Powder Puff Fairy

This was my first attempt at doinga double side step card, I hate to think how much card i wasted trying to get the folds rights, but i now have a template so hopefully i should be able to replicate this easily in future.

Supplies:
Stamps: Lili of the valley
Coloured with: Promarkers
Papers: GCD Studio
Embellishments: Ribbon
Tools: Magnolia Swirl Die, Nestabilites, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

I am entering this card for the:
Papertake Weekly Challenge - All Things Girlie

Carolyne

Everton Bear

This card was for a friend’s husband, she wanted something cute and football themes with his name on it. I made the Rosette from real ribbon this time but I think if I did it again I’d probably go with a paper rosette as it took me over an hour to get it looking right.

Supplies:

· Stamps – Lili of the Valley
· Coloured with – Promarkers and Prisma Pencils
· Papers – Personal Impressions
· Tools used – Cuttlebug folder, Quick Cut die
· Embellishments - Ribbon

I am entering this card for the Lili's Little Fairies Challenge - Time To Play (21/6)

Carolyne

Lilac Cupcakes

I made this card for a friend of a friend, and was asked to make it in lilac, its a bit plain for me but he didn't want anything too fussy.

Supplies:

· Stamps – Lili of the Valley

· Coloured with – Promarkers

· Papers – Unknown from stash

· Tools used – Nestabilities

· Embellishments – Ribbon, Jewels

I am entering this card for the Paper Sundaes Challenge - Anything Goes (16/4)

Carolyne

Lili of the Valley Fairy

This little drawer easel card was done using a Lili of the Valley Fairy stamp and some gorgeous Nitwits papers. I bordered everything with red and then went made with the stickles.

Supplies:

Stamps – Lili of the Valley

Coloured with – Promarkers and Prisma Pencils

Papers – Nitwits

Tools used – Nestabilities

Embellishments – Paper flowers, Buttons, Ribbon, Stickles

I am entering this card for the Stamptacular Sundays Challenge - #159 Freebie Week

Carolyne

Pink Fairy

I've had this gorgeous Lili of the Valley stamp since it was first release and for some reason have never got round to using it before.

Supplies:

· Stamps – Lili of the Valley

· Coloured with – Promarkers and Prisma Pencils

· Papers – Unknown from stash

· Tools used – Nestabilities, Cuttlebug Dies, Tonic Border Punch

· Embellishments – Ribbon, Gems, Paper flowers

I am entering this card for the Papertake Weekly Challenge - For the Girls

Carolyne

Girl and Puppy

I decided to do something in really subdued colours for a card for a friend who wasn't feeling too welland used one of the really sweet Lili of the Valley images.

Supplies:

· Stamps – Lili of the Valley

· Coloured with – Prisma pencils

· Papers – DCWV Linen closet

· Tools used – Nestabilities, leaf and butterfly punches

· Embellishments – Paper flowers, Pearls pins, Ribbon, Craftwork Cards sentiment

I am entering this card for the Crafty Catz Challenge - For a Special Lady

Carolyne

Sledging Bear

I think i must have had the camera on the wrong setting for this photograph as I've managed to get it both too dark and out of focus.

Supplies:
Stamps - Lili of the Valley Image and Sentiment
Coloured with - Promarkers and Prisma pencils
Papers - K&Co and Kanban
Embellishments - Card Candy, Stickles
Tools - Nestabilites, cuttlebug alphabet

I am entering this card for the I ♥ ProMarkers Challenge - Anything Goes (4/1)

Carolyne

Little Christmas Angel

This cards was for a friend to give to her grandparents, on the photographs the beige colours seem to have come out a bit duler than they look in real life.


Supplies:
Stamp - Lili of the Valley
Coloured with - Promarkers
Papers - Nitwits
Embellishments - Ribbon, brad & bead cap, stickles
Tools - Nestabilities, Tools, Marianne dies


I am entering this card for the Flutter By Wednesday Challenge #183 (4/1)


Carolyne

Santa and Holly

This was the first time I'd inked up this father christmas stamp and i was really happy with the way he turned out.

