our great escape

Hello ... another fabulous recipe over at Crafts 4 Eternity this week.

The sketch AND use a holiday theme.

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

'sea, water or boats': Tuesday Taggers.

'stitched': Wednesday Stamper.

'hobbies, entertainment, activity': Just Inspirational.

'a sentiment on your card': Just Magnolia.

'anything goes': Stampin For the Weekend.

Papers: Bo Bunny ~ Gypsy.

The chunky ric rac ribbon I had in my stash.

Image: Magnolia ~ Tilda on rope ladder coloured with copics.

Thank you for looking and I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Keeley

hello world

Oops, a bit late with my posting today for the Crafts 4 Eternity challenge. I came home from work and promptly fell asleep on the sofa!

The recipe this week, is the sketch, which I flipped to do a mirror image. 

Use pastel colours.

Make a hello card, gift or layout. 

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

'diecuts': If the Shoe Fits.

'turquoise': Wednesday Stamper.

'cute & girly': Creative Card Crew.

'lace': Cupcake Craft Challenges.

I really fancied using some kraft paper this week, so I teamed that with papers from the Graphic 45 ~ Baby 2 Bride collection.

I decorated a Maya Road pocket with the papers, a Prima flower  a bit of inking on the edges and this Leanne Ellis image A Little Hug, which I coloured with copics.

I created a pull out tag using my Tim Holtz On the Edge ~ Bracket Die and added a little circle and eyelet to match the pocket.

The *hello world* is made from letter stickers, I just inked the edges.

Then I added some of that lacey flower trim from Webster's Pages.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

happy haunting

As you may have guessed by the title ... I've come over all halloweeny for this week's challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity, which once again has a recipe consisting of:

The sketch.

Use the colours lemon and lime or the fruit.

Not too many halloweeny challenges around at the moment, but I did find one! So I am entering this into:

'Halloween': Theme Thursday.

'Open theme': Cute Card Thursday.

This is what I came up with.

Papers: Rusty Pickle ~ Thriller such a shame that this company is no more.

For the border, I picked out lots of halloween stamps that I had and just embossed different sections onto inchies that I had cut out with my Cricut. Some inchies I left blank, but I embossed the edges of all of them!

I just love this image by Elisabeth Belle. I bought her last year, but this is the first chance I've had to use her.

I coloured her with copics, one sunny afternoon out in the garden! (Don't see too much of that now even though it is August!).

I hope you have a lovely weekend everybody. It would be nice to see some sunshine :)

keeley

in the navy ... wedding

I was asked to make a wedding scrapbook in navy and ivory, easy enough I thought, until I went looking for navy paper that would be suitable for a wedding. After rummaging through my boxes of paper and searching endlessly on-line, I finally had an idea which resulted in this album.

For the base of the album I've used that gorgeously yummy white satin cardstock from the Bazzill ~ Wedding Collection. This one is imprinted with lots of tiny butterflies and I chose this as butterflies were part of the theme of the wedding.

For the navy circles I found ONE sheet of Little Yellow Bicycle paper, in my stash which was navy blue on one side ... hoorar! So I cut out lots of tiny circles with my Fiskars ~ Antique Elegance border punch and spritzed them with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist, which is my current favourite mist!

The 'A' & 'K' are the couple's initials and I used American craft ~ Thickers for these. They have a nice glittery sparkly effect in real life.

The image, of course is Lily of the Valley ~ Wedding Couple which I think has to be my favourite wedding image at the moment. I coloured it with copics and added lots of stickles.

I've added Tim Holtz film strip and metal corner, which I rubbed with some paint. Added some sheer blue ribbon which I twisted and threaded through some lace.

I used one packet of Prima pearl and crystal swirls which I cut to pieces and dotted them around. I even had a few crystals left over, so they go a long way.

The 'Our Wedding' title is a Teresa Collins stamp and is actually a darker blue that it looks here, as the light got caught by the shimmery paper it was stamped onto.

11 June 11 is the date that the couple are getting married. I made this bit out of a PaperArtsy ~ Postmark Filmstrip die. I cut it once in blue and once in butterfly white and then just stuck them together. Oh, you can see that the blue has been glimmer misted.

The navy blue fabric flowers, which I just happened to have in my stash ... phew! ... are by Bo Bunny and yes, I glimmer misted these too and added a pearl brad to the centre of each.

Uhmm I think that's it!

Here's another view.

Before I forget, I want to enter this into the following challenges:

'Bring on the Bling': Sir Stampalot.

