Penny Black Saturday Week 166

The challenge over at Penny Black Saturday this week is a lovely sketch which I have rotated to make this card.

Image is Scented Garden which I have colourd with promarkers.
Papers are from a Basic Grey Phoebe 6x6 pad
Flowers are from Hobby House and Wild Orchid Crafts
Leaves are a Martha Stewart punch
Doily is from Dolly Cottage crafts
Base card and white card are from Craftwork Cards

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Sarah Kay meets Basic Grey 6

This is the last one in this set, sorry if I bored you lol :)

It's Lily Kate again, with Hobby House pearls, aCraftwork cards base card and an embossed scalloped circle.

Ribbon is from my collection.

Sarah Kay meets Basic Grey 5

Heres the penultimate one in the series with more from the Lily Kate pad and flowers ribbon and pearls from my collection.

The sentiment is by Whimsy which came from the Hobby House.

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Sarah Kay meets Basic Grey 4

Here's another one in that series I made.

Base card and sentiment are Craftwork cards, papers are from the Gypsy 6x6 pad and buttons and ribbon are from my collection.

Decoupage image is by Sarah Kay.

The theme at Basic Grey Challenge is Anything goes, so I am entering this card.

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Sarah Kay meets Basic Grey 2

This was the mojo monday sketch last week but I was too late to enter it.

Image is Sarah Kay, Base card and other cardstock from Craftwork Cards.

Papers are Basic Grey Lily Kate Collection from a 6x6 pad, one of my favourites, it has so many different colour options in it too.

Pearls are from the Hobby House, the very faint sentiment is from a Hero Arts set, punched edge is a stamping up punch, ribbon is from my collection.

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Sarak Kay meets Basic Grey 1

Late last Saturday night I made up 6 Sarah Kay decoupage images and then spent most of Sunday, in between going out to buy benches and bathroon accessories, making them up following a few sketches that had been on various challenge blogs recently but which I hadn't entered.

I really enjoyed doing all of these because I love these images, hope you like them too.

Base card and scalloped oval - Craftwork Cards. Oval was embossed with a cuttlebug folder.

Paper is from the Perhaps collection and the flowers were cut out and embossed using spellbinders die Rose Creations.

Pearls are from Hobby House, inky edges are Wild Honey Distress ink and the ribbon is from my collection which is much more accessible in jars than it was on the pole.

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Best laid plans

I started making this card for a Basic Grey Challenge for Doilies and ribbon but coulldn't get the ribbon in as it looked too much, maybe I should have used poetic licence and counted the one in her hair. Then it could have been entered for last months challenge at Penny Black at allsorts but I never got round to entering it.

Anyway here it is and I hope that you like it

Base card is Craftwork Cards

Papers are basic grey from the sultry collection, doily is Susannah style from Dolly Cottage crafts, flowers and leaves have been punched from Basic Grey papers with a mixture of EK Success and Woodware punches and the centresare tiny papermania brads.

Stamp is Penny Black - Sweet Thing

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Happy Birthday Cieran

It's my great nephews birthday today, and if you hadn't already guessed he will be 5.

This is the card I made for him.

Cardstock and chipboard number are Craftwork Cards, papers are Basic Grey Colour me Silly, image is Lily of the Valley coloured with Promarkers.

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Happy Birthday Peachy!

It's Caroles birthday today and this is the card I made for her.

The image is by Lily of the Valley which I have stamped onto Craftwork Cards back to basics card and coloured with promarkers then highlighted with some art institute glitter which doesn't show up very well. The scallop circle is a nestability cut from bazzill card, papers are Basic Grey Lily Kate, crystals are swarowski, and the ribbon is from my collection. Base card is also Cratwork Cards.

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Basic Grey Challenge 38

This is my entry for the Basic Grey challenge blog, it's a sketch challenge and I've used Kioshi papers.

The main image is a Hero Arts cling stamp Blooming Meadow which I have stamped in Stone Grey Stazon and then coloured with Cloudy blue and lettuce Adirondack inks. I've used the stamp again on the lemon paper with second stamping of lettuce ink.

The flowers are by Mei Flower and the ribbon is from my collection. Card and sentiment are Craftwork Cards.