Supplies:
Stamps - Lili of the Valley image & sentiment
Coloured with - Promarkers and Prima pencils
Papers - Nitwits
Embelishments - Ribbon, pearls
Tools - Nestabilities

I am entering this card for the Paper Sundaes Challenge - Celebrate (closed)


Carolyne

Gabriel in Green

I decided to try this image using a very simple colour theme so this one is mainly green and white, with just a touch of a couple of other colours.

Supplies:
Stamps - Lili of the Valley Image and Sentiment
Coloured with - Prisma pencils
Papers - Bearly mine (spots) & papermania
Embellishments - Green pearls
Tools - Snowflake dies & EK Success porder punch

I am entering this card for the Incy Wincy Challenge - Winter Wonderland (closed)

Carolyne

Carol Singers

This card was done using one of the Lili of the Valley christmas stamps i bought last year. In real life the colours of the pointsetia are a lot more subtle but i couldn't get that to come over on any of the photograph.

Supplies:
Stamps - Lili of the Valley
Coloured with - Pro markers and prisma pencils
Papers - My minds eye
Embellishments - Seam binding, stickles, lace
Tools - Marianne dies

I am entering this card for the Creative Card Crew Challenge - Christmas Lights (3/1)

Carolyne

Angel Gabriel

This one was a commision and gave me an exsure to use one of the gorgeous Lili of the Valley nativity stamps.


Suuppies:
Stamps: Lily of the Valley Image and Sentiment.
Colouring medium: Prisma pencils
Papers: HOTP
Embellishments: Pearls
Tools: Nestabilites

I am entering this card for the Papertake Weekly Challenge - I'm Dreaming of a "Blue" Christmas (closed)

Sending Hugs

I forced myself to cut into the gorgeous DCWV Linen Closet stack for this card.
Once I'd picked the papers the soft colours made me reach for the lily of the valley stamp which I coloured with prisma pencils.

I inked the background with colour dusters and distress ink again and finished the card with some flowers and a craft work cards sentiment.

I am entering this card for the Lili of the Valley Thursday Challenge #81

Carolyne

LOTV Carol Singers

I have finally fround a few moments to update my blog, I have been so busy recently i have been guilty of neglecting it.

Products used:

• Stamps - LOTV Carol Singers, Greeting (unknown wood backed stamp)
• Papers - Daisy D's
• Embellishments - Pointsetia cut using die, Button, Ribbon. Bead cap & Brad
• Tools used - Spellbinders dies, border punch, promarkers & prismas pencils

This the was first time i tried out the colouring technique of adding shadow and shading to an image coloued with promarkers using prisma pencils, I was really surprised what a difference it makes but will be definatley be using it again.

I am entering this care for the Papertake weekly "3 of a kind" challenge".

Carolyne

Wedding Arch

For this card i took a bit of insiration from a card my mum made a couple of month ago. Her version was a wedding card rather than an anniversary one and used completely different papers and images but i loved the idea of the bower of flowers over the archway.


Products used:

• Stamp - Lili of theValley
• Papers - Nitwits Collection
• Embellishments - Paper flowers, Punched leaves, Dies cut Corners and Sign, Silver Chain, Adhesive Gems. Glimmer Mists
• Tools - Promarkers, Nestabilities, Ultimatepro Scoreboard

I am entering this cards for the Creative Card Crew Challenge - Cute & Girly (Tues 3rd Aug **)

Carolyne

Lazy Summer Days

Dragged this stamp out that I had to buy (quite awhile ago) and yet again haven't got around to using before.

Products used:

• Stamps - Lili of the Valley (Image and sentiment)
• Papers - K&Co
• Embellishments - Die cut corners and lebels, Gold tone brads, Card candy
• Tools - Nestabilities, Distress Inks, Prisma Pencils

Carolyne

Wedding Carriage

This card was made as a spring wedding card, i have reused an old layout I really liked from a challenge a couple of months ago.

