Favourite 5 of 2015

Well it's that time of year again. As we approach the start of a brand new year and look back on the one we've finished, and every year at this time Debby posts her Favourite 5 of the Year. Many of us join in with her, I've done it the last couple of years and I'm joining in again this year.

It's always hard to pick just 5 cards when you make a lot, so for this reason alone, I'm not posting any Christmas cards in this pick and I'll make a separate post for those.

Honestly even taking out all the Christmas cards it was hard, there were so many I wanted to chose, but there was only room for 5, so here goes...

This card was made almost right at the beginning of the year and it won me a Guest Spot on the Saturated Canary design team.

This card is just one of my most favourite, love the way this one turned out, from the colours to the glitter, I don't think I could have been happier with this card.

It's not often I make cards for commissions, and this one had very particular requests so I was quite worried before I started making it, as it turns out it came together into a very sophisticated and stylish card, love the contrasts in this one, and it was a rare outing for my poor neglected Copics,

I loved colouring in the image on this one, but really I chose this as my top 5 for the card design, love the way it turned out, even the inside.

 Now I'm sure you've noticed that 3 of my 5 so far have been Saturated Canary images, I do love them and they are such fun to colour that I probably use them more than any others on my cards (you may find my Christmas card picks feature a different artist quite strongly though), but I fell in love with this image from Digistamp Atelier and even went rather CAS compared to my normal style.

So that's my final top 5 for the year. I hope you like them and if you want to join in the fun just follow the link.

Debby's Favourite 5 of 2015

Be careful out there :) xx

Brittany the Birthday Girl

Hello everyone! Friday has rolled around so quickly and I'm here to share a little Uptown Girl goodness today.

Recently my sister got in touch to ask me to make a card for her partner's mother who is turning 80. Now I know you are looking at this card and probably thinking....blimey, that's a bit bright for an 80 year old lady, but I think you can enjoy things a little 'out there' whatever your age, and my sister thinks she will love it.

To be honest the whole thing just screamed bright colours at me as soon as I saw the stamp, so I just had to go with it!

So this is Brittany the Birthday Girl and I coloured her with a mix of Distress Ink and Spectrum Aquatint Markers, the new(ish) Twisted Citron was perfect for the paper I chose. I've popped a list of items used with links for you at the end of my post.

Dies to Die for

Uptown Girls Britanny the Birthday Girl

CC Designs Big Pierced and Stitched Rectangles

Die-namics Pierced Oval STAX

Authentique Promise 6 x 6 Pad

Memory Box Classic Numbers

Scrapberry's Polymer Frames - Fairytale 

Ribbon Girl

32 mm Clementine Ivory Lace

25 mm Orange Delight Satin Ribbon

25 mm Hot Pink Satin Ribbon

16 mm Celery Green Ruffle Edge Sheer Ribbon

Starburst Stamen Pink

Pale Pink 10 mm Open Rose

Audrey

Morning everyone! It's Friday again yay! Today I'm sharing a card I was asked to make by a friend at work for her Mum.  The brief I had to work from was that she liked Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, that she loved fashion and that her favourite colours were black orange and green.

I must admit that I skipped the green as trying to put those 3 colours together really wasn't working for me on a card.

Anyway I chose the fabulous Uptown Girls Audrey Loves Her Make-Up from Stampin' Bella, perfect to fit the Audrey Hepburn part I thought. I actually used Halloween papers (just to show they're versatile lol) for the black and orange as they were the only papers I had with that colour combo. these are from the Authentique 6 x 6 'Spirited' pad and I can't find them in the store now, but you could use something like Thrilling to a similar effect, I just avoided the more Halloween prints with bats and spiders.

 I coloured her with my Copics this time as I thought they suited the strong colour scheme a bit better. Man was I rusty lol! I don't think I did a bad job in the end though and I finished her dress off with some polka dots with my white Posca pen.

For the fashion part I decided to include an Eiffel Tower dies (Paris is the heart of fashion right?) and a dress form.

