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

pink baby hAnglar & stAnglar

Just love the fact that I can now buy some hAnglar stamps, I've been wanting some of these for a very long time!

This week's recipe at Crafts 4 Eternity is:

The sketch

Nursery theme or image

Add a charm

I'm also entering this into the following challenges:

'X is for Xtra Dimension': ABC Challenge.

'Circles, Paint & Gems: If The Shoe Fits.

'Nice & Girly': Bunny Zoe Crafts.

Papers: Basic Grey ~ Green At Heart Just love the gorgeous colours in this set of BG papers.

Image and baby sentiment: hAnglar stAnglar ~ baby set. I coloured the image with copics and added some stickles to the white bits.

I stamped the sentiment onto the pink paper before embossing with UTEE and then placed a Tim Holtz ~ Ornate Plate over the top. The aperture was just the right size for the baby stamp. I dabbed some white paint randomly on the plate and it now looks like the raised parts are shiny. Pure fluke on my part!!

I've added a bit of lace on the right hand side and hand sewed on the buttons. (How comes I can happily do this on cards but don't want to resew buttons onto shirts??)

On the left I've used a Martha Stewart punch.

I created the hinge from my Sizzix Tim Holtz Hardware Findings die which I ran through my Big Shot Pro. Just LOVE my new machine! Added some crackle paints and gem brads.

Thank you for your visit.

Keeley

PS Looking forward to the 30 degree weekend!! Wooohooo!!!

happy father's day

It's time for another challenge over at Crafts 4 Eternity, where we have:

The Sketch

Plus: use a sport image/theme and add an arrow.

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

• 'dad's treat': Double Dutch.
• 'one for the boys': Cupcake Craft Challenge and Creative Inspirations.

Whenever I make a man's card I always want to distress it, but none of the men I make cards for like distressing!! They like nice smooth lines. I can never quite get me head round this! So that fact, together with the fact that it was a sport theme and I was under a bit of pressure last night to make a father's day card to send off today, managed to kill my mojo stone dead. So what follows is a very rushed card which to me I don't like for three reasons.

The three things I don't like are the UK flag paper, the white border strip and the fact that my little sticker letters didn't have a single apostrophe in the set and I am finding that the most hardest to live with! LOL!

The Lili of the Valley image is cute though.

And it was quick to make.

And I used up some of my scraps.

Thank you for looking.

keeley

precious memories

I was delighted to be asked by Robin to be guest designer this week at the Creative Belli Challenge Blog.

The Belli challenge encourages us to use our OLD and FORGOTTEN embellishments, of which I have one or two!

The theme this week is rub-ons so I had a rummage through my rub-on box and came up with some very old Fancy Pants rub-ons. I then went searching for the paper I had that matched, of which I found two sheets, but I guess that is all that is needed.

There are five rub-ons on my card. Can you spot where?

I used the sketch over at Lili of the Valley this week.

Papers: Fancy Pants ~ Aged Florals. I just love the gorgeous colours of these.

My first rub-on is the big orange one in the centre behind the image.

I rubbed it onto a piece of plain white card, then distressed and inked the edges. The rub-on is from the Fancy Pants ~ Chalked collection and just the perfect colour for this.

Image: Lili of the Valley ~ Little Girl's Swing Time, coloured with copics. I swapped some string for the ropes in the stamp.

The remaining four run-ons are from the Fancy Pants ~ Aged Florals collection. I rubbed two distressed looking flower rub-ons onto the two buttons holding up the swing.

The pink roses in the top left panel which you can just see in the photo above (top left) is another rub-on.

Finally, the fifth rub-on is the sentiment.

I used a Tim Holtz metal corner, rubbing in some red paint and wiping off the excess.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

pretty in pink

Today I am entering into the following challenges:

• 'floral delights': A Spoon Full of Sugar;
• 'all that blooms': Tuesday Taggers;
• 'lace &/or buttons': Allsorts Challenge;
• 'birds/wings': Lots To Do;
• 'paint, chipboard & lace': Let's Get Shabby;
• 'wings': Gingersnap Creations;
• 'something old, something new': By the Cute & Girly (I've used my old papers and new dies.)

This is the first time that I'm using my new Sizzix Tim Holtz dies and I chose my two most favourite ones to make this little book. If you click the photos you might be able to see a bit better.

Papers: Doodlebug. I've had these papers forever but I haven't used paper for ages as I tend to use cardstock most of the time, but these papers are just perfect for these little books.

I used the Sizzix Tim Holtz: On the Edge ~ Scallop die for the right hand edges. The dies are only 5.5 inches long and my book is 6.5 inches, but it was easy enough to extend the punched edges.

For the birdcage I used the Sizzix Tim Holtz: Bigz Die ~ Birdcage and cut it out of grungepaper. I then painted it with acrylic paint, let it dry, spritzed it with glimmer mist, let it dry and then added crackle accents.

I cut the bird out of chipboard and painted the main body with crackle paint. For the wing, I used acrylic paint which I then covered with crackle accents.

I attached a lock to a piece of lace at the bottom of the bird cage and you'll find the key nestling in the lace attached to the O-wire.

Well I made this yesterday and today so far have achieved absolutely nothing crafty except to shuffle bits of paper about.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley