Monthly Archives: October 2009

Oct 31

X-mas icons

Good afternoon peeps, I’m going to show you another holiday set of mine, that I made after getting inspired by a similar one featured in an “Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft” magazine.
I’m very much into classic, rich Christmas colours: red, green and gold, and I enjoy every piece I create, that features them. Here’s my very Christmassy project:

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This set took me more time that I expected, partly because it takes some time to do the embossing manually (I used Fiskars embossing plate and a stylus), and partly due to exceptionally high temperatures today, that left me pretty exhausted, and my little girl cranky 🙂

The cards were made to suit two challenges, one of them being “Getting Punchy With It” at Daring Cardmakers (which is to use punches of course), and the other one - “All That Sparkles” at Simon Says Stamp. The last one especially suited the idea behind these cards, to make the central elements twinkle. And oh boy, they do beautifully 🙂

Below are the photos of each card in detail:

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The ornaments have been cut freehand from patterned paper and cardstock, and then glittered. The sentiments are, as usually, hand-written.
Hope you like them, thanks for stopping by!
Chupa xx

Oct 30

Still havin’ it

I did it again… I CASE’d Jenny Gropp’s fabulous card 🙂 Well, sort of CASE’d, ’cause mine is far simpler, but the basic layout has been retained, and I was striving for the same bold effect. Whether I made it or not, it’s for you to judge lol 😛

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This project came into being, because I couldn’t possibly stop at one submission for “Spots’n’Stripes” challenge at Papertake Weekly. I’m such a sucker for dots/stripes combination on cards!
There is also a challenge over at Cute Card Thursday called Midnight Margaritas, that is about featuring a drink/cocktail theme, and it just fits here, doesn’t it? 🙂
I didn’t have any appropriate whimsical sentiment, so I wrote this one myself.

Thank you for visiting!
Chupa xx

Oct 30

Two projects, two styles

Good afternoon folks, here I am to show you two of my last creations!
The first one is not my usual style, but I needed something more “informal” for Kazan’s Sketch 38 at 2S4Y. I couldn’t think of any good-looking layering style for this sketch, and so I came out with something that, let’s say, follows it quite loosely 😉

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With this design, it was easy to follow the rules of “No Backing Papers” challenge at Charisma Cardz, although I did use pieces of DP to make the cupcake and the circles. Good way to use all these scraps!

Next project is a response to quite a few challenges… before I give you the list of them, let me show you the card:

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The colouring medium for the bouquet is watercolour pencils. The sentiment is hand-written.
Here are the challenges that this one enters:
- SASSC38 sketch at Stamps and Smiles (entered via OCC);
- “Beautiful Bouquet” at 365 Cards;
- “Thanksgiving/gratitude” hosted by Crafty Creations;
- “Spots’n’Stripes” over at Papertake Weekly.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, hope you like my projects!
Chupa xx

Oct 29

Altered tea-light box

There are two challenges at the moment amongst my weekly “to do” list, that want us to alter some item - well, Melissa from Tuesday Morning Sketches says “dress an item up“, having a Halloween theme particularly in mind, but since I’m not too keen on this holiday, I went for something more classic 🙂
The other challenge is “Altered Lunch Tin!” at CCEE Stampers, and my item is a gift box holding tealights:

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It bugs me that no matter how many different places and light intensity I was taking the photo in, the colour of the DP would always appear cream. In fact it’s as green as the tea-lights that the box holds! Talk about viciousness! The box really lost half of its beauty with the colours messed up like this, but what can I do… my camera apparently doesn’t like this DP 😉
Anyway, it’s going to make up for a nice present, not sure for who yet though…

Hope you like it, thank you for looking!
Chupa xx

Oct 29

3-D flower for a friend

Hello again, such a beautiful day we’ve got here today! 🙂
I just made a card that also turned out beautifully - at least for me! 😉 I wanted to combine the 3 Dimensional Challenge at Just us Girls, that is to use a 3-D flower on the project, with Anja’s bonus sketch from 2S4Y, and thus the scalloped circle was replaced with the flower - mind you, it too has a scalloped chipboard base 🙂

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Apart from the chipboard element, the flower is built of several layers of cardstock (crumpled and flattened again for a textured look), a piece of lace and a button embellished with a twine.
I also combined some more lace and twine on the left panel. The words are hand written.
Here’s a sideways view of the flower:

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There’s one more challenge that I’m having this one for, and it’s G is for Green at ABC Challenge.
Ahhh…I {heart} green so much! 🙂

Thank you for visiting, happy crafting!
Chupa xx

Oct 28

Quick Holiday cards

Just when I was about to start with the 10 min. cards that I meant to create for TSG 26 at There She Goes blog, and having all supplies already chosen, an inner voice told me that maybe I should look what kind of a new colour combo the Color Throwdown team serves us this week 😛
To my surprise, these were the colours that I’ve chosen! (elegant eggplant, bordering blue, rich razzleberry) LOL figure that!
Anyway, the more happy I was to finish the project, and it looks like this:

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These took just a couple of minutes to make, except that I’ve hand written the sentiments, and it would take even less time if they were stamped or rubbed on.
I like how the colours pop up, even more that the DP panels are mounted on dimensionals.
Thanks for peeping in, happy stamping!
Chupa xx

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