Gruffies are great!/Arty Girlz

I got a couple of the new Gruffies stamps from House Mouse so thought I would use it on a birthday card I needed to make.The Arty Girlz challenge this week was open so you could do whatever you wanted. I think I will enter this card.
The image has been stamped in black staz-on and coloured with watercolour pencils. I have used papers which were free from Crafts Beautiful a couple of months ago. The papers were attached to and A5 blank and the image matted onto some brown Bazzill cardstock. I cut a smaller piece of the Bazzill for the greeting and attached both the image and the greeting with foam pads. These new Gruffies are so cute.

Sunday Stampers/Arty Girlz challenges

This card has been made to incorporate both the Sunday Stampers "Faces" challenge and the Arty Girls "Handmade Background" challenge. I have used glossy card and alcohol inks to create the background paper. The stamp is from Paper Bag Studios and I have stamped this in black archival ink. I took a cream A5 blank and matted some Rustic Gems paper onto it. The image was then matted onto some rose coloured Bazzill cardstock which was then attached to the card using foam pads. I cut another mat of Bazzill and mounted this on foam pads below the image. I then added a peel-off greeting.I love messing about with alcohol inks and these PBS stamps are just fab! Need to make some more cards in this style I think.

Arty Girlz challenge

I got two sheets of stamps from Paper Bag Studios recently and have been itching to make something with them.The challenge from Arty Girlz this week was to use ribbons, which I have just a few of :0). I have stamped one of the images from the Home sheet onto an alcohol inked glossy paper that I made the other week. I punched two holes in the right hand side of the image and threaded through some green ribbon. I love this stamps, it is one of my faves.I have taken a close up of it to let you see it in more detail. I have matted the image on foam pads and placed it on Basic Grey Lilykate paper and cut another piece of this for the greeting, which is a peel-off that I have coloured black. Both pieces of the Lilykate paper were then attached to the A5 card blank.Hope you like it.

Arty Girlz & Fat Book Challenge

The challenge from Arty Girlz this week was "Chocolate" and the Fat Book Challenge on Craft Swap Forum was "Glorious Food". As choccie is one of my favourite glorious foods I decided to do a page that incorporated both. It meant that I had to open one of my Easter eggs- the sacrifices I make in the name of craft :0). I have covered the page with the gold foil the chocolate was wrapped in. Then I took my scissors to the wrapper and placed the image of the chocolate truffle on the page. I cut out the "Heaven" from the wrapper and laid it over the page, just underneath the choc. YUMMY(the chocolate bar is yummier)!!!

Arty Girlz/My Paper World #6 challenges

I have used a sketch from My Paper World for this card. I love these sketches, they give you such great ideas for cards. The Arty Girlz challenge for this week was "Stars" so I incorporated some on this card as well.
I covered some white cardstock with Adirondack Dabber in Pink Sherbet and then stamped the stars with a Cranberry Dabber. I then matted this onto the card together with some HOTP textured paper, following the sketch design. I then cut a strip of pink Bazzill cardstock and matted this across my two sections. I stamped Baby Millie from Sugar Nellie and coloured her in with Marvy Le Plume pens. I mounted her on some 3D foam and placed her on the pink Bazzill. Finally a co-ordinating strip of Anita's Sticky Ribbon and pearlescent card with a Best Wishes peel off on it. Hope I have done the sketch justice!