Geisha

I decided to pull out one of my older woodware geisha stamps for this card along side some stunning nit wits paper (Crabapple Lane) which i think are really stunning.  The front panel is actually a square tag and envelope.

Supplies:
Stamps – Woodware
Coloured with – Promarkers and Prisma Pencils
Papers – Nitwits
Tools used – Cuttlebug Die, Nestabilities, Martha Stewart Punches
Embellishments – Ribbon, Pearl, Paper Rose

I am entering this card for the Stamptacular Sunday Challange - Ribbon and Roses.

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

Traditional Bear Canvas

For this little decorated canvas I pulled one of my PSX oldest stamps out of his drawer.

Supplies:

Stamps – PSX Bear, Ticket Stamps, Grunge Corner

Coloured with – Promarkers and Prisma Pencils

Papers – K&Co

Tools used – Magnolia Flower Die, Tim Holtz Ticket Die

Embellishments – K&Co Glitter Letter, Buttons, Furry Strip (Finger knitted yarn)

I am entering this card for the Stampin' For the Weekend Challenge - Ready Teddy... Go...! (6/4)

Carolyne

Sari Tilda

Wasn't sure how this one was going to turn out, as orange is really not my colour at all, but i was honestly quite happy with the way it turned out. I even managed to use some papers that have been laying around my craft room for years! Supplies:

Stamps - Sari Tilda
Coloured with - Promarkers and Prisma pencils
Papers - DCWV & handmade glittered paper
Embellishments - Paper flowers, punched flowers, leaves & butterflies, pearl pins, Sentiment
Tools - Punches & Nestabilities

I am entering this card for the Flutter by Wenesday Challenge #197

Carolyne

Tilda Sitting on Books (Good Luck)

This card was for a friend's daughter when she went to university.

Supplies:

Stamps – Magnolia Tilda & Book Pile, Papermania Sentiment

Coloured with – Promarkers & Prisma pencils

Papers – DCWV Nana’s Nursery

Tools used – Nestabiities, Martha Stewart Punch

Embellishments – Ribbon, Pearls

I am entering this card for the Just Magnolia Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes (2/3)

Carolyne

Little Shepherd

This card was using the Sarah Kay little shepherd stamp, i really love the little pull along lamb.

Supplies:
Stamps - Sarah Kay image, Anita Greeting
Coloured with - Prisma pencils
Papers - K&Co
Embellishments - Lace, gingham ribbon, buttons
Tools - Nestabilites, Ash branch punch

I am entering this card for Craft Us Crazy Challenge - Christmas (11/1)

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

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

Christmas Stable

I only bought this stamp a couple of week before christmas and although i hadn't got round to using a lot of the images i had planner to, this one was so sweet i just had to ink it up.

Supplies:
Stamp - Nellie Snellen
Coloured with - Promarkers and Prisma Pencils
Papers - Craftwork Cards
Embellishments - Lace, Ribbon, Card Candy, Pearls, Rub-on greeting
Tools - Marianne Die

I am entering this card for the My Time To Craft Card - Winter Pals (3/1)

Caarolyne

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)

Gorguss Christmas

A gorguss christmas card.

Supplies:
Stamps: Gorguss girl and Lili of the Valley Greeting
Colouring medium: Promarkers, Prisma Pencils
Papers: From stash
Embellishments: Die cut pointsetias, ribbon, ribbon slider, lace, pearls
Tools: Martha Stewart punch, Dies

I am entering this card for:

Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge - #22 Christmas (6/1)

Bearly-Mine Challenge - #25 Untraditional Christmas (16/1)

Thanks
Carolyne

Tilda With Blueberries

This is the first time I have got round to using this Tilda With Blueberries image and on recently seeing how many flowers i had i decided to use a few more than usual.

The papers I used are magnolia and DCWV and I coloured the card with Prisma Pencils and inked the background with distress inks.

To embellish it I machine stitched round each of the layers and added flowers, lace, ribbon, pearls, punched butterflies, jewels and a pin & beads.


