let's wine a little!

Good afternoon, it's been very quiet here lately, my daughter SIL and granddaughters are away enjoying the excitement of a holiday in Florida, sunshine, fun and Mickey Mouse! They're having a fantastic time, I'm happy to say, the daily photos they send me say it all... missing my girlies though! I've been having a tidy up in the craft room (not getting very far as keep getting distracted by the things I find) and decided I needed to 'weed' the huge amount of craft magazines I have hoarded for years, but of course I have to look through them first to see if I want to keep anything...it's a long slow process! Anyway I came across a tutorial for making an easel card with a box on front, created by adding adding concertina-ed strips of card to the sides of the front panel, so I thought I'd give it  a go...here's the result.
The sentiment inside the box is stamped and embossed with white ep., obviously this needs to be done before putting the box together :) The sweet  Wine Sprite is an Aurora Wings image, coloured with copics.. I'm pleased with how this turned out, especially as it folds flat enough to post in an ordinary envelope.

Thanks for visiting.

Chris

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Challenges entered:

Aurora Wings #69

mytimetocraft #377

brownsugar #281

craftrocket #51

digidoodle #8

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - August challenge

So hard to think about Christmas cards in the heat we've been sweltering in over the last few weeks, actually it's quite hard to think about anything much! This card started out to be something completely different in shades of blue and silver...but this is how it ended up. The background paper is watercolour paper embossed with a few snowflakes and coloured with distress inks, sadly the white ep doesn't look very white! The stamp is Indigo Blue, I just used the top part of it I die cut the snowflake and sentiment from black glitter card.

Much as it seems a long way ahead now, there are only 4 more challenges until Christmas so you really might want to think about getting started on your festive makes....

Hop over to Sweet Stampin' now for lots of inspiration from my lovely teamies, we have 3 new talented ladies starting this month and I'm sure they'd appreciate a visit and  bit of encouragement from you!

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenges entered:
shoppingourstash #366
hollyandivy #33
dreamvalley # 183
 2craftycrittercrazies #17
CHNCC #397

New release day at Bugaboo

It's new release day at Bugaboo Stamps, here's the card I made with this week's beautiful cat silhouette image. I printed off two of the images, flipping one so that the cats faced each other, die cut the pair with a stitched circle die, letting their tails overlap the edge. I kept the design black and white to match the elegance of these beautiful cats.

It's alway fascinating to me to see what different ideas people have using the same image, my teamies have come up with some fantastic creations , just hop over to Catch the Bug to take a look.

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely day

Chris

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Challenges entered:
cardmania #107
diesrus #102
monochromemagic  #13
sunnyday (Jul/Aug)

Stella Says Sketch at Catch the Bug

It's time for a new Stella Says Sketch Challenge at Catch the Bug

Here's the sketch-

And here's my card -

featuring Kidz Jack Birthday Balloons

I kept this very CAS, coloured image with copics, cut out and adhered to card base, stamped sentiment and banner and 3 punched stars.

Click here for more inspiration and to add your link!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend

Chris

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challenges entered:

sendasmile4kids (4 August Challenge)

creativeknockouts #257

cutecardthursday #541

MAWTT #77

themaleroom #91

Dots and/or stripes at Crafty Calendar

Hi I'm back with my second post for today, this time it's my DT card for our new challenge at Crafty Calendar, this month our theme is 'dots and/or stripes' and we're sponsored by the fabulous A Day for Daisies

I chose to use this sweet image, A special flower, which I've coloured with Copics. I die cut the image using a stitched square die and kept my layout very simple, just adding the striped ribbon, spotty button and a stamped sentiment.

My lovely teamies have created some gorgeous cards using these beautiful Day for Daisies images, just click here to enjoy them.

Hope you find the time to play along this month.

Chris

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(Please scroll down for my earlier post today)

Challenges entered:
audsentiments #209
cutiepie #125 (ribbon, die cut , button)

Life is a voyage of discovery...

Good morning and happy weekend, it's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'...this week the theme is 'Travel'. This theme can be interpreted many ways and I couldn't decide what to make so I trawled back through some of my older stamps hoping that inspiration would bite me! I 'discovered' this gorgeous stamp from Crafty Individuals...and the rest was easy! I stamped the image twice onto some parchment effect cardstock, added a bit of colour to one image using distress ink I cut the ship from the second image, shaped it with a ball tool and adhered it onto the coloured panel using pinflair glue, it does give a lovely dimension which sadly doesn't really show in the photo! I matted the stamped panel onto several layers of distressed DP, added a bit of twine, metal corner and a stamped sentiment.

I hope you'll now travel over to  Sweet Stampin' to discover the fabulous creations of my teamies, and of course we'd love to see how you interpret the travel theme.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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challenges entered:
crafterscafe  #201
MAWTT #77
craftyaddicts #51
ikesworld # 111

Colour Crazy Challenge

Good morning, I'm delighted to be a Guest Designer for Colour Crazy Challenges... it's a fabulous challenge blog with very talented designers and I love to colour...so happy days!

 For my first card I used an Aurora Wings Digi Stamp, White Poppy, which I’ve coloured with copics. I fussy cut it and attached to an embossed white tag, which is matted onto layers of blue and purple papers and a white die cut frame. The die cut poppies are Memory Box, and the poppies in the corner are coloured and cut from a smaller printing of the image. I added a few pearls , a stamped sentiment and some faux stitching with a white gel pen. 

Thank you for visiting today, be sure to hop over to Colour Crazy Challenges for details of this fortnight's prize and to check out the lovely inspiration from the DT, then why not get out your favourite colouring mediums and play along...anything goes as long as there's a hand coloured image!

Chris

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Challenges entered:
aurorawings #69
southerngirls flower power
watercooler #182
mmmchallenge #76