Lothian Crafts December Challenge

This month's Challenge at Lothian crafts is Pink and Brown and theres a great Marianne Design Die to win.

My DT challenge uses a stamp from Joanna Sheen House Mouse range coloured with ProMarkers. The papers are from First Edition -Love letters, with sentiment and flowers from My Craft Studio.

Lothian Crafts September Challenge

The theme for this months challenge at Lothian crafts is 'handmade flowers'.
Here's my DT card:

I've made each flower using 5 x 2" squares of the main image folded into individual petals. The petals are then stuck together and a glitter brad placed in the cente. The backing paper is from First Edition paper Pad - Spring Feast and the sentiment is from MCS Violet CD.

Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

This months challenge over at Lothian crafts is 'die cuts' - for my DT card i've used die cut decoupage and card base from a Create and Craft kit. The oval decoupage has been mounted onto a die cut mirri board oval and placed onto co-ordinating paper.

Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

This months challenge at Lothian crafts is to make an easel card. This easel card was made using image and papers from Debbie Moores magazine volume 2.

Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

Here is my DT card for Lothian crafts monthly challenge, the theme this month is 3 flowers and 3 buttons. I've used a stamped Tilda image, coloured with ProMarkers and backing papers from 'My Minds eye'.

Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

This months challenge over at Lothian crafts is the theme 'Bright Colours' and a great prize of a Marianne Design Border Die to be won.





For my DT card I used a Joanna Sheen house mouse stamp for the main image, coloured with ProMarkers.
I used Sandstone and Blush for the mouse, Pink Carnation and  Powder Blue for the flower and Caramel for the oar.
The image was layed onto some blue card and then onto a piece of bright pink paper embossed using a 'polka dot' embossing folder through big shot.

I do like this card shape at the moment - but unsure it's called... I've used Hunkydory pink foiled acetate on the side panels attached with brads and finished the card off with a border ribbon from my stash, 2 paper flowers with the greeting put over the centre and a pink bow.
 

Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

Here's my DT card for this months challenge at Lothian crafts. The theme is 'Pastels' and there's a great prize to be won.

I've used a tilda stamped image, coloured in with ProMarkers and some backing paper and flowers from my stash.

Someone Special - Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

The theme for this months challenge at Lothian crafts  is a card for someone special and there is a great prize to be won.

For my DT card I decided to get inky and have a break from all those Christmas cards. I created the background using distress inks (Worn lipstick, faded denium and dusky concord) on watercolour card, blending them with cut and dry foam. I then stamped a tulip image from a Joanna Sheen stamp plate onto water coulured card and coloured with Distress inks - Barn door, marigold and Pine Needles. I then tore around the image and painted it with Rock Candy crackle paint.

Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

As it's the first of the month there's a new monthly challenge over at Lothian Crafts - this is my DT card. There's a sketch to follow for the theme and great candy to be won.

For my card I used one of Joanna Sheen's frame stamps, which I've embossed with Sheena Douglass 'wow' embossing powders in black. The flower is also a JS stamp coloured with ProMarkers. I've used a DCWV paper for the background and the flowers have been cut out of some pattern paper I had in my stash and Stickles added t the centre.

Lothian Crafts Monthly Challenge

This is my DT card for Lothian crafts monthly challenge. The challenge for October is 'Christmas', so it can be anything you like as long as it is christmas themed and with great candy to be won it's a great reason to get another christmas card made.

I decided to make an easel card shape and use the Skating Santa and Teddy from Joanna Sheen's Giordano Christmas stamp range.
I decided to have a go at braying for the main image: I roughly tore a peice of paper in half at a curve and masked off the top half of my piece of glossy card. I used the blue half of the Waterfall Big N Juicy ink pad to create the lake, which was alos sprayed with Spray and Sparkle. This was then masked off using the other half of the paper i tore and I used the greener end of the Big N Juicy to create the look of grass and then sky. As I used glossy card I stamped the trees in Stazon ink and also the Santa and Teddy. I then stamped the Santa and Teddy again onto some white card and coloured them in with ProMarkers, these were then cut out and layed over the stamped image. This means that you still have the effect of the full stamped image without having to figure out how to cut out some of the fiddly lines.

The image was matted and layered onto co-ordinating paper and mirror board and then onto some white card that I'd inked with the same Big N Juicy ink pad. The border and base paper are from the Crafters Companion CD Adorables. I added a greeting and an extra stamped teddy image, which has been layed onto a mirror board scolloped circle.

Why don't you pop over to Lothian crafts and have a go at this months challenge.