Some Odd Girl monthly sketch challenge for Feb 2013

Hey everyone!
So i was lucky enough to get my polished pinkies onto the new some odd girl set called Love Bandits.
This is truly an Awesome set!!! i fell in love with it as soon as i saw the sneak peeks on the Some Odd Girl Blog.

so i thought why not use the little critters on my sketch challenge that SOG have going at the moment.
Here is the Sketch.

And here is my interpretation of the sketch.....

I made sure i used all the elements from the sketch but just resized them a little.
Thats what i love about the sketches. they can give you just that little bit of inspiration when you have a brain freeze!!!
I used Bella! embossed cardstock in pink, and several different coloured core'dinations  cardstock. i used Lil Inker Designs stitched rectangle mats, and their stitched banner. i also used Fiskars kaleidoscope border punch.
The copic markers i used are as follows-  E71,74,77,R32,35,37,E50 and E02.

If you would like to join the sketch challenge why not head over to Some Odd Girl Feb Challenge and enter!

Tara :)

Bella! January Challenge...finally got it finished and not a moment too soon!

I had been planning to do this challenge all month but with one day to go i finally finished my 3 cards! if you want to check out the challenge it is on the Bella! blog Here.

The First card i used the Bella Australia Paper pad. I also used ruby rocket gems,and a zipper flower from Bella! too. The little sentiment was from My Favorite things.

The Second card (my favorite card of the 3) I used the Oriental chic paper pad from Bella! Along with Bella fundamentals card stock as the base. The stamp was from my cute stamps- Ni Hao I coloured with copics and the dress was paper pieced with the Bella paper too.

The third card i made i used the Boy range from Bella. I also used the coordinating embellishments and some Bella gems. I used My Favorite Things Dienamics alphabet dies to make the 'birthday' on the card.I used the Fundamentals cardstock for this card also.

The 3 cards are all different which is what i wanted. a lot of the time when you get a 3 card challenge many peoples cards all look really similar. i did not want this for my cards. i really wanted to show the different ranges of paper collections that Bella have.

Fingers crossed!

Tara :)

 

Done and Dusted... all my xmas cards are finished and posted!!!

Finally i finished my xmas cards.
I wanted to go simple this year as with Poppy in the mix sometimes i only get a little while to colour before she is wanting my attention. (do i sound like a bad mother??LOL!!)
I picked a simple hero arts cling stamp this year. on craft card and a greeting from Fiskars seasons greetings cling stamp set. I colored with G85 and G99 the leaves, the berries were fired brick distress stickles and the branch was E27. i was surprised how the copics went on the craft card. it sis not bleed at all and it was more like water coloring than markers the was the ink moved about the card stock. but it was a good effect and i am quite happy with the finished cards!

I thought i might enter this card in the Mad for markers monthly challenge as well.
if you would like to enter the christmas challenge just click on the link
Tara :)

Yeah! i was on fawny flickr friday!!!

How excited was i to see my card on the lawn fawn flickr friday!
check it out here! im the last card on the post
here
Tara :)

The Never ending card

I made this card when i saw the great video about the never ending card. i thought it would be great for the kids in zoes class to make for Christmas as i am doing Xmas craft this year at school.
All you need is 4 bits of 10cm x 20cm card cut exactly, some glue a bone folder, paper and embellishments to decorate.
Here is my finished card.
                                         The front

                                         2nd side

                                         3rd side

                                         4th side

                           and back to the beginning

Cool idea huh?
If you would like to check out the video on how to make this card you can find it Here

Fiskars October Sketch challenge...

On the fisk-a-teer blog there is a monthly sketch challenge. Here is the Link.
so here is the sketch........

So to do a double whammy i decided to use this sketch for the Bella! blog monthly challenge also. you can find this challenge Here.
So i used some great pics of my nephew Liam and came up with this page.

I used several Fiskars punches upper crest and boundary waters, my Fiskars trimmer and scissors.
The paper and embellishments are Bella! boyz range.
Tara :)

A Card a day- day 30

So it is the second last day for a card a day challenge and boy it has made me really try hard to create everyday. i think i need to do this again in November so i have lots of Xmas cards!
so here is today's card.

A cute little get well card. i have used K and Company papers, a bella stamp a felt flower and my Fiskars trimmer. i have also coloured the card with my copic markers.

a card a day- day 27

Only 5 days to go! boy it has been a busy month. Along with doing the card a day challenge, i have been preparing for GUEST AUTHORING on the ANZ Fiskars blog getting some sewing projects ready and thinking of new ideas to use the Fantastic range of Fiskars tools.
 Anyway here is todays card.

This card uses Fiskars efferescence punch and also one of Fiskars corner punch. A Bella stamp and some Prima flowers The stamp was coloured with copics.

A Card a day- day 24

For today's card i have used a Bella stamp image, some great basic grey paper my Fiskars corner rounder and some dynmo tape.Again i have coloured with copics!

A card a day - day 3.

Today I have created a cute card using Fiskars apron lace border punch Fiskars stamps and a Fiskars scalloped circle punch to create the flower. this was achieved by folding a circle scallop in 1/2 then folding each corner to the middle and then sticking it on to another circle scallop for stability. then popping a Bella bling in the middle. The paper i used was kaisercrafts new range called chapter one. I also used lawn fawn new alphabet range called Quinn's ABC's. I stamped the letters on the patterned paper and carefully cut them out with my Fiskars fingertip knife.

. Don't forget to go over the ANZ Fiskars blog to see even more great cards during the month of July.

A little mini album and some cards...

I have been given a task by Fiskars to create some projects using only the tools and papers etc they sent me the other day. The projects are to be looked at and maybe one may get chosen to be used in spotlight as a tutorial leaflet in store.

It really makes you mind think when you are limited to products you are given and know that all you use has to be sold in spotlight. especially when i buy most of my stamps from the USA.

I was given a collection of Bella Wedding papers and embellishments.

http://fynmark.blogspot.com/2011/01/cha-winter-2011.html

and some blank cards. I was also given 2 Fiskars tools to use in the project. these were the Medium linked hearts lever punch and the lever punch scalloped square (2.5inches)

These products were to be used and showcased in the projects...... oh what to do?????.... I have cupboard of Fiskars stuff just crying out..."use me...use me" and i could not!

Any way i set to work. I cannot really use stamps as spotlight don't really sell a lot of rubber stamps and they certainly do not sell copic markers,which are my colouring of choice.

but i managed to make 2 cards,and a mini album(see below) no picture in the album yet as i donot think that spotlight want pictures in it. buy ,Hey! i can always add some later.

What do you think?