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Kaths birthday

It was Kaths birthday on Sunday, hope you had a lovely day Kath and this is the card I made her. Iused my new Penny Black Constellations stamp along with basic gray Euphoria papers, another favourite and a couple of nestabilities circles. Some Martha Stewart butterflies, lace and ribbon and a Paula Pascual stamp for the sentiment finished it off.

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Another too late for the challenge

This card is based around the sketch and stash challenge sketch but although I had it made intime it didn't get entered.

Base card is Craftwork Cards as is card I have stamped the image on, papers are all Basic Gey Gipsy,think you need a bit of brightness sometimes. Image is Lili of the Valley coloured with Promarkers and brads are Making Memories.

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Very purple

Here's a card I made for a birthday a week ago, it was very much to the wire as I had little or no mojo at the time.

The stamp is by Little Claire coloured in with Promarkers, patterned paper is Basic Grey Kioshi and the other paper I picked up at Once Upon a Stamp, I've overstamped it with a stamp from the Aspects of Design Fancy Flourishes set. Matt has been punched with a Martha Stewart punch. Ribbon flowers and brads are all from my collection and the base card is a Craftwork Cards back to basics and the sentiment is Craftwork Cards rescue words.

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Another stickeroo

I made this card from the bits that were still out from the Saturday Challenge card and used the sketch from a few weeks ago that I never got time to play with at the time.
So all the details are pretty much as before except that the overstamping is with Judikins Mince Flourish on this one and I have had the flowers for so long that I can't remember where they came from.

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Penny Black Saturday week 125

The challenge over at Penny Black Saturday this week is zig zags or triangles.

I have used a stickeroo with a zig zag edge from the garden poems sheet which I have matted onto some pink bazzill cardstock.

The background papers are from the Basic GreyKioshi and Porcelain ranges. I have overstamped them with a Magenta stamp in Memento Potters Clay and then gllttered with a quickie glue pen and some bright pink glitter from the Art Institute Rio set.

The sentiment is from Woodware, and the lovely zig zaggy velvet ric rac is Ithink by Maya Road.

Base card is by Craftwork Cards

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Lili of the Valley Challenge

The Lily of the Valley challenge this time around is a sketch challenge. This is the first time I have entered this challenge but had to make a card for someone at work and so thought I would combine the two and enjoyed the play.

The main image is by Lily of the Valley and is stamped onto the digital super smooth cardstock by craftwork cards and coloured with promarkers. Sentiment is from a 99p dovecraft set.

Papers are basic grey kioshi, flowers are prima and the pearl brads were bought form the hobby house when we were over in Tetney a couple of weeks ago. Ribbon is from my collection.

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Card for Peggy

This is a dreadfully wonky scan, I did mean to rescan it before I gave it to the recipient, ooops, but at least it looks straight on her shelf.

Papers are Basic Grey, stamp is from the Penny Black flowers and wishes set stamped onto watercolour paper and coloured with Marvy pens. There is some brown velvet ribbon across the middle but its not that visible, and some overstampingwith Judikinns mince flourish stamp to pull it all in.

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Penny Black Saturday 102

The challenge at Penny Black Saturday this week is lots of dots so I hope that my dotty paper, brads and ribbon meet the brief. I also found this stickeroo with dots on the parcel for the Penny Black image.

So base card is Craftwork Cards, Papers are Basic Grey Blush collection (an oldie but a goodie), dotty and letter brads are all Queen & co and ribbon is American Crafts. Papers have been edged with Pearlescent Poppy Brilliance ink to pull it all together.

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Scrapbook Sunday

Went for my usual look at the Penny Black Saturday challenge yesterday and was thrilled to see that my friend Kath was this weeks winner.

Here's another layout featuring some online scrapping friends when we me up a while ago for a great long weekend up near York.

Papers are Basic Grey Phoebe, felt is Queen and Co, title is American Crafts Thickers.

18 posts

Can't quite believe that I have managed 18 posts in the last month, I 'll be running out of things to show if I'm not careful. Good job I have a couple of days off this week

Here's another one of those mojo monday sketch cards. I actually did it on one of the tiny 3x3 cards from Craftwork Cards. Paper is Basic Grey, main image is Penny Black - Whispers stamped a few tinmes and coloured in with Marvy pens, sentiment is from a Woodware set.