Card for Alison

I hope I am not too late, having a crazy week here, have missed so many challenges and deadlines, my reason my sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on Thursday, but the poor thing wasn't well and was on high dose iv anti biotics so the whole family have been so worried and I have spent all the time by the phone and my brain too frazzelled and worried to craft.

Here is the card I have made for the WOJ Illustrator Allison using the passion for promarkers sketch (promarkers have been used), I hope she and you like it. Papers are basic grey wisteria.

Confirmation Melinda

I was asked to make a confirmation card and well there is only one stamp to use confirmation Melinda.
She has been coloured in copics and then mounted on to papers from the DCWV once upona time range and then cut out with oval nesties and surrounded by lots of flowers, i wish you could see all the glimmer mist on them.
I hope that you like xxx

challenges -
woj - diecuts

Snowflake and Willow

Gosh it is so dark today isn't it. This was the best I could get with these cards and you can't see all the highlights in the hair, has anyone got any tips please on how to photograph in poor light?

This card is for 2 challenges, I have reused the fab sketch on WOJ to make a card for my sister whose first baby is due today! She doesn't know what she is having so I have used a yellow and green pallett and made it sparkly as she loves bling. I have added stickles to already glimmer misted roses for extra sparkle. The image I made to look like a cameo as our mother adored these to make the card extra special for her. I am just annoyed that the poor lighting cannot pick out my shading as I am so pleased with it.

challenges -
WOJ - sketch
Cute card Thursday - 1sts

eta - I can't even take another photo of it as my Dad took one look at it and has taken it home with him, right need to make George another one now!



Fantastic sketch on the sugar bowl this week, with the added theme of paper piercing, I must admit I have made a few cards like this as it is fab in different colour schemes. I coloured the flower with my copics as I didn't have the shade I wanted, think it looks ok.

challenge - sugar bowl.

One pad of paper, two WOJ images and WOJ candy news

Don't you just hate winter? Well as far as crafting under natural light and taking images! Typically my daylight bulb has gone walkabout - bet it is with my husbands wargame painting supplies. So please excuse the lighting on this image.

challenges -
inspirational - sketch
allsorts - Autumn days

papers - basic grey wisteria,
medium - copics
embellishements - stash

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This is a card I made for my friends daughters 2nd birthday so I have tried to keep it light and her mum loves purple hense the colour pallette! Doh I thought all cards had to be done for this saturday - will go and make another one now i think as it is such a fab sketch.

challenge -
WOJ - Sketch

papers - basic grey wisteria
medium - copics
emebellishements - sentiment is from stash, flowers wildorchardcrafts, punch is lecom.

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Katharina is holding her blog candy give away of the new winter release - please click on the image to take you there, good luck everyone they look fab x

autumn days

This is for two challenges.

* Whiff of Joy -Sketch
* Spoonful of Sugar - distressing

The papers are a mixture of basic grey and K and Co. All have been faux stitched as I am still not up straight in my craft room yet. I have distressed the papers and antiqued them using tea dye. I have also painted the dress to look distressed too, and I think it works fab.

I hope you like it.

I have decided to enter this card in the WOJ Designer call - here are all the details

Copied from Katharina's blog

I am very excited to open another Whiff of Joy Guest Designer Call!! It's been a long time since the last GDT Call, that's why it is such an exciting event for me :)

We are looking for passionate, talented crafters with great colouration skills to complement our Design Team for the next 2,5 months (end september, october, november).

As a guest designer for Whiff of Joy Stamps you'll have to:


Create a card or project or scrapbook page with every stamp we'll send you
post these on your blog and upload it to the Whiff of Joy gallery
participate in every other Design Team activity, such as the Project of the month
have your own blog, which is essential to show and promote your works created with our stamps

The chosen guest designer will have the following privileges:

You'll get every stamp that is going to be release during the next 2 months
You will get a 10% discount on all your orders from Whiff of Joy Stamps for the period of 1 year.
Important information:

Everybody can enter from anywhere in the world!!
You can submit as many cards as you like, but they have to be new ones.
You have to use at least 1 Whiff of Joy Stamp on you card!!!
The Guest Designer Call ends on Saturday, September 19th, 8 pm GMT+1

What do you have to do to enter the Whiff of Joy Guest Designer Call?

create a card, scrapbook page or papercraft project using at least 1 Whiff of Joy stamp
post your creation on your blog (and SCS gallery if you have one) letting people know about our Guest Designer Call
add your name and link to your post to the Mr. Linky Widget below

ABC Design Team Card - B is for Buttons and WOJ Design Team Card Racheals Sketch

Hiya

Here are my design Team cards for this week.

On ABC the theme is Buttons, so I have used K and Co Buttons my life journey paper and added a button to the flower. The image is a gorgeous Sarah Kay coloured in distressed inks.

