Floral

This weeks theme is 'Floral' and was chosen by Kandis

Kandis' card

I began with a C5 plain white centura card and matted another piece of the card on but I embossed it using the tumbling leaves A4 embossing folder from crafters companion and using a brush and stormy sky distress ink I distressed the whole embossing.

I then used an edges die on either side of a navy piece of card and put two pieces of white ribbon around that before placing it on my card.

My large flower image is Tulips from Dimension Stamps which has been embossed in cosmic shimmer lapis sapphire lustre and placed onto a spellbinders die.  The large flower at the side is from Chloe's Creative Crafts which has also been embossed using the cosmic shimmer lapis embossing powder cut out and layered.  These flower stamps are in two sizes and are lovely to stamp with.

All finished off with a spellbinders flourish.

Kathy's card

This card is a 8 x 8 white base card and the main matt is some lavender patterned paper l found in my stash. I punched out a broad ribbon out of the same and matt it onto some plain toning paper and wrapped it around. The two other matts were from some similar coloured paper, which was also layered onto the same plain paper as before, they were then off-set against each other, wrapping a ribbon around one and attaching a bow. The Floral stamp is a Kanban design, and was coloured using my Promarkers, once finished

l used my Spellbinders to cut the shape and inked the edges with Shades of Lilac distressed ink, also added a text topper using a smaller die and once again inking the edges with the same coloured ink.  A pretty card don't you think for any occasion.

 

Sheila's card

 

 

My card is 8x8 and I started with a red matt slightly smaller than the base card and I used a punch to round off the corners. I trimmed a piece of white card to fit onto my red matt leaving a small border. I then stamped and coloured my image and placed it onto my card. I cut a nestability shape from white card and matt it onto red and then stamped my sentiment, I finished off by adding pearls.

Sorry no project from Chris this week, she is a little under the weather. 

Get well soon Chris x

Triptic

Kathy's choice this week and she chose triptic.

Kathy's card

This time l started with a black A5 landscape card, and the first matt with white, then a very narrow black matt. The grasses were stamped onto white card, sorry but can't recollect whose they are, l used a black ink pad and embossed with Cosmic shimmer Lava Black Aurora embossing powder, before attaching to the card l trimmed into three pieces and layered them  to show a very narrow black border. This was an easy but very effective card suitable for either male or female.



Sheila's card

My card is more than likely not a typical trptic image, but I do think that these images were meant to be together. I stamped and cut out my images and placed them onto circular pieces of backing paper which were matt onto gold mirror card. I made three border pieces from teh same decorative paper and matt those onto gold mirror card. I used the decorative paper on my base card, then placed everything together.

kandis' card

This card was a very simple card really.  I used the 'Silly Moo' stamp from Sheena Douglas, stamped it using versfine black in and clear embossed it. 

I then cut that into 3, matted it onto some grey pearlescent card.  I then die cut a piece of white card and another piece of grey pearlescent card using

my spellbinders 5x7 matting basics dies.

My base card is a C5 centura  pearl followed by another piece of centura pearl which I have embossed using the tumbling leaves A4 embossing folder from

embossilicious.  Distress around the edges using mowed lawn distress inks.

I have added a touch of colour on the image by colouring in the crown and the grass.

Hey presto, my triptic card.  Hope you like it.  Take care.



Chris's card

I have seen pictures split into three and I've seen three pictures joined together so I decided to see what the literal definition is:

Noun

1. A picture or relief carving on three panels, typically hinged together vertically and used as an altarpiece.
2. A set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together.

 

Mine most definitely falls into the second category. I have a series of vintage figure stamps (Personal Impressions) that I've had for years and barely used s I chose three of them and decided to make a triptych book

Most of the decorations have been made using dies. The project is a mixture of old and new which you will see so often in my work.

Under the sea

Chris's choice this week is 'under the sea'

Chris's card

A mixture of Crafty Individuals stamps coloured with PanPastels and QuickCutz dies coloured with watercolour crayons is how this card came together. I used a white Posca pen for the bubbles. The 'seaweed' is made from washi tape on white card cut with some leaf dies.

Kathy's card

I started with an A5 Landscape white card, and the first matt is in a dark blue, the next layer is a lighter blue and was embossed with my dotty embossing folder, using my Calibur. I then stamped the images----Dimension Stamp set-----coloured using my Promarkers, cut them out and arranged to give the underwater effect, and added some fine sand to imitate the seabed.

Sheila's card

My card for this project starts off as a 6x6 card. The first layer is trimmed a little smaller, to create the background I sprayed cheap shaving foam into a shallow dish. I then dotted alchol inks into the foam and swirled it around using the tip of a small paintbrush, I placed my first layer piec of card into the foam and pressed lightly. Once it was covered in the foam I then used a bone folder to scrape off the excess and the end results is just amazing. I then stamped my seaweed image onto this layer and placed it onto my card. I stamped and coloured my shells, fish and parcels. After cutting them out placed them onto my card. I stamped a sentiment to finish.

