vintage cats

Hello everyone! Today we have a fabby challenge starting over at Crafts 4 Eternity this week, it is ... VINTAGE.

A short while ago, I was asked to create an album for a 50th Birthday, with a cat theme and this is what I came up with. This is quite photo heavy, so look away now if you don't want to see it through :)

The album is A4 sized.

Papers: Creative Imaginations ~ Narrative.

I embossed the edges of EVERYTHING with gold embossing powder ... it was a labour of love ...

Spellbinders ~ Fancy Frames Tags Two die was used to house the birthday sentiment.

The cats I made, by tracing a cat shaped card around my chosen card and then cutting them out.

I used black gems for their eyes and nose ...

... and I couldn't resist giving them little chokers to wear.

I added some Prima gems to them.

A Prima flower which I also embossed and changed the pearls in the centre.

The numbers and name were embossed too!

So, that was the front of the album.

Now for the back ...

... well I had to do the back of the cats, didn't I?

Hold on ... I'm not finished yet! 

Then I had to make a box to put it in :)

I kept the theme running (sorry wasn't able to get decent photos of this, as I was in a hurry to get it sent off).

So there you have it!

I am entering this in at:

•  lots of layers & focal point word ~ Frilly and Funkie
• make a set of two parts (I have an album and a box) ~ Fairy Tale Challenge
• birthday ~ Creative Card Crew  

Thank you for looking.

Keeley    

Bo Bunny Enchanted ~ Wedding Congrats

Hello there, I have set this week's challenge over at Cupcake Craft Challenges and that is, we want to see a doily, lace and twine on your project. All three! 

Once again, I've dug into my Bo Bunny ~ Enchanted papers. I absolutely love this collection, I always feel so inspired when I look at it.

Sorry about this awful photo. Hopefully the smaller ones will make up for it. 

 

Here is my doily. I've decorated a chipboard wedding dress from Maya Road.

Love this chunky Bo Bunny trinket. I've wrapped a key chain around it, which is linked to the dress.

The photo anchor opens up to reveal the other side of the dress and a space on the doily for a personal message.

Finally, here is my lace and twine. I used the Magnolia ~ So Wrapped Lovely> die. Can't believe it has taken me so long to buy this gorgeous die.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

• love and marriage ~ Crafty Calendar Challenge
• anything goes ~ Raise the Bar 
• doily heaven ~ Crafts and Me 
• metal (I have ball chain & metal on trinket) ~ Everybody Art 
• vintage/shabby chic ~ Anything Goes 

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

♥ swalk ♥

Hello ... today I have to share with you this little cutesy for this week's challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity, where we want you to feature bears on your project.

Well I'm not normally a teddy bear kind of person, nor a sticker person, but I came across these cute Tatty Teddy embossed stickers</u> from the Me To You collection at <u>Do Crafts and just had to have them.

Dies: Xcut ~ Hearts and Spellbinders ~ Grand Decorative Ovals One

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• hearts and flowers ~ Papertake Weekly and The Corrosive Challenge
• love &/or hearts ~ Crafty Creations 
• letter 'B': I have bears & bling ~ Deep Ocean Challenge 
• love is in the air ~ The Pink Elephant 

Thank you for looking.

Keeley  

special delivery

Hi! I hope you've had a great week. Mine has been fraught with computer mishaps and then crashes, on a brand new machine?! Hey ho! Live and learn and put it behind us. My crafty head however, is going full tilt! So go on, bring me a computer crash any day! I will, of course, learn to regret my words....

This week at Crafts 4 Eternity we have a Valentine/love theme. How easy is that at this time of year!

I lurvve a Valentine's theme, in fact I do the love theme all year long.

 

I've used Bo Bunny ~ Love Letters papers on this, combined with my Spellbinders ~ Grand Labels 23 and X Cuts Filigree Heart diecut.

Image: Some Odd Girl ~ Crushin' Gwen, isn't she cute? I added some Bo Bunny chipboard pieces to my project.

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• valentines or love ~ Totally Papercrafts
• love is in the air ~ Daring Card Makers 
• anything goes ~ Papertake Weekly 
• use your oldest bling ~ Shopping Our Stash 
• hearts ~ Everybody Art Challenge     

Thank you for looking.

Keeley    

♥ you.

Hello there and happy Monday! Today we have a yellow and grey colour scheme challenge at Cupcake Craft Challenges.