My friend loved it and I must admit that after struggling a bit with it I really love the way it turned out.

Audrey Loves her Make-Up

La-La Land Eiffel Tower

La-La Land Dress Form

Big Stitched and Pierced Rectangles Dies

CC Designs Make a Card #4

Ribbon and Lace are from the Ribbon Girl

Well that's all from me today, but I'll be here at the weekend with another giveaway :) xx 

Fiona Loves Flowers at Dies to Die for

Wheeeee! It's Friday again and soon the weekend with lots of time to craft.  I'm on time this week with my Dies to Die for card, finally getting a bit back on track after all the time lost to being ill, and with energy back the mojo seems to be flowing better.

It seems ages since I used an Uptown Girls stamp, but when this one arrived in my DT pack I couldn't wait to stamp her out and colour her up.

I used my Distress Ink markers to colour her

Skin: Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick
Hair: Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs
Flowers and Outfit: Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries, Mowed Lawn, Scattered Straw, Tumbled Glass

I inked the papers with Walnut Stain DI, then distressed, stitched and finally slapped it all with lashings of Gesso.

I kept the inside fairly simple.

I've included a list of products used with links below, but I couldn't find the link for the border at the top of my card, if we find it I'll add it later!

Fiona Loves Flowers

Cheery Lynn - Bird Cage

Whimsy Cottage Charms Papers

Prima Cay it in Crystals - Princess

Velvet Ribbon Sky Blue

Birdcage 2 Charm

Walnut Stain Distress Ink Pad

That's all from me today, but I'll see you soon, take care and enjoy your weekend! :) xx

Audrey in Paris at Dies to Die for

Good morning world!  I'm on my hols this week and I'm loving it.  I had a lovely birthday and now I get to spend most of this week crafting away to my heart's content.  Anyway on with my inspirational make for Dies to Die for today, I was going to do another Valentine, as it's Valentine's week, but I thought the card I'm sharing today had a kind of Valentine feel about it even though it isn't a Valentine's card.

I made this card after a conversation with somebody who has become a regular buyer of my cards on Etsy. We discussed a birthday card for her sister, who, she said, loves Audrey Hepburn and Doris Day and adores Paris, pink was also mentioned.  So I've been playing around with a few things with that in mind and here is a kind of Prototype.

I've used Maja Design papers from the Crea Diem collection.  Links to products are as always at the end of the post.

The stamp is called 'Audrey loves her make-up', one of the Uptown Girls from Stamping Bella.  She also comes with a sentiment, which I didn't use here as it's quite large. I've coloured her with Copics:

Skin: E11, E00, E000, E0000, R20 for cheeks

Clothes: R81, R83, R85, W5, W3, W1, W0

I did add a little glitter to her too, but it is not showing up AT ALL on the photos :( 

The scrabble letters are from Whimsy, they also do a die to match, but I don't have that so I just hand cut them. The Eiffiel Tower is a La La Land's die. I've also used some Prima bling here.

You can see another LLL die here and the sentiment is from Whimsy, I wanted the matching die for this but it's currently out of stock so I'll have to wait for that one, the sentiment looks pretty good anyway, even cut by hand. As usual I've almost covered my lace, I really do need to do something about that. all other items are from my ever growing stash.

I do hope you enjoyed my share today, I'll be back on Friday with my post for A Creative Romance :) xx

Audrey Loves Her Makeup	Crea Diem - Filled With Love	Crea Diem - If You Want To Be Loved	Crea Diem - Love Conquers All	Crea Diem - With All My Heart
La-La Land - Eiffel Tower	Liquid Pearls - White Opal	*NEW* 1.5" White Lace/Satin Center White	Neenah Cardstock	Dovecraft Hi-Bond Double Sided 6mm Tape
Collall All Purpose Glue - 50ml	Memento Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black	Everyday Mini Postage Stamp Sentiments	La-La Land - Hot Air Balloon	La-La Land - Fancy Bracket

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