Embellies with a Twist at TCC - Spotlight

Today's Embellies with a Twist challenge at The Crafter's Cafe features a technique that I have never tried before - Spotlighting  We would love for you to take part in our challenge.  You have until 26th August to take part. 

If this is new to you too, here is some information from Split Coast Stampers on what to do.

My card features a digi image from The Stamping Boutique - Noah's ark

Supplies:
Card stock: white, black
Image: The Stamping Boutique - Noah's ark
Paper: Creativ 8
Other: Purple ribbon, purple gems, copics, Spellbinders nestabilities circles

Thanks for dropping by and for your comments.

Have a great week.

Angela

Just one embellishment

Just one embellishment - This is the Monday challenge at The Crafter's Cafe for Embellies With a Twist.



I found this quite hard.  I stamped the  flower and birthday greeting (hopefully they don't count as an embellishment as they are cut out and added to my dry embossed dibackground).  The embellishment on my card is the twine.  I wanted to add other embellishments like gems and things, but this challenge only allowed one.   Perhaps if I did this challenge again, I would stamp directly on the card so it is not so dimensional and so my one embellishment would stand out more.

Supplies:

Ink: Black Versafine

Stamps: HA 4 flowers (smallest flower) CG290. HA Happy Birthday C5594

Cardstock: white, lime green and blue

Other: Cuttlebug d’vine swirl folder, pink and white twine,

Take care,
Angela

Happy Easter

Happy Easter.

Over at The Crafter's Cafe last month they have started some new daily challenges. 

They include
Monday - Embellies with a twist
Tuesday - Tuesday Tags
Wednesday - Wacky Wednesday
Thursday - Tools and Techniques
Friday -  Favorite Friday

As a member of the Events Design Team I am here to support these new challenges.  Julia is responsible for the Monday - Embellies with a twist challenge.  I enjoy using embellishments so I am endeavouring to support her with his challenge and made a card each week. 


So if you are ever stuck for ideas of what to make, drop by and have a look for the challenges for the week.  We would love to see your creations.  The Crafter's Cafe is free to join.

The challenge for Monday of this week was Embellies with a twist with an Easter theme.  This challenge will run until Sunday April 8^st , 2012 at 8: 00 PM, Atlantic Time Zone.  Sorry, not much time left to take part this week, but remember there will be a new challenge next week!

Remember it can be any kind of creation (eg. cards, scrap layouts, fat book pages, artist trading cards, tags, boxes, bags, 3D ~ Altered Art or any other crafting projects that have some form of paper on them).

 
Here is my card.



The image is from The Stamping Boutique.  I wished after I had left the rabbit white.  Julia has cleverly made her rabbit white. Click here to see her card.  Remember when making cards for this challenge to include some embellishments.  I have included the pink gems.

This card also uses the sketch from The Sweet Shop - SSS152

I hope you are have a good Easter weekend.  Please take some time to remember what Easter is all about.  I am grateful that Jesus is my saviour.

Thanks for dropping by and for your comments.

Angela

Pizza Boxes

As part of the Craft and Chat evening at The Crafter's Cafe, the challenge was to make a pizza box.   If you would like to know how to make them, click here.  I made one before the event as a sample and then started another one during the craft and chat which I finished the next day.

Here is the one I made as a sample.

Supplies:
Purple and lilac cardstock
Patterned paper from Cre8tiv
Image from "A Creative Need" Orchids (Sponsors for the challenge)
Copics
Ribbon
Flower gems

Here is the second one I made. 

Supplies:
Image from The Stamping Boutique "Cupcake Digital Stamp"
Red, white and purple cardstock
Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder
Spellbinders circle and scallop circles die cuts
Purple flower gems
Scalloped borders punch from Stampin Up
Copics

There are lots of stunning pizza boxes that were made.  Click here to look at some of them.

Thanks for dropping by and for your comments.  They are always greatly appreciated.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Angela

The Crafter's Cafe Scavenger Hunt Blog Hop

We are having a GIANT Blog Hop to celebrate our new team at  

The Crafter's Cafe.

You should have arrived here from Heide

At the end of the Hop, you have a chance to win a prize package from  

Fresh Brewed Designs.

 

Make sure you start at the beginning of the Hop which starts here.

While you're here, you'll need to pick up your "Clue" 

for a chance to win the FBD prize!

My Clue is: E

We're having a big, grand opening party 

at The Crafter's Cafe all day tomorrow 

with lots of games and sponsors, including A Creative Need  

They have let me use this image for my project today.

