Sweet Napkin Card

Hello friends - thanks so much for stopping by - I am happy to say I am back in The Studio after a few uninspiring weeks due to being between a State of Emergency, packed ready to evacuate or Watch and Alert with the Bush Fires.  I finally managed to create a card using one of the many serviettes/napkins I have stashed away - who can resist these sweet strawberries?!

I have used layered the napkin onto a Scrapbook Adhesives BY 3L 6" x 4"Adhesive Sheet and added a Kaisercraft Die cut across the centre of the card front, along with a strip of red and white spotted patterned paper along the top of the Die cut.  

Little Birdie Crafts flowers and a butterfly have been added to the card front - the die cut bow behind the flowers is from Spellbinders.  I think I had better get the other Napkins turned into cards - very soon! I have not added a sentiment as the card can be used for many occasions - including up and coming Valentines for those who celebrate.

This card is linked to the following challenges:

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Color of Love

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Paper Minutes - Valentine's Day

Artsystamper Challenge - FLOWERS

 Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar - Use Die Cuts / Punches

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - FLORAL FRENZY

Creative Fingers - ALWAYS  ANYTHING GOES 

QKR Stampede - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES

Crafty Creations - Always Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes 

Sisterhood of Crafters - Newly Acquired Stash

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes 

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

Get Creative Challenges - SOMETHING NEW (Die)

A Bit More Time to Craft - Always Anything Goes
A Perfect Time To Craft -Always Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
Creatalicious Challenges - Anything Goes with optional add a snowflake

Creations in Pink - Anything Goes in Mainly Pink

Die Cut Divas - New Things (Die)

DL.Art Linky Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge - Anything Goes

Papercraft Business Challenge - Anything Goes

Sognando Scrap - Anything Goes with Red and White

Tales From The Craft Room - Something New

The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenges - Always Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

                                                          {{{hugs}}} and happy creating

Smile

Hello friends, today I am sharing a card created using a Penny Black Inc Collage image - I do love these stamps - colouring them - so easy and so pretty - we all have times when we need a quick card but want it to have that WOW factor - this is when collage images come into their own.

  Fold 24cm x 12cm white card stock in half to form the card base. Cut/emboss Spellbinders Nestabilities Hemstitch Squares Etched Dies Romancing the Swirl Becca Feeken

 using Authentique Paper. 

Stamp the image using Imagine Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black Ink.  Colour the flowers using Chameleon Pens.  Add the coloured image to the card front using Scrapbook Adhesives BY 3L 3D Foam Squares.

Using a Chameleon Pens.Blender Pen, go around the outside edges of the coloured image, allowing the Blender Pen to ‘blend’ in any areas that have gone over the lines.  This will add a soft ‘hue’ around your image.

Adhere a computer generated sentiment to the top left hand corner of the card front, using Scrapbook Adhesives BY 3L E-Z Adhesive Runner Ultra.  Adhere Want2Scrap Blue Rhinestones to each corner. 

This card is linked to the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - O IS FOR ONE WORD SENTIMENT 

Craft Rocket Challenge - Pink

Brown Sugar - ANYTHING GOES

Arty Diva's Challenge - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES 

Lemon Shortbread Challenge - Anything Goes

Scrapper’s Delights Challenge Blog - ANYTHING GOES

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky - Feature a Creature (Butterfly)

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week - Anything Goes

Paper Shelter - Anything that Flies

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes

Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

                                                          {{{hugs}}} and happy crafting

                                            

Uniquely Creative Guest Designer - Fairytale Wishes

Hello friends, welcome and thanks so much for stopping by!  I am excited to be a Guest Designer for this months Stamp and Colour Kit for Uniquely Creative - Creative Kit Club-   Kits and the Fairy Take Wishes Collection.  A total change of pace for me, but so much fun to create with - three different cards with three different stamp sets - all with co-ordinating dies!!

 Uniquely Creative Products Used

 Castle Fairy-tale Clear stamp set, patterned paper, metal caps.

Other Products Used

White card stock, paper trimmer, scissors, double sided tape, foam squares, glue dot, black dye ink, acrylic block, Chameleon Markers, Glitter Pens, liquid glue, comouter generated sentiment

You can see the video of this Collection HERE.

