GlitterAngel Art

52 week challenge, week 20

Nat’s challenge this week for her 52 week challenge is the theme of Rainbows.

Pop over to her blog to see the gorgeous inspiration pics she’s chosen to give us all inspiration.  One photo in particular got me thinking – this gorgeous cake:

Source: pinterest

By coincidence, I did actually need to make a wedding card for one of the ladies from my Bromsgrove cardmaking class, and as she’s avoided a traditional theme for her invites, I thought it would be a great idea to make her wedding card to fit this theme.  I’d love a cake like this, it’s so beautiful.  Here’s my card:

And as an extra little personalised detail, I added some tags with their intitials, and more little pearls and hearts:

Thanks for a great challenge Nat, I’ve really enjoyed this one!

DCM - Sportsmen

It’s Kathy’s turn this week at Daring Cardmakers to set the challenge, and she’s chosen

Sportsmen

She wants to see sport themed cards for boys.  Tough.  I thought I’d make the most of the challenge to get ahead of the game and do my Father’s Day card for my dad.  He’s a golfer, and after a rummage through a totally neglected box of embellishments I found this plastic golf bag.  I used a Tim Holtz texture folder to give it even more of a masculine feel.

Busy, busy

Gosh, it’s been a hectic couple of weekends.  I’ve been up in the Midlands and we’ve been having a massive de-clutter of the house as we’ve decided that with me being in London we don’t need such a big house, so we’re going to downsize.  It was a bit mad for Andy to be all on his own most of the time in such a big house, and just keeping on top of the cleaning was a huge job for him.  I’m quite shocked really at how much stuff we have as the house never seemed cluttered, yet we’ve filled my 4x4 several times over with stuff for the dump, and stuff to sell/give to charity.  Thankfully it’s all done now, and we’re looking forward to getting our new place all nice (and I’m looking forward to shopping for new house things, but don’t tell Andy that!)

I was lucky enough to get back down to London yesterday in time to whizz to the Big Stamping and Scrapbooking show at Alexandra Palace.  I only had an hour to shop before the end, but that was long enough to get quite a few of the things off my list.  I got a couple of Spellbinder die sets, some distress ink, Paperartsy fresco paints, chipboard shapes, lots of card blanks and some lovely paper roses.  Amazingly I didn’t buy any stamps.  There were lots of lovely dies (especially the Memory Box sets), but as I’ve just ordered a few sets from My Favorite Things, I didn’t get any more than the two Spellbinders sets. 

As I knew I’d be exhausted after all that, I booked today off work, so I’m having a lovely morning getting up to date with my Design Team work, and hopefully I’ll get caught up on my blog visiting today too.  Here are a few cards that I made last week, but didn’t get time to blog:

 

I love this little girl from Scrapbook Stamp Society.  You can’t tell too well from the pic, but I’ve added some glamour dust to the fish so they are nice and sparkly.  The lovely embossed background was created by inking up my embossing folder with Colorbox Chalk ink in Blush Rose before running it through my Big Shot.  I love this colour.

DCM Colour Combo – Sorbet Colours

It’s Leo’s turn to choose the colours in this month’s colour combo challenge, and she’s gone for a gorgeous sorbet palette.

 

I was initially going to do something with my cupcake stamps, then I remembered a lovely Papertrey set that I’ve barely used, that would go perfectly with these lovely colours.  The background paper is MME, you can’t tell too well from the pics, but some of the polka dots are glittered.  I used some ink to die the seam binding a nice coral pink to match.

 

DCM - Box of Tricks

It’s Fran’s turn to set the dare this week, and her challenge is:

A Box of Tricks
I'd like you to feature a box or something box-shaped on your projects - it could be a 3D project, decorated box, box shaped embellishments...once you start thinking outside the box (!) you can come up with some fun ideas!

This was quite a difficult one.  I searched for a small match box to use as my initial idea was to have a match box that you opened to reveal a greeting, but as I only had a huge match box, I decided to make my own box shape.  As I’m so rubbish at stuff like that, I thought making a match box was too ambitious, so I decided to have flowers coming out of my box instead:

The papers are from Pink Petticoat’s new design’s – aren’t they scrummy?  And of course, my usual little tag from Papertrey – I thought a get well theme would be nice for this box of flowers.  I certainly won’t be putting this card in the post to anyone though – I’d have to make another box to put it in first!!

