided to do a celebration card with fire works.  The image I chose to use is Stamping Bella Victoria and Juliette's Night Out.   They're coloured with ProMarkers then fussy cut to mount onto the card.

As Paradise of Stamps is owned by Laurigami who is French, I wanted to do something appropriate to her blog and found, would you believe the Eiffel Tower on Make It Crafty!  I coloured the parts in between all the frame work in black and added a touch of colour to match the fireworks.  This image is also fussy cut to mount on the card.

Papers I've used a black card stock, and because I didn't want it to be just plain black I've also used some blue and purple papers from Lili of the Valley/NitWits Solids - Promises.

I created the fire works with a combination of purple and blue self adhesive gems and a white gel pen.  I also created a reflection in some water below the Eiffel Tower and some ripples on the water with a white gel pen and pencil to create some interest.

The final touch are some pink number adhesive stickers from Hobby Craft for the 2015.

Happy New Year everyone! Hope this year is a good one for you all :)

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Creative Inspirations - Christmas/New Year

Just Inspirational - New Year

Kraftin Kimmie - Wonderful Wednesday Anything Goes

A is for Anything Goes

There's a new challenge over at The ABC Challenge - A is for Anything Goes sponsored by All Dressed Up. I'm honoured that I've been asked to join the very talented team of ladies as a Design Team member.

When I found out what the challenge was I was going to use Little Skater, but I couldn't wait that long to blog her as I wanted to give her away to someone.  So I decided to use one of the images our sponsor kindly let us use.  I chose this adorable image I Love My Puppy.

I wanted the card to look very girly.  Being a pink fan :) I decided to colour the image - yes you've seen it PINK and used ProMarkers to do this.  I've also used a white gel pen for the centre of the flowers and to highlight her dress. And here's a close up......

She was cut out with a Spellbinders die.  The papers used are from Lili of the Valley/NitWits Country Meadow, Lili of the Valley/Raspberry Road Designs Mr & Mrs and First Edition Rose Garden.  The lace is from The Ribbon Girl.  The organza rose trim, pearl trim and all the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I've also done you a close up of them.

The final touches to the card are a sentiment from a Lili of the Valley art pad coloured with pink ProMarker and some self adhesive gems.

Hope the ladies at ABC like my first design card for them!

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Sparkles - 4th Anniversary Anything Goes

All Dressed Up - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes

Avenue 613 - Anything Goes

Design Team Showcase