Charlene's Card Creations

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Digistamps4Joy New Release

It’s New Release day again at Digistamps4Joy and have we ever got some fabulous images to show you! This week me and my teammates got to play with a new Gardening Set that Margy has done up and boy are you going to love them. There are 10 images to the set, so you will have lots that you can do with them. Here’s what I came up with….

The images that I used were the planter, gardening gloves and the gardening shovel and fork. I added another newer image of ours, Rose Trio which I printed out twice, as my foliage for the planter. All of the images were coloured with my Staedtler pencil crayons and oms. I distressed around the image using my SU pastels.

Now head on over to Digistamps4Joy Challenge Blog to check out all of the rest of the images and the incredible creations that my teammates have come up with. We hope to see you joining in on our challenges (there's still time to enter into our current one)….maybe even using one of these new images :D

Thanks for looking….Charlene

Challenges Entered:

~~Eureka Stamps~~: Challenge 6 - Autumn Colours
~~Stamp and Create~~: Anything Goes
~~Tammy's Scrapin Corner~~: Challenge #28 - Anything Goes
~~Challenges 4 Everybody~~: Challenge #3 - Anything Goes

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Thinking of You

Hi everyone, I hope that you are all having a good weekend so far. My weekend has been pretty laid back so far…just working on cards that I need to get done…it would sure be nice if my mojo would come back home to stay.

The card I’m showing today is a Sympathy card that I made up for someone close to me and the memorial was today. Digistamps4Joy recently released an image called Music Sheet and I knew that it would be the perfect image for the sympathy card. It would also be great for an anniversary card, Christmas…well you take a look and I’m sure you’ll be able to think of lots of uses for it.

I started off with a pale pink cs from Bazzil. On top of this I used a beautiful beige dp from BoBunny. I used my Nestibilities Beaded Oval Die to cut out the dp behind the image…that paper was from my stash. I used my SU Pastels to distress around the image in pink. The scalloped border is done using my Meridian Border Die by Memory Box. I added light pink small and medium flat backed pearls from Recollections. I used my Memory Makers corner punch on the corners of the BoBunny papers on each of the ends and the inside. I also added vines on my ends made with my Savannah Border Punch by Memory Box.

The sentiment inside was a freebie from A Piece of Heart. I printed it out on the light pink cs and cut it out with my Nestibilities Beaded Oval Die. The type of card I made is called a Middlestep card and you can find the tutorial here.

Thanks for looking ~ Charlene

Challenges entered:

~~Lady Anne's Paper Craft~~: Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes
~~Di's~~ ~~Digi Design Challenge~~: Use more than one die cut or punch (Sept. 28)
~~Simply Create Too~~: Challenge #22 - Anything Goes (Sept. 27)
~~Shelly's Images TTT~~: Show us what you got - Anything Goes
~~Digi Doodle Shop Challenge~~: Challenge #125 - Anything Goes (Sept. 26)
~~My Heart Pieces Digital Stamp Challenges~~: Anything Goes (Sept. 26)
~~Paper Play Challenges~~: Week 37 - Fancy Folds
~~SJ Crafts Monthly Challenge~~: Challenge #8 - Summertime (Ends Sept. 19)
~~Paper Pretty's Wednesday Challenge~~: Challenge #223 - Paper Punches
~~The Paper Shelter~~: Challenge #81 - Punches/Dies

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Celebrate the Colours of Spring

Digistamps4Joy’s new challenge is in full swing. The theme of our challenge is Celebrate the Colours of Spring. We were given this picture for our inspiration

Last week was Team A’s turn to inspire you, this week it’s Team B’s. For my card I used Digistamps4Joy’s Calla Lillies. I merged 2 of the image together to make a bouquet of lillies. I couldn’t decide what kind of a card I wanted this to be, so I left the sentiment off until I do.

I started off with blue cs from Bazzil and then added a layer of orange cs from SU. The dp is from my local dollar store and the blue ribbon was from my stash. I used my Memory Makers corner punch on all of these papers. I cut out blue cs and the image using my Nestibilities scalloped ovals. I coloured the image with my Steadtler pencil crayons and oms. For the corner I used my Madera Corner Die by Memory Box. Onto this I added some orange flowers that I had in my stash and made the yellow centers with my SU punch. The blue jewel flowers in the center are from my local dollar store and I filled the center with yellow Liquid Pearl. I also used drops of the yellow Liquid Pearl on the stems as small buds.

