Kanban Xmas Card

Below is a Christmas Card used making a topper from KanBan - you could win a selection of toppers and embellishment sheets from FoilPlay.co.uk by following this link Blog Candy and following the instructions.

I added the holly border with Spellbinder dies to cut a border in gold mirri.

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Application Cards

I recently - unsuccessfully - applied for a high profile DT.  I was disappointed not to make the team as I really love their products, but, I was extremely pleased with what I made and the techniques I used to create the cards give I only had a day and half to make them.  I'll let you judge them tho

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Foil Play DT piece

This is a card I made for a colleague who was leaving to have a baby.  I started with the Saturated Canary stamp and coloured her in with promarkers.  I then used scalloped Ovals spellbinders to cut her and the matt of blue card.  I then glued the rim of the white card with quickie glue and added the gold foil in a distressed style to make the topper look a bit more aged.  I added some ribbon to co-ordinate to a matt of black card, a bling swirl and some flowers from stash.

The really spooky part - she was wearing a blue top and black skirt when she was presented with this and her gift!!!!!! do, do, do, do!!!

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Happy Birthday and as you're leaving

Two recent Birthday Cards I made for customers.

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Dragon's Dream TIO DT piece - Y and Transport

It's my turn to choose this time, and after an absence of a few challenges due to adverse effects of a medication I am all revved up for this one.

I started with a Kraft tag and embossed it with a Spellbinder Mbossabilities folder, used Treasure Gold to make it more road like and pick up the embossing, I then attached a 3D sticker embellishment of a Yellow Sports Car.

I'll be honest (if you won't tell anyone) I was convinced I had one that was a New York yellow cab, but a sports car is way cooler.

Entered into Craft Challenges - Use something from your stash

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Dragon's Dream TIO DT Piece - Rock n Roll

My turn for the recipe this time, I went with R and Music.  I have loved music all my life and will listen to anything.  My record (yes vinyl) and CD collections will lay testament to that.  I only object to that gangsta rubbish that calls itself dance music, you can't dance to it!

I started by going large, the full 12" remix version for me this time and got out the largest size tag I have which is from PaperArtsy and I'm sure Helen  could tell you the exact size and dimensions lol.

I embossed it with spellbinders embossability aptly titled music, and randomly blended in Distress ink in Picked Raspberry, Faded Jeans, Spun Sugar and shaded lilac, as I wanted that 50's bubblegum type look to it.  I used KanBan for the stamps, the music notes and piano keys, which I stamped in Versafine Onyx black.  I again went to KanBan as I had had these toppers representing images that epitomised Rock n Roll and the record.

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Dragon's Dream TIO DT Piece - Q and Gold

This time round is the super talented Julie-Ann choosing the theme, Julie-Ann is another of my twitter buddies as well as fellow DT member.

I wanted to go "Quirky" so promptly spent an hour going through various boxes of stamps, gave up as I had way too much choice and went and had a brew!

After said brew, I took the bull by the horns and went for - yes, you guessed it - the first stamp plate I looked at.  Clearly clothes shopping rules apply when one selects stamps too.

Stamp chosen - Emily from the Steampunk Sarah and Emily set from Doolally pap (gotta love a firm called that!!).  I stamped her in Black Versafine and coloured in with Distress markers,  I find these are better for me than alcohol pens, and goodness knows I've tried.

I then used Spellbinders Embossabilities birdies folder directly onto the tag, and then used frayed burlap DI followed by Treasure Gold Renaissance.  I then stamped over this in frayed burlap theh script from HP1006 from PaperArtsy.

I then cut some flourishes from my spellbinder dies in a really awful floral paper I got in a job lot, but cut down like this it's bearable (just).

I cut the word from gold(ish) pearlescent paper with a Tattered Lace alphabet die and mounted this onto a scrap of backing paper to make a label.

I then assembled the components and added a distresssed navy flower which I altered the silver glitter centre to Gold using glitter and Cosmic Shimmer Glue (I attempted a dome, but it sank).

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Dragon's Dream TIO DT Piece - C and Metal

Well this time it was my long term twitter buddy's turn to choose the theme and she went with C and metal.  I started by making a tag blank from white smooth card and covering it in a random blend of Butterscotch, Terracotta and Pebble alcohol Inks, I then cut Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets in Tim Holtz self adhesive foil and cut the Corner Flourishes, and Cogs Edger from Tim's Sizzix Range in his self adhesive metal card and used the same alcohol inks to rust these up.  I stamped the clock face from and word the Timeless set which combines G45 with Sizzix dies I aged these down with a touch of Vintage Photo Distress ink and added in the clockhands from Papermania Chronology range with a brad.

I would like to enter this fir the following challenges:

Crafting form the heart #9

Through the craft room door - anything goes

paperminutes - glittery brown

Inky Chicks - Monochromatic

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Jo Myhill Inspired

For this project, I will admit now that I used nothing at all on the list that Jo Myhill used on PaperArtsy blog on Thursday, mainly because I own not a single thing on the list (there may be one or two Fresco Finish paints that are the same, but that's all)

I got a 12X12 paper, no idea who's it is as I've had it so long, I then cut it down to 8X8 and I stencilled the Trpoical leaf design from imagination Crafts in Pumpkin Soup, I then watered down some Beach Hut and painted the main square and, the Scraps off the sides as these would make the flahhrs later.  I then coated a tag in Bora Bora, overwashed it with watered down Beach Hut, Pumpkin Soup and Limelight then stencilled the tropical leaf again in Pumpkin Soup.

I then set about cutting out the flowers and the leaves. For these I used Bitty Blossoms and Foliage Spellbinders and a Marianne die that is swirly roses.  Decided these weren't big enough on their own so I stamped various hearts from EDY01 in Teal Blue Stazon and cut these out to build the flowers.  While these were drying I stamped the sentiment from Chocolate Baroque Words of Wisdom series.  I then constructed the whole thing and added a ribbon to the tag.

I am also entering this into

Aloha Friday #18 Monochrome
Come and Get It Challenges - Flowers Galore

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Emergency Crafters DT Piece - Flowers (or as Nancy Watt would say Flahhhhhrs)

For this card I simply went with Vintage Lace Collection From Hunky Dory and added to it by using my Grand Scalloped Oval Spellbinders and a Darice Embossing folder call Regal Flourish on a co-ordinating card colour.

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Dragon's Dream TIO DT Piece - A and not a traditional tag shape

For this challenge set by Elizabeth I really had to think about what I was going to use as the base, so I trawled through my mega collection of dies and settled on this Spellbinder die, as it gives you the ends and a focal point.  I stamped the inkadinkadoo playing card inchies in red versafine, but prestamped so they were shadow stamped on the tag.  I stencilled the tumbled glass distress ink through the die, and finally stamped Alice from Oxford Impressions in Deep Lagoon Versafine.

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Cards Made for Mel

This first card was made using Forever Friends Decoupage, Spellbinder and Crafts Too dies for Mel to give her husband for Valentine's day, the brief was Mushy-ish.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Kitty Bee Designs - Use pink/red

A Creative Romance - Let's get sentimental

Brown Sugar Blog - Use a Die cut or a punch

The second card is using a combination of Spellbinders and Tonic dies.  It's for their wedding anniversary

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Little Claire's Designs - Monotone

Open Minded Craft - #4 Monochrome

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