World of Cardcraft Challenge

Ricky, my lovely friend Anna's partner, started this group on facebook, giving us challenges. The challenge he gave us this time was to make something with your favorite color and number. My fave color is orange, and all the earthtones and red's and yellows that come with it (hahahaha so much for 1 color), and I don't really have a fave number. However, I do find "round" numbers feel good, and whenever I watch Deal or No Deal box number 18 is a good box, so I went for number 18. I know I did not make the deadline, but I still made the card :)

Do you think I overdid it with the flowers?? That was actually my take on my fave number. There are 18 flowers on the card :) I handstitched the lace to the circle, and used a cute little stamp with some embossing powder on it. Paper is from Basic Grey. Tilda is colored with Promarkers, and the cute sentiment is from a stampset that came free with a magazine I bought this week :)

Yvette
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Sketch Saturday

This challenges was so much fun to work with :) I really enjoyed making the card.

What I also enjoyed today was spening a lot of money. Well, I would have prefered to spend less obviously, but today I bought the full Prisma color pencils set, sansodor and paper stumps!! Can't wait for it to get there! I also bought a Bells n Whistles stamp, so so cute!!

I also got amazing mail today. My mum send me a package from Holland, which included the new Magnolia Ink magazine, amazing paperpads and lace, and she made me amazing fabric storage for all my Promarkers. After an hour of sorting they are now all in color-order, and it looks so pretty!! So a BIG BIG THANK YOU to my mum for making these!

So here is my card. I used some Basic Grey paper for all the layers. The image (it's a Sarah, no not Sarah Kay, just Sarah) is colored with Promarkers. Distress Inks were used to do matting and layering, and put like an airbrush kinda idea behind the image. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border, some Hot Fix stones for the bling, and I punched some leafs with a Nellie Snellen punch. The cute flowers I happened to have bought today at Boyes, and they were just the perfect color for on the card. Voila, card done :)

Yvette
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Friday Sketchers Challenge

Luckily I am feeling a lot better, and I have spend a lovely afternoon making a card for the Friday Sketchers blog.

I used papers from my old stash, a Marianne Design die, where I made a Faux Nestie kinda thing to layer it on. The image was free with a magazine (I love free things :)), and I colored her with Promarkers. Instead of using flowers where it said on the sketch I stamped some cupcakes and colored them again with Promarkers.
Yvette
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Something simple

For the last 5 days I have not been allright. I think Ian gave me his bug. As I am writing this I am as dizzy as anything, but I really wanna post this card. My lovely friend Anna her partner has made a facebook group to give Anna and myself some challenges. I know I am a day late, bit I still wanted to show what I managed to make today.

The challenge was to use Clarice Cliff as an inspiration. She made lovely artwork in her days, things I actually really loved! I used her colors, the circle and the tree, and made this simple card. Paper is from Basic Grey, the tree is made with the Naked Tree and Leafs set from Clarity Stamps (Barbara Grey) and the flower is made with a Marianne Design die.

Yvette
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Sketch Saturday Challenge

Have I mentioned before that I really enjoy doing these sketch challenges?? I might have done, but that's because I really really do love these sketch challenges :) Here's another one I made.

Lovely girl on the card is a stamp from Lili of the Valley. She is colored with Promarkers, and I gave her a Distress Ink background. I do need to practise a bit more on that as there is a darker spot where I did not want it. Flowers are Prima Flowers, with some hot-fix stones in it :) Again handstitched the border!

Yvette
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Purple

I went a bit overboard with purple on this card. I got my papers, colored my Tilda, and it was like an ocean of purple. So I made the die-cut circle green, to give it a little bit of contrast!

The papers are from old stash I have from my scrapping days (and there are tons and tons of papers finally getting used again :)). Nellie Snellen Multiframe-die with a circle in the middle I made with my circle-cutter. Tilda is colored with Promarkers. I used Primaflowers, also from my scrappin-stash. The stamp in the corner is from a set called Create a Frame, and is stammped with versamark and then embossed with embossing powder.

Yvette
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Sketch Saturday

I am a very happy bunny! Yesterday a big package arrived and it had all my Promarkers in! Ofcourse I had to try out some colors, and made this card for Sketch Saturday:

Image and sentiment are both Lili of the Valley! I think this is one of my favourite images. I just feel the love between the girl and her doggie on the swing! Stitching is done by hand again. I know, it's silly, but I like the look and I have got all these amazing Sulky colors!

Yvette
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