I hope that I have managed to inspire you in some way to come and join us in our challenge. To join us and to see all of the incredible creations that my team mates have made just go to our Challenge blog. We can’t wait to see what you create.

Thanks for looking ~ Charlene

Challenges Entered:

~~Lady Anne's Paper Crafts~~: Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
~~DigiDoodle Shop’s Best~~: Challenge #125 - Anything Goes (ends Sept. 26)
~~Bearly Mine Challenges~~: Challenge #52 - Anything Goes
~~Papelitos Challenge~~: Challenge #11 - Anything Goes
~~Through the Craftroom Door~~: Challenge #35- Anything Goes

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

It's a Birthday, Blogversary and Candy Time

My dear friend Kim, of It’s All About Crafting, is celebrating her birthday this month and her 2^nd Blogversary. And to help us all join in on the fun with her she is offering up this incredible stash of goodies to a couple of very lucky people. Here’s a pic of some of the goodies and what she has to say about it….

Hi all you wonderful people in blog land!

I want to thank each and every one of you who are followers of my blog!

Last month made it 2 years

and this month is my 42nd birthday!

So I am going to give some candy away!

I have found stamps that I have never used,

prisma markers that I bought,

embellies, flowers, and loads more stuff

that I want to give to a few special people!

I am going to make a few goodie boxes and at the end of the month

I will randomly pick a few names to send them to!

All I ask is that you be a follower,

Friday, September 7, 2012

Soaring Eagle

Hey everyone, it’s time for another challenge at Pattie’s Creations. This time our challenge is to emboss. Any type of embossing will do…dry embossing, heat embossing, embossed papers…you get the idea. As usual we do require that you have a digital or stamped image on your creation. You don’t have to have a Pattie’s Creations image…but we sure would be tickled pink if ya did.

For our challenge Pattie generously let me play with Soaring Eagle. I was so excited…and nervous to be able to use this one. I have a very dear friend on the CDAC that has eagles that live right near her home on Vancouver Island so I wanted to be able to give her an eagle on her Birthday Fat Page. Unfortunately my colouring skills are not quite up to doing a Bald Eagle as wonderful as it is, so I decided to colour it like an African Fish Eagle (or as close as I could get it to that *laughing*). I coloured this fabulous image with my Crayola Crayons and oms.

I started off with blue cs from SU, which I embossed with my Garden Delight Design B Reversible M-Bossibilities Folder. This folder is so great as it gives you two embossing folders in one. I then took some pink roses dp from my stash and cut out a square frame (by hand as I don’t own a punch or die that will do this). To this I added some pink dp from BoBunny. The pretty pink ribbon I had in my stash and the flat backed pearls are by Recollections. I made the flowers myself with my EK Success flower punch and my SU 3 flower punch (sorry I can’t remember the name for it but it has 3 flower punches on one punch.). I ran the blue pieces through my Cuttlebug with the M-Bossibilities folder to give it a bit of texture. The leaves were done with my Marvy Uchida Oak leaf punch and the vines are made with my Savannah Border Die by Memory Box.

I made the dp behind the eagle by taking half of my Scallop punch from SU and using my SU pastels to form the clouds. I started off with Pink, then used 2 different shades of blue and blended them all in to give the soft look of clouds in a evening sky.

On the inside left hand side I used a sentiment that I found at Birds Cards and on the right side is a sentiment I found on Split Coast Stampers.

I also added the embossed flower and the ribbon on the inside of the card. On the back I added another sentiment that I found at Birds Cards and some more of the flowers and vines. I also used a Making Memories corner stamp on the corners of my pink paper.

So now that you have made it through this very long post, I hope that you will make your way over to Pattie’s Creations Challenge Blog and join in on our challenge. While you’re there check out what my teamies have done…there’s lots of great inspiration there. Also please make sure that you check out our rules…we don’t have many so it shouldn’t take you long *smiling* Also, if you have entered our last challenge, you will find the winners listed on the right hand side column. Congratulations to those that won!

Thanks for looking….Charlene

Challenges Entered:

~~Shelly's Images~~: TTT - Show Us What You Got (Anything Goes)
~~Polka Doodles~~: Week #36 - What's the Word Bird?

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Freebie Friday at Digistamps4Joy

Just a reminder to everyone that this Friday is Freebie Friday at Digistamps4Joy. You do not want to miss out on this one people…it is just too cute for words. Here’s a little sneak peak at what we have in store for you….

Well, what do you think…does it wet your appetite to come and check it out on Friday? All you have to do to see and get this fab image is go to Digistamps4Joy’sChallenge Blog. Hope to see you all there.