This is particularly large - A4 size. I love working with this size but find it impossible to take a decent picture of the whole thing. Plus I have a new camera and I haven't read the instruction manual. I need to though, desperately.

This project is full of tags. I layered the bottom of each with my <u>Martha Stewart ~ Doily

punch ...

... and decorated each one simply. 

 

I love these gorgeous papers and the colour combo: October Afternoon ~ Sidewalk and Farmhouse.

I got inky with my main tag, with distress inks and water, then I stamped Lili of the Valley ~ Ride with Me</u> image onto it, before embellishing.

Can you tell I'm trying to use up my buttons and brads? I have gazillions of the things!

♥ you.

 

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• love is all around ~  Sweet Stampin' 
• anything goes ~ One Stop Craft Challenge
• love & lace (I have used my doiley lace punch) ~ Deep Ocean Challenge
• something metal ~ Stampin' for the Weekend 

Thanks for looking.

keeley

Graphic 45 Place In Time - January

Oh happy days, today it is Friday, which means another challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity.

This week, we have a bingo challenge. Using the grid, enter something that fits the challenge horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Here is my piece, using: blue, circle, flowers.

 

I am using Graphic 45 ~ Place in Time: January papers here. I intend to create a piece each month, for the entire year, with these papers, so they are sat on my desk ready and waiting for inspiration!! Errrm, please try and hold me to that!!

My snowman has of course been made with a Tim Holtz die.

I've also added papers from Bo Bunny ~ Snow Day collection.

I must have had this Magnolia Doo Hickey ~ Flag die forever and not used it, but have done so here, to create this banner. I added some Prima pearls.

Everyone, have a really fabulous weekend, enjoying the last miserable one of January. Then we just have to get through equally miserable February, before we arrive at March and the world starts to feel alive again :) and I might actually be able to start taking some decent photos. Ho hum.

Happy days!

keeley   

the swimmers

Good morning! Here we are at Friday, at last! Today at Crafts 4 Eternity we have a moody blues colour challenge.

Here I have altered up a <u>Tattered Angels Travel Ledger Glimmer Glass album

. Trying saying that really quickly!

If anyone knows of these albums, the front cover is acetate and has a compass printed on it. Well, I cut out the inner circle and added papers to the outer circle.  

All papers used are by Magnolia.

Here is the inside of the front cover.

I have coloured up two images of Magnolia ~ Diving Tilda and put one on the outer cover and one on the inside front cover.

Here is the inside front cover.

Then finally, I decorated the back cover.

Thank you for looking.

keeley   

isabella

Good morning and a happy Monday morning to you! First day back at work today and as I write this on Sunday evening, I am not. looking. forward. to. it.

Oh well, I take comfort in the fact that time goes by so quickly, that it will soon be the holidays again :)

Today we have our first new challenge of 2013 at Cupcake Craft Challenges, which is monochromatic blue (but you can use different colours for skin and hair).

Again, I've used the papers from The Girl's Paperie ~ Vintage Whimsy collection. I've put them away now, I promise!

Image: Saturated Canary ~ Isabella, coloured with copics.

The doily on which she is sitting was cut with an Xcut Doily die. Gorgeous!

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• song inspiration (I have Seal - Kiss from a Rose) ~ Saturated Canary Challenge
• anything goes ~ Stampin' for the Weekend
• out with the old (I have used old papers) ~ The Corrosive Challenge 
• cute & girly ~ By the Cute & Girly

 

Thank you for looking.

keeley   

ride through life with me

Hello and a good morning to you all. Firstly, let me wish you all a Happy New Year! Unfortunately, mine hasn't got off to a flying start as I have been sick for the last 7 days and I'm getting a bit bored of it now! No doubt it will cleared by the time I have to go back to work on Monday!

Well, today at Crafts 4 Eternity we have a challenge of new technique, product or style. I have gone for new cutting dies and a punch and no I didn't get them for Christmas, I had to buy them myself! So a special treat for me:)

Apologies for the awful photos, I have never known it be so dark and all day long too!!

The image is by Crafty Secrets and I've used Spellbinders ~ Romantic Rectangles cutting dies.

You can also see the Martha Stewart ~ Doily Lace which is now my favourite punch.

Papers: The Girls' Paperie ~ Vintage Whimsy. Loving these!

I am entering this in at the following challenges:

• new stash ~ Tuesday Taggers

• new something ~ Simon Says 
• anything goes ~ Papertake Weekly   

Thank you for looking.

keeley