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Monday, 25 July 2011

CCM Challenge 51 - Butterflies

This week at Crafty Cardmakers the theme, chosen by Melly, is everyone's favourites - Butterflies!

I've chosen Tilda this week to assist with my butterflies! Both she and her dog have one and there are several fluttering in the meadow behind them! In case that wasn't enough, there are two die-cut butterflies crusted with stickles top left and a goldtone charm.

My lovely fabric-look papers were from C&C, believe it or not, one of their rare bargains.

You can't see much of the base paper, which is a shame because it's quite lovely, with fairies, butterflies and pink bindweed on a textured ground.

I coloured Tilda, her dog and the meadow in a mix of Copics, Marvy-le-Plume and Stickles!

Hugs.

Monday, 18 July 2011

CCM Spot 50 - ATC's

Team-mate Judie has chosen ATC's as the theme this week at Crafty CardMakers.

If you're not familiar with them, they are credit-card sized pieces of art made entirely to taste.
ATC-ers often make a run of them in a theme and usually, they are swapped with other ATC makers

I've made three as I wasn't entirely convinced any of them would suit! LOL!
The first two are, clearly, a Liverpool theme and the last one a kitty-themed one.
I haven't made ATC's for ages and I know the more I make in a batch, the better they get so Judie's probably catapulted me into an ATC-making frenzy! LOL!

I made absolutely loads of these a couple of years ago - some of them quite intricate - but I just don't have the space to store them or the swaps! With that in mind, the first to request them gets them! LOL! They're both part of themed series and signed.

I hope you like them but if you pop over to Crafty CardMakers, the rest of the team have created som lovely works and will show you how it's done!
Hugs
Ei
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Monday, 11 July 2011

Crafty CardMakers Challenge 50 - One Layer Cards

.......Phew....! Sounds simple and easy doesn't it? The more I do these demo cards following other peeps (thanks Gillyflower!) themes, the more I realize how much I stick to my comfort zone!

I have none no more than half a dozen single-layer cards in my life - I discovered 3D foam squares very early on and fell in love with the dimensional look!

For this one I dusted off one of my very precious D.Morgan stamps from, the
now-defunct, 'Stamps Happen' rubber stamp company.

The nature of the one layer card is that I couldn't use my normal Copics-friendly card as it's too light to stand unaided as a card and the uncoated stock card does notlike markers - they bleed all over the place - so I masked and airbrushed the background, sky and sea and used my Lyra pencils and Sansodor for the house and the green border.

It took me four goes to get this in any semblance of 'right'.....and it still isn't! LOL!

I will do this again, if only to master it! I don't like to be beaten by a 'genre'!

Please do join in with us over at Crafty Cardmakers this week - it's not only fun amongst friends but you could win a lovely £10.00 voucher from Joanna Sheen!

So, what more do you want? Get over there!
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Ei
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Monday, 27 June 2011

Crafty CardMakers #49 - Spots and Stripes

This week's theme from Crafty CardMakers is Spots & Stripes which was chosen by our Donna!

I would never normally combine spots & stripes per se as I usually have quite a fussy style to begin with but I may just try this again! I had a slight problem with my glue not setting - probably the heat - so I didn't quite do everything I wanted to do with this card.

Papers are DCWV and a doily, flowers a mix of Prima, Wild orchid and poundshop.

The image is my own Eiglas 'Un bon repas pour deux' (which can be found at my showroom, 'Eiglassing' ) coloured with my Copics.
The lovely 'crossover' card shape was featured on Top Tip Tuesday last week but I didn't get my mojo to work in time and so missed it. Fussy & Fancy's Diane has also made a crossover card this week - it's clearly an 'en-trende' technique!

My number three son, Rob has pinched my camera so I've had to use his Dad's 'orrible little 'point and click'. You can't half tell the difference! The digital artifacts are all over the place. Yukkk!

is our lovely sponsor this week and they're offering £10.00 to spend in their super shop!

Please do pop over to CCM - the girls have worked really hard on their demo cards this week and you will be inspired by the beautiful results!