On WOJ there is a fantastic sketch by Racheal. I have decided to distress my papers and hand stitch it. The papers are My Minds Eye and K and Co. The image has been coloured with distressed inks and the roses have been glimmer mistes in cherry blossom. The sentiment is handwritten and says goodluck but it is hard to see in the photo.

I hope you like both cards.

First Design Team Card for Whiff of Joy Challenges

This week on WOJ Challenges they have a beautiful sketch by the very talented Jacqui.
This is my take on it and I have also decorated the inside. It has been coloured with distressed inks and twinkling H2O's. I have then added flowersoft to the bouquet and head dress. The papers are K and Co and are so delicate and pretty. I hope you like it and will join in this challenge.

Flowers on a sunny day

Well as you can see it is lovely today and I took this photo outside (hence the shadow - whoops!)

This is for two challenges -

*Whiff of Joy - floral
*Dutch dare - lace

Confirmation Melinda has been coloured in using twinkling H2O's and distressed inks and then mounted onto gold and then the papers are K and Co. The flowers and gems are new from Wildorchidcrafts. A quick spray of glimmer mist and hey presto. I am really pleased with this card and I am looking forward to my guest design team spot on the WOJ challenge for August x

Tulip Willow in blue

Gosh you can tell my husband is off this week I have managed to finish 3 cards - unheard of normally. We have just got back from a weekend camping with Cathy. The weather was mixed although we did not make the beach due to my wonderful husband not feeling well (I call it a hangover) and so I am making the most of him feeling guilty! I did for once dress up in 17th Century clothes as did the boys (Cathy bribed Ed with an ice-lolly) so we could go rounf Bodnant Gardens which are so beautiful. Unfortunately I had forgotten the camera so no pictures sorry.

Anyway my card! Willow from the spring kit has been coloured in distressed inks and then mounted using the sketch on Whiff of Joy this week which I have flipped and rotated as I wanted to use a long image. The papers are a new pad of K and Co Tim Coffrey Tulips which I used for the first time. The flowers are prima and have been glimmer misted which I think you can see on the photo as I have been able to shock take in the lovely sunlight outside! (Yes I have a load of washing on the line too as it has a lovely breeze too this afternoon). The ribbon and lace are stash. I do hope you like it x

three in one - blue willow

This card has been made for the following 3 challenges -

*Whiff of Joy - Piercing
*Spoonful of Sugar - Sketch
*Dutch Dare - Diecuts and punches

The paper is basic grey two scoops which has been distressed, paper pierced and a panel hand sewn. The image has been coloured with distressed inks. The flowers are prima and have been glimmer misted.

I hope that you like it.

WOJ Heathers Sketch

Here is my interpretation of Heathers sketch which I adored using over on WOJ Challenge blog this week. I have used my distressed inks to colour in this lovely image of Melinda blowing kisses which I received as a RAK. I am going to add flock to the wings (once the delievery turns up- but I wanted to show you the card). The papers are basic grey sultry. I am trying to use up papers at the moment as I have lots of packs with just a few sheets left in them - Am I the only one whom doesn't like every sheet in the packs? I always end up with odd patterns I am not sure what to do with! Anyway I hope you like the card.

hugs xxx

Whiff of Joy Challenge Blog Design Team Call - Paper Piercing - and SSC

Hello All, I am back of holiday, did anyone miss me? As well as my design Team card, made using WOJ Melinda the helping Angel, I thought I would show you a picture of my boys on holiday.

My card was made using Basic Grey Papers from the Eva pad (plus a scrap of green I cannot remember which pad it is from in my scrap tray). I have used distressed inks on all that I have not paper pierced. I hope that you like my card as I really enjoyed making it.

eta just noticed Saturday secret crafter is green and pink so I am going to be cheeky and add this too.

Hope that everyone is well, hugs

Vicky x

WOJ Bev's sketch and Dutch Dare

Argh I ripped this card apart mulitple times as I managed to get the scale wrong once I had added a border to the image. I tried to follow Kim's distressed tutorial and I don't think it is too bad for a first attempt!

ETA - Dutch dare are sending the cards to sick children I have sent this card to Jemima S and also sent the card I made for this coming weeks ABC to Amy I hope that you all send one of these children a card and make their day x

WOJ Charms meets Spoonful of Sugar Butterflies

I am having to write this blind and then hope that the image loads as I am unable to ammend fonts, see anything but codes etc on blogger at the moment. If this continues wordpress is looking a very viable option.
Think this card is missing something and i am not sure what. If you have any ideas please let me know.
Still not 100% and not myself at all, really low at the moment so if I don't fet chance to visit you all please bear with me.
hugs

recipe -
image - willow with boots woj summer kit
paper s- k and co hydranger
flowers - prima
brad - papermania
dragonfly brad - stash
charm - madcowbeads
spacer - hobbyhouse
lace - stash
medium - distressed inks

Lazy Sunny Afternoon

I adore this card and unfortunately the light does not do it justice. I have coloured it to show Willow sunning her face and so the light hits on the right and all the colour belnds away to the left. I will try and take another photo of it outside later on. I am adoring my distressed inks and I think that I am slowly getting better at using them too.

