IndigoBlu

A quick post showing two cards I made with IndigoBlu stamps for The Cubby Hole where these stamps are available to buy.

Products
IndigoBlu: Blazing Poppies.
Marianne Design Old- fashioned Christmas paper pad
Pink Paislee: various stamps from the Spring Jubilee set
Derwent Inksential water colour pencils.
A5 Black card stock.

For the second card I used IndigoBlu Bare Forest stamp,  various Di's, Versamark with black embossing powder

Tonight at that Cubby Hole we are celebrating DIVERSITY  showcasing all the work of the talented and wonderful people of the "CUB"

Enjoy the week end, thank you for stopping buy, I much appreciate it :)
Suzi B xx

Balloons!

This week at Make My Monday our lovely leader Jacqueline who loves

BALLOONS

would love to see them on your projects.

I chose to use hot air balloons

 Products
: Graphics 45: Dream a Little Dream and Steam punk Debutante.
Couture Creations Embossing Folder : Uber
Main images are digital downloads from Cemerony and Freubels- Freebies
Voyage stamp: Stampers Anonymous Classics #1
Glossy Accents.

I love this embossing folder bought on Saturday from my favourite craft shop, The Cubby Hole here in Crewe, which I sanded after embossing onto the steam punk DP
I added this little charm which was from costume jewellery bought for 50p!

I layered up one of the balloons and added Glossy Accents

 Looking forward to seeing all of your Balloon projects!

My friend Desi is popping round this lunch time for a brew and a chat. We'll be sat outside under the parasol

enjoying the glorious weather which the UK is experiencing at the moment... so rare we have to blog It!!

Thank you for visiting, see you soon

Suzi B xx

Christmas in July! at Make My monday.

First of all I would  like to say a huge thank you to all the lovely people that left me such heart warming comments on my "Down time" post... Thank you it means so much xx

 Now back to the MMM challenge for the first week in July, Gosh JULY! and it hasn't been warm enough to sit out late into the night gazing at the night sky with a slurp .. one of my favourite things!... the sky! not the slurp! ... well may be a bit :)

So being July Laura wants us to make

  Christmas Cards! 

 yes she really does because she super organised! ... not like me then :)

My first 2013 Christmas Card.

A pretty quick and simple card, made with some one in mind, can't tell it's too early!
Products
Wild Rose Studio clear stamp: Birdhouse CL25B
Derwent colour soft pencils
Stampendous Shabby Blue embossing enamel.
Deco Art Glamour dust
 bakers Twine
 snowflake charm: eBay!
 Can't remember who made the Let It Snow sentiment
Double sided foam tape to mount the white card  12 x 12cm onto the red card stock 15 x 15m

The embossing enamel and the glitter is just about visible plus I've added some little red gems
 I'm on a roll here's another!

 Products
Stampers Anonymous: Christmas Time 
DI: Festive Berries, Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint
Red and green stickles.

 As usual I look forward to seeing your Christmas In July creations, have fun.

 Thank you for looking xx
Suzi B x
A quick reminder Google Reader has closed to day...  I'm not sure what it all means.. but I have added all my followed blogs onto Bloglovin. Please follow me on Bloglovin if you would like to :)#
Challenges
Card Mania: Christmas in July
Make it Monday. Always anything goes.
Always Playing with Paper: Anything goes Christmas Card Challenge .

New reader

Hi all just a quick post to let you know that I now use Bloglovin for my Blog. I don't wont to lose you all when Google Reader disappears on 1st July so please follow me if you wish to using the Bloglovin icon in my side bar.
thank you hope to see you there.... Fingers crossed I've done this right, let me know if you have problems...
Suzi B xx

Down Time

Hi everyone, just letting you know that I won't be blogging for a couple of weeks .... then I'll be back!

 xx Suzi B xx

Poppy time

Good morning and welcome,  being Monday you know that  means it's time for a lovely new challenge  at Make My Monday and this week we have a Clean and Simple challenge

 Clean and Simple Flowers

In other words your work must be clean and simple and only flowers and sentiment allowed.

Here's my DT card

Products
IndigoBlu: Poppy Meadow 1

Versamark

Black detail  EP

Whispers Strokes

Sizzix Embossing folder

Pale cream card stock

Stamping all day tag

Versamark Onyx Black

 I've added  three tiny clear gems to the tag since the photograph was taken.

  The second card was made with what was going to be  background paper for another project but I'd got a black mark on it so it was put to one side.  I thought it suited the challenge so made it into a card. The tag is hiding the black mark!