This card is linked to the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes 

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes

The Fairy and The Unicorn - Anything Goes 

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Jo's Scrap Shack - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES 

Colourific Challenge - Anything Goes

Scrapper’s Delights Challenge Blog - ANYTHING GOES

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Simply Create Too - ANYTHING GOES (NO TWIST)  

Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes

Craft Rocket Challenges - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

                                                          {{{hugs}}} and happy creating

                                      

A Little Creative News - Check It Out!!

Hello friends, thanks so much for stopping by.  I am excited to be FINALLY able to share that I am joining some of the most amazing Artists in the Little Birdie Crafts Design Team - you can read all about it below - direct from the Little Birdie Blog. :D

Hello crafty folks,

We are enthralled to welcome abroad our lovely new Design Team for 2018. We would like to introduce to you 10 extremely talented and passionate crafters from around the globe who are going to inspire everyone with their extraordinary creations. We must admit that it was a herculean task to narrow down the team from the large pool of fabulous applications that we received. Thank you to everyone who sent in their projects and we wish to continue to see your jaw-dropping creations.

This year we have had many interesting developments and have added a whole new range of Mixed Media products, Embellishments, Handmade Flowers, Paper packs and more! Our Design Team members will primarily focus on our New Mixed Media Releases and gorgeous Handmade flowers and we couldn’t be more excited about that! Our team members come from nine different countries with tons of creativity and out-of-the-box ideas. We are looking forward to sharing exquisite tutorials that each one of them will bring to the table over the next six months and hope that you will join us in welcoming them!

Without any further wait – let’s meet and hear from each of the members:

Hello, I am Anila Dikay from Mumbai, India. I have worked as an interior designer for many years and then moved on to teach Arts and Crafts at Bombay Cambridge School, Mumbai. Currently, I am a full-time crafter and a homemaker. Among paper crafts, Stamping and Card-making are my strengths. I love working with Little Birdie Craft products and have hands-on experience with many of the products. I am extremely excited about being on the Design Team and create unique and inspiring projects.

Hello! My name is Annie. I live with my husband in the French province of Quebec. Now that the kids are not home, I am having a lot of time to craft. Scrapbooking is not only my passion, for me it is a way of life. I love playing with mediums and add textures to my layout and altered projects. Flowers are my favorite ornaments. I am very proud to be a DT member for Little Birdie Crafts! I am looking forward to having loads of fun and sharing my love for flowers through my creations.

Hello, I am Bela Shah and I am into art and craft from the time I was a child. I love creating with oil paints, acrylics, water colors and pencil sketches. I enjoy Calligraphy, Indian folk paintings, Mixed Media Art, Decoupage, Home Décor panels and Altered Art. After I resigned from my corporate job in 2006, I am turned to crafting full-time and have no regrets. I am super excited to be associated with Little Birdie Crafts team and looking forward to inspiring others with my creations.

My name is Ezmé Hartman. I live in South Africa in the Winelands District on a farm, with my husband and eight cats. I am a multi-facetted crafter who specializes in scrapbook layouts as well as mixed media projects and journals. I tutor crafts and scrapbooking at various shops and clubs. I am delighted to be on Little Birdie Crafts Design Team and looking forward to having an amazing experience.

I am Kathy Clement, and I have loved paper ever since I can remember. While I am primarily a card maker, I also love to create mini albums, canvases, altered art and even scrapbook layouts. My most recent crafting obsession is designing interactive folios. My style is decidedly vintage/shabby chic with lots of layers, embellishments and ribbons to add loads of texture and dimension. I was drawn to Little Birdie Crafts when I saw their gorgeous, realistic flowers and their lovely primed chipboard. I’m very excited to be on the Little Birdie Crafts Design team, and look forward to sharing lots of crafting tips, tricks and techniques with my fellow crafters.

Hello, I am Linda from Down Under (Australia). My love for crafting was since I started knitting at the age of 6. I have gone from being addicted to obsessed with paper and anything associated with it – and I am not looking for a cure anytime soon! I love card making, scrapbooking, altered art and mixed media. I love details and lots of embellishments – so I am excited to create with fabulous Little Birdie products and would love you all to be a part of my creative journey.

Hi, I am Mariusz Gierszewski and live in Central Poland. I love papers, flowers and scissors. I am passionate about scrapbooking, card making and have recently tried my hands at Mixed Media. My favorite styles are vintage and shabby. I travel a lot to conduct crafting workshops and I wish to visit India someday as well. I am very excited to be on the team and create with Little Birdie’s incredible products.

