For a special man

Good morning, time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin', and this week the theme is 'Father's Day or special man'. I chose to make a card for my husband as it's his birthday next week. I wanted a Great Dane image as he is besotted by our lovely Mathilda....the feeling is mutual, she is equally besotted with him! There are not a lot of images around but I finally found one I really liked by Just Inklined available here. The only problem was that the drawing had Harlequin markings and Mathilda is a Blue so I printed it in fadeout so that I could colour over the markings, I definitely need more practice with my shading but I'm not too unhappy with the result, although, as you can see from the photo below the real Mathilda is far more gorgeous! The gift bag is paperpieced  with a tiny LOTV tag added. The laser cut wooden heart is from Hobbycutz and is triple embossed with a dark red embossing powder.

 

 

 

Thanks so much for visiting today, I hope you'll pop over to the challenge blog to see the lovely creations that the rest of Team Jacky have made to inspire you this week, then why not make something lovely for the special man in your life and add to the linky for us all to enjoy...you could be the lucky winner of a much coveted Sweet Stampin' Goody Bag...yay!!

enjoy the weekend

Chris

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Mine...all mine!!

Back again  already with my DT card for this weeks challenge at Fab 'n' Funky! hosted by the lovely Wendy, and as it's the last Wednesday of the month our theme is Christmas.
I used a fabulous image from Make it Crafty, this mischievous Santa really makes me smile! As I printed the image fairly large I decided to go for a CAS design, so I coloured him with copics, cut him out and mounted him over the simple black frame. The sentiment came with the image, I just cut it with a stitched circle die. My (tiny) stash of Christmas cards is beginning to grow....
Please take the time to pop over to Fab 'n' Funky to see the beautiful creations from my talented teamies, hopefully you'll be inspired to play along...just think how glad you'll be nearer the festive season!..there's also a lovely prize on offer from our generous sponsor this week- Di's Digis.

Thanks for visiting today!

Chris

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Challenges entered:

Rudolph Day

christmascardchallenges week 25 atg

thegloryofchristmas atg Christmas

craftyhazelnutschristmas die cut

crimbo-crackers atg
craftingbydesigns get ready for Christmas

 

 

Inside and out

 

Good morning, happy Wednesday...soon be the weekend again, a short week for those of us in the UK! There's a new challenge starting over at Creative Moments today, and the optional theme is - we would like you to decorate the inside of your card as well as the outside.

 I used this fun image, Wizz Doodles courtesy of one of our fabulous sponsors for this fortnight, Dr Digi's House of Stamps. He's coloured with copics, then fussy cut and mounted on die cut circles, also coloured with copics, I added some die cut 'swooshes ' to the end of his fingers, this was then mounted onto the front of a gatefold card. The top black layer of the card has been embossed with a stars embossing folder.

 The sentiment inside is computer generated, printed onto yellow card and die cut into a circle, the 'magic' is glittery stickers.

It was quite difficult to photograph this card, so I added extra piccies!
Thanks for visiting today, hope you'll be tempted to join us in this fun challenge sponsored by
                                                 

and 

 

Chris

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Challenges entered:

craftingfromtheheart atg

craftyourpassion atg

incywincydesigns all or nothing

thepinkelephant #300 atg

sendasmile4kids atg 4 kids

Lazy Sunday

I've had a really lazy day today... sat in the garden reading this morning, lovely until it clouded over, then spent the afternoon playing. I made this card using a cute Tiddlyinks image called Lilli Claire's bouquet, she's available here for just £1! I've coloured her with copics. I followed a sketch from Kathy's Sketch File

 

 

and a colour inspiration from MAWTT

 

Thanks for looking, enjoy what's left of the weekend!

Chris

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Challenges entered:

MAWTT colours

kathyswafflesketchfile sketch

tiddlywinks May flowers

Suzy Bees -make it girly

craftycatz kids

audsentiments cute +sentiment

creativeknockouts #90 Sentimentally yours

 

 

Moonlit fairy

Hi, just a quick post from me this evening to share a card I made using a beautiful  rubber stamp I bought from Sweet Pea Stamps some years ago. The artist is Ching-Chou Kuik and the stamp is still available here. I coloured the fairy with cool grey copics and just a touch of blue, the moon behind her with Perfect Pearl paint, it's lovely and shimmery IRL but doesn't look so good in the photo! I then masked the image and inked the background with blue distress ink, adding a touch of the Perfect Pearl round the image of the fairy. The card base is made from 2 circles of dark blue cardstock, the lower one folded in half to make the card stand up. A couple of doilies, some hand rolled dark blue roses, a lily, die cut leaves, a bow, pearl brad and a tiny tag complete my card.  Hope you like it, thanks for calling by and enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Chris
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Challenges entered:
onesweetchallenge May- things with wings
craftycalendar things with wings
fantasystampers things with wings
craftforthecraic wings
polkadoodle girly but no pink
Inspiration Destination #34 atg
thepapershelter roses
craftycardmakers shaped card
Whoopsi Daisy Things with wings

A bit dotty!

Hi lovely blogger friends, hope you're having a good day so far! Another week has flown past, making it time for a new challenge at Southern Girls. This fortnight the theme is 'spots and dots' sponsored by All Dressed Up and Zuri Artsy Crafty , so you can be sure there are some fabulous prizes on offer! I was given this gorgeous digi , Grisel to play with, she's a Zuri stamp and available here.I coloured her with my trusty copics, paper pieced her dress, cut her out and placed her on top of my l/o. The flowers are stamped onto more spotty paper, white embossed, cut out and layered together. The tags are LOTV (is one upside down?-looked ok until I photographed it...) The black base card was embossed with a Marianne ef (doesn't show well in photo) but it has more spots on it!
The Southern Girls would love to look at your spots this fortnight, so don't be shy, come play with us!
Thanks for taking the time to drop by.
Chris
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Challenges entered:-
craftingmusketeers use a die cut
cccdigicreations monochrome
liastampz embossing
creativecardcrew embossing -wet or dry (have used both)
scrap-creations atg
lovesrubberstamps black and white with a touch of colour

A little therapy...

I've had a little time to play since I've been back from looking after Mum, I'm finding it difficult to concentrate on anything for long- think I'm still in 'Mum minding' mode - so I thought a bit of colouring therapy might help me relax - it did! I coloured up this beautiful Aurora Wings image using my copics, with pencils for added shading on her hair and the flowers. I used a sparkly gel pen on her jewellery, a small few gems added for extra sparkle. The black card base is frantaged around the edges and covered with some nylon mesh (a recycled fruit bag!) The flowers are mainly hand made, either stamped or die cut apart from the tall sprigs of purple flowers, I added a little tag with a stamped sentiment to finish. I'm now much more chilled, off to enjoy a glass of wine!( also very therapeutic!:)

Thanks for visiting, have a lovely evening.
Chris
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Challenges:

cheerfulstamppad - fairies
stampandcreate - May flowers
corrosivechallenges - magical
disdigidesigns - load on the flowers
crafterscafeblog feminine
craftingbydesigns flowers
abc-challenge j is for jewels
sugarandbetty atg
diecuttindivas flowers