Products
Imagination Crafts Dragonfly Poppy template
Chalks
Adirondack: watermelon for the tag
Whispers Strokes to highlight stems
Diamond Stickles
Gems
Stamping all day tag
Pink and light cream card stock.
Bakers twine

Hope you've all been enjoying the gorgeous UK weather...   alfresco coffee and book.... bliss.
Missi has been lolling about looking for some where cool... she ended up inside the garden divider on a ledge, hidden from view I had to climb onto a bench to get the photograph. The divider normally has stone slabs on the top but one end has been left clear cos it's one of her favourite places.

 Thank you for stopping by, your visits and comments are  much appreciated especially when the MOJO is sleeping,... I nearly put all my "stash" on eBay last week!! your comments help  to keep me going   :o)

 xx Suzi B xx

The best of people

I thought I'd share a Cubby Hole project I did a couple or so years ago. Carol had seen an Artists Paper project in Somerset Studios July/August 209 called Inchstravaganza by Chrysti Hydock and that was to be our summer project.
 Chrysti's project was all about art.

 Mine was all about the future.

Why the future? well I used punched inchies from get well cards sent to me when I was being treated for cancer... very succesfully I must add  it was  quite some years ago but it wasn't known at the time how things would turn out. I recieved hundreds of cards and letters ( lots of flowers too... in the days when flowers where allowed in hospital, you could hardly get im my room.) The flowers died but the cards and letters were saved in a wonderful  box that contained a fabulous gift from my work colleques. The cards were out of site in an antique seamans chest  ( lol he lives in my sitting room).  So when Carol came up with this challenge I decided to use punched out inchies from these cards and letters as a permenant reminder of wonderful family, friends and colleques.... and most of all FUTURE!!

 

Some close up snippets

Here's Chrystis inspiration from Somerset Studio

Thanks for looking, have a great weekend.
xx Suzi B xx

In her garden.

Hi everyone, hope all the UK people are enjoying this fantastic weather and I hope it's weather friendly wherever you are.
 My Mid Week Motivation  for Make My Monday this morning is a quick, pretty card... hope you like it and are inspired to join in with the challenge.

 Products
 La Blanche stamp# 1287
The Scrap cake paper pad# One Moment in time
Joy Crafts die#Vintage Flourish
 Whispers Strokes
 Promarkers
Doilies lace, flowers and gems
DI # walnut stain,picked raspberry,victorian velvet and antique linen
Versafine# Vintage Sepia

I was hoping you could see the delicate shading on her face and neck but it's quite difficult to see. She's very pretty though don't you think?

 The base card started life like this.

I find these scallop cards quite tricky to use ...( I have one or two that where in a pack from C&C) so when I need a larger card I just chop off the edges. The envelope ends up being a bit too large but hey! it means there's room for the embellishments!
 Enjoy you day.
 xx Suzi B xx

Ribbon and /or lace at make My Monday

Hi everyone it's time for another challenge at Make My Monday 

and it's my turn to be the host. and I would like to see  

Ribbon and/or lace 

on your projects. So let your girly side free or not :o)

Here's mine, hope you like it

 The image is from IndigoBlu stamped with Versamark onto a vellum wrap and heat embossed with white detail EP. the flowers and leaves were decoupaged after being coloured with Whispers Stroke pens.

The pink square card is also used as a wrap around  an A5 white card which has been embossed top and bottom. behind the pink card wrap is a simple greeting and another image stamped in DI Picked Raspberry.

 The embossing  folded was placed over the folded white card which meant the lovely pattern appeared on both sides of the card...  front side embossed, back part debossed.
 ( I was gonna say backside! which can't be right lol )

I've wrapped the first ribbon layer around the torn velum, then folded another layer three times, securing each fold with a small amount of glue before adding the hat pins and the glittery yarn
 I used the same ribbon and yarn under the single flower embellishment and attached to the Stamping all day tag.

I've other photos showing the embossing on the inside and the wrap at the back where I've added stick on lace to disguise the glue under the vellum wrap but I decided, enough is enough!

Thank you for visiting me here in the "making room" I look forward to seeing your ribbon ans lace projects.

 xx Suzi B xx

Edited: later that same day! :)

 There were things about this card I wasn't all that happy with. one being the glittery yarn... I've now changed it to bakers twine.... still not sure.
 I might havre to do a second version of this card to but right all the things that are niggling me. That's what happens when things "just grow"






 
 

Challenges
Cardandscrap Use flowers
Hobby Cutz Challenge:  Flowers/Roses
Stamping Sensations: Summer Blooms

Metal Blooms

 Hi everyone, time for another challenge at Make My Monday. This week  our host is the lovely Fliss  and she would like to see Handmade Embellishments on your projects
 here's mine using creative metal to make the blooms :)

 Products

Red and Yellow card stock

Versafine Onyx Black.

