Bah Humbug Challenge - Going Green

Morning Everyone,

Wow I have just got this card finished photographed and uploaded to the site in time. 

This card is for this weeks challenge on the Bah Humbug blog for the challenge "Going Green"

Here is what I did.

The card is an A4 Dark Green card blank, with a piece of backing paper I saved from a magazine, this is matted onto the green card and finished with a gold peel off (actually it is the left over section from a peel off) the topper is a Sugar Nellie stamp called Winter Wonderland, I have coloured it in using Pro Marker Pens. The image is matted onto green card stock the same colour as the base and again edged with the left over peel offs, I have then matted this onto cream card stock, which is recycled from a card that went wrong. The card is then finished with a bow, a sentiment I pinched from a Christmas card I received last year (don't worry it was originally a shop bought card) and the stars are what was left from the confetti I had on my Christmas table last year.

When I first found out it was recycling a little grown come from me, but as soon as I started looking in my box, loads of stuff come pouring out, so if I actually think about it the only thing that is brand new is the stamped image, and the bow. 

 The Card

The Topper

  

Items Used 

 Green Stock

Cream Card Stock

Backing Paper 

Gold Stars

Sentiment

Bow

Gold Peel Offs

Black Memento Ink

Pro Markers - Hair Sandstone, Coat, Bird and Berry's Ruby, Scarf and Umbrella Forest Green

Pants China Blue, Shoes Caramel. 

Challenges 

Bah Humbug 

Well That is is for me for this card

More coming soon

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Kelly xx

65th Birthday Card

Morning Everyone, 

I have had a great weekend, celebrating my father in law's 65th birthday. 

So the card I am showing you, is the card I made for him.

The card is a Bookatrix style card created using white and blue as the theme. 

The edges of the book pages are edged in silver peel offs, and the center of the book is finished with a blue ribbon and bow. 

The image is a Popcorn the bear celebrations stamp set, which has been stamped with Momento ink and coloured in using promarker pens. 

The wording "Happy 65th Birthday" has been created using the Cricut Expression machine and two cartridges. 

The card was presented in a box with the word DAD on it and finished with a bow and blue ribbon (the same as what was on the card.)

To finish the card I created a stand that the card could sit on. 

The Card 

The Side of the Card

The Image

The Box

  The Box and Card.

 

The Ingredients 

4X White A4 Card Stock (2x Card and 2x Box)

2x Blue A4 Card STOCK (1x Card and 1 Wording)

Blue Ribbon

Popcorn Bear Celebration stamp

Momento Ink Pad

Promarker Pens - Sandstone, Lime Green, Ivory, Burgundy, Pastel Blue, Cocoa

Silver Peel Offs 

Clear Glitter Pens 

Well that's it for today. I hope you like the card and any comments are greatly appreciated. 

Hugs

Kelly 

xxxx

New Owner

Well, No cards for me at the moment, but will be two later on in the week. 

Well now for the reason behind this post, I am now a new owner of a Cricut Expression Machine, I have the Create machine, and for about the last 6 months I have said I wanted an Expression, my hubby has gone to buy me one on more then one occasion but because of the price of it, I was put of, then I heard that Provo Craft are releasing the Expression 2 in the UK next month, now I was very tempted, but thought about it, and decided to wait for at least a year before I got the new model, reason behind this, is I have been on hundreds of American Blogs and noticed that the machine had a few minor technical faults, that needed updates to be done to it (it is all electronic and touch screen) so after many long talks with my husband (bless him) I decided to wait a little while let all the bugs off the expression 2 get sorted and then up grade in maybe a years time.

BUT I am over the moon, now I just need to wait for the postman to come and deliver it, hopefully tomorrow, but it best not come till I have been and got my car MOT done.

Well thanks for reading and like I said I will now go and get on with them cards for you which I will get up on here as soon as possible.

Hugs

Kelly x

Guest Designer Bah Humbug - Ruffles and Pleats

Morning Everyone, 

Well this is the last card I need to make for my guest designer post at Bah Humbug Challenge Blog.

I have really enjoyed my time as a guest designer and do not want it to end. 

This card that I have got for you this week is a card using pleats and ruffles, and my word I had a real hard time with this one. The end card is one of 10 half finished cards that just did not fit the bill and got abandoned half way through. 

The card I have made is a DL size card, with holly backing paper folded into pleats, fixed half way across the DL card and finished of with a gold border peel off over the top of the pleated edge. 

The image is a beautiful Sarah Kay rubber stamp called "winter wonderland" I stamped the image using momento ink pad, and coloured in using promarkers. To give the definition of vintage I edged around the stamp with Tim Holtz Distressed ink.  The topper was put onto red backing paper and then mounted half onto the pleated paper and cream card base. 

To highlight the snow on the topper I used a Sakura jelly roll white pen.

The flower I have created using 18" off ribbon and to create the ruffle of the flower, I have done a runner stitch down one edge of the ribbon, the cotton is then pulled to create a ruffle, I then manipulated the ribbon into a circle and sealed it with a pearl brad. 

The card is then finished off with a Christmas sentiment and three red gems. 

The Card

The Ribbon Flower

The Pleats

The Topper

The Ingredients 

• Cream Card Blank
• Holly Paper - Joanna Sheen Vintage Christmas 
• Black Momento ink pad
• Pro marker pens - Caramel, Blush, Ruby, Henna, Sandstone, China Blue, Forest Green.
• Sakura- Red Glitter gel pen, White Jelly roll pen 
• Red card stock
• Tim Holtz distress ink 
• Gold Peel off
• Red Ribbon
• Pearl Brad
• Red Gems
• Christmas Sentiment

Challenges

Bah Humbug Christmas Blog

Well that's the card for today.

