Craft Roulette Episode 199

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This week's Craft Roulette, with Mary Gunn Funn and Heather Telford, had the following parameters: 

Project: Card with bookmark

Colors: Bakery

 

Element: Large animal(s) (sorry, the giraffe stamp from Wplus9 is discontinued)

 

Random: Add horizontal lines

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Craft Roulette 147

Yesterday's Craft Roulette Episode 147: 

Parameters: 

Grey background plus 3 (red, blue and yellow - I mixed blue and yellow for the grass), 

a bunny, 

a bookmark, 

and a swag (this is an Aussie/Kiwi style swag)

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Hero Arts Global Team Instagram hop

 The Hero Arts global team is hopping on Instagram today - there is a Hero Arts voucher up for grabs, so make sure you visit my Instagram account and hop along!

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Bookmark for A Blog Named Hero

 This month, the challenge at A Blog Named Hero is to make a shaped project. I used one of the large tag shaped bookmarks included in the March My Monthly Hero kit to make this bookmark.

 

 I used inks from Catherine Pooler, with a Hero Arts/Gina K collaboration stamp set, and a sentiment from "You Shine".

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Bookmark for Paper Rose

 This project for Paper Rose is a bit outside my comfort zone. It is not a card, I used ribbon, I used coloured pencils, and (this one is the most unlike my usual style) I used olive green!

 

I used the Hanging On stamp set from the Snugglepot & Cuddlepie series from Paper Rose Studio. I coloured it with Derwent pencils. I cut the white panel so that it was straight at the top and bottom, but fussy cut around the image in the middle, then I added it to a navy mat and then to an olive green bookmark. I punched a hole in the top and added some ribbon and twine from my stash.

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Bookmark at A Blog Named Hero

The challenge at A Blog Named Hero at the moment is "Anything but a card" - this is outside my comfort zone, so I've stayed pretty simple with a bookmark!

I used the Jungle Bold Prints stamp, white embossed and then inked with Distress Oxide Inks. I cut the word "congrats" from the Congrats Happy Stamp & Cut set from some teal cardstock and also from the bookmark to do a die cut inlay. I finished with a stamped sentiment and some ribbon.

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Bookmark for A Blog Named Hero

There's a new challenge at a Blog Named Hero - Anything but a card! I rarely make anything other than cards, but when I do, I like to make bookmarks!

I decorated this bookmark using a background stamp fromm Hero Arts, white embossed and coloured with Zig markers and water. I added a die cut "hello" sentiment and ribbons to the top.

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Guest designer for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

I am very excited to be a guest of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps for June!

 I absolutely adore this "Bookmark Bits & Pieces" stamp set - maybe because I am a member of a bookclub and often make bookmarks for my bookclub friends! The bookmark is made using a punch from Stampin' Up.

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Guest designer for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

I am super excited to be a guest of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps for June!

I totally love this quote from Dr Seuss that Korin has included in the "Bookmarks Bits & Pieces" set. It's hard to see in the photo, but I added some curvy lines of pale colour from top to botttom. They're not in rainbow order (I love rainbows, but when the colours are not in rainbow order, I start to twitch) because they're in the same order as one of the images in the book "Oh, the places you'll go!"
I wanted the little ladybird to be sitting on a leaf, so I used a leaf image from the "Fantastic Flowers" set.

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CAS-ual Fridays: CFC 186

Hello! The new challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to make anything but a card, so I've made some bookmarks!

I started by stamping the images from CAS-ual Fridays Mon Ami stamp set in waterproof and Copic friendly black ink (I used Hero Arts Intense Black) onto some blank bookmarks I had in my stash. I painted on some Distress Ink mixed with water over the stamped images very loosely, and dried the images with my heat gun. I then added some definition with Copic Markers in some pale reds, oranges and green. I finished with some linen cord at the top of the bookmark.

 Make sure you visit the CAS-ual Fridays challenge blog to check out the rest of the design team's projects!

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Challenge me a Christmas Card 11

Welcome back to my series, "Challenge me a Christmas card"!  I asked my friends, family, workmates, choirmates (anyone really) to set me a challenge for a Christmas card. It could be a colour, a theme, a subject, a technique, anything!
My cardmaking friend in Germany, Christine Drogt (owner of Create a Smile Stamps), challenged me to make a tag with silver embossing, and my workmate, Trisha, challenged me to use a non-traditional colour scheme (her suggestion was silver and purple). I went with a mash-up of both.

 This one was quite hard to photograph - partly because of the glitter "merry", and partly because of the unusual dimensions - long and narrow.

I will be sharing this project at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - the theme is Christmas to die for (ie use die cuts)

I'll also be sharing this card at Time Out challenge, where the theme is Christmas with an optional
twist of glitter or shimmer.

Thanks for visiting me for my "Challenge me a Christmas Card" series - I'll be back with another challenge card soon!

Mary Poppins birthday card

My friend Di's birthday is this week.  She works as a nanny, and she sings (I know her through choir - actually, multiple choirs!) So I decided to make her a Mary Poppins bookmark and card for her birthday.
Gotta love it when you have an idea for a card or bookmark or whatever, you make it, and it turns out exactly like you wanted. Awesome.

I made the bookmark first, and loved it so much, I decided to make a matching card.  And when I had them both together, I danced a little jig, I was so happy with how they turned out!!

I made a video of how I made the card - here 'tis!

PS I apologise for the video being a little bit dim in some parts - I made it in the evening, and I don't have a studio with special lights or anything, I just do my best with what I have :)

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Bookmark to match a card

I posted a card for A Blog Named Hero a couple of days ago (you can see it HERE), but I decided to send it with a bookmark as well, so I made one to match.

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Masculine bookmarks for A Blog Named Hero

I have a post up today over at A Blog Named Hero - all about bookmarks for boys.  Here's a sneak peek:

Drop on over to A Blog Named Hero to find out all the details.

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Bookmarks

I recently made a bookmark for each of the ladies in my bookclub. 

I punched the top of the bookmarks with Stampin' Up Tag Topper punch.  I used various different washi tapes for the background. I then die cut the names out of the background using either Lawn Fawn or PTI letter die cuts, and also out of a contrasting colour. I then stuck the background piece and the letters to a white base card, and added some ribbon and twine to the top.  

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Bookmark CASEing Kelly

I saw a bookmark made by the amazing Kelly Latevola earlier this week, and I decided I needed to make one like it!  I pulled out the same stamp set, and pulled out my Copics, and got stamping and colouring, but I decided that I wouldn't go back and look at Kelly's magnificent creation (see it HERE) to jog my memory of the exact details, because then I would just end up copying hers!! All I remembered was that she used the Hero Arts Butterfly and Flower stamp set, and coloured them with Copics.  Mine turned out much simpler (and not nearly as awesome as Kelly's!)

I'll be submitting this to Keep it Simple's bookmark challenge (where you will also find Kelly's completely fabulous entry - please go and give her some love!)  And, because I used a tag topper scalloped punch from Stampin' Up, I'll also be submitting this to Virginia's View "Tags and Scraplings" challenge.  My recycled item is the short scrap of gingham ribbon, which was originally wrapped around a gift I was given last year. 

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