Chic of the Week! And a Crafting Party!

WooHoo I got crowned Chic of the Week over at Just Us Girls for using the template to make the box for the card set last week! Whilst I absolutely love the card set, I am glad it is finished now!

This morning I am recovering from the night before! And not in the alcoholic sense! I was up late into the wee hours of the morning crafting with a lovely bunch of like-minded ladies!  Hope you girls aren't feeling as bad as me!  I think there were 10 of us in total, I had a lot of fun.  Only have one card to show though for my six hours work!! Shocking! Obviously spent far too much time chatting! 

Here are the some of the girls hard at work!

I had set some challenges and also printed some current challenges from the blogosphere.  One of my challenges that I set was to "Make a Scene" on a card.  I decided to do this one and combined it with the current EBTKS challenge of using fabric on a card.  I think this also qualifies for the spring theme over at Pals Paper Arts. That rainbow is made from fabric from a VERY bright pair of leggings I picked up a local thrift store! They are fab, I appliqued a black out blind for my daughter's room with them too!

Here are the cards some of the other girls made - don't think I got pictures of everyones, Bianca was still working on a very cute one for the ColourQ challenge. In fact I think three of these were for the ColourQ challenge.

Martine

Deb

Andrea

Heidi

Well thanks for looking today.  I'm off to recover! I think a 'nana nap' is beckoning for this afternoon!

I couldn't help myself - I made another one!

Ok, so now the six card set, is now a seven card set! I had printed two sets of the little birds that I used for the box and so made this card with some of them!

I used the sketch from The Sweetest Thing - Sunday Sketch. I just adapted it a little!

Thanks for looking, if you want to check out the set this goes with just scroll back through the posts. Have a great day.

And then there were 6!

So finally I have finished the card set I've been working on.  Here is the fourth card of the set (the first three are in pervious posts!).  This one was made using the current sketch from CPS.  I'm still using the cute birdie stamps from Pink Petticoat for all of these cards.

Here is the fifth card in the set. Made using the current sketch from The Sweet Stop.  I love how this one turned out.

And finally the sixth card in the set....now this one I have made several variations of in the past.  It is NOT my design, but for the life of me I can't remember where I copied the idea from! I hate not being able to give the designer credit - if it's yours please let me know so I can give credit where it is due.   It is such a cool idea to use a 1 inch circle punch to make up the tree.  My previous cards made using this design had green for the grass and blue for the sky, but I think it looks pretty cool with unconventional colours too!

Here is a close up of his legs! Because I wanted to raise him up on dimensionals I gave him embroidery floss legs!

Here is the full set, sorry for the poor quality picture!

I hope the recipient likes it when it finally arrives!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day. I 'd love to know what you think of the cards, let me know with a link to your blog - I'd love to come and take a look at your blog (I'm nosy like that!!)

Two more cards for the set

 Yesterday evening I managed to make two cards for the set I was talking about on yesterday's post, just three more to go! I followed two sketches for these cards the first is the Get Sketchy Sketch and the second is the Mojo Monday sketch.  I changed both cards into portrait versions.  Here is the Get Sketchy one.  I stuck pretty closely to the sketch after rotating it 90 degrees!

Here is the card made using the Mojo Monday Sketch.  To be honest when I saw the sketch this week I almost didn't play along as I wasn't so keen on it, but I'm glad I did now coz I really like how it turned out.  I am loving my corner rounder at the mo!

Well thanks for stopping by.  Hopefully I will have the other cards finished for tomorrow to share!

Card Set: in progress....

[Edited to add: Just finished the whole set of seven card you can see them here, here and here! or just click on the blog title and scroll through ;-) !]

Hi there! Hope you are having a fab week.  I have had less time for crafting this week, due to several contributing factors all conspiring against me! We had a public holiday on Monday, I've started work again (only two mornings a week!) and I have a house inspection looming!

However, I am in the process of making a card set, comprising of six cards each with a different birdie on from my Pink Petticoat set, all made with the same colour combo and will be presented in a matching box!

So today I will share the box and one of the cards.  I just love this colour combination together!  The card I have made using this weeks sketch from Clean & Simple.  I'm loving my new nestabilities!!  The box is made for the challenge at Just Us Girls.  They challenged us to make something using a template.  Their sponsor this week is the very talented Lauren Meader (love her blog!).  She now has an online store: My Time Made Easy, where she sells templates, stamps, digital stamps, cut file accents and digital paper.  For the challenge she offered up a freebie box template.   I downloaded this, but when I came to get started on the challenge I realised I wanted a bigger box for my cards. So I used Lauren's as the guide and based on that, made a template for a bigger one but the same design! Is that allowed?! I don't know, but I figured as I'm not planning to sell it and I was giving credit to Lauren it was probably OK...hope so.  Well anyway here they are:

I love that with digital stamps you can resize and flip them! My little row of birds down the bottom was tricky to colour in, but I love that there is one of each of the birds that are featured inside on the cards.  Here  is the card on it's own.  I stamped the little flowers with versamark and then heat embossed them with clear powder.

Here are a couple of pictures to show the depth of the box and that I have used velcro to fasten the lid.

As I do the rest of the cards I'll pop them in here for you to see, so make sure to check back if you are interested in what the final set will look like.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!