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Summer swap cards

Another week has passed, don't know how the time flies so fast, especially in the summer when we want it to go slow!  Today I have a card to share that I made recently...in fact, with the help of my mom on these, I made a set of six of them for a swap!

The image is a digi from Mo Manning, and the DP is a long retired SU one.  I added some tule and pearls, and voila!  it was done!  I love this little fairy, she is just so cute.  I gave all the swap cards away, I think I have to go back and make a couple of these for me and my mom now!

Anyway, summer is almost finished--so sad!  I hope you are all making the most of these last few days of summer.

Summer berries

One last card to post for today, these sweet House Mousies were calling to me to colour them up.  We have been enjoying berry season, first the strawberries (long gone now), then the raspberries, then the blue berries, and now finally the blackberries.  Hubby went and picked me a whole box of blackberries today so I made tarts and froze the rest.  I didn't use a recipe, kind of just winged it, and they came out edible.

This image is so gorgeous, I just couldn't' bear covering any of it up with fancy corners or ribbon, so went for a pretty simple layout, so that the artwork can stand out on its own.

I'm entering this card in two challenges - one  for Simon Says - Animal Antics challenge, and also for the House Mouse - Double Troublechallenge.

Hedgies challenge

Busy with making cards for challenges, and trying to combine them (which I'm not so good at), here is another fun card I made this weekend, which will also be very useful to restore my depleted box of birthday cards ready to go. 

These little hedgies are so cute, I just adore them!  This card is for the Simon Says Animal Antics challenge, as well as the Penny Black Double the Trouble challenge.  The colouring is with Copics.

Flourishes- Kraft paper challenge

This warm and cozy card is made featuring a Flourishes image from the Figs and Pomegranate set.   I wanted to play along with their challenge to make a card using Kraft coloured paper.

The image is coloured using Copic markers, and the overall card was very quick and easy to make.

CHF- Animals

I was inspired last week seeing a card made using this image, so decided to dust it off and make a card with it myself.

The bulk of the colouring is using the Copic Airbrush system, the sentiment stamped in black Versafine, and then a tiny bit of colouring done for the boat and man using Stampin Up marker (since the Versafine would have smeared with the Copics.  The image is popped up with Dimensionals, though it's hard to see in the picture.

I made this card for the CHF challenge this week to feature animals.

House mouse - double trouble

Happy Sunday!  This has been a productive craft weekend, and I've cleaned my craft room and also made a few cards for challenges.  The first one I have to share with you is a cute birthday card featuring House Mousies :-)  The popcorn was hubby's idea, and they've been adhered using glue dots.  The sentiment is an SU one, and the colouring is with Copics.  I hope this gives you some inspiration.

I'm entering this card in two challenges - one  for Simon Says - Animal Antics challenge, and also for the House Mouse - Double Trouble challenge.

Birthday Swap

Happy Sunday!

The weather has been fabulous here and we've been spending lots of time in the garden, and also in the kitchen canning all of our plums (almost done!).  So far we've made 3 types of chutney, 6 types of plum jam and also pickled whole plums.....I'm thinking it will soon be time to turn the kitchen back in to a craft room LOL!

Anyway, before we started the canning operating, I completed 3 sets of cards for a birthday swap--two sets for male birthday cards and one for female birthday cards.  Since I'm mailing to the states I wanted to make sure that the cards, while still beautiful and trade worthy, were also light and not bulky so it didn't cost too much to post, very challenging!

Sorry for the poor pictures, it's a new camera, and time is short and no time for photo editing.....

Congratulations swap

Yes, as you can see, I have been very much having fun playing in swaps the last couple of months!  Here are some cards I made for a Congratulations swap.  It seems I always need a card for a new baby, a wedding, a graduation, etc. so this seemed like a pretty useful swap to play in.

The first card features on old SU image and some fabulous Graphic 45 paper.  The image is lightly coloured with Copics.

The second card uses an even older SU stamp set, one which (as I recall) was one of the first stamp sets I bought.  LOTS of dimensionals used on here, though it is hard to see that, and I dug out a piece of fancy glittery silver paper to cut out the swirl.

Next is a baby card, the ones I seem to use the most of, and I paired it up with some sweet DP that I've been hoarding, another swirl, and a fancy label for the sentiment.

Finally, the let one using one of my very favourite Mo Manning images, and another fancy label die cut for the sentiment.  Colouring here too is with Copics.

Angel Swap

Here are three cards I made recently for an Angel card swap.

All three were coloured with Copics and used up TONS of glittery Stickles.

The first two used gorgeous images from Lily of the Valley.  I had bought these with the idea of using them for Christmas cards, and it was a bit of a challenge since I wanted these cards to be multi purpose and not Christmas themed.  So I focused on using papers and colours that were more general.

This first one features some gorgeous Graphic45 paper:

And with a different piece of DP, at a different angle:

The second one uses some old DP from SU.  I used Tattered Angels glimmer mist to make the vanilla ribbon coordinate, and made the little flowers myself.

Finally, the last one features a Magnolia image of Tilda with the Violin.  I love this image since it is so versatile!

Back from a long break

I am finally back to blogland after a long break!  Not that there has not been creative output coming out of my craft room, but I have not been interested in fussing with photographing, editing, and posting photos, preferring to spend my time creating.  However, I miss the fun of sharing, and hearing all your comments and ideas, so back I am :-)

Today I felt like working on cards using my fabulous Thomas Kinkaid stamps.  I was inspired when looking online and seeing that Cornish Heritage Farms had finally re-released some of them, and seeing samples by their design team, so made a bunch of quick cards using them today.  I love it when the artwork lets me create a beautiful card in a quick and easy way!!

This first bundle are birthday themed, and involved no colouring:

These next few had minor colouring in the image, generally I picked one colour and item to focus on and give colour to, such as the flowers or water or a tree:

I see that CHF blog has a challenge to do cards this week in black, white and one other colour, so I am playing along with that challenge.  If I win a prize I already have a wish list for new TK images :-)

All the images were stamped using black Versafine on glossy card stock.  The colouring, where I did it was very carefully done with SU markers or else SU pastels.  My Copics make the Verfsafine on glossy card stock run, so I'm glad to dust these other colouring tools off and get a change to use them.