'Celebrations': Challenge Up Your Life.

'Wedding': Just Us Girls.

'Feature text': Cute Card Thursday.

Please click on any photo to see it better close up, it's quite difficult to take pics when it is so large, so I have to take lots of little ones.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

pearl's a singer

WOW! Friday again! I really must get back to posting on other days of the week too!

Today's recipe challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity is:

The sketch

Include a bird(s)

Add pearls 

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

'dots': Simon Says.

'anything goes': Dutch Dare and Paper Play Challenges.

'stitching': Basic Grey Challenges.

'birds": Oh, Alice!.

'yellow, orange & red': Gingersnap Creations.

Papers: Basic Grey ~ Porcelain.

Image: Magnolia ~Karaoke Tilda coloured with copic markers and added stickles.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

50 Golden years

There is a new recipe challenge today over at Crafts 4 Eternity.

The sketch.

Use some marbled paper.

Make your own embellishment

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

'vintage': Just Magnolia.

'something flowery': Stamp Something Challenge.

'distressed, torn, ripped, broken': Raise the Bar. I have inked edged and distressed flowers.

'colour inspiration': The Play Date Cafe.

The card that I made is for my parents 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary. WOW!! What an achievement! That takes some doing.

Papers: Magnolia ~ Something Old, Something New. I inked all the edges with gold ink and machine stitched the papers.

Image: Magnolia ~ Loving Bridal Couple. I coloured the image with copics and added some stickles.

I made some flowers by cutting some linen with my PaperArtsy flower die, cut and layered the pieces, spritzed with glimmer mist and added a pearl brad to the centre.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

bingo babe

WOW! Can't quite believe that it is Friday already and time for another recipe challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity where you can WIN six summer bingo digi stamps this week and even download a FREE bingo card to use in your project!

The sketch.


Coffee and cream colours.

A bingo card.


I am also entering this into the following challenges:

• 'something digital': Stamp Something. Michele created a digi bingo card which we used on our creations this week.
  
• 'monochromatic': One Stop Craft Challenge.
• 'sun, beach, ocean': Cutie Sunday.

I used patterned papers from the Bo Bunny ~ Spice collection and printed the Bingo card onto the lighter one.

The printed vintage beach babe is cut from Graphic 45 ~ Under the Boardwalk papers. 

Image: Kraftin' Kimmie ~ Eleanor coloured with copics.

Thank you for looking.


Keeley

thank you for being my bridesmaid

It's time for another recipe challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity.

The sketch.

Thank you card or gift.

File tab.

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

'diecuts': Creative Card Crew.
'you & me': ABC Challenge.

Papers: Tim Holtz ~ Vintage Shabby.

I cut the top layer down one edge with my Tim Holtz ~ File Tab die and cut an aperture for the image with a Nestie.

Image: Magnolia ~ Bride & Bridemaid coloured with copics and added some stickles.

I used my new Magnolia ~ DooHickey dies to cut Tilda's Lace Border out of vellum paper which I distressed with gold. Love this die which is a cool 7 inches long, so no having to join bits together ....

.... and the Vintage Tag, also distressed with gold. The tag is a decent size too, 3.25 x 2 inches roughly. Love how this die also comes with a hole reinforcer die! I've been trying to find some hole reinforcers for ages, now I can just make my own! Love it! I cut the hole out of a scrap of metal ....

Thank you for looking.

keeley

wherever you go ...

It's finally Friday! I thought it would never come!! So nice to be sitting outside in the garden at 9.30 this evening eating our dinner, with the weekend stretching out before us. Time for another recipe challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity.

The sketch

Include stripes

Add some bunting

I am also entering this into some other challenges:

'in stitches': Papertake Weekly.

'sparkling': Stampavie & More.

'lots of flowers': The Corrosive Challenge.

'summer + added option - yellow': Crafty Calendar Challenge.

I've used Webster's Pages ~ Garden Gala papers, sentiment and ribbon.

The ribbon was bunting printed onto a red background, so I cut some of the background out so it looked more like bunting!

The sentiment says: Wherever you go, go with all your heart. (so true!)

I love these 6 x 6 papers, the story is already created for you, all that is needed is an image.

Image: Magnolia ~ Romantic Tilda with Parasol coloured with copics with added stickles.

 

Oh and in case you are wondering where my stripes are .... ermmmm .... they are in the socks!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and manage to get some sun on them bones!

Thank you for looking.

Keeley