The Outlawz - CFC Challenge 19-26 Oct 2013

Back in the swing of things after my holiday.  It was a great week and very relaxing.  We had lovely sunshine for 5 out of the 7 days - not too bad for this time of year!

Anyway, back to my challenges.  My 2 digital freebies this week have given me a crafter's block.  What do to with a window and an empty wheelbarrow.  The designers examples had more or less done what was in my head.  I really stressed over this one.  In the end, I just went with what my head told me, so sorry if they are along a similar vein to the designers.

As well as the wheelbarrow, I used a previous free digi stamp, from a few weeks ago.  I also had a little stamp which says "If friends were flowers, I'd pick you", I thought this went well with the flowers.  Ah well, this challenge certainly challenged my little brain.

 

The second image was even more challenging - what do you do with an empty window?  I coloured the image background with brown distress ink, then I used my spectrum noir pens to colour the window and frame.  I then slit round the shutters with my craft knife so that they opened, but you can't see that very well from the picture.  I cut out a little window box from some spare card and put little flowers behind it.  Then I was stuck, I wanted it to look different from the DT.  Eventually I dedcided to add the little girl to give some interest.  Then I printed off 3 little plant pots and put some flowers on them.  I added "New" and "Home" to 2 of them before I printed them off.  Lastly I used a Spellbinders lattice die to put behind the image and added a threaded a piece of ribbon through it.  Hey Presto - end result was this.

 

 

I have entered these both into the CFC Challenge for this week.

Paper A La Mode - Challenge - 19-26 Oct 2013 - In the Cornfield

I have been away on holiday for a week.  I'm glad to be back as I missed all my craft stash.  Once I got myself organised, with the washing done, and everything put back in its place, I had a quick look at the Outlawz Challenges and thought I would have a go at this one.  Once I found my digital scarecrow, I manipulated it a bit in my graphics package and got a pumpkin as well.  I decided to make a stepper card, just for something different.  So here is my effort.  I was quite pleased with the finished result.

This is being entered into the Challenge.

The Outlawz - Tuesday Colour Challenge

The Challenge for this week was to use 3 colours, Blue, Marigold and Driftwood.  The twist was to use distressing ink or sponging.

So this one wasn't as easy as I first thought and I am not very impressed with my finished effort.  I have entered it in the challenge anyway.

I used yellow card and distressed it to make it more of a marigold colour.  I used a blue paper and distressed the edges with yellow.  I used a driftwood coloured card for the die cuts. I stamped a little flower onto the die cut and distressed the card with blue and marigold.  I also put glossy accents over the flower.  My photography is very poor, believe me, it looks better in real life.

The Outlawz - Friday Alcohol Markers

I wanted to do something other than Oriental, so given I live in Scotland, I used this thistle digi stamp and coloured it with Spectrum Noir Pens.  Its a very simple card with some matting and layering and a Tonic Die.  Piece of tartan ribbon and a little Greeting.

 

This is being enter into The Outlawz Challenge - Friday Alcohol Markers

Monday Greetings Challenge

Challenge - Monday, 23rd September, "Happy Fall Y'All"

So, this challenge intrigued me.  As I live in Scotland, we don't really celebrate fall or make a big thing of it.  We certainly have Harvest Services in Church, but its definitely not something that there is a big fuss made about.

Anyway, because we don't celebrate fall, I didn't have very much in my stash that I could use for this.  I have a "leaf" embossing folder, so that's where my inspiration started.  I embossed the template onto black card.  Once embossed I used gilding wax to colour the leaves brown, red and green.  I used gold gilding wax to fill in the areas in between.  Once complete, I quite liked the end result.  I matted this onto really dark red/brown card, along with a bronze matt and this helped to lift the gilding wax out.

I downloaded a digi leaf and cut them out in different sizes then coloured them.  I ruffled a piece of binding tape along the card and put a bow on it.  I then cascaded the leaves all the way down the side in different sizes.  I used my graphics package to make up a circular "Happy Fall Y'all" greeting, Here is the end result.  I was quite pleased with it.

Just seen some fabulous news of "The OUTLAWZ" page.  I have won my first site wide card challenge, for this entry.

CFC Freebie Challenge - 22nd Sept - 6 October

After completing my first 2 cards for this challenge group, I received my two new digi stamps on Sunday.  They were both floral images, and I initially thought this may be a bit boring.  However, I decided to bring the images into my graphics package and I played about with them.  I manipulated the arch to be able to put one at the top of an oval and the other at the bottom.  With the vase with the flower was a little more tricky.  I had to cut round the image to take away the white background, the I copied it twice to give me a trio of vases.  Both images have been coloured with pro markers.  My initial ideas did change lots on the way to the final versions.  Hope you like them.

Card No. 1

 

Card No. 2

 

 

Challenge now complete!

 

Challenge - Paper a la Mode - 21-27 Sept 2013 - Use Something Old

Well, here goes with another Challenge.  Anything to lift the boredom of unemployment.  The Challenge for this week is:-

This week Our Theme is 

USE SOMETHING OLD THAT YOU HAVE NEVER USED BEFORE.

and please tell us what the item is.

So, initially I struggled a bit with this, as anything I have bought, but never used, still seemed to me to be new.  However, from what I can see, I think the challenge is something you haven't used before, or you haven't used it in a long time ago. 

I used a spare bit of brown card and a piece of white card to make my layers.  The white card was embossed using a "word embossing folder", then I aged if with gilding wax.  My take on this challenge has also involved using some "New" stamps that were purchased about 10 years ago but have never been used.  I also used some pages out of an old book.  I used a butterfly die and cut it out of an old aluminium can.  It was coloured with Spectrum Noir Pens, then I used embossing powder on it, then finished it off with wire feelers.  I used a Marianne Flower die, (which I bought, then wasn't sure how to use) to cut out 2 sizes of flowers from the book page.  I used, yellow, green and brown distressing inks to colour the flowers.  Finished the flowers off using a little leave die and some old scraps of shiny paper.   I also used some self adhesive paper lace on it, which I bought from a Lakeland Plastics sale and have never used before.  All of the papers I have used have come from my box with all the left over bits and pieces in in.   I finished my card off using a piece of ribbon cut from the inside of one of my t-shirts.

Here is my finished card.

 

 

Here is a picture of some of the things I used on the card.

 

 

 





Materials Used:-

6 x 6 square card blank
Scrap piece of brown card slightly smaller
Scrap piece of white card cut smaller than brown
Create it square stamp used to make background paper
Page out of Old Book, used to make flowers
Piece of Old Aluminium Can
Paper Lace
Piece of ribbon cut from inside of t-shirt
Distressing inks
Peel Off "Thank You"