Creative metal

Alcohol Inks, various colours, mainly red and yellow

Stazon: green and red

Distress ink: Wild honey

Autumn Leaves Doodle Bloom clear stamps

Inkadinkado: sentiment

Black marker pen 

 Sorry I haven't enough time to describe the the hows and what nots, but please don't hesitate to ask if there's anything you wish to know and I'll get back to you, probably on Tuesday :)

Close up of flower bud...  they were a pain to cut out ... nicely that is :)

I used one of the tools in my creative metal kit to embellish the card stock here and there.

This is a metal book cover I made quite some time ago at a work shop run by Sarah Anderson at the Cubby Hole...I've  not really done much  with the metal or the tools... since then...what a waste! so thought I'd see what I could come up with. I don't have many Stazon colours or many alcohol inks so found it hard to reproduce these fabulous colours but you can see where the inspiration for the card came from.

As always thank you for taking the time to visit I look forward to and appreciate your comments
 Have a lovely week see you over at MMM 
xx Suzi B xx.

Green and yellow

Crumbs Mondays get here so quickly...which means it's time for a new challenge at
Make My Monday. 

This week Caz would like to see the colours

Green and Yellow

on your projects.

Here's mine:

I haven't made a DL card for some time, I seem to be stuck in the square zone! but after I'd been playing with a stencil by Imagination Crafts, distress inks and Glimmer Mist  on what I though I'd use as backing paper the end result cried out for a DL card with the paper as the focus of the card

Because I sprayed the stencil with GM's  the shape of the stencilled image was very "fluid" not well defined, but I like it. I outlined the images with an Inkssentials  Opaque white pen then played with dots!

I only used part of the stencil one of my  purchases from HSNW at Port Sunlight. I first saw this stencil on the lovely Lesley's blog ( Crafty Love n Hugs) and fell in love with it... you know how many times we crafters fall in love... could we be fickle? lol
Products

 Cartridge paper: swooshed and splodged with

Distress ink: Shabby shutters: peeled paint and mustard seed. then sprayed and splashed with

 Glimmer Mist : Lily pad, garden fairy and yellow daisy

Imagination Craft stencil: sprayed with Glimmer mist:garden fairy,  highlighted with opaque white pen, dots added.

Hobby Craft:: With love sentiment.

 Stamping all day: Happy birthday tag.
Adirondack ink: Clover; sentiments and leaves.

Clearly Besotted: leafy accents stamps and dies, also highlighted and  given the spot treatment.

 Bling (sorry lots of it) and green twine

The card is really shimmery but it doesn't show up all that well in the photograph... I tried every which way to get a decent photo of the shimmer.

Take a look at all the lovely inspiration over on MMM and do join in, we'd love to see you.

Thank you for taking the time to pop by...
 always appreciated  :o)

 xx Suzi B xx

Literary Inspiration

Hello and welcome, it's time for another challenge at Make My Monday. This week Mynnette would like to see projects that have been inspired by Jane Eyre, either by the book cover or the story.

My card was inspired by both the book cover and the story

I used the book cover as the inspiration for my layout. The sentiment, flower and hearts were inspired by the story.

 This is the inspiration photograph, Mynnette has helpfully outlined the story on the MMM blog.

 

Products.
Hobby Art clear solid flower stamp  CSS010
Sentiment from Flonzcarft
Marianne Craftables Die CR1204
Versafine Onyx Black.
Clear Rock Candy distress stickles.
Black and white card stock
Silicone Glue.
 Now I have a confession to make  :( the original card looked like this

As you can see no red! but  when the distress stickles had dried  the little cut out hearts on the flower had turned red!... to be honest  I preferred this look to the monochrome so I quickly turned the sparkly heart red with a peel off pen and took a couple more photographs..
 I hope you can join us this week, pop across to see how the DT have interpreted  this weeks fabulous challenge.
 Take care, thank you for looking, I really appreciate your visits and love to read comments, see you soon
 xx Suzi B xx

One Layer Week at LIM

. One Layer Cards  at LIM and this week Chrissie and Jen would like us to use a

Coloured Card Blank

Yes that's right, none of your boring, white, ivory, black or kraft card blanks we want to see you add some colour.
 So here goes! I chose a colour I wouldn't normally go for, I stamped on of the flowers from Darkroom Door DDRS111 Carved Flowers in Versafine Onyx Black then highlighted with an extra fine white Uni paint marker.

 

 I elongated the flower stems by turning the stamp upside down and lining up...

 gave it a bit of a bend which I like

Isn't it amazing how the colours of the base card all look different...  but it really is the same card albeit photographed in different locations... It's tipping down with rain so not a good idea to take it outside!

 I would describe the colour as..dark  English mustard / yellowed Khaki..  I think :o)

I kept the card as one layer for the LIM challenge but have  now chopped it down added it to a plain white 15cm square card.

 Thank you for looking

xx Suzi B xx

Challenges
Addicted To Stamps and More   #44 Addicted to CAS.