The inside of the card has been designed to mirror the layout on the front.




I am entering this card for the following challenges:

• A Spoonful of Sugar - Sketch
• Papertake Weekly - Triple-tastic
• Tuesday Throwdown - Lace
• Magnolia Stamplovers - Dies
• Totally Gorguss - Pearls & Lace

As I don't really have many outlets for selling my cards at the moment, I have decided to list this card for sale on Ebay.

Thanks for looking. Carolyne

The Surfer

I decided to try using the Edwin Surfer that came with one of the Magnolia Stamp Club sets. I coloured him in using prisma pencils and inked the background using ink dusters and distress inks. I used DCWV Dress it up (blue/green) and magnolia skull and crossbones papers.

I embellished the card using a DCWV stitched ribbon, a time holtz dies cut swirl which I embossed with black glitter embossing powder to add texture. three pewter brads and a Lili of the Valley sentiment.

I am entering this card for:

• The Paper Play Challenge - Stamp it Out (Fri)
• The Just Magnolia Challenge - Anything Goes & Ribbon

Carolyne

Leaving Present

I made this for a friend at work who was leaving to have a baby, I was at a bit of a loss as to what to buy her as she had bought virtually everything for herself. Although I'd left it until the last minute and only had one evening to come up with something I remembered seeing these little drawer easel cards last year and I decided to try to make one to hold a little gift (5 pairs of scratch mitts).

I made the drawer and box from mountboard and card, and printed off some Nitwits papers which I matted onto a contrasting card and stitched around the edges.

The main image (which was coloured with prisma pencils) and the sentiment were framed using nestabilities and a border for the panel on both the base and main card were punched using a Martha Stewart lace heart punch.


I embellished the card using pearls, flowers, punched leaves and made a handle for the drawers from an eyelet, a bead cap and a brad.

I am entering this card for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #96 "Whateva"

Carolyne

Tilda Witch

On sorting out some files on my computer i came across some images I didn't get round to uploading, so decided I'd try to do that over the next few days. Included was this Tilda image easel card which i coloured with prima pencils (I attempted it with promarkers first but wasn't happy with the result). The papers i used were from craftwork cards (dotty) and K&Co (purple) and the sentiment came from a sheet of dragon stamps I don't know the make but if I'm remembering correctly I ordered them from somewhere New Zealand.

I went a bit mad with punches and dies on this one, as well as my nestabilites i use a doily style dies, a martha stewart cobweb and gravestone border punches and an EK success dotty wave border punch.

I stitched the borders of the background papers and added a tag and pocket into the back of the card.
I finished the card with some paper flowers, punched leaves, black jewels and an organza bow.

I am entering this card for the Magnolia Stamp Lovers sentiment challenge.

Carolyne

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

Snow White Tilda

I'm finally getting round to uploading some of the cards I've made over the past few weeks.

Products used:

• Stamp - Magnolia Tilda Snow White, Castle Staircase & Signpost
• Papers - Nitwits So Berry Precious
• Coloured with - Prisma Pencils
• Embellishments - Foiled Happy Birthday

I am entering this card for the Just Magnolia 75 Challenge - Friday 1 October

Carolyne

Leaving To Have A Baby

A friend at work is leaving soon (temporarily) to have a baby so I was tasked with making the card for her. I know she loves anything with hearts on so thought this character would look sweet sat in the heart shaped nestability (I wanted the figure to face the opposite way to the stamp so had to reverse the image using my brayer - it took a few tried to get it right but was quite happy with it in the end)

Products used:

• Stamps - Main image - Whiff of Joy, Background script - Magnolia
• Papers - Nitwits downloads (With this Ring)
• Greeting - printed on laser printer and foiled
• Embellishments - Lace and Ribbon, Adhesive Gems
• Tools - Prisma Pencils
  

I am entering this card for the Whiff of Joy Challenge 86 (Wed 8 Sept **) - Layers

Carolyne