I hope you like it.

This card is for the following challenges
Sketch and Stash - Both the stamps are new as are 2 of the distressed inks.
Creative Card Crew - flowers
Spoonful of suga - lace
Whiff of Joy - Brown and Blue
Cute Card Thursday - bling = there are pearls on the card

recipe -
images - WOJ Summer Willow barefoot, Tildas Wall
papers - K and Co Motifica and Roam
flowers - hero arts
brads - papermania
lace - stash
ribbon - stash
nesties - small and large circle
medium - distressed inks - sky - broken china - hair - walnut stain, leave s- peeled paint - cherrie s- fired brick - dress - weathered wood, skin - tattered rose - wall tea dye and old paper.

Whiff of Joy - Friendship

I will be so so glad when the building work has finished and all decorated so I can have my craft space back. Sorry for the poor quality of light on this - will try and get one in daylight tomorrow (sun allowing) as the light in my kitchen is an electric strip one which has yellowed the colours slightly.

The quote reads - 'Remember true friends are always together in spirt'. Now the first person whom can tell me where this qoute comes from I will send a bundle of images to.

I hope you like it x

recipe

image - woj musing melinda

papers - basic grey marrakech

flowers - prima

gems - stash

ribbon and lace - stash

nesties - labels 3

medium - distressed inks - faded demin, walnut stain, tattered rose, weathered wood, glitter glue - on wings then curled

Whiff of Joy - Katharina Sketch

A quick post here sorry as I really need to try and catch up on all your blogs while I have 5 minutes and a coffee to hand.

I found this pad of K and Co while routing for a yellow pad originally and changed my mind on my colour scheme. I think it has worked really well though. Note to self to try and choose a different pad of paper each time so that I rotate them and don't keep using the same pad, which is a bad habit of mine.

recipe -

Image - WOJ - Spring willow with hat Rak of Jayne

papers - K and Co Classic

Flowers - prima and hobbycraft

gems - stash

charm - stash

medium - distressed inks, sorry did not note them down.

Back for a night!

My wonderful husband has managed to get me hooked up to the internet for a night. It is still chaos here, dust and plaster everywhere and most of my stash is in boxes so these cards are very simple I am afraid. Jayne (Serendipidy) has been texting me the themes so I can work on the cards as and when I can, I have currently pinched the kitchen table.

So here are the cards sorry they are all on one post but it will be easier I think for you all! They also include my first attempts at distresses inks so feedback will be fantastic if you are able. I will visit all your blogs as soon as I am able, miss you all lots xxxx

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Saturday Crafter - theme via Jane Carroll on facebook as shaped cards.

This is my first attempt at distressed inks, I used milled lavender. It is very simple card stock, prima flowers and lace and gems. The backing paper inside the card is a chinese papermania in lavender. The image is WOJ.

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Whiff of Joy - Stars and Stripes - theme from Jayne via text.

This is my Oakley in distressed inks. The backing papers are basic grey archaic. The stars are blue brads and the stripes are in the papers. I have borrowed Janes nesties (labels 1 and 2) for a few weeks so they are hers that crop up in the cards.

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Cute Card Thursday - Mirror image - something shiny - via text from Jayne.

This does shine honest! Papers are basic card stock in pink and gold and the gorgeous sheet is from the once upon a time papers from DCWV. Prima hydranga's, brads and spacers and gems all shine as does the image coloured in twinkling H2O's.

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Spoonful of Sugar - Blue and Green - via text from Jayne.

I hope you like this. I have since added leaves to the flower - but the light is too dark to take a photo. That is the problem when all your stash is in boxes! The papers are basic grey - boxer I think, the ribbon and flower and spacer are stash and the image has been watercoloured with pencils.

How generous is Katharina?

She is offering 2 lucky bloggers the chance of winning the new summer kit. I am dropping major hints to my husband about this as I really want them! Just click on this link to be able to enter the candy or the link on my sidebar for the shop x

A card I am happy with - WOJ Sketch

The image unfortunately is a bit dark and I would have liked to have added leaves to the flower - but having used a green flower I did not have the same colour in my card stock and all other greens looked wrong iykwim. I got a crop a dile off the boys for mothers day and I love it - I know that eyelets are not very fashionable at the moment but I think that they have worked fantastically on this card. I hope you like it.

recipe -

image - WOJ Spring kit Willow kneeling - rak of Jane

papers- basic grey - sugared

ribbon - stash

eyelets - stash

flowergem - stash

flowers - prima

medium - watercoloured and faux stitched in ink.