Hugs

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Entered for:

Fussy & Fancy - Diane
KB Cute Monday - Flowers 3
Make It Monday - Anything Goes 29
Ooh La La - Summer Flowers 7

Monday, 2 May 2011

CCM Ch 45 - Steampunk/ Machines

It's my week to choose the theme over at Crafty CardMakers this week and I've chosen the twin themes of 'Steampunk' and 'Machines'.

My lovely teamies have really pulled out all the stops as they really hadn't a clue what Steampunk' was until they found out what my theme was! If you were to pop over to CCM and have a look at their projects you will be so impressed!

For my project I've made a birthday card for my Hubby Nic in a Steampunk style and with added machines!

It's a triptych card size-wise as it has two equal 21cm squ leaves and one, the right hand, 13cm x 21cm.

For the frontispiece, I've used my own Eiglas 'Vintage Machines' paper and on the right hand leaf and main centre inside my own Eiglas 'Cogs' paper (both will be on my new 'Vintage and Steampunk' Paper Crafting kit when it's finished)

I've also used Tim Holtz Sizzix dies 'Gadget Gears' , 'Tickets' and 'Bookplates'. I've used another Sizzix die in the top left hand corner.

The little 'closure' is just a jeans button, adhered with a brad and one of the small 'gears' adhered to a small chipboard circle and attached with an eyelet so it rotates. A small semi-circle was cut out to facilitate this.

The bookplate was attached with two small screws.
The tickets were distressed and stamped with TH Distress inks. A small bulldog-clip was attached to the tickets.

Hope you like it!

Our sponsor this week is 'One Stop Cards & Crafts' who are offering a £10.00 voucher to spend in their lovely store!

Look forward to seeing what you all come up with!
Hugs
Ei
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Challenges entered

Stamps R Us - For the Men
The Crazy Challenge - Cards For Men

Monday, 21 February 2011

Crafty CardMakers 40- Fairies and at least two punches.

Everyone loves fairies and I was spoiled for choice what to do for this demo but eventually decided on this one ....for the moment! I may well do others too, time allowing!

I love working with the team at CCM - they're a great bunch of madwomen who also happen to be very talented! You do need to pop over to our challenge blog to check out their demos - they're quite stunning!

I printed out the bp's and the elements plus a photo of my Ada when she was younger and decoupaged the project, adding bits of bling and using Martha Stewart punches for around the page, the corners and for the handmade flowers. I also added some glitz with my Copic Spicas.

So easy!

Our fab sponsor this week is JOANNA SHEEN who are offering a £10 voucher to the lucky winner!

How good is that?

Hope to see your wonderful entries this week!

I'm entering this project for the following challenges:-

Corrosive Challenge - Magical Creatures

Sparkles - Fairies

Resq Challenge - What makes you happy!

Hugs

Monday, 14 February 2011

Crafty CardMakers 39.5 - Spot on Plastic

For this week's super challenge at Crafty CardMakers, I've used shrink plastic...for the very first time! And despite having visions of ending up with a small globule of melted plastic on the end of my tweezers, it was actually quite easy and great fun!

I stamped Tilda onto the plastic, but coloured her on the 'wrong' side in quite strong colours.
This proved to be the hardest part as the plastic didn't seem to like any of my mediums - including my lovely Copics! - very much and the Lyra pencils ended up the best.

I then cut her out and heated her with the heat gun. Using my Tim Holtz Baroque Bigz die, I cut out the medallion behind Tilda and heated that.

Tilda was adhered to this with jewellery cement and a jump ring attached. I then inked the edge of the medallion with a Krylon 18ct Gold pen.

This whole was then attached by a piece of gold thread to the card and the little sequins added. Lastly an acetate dragonfly was adhered. The gold spots are just peel-off waste.

Once again, the dark got here before my project did! I'll try to replace it in the morning.

Hope you like this and I do urge you to pop over to CCM - my teamies are much cleverer with plastic than I!

Hugs
Ei
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