Crafting Ireland Competition Sketch.

So the GBCE is in 8 more sleeps & I am as excited as a kid waiting for the school tour!!

Crafting Ireland will be there & will be running some competitions. Here is the details for the 1st competition!

You have to follow this sketch!

You can rotate the sketch & change it from a rectangle to a square. As long as Nicole & Timi can see the sketch in your project it's all good!

Here are 3 cards I have done & you can get some more inspiration on the Crafting Ireland blog.

I am looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with!!

Pam x

Some quick & simple cards!

I decided to have a go at making some cards that are different to my usual style of card! I love seeing cards that are clean & simple but yet very effective so here is my attempt at clean & simple!

Pam x

Going away card & a Thank you card!

The girl who asked me to make this card was so happy with it that she asked me to make another A4 card for a friend of hers who was going to Australia to go travelling for a year!

The girl was starting in Cairns & making her way down to Sydney.

This is what I came up with.

I printed the map off & distressed it.

I sent the card off to the customer & then a few days after I got the cheque in the post but there was something else in the envelope!!

& on the inside

I was so thrilled with this little card telling me how happy she was with my work & it is fantastic to have the little card to keep!!

Pam x

Yay!! I was published again!!!

So in issue 3 of Crafting Ireland (Irelands 1st on line crafting magazine) there were submission calls for issue 4 & the themes were Autumn & Halloween & then there was a picture too that was to be used as inspiration for a project that would be entered into a competition!

Guess what!!!!

I was one of 2 people who won the competition & I had a card & a LO published in issue 4!

I am delighted to be published again & also very excited that I won the competition! For my prize I will get either 7 Gypsies Conservatory Papers or My Minds Eye Lost & Found Papers which were very generously donated by The Crafty Alley

this is the photo that we had to take inspiration from

This is the card I made!

I used the colours from the inspiration photo & also texure!

The image is one from Claire & was coloured using ProMarkers but I don't remember which colours I used!!

This is the card I submitted for the Autumn theme!

This card was made using leftovers from the Crafty Queens mini album! All I added was the Gorjuss girl image who was coloured with ProMarkers (& again I can't remember the colours) & also the embossed leaves background!!

This was the LO I submitted for the Halloween theme.

I have been dying to do a LO with these photo's of the kids with the tarantulas so the Halloween theme was just perfect!!

The spider web & the title were cut using my eCraft! The organza ribbon was heated with my heat gun to make it all wrinkly!

Pam x

Just for me!!

I finally got around to making my bookmark for my Twilight books!

Now I get to look at those gorgeous vampire's & werewolves while I am reading my fave books!!

Pam x

Crafty Queens Mini Album!!

So I bit the bullet & went to the Crafty Queens September crop on Saturday night & we made a mini album! I was looking forward to crafting just for the sake of it & was rearing to go!! All of the girlies that I met there were super nice & made me feel very welcome & I even learned how some of them liked to torture their brothers & sisters as kids lol!!

This is the gorgeous album we made & I love it so so much!

WARNING

There are a LOT of photos!!

The kit that Eve put together was full of the most beautiful papers & embellishments so it was very easy to make something very beautiful!!

You can see the one Eve made here on her blog.

Pam x

Wedding & Christening cards!

Just a few cards I had to do for orders!

This first one was a quickie because I totally forgot about it but I was happy enough with how it turned out!

The couple stamp is a Papermania one (I think) & I always come back to using it no matter what new stamps I might get! The background was done using a technique I learned at Jackie Mooney's Tips & Techniques class where you stamp using Versamark ink & then use a cotton pad to rub in shimmery chalks!

This one was done using my eCraft! I used the eCraft to cut out the bride & groom & the hearts but I also used MTC to scan the card I was using & do a pixel trace & then I was able to cut the matting layers with the eCraft too!

The papers are digital & are from Pink Petticoat

This one is an A4 easel card & although I thought OMG what will I do when I got the order it wasn't that hard to do!!

The butterfly was cut from the Fundamentals 1 SD card that came with my eCraft!

Pam x

Card kit swap for August!!

So as we do every month at Jackie Mooney's workshop we had the card swap for August & the theme was Thank You! This month I got Elaine's kit & was delighted because it had blue in it & loads of bits & pieces for me to make into a card!

This is all the yummy stash I got from Elaine.

This is what I made from the fab stash

Only thing I added were some flowers from the goodie bag from Isobel!!!

ProMarker combo is

Ribbon - Mulberry, Fushia Pink & baby Pink

Pot - Sky Blue, Arctic Blue & Powder Blue

The theme for the September swap kit is

Get Well

so if you are coming along to the workshop then join in!!

Pam x