GlitterAngel Art

SC&P Card Designer of the Year

Now the magazine in the shops I can tell you my exciting news – I was a runner up in this year's Card Designer of the Year competition in Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine.  I had to enter three cards, and here are two of them (for some reason I forgot to take a photo of the third one!).  I won £200 worth of craft goodies, which was a lovely Christmas present!   I shared my goodies with my nieces, Georgie and Lola who were absolutely delighted and now have quite a lot of craft stash – my brother is going to design some storage for them as they are both getting into craft in a big way!

DCM - Colour Combo Challenge

Well it’s the first Friday back for the new year, and I’m so looking forward to getting stuck into our new challenges over at The Daring Cardmakers.  This week we have the very first in our brand new "First Friday" series.  Over the last couple of years for the first Friday in each month we've used Birthstones and Flowers for these challenges,and they've both been interesting and inspiring themes to work with.

For 2012 the First Friday of each month will feature a

Colour Combo Challenge

It should be fun - we're all taking a turn at choosing a combination of colours to base our card-making around so there should be a fab variety of hues and tones to get us creating.  We hope you'll enjoy the idea and feel inspired to join in with us.

Fran is kicking off this new series in style with a fab inspiration photo and colour palette

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Isn’t it a gorgeous palette?  And here’s my card:

The main image is a digi stamp from Scrapbook Stamp Society.  I printed off two copies, then cut out the little girl so I could layer it up a bit to give a bit more dimension.  I’ve coloured her with Promarkers and added some Glamour Dust to the flower and the bow in her hair.  The heart background is a Sizzix texture plate, and I’ve rubbed a white ink pad over it to highlight the hearts.  The greeting and eyelet border are both from Papertrey.   Here’s a little close up so you can see how I’ve layered the image so it’s not too flat.

Pretty in Pink

There’s a new challenge over at the Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog – Pretty in Pink!

I decided to go for a subtle pink rather than full on bubble gum :)  So I’ve coloured the image with a dusky pink and denim colour scheme, then I’ve added some baby pink polka dots to the background, then finished off the card with some lovely dusky rose coloured ribbon and of course my usual Papertrey tiny tag with a little pink pearl – I can’t stop using those tiny tags, they are most definitely my favourite thing.  I’m sorry the photos are a bit dull, the light this evening really isn’t good.

52 Cards Challenge - Week 1

One of my New Years’ resolutions is to take part in more challenges and try and push myself to try new things (and to use some of my rarely used stamps and stash – after re-labelling all my CD stamp storage cases I was very embarrassed at how many of the stamps haven’t been used for years, and some have never been used *blush*)

So to start as I mean to go on, I thought I’d try and join in with my DCM teamie Nat’s weekly challenge.   The details are on Nat’s blog here

This week's prompt is a design elements and theme prompt:

1. Theme = New (new beginnings, baby, home or simply using new stash - the choice is yours!)
2. Circles
3. Scallops

I decided to go for a new home theme, and in an attempt to use stamps not used for years, I decided to use this old Club Stamp border stamp along the top.  You probably can’t tell too well from the photo, but the borders at the top and bottom are embossed with copper ep.

Here’s a close up of the little tag, I added it to a glittery button, tied with green bakers twine, then I put a little pearl in the aperture – the pearl’s a bit more brown in real life and matches the copper really well.

Shabby Tea Room - Week #95 Time Flies

One of my New Year resolutions is to take part in more challenges.  I’ve been having a general think over the Christmas break about where I want to go with my crafting.  I’ve learnt so much since I started cardmaking 9 years ago, and have really enjoyed passing on that knowledge through my classes. 

During the last year I’ve been lucky enough to join two Design Teams and I’ve really enjoyed the challenge that brings and that’s definitely something I want to focus more of my energy on.  As I am also now living away from home during the week in order to work in London, I’ve decided to take a break from teaching and concentrate my energy on design team projects and more crafting for myself without the pressure of coming up with class ideas and all the travelling that teaching involves.  I’m really going to miss the girls that come to my classes, but for the time being, I feel I need to go in a different direction.

So, here’s my first challenge card of 2012, and it’s for the ‘Time Flies’ challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room.  Here’s the inspiration photo for this challenge:

And here’s my card:

 

Happy New Year everyone!!

Happy New Year to you all, and let’s hope 2012 is a good one for us all.  We’ve had one of the best New Year’s ever.  After Andy being poorly over Christmas, we were determined to do something a bit special this year (normally we don’t do much at all for New Year).  As the fireworks were going to be pretty spectacular we liked the idea of being somewhere central enough to see them, but we weren’t that keen to stand around for hours on end to get a good spot.  Luckily I found a restaurant on the South Bank that wasn’t too far from the London Eye and the excitement so were were able to spend a lovely evening there, having lovely food and wine, then just before midnight we went out onto the riverside to join the crowds.  The atmosphere was amazing – what a great start to the New Year!

To blow away the cobwebs yesterday, we hopped on the train down to Brighton.  Our plan was to have a lovely stroll along the seafront and The Lanes then find a nice restaurant to have fish and chips.  Unfortunately, the minute we left London it started raining and didn’t stop the whole afternoon.  So our plans changed a bit, and we ended up getting straight on a bus from the station down to the Pier, where we had our fish and chips and then half an hour on the ‘penny pusher’ arcade games before coming back to London.  So no seafront walk for us, nor the planned stroll around The Lanes – I’d hoped to pick up a nice antique metal ‘flower frog’ for displaying my cards.  Oh well, as it’s only just over an hour away on the train I think we’ll be going again.

I’m planning on a nice quiet day crafting today after all that rushing around, so hopefully I’ll be back later to share what I’ve made.