MerryMade Crafts etc ...

After this challenge I am not sure who or what was more distressed - me or the card. :-) I don't normally distress things and wasn't going to share this but my daughter came in and liked it. So thought I might as well show off my attempt. Practice, practice I think. The cuttlebug challenge this week was to add distress as part of the texture. I had already cut out this VW bug decoupage from a magazine and thought why not distress it. So I used SU Bashful Blue as the base card which I cuttlebug embossed with swiss dots. Then inked around the edges of everything with Staz-on Timber Brown and dragged it across the top. I then attached the background image with four brass eyelets. Next I layered up the car, the body image I used my swiss dots cuttlebug again. The front fenders and side mirrors I crumpled up and then opened them up and wipe them across the Timber Brown ink. Something else was needed so I went through my scraps and made up the flag which I used 'Cheers' rub-o...

I have had this card for a little while but never thought it was quite finished. So I have added the Gold For You stickers along the top and stamped flourishes (SU Priceless) in clear Versa Mark around the edge. The roses are stamped onto white gloss card in the brown ink. We then used white crayon to hightlight/outline certain areas of the roses. We then put brown ink onto a tissue and rubbed over the roses area. The crayon lines resisted the ink so therefore you end up with the nice highlights. Then we the area around the roses was rubbed with a blue ink to finish off the card topper.

Here I am with my next decoupage attempt. I took the colours for the card from the flowers. I used SU Pumpkin Pie for the base card, then cuttlebugged SU Ruby Red with Swiss Dots. I added the base image which is from a mag called 'Cardmaking in easy steps'. (This was issue one and after doing a quick search, sadly, I don't think there are anymore issues. ) I then cut out the swirl of flowers and added them as the second layer, cut out the centre flower and raised that with the 3D double sided foam. Added some Kaisercraft bling to the centre of the flowers. Along the bottom I used a strip of SU Garden Green which I pin pricked down the centre. The tag with the rub-on flower and bling from Kaisercraft are made from a bread tie......... I love recyling. :-)

I did find another card that I made at Ruth's Stamping Up Workshop . Belinda was the creator of this card design. I enjoyed making this one with all the layers and the pretty border but was disappointed on how the flower image stamped up. So it was put aside until yesterday. I recentely bought these gold butterflies from the Sticker Store and they are perfect to hide my little errors. :-) I stuck the butterfly stickers to marbled paper that I had created ages ago using shaving cream. I have found that the colours fit perfectly into the butterflies wings. I then stuck another butterfly sticker to the card and then glued the butterfly with the marble paper on top with the wings folded up. This way the butterfly looks like it is ready to take off.

Hello this wonderful Tuesday morning. Today is the start of the school year for my daughter and she is off to the High School. That's our baby. :-( Now for the card I have fun playing with yesterday. My Mum and I discovered this wonderful new UK magazine on the shelves late last year called 'Cardmaking in easy steps'. It was issue one and offered wonderful cards and lots of free papers, alas we have not another issue. I finally had time yesterday to cut out a couple of the decoupage sheets, so guess what my cards will look like in the next few days. I decided not to add the big centre circle and flowers to this background I have saved them for another day. So I added the three pink material flowers with KaiserCraft Bling in middle and layered the smaller flowers with 3D foam. The centre of the main daisy is a bling split pin. The paper background was then layered onto SU black and SU Almost Amythest.

I am back. I have been away these past few days with my little brother. We flew down to Brisbane to surprise by little sister on her 40th Birthday. A surprise she did get as my sister had not a clue that we would be there. :-) Today I thought I would share with you a card I created over at Craftmad with a stencil we were all sent and challenged to make a card. I used the flower stencil to emboss a piece of worded vellum. I then attached the vellum to a piece of pink board and the card with random cross stitches around the edge. Added a bling centre to the card.... done!

I have just finished this card and couldn't wait until Monday to share. So very quickly this is what I have done. I have used the challenge from over at Cuttlebug Challenges #15 we had a sketch to use. I also used the Colour Combination Challenge #202 from Splitcoast Stampers. I used SU Old Olive as the base card, edged with clear versa mark, stamped along the bottom with flourishes (SU Priceless) in clear versa mark. I attached a variety of circles, silver shim, SU Regal Rose, SU Bravo Burgandy, also used Kaiser Craft Rub-ons on some pieces of the shim. I used the cuttlebug embossing folders - Forest Branches, Stylized Flowers, and Swiss Dots. Added buttons and a bit of bling. The dream cirlce I ran through the cuttlebug with stylized flowers and then again on top of the folder to flatten it out. The pink flower is a retro flower paper punch. I wasn't entirely happy with the card before so I have cut the front off the card and adhered it to the front of a black card so now we ...