Sweet Heart

This covers two challenges

Caarvarks - XOXO LOVEFEST BABY LOVE

Are you ready for our next February Love Challenge? It's all about BABY LOVE...link us to your baby cards by Thursday at Midnight, and we'll add 'em to the Baby Love Gallery. and

Di Hickmans Sketch

Card Sketch February #1 - Wednesday, February 6, 2008

I've used quite strong colours for baby card, just thought the papers needed a contrast! The papers are cut and adhered like in the sketch, I've used HOTP stitches rubber stamps to do the zigzags, and I pricked around the heart and used pigment pen to fill in stitches. Stamped little fancy pants flower on heart and adhered on gem.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dimensional Lilac

I have covered two challenges with this card...

The DCM - Paper pesto Template

This week dare is an extra special one! Paper Pesto are entirely sponsoring this weeks dare AND providing a spot prize for one of our lucky darer's too!

with the challenge over at Suzanne's blog...

As you may or may not be aware I love the colour lilac.... your challenge is to make a card with this colour on it.I don't mind what type of card or what layout as long it has lilac somewhere!!

Really went to town with the lilac. As I had lilac die, thought I would try it in shrink plastic... which I sanded, coloured with ink pads of varying shades and shrunk the individual pieces. To put together I covered the base with glossy accents and laid the little flowers into it, while the glaze was still wet I poured over some glitter. I just left it to dry and was very pleased with the result, it feels strong enough to be jewellery.

The window I used rub ons, sticky sheet I covered in glitter which difficult to see in the photo and adhered to acetate. The butterfly is a dimensional sticker from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by, HuGs x

Arty Girlz Frame

I've just realised I have a card finished, not yet posted that will be great for the Arty girlz challenge...

Challenge #20 ~ Frames

This week's challenge is 'Frames' so you could use cardstock to make a frame, do a stitched frame, a buttoned frame, alter a frame, doodle a frame.... there's so much you can do for this challenge

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This is a slightly unusual card and it gives me pleasure to be able to create a card specific for that person and occassion. Lets hope they like it...

The frame I created with my nestabilities, the cross was embossed with brass stencil in metal mesh. I used the frame to cover the sharp edges, all raised on 3d foam.

The praying hands were die cut and layered. I edged the sleeves, ordination sentiment and the patterned paper with gold pen. The '40th' I used double sided sticky sheet and use gold leaf to give a lovely effect, which worked really well.

I kept to quite a simple design, there is no specific colour for this occassion, so hope this works!

Thanks for stopping by! seem to have filled today with lots of posts. Must be on a roll, very thrilling! HuGs Kim x

DCM - Doodles

This week, I would love your little extra card to be a little doodled border on your card, be it dots, stripes or little faux stitches.'

I can't beleive I'm actually on time, not early granted but I discovered that I really enjoyed this Doodling. Could quite easily sit and doodle endlessly all day, very relaxing and Fun....

My doodles started by going around the edge of the circles like in the tutorial and then I decided the card needed a doodle frame, then the doodle frame needed to continue to the inside edge. Then the sentiment needed some faux doodle stitching, then to finish off I doodled a twirly squiggle to create a border for the patterned paper and I inked all the edges.

Thanks for Stopping by! HuGs Kim x

Blooming Beginning!

This weeks challenge over at Papertake is...

'Blooming Gorgeous!'

it's to use floral embellishments on your projects! These could be Prima's, silk, wire stemmed, die cut, handcut etc! etc! So please join us again this week and help make all our crafty blogs 'Blooming Gorgeous'!!

Ok, so this isn't actually finished yet, I started it last night and I'm so pleased with how it's developing. There are lots of elements on it. It's like a little peice of art that I intend to give to my mum. So I'm enjoying taking my time...

I've die cut and punched each flower layer and raised on 3d foam and glittered and added gems. The butterfly is also die cut from shrink plastic which I stamped, inked, chalked and shrunk. Affixed each part with glossy accents.

I still have more to finish but just wanted to show it so far!

Thanks for stopping by! HuGs!

Love Birds

Di Hickmans Wednesday Sketch

I went for unusual colours this time. The birds I cut with paisley dies and assembled drawing on their eyes.

The background I created by cutting heart template from thin copy paper (you can see in the pic how pretty the paper is now). I then stamped floral Anna Griffin stamp through. When dry I chalked the edges with blending chalks to highlight the shape. It looks a bit fussy and the technique developed while making the card! So I will try again better!

Thanks for stopping by! Kim HuGs x

Sending Love

Caardvarks Valentine's and DCM - Red and White

Caardvarks - It's February! We've been waiting and waiting for February! Wanna know why? Because we have a month's worth of weekly challenges all about *LOVE*. We've teamed with Queen Kat Designs to bring you some fun challenges. We'll be posting a new challenge every Friday. We're going to be moving quickly so be sure to check back often.First challenge - VALENTINES

DCM - "This week's and next week's dare are team dares - and we've decided to go nice and easy on you guys, as the past few dares have been pretty tricky ! This week, we decided on a colour combination for a change. We want you to design a card using only RED AND WHITE on your cards- it doesn't have to be a Valentine themed card - it can be any theme- as long as use incorporate RED and WHITE on it. So there you go ! Not too bad really eh? We look forward to seeing what you come up with."

This was a great dare, I really enjoyed the challenge. I stamped the red base card with white ep using fancy pants pollen dust frame. I then embossed with par avion postmark.

I cut the rectangles in patterned red and white paper and a white textured card. Then raised on 3d foam. I die cut the love sentiment and used with thin foam pads.

The Heart I was really pleased with, I have been trying for ages to get this fun flock to work well. I covered some grey board with red paper and then layered with double sided sheet. I die cut the heart removed the prtective film and poured red fun flock all over. I needed to rub the flock to get really good coverage.

Thanks for stopping by! HuGs x