Thank you for stopping and having a look

Hugs

Kelly x

Holiday Time

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick note to let you know why I have been so quiet, at this moment in time I am sat in the Lake District sunning myself whilst the temperature is raising all the time at the moment we are at 22 degrees....

So I am back at the weekend, and will rush back to the card making the second my birthday celebration is over.

So for now, thanks for popping past

Hugs
Kelly
xx

Guest Designer Bah Humbug - Challenge - Santa

Morning Everyone, 

Well I have using the new software for blogger and at the moment I am liking, I also have sorted out auto upload (i hope) so fingers crossed this works. 

So for this week's challenge it is all about Santa, now I can tell you I had a bit of trouble with this one (but not nearly as much as the one for next week, but you'll have to wait till next Friday to find out more about that) I normally do Santa as a character i.e. popcorn, messy, but this time I was thinking off doing more off a traditional one, now it might have just been me but crikey I couldn't get my head around it, so after throwing a paddy I went back to my trusted characters, and pulled out the Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit Christmas Collection, and found the Rat dressed as Santa trying to deliver the presents. So I went with this but changed the colour scheme to a colour I would not normally use for Christmas, but I think it works quiet well.

First off all I found the topper I wanted printed the topper out four times so that I could decoupage it up, then using the same CD printed of the two corresponding backing papers, I decided I wanted to make an easel card and went for a 6x6 square for a change (now just need to buy envelopes) One of the backing papers is a dark blue with presents on, I decided to work with the blue on the backing paper and this is how the card developed, I backed the blue backing paper onto white card, using a square of dark blue card I matted the white hat backing paper onto the blue card and mounted this onto the dark blue backing paper. I then mounted the decoupaged image onto white card, which was then mounted onto a chalked blue piece of card to give me 7 layers on the top (this will not be posted out, I think I would need a loan to post it with the postage prices today) For the easel part of the card I did exactly the same matting as the main image and mounted a Happy Christmas Banner greeting onto it. To finish off the card I put a dark blue satin bow on, three snowflakes that I promarkered, to get the colour to and three blue gems at the bottom of the topper section. On the topper itself I coloured in the presents with Sakura gel pens to give a bit of bling, The snow on the chimney, is created using "fake snow" that I got from a model train shop. The fluffy part of the coat, hat and trousers is created using a product called "fluffy stuff" however I didn't let it fully fluff up. 

So lets have a look at the card. 

The Card

The side view of the card

The Ingredients 

• White Card Base
• Blue Card
• Messy Rabbit Christmas Collection CD Rom by Joanna Sheen 
• Blue Ribbon
• Blue Gems
• Blue Pro marker (Royal Blue)
• Three Silver Snowflakes
• Happy Christmas Banner Greeting 
• Fluffy Stuff
• Fake Snow
• Sakura Glitter Pens

Challenges
Bah Humbug

Cupcake Crafting

That's all for this post. 

I hope you like and I would love any comments on the card good or bad. 

Thanks for popping along to have a look

Hugs

Kelly xx

Martini Girls Have Fun

Afternoon Everyone,

Here is a card I have made today for a couple of challenges. The card is made using an A4 card blank folded in half to create A5 size, in baby pink card. The card was then covered with a cream and pink backing paper, then an additional piece of complementary backing paper was added in creams and brown, to pull out the cream flower topper. This backing paper was mounted onto the same baby pink card as the card blank, on both off the backing paper and baby pink card all the corners have been rounded off. The topper has been cut using a cut from the nestabilities range, the pink is a deeper shade of pink then the backing paper, to "show" off the topper. The image is a digital image that I have had for about a year now, which has been printed using a laser printer (which is best as the ink doesn't bleed as bad as an ink jet) The topper was then cut using the a smaller nestabilitie, and then coloured in using promarker pens. I picked a pink to complement the colours off the card and backing sheets. I have handmade the six flowers that are on the card, and each flower has a small pearl in the centre, to create the finished look with the flowers I have used my Cricut Create machine and the Wild Cart Cartridge to cut the dark green leaves out and the pink swirls. To finish the card off I have put a small swirl onto the bottom off the card and attached a pink bow with pearls on to the swirl, added a few swipes off clear glitter pen to the glass to give the illusion that the glass is shiny, and to her lips to create the feel off lip gloss on. Then a sentiment topper saying "On your special day" was added, I went for a simple topper so that the card could be used for numerous occasions.

The Card

The Topper

The Embellishments
Flowers Top, Flowers Bottom, Bow


The Challenges
My Mums Craft Shop Challenge Blog - Challenge 1 - Anything Will Do
Ladybug Craft - Pam's Challenge - Celebration

The Ingredients

• Baby Pink Card Blank

• Cream and Pink backing papers
• Rose Pink Card
• Martini Girl Digital Stamp
• Cricut Create
• Wild Card Cartridge
  
• Bow
• Pearls
  
• Promarkers for the following; Hair Sandstone, Dress and Gloves Pink Carnation, Skin Blush, Shoes Black, Cocktail Sticks Henna, Olives Lime Green, Drink Pastel Yellow, Eye brows Sandstone, Lips Red.
• Clear Stardust Pen by Sukura
  

Well I hope you like this card and please feel free to leave any comments good or bad. A bit off constructive Criticism doesn't harm anyone

Hugs
Kelly xx