Spooky House

Something a bit different from me today. A project I did for the kids for Halloween. It's a spooky house cut on my Cameo Silhouette.

The file was from Samantha Walker and I've used Co ordinations cardstock. I've inked around the edges with distress inks. The light is a little battery tea light.

Shary
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Card Makin Mammas

Hiya

I had a great time yesterday at the SECC and got lots of goodies and today I'm off to see Skyfall. So a great weekend for me but before I go I wanted to show you my Card Makin Mammas Challenge DT card.
We are sponsored by Squiggle Stamps so I have used one of their images today. The theme is

Anything Goes

 

 

Image: Squiggle Stamps - Wizard

Die cuts: Cut with my Cameo Silhouette

 

I've used Coordination cardstock for the die cuts and distressed it. I then added white highlights.

 

Squiggle stamps are closing at the end of October so their is a fab sale now on of 50% off all images.

 

The prize this week on Card Makin Mammas is a fab mystery digi bundle so come along to the challenge blog and take a look at the gorgeous cards the other DT girls have made and join in with us.

 

 

Shary

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Cute Card Thursday

This week's challenge on the Cute Card Thursday Challenge is

Something Scary

I've been trying out my Cameo so I decided to make something different from a card for the challenge. This is a juice carton that I downloaded by Samantha Walker. I used cordinations card stock and distress it to make up the blank carton. I put a piece of grey c/s behind the letters to help them stand out. The digi images are by Stamp Fairy and have been coloured with Copics. The moon has some lace stickles on it too. I attached them to the carton with 3D pads. The words are by Echo Park.

There are some fab Scary cards over on the Cute Card Challenge blog that the other DT members have made. You can find them all here.

I'm off to the SECC tomorrow so I will schedule my Card makin mamas post and hope it works!!

Shary
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Creative Expressions DT Project- A Tutorial

Hi Friday at last! Today I would like to show you a tutorial that I've made on 3 ATCs I designed for my Creative Expressions DT project.

Materials:
Blank ATCs
Creative Expressions - Sam Poole's Creative Studio stamps: Steampunk Christmas & Art Sayings
Distress Inks
Perfect Pearls
Memento Ink
Tissue Paper
Multi medium Gel

1. Take your 3 blank ATCs and using cut and dry smooth your chosen colour distress inks over them, overlapping a little. Spray your fingers with a little water and flick over the ATCs. Blot dry and allow the inks to dry completely.

  2. On each ATC take a contrasting distress ink and ink up the grid stamp from the Steampunk Christmas set and stamp onto the ATC. Go over the ink with your chosen perfect pearl. Brush off all excess.

 

 

3.  Using the two smallest cogs from Steampunk Christmas stamp and ghost stamp randomly over your ATC.

 

 

4. Stamp the tree, bird and 2 sized bulb blooms onto different coloured tissue paper. Cut out carefully.

 

 

5. Using a gel medium adhere the stamped tissue to each of the ATCs and then add another layer on top. (My bird bled a little because it was pink tissue but it doesn't look as bad in real life).

 

 

6. Stamp out sayings from the Art Sayings set onto white card. Cut up each word and edge with distress inks.Add to ATCs and finally add some highlights with a white pen to the tree. (see main pic).

 

 I hope this has been useful. My last 3 DT projects have been all about Christmas but  I wanted to show you how versatile Steampunk Christmas was and doesn't have to be all about Christmas.

 

Have a good weekend.x

Creative Expressions News

I have some exciting news for you and a bit of a heads up. Creative Expressions are bringing out a fab new project magazine!!! Which is great news as it won't be the same as the ones that are out there now. Something new. And.................. I have an article in it!! It will be out on the 5th November and on sale through independant craft retailers. I can't wait to see it!!

There's no day like a snow day

Today's card is my DT card for Cute Card Thursday and I've also followed the Sketch Saturday Challenge.

 

The theme for Cute Card Thursday is

 

Got Glitter?

 

and the Sketch Saturday sketch looks like this

 

 And here's my card

 

Stamp: CC Designs - Wintertime Fun
Papers: First Edition - Christmas Joy
Snowflake die cuts: Cheery Lynn Designs

Please go take a look at the other DT's cards, they really are fab. Hope to see you joining in too.

Sharyx

Fabulous

I made this card for 2 challenges , Mojo Monday and Papertake Weekly.

Here's Mojo Monday's sketch

And here's my card which is in the Papertake Weekly theme of "All Creatures Great & Small".



Image: Lily of the Valley - Spring Swing
Papers: Simple Stories - Fabulous
Leaves: Martha Stewart Punch
Flowers: Doo Hickey
Flourish: Cameo Silhouette
Kaleidoscope: Cameo Silhouette

Shary
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