The image is “Love Birds” from A Creative Need.

I punched the scalloped border onto white card 

and mounted it onto the lower part of the red card.   

I added the green patterned paper from Cre8tiv.

I coloured the image with copics and cut it out 

and then mounted it with dimensionals.

I coloured the gems with a red copic marker.

Finally I added the sentiment from Hot off the Press 

“Tiny Words and Images” acrylic stamps (HOTP1020).

I am also entering it in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - "Love is in the air" 
Lollipop Craft - #66 "Make a Valentine's Day Card" 
Lily Pad Cards - Simon Says Stamp Presents a Patterned Paper  Challenge

Come over to the party for a chance to win all kinds of great prizes

from all of our amazing sponsors... get to know our new team... 

and check out the new look!!

It is all day tomorrow Saturday 11th February

The party will end with a

LIVE CHAT and CRAFT  beginning at 8pm EST!!

All the games and events will be listed here at The Crafter's Cafe

 

Your next person on the Hop is Gloria.

   Please leave her a comment and pick up your next clue 

to be entered in to win our Grand Prize.

Thanks for stopping by.

Angela

Exciting News

I am now able to share with you some exciting news.  I get to be part of a Design Team!!!

I am part of "The Crafter's Cafe Community Event Planners and Design Team".  That is a rather long name, so it is shortened to The Crafter's Cafe Event Team.  Please take a look at The Crafter's Cafe.

On February 10th The Crafter's Cafe is having a Scavenger Hunt Blog Hop.  Click here for more details.

This is when you'll get to meet all the new members of our Design Team and will have a chance to win a prize from our sponsor Fresh Brewed Designs!! 

  And this all leads up to our ALL DAY PARTY on February 11th
We'll be playing games and giving away prizes all day!!  Come along and join in whenever you can, during the day
The party will end with a LIVE CHAT at 8pm EST!!
We're doing a "Craft n' Chat"...
In real time, LIVE, we'll be working together to create  and extra-special crafty project!
Read all about it HERE!!  

Thanks for dropping by and sharing in my exciting news.  I hope you will pop along and see the fun things we have planned at The Crafter's Cafe.

Have a great weekend. 

Angela

 

Sparkle, Shine & Texture

I haven't had a lot of time to make cards recently, but I did enjoy making this card. 

The image "Every Flower" is from Designed 2 Delight.
The flowers are coloured with copics and I have added kindy glitz.

I have added the swiss dots embossed background, rhinestones and flowers for texture.

This card is for the following challenges:

The Crafter's Cafe - Sparkle and Shine

Lily Pad Cards - Texture

Thanks for stopping by.  I greatly appreciate your comments.

Angela

Birthday parties over and time for cards

Finally, a blog entry again! It has been a while (well a week) and I have been missing it. It has been a busy few weeks with my son's 7th birthday, and then daughter's 5th birthday, so birthday parties to organise and cakes to make and no time for cards.

So the cakes first and then I will show you the card I made.

Jonathan had a Toy Story theme for his party. A Woody or Buzz cake would have been quite difficult so I made his cake one of the aliens.


Danielle had a butterfly theme so the cake was a little more straight forward.





Today's card I made using the sketch from Card Patterns - Sketch 135.

It also works with The Crafter's Cafe September Progressive Challenge.
Week 4 Challenge: Happy Birthday! Card + peach/pink and light green colors + "terrible twos" (use the number 2 or two of something - like an embellishment)

Here is the card.



Lots of pink on this card, with some green and two sets of light and dark pink swirl circles.

Thanks for dropping by.  I appreciate your comments.

Angela

Pink Butterflies

I have been helping my kids to make cards the last day or so which has been fun, but it has been nice to get the chance to make one myself too.  Here it is.  It incorporates aspects of several challenges. 



This card uses the colours from the Play Date Cafe Challenge #95,  navy, bubblegum and leaf green.  (It may look black, but it is actually navy). 

It  incorporates two types of embossing which is part of the CAS-ual Friday Challenge #16.

It is also for the challenge from The Crafter's Cafe - Anything in August Progressive Challenge.  The challenge is anything goes, but it does need to have a bow, sparkle and a sentiment.

I used my cuttlebug to emboss the floral background onto the green card which I mounted onto the pink card, and then onto the navy card.  I added some butterflies which I embossed with white and distress inked with pink.  I keep the bottom part plain so that I could stamp a sentiment on it.  I separated this with some pink ribbon and a bow.  I added rinestones too.

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.  They are greatly appreciated.

Angela