Crafting When I Can: Spesch Design Stamps

Friday, 13 July 2012

Crafting When We Can Challenges #22 - 1 image, 2 ribbons, 3 buttons

Everyone's feeling better now, and things are back to normal so here is my card for Challenge 22 over at Crafting When We Can Challenges. Our wonderful sponsor this challenge is

Spesch Designer Stamps

and were were given our choice of image. The image I chose was Birthday Girl by Max, I love the cute dungarees she is wearing and the careful way she is carrying her precious cupcake.

The papers are from a 360 page paper pack by K & Co. (love all the papers in this stack), the ribbons are from Craft Den the buttons are from my stash. The image is coloured with Promarker and Copics. Edges of the Tim Holtz mat were distressed with DI, bundled sage, it doesn't look as scruffy IRL.

I made this card while looking out at my wet, overgrown garden from the attic (my bedroom). I haven't got my desk up there yet (it's still in the box in the garage) but I do have a shelf wide enough to work on and after moving all my OH's stuff I managed to clear a space for my craft mat so slowly but surely I'm getting there. This year will be my year and I'm determined to get some space back from the OH and the kids.

Hop on over to the Challenge blog and leave your project with the blue froggy.

CHALLENGES
The Game - Patty Cake
Catch The Bug Challenge - Anything Goes
Victorine Stamps #38 - Buttons & Ribbons
Digital Tuesday Challenge #168 - Inside out, decorate inside of card
Clear It Out Challenge - Anything Goes

Sunday, 22 January 2012

Crafting When We Can Challenges #10 - Use something non crafty

The challenge over at Crafting When We Can Challenges is to use something you wouldn't usually use for crafting.

Our Sponsor this challenge is Trace over at

Spesch Stamp Designs

I have used the Spring Fairy Design for my card, she is supposed to look like she is coming out of a fairy glade with the foliage and flowers but I made the fern leaves too dark and they blend in with the background. My background is a piece of fancy corrugated card which they use at Ikea to put between some of their pot plant pots to stop them from smashing together. I have spritzed it with Crafty Notion gold and silver spray and then gone over it with DI but it came out really dark and as there is no contrast between it and the leaves it gets lost. It is also a rubbish picture and even though I took it under my daylight bulb it still looks dark to me. I really like this image and will be having another go at making this card but trying to make the fern leaves lighter and that might show off the background better. The flowers were made using K & Co papers, a spellbinder flower die and the Tim Holtz rose method and a few stickles to make them sparkle. The leaves were cut on my Craftrobo. I coloured the image with my Flexmarkers, which I bought myself for Christmas.