Time to Celebrate

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Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Pearls

The card size is 7 x 5 white card base, a piece of pattern paper layered onto pink glitter card.  Using a  WRMK corner chomper I rounded the corners of all my layers as well as my card case.

The sentiment was stamped with archival ink in coffee as I thought the black was a little to harsh.  I made my border using patterned paper out of the same paper pack, layered onto a grey card stock and the border edge was made using a corner punch then I added the pearls.

I used some gel sparkle pens and spectrum pencils to colour in the hair.  

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Items used :-       

Image - Buttercream Babe - Mad Hatter Digi Stamp

Pattern paper from Dovecraft Designer Pack - Funky Vintage

Spectrum Noir Blending Pencils

Cosmic Shimmer pva

Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A & B Dies

Grey tone Card stock

White card stock

Pink Glitter Card stock

Sparkle gel pens - assorted colours

Adhesive Pearls

Double sided tape

Sentiment from Angelica and Friends Florence set

Ranger Archival Ink - Coffee

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Karen Xxx

Shaving Foam Card

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: No Designer Paper

On my card this week I used a background die and cut a strip out of my card and placed a piece of lilac card stock behind it and also you can see the die in the below photo.

 

My pearls are done using the Cosmic Shimmer Coloured pva glue and also the corners of my card.

My background paper is using the shaving foam technique using distress reinkers, this was the first time I have done it and I really enjoyed this technique. 

I used a spellbinders die to cut my image and also cut out a lilac piece to mat my image to.  I coloured this using my Spectrum Noir pencils and went round the outside edge with dusty concord distress ink.

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Items used :-       

Image - Fairy and Baby Dragon

Spectrum Noir Blending Pencils

Cosmic Shimmer Coloured pva - Purple Violet

Cosmic Shimmer pva

Spellbinders labels 28  

Tonic Clematis Vine - Simply Screens Die

Lilac Card stock

Encaustic Card Stock - white

Shaving Foam

Distress Reinkers - Evergreen Bough, Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry, Shaded Lilac, 

Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord

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Karen Xxx

Happy Christmas

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This card I made and used it to apply for Creative Expressions DT Call last month, I unfortunately didn't get shortlisted this time but there is always next year.

I kept it a red and white theme running through my card and a little crystal glitter glue.

This is a die I got free with a magazine a few weeks ago and it cuts beautifully.

I think I will keep this card and give it to my mum and dad for Christmas, usually I put them in a box and give them to my local favoured charity.

Items used:-

Red and white card stock

Spellbinders - Fancy Lattice, Layered poinsettia and A2 matting basics A & B

Couture creations - Wild poinsettia embossing folder

3,5,8 mm White Adhesive pearls from Creative Expressions

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

1mm 3D foam tape

Happy Christmas die from Creative Dies

Dovecraft crystal glitter glue

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Karen Xxx

Charity Cards

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Here are a few cards I have ready for my local charity shop

Marie Currie

I don't know whether its my area but I find handmade cards so hard to sell here, so I decided to donate them to charity.

My mother had bowel cancer about 14 years ago and thankfully it was caught in time and she didn't need any treatment.  We didn't need these lovely nurses, but you never know, and as they are not government funded they need all the donations they can get.  Also my aunt but she wasn't so lucky and palliative care was needed.

These will be dropped into my local shop and hopefully when they put them out they have a higher success rate than myself.

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Karen Xxx