Sleepy bear Christmas

I’m back making another Christmas card again in March…. It is cold enough to make me think its the right time of year for Christmas. Maybe next month it will be warmer?

For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #670 is All Dressed Up (ADU). The theme this week is “Christmas”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

  • Digital image from ADU
  • High tack glue
  • Base card – 300gsm
  • Coloured pencils
  • Glamour dust
  • Background paper
  • Pencil and paper stumps for shading
  • Sentiment strip

I love this digital image and have used it before. It doesn’t take much colouring, but is coloured with coloured pencils and cut to a square topper. It helps that polar bears are white I guess!! I’ve chosen some subtle colours which tone in with the background paper that the image is matted onto. To add some sparkle to the image (as it is Christmas) I used a quickie glue pen and some glimmer dust.

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read your comments. Please let me know whether this has inspired you!

Debbie x

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Love is in the air

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.

On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #652 is All Dressed Up (ADU). The theme this week is “Anniversary/Wedding”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

I created a background on the base card just using gesso and on top of this added a backing paper which was again blue, but not what you would imagine of a sky. Under the hot air balloon I added some silver thread as well as every cloud has a silver lining.

The hot air balloon was coloured with pencils, but in vibrant colours, and I fussy cut it out so that it was floating in the sky.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

  • Digital image from ADU
  • Pencils
  • High tack glue
  • Card base – 300gsm
  • Gesso
  • Silver thread
  • Blue patterned background paper

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

Shaped card

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.

On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #646 is ADU. The theme this week is “Shaped Card”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

The shape of my card on the surface appears to be a square, but it’s not just a square it’s an easel card.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

  • Digital image
  • Pencil crayons
  • High tack glue
  • Card base – 300gsm
  • Distress oxide ink
  • Cloud stencil

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

Sleepy bear

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.

On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #642 is ADU. The theme this week is “Christmas”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

I chose to do a simple card, but actually feel that it’s gorgeous as it is without the need for dressing it up with any embellishments! I simply used some coloured pencils for the scarf the sled and his ear, and an HB pencil and paper stub to give shade. I then matted this onto red and a pattered background paper on a white card.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

  • Digital image
  • Colouring pencils
  • High tack glue
  • Card base – 300gsm
  • HB pencil
  • Paper blending stub
  • Backing papers
  • Paper trimmer

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

A host of golden daffodils

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.

On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #634 os DRS Designs. The theme this week is “Spring”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

I printed this image 3 times onto white, light yellow and deep yellow card. I fussy cut the petals from the deep yellow card and some of the petals from the lighter yellow card. Around the petals I added some ink to add some depth of colour and raised the lighter coloured petals with some dimensional glue. The white card I coloured the sky and the leaves. I layered the daffodil circle onto some circular die cuts.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

  • Digital image
  • Colouring pencils
  • High tack glue
  • Dies
  • Card base – 300gsm
  • Distress oxide ink
  • Happy birthday rubber stamp

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

Shaped Card

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another DT challenge.

On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #633 is ADU (All Dressed Up). The theme this week is “Shaped Card”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

I coloured this image with coloured pencils and cut the image out. I die cut 2 shapes from layering does and cut out a shaped base card and added contrasting coloured distress oxide ink.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

  • Digital image
  • Colouring pencils
  • High tack glue
  • Dies
  • Card base – 300gsm
  • Distress oxide ink
  • Happy birthday rubber stamp

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

Shoes….

Hi everyone. I’m a little late with this post, but better late than never!

On to the DT challenge and the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #630 is All Dressed Up. The theme this week is “Female”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

For this one coloured the image with pencils, and cut the image out to layer onto a background. I inked the background and layered this under a die cut in black. I think it’s quite striking, but allows the topper to still stand out.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

  • Digital image M printed onto super smooth card
  • Backing paper from my stash inked with distress oxide inks
  • Colouring pencils
  • High tack glue
  • Distress oxide inks
  • Metal die
  • Black card
  • Card base – 300gsm

I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.

Debbie x

Winter vibes

We are now into February, where has the last month gone?

The sponsor for the CRAFT challenge #625 is ,All Dressed Up (ADU) and the theme is Winter. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:

  • White 6×6” 300gsm base card
  • Pink heavyweight paper
  • Digital image
  • Chameleon pens
  • Die cut snowflakes
  • Snowflake aperture die
  • Text background stamp
  • Distress oxide ink
  • Gems

For this card I stamped the text background stamp onto the base card. I also cut a piece of pink paper to mat onto the base card, and out of this I cut a snowflake aperture. Once I had coloured the digital image with Chameleon pens I cut the deer out. I’ve also distressed the pink paper with text and distress oxide ink to give more of a focus to that panel.

Thank you for stopping by, please leave a comment. X

Children’s card

The sponsor for the CRAFT challenge #618 is The Paper Shelter and the theme is for the children. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

So here’s a summary of the materials:

  • Black 300gsm A4 sheet cut, scored and folded to make a base card
  • The Paper Shelter digital image
  • Die cut sentiment block and flourishes
  • Tacky glue

As always it’s lovely to see that you’ve stopped by to leave a comment. Thank you.