crafts 4 eternity recipe challenge #27

Hello

Happy Easter!

I hope you are all have a lovely Easter weekend!

Time for another Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge. Next week the challenge moves to Fridays 9pm so this will be my last Sunday C4E post!! The DT Gallery is fabulous again this week!! we have the lovely Debra joining us this month as Guest designer!

Check out the challenge and DT Gallery HERE.

I don't really send Easter cards so this week I have made a layout! The Photo is of my 2 munchkins taken last April at the school's Easter Bonnet parade.

Th PP are sooooo old!!! They are from Paper Adventure and the date on them was 2003!!! The CS is Bazzill and American crafts and the title is felt Thickers. The buttons were punched from CS with a Martha Stewart punch.


Have a lovely day!!
Thanks for stopping by
hugs
Michele
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Hoot Hoot!!

Hello Happy Monday!

I was in the mood for trying something new the other week and needed a card for my uncle, my first attempt turned out a bit too Teen Rock for a 40 something grown man lol! better for his almost 16 year old son lol!

Here's what I ended up with!

I grabbed the new MME papers which have just come into the store, a pack of crate paper rub-ons from my stash some Bazzill CS, sticky fixers and sharp scissors to create this 3D card.

I love mini cards!! I made this little card for one of my DT girls using some gorgeous MME papers from the Quite Contrary collection. The lovely Tilda has been coloured with Distress inks.

The card itself is cut with a labels nestie.

Have a lovely day thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Michele

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crafts 4 eternity recipe challenge #26

Hello again!

Time for another Recipe challenge from Crafts 4 Eternity!! This week we are sponsored by Crafty Sentiments

Hop over to the C4E Blog HERE to see the challenge details and Fabulous Design Team Gallery!

This weeks recipe is to use the sketch, add some brads and reverse something!!! Each of the girls have reversed something different so there are lots of ideas for you!

So what did I reverse?? I did a technique called REVERSE APPLIQUE!!! I love how techniques used in different crafts such as sewing can be used in cardmaking and scrapbooking. I have been looking at how I can use techniques for making sugar paste flowers could be used to make flowers for papercrafts!

So basically you create a window or frame with what should be the top layer as the second or bottom layer, simples as the meerKat says lol!!

To make the butterfly piece I cut a square of CS cut out a butterfly shape using a stencil then placed onto some PP. I hand stitched around the butterfly, added some hand stiched details to the wings and finished with beads and brads.

The Other pieces were created the same way but machine stitched. The PP in these pieces is flocked and oh so stroke-able!! lol!!
Th PP is the new GCD papers called Homespun Chic I mentioned in the previous post, beautiful papers with flocked sheets, glittered and lacquered! Definitely a tactile collection. Also in the collection and sitting in the stock room are brads, buttons, felt flowers, paper clips and transparent shapes from the collection! Yummy!!
Have a lovely Sunday! Thanks for stopping by
Hugs
Michele
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crafty sentiments sketch #11

Hello!

It's my last week as Guest Designer for Crafty Sentiments! Hop over to the Crafty Sentiments blog HERE to see this weeks challenge and DT gallery.

This week we were asked to use a sketch and buttons.

I am loving having my sewing machine out! can you tell lol!! The image is from Crafty Sentiments coloured with distress inks. I have coloured a 2nd butterfly and added it on top to add some dimension. The beautiful PP are from GCD Studios called Homespun Chic. This is a new collection I have bought in to Crafts 4 Eternity and is so pretty! It's very tactile too! The sentiment is a new ticket design I am working on, what do you think? The flower is a version of one of the tutorials which will be appearing on the new crafts 4 eternity blog soon!!

Back soon with the crafts 4 eternity recipe challenge!!
thanks for stopping by
hugs
Michele xxx

crafts 4 eternity recipe challenge #25

Hello!

Another busy week has just flown by! Realised the other day that my boys break up a week Thursday and Easter is 2 weeks away! It really feels like time flies by lol!!

This week over on the C4E Recipe challenge the recipe is

1. Use the sketch

2. Use some note paper

3. add a butterfly

Flutter over HERE to peep at the stunning DT Gallery!!

You would think that as I plan these challenges I would have no problems lol!! Could I get the notepaper to look right ummmm no!! Then I forgot the butterfly!! Just shows that you can't rush things!!

Ok so I used the cute Penny Black image again, but he really is a sweetie!! Coloured with distress inks and a "touch" of glitter glue!

The PP are the new MME quite contrary papers which we will be using today at the C4E crop. The page kits will be available next week from the c4e store. The Sentiment is one of my digital sentiment spots available HERE. I have printed it onto Kraft CS, love the look of black ink on Kraft!! My little butterfly is punched using a Martha Stewart punch (and glittered!!) the flowers are punched Bazzill using MS Cornflower punch and finished with a MME Brad (in the page kit!)

I'm off to the Crop!! Have a fun day I'll be back soon with the crop layouts and a couple of quick cards I did this weekend.

thanks for stopping by

hugs

Michele

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crafty sentiments sketch #10

Morning!

Time for another Crafty Sentiments challenge. Hop over HERE to see the DT gallery and challenge.

This week we have a great sketch to follow plus the added challenge of using monochromatic colours!!!

I went with brown for my card and used a cute Penny Black stamp. The PP are new in to C4E From MME (will be available next week!) I slipped in a piece of K&co too!! The flowers were made using a Martha Stewart cornflower punch.

The image was coloured with Distress inks (Vintage Photo)
Back shortly with the C4E Recipe challenge!!
Thanks for stopping by
hugs
Michele
xxx