Kandis' card

Hi folks, this weeks choice was not easy for me.  When Sheila first told me I think my reply was 'WHAT, who the dickens chose that?'  Then I was muttering about poor Chris to myself.  Then I had to do some serious thinking, finally I had decided to design something in Serif until Kathy reminded me that we had received some stamps from Dimension Stamps Project Club last year that included fishes etc.  So, I stopped muttering about poor Chris, bless her, and decided Kathy was a genius and 'fished' my stamps out - do you get it - fish, fished......!!!!!

I began with a C5 centura pearl card followed by a piece of co'ordinations whitewash card which I ran through my embossilicious embossing folder and sanded down.  I then die cut a piece of white card using wonkie squares spellbinders, 'fished' my bark embossing folder out, inked up one side with distress inks stormy sky, placed my die cut, still in the die, onto the bark with cut side up.  I then ran it through my GC to get the inky sea effect inside the die.  That was followed by cutting a faux die using pale blue card.

I stamped  4 fish,2 seahorses and 4 starfish, cut them out, coloured them in using spectrum noirs and placed them on my card.  The fishes and seahorse have been decoupaged - one layer.   All finished off with my starfish and sentiment.

Wasn't so bad after all and thanks to Chris and Kathy I have used a stamp set which I hadn't used before and forgotten about.

Hope you like it.  Take care

Two colours

Kandis choice this week and she chose 'two colours'

Kandis' card

My card is a C5 pearlescent card, followed by another piece of pearlescent card which I have pricked around the edges in 'sue wilson' style. I then embossed a piece of pink coordinations card using an 8x8 embossilicious folder and sanded it down a little. The border was die cut using a die from crafters companion and stencilled using distress ink spun sugar. I have cover the edge with a piece of white ribbon followed by a smaller piece of pink ribbon. My flower is a spellbinders die which I have stencilled using distress ink spub sugar and topped it off with a piece of card candi.

My topper is a stencil from Dreamweaver. I have used pearlescent paste from Sweet Poppy Stencils followed by some pink glitter from crafters companion and I then left it dry overnight.

Chris' card

I love vintage and distressed styles but occasionally I come across a contemporary designer who captures my imagination. That recently happened with Jo Firth-Young of PaperArtsy, her designs are very appealing.
I saw these gorgeous little birdies (one of her minis collection) and had to have.

They're great for any 'love' card - wedding, engagement, anniversary or just to say "I love you" to a partner, family member or friend.
Our challenge this week is 'Two colours' so I chose yellow and orange. You'll have to forgive the red heart, I coloured it red without thinking. Imagine it's yellow for friendship please, lol.

Kathy's card

This card is A5, Portrait and a dark beige, the main matt is a lighter pearlescent beige. The stamped image is from KanBan, and l used Frayed Burlap distressed ink and embossed with clear embossing powder, and lightly coloured with the same. Using one of my dies l cut it out and then a larger one in the darker beige for the matt. The rosette was made from a strip of med. paper the was punched on one side with a border punch, scored and folded in pleats to make the rosette and topped with a small circle with text on. The 65 was cut with my Cricut machine in the same colours.



Sheila's card

My card is 6x6, my first layer is yellow pearl card trimmed slightly smaller than my base card. My second layer I embossed down the sides using a border embossing folder. I placed rbbon down the centre before placing onto my card. I then cut a shape using one of my dies and stamped my sentiment. I found some contrasting brads and added these to my sentiment, once this was in place I added bows and buttons to finish.

Anything goes

Anything goes is Sheila's choice of theme this week

Sheila's project

My project was made using a golf bag template which I resized to suit. Once I had cut out all my pieces with the robo the only thing left for me to do was to decorate the golf bag' I added the numbers etc to the clubs as well as an insert to help the clubs stand up. To finish I added extra clubs, flags and border peel offs to embellish the bag. I made a box to fit the golf bag into and used acetate on two sides so it can be left in the box. I must say I am really pleased with the results.

Kandis' project

My card today is an image from Saturated Canary called Becky. She was a lovely image to colour and I used copics as my chosen medium.  

I began with a C5 basic card followed by some matting and layering using a lovely piece of teal card. I then embossed a piece of white card using an m-bossibilites folder which had been die cut using my basics set of 5x7 spellbinders dies. I then die cut a piece of mustard striped paper from my crafty stash and a piece of mustard plain card which I think is from Anna Marie Designs. All topped off with a piece of black ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by at Craftateers.

Chris' project

With a hint of warmer weather this week my thoughts turned to the seaside. It's been 16 years since I last saw the sea and but I have plenty of fond memories of being at the beach as a child.
These beautiful stamps from Crafty Individuals have been lain, unused, in one of my stamp boxes for years so I thought it about time to get them out and use them.

