Alter a box

Time is going so quickly these days, we are already back to our Altering week at Try It On Tuesday which, of course if your the lucky winner of our challenge, which is to alter a box, you could be spending your prize of £15 at our sponsor's The Craft Barn.  I made this oragami box with T. H Vintage Shabby paper stash papers. I altered it later by adding an additional sheet on the lid of the box, punched a pretty pattern mid way  down on the lid, which doesn't show here. I then secured some white ribbon. From the same paper stash, I drew around the outside of a masking tape roll, for one flower, then on the inside of the same roll for the two smaller flowers. I then completed them using the spiral method, which you will find in my Papercraft Tutorial blog.  I then completed the box, ready waiting for me to add a gift, with a punched out round label, stamped 'With Love' and added a few swirls. I look forward to seeing your altered boxes, I'm sure there will be some amazing ideas.

Come Fly With Me (4)

Oops! only two days to go for the remainder of the Come Fly With Me month at St. Luke's Charity Card Challenge  this is my 4th card, supposed to be one per week, but a bit late with my little Lily of the Valley fairy from Joanna Sheen. I've kept this one fairly clean and simple and have left space for someone to add a greeting of their choice. I believe she was in the pack I sent to the charity a week or two back. I coloured the fairy with Promarkers for her skin, and shades of greens from my Distress Inks - watercoloured. I'm looking forward to the next challenge wondering, will I manage 4 again? Keep up the good work ladies.

A sketch with a flower

This is the last of the Flower series for the month chosen by Jacqueline, who has chosen a sketch. Please hop over to the main blog at Make My Monday , not only to see the sketch but the other wonderful samples from the design team. The Top 3 will also be announced for the lovely tags entered this last week.
I didn't concentrate on the flowers maybe as much as I should, but I love the silhouette stamp from Debbie Moore and wanted to try what I call a negative /positive result. I stamped it twice, once with black, once with Spiced Marmalade onto yellow patterned paper,then  cut out the flowers and butterflies and stuck only part of them back onto the black inked area from the original setting. The backgrounds are text stamp from Creative Expressions and the swirl stamp is of unknown origin, a grey rubber stamp which is very useful.
T.H Distress inks used are Spiced Marmalade, Scattered Straw and Mustard Seed. I look forward to your sketch designs according to a recent Feline Playful poll, sketches are supposedly highly popular, so come on girls, let's see your beautiful interpretations, don't forget to include a flower.

Spots and Stripes

Over at Crafty Carmaker's the Challenge this week is Spots and Stripes, this leads my brain to thinking of a bright fun element. I hope I have achieved it with this card.

I recently bought a pad of colourful summer papers, which provided the pots and stripes on my card. I’ll be hiding this one away from my OH, I’ll keep it for his birthday.  A die cut oval, with the dreaded peel off to give contrast. I stamped the golfer from the Flippen Men series, by La Pashe. I coloured him in, using Promarkers and watercolour pencils. I hope the sparkly finish, with glitter glue shows on the glass of beer. I look forward to popping onto your blogs to see what you do with the spots and stripes. Check it out for the winner will get a fab prize from our sponsors. Thanks for any comments left on my blog, I do appreciate you took the time.

Lilac and Green

I made this card as an example for my class tomorrow - I am working my way throught the alphabet of crafting techniques etc, for the letter P this week the theme is "What more can we do with Peel-Offs?" I know cross your fingers and and whisper Peel offs, not my personal choice, but they can be dressed up.
I sprayed the green background with Cosmic Shimmer Mist,  used a peel off butterfly onto vellum, adhered with a glue dot. I painted inside the peel off with Dusty Concord, Peeled |Paint and Forest Moss. I used the Dusty Concord to shade the edges and Peeled Paint to shade the edges on the green background.
The colours of the card just happened to fit in with the challenge over on Tandastamps which is Lilac and Green, hope my purple shading isn't too dark. The sentiment is from Elusive Images.

Fun in the Sun

We are challenging you to capture the sun with your free project today at Try It On Tuesdays  all the information along with some super work from the design team is on the TIOT blog. This being the third week in the month, you can enter any type of project as long as it represents the theme of - The Sun.
For my project, I felt the need to construct a scrapbook page. I used a tea plate and saucer to draw around for the centre of the sun,  played around until I had drawn the sun rays in different sizes,  cut out all of the papers and matting backgrounds. I stamped the title Fun In The Sun with Royal and Langnickel Ransom alphabet stamps. The papers are from the Sunshine Pack from Paprmania Capsule Collection.
Various elements added to the rays. The photo is of two of my grandsons enjoying the sun in Lanzarote.
I'm looking forward to seeing your sunny entries this week. Have some fun in the sun whilst your crafting .
I am also entering the LO into
Papertake Weekly challenge  -Here Comes the Sun
Stamptacular Sunday  -Fun in the Sun - the title has been stamped, please see above.
Pollycraft Challenges - Holidays/Vacations

Sentimental Spotlight

The challenge for the next two weeks in the Spotlight at Crafty Cardmakers' is to make your project where the main focus is on the sentiment. There are some fabulous examples made by the DT.
For the sentiment, on my card,  I chose a Crafty Individuals stamp Hope, for I am sending this to a friend, who is not very well. Her favourite colour is green, so I used green hues with contrasting cream and gold. I distressed the paper, then used mica powders, green, yellow and blue to colour the sentiment. The green shiny card is from my stash, along with the flowers.