Marianne's cards 'n stuff

Saturday, 26 January 2013

Cupcakes anyone?

As soon as I saw last week's sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches, I knew I wanted to use the cupcakes stamp from my Verve Birthday Bash set. It also gave me a good reason to try out my new Stamp-a-ma-jig. This is a really nifty tool for aligning your stamp so that you get the stamped impression exactly where you want it. Perfect for wood-mounted stamps but also very handy for aligning clear stamps. I used it to add two more cupcakes to the right of the three cupcakes of the original stamp.

Here's a close-up of the glitter:

And here's the sketch:

I stamped the images onto Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured them using Promarkers. The cupcakes look purple in the picture but they are pink in real life (blossom, rose pink, maroon & ivory, satin, gold). When I wanted to put the card together, the white looked terribly white, so I coloured the background with my ivory marker and added a little shading under the cupcakes with my satin marker. For a festive touch I added some glitter glue for frosting and Glossy accents for the candle flames.

Materials used:

Cardstock - from stash & Neenah solar white

Papers - My Mind's Eye (So Sophie 6x6 pad)

Sentiment stamp - Paper Smooches (Sentiment sampler)

Image stamp - Verve Stamps (Birthday Bash set)

Doily - came as a surprise goodie with my order from Verve Stamps

Distress ink on all edges - Ranger's (spun sugar)

Ribbons - from stash

Fibre - from very old Avec fibre collection

Stamping ink - Mememto (Rich cocao)

Colouring medium - Promarkers

Glitter glue - Avec

Glossy accents - Ranger's

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe - Anything goes

Papertake Weekly - 81 Tie up your loose ends (bows)

Bearly Mine - (Tic tac toe: bottom row - glitter, twine, pink, doily)

Passion for Promarkers - 182 Favourite colour combo

I love Promarkers - 152 Anything goes

Alphabet Challenge - Y for Yummie

CAS-ual Fridays - 87 Make your mark (use markers)
The Ribbon Girl - Colour inspiration (pink and ivory)
Polkadoodles - Week 4 Monochrome/monochromatic

Friday, 25 January 2013

Tealight box + easel card

One of my goals for this year is to make more CAS cards, but also to create other things besides cards. So when I wanted to create a little something for a friend who's birthday it was last week, I decided this would be the perfect opportunity to make a tealight box. This project also allowed me to start using my new butterfly die.

I used the Boxer (Crafter's Companion) to create a box and a lid from Neenah solar white cardstock and glued the back strips together after I had finished decorating everything. I created an easel card, which I adhered on top of the box and I die cut an extra scalloped square to adhere to the bottom of the box.

Materials used:

Cardstock - Neenah solar white for the box, Core'dinations for the card and bottom

Papers - BasicGrey (marjoleine collection)

Sentiment - TLC Creations (Cupcakes equal love word art set)

Scalloped square die - Lifestyle Crafts

Butterfly die - Die'sire/Crafter's Companion

Gems - Papermania

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe - Anything goes

Crafter's Companion - Anything but a card

Dutch Dare - 201 Winged things

Simply Create Too - 29 Anything goes

BasicGrey - 85 New beginnings/Sth. new

Sunday, 13 January 2013

Rudolph

For today's card I used another of Paulette's images from the TLC Winter Club (she will be doing a 5-day St. Patrick's club at the end of this month if you're interested), some old stuff (pearl, PP and ribbon) and some of my new crafting goodies (embossing folder and snowflake die).