I think the little caption says so much...

Kathy's project

For these tissue box covers l measured all around the box, and added 1" for the seam also measure how deep you want it, then score for each corner. The "lid" was made in the usual way, but before making it up cut out an aperture to enable access to the tissues,then glue the "lid" to the main on the edges only. For the sides l cut squares slightly smaller than the side itself, cut an aperture in each one, and ran through an embossing folder of choice and placed decorative paper behind after inking the edges. To finish off l wrapped toning ribbon around the "lid" edge and added a bow. With these boxes there isn't a base so as to enable the whole thing to slide off and replace with a new box of tissues. Of course you decorate to your own choice. These boxes were very popular at my craft stall.

Silhouette

Silhouette is the theme for this week chosen by Kathy

Kathy's card

The card l have used this time is a Blue pearlised  landscape, and for the main image l started with a piece of Barbara Grays satin card, then placed a circle mask in the chosen position, then brayed with a very light covering of Faded Jeans distressed ink to make a night-time sky, then removed the circle and changed to the waste that l cut out the circle and inked with Scattered Straw, very lightly, afterwards just dragged a little of Faded Jeans to give the impression of a cloud. Once this had dried l stamped the grasses from my stamp collection - sorry can't remember who's - finished off by stamping a bird just on the edge of the moon.

Hope you like this card it was a pleasant change from colouring in.

Sheila's card

My card is A5 base card and first layer is black card trimmed a little smaller so as to create a border. I then added the peeloff borders and corners, my main image and background are from a Katysue designs book. I used a whole image as one layer and then chose the same image and cut on a diagonal and matted both layers on silver mirror card. I layered the triangle one over the complete image and placed onto my base card. The image of the two deers is also from the book, I simply matt it onto a circle piece of silver mirror card. I tehn added the sentiment and ribbon.

Kandis' card

Inside card

Hi folks, welcome to our challenge this week.  This week was silhouette which was Kathy's choice.  Now I am not too good on this theme and didn't have a clue what to do until Sheila suggested serif.  Well, the sky was the limit then as I LOVE designing cards in serif just as much as I like traditional card making.

I used an image from Joanna Sheen 'Dancing with Shadows' CD Rom and I then used Indie Chic digi kit from serif.  Hope you like this.  Thanks for dropping by.  Take care.

Chris' card

Silhouettes are so effective and can be used on virtually any project. I have a card to make for a 7 yr old so I've made this tag for it. As you can see, the figures are stamped and I've used a Spellbinders D-Lites die cut in black for the tree.

Quote or message

Chris decided on 'Qoute or message' as this weeks theme

Chris' card

A simple stepper for my 'quotation' card this week.

With this quote I decided to make a wedding card.

I've used a Spellbinders DLites die for the window, the cameos are Tim Holtz Movers & Shapers, the wedding rings are a Marianne die and the decorative heart is a Martha Stewart punch.

Kathy's card

This card is a A5 Landscape foiled card from my stash, so thought it would be a lovely base card. I stamped out the sentiment and embossed with gold detail powder, then cut out with my Gold Spellbinders, before doing so l rubbed the die with Perfect Medium, then, after cutting, l once again used Gold detail powder, was very pleased with the finished effect. The lower shape was twisted on its side, the top- vertical. The flowers were made by using Creative Expressions stamps using toning lightweight card, then glittered, these were placed in lower corner with a green scroll underneath. Finished off with some toning perfect pearls.

Sheila's card

I started by cutting 2 shapes for my base card using a grand spellbinders die. The shape for the back of the card I scored at the first notch and stuck this to the other shape matching the cut pattern. I then used a piece of backing paper from my stash and after inking the edges I mounted it onto white card and then silver mirror card.This was then added to my card. I then used a spellbinders die to stamp my message onto, before removing the die I inked the edges. I then stamped my message and created a faux frame with silver mirror card by tracing the outside of the die. I mounted the frame onto my card with foam pads to create dimension. I made a double bow from ribbon and twirled the tails for a more elegant effect. I tehn added peel offs and gems.

Kandis' card

Hello fellow crafters.  After loosing my mojo for a week I had a sudden spurge of inspiration and this was the result.  Gosh glad my mojo is back!

I began with a C5 white pearlescent card, followed by another piece of white pearlescent card which I draw lines around the edges to act as a frame.  I then embossed another piece of white pearlescent card using an A4 embossing folder and distressed it using spiced marmalade.

The spellbinders I have used are as follows: -

-Lace Doily Motifs

-Jewel Flowers & Flourishes

-Scalloped Ovals

-Classic Large Ovals.

My quote has been stamped using clear embossing ink and embossed using Cosmic Shimmer Olympic Gold Lustre embossing powder.  The sentiment is from Sheena Douglas A Little it Sketchy range - Rain.

Thanks for joining us.  Take care.