Best Wishes Card

Hello and hope your Friday is going well. Over at Craft for the Craic this month, the challenge is "Wings". 

Today I am showing a card I made with a combination of stamps, dies, papers, embellishments and an embossing folder!

I die cut a heart out of some Kraft card, and then embossed the rest of the sheet of card. This was layered onto some beautiful My Minds Eye "Oliver" glittery paper.

I used the house, windows and doors from the Simon Says Stamp "Where the Heart is" collection. I used some Promarkers to colour them in to add some colour that would co-ordinate with the rest of the card. (I only recently bought some Promarkers, so this is my first project to colour with them yet...!!)

I used some blue and cream embellishments - a butterfly bead (Wings), flat backed pearls, buttons, beads to add some detail on the embossed card.

I then die cut a frame from some more My Minds Eye "Oliver" paper, and also cut the banner. I used a stamp set I got free with a magazine for the sentiment and used a wooden veneer heart for the right hand side.

This card is for some friends who recently moved house. If you are crafting and it matches the theme for Craft for the Craic, why not give the challenge a go?!
I am going to enter the card into the following challenges -
Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge SSS Brand Product (The house stamp is from the "Where the Heart is" set)
Wags 'n' Whiskers - Lots of Layers
Creative Card Crew - Embossing
Whimsy Images - Colour an Image

Thanks for Stopping by,
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Eithne :)

Craft for the Craic Challenge #2

Hello, thank Crunchie it's Friday :D :D :D Today the new challenge over at Craft for the Craic begins. This month, in honour of St. Patrick, our Irish patron saint, the theme is:

Our challenges are open to ANYTHING crafty or arty - cardmaking, scrapbooking, altered art, crochet, knitting, sewing, baking, painting, drawing, candle making, jewellery making, whatever makes you craft or be creative we would like to see it!

I made a folder as a gift for a friend. (they have yet to receive it as I'm making cards to fit inside!)

This started out as a rather large sheet of SRA3 card (450mm x 320mm) which I then folded and cut down to the final size of 260mm x 150mm.

Here are some side profile pictures.

I round cornered the edges, and corner punched some green card for the front. I die cut a doily from a Sizzix Bigz die.

I then proceeded to embellish - 

I embossed a tag, and used a wooden word 'live' to it. I undid the twine on the tag and threaded through a flower and button.

I used a strip of the left over base card for the punched border in the background.  I punched and die cut some flowers of different shapes and designs, layered them and used either flat backed pearls, buttons or swirls as the centre piece.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Why not visit the rest of the design teams projects -

Michelle - Emily - Katya - Geraldine - Pixie/Margaret - Sylvie

or give the challenge a go?

Have a wonderful Friday and a fantastic weekend :)

Happy crafting,

Eithne :)

Birthday wishes to Anita :)

Happy Birthday Anita! Today's post is part of a surprise blog hop for Anita. It is her birthday today, and as a surprise all her design teamies made a birthday card. This is the card I made:

I was spoiled this Christmas with beautiful gifts, a lot of them crafty stuff :) How blessed I am! With a few new supplies, I decided to try and incorporate them. I got this beautiful washi tape, and HAD to use it. The colour combo is not one I would usually use, so I decided to work with it.


I embossed some grey paper with one of my favourite embossing folders - Cuttlebug honeycomb folder. With some pink art paper I punched the edge with a Martha Stewart punch ( I used this same punch for the border on the inside sheet)

Using my Sizzix Framelits 'Label, Ornate no. 2' I die cut with the largest and 3rd largest die. I cut the smaller shape for an opening, and folded it back on itself. I purposely used double sided paper to show the reverse side. (I normally can't stand to use double sided paper as I feel it's such a waste to hide one side when it's stuck down!)

I stamped the sentiment onto some white board, and die cut it out. I got some pink bakers twine and threaded through the tag die cut, and also looped a charm through it.

For the bottom right hand corner, I added three buttons and a flat back pearl, in colours to complement the card.

Please check out all the other beautiful cards on the surprise blog hop, from my design teamies!

Lucy

Lisbeth

Net

Debs

Rebecca

Teresa

Lynne

Nicola

Sian

Darcy

Ashley

Fiona

Jacqui

Me! ====> You are here!

Pam

Sylvia

Sara

So Anita, wishing you a wonderful day, and hope today is a great day, filled with laughter, fun, happiness and LOTS of cake. ;)

Eithne

x

Sketch Challenge at Eclectic Ellapu

This week over at Eclectic Ellapu we have a sketch challenge.

I have to warn you all, this post is going to be photo heavy and very little text. It's my birthday weekend, and I am relaxing for a change!! ;-)

So here is my card, why not take part in the challenge?

