Dry Embossing

Hello everyone and welcome to another Sentimental Sundays challenge. This week we want to see Dry Embossing on your projects – plus the all important sentiment of course!! This week we are kindly sponsored by Heather Ellis. The design team were kindly given some of the Pure Innocence images to work with. You can see this range of images here.

I embossed some core’dinations with a script embossing folder to tie it in with the theme of the image – mail. I then sanded the raised embossed script and inked it with white ink. I love the adorable image. I added a postage stamp just to embellish within the theme of the image some more
 Make sure to head on over to the blog to check out the rest of the design teams beautiful creations and to share your work with us!

Double challenge!

When I sat down to create something for the Skipping Stones Challenge I gave myself a extra challenge – to get rid of the pile of scraps on my desk while doing it! This was quite a challenge in the end as the scraps were from about 3 different projects so were all very different colours and didnt work with each other. So I picked the colours that I liked the most and then realised there was not enough of them to make a card. So I tried to incorporate the sketch into a tag….

I used the SSD grunge set for the wood grain back ground and then used the poem stamp from the uplifting set for the sentiment. Love these sets!!

Lovely lace..

Its Thursday and that means PaperPlay Challenge day!!This week we are sponsored by In2Stamps with a €10 voucher up for grabs!

Our theme this week is Lovely Lace. We want to see you using lace on your projects. I don’t tend to use lace very often on my projects so this was a bit of a challenge for me. However I found some lace trim and a paper lace doily and went from there.

I added a bit of a vintage touch by stamping on red cardstock with a vintage damask stamp and covered a die cut butterfly with vintage script tissue tape. Is anyone else as addicted to tissue tape as I am? I seriously have to curb my use of it as I don’t want my limited stash of it to run out, but I just love the stuff! The heart the butterfly is mounted onto is red felt, that didn’t show up too well in the photo :/

Make sure to check out the rest of the DT’s beautiful lacy work and then create a project of your own and link it up to us!!

Issue 7 is here!

Issue 7 is here!!

It is a bumper New Year inspiration issue, packed full of tutorials, products, challenges and inspiring ideas. We have a fantastic challenge prize  in this issue too! A huge thank you as always to all our contributors and sponsors.
Enjoy and as always tell us what you like seeing and what you want to see more of!!

So here it is……click on the image to view it!

Challenge Artecut

There is a super challenge going on over at Artcut. You can be in with the chance to test Artecut and win some fantastic prizes when you enter. All you need to do is blog or Facebook about the challenge and let them know you have done so. You can see the complete details here.

You need to enter by the 30th of January midnight to blog@artemio.be They will then select 20 people to recieve some Artecut products. These 20 people then have to create something with the products and post a picture to a Flickr gallery. There will then be 3 winners picked from this gallery!

It is well worth entering so go check it out!!

Short and sweet!

There was another great sketch challenge running over at Skipping Stones Designs and I managed to whip up a super quick card to play along. Every part of this card came from my scraps pile on my desk so it was nice to reduce that a bit! I used the SSD Grunge set to stamp on the butterflies and a sentiment from the Heart Song SSD set.

Right that’s it from me, short and sweet! Happy Monday everyone ;p

Die Cuts

This week at Sentimental Sundays we want to see die cuts on your projects. Make sure you include a sentiment too! We are sponsored by The Paper Shelter. The design team were kindly provided with some images and I used this adorable Hilarious Cupid image. I coloured him in with pencils. He got red Elton John-esque glasses as I happened to be listening to the radio at the time I was colouring him and they were playing some Elton John!

I die cut him out using oval Neastabilities, die cut the large heart and punched out the small ones. I die cut the flourishes too. The background paper is an embossed Core’dinations paper that I sanded to emphasise the stars on it.

I hope you have fun playing along with our challenge this week. Do make sure to check out the rest of the DT’s work, they have some fantastic projects to share with you!!

Embossing fun….

I am having great fun with the Moxie Fab World challenges lately. Today I got to quickly play along with the Embossing and Debossing challenge. I used a home made butterfly embossing folder to emboss my teal card stock. I love making my own embossing folders, as well as being a clever way of saving money it also makes me feel good to get even more use out of my dies!

I sanded the raised portions to add a bit more oomf. I then used another embossing folder to deboss a pattern onto the bottom portion of white card stock.

I love the teal and white colour combination, it is one of my favourites, it always looks so clean and crisp!

Flying by for a quick visit….

Just a quick one from me today. I had a bit of time today to have some crafty fun so I decided to combine the Skipping Stones challenge with the Moxie Fab World Cutting and Trimming challenge….

I cut all the papers and cut out the bird. Its hard to tell from the photo but the branch is glued directly to the page but the bird is raised up on foam dots to give it more dimension and depth. Right back to work now, I am a busy bee!!

Ribbon Ribbon!!

This week at Sentimental Sundays we are looking for your projects with Ribbon – and a sentiment! We are being kindly sponsored by Fred She Said. They kindly allowed the design team to choose an image and I chose this adorable Better than Chocolate digi.

Make sure to head over to the blog and show  us how you use ribbon – and a sentiment – on your project!!