Seven Hills Crafts Monthly Craft Challenge - July 2017

Hello Everyone. I'm getting in lateish to this month's Seven Hills Crafts Monthly Craft Challenge, which is a sketch. 

I've been playing around with my new MFT goodies that I got at the craft fair back in June - you can watch my haul video for more details.

I've been playing around with my ink dusters and that MFT cloud stencil that seems to be out of stock everywhere. Once I'd inked up my background panel I cut it out with the journalling card part of the WPlus9 Sunshine Layers die which I think is one of my most used purchases ever.

I stamped and Copic coloured the seagull - doesn't he just look so Zen and chilled? - and then fussy cut him out. It was a simple assembly adhering the cloud panel to an A2 (US) sized card and attaching Mr Zen Seagull with some bits of foam tape. I stamped the sentiment on some scrap card and then found a piece of scrap sunshine cardstock from the Whatever the Weather paper pad by Sugar Pea Designs. 

I hope this makes you as happy as a seagull with a chip! Thank you so much for joining me again and I wish you a fabulous weekend when it arrives :)

Seven Hills Crafts Monthly Card Challenge April + CASology Week 244

I'm here to share a card I made for two challenges, one is a Sketch over at Seven Hills Crafts

and the other is CASology, where the cue card this week is Strong

 
Here's my card...

I like to be as inventive as I can when it comes to making cards for challenges, so I bypassed my new Stay Strong stamp from Sugar Pea and instead found this older set called Teddybears Picnic and made this rather quirky scene. Hope it doesn't make you too scared to get your blanket out, but I rather think the ants are being friendly and wanting to join in :)

I started by marking out where the three diagonal lines would be for the Sketch in pencil onto a white card base. I then took one of the ants and inked him up with Memento Tuxedo Black and repeatedly marched him up the three lines. I spaced them out so that I could then take the picnic elements and make it look like they were being carried by the ants.

I then stamped the other images on some Neenah card stock and coloured them with Copic markers, before stamping the blanket onto some scrap patterned paper and fussy cutting them all.

I glued the picnic blanket into place, and placed the little girl and the teddies on top with foam pads. I stamped the sentiment on the bottom corner and my card is complete.

Did you know that ants can carry up to 50 times their own bodyweight? I think that makes them pretty strong indeed!

Here is a list of the supplies used on this card. I have signed up to affiliate links on some products. If you purchase any item after clicking on an affiliate link, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps in a small way to support the running of my blog and is very much appreciated, thank you! 

Sugar Pea Designs Teddybear Picnic

Memento Tuxedo Black

Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid 6x6 Paper Pad

Copic Markers

Versa Fine Onyx Black

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Thank you for popping along and I hope you all feel strong - especially if you're having a good Easter weekend :)

O Holy Night - Seven Hills Crafts Monthly Craft Challenge - November

Hi Everyone! This month the theme for the Seven Hills Crafts Challenge is your favourite Christmas movie, song or carol. When it comes to Christmas Carols, that is hard for me, because I love singing and I love belting out a good carol - especially if I know the descant line and can sing as high as I can go with gusto. 

What I love is a good cheesy one, and for that it has to be Adolphe Adam's O Holy Night, or Cantique de Noel in it's original French. If you have no idea what I'm on about, here is one of my favourite singers, Juan Diego Florez, doing what he does best in a decidedly cheesy video.

So, onto my card! As I love music, it was natural for me to want to incorporate it into the card itself, so instead of butchering up my own copy (yes, I do occassionally accompany myself in a little sing song on the piano), I found one online that was free for sharing and printed it out.

I took some white card and glued the first page of the sheet music onto it and once it was dry, die cut out the scene from my new Sugar Pea die so that the words would be visible.

I then attached a panel of water colour card which I'd previously covered in my Infusions powder to the top of a side opening A2 card. Then once I'd trimmed my die cut panel to fit, I attached it with foam tape.

I took the star and covered it in Sparkle pen and then a top coat of glossy accents, which as always, never shows up as well on the picture!