A big hello from the bottom of the world. My name is Michelle Frisby and I live in New Zealand. I love to create with paper, cardstock, paint, mists, gesso, metal dies, canvases, flowers, chipboard, off the page projects. I love adding ‘bitsers’ to my creativity. When I’m not at work, friends and family know that I am happy to be in my craft room, my messy crafty space. I am looking forward to work and play around with Little Birdie Crafts products.

Hi, I am Olga. I am a Polish crafter, currently living in Germany with my husband and son. I have been crafting for 10 years now and I am also a designer and a Mixed Media Art teacher. I love romantic style, bright and light fairytale, shabby chic style and heavy vintage grunge. I also enjoy making home décor and multi-technique projects. I am in love with the mission and the work that Little Birdie Crafts does in India and super excited to be part of this amazing journey.

 Hello, I am Ruth aka Nuneka Box, from Spain. I have been crafting for a long time now and it all started with making albums for all my photographs. I am extremely passionate about Mixed Media and Altered Art. And I’m not afraid of trying and experimenting with new things. I am a Nature photographer and love clicking little creatures, animals and landscapes. I believe I am blessed to have great sense of colour and composition and a special eye for details.

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy crafting

Recycled - But First...Coffee

Hello friends - thanks so much for stopping by - if it was IRL we would have a coffee together and all things creative - how lovely would that be!  It is a drizzling Sunday here and we are loving it - and desperately need it infact - so I thought it would be a great time to share a little recycled Coffee Humour with you - brace yourself! Wink:wink!!

I have had the cow image for a long time and decided to fussy cut (hand cut using scissors) and pop it up onto a negative Die from the Spellbinders Shapeabilities Swirl Frame Etched Dies On the Wings of Love Collection by Joanne Fink - using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares - don't you love those funky swirls!  I used the original Die HERE.

The layered image has been popped up onto a card front - using patterned paper designed by the lovely and talented Trudy Sjolander.  The paper reminded me of a meadow of grass and flowers - perfect for the crazy cow!! LOL!  All of the layers have been adhered to the pre-cut card base using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L E-Z Adhesive Runner Ultra.

 A computer generated sentiment has been trimmed and adhered onto the negative Die.  A coffee has been added to the image - what more does it need!?

This card is linked to the following challenges:

Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes+ optional: Share Your Favorite Technique

Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

Imagine That! Creative Playground - Year Round Link Party

Create With TLC - Anything Goes 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes 

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Jo's Scrap Shack - ANYTHING GOES

QKR Stampede - ANTYHING GOES

Simply Papercraft - ANYTHING GOES

CCEE Stampers - Funny Cards

A Snowflakes Promise  - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy crafting

Love You Beary Much

Hello friends - thanks for stopping by today.  It is Monday here an although 30C degrees we have been having the odd thunderstorm - love it and the much needed rain it usually brings - especially after yesterdays high temperature of 40C degrees.  But a nice excuse to be in The Studio with the fan on and tuning out.

Today's card has been created used a recycled image - I believe it came from some wrapping baby - this little dear was too adorable not to have a new lease on life!  The bear has been adhere to some recycled cardboard and and fussy cut/ hand cut using scissors.  

It has been popped up onto a cut/embossed Nestabilities Oval Bliss Etched Dies using cream card stock and the Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine. 

A flower from the Shapeabilities Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Flowers Etched Dies has had  the centre sponged using Imagine Memento Ink in Tangerine and is adhered onto some leaves created from using a flower from the Shapeabilities Layered Poinsettia Etched Dies, it has been cut in half to create smaller leaves.  A Want2Scrap Pearl Brad has been added to the centre of the flower.  A handmade butterfly embellishment has been coloured using Chameleon Pens and glued to the top of the Oval Bliss Die.

The card front has been embossed using the Wedding Ring Stitch Em-bossing Fold'ers Quilt It by Lene Lok and been lightly sanded and popped up onto a slightly larger pre-cut card base.  Want2Scrap Baby Bling - Le Creme Pearls - have been added to the corners.

This card is linked to the following challenges:

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes with a Critter

Just Us Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Animals - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Friends Challenge - For a Girl or Lady

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

A Gem Of A Challenge - Happy Anything...

Paper Creator's Crafts - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations January Challenge - Cold and Frosty colours

The Corrosive Challenges - Always Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Weeks - Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy crafting