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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Inspired by a song 🎵

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good festive season however you celebrated. It’s now a new year full of new challenges and new inspiration! Hopefully you can take a look at older posts and find inspiration there too. Since this challenge is about being inspired it’s fitting that this is my first challenge for the year and has the theme “inspired by a song”.

So I chose the song “flowers” by Sweet Female Attitude and it is also my mums birthday this week so I chose this for her. She can’t have real flowers due to her allergies, but she does like them.

For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #664 is All Dressed Up (ADU). The theme this week is “inspired by a song”. 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
• High tack glue
• Base card – 300gsm
• Coloured pencils
• Backing paper
• An edging die to add the border to the topped

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

Debbie x

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

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

Sparkly penguins!

Christmas isn’t far away now, and I know some of you will be thinking enough already, but actually I feel that after everything everyone has been through it will be nice if we can have a normal Christmas this year.

The sponsor for the CRAFT challenge #617 is ADU and the theme is Christmas. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.

This is more of a contemporary Christmas card with the bright coloured hats and scarves and the dotty base card. I coloured this image with some coloured pencils this time as not everyone has fancy pens or watercolours so now and again it’s nice to show different colouring mediums.

The snow effect was achieved with some fake snow and also some glitter glue so there is some texture as well as sparkle.

So here’s a summary of the materials:

• Grey and white polka dot 300gsm A4 sheet folded to make a base card and cut to size
• All Dressed Up (ADU) penguins digital image
• Colouring pencils
• Iridescent glitter glue
• Fake snow
• Tacky glue
• Black card as a mat, slightly larger than the focal image
• Christmas Wishes sentiment

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

TTCRD anything goes challenge – 19th October 2021

The sponsor for this challenge is ADU. Each week we invite you to join us at the Through the craft room door blog, the theme is always anything goes!

I chose to use an ADU image I already had. The image is coloured with Chameleon pens (NU1, NU4, NU0, NU00, NG4, OR4, NU2, YL2, YO3, YO2) plus Chameleon fine liners (GR2, YO3, BG1, NU3, RD5, BG3, TD5).

As always, I hope that you like the card. It’s lovely to see that you’ve stopped by to leave a comment. Thank you.

Debbie