This was very quick and simple to make and I think will be mass produced with some other carols - Silent Night would be a good one - as it can be made in stages without too much trouble.

Here is a list of the supplies I used on this card. I have signed up to affiliate links on some products (at present only through Simon Says Stamp). If you purchase any item after clicking on an affiliate link, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps to support the cost of running my blog and your support is much appreciated :)

Nativity Scapes SugarCuts	Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine	Tombow 88 oz Mono Multi Liquid Glue	Paper Artsy Infusions - A Bit Jaded	Tonic Studios Maxi Guillotine	White Adhesive Foam Pads 25 x 12 x 2mm 40 pieces	A4 Super Smooth White Card - 250gsm - 100 Sheets	Martha Stewart Mini Scoreboard
Ranger Glossy Accents	Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens - Clear

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Thank you so much for visiting me today, have a great weekend when it arrives :)

Slider Shaker Card - Seven HIlls Crafts Monthly Craft Challenge

Hello All! Well, I've been a busy bee tidying up my craft room to try to find some missing mojo, and I think I found it, so I'm using it to enter the Seven Hills Crafts Monthly Craft Challenge. With about 12 hours to go, Aileen would be so proud!

I got some new products only on Friday from Seven Hills - some slider elements and slider dies. I've been wanting to try out a pull slider for a  while and now seemed as good a time as any.

After watching a few YT videos (I found Nichol's very helpful), I gave it a go. I started with a panel of Neenah and cut out my little circles and the slider elemnt. I had pre coloured (Copics) and cut out the ship some time ago. I then took a piece of scrap Neenah I found in my stash, I measured it to make sure I wouldn't see it through the circles (port holes I like to call them!). I then took two of the slider elements and stuck them onto the pull tab and placed them into the slider. I attached the ship on top - I can't tell you how excited I was that it worked!!!

I stamped the sentiment on to the pull tab and wrote PULL on the end - here's a close up.

I then made a shaker pocket with my Fuse tool around a piece of card I'd watercoloured during the last 30 Day Colouring Challenge. I added my octopus and two shoals of fish and a whole pile of sequins before closing it up.

I then stuck a whole pile of sticky pads to the back of the panel, with some placed close to the slider tab so it was held in place, but not too much otherwise it wouldn't slide.

I stuck it down onto the shaker piece and then stuck it all on top of a top folding A2 (US) card. It shakes and it slides!

Here's a close up of the shaker element, and you have to tell me the recent film I was inspired by. I saw it in the summer with my eldest and LOVED it - I'll tell you underneath.

It was Finding Dory - can you see the clown fish (Marlin and Nemo), the blue tangs (Dory) and Hank, the grumpy octopus (or septapod as we discover, and which funnily enough this stamp is too!)?

I'm off to link it up to the challenge, and also to Pixie's Snippets Playground as I used loads of bits I had lying around - from previous coloured images to scrap Neenah.

Thanks as always for reading and I hope you have a great week!

Here is the list of supplies used in this card. Please note I DO NOT USE AFFILIATE LINKS.

*Neenah Classic Crest **110 LB** SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets	Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine	Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles Large	Lawn Fawn Slide on Over Dies	Slider Elements (TicTac)	Double sided foam pads	Ranger .5 Oz. MINI MULTI MEDIUM MATTE Glue Adhesive Paint INK41511	Quilled Creations PRECISION TIP Empty Applicator Bottle 317
WRMK Photo Sleeve Fuse Tool	Tonic Titanium Fine Control Scissors	Tonic Studios Maxi Guillotine	A4 Super Smooth White Card - 250gsm - 100 Sheets	Memento Tuxedo Black	Hobbycraft Clear Acrylic Stamping Blocks 2 pack	Glacier Sparkly Shaker Selection	Phosphorescence Sparkly Shaker Selection
Lawn Fawn Mermaid for You	Newton's Nook Message in a Bottle Stamp	Newton's Nook Message in a Bottle Dies	Copic Markers

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