Inspirational Card Sketches

This week at ICS we have been sponsored by ...

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge. Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice.

 I actually used my 'fake H2Os' (which were bought from the works a few years ago for £1.99 :)) to colour this image and am please with the way it turned out.

Image - Robin's fetish 

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat 

Flowers - Prima

Lace, brad and glitter -  from my stock

 Thanks for looking.

 

Sir Stampalot

The theme for the Sir Stampalot challenge this month is "A Winters Tale" and guess which numpty went and signed up to Mr Linky but forgot to upload her card (sorry Brenda :))

Anyway, I just had to use this gorgeous little snowperson.

I bought the decoupage sheets just before Christmas but had made all of my 'little ones' Christmas cards so thought I would use it for the challenge. I went and bought the papers to go with the sheets from Nitwit Collections and will get the rest of the kit too. They have some fabulous papers etc on the web site, I could spend a fortune! The background paper and the frame are from Craftwork Cards and the sentiment is from Pink Petticoat.

Thanks for looking.

New year, new challenges

Well Christmas is well and truly behind us at Scruff's Corner. The tree came down yesterday and all the decs are now put away for another few months (well that's what it will seem like anyway!)

It is challenge time again on the ICS blog after our short break. It's a colour challenge this week as well as a sketch challenge and we are sponsored by Pattie's Creations

We look forward to seeing what you come up with as you join us in our challenge :) Don't forget to leave us a link so we can come and take a look.

Tfl

Happy new year

I've seen this idea on a few blogs and thought I would give it a go this year.

January

February

 

 March

 April

 May

 June

 July

 August

 September

 October

 November

 December

 So there you have it, my year in craft :)

ICS #95 and DT call

 We will be having a break for Christmas over on the ICS Blog so won't be challenging you for the next couple of weeks. This week is a fab sketch by Stacy (DT member) and it's a goodun :) We are sponsored this week by Catherine Pooler who is an Independent Stampin Up demonstrator. Catherine is giving the winner One Free Month of Club InBox. Members get what no one else gets….exclusive videos and tutorials, teaching you techniques, seasonal projects, mini-albums, cards and more. All projects will be new and Catherine only shares them with club members!

 

Papers are magazine freebies
Lovely bear stamp is from Lili of the Valley
Promarkers

Inspirational Card Sketches DT Call 2011

It's time again to search and welcome new talent to the team. We are searching for 4 Designers who are willing to inspire others.

Design Team Requirements

1) Meet deadlines and provide their take on the sketches weekly. Which are provided well in advance.
2) Must be able to work with digital images and supplies from our sponsors.
3) You need to have a blog.
4) Term runs from Jan 4th - June 28th 2011.
5) Previous Design Teams experience is NOT required.

Compensation

1) Free supplies to wor with from sponsors. But not always.
2) NO financial compensation for this position.
3) Your photo and link to your personal blog will be placed in the sidebar.

How to Apply

Email 3 photos of your best/favorite cards to jusmakncoffee@yahoo.com no later then December 28th, 2010.
   1) 2 cards that are you absolute favorite or best.
   2) 1 card using Inspirational Card Sketches.
In the subject line post ICS DT Call 2011
Include in the email:
  1) Your name
  2) Blog link or address
  3) Any Design Teams you are on and your terms for them.

DEADLINE:

December 28th, 2010 @ 11:59 pm Central Standard Time USA
The call is open to everyone

Christmas time....

mistletoe and wine...........I think that's enough of that one :)

I hope you all had a good weekend. Has all the 'fluffy white stuff' gone from where you are? Ours has and we are now back to green. I wonder how long it will last though as more is forecast for Thursday and temps are set to plummet again! I wonder what the country has learnt from the last three weeks or so and if they will put it all into practice :) Probably not and everywhere will end up gridlocked again lol

Below are the cards from an order I received last week. I managed to get them all finished by Friday and they are now all packed and ready to go.

The cards are made from an assortment of decoupage toppers and papers by Nancy Watt and Papermania. I've added the odd die cut here and there, a few gem, lots of Glamour Dust and typewritten sentiments. I hope you like them :)

Back soon, thanks for looking. xx

So little time.........

tee hee! I don't seem to have looked up from my work at all this week, as soon as I have finished one order another one is ready to begin.

It has been absolutely treacherous getting to work this past week or so but at last we have colours back instead of everywhere being white. I can't believe how quickly it has all gone!

I have managed to get a lot done again this week and as well as filling orders we now have the business name on the window which looks super good. It's all care of Nikki at DewDrop Craftz......she has made a damn fine job of the lettering, thanks Nikki.

So onto my work. On Monday I made extra invitations, guest book and post box for one of my brides.

Purple has been quite popular this year but it has looked totally different at each wedding, it looks very regal and it's a colour I enjoy working with.

Tuesday was the Inspirational Card Sketch challenge day. I had some wedding anniversary cards ordered so I decided to use the sketch for one of those.

Assorted materials were used including the fab papers and flowers from Nitwits freebies in one of the craft mags. I have a couple of the collections bought from Nitwits but it is so difficult to choose which ones to buy as they are 
all just fab. I might make it my new year's resolution to go and buy at least one kit per month :))

Wednesday was just as creative lol and I can't remember what I did as well as the snowman poo, snowman soupl and reindeer food which were being collected by my cousin who owns a hairdressing salon in town!!

I'll leave it there and come back later as I now have to get ready for work.
Enjoy your day and if you can make it last for a few extra hours rather than the normal 24 I will be very grateful
:)
TFL

Kathy's Waffle

Sketch File part 2!! Well just look at me....it's the second day of the month and I have created another project using the fabulous sketch for out challenge this month :)

I chose one of Anice's wonderful word books to work with for this month's challenge and instead of making the word book I chose to use the papers in the kit to make a card instead (see post below) I should have known that I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation for very long and yesterday and today I made a book from it lol

I'm really pleased with the way it's turned out and if you look hard enough you will see Kathy's Sketch on the cover.

I even made the envelope to put it in! I have just added a few die cuts, ribbon and lace, a couple of rub ons and the digi stamp on the front (which is from D Z Doodles ) and that's it, nothing else needed...well I don't think so anyway.

I am going to add this to the Daring Cardmakers challenge and their theme this week is "Spots & Stripes", and the Allsorts Challenge whose theme is "Monochrome" I might also try and sneak it into the Get Funky challenge as they have used Kathy's sketch this week too.

Thanks for looking and if you are anywhere which is suffering from adverse weather conditions as we are in the UK then I hope you can stay warm and safe.

Take care.

Kathy's Waffle

Sketch file not only have another of Kathy's fabulous sketches to play with, we are fortunate enough to be sponsored by Funky Hand with some of Anice's gorgeous papers. The girls on the FHDT have played along with the sketch too and I really can't wait to see how they all use it (and pick up some tips :))

 The delightful little image is from Pink Gem Designs which I printed onto beige card and onto spotty paper and paper pieced his hat, scarf and ric rac on his arms and legs. I used micro buttons for his button and a mini red button for his holly berry on his hat. I finished my card off with tiny punched snowflakes and pale blue gems. This card makes me cold just looking at it.

Please take a look at the fabulous creations by the rest of our small but perfectly formed DT, you won't be disappointed :) We hope you can find the time to join us this month and look forward to seeing your work.

Take care and keep warm :)