Sorry for the bad lighting, I'm going to have to stockpile all "photo shoots" for the bright days, to get the best shots!! ;-)

 This card was made with a combo of Oriental kits, which I received from a very kind friend. I have been trying to find something to make so I could use the papers, so I was delighted I got to 'play' with these!! :)

Thanks for stopping by, and hope you have a great day!

Eithne

Sketch challenge

This week over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges, the challenge is a sketch.

Sketches can be a love/hate relationship with me sometimes!! But once I saw this one, I knew I would love it. As you might have noticed I LOVE LOVE LOVE my 'scalloped circle lace die', and thought it would fit right in with the circle. I also have a tendency to do banner style designs with washi tape, and let me tell you, this week was no different!! ;-)
This week it is Team A vs Team B, our monthly inter team challenge. So please, do pop over and vote for your favourite. The sponsors this week are Penny Black

and Stitchy Bear.

As it happened, this weekend was a crazy one for us! My youngest brother James, had his 21st birthday party, so I decided to make a card, following the sketch for him:

I used a brown board for the back, and used my *favourite* die, (any guesses??!!) "Scalloped lace circle die', using some green paper I recently bought (his favourite colour is green) As per usual, I have no embellishments that suit a card for a male, so I had to dig deep!!

I used a kraft tag, and cut out a slightly smaller size cream piece of card and embossed it, using my Happy Birthday folder. I then lightly smudged some blue and green ink over the raised letters to highlight them. I cut out the two digits out of glitter foam.

With the twine, I threaded some alphabet beads spelling out 'JAMES'. I attached some honeycomb greyboard that I inked in brown (really need to get some more of this honeycomb!!) and attached it with two pegs. I used some washi tape, and cut it to give the bunting look, to tie in with the sketch.

 I cut some cream card, and used a ribbon punch to punch out the slots, and then threaded some music printed paper through (James is a drummer and loves music). I used a combo of buttons and flat backed pearls around the scalloped die. I took the printed sentiment from a lovely scrapbook kit that I recently bought second hand.

Thanks for stopping by, and hope you are having a wonderful Monday! Why not give the challenge a go?
I will be entering the card in some challenges.
Anything Goes - http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.ie/
Emboss like a Boss - http://anyoneforanya.blogspot.ie/
Music - http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.ie/ (the strip of music paper)
Cards for men - Tag - http://cardsformen.blogspot.ie/
Lots of layers - c is for challenge - http://cisforchallenge.blogspot.ie/
Simon Says Stamp - embossing - http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/challenge-embossed/


Eithne

New Challenge at Eclectic Ellapu

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope you are having a lovely weekend, wherever you are.

This week over at Eclectic Ellapu, the new challenge is 'It's Sentimental', with the main focus being on the sentiment.

This is the card I made:

I used some beautiful Japanese inspired papers, they are so lovely, very iridescent and shimmery.

I used a tag, and layered it behind and on top with the sentiment. I used the wonderful Indigo Blu stamp range, and stamped the sentiment onto some cream torn paper in brown ink.

I used this beautiful butterfly charm, attached it through the twine on the butterfly, and used a sticker for the roses. The edging I found at the bottom of a paper pack, thought it looked nice and also added a bit of texture to the card!

These flat back pearls (? I'm not sure if that is what they're called!) just finished off the corner.

Hope you like the card, why not give the challenge a go?

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
2 Sisters - Sketch
A Gem of a Challenge - Use two backing papers
Simply Less is More - Use a Rubber stamp
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes (closed)

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a wonderful day :)
Eithne

Sisterly love!

Hello everyone from a beautiful and sunny east Ireland :) hope the sun is shining wherever you are.

In the past two months I have been lucky enough to catch up with my two older sisters. Both live far away, but we still managed to get more than a few snippets of conversations in while they were "home"! It is truly wonderful to reconnect and catch up with sisters after some time of being away.

My sister Emily's birthday was the end of April but I didn't get to see her until the weekend. This is the card I made for her.

I used vellum paper, beautiful glittery cupcake paper, pink embossed board, buttons, washi tape, Tim Holtz Bigz label die, flowers, outline stickers.

I only had a white oval shape, but needed it to fit in with the cream or colours. I used a blue ink pad to ink it up, to match in with the rest of the card. I LOVE the effect and colour!

I LOVE all the summer, fresh colours :D  I have looked at these papers (the printed vellum and the glittery cupcake paper) for months, and never got around to using them! I was so glad to combine all the different papers and boards to complement each other.

I hope you are having a great day! Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment! :)

I am going to enter these challenges-
Lots of Layers Cutie Pie Challenge
Colour challenge Stamp and Create blog
For a special lady Whoopsie Daisy Challenge
Anything Goes, 2 patterned papers Clear it Out challenge
Summer is Coming LEJ designs challenge
Mothers Day or Pink Shopping our Stash

Eithne