Products used:

• Stamp: Lilly of the Valley
  Papers: DCVW Nana's Nursery (Boy)
  Embellishments: Card Candy, Ribbon
  Tools: Prisma Pencils, Clear Glitter, Nestabilities

I am entering this for the Stamptacular Sunday challenge #64 - I Do (Sun 6 June)

Carolyne

Gold and Cream Mothers Day Card

Someone i work with saw the card i made for my mum for Mother's day and asked me if i could make something similar for her to give to her mother.

She left the image up to me and the only clue i was given with which way to go was "her living room is soft yellow/cream and gold" so i started from there.

Products used:

• Papers - Papermania, matt gold foiled card and pearl card.
• Stamped Image - Lilli of the Vally.
• Letters - Cut using cuttlebug dies.
• Background mat embossed using cuttlebug paisley embossing folder.
• Paper Lace - Cut using Martha Stewart doily border punch.
• Embellishments - Pearls, ribbon, flowers and pearl pins from stash, leaf punched from card
• Greeting - Printed from computer and glossed with sakura pen.
• Tools used - Cuttlebug machine and dies, Oval Nestabilites, Leone M leaf punch, Distress inks (Antique Linen), Rototrim trimmer, Marvy Le Plume Pens and Martha Stewart Doily Punch.

I stamped the image and water coloured it using Marvy Le Plume pens, printed the greeting from the computer and traced the letters with a sakura glaze pen. The gold background layer was embossed using the paisley embossing folder. The edges of the image, greeting, mat for letters and papers were all edged with a the distress ink and the edge of the image and the mat for the "MUM" letters were stamped with a small flourish stamp they were then all edged with cream then gold mirror card ut with a scallop blade on the rototrim trimmer.

I cut two strips of co-ordinating gold and cream card and used the Martha Stewart Doily punch to create a paper lace effect and added cream and green ribbon and pearls.

I cut the MUM letters twice, once from mount board and once from gold card embossed with the paisley embossing folder and layered them together.

It was then assembled using ribbons, pearls, stamen and flowers from my stash and punched out leaves to embellish it.

I am entering this for these challenges:

• Our Little Craft Room (Challenge 5/2010) - Yellow, Green, Brown
• Lilli of the Valley (Challenge 48 - Thurs 4 Mar) - Easel
• C.R.A.F.T. (Challenge 40 - Thurs 4 Mar) - Flowers/Mother

Carolyne

Mothers Day Easel Card

I decided this year i was going to try not leave anything until the last minute and have managed to stick to my resolution and make my Mothers Day card a couple of weeks early.

This is the first easel card i have tried and i was quite happy with the result.



Products used:

• Papers - K&Co papers and blue and off white pearl cards
• Stamped Image - Lilli of the Vally.
• Letters - Cut using cuttlebug dies.
• Paper Lace - Cut using Martha Stewart doily border punch.
• Embellishments - Pearls, ribbon, flowers from stash, leaf punched from card
• Greeting - Printed from computer.
• Tools used - Cuttlebug machine and dies, Oval Nestabilites, Leone M leaf punch, Distress inks (Old paper, Antique Linen and Walnut stain), Marvy Le Plume Pens, Glossy Accents, Martha Stewart Doily Punch and glitter.

I stamped the image and water coloured it using Marvy Le Plume pens, printed the greeting from the computer. The edges of the image, greeting, mat and papers were all edged with a combination of distress ink and the edge of the image and the mat for the "MUM" letters were stamped with a small flourish stamp and matted everything onto blue pearl card.

I cut two strips of co-ordinating paper and using the Martha Stewart Doily punch to create a paper lace effect and edged them with distress inks.



I covered a piece of mountboard with the K&Co paper, cut letter from it using a cuttlebug dies, edged with distress inks and coated with glossy accents and crystal glitter.

I then assembled the card using ribbons, pearls, stamen and flowers from my stash and punched out leaves to embellish it.

As another first have decided to enter this for a few of the challenges that inspired me in various ways.

• Crafty Catz - Fancy edge and a ribbon
• A Spoonful of Sugar - Distress Inks, Pearls and Glitter
• Secret Crafter and Paperplay Challenges - Mothers Day
• Hanna & Friends - Blue/Brown

Hopefully none of these challenges mind me combining challenges, but if so please e-mail me.

Carolyne