Funky Fairy Challenge 4 - Winged thingy!

Well, I have lost it all this week: mojo, my stazon, marbles, the plot and where did the week go? I want them all back!
Andrea set a great challenge this week: Create a papercrafted item incorporating a winged thingy, It could be a Funky Fairy, Butterfly, Angel, Cherub ( do cherubs have wings?) etc.... but it has to be the main focal point of the item.
I had one of those ideas that should have stayed in my head I think but I will share it anyway:
The whole card is using Pinkie Pops I used hearts for butterfly wings and cut the bottom of the lower heart to make the antennae and buttons with pink glaze for the body and decoration. The butterfly is mounted on an acetate strip folded so the butterfly hangs clear of the card and it moves beautifully but not happy with card overall. Too much pink?

However, while playing around with the Doodles for Daniel stamps I had another idea that one of the flowers could be cut to make a butterfly so I stamped and coloured on the reverse of this Papermania glittered vellum and cut out the flowers so that the middle was attached to one petal and I turned these round and remounted them with wire and sequin antennae. Used different Pinkie Pops for backing and embellishments and made these two cards. Will be good for girls' birthdays.

I want my mojo back! :(

Just Cutters CD - example decoupage

If you have a Craft Robo you might already know that many gsd file templates, offered freely on the UK Scrappers site and elsewhere on the internet, were copied on to CDs and being sold on eBay! To fight against the theft a number of talented UKS designers offered previously unpublished designs and compiled their own CD which can be bought here. You'll need to be quick though as there are only a few left. There are tons of very clever pop-ups and all sorts of images. Here is one decoupage by 'Emerald' mounted on one of my backing designs and Anita's sticky ribbon. Love his wistful look.

It's not just for Winter!

I have used the Winter Collection here to digitally scrap some old photos: I have used the 'big trees dove colourwash' with plain Dove and 'tiny trees Dove' layered on top of each other under the 2 photos and then played with 'tiny trees white - dove' and 'dove snow storm' to make some buttons (Can you spot which ones they are?) so I've just made an 'extras' page to include in the collection with the 9 buttons shown here.

Kerudoc Creation is born!

I have finally launched my Winter Collection! What do you mean it's nearly Spring? There's all those snow and skiing scenes to be scrapped yet. And anyway there are lots of general basic papers and really gorgeous trees for any time of the year! And the colours are fab. Here are a few of the things I have come up with although I have been too busy designing the collection to do much else yet so there will be lots more to come. A few friends received this new year's card:
The following card was for challenge 35 on Cartes Maniak: Papers and tag from the Winter collection. On very porous card the colours come out much paler than on coated stock. This is the lilac and silver.
And one of the 'sage' tiny trees papers and another tag:
What do you think?

An award!

Sharon has given me an award! Thank you Shaz. As she has given it to the rest of the Funky Fairy design team plus other people with fabby blogs what can I say but 'Right back at ya!'. Apart from making me laugh with her ramblings, and worried when she's not (wondering what shes' up to), she literally makes my day as there aren't many where I'm not using some of her designs.

More Pinkie Pops

I am posting these now as I have a little excitement of my own to reveal later. However at the moment I keep being drawn to Pinkie Pops whilst shouting 'but I don't DO pink': It has totally converted me!

Garden months

Sticking with the garden theme, when I was in the greenhouse last week I felt the need to have a small note book of what I should be sowing or planting each month to save me constantly rifling through the seed packets. I had the Funky Fairy 'Months' in mind and when the Doodles for Daniel stamps arrived on Saturday I went in to flower heaven. After lots of playing, stamping, colouring and cutting out of small flowers I ended up with this to brighten up my planting days.
December is going to say 'Clean the greenhouse!' when I finally finish it.
I think a chipboard birthday book or some such would look fab.

Fairy Garden

My neice, Terri, is 15 today: Happy Birthday Tez! She is creating a fairy garden so as part of her pressie I made her this garden fairies set from Cuddly Buddly, complete with the seeds and note cards etc. The plant tags are on acetate, folded over the kebab skewers and glitter glued down to make them weather-proof (I hope). Made it last week but can reveal all now: Hope it arrived on time! May all your flowers grow.

Daring Cardmakers Challenge - Shadow card

Well, while making my card for the Funky Fairy challenge below, I decided it wouldn't be too hard to do a bit of a rearrange of the spare card I'd printed to make a 'shadow' card for the Daring Cardmakers challenge: All the same ingredients but arranged differently for a different occasion. Apart from changing the sentiment, which is allowed, the only other difference in ingredients is that I didn't colour in the 3 brads pink, I left them silver. However I still used the same permanent pen to colour the staples as before so it's still there! Did also use 3D stickies this time but I think that's allowed.

Monday Challenge 3 - 2008

Can I just say first of all 'Whooohoooeeee' as that was about the sound I made when my Doodles for Daniel stamps arrived here yesterday and I love them. Have been playing (of course) and used one for this week's challenge, so to business.....
I have set the Funky Fairy challenge this week: A no-glue card challenge! Did I make it too easy? If you would like to join in, leave a link to your card on this blog or see the Funky Fairy Challenge Blog here.
Well, just to kick off, here's one I have made using Funky Fairy 'Pinkie Pops' collection for the backing card, stamped card, heart motifs and sentiment. I cut through the hearts and card to create an aperture with the silver net behind and held them and the Doodles for Daniel 'love' stamped image together with the brads and stapled the ribbon on.
Here's a 2nd 'no-glue' card using the Funky Fairy 'Perfect Pinks' collection. I printed the silhouette on to one card and used another to create the frame and held these on to the backing card with the ribbon. The sentiment is a rub-on transfer.