DCM - Lucky Green

It's Samm's turn to set the challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers.  As it's St Patrick's Day tomorrow, she's chosen the theme

Lucky Green

As I'm half Irish myself, I really enjoyed this one.  I've had a St Patrick's set of Papertrey stamps for a couple of years that I've never used, so it was a good excuse to finally use them!  Now my nan is no longer with us, I don't really send St Patrick's cards to anyone, but one of the girls i work with is leaving today, and she just happens to be Irish!   So I made a good luck card for her with an Irish theme.

It's not the best photo as I was in a bit of a rush today, but the text at the bottom reads 'May you always walk in sunshine'. 

Pop over to the Daring Cardmakers blog to see the gorgeous green creations my teamies have come up with. 

Lá Fhéile Phádraig Shona Duit!

Shabby Tea Room – Sparkly and Bright

This week’s challenge at the Shabby Tea Room is ‘Sparkly and Bright’.  Using this photo as inspiration, to create a card with white/cream, silver and a splash of pink.

I used a digi stamp from Scrapbook Stamp Society, coloured with Promarkers.  I stamped the background directly onto the card with Sterling Silver embossing powder, then added some Papertrey die cut borders and a chipboard flourish which I coated with some more silver embossing powder for real sparkle.

Hearts and Flowers

The latest challenge over at the Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge blog is ‘Hearts and Flowers’.  I decided to use this lovely digi stamp called ‘my hearts just for you’.  You can buy it here.   I wanted to go for a subtle colour scheme rather than the obvious pinks and reds, and I decided to use my new ‘stitches’ stamp set from Papertrey to create a nice background on kraft card.  The little heart border is also from Papertrey – my fab friend Chris sent me a few die cuts last week, and I coloured this one in the same pink as the hearts she’s holding. 

Fly Away Hearts

Well I’m starting to get ready for Valentine’s Day.  I haven’t quite decided what to do for Andy’s card, but he absolutely loved the Papertrey border card I did recently (because it’s all straight lines and he’s even more OCD than me!), so I might do something similar in reds for him.  In the meantime, I’ve got  some gorgeous images from Scrapbook Stamp Society to play with, some of which are just perfect for Valentine’s Day:

 

Isn’t this a gorgeous image?  It’s called Fly Away Hearts.  I coloured the image with Promarkers, then I created the heart background with some white core card and a Sizzix texture plate.  I sanded the card to highlight the hearts.  The lovely ‘Smooches’ stamp is from Papertrey, and I finished off the card with some pretty pearls and bakers twine.

Vintage space theme

I was asked to make a 40th birthday card this week for a guy that likes rugby and space.  Hmm a tricky one.  After much googling of vintage rugby posters to no avail, my fab DCM teamie Zuzana found me some fantastic vintage space printables which were just perfect!

I printed off some Pink Petticoat papers from the vintage star range, and matched the blue to the one on the space paper.  I love these vintage star papers, they’re very like some of the Cath Kidston patterns I love and just ideal for this masculine vintage feel.  I cut the numbers out with a Fiskars template then added some glossy accents to make them nice and glossy.  I covered a chipboard button in the same paper then added a little tiny tag stamped in broken china.

Let’s hope he likes it!

I’ve been playing with some fabulous new images from Scrapbook Stamp Society so I’ll be back later to share some of those.

It’s been a lovely sunny but cold weekend in London, and we’ve had the best time.  Yesterday we popped to the National Gallery for a wander (and to look at the same pictures that we always do!)  My favourite is a Stubbs painting of a horse called Whistlejacket, and Andy loves to look at a set of two paintings by Edouard Vuillard.   We both also love looking at the impressionist section – I never bore of looking at those fabulous Monet’s and Van Gough’s Sunflowers.  It amazes me to stand in front of such famous and well known paintings.  It’s funny, when I first met Andy he said he hated art galleries – now I usually have to drag him out or we’d be there forever – I’ve definitely converted him!  After the gallery we went for a stroll past Downing Street and Big Ben, across the river and past the London Eye before hopping on the tube home.  Last night we went for a Thai meal at a local restaurant.  A perfect Saturday!  And now I’m having a relaxing Sunday, just crafting.  I’m so lucky :)