Sukkersott Sketch #6, Penny Black Week 30 - Embossing

Sukkersott has a very pretty sketch this week which I used to make this very mauve card :).  I also dry embossed it, making it also eligible for Penny's Black's embossing challenge.

The Penny Black stamp used is called Rainbow Flower, it was a Christmas present from my older son (Ithink they were both force marched to the craft shop by my DH :)).  It's coloured with Marvy le Plume markers and some Stickles added at the centre of the flowers.  

It's mounted on a piece of pearlescent purple card that has Swiss dots embossed on it, using my friend Janet's Cuttlebug folder - let me know when you want it back Janet! - the card has torn edges inked with Tim Holtz tea-dyed ink and then pink chalk ink. 

All the papers are from Graphicus Guild.  The butterfly crystal was given to me over a year ago after a card swap.  His trail is marked with a Pigma pen and holes put through the paper with my prongy tool to make faux stitching.  The other crystals came from my DH.

Sukkersott Sketch 5 & SBS25 Challenge 9 - scraps

Hanne produced a very pretty sketch at Sukkersott this week. I decided it was ideal for Janet's SBS challenge this week, which is to use scraps up.

The scraps are from a Papermania 6x6" pad I bought for this year's cards, which has a collection of bits and pieces of offcuts insde the packaging. The circular stamp that is the focus is from http://imaginationcrafts.co.uk/ . I bought it at Ally Pally and realised that I've not yet put it into use. It's stamped in blue Stazon and watercoloured, I'm pleased with the way it looks. I've watercoloured a few more circles, just need to get them onto cards now :)

Sukkersott Challenge 15

http://sukkersott.blogspot.com/2008/11/utfordring-15-skisse-4.html

Sukkersott's Challenge for Week 15 is a really nice sketch by Anita. Again, I've used my Penny Black stamp, in stamped in blue Stazon this time. I've used Pearly Stuff for the berries and raised the circles on glue pads. The bird has Glossy Accents on him to make him stand out. The background for the stamping is Glimmer Misted. The other two papers that co-ordinate so well with it are from the Artylicious Seasons Greetings CD.

I've stuck to my stamp diet (so far) but I've bought a CD instead! :0). On Thursday, still recovring from migraine and migraine drugs, I sat in front of the TV in the early evening and switched it to Create & Craft to see what was on. There's usually little to hold my attention and I'd only switched it on to drown out the firework noise that was upsetting the dogs. But by some lucky fluke a Glenda Waterworth programme had just started, using the Season's Greetings CD. And of course once Glenda demonstrates just how versatile a product is, well you just have to have it, don't you ;) . Both papers were from the Starry Night collection and the CD is, indeed, as straightforward as you can get to run. I think this will be very helpful to create some quick and easy cards, just need to keep a good supply of printer ink now...

Sukkersott Challenge 13

I thought Katherina's sketch at http://sukkersott.blogspot.com/2008/10/utfordring-13-gjestedesigner-4.html this week was lovely and I used it to make this card. The cupcakes are Hero Arts clear stamps, paper and flowers came from Auscrafts when it closed down last month. The flowers have chalk ink applied to help them blend in with the colour scheme.