This one sold as well...

Hello sweet bloggers,

First of all, I am sorry that I have not been around much. We were away at the weekend to a special friend's 40th birthday. It was loads of fun, laughter, champagne and good company all the way!!!

The card that I am posting is the one that was randomly picked up by the same lady who ordered 20 cards. Incidentally, she was kind enough to buy 26 cards in all and was I on cloud nine! So far I have sold 43 cards for Japan red cross...

Supplies:

Base card stock - white distressed with Tim Holtz wild honey and crushed olive

Embossing on card stock - CB

Stamped background - Hero Arts block done with Tim Holtz rusty hinge

Dragonfly - Inkadinkado stamp heat embossed with matt gold 

Distress around dragonfly - crushed olive and rusty hinge

Gold flowers - punched with Carla craft out of a very fancy brochure and that means I recycled!

Brown leaves - embossed and decorated with Sakura gold pen

I am going to submit this card for the following challenges:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://www.cardcupids.org/blog/ - anything goes

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/ - punches or dies

http://www.unityopportunity-challenge.blogspot.com/ - fall/autumn

http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

I will come and do my rounds soon - that is a promise.

Hugs,

Monica

My third set of cards for order

Hello lovely bloggers,

I got 10 cards delivered to the lady who ordered them and I was a bit nervous... but yaaay, she liked them all.

Now here is the next set - hope they are well received, too.

Supplies:

Base cardstock - black with green inner

Orange paper - stamped with Hero Arts block using Tim Holtz distressed peeled paint and forest moss

Green paper with black print - stamped with another Hero Arts block using Tim Holtz soot black and distressed with chalks, peeled paint and forest moss

 Large butterflies - from K and company

Small butterflies - stickers from stash (saving them for the past 12 years!!!)

Border punches - MS

Embossing - dear CB

Ribbon - white and distressed with peeled paint - you are impressed, aren't you??? 

Mosaic (only on one card) - from stash

I am going to enter this for the following challenges:

http://digistamps4joy.blogspot.com/ - fall colours
http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/ - butterfly
http://www.ibrakeforchallenges.blogspot.com/ - background
http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ - anything with wings


Thanks for all your support - means so much to me and my little blog.

Hugs and off to do my chores before Zeenya sleeps,

Monica

Still making more cards for order

Hello lovely bloggers,

Thanks for the kind comments on my last post.

Here are another five cards I have made for the lady who ordered 20. I just sent her 10 cards this morning. I do hope she likes them. Am on my way to make the rest of the cards now...

Below are some individual pictures of the cards.

Supplies:
 Base card stock - shaded mocha and pale creamy white
Stamp - leafy stamp from Hobby Ideas, India stamped with Amercan crafts clay and filled in with water colour pencils.
Glitter - Uniball copper metallic
Chalks - from stash
Embossing on the side - CB


Am going to enter in the following challenges:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ anything goes
http://mimchallegeblog.blogspot.com/ - monochrome
http://craftingwhenwecanchallenges.blogspot.com/ anything goes
http://thecraftypad.blogspot.com/ - brown, orange, gold


Will come and do my rounds soon - off to pick up lil' Aleeza from school now.


Hugs,


Monica

Yippeeee! Order for 20 cards...

Hi bloggers,

Welcome to Corinna - my newest follower.

Just to give you an update... so far I have sold 17 cards for Japan red cross and I have got a new order for 20 cards.

Down below are the first five cards that I managed to make since yesterday. The lady who ordered them chose the designs  from my blog and did not want any sentiments on the cards. 

Down below are the pictures of the individual cards. 

Supplies: 

Base card stock - different colours

 Background stamp - Hero Arts block with Brilliance pearlised lavender and pearlised blue stamp pads

Small metallic butterfly - from the book store close by

Big metallic butterfly - die cut with Sizzix using kitchen foil (Yaaaay, I recycled!)

Dragonflies - Carla craft punch and glittered with metallic blue and silver Sakura pens

Metallic paper - Paper chase tissue

Ribbon - from stash

Hope you are having a good weekend. I am going to see the movie, "The Tree of Life" this afternoon so I am very excited!

Will come and visit you soon and thanks for your kind comments.

Hugs,

Monica

Getting more cards ready for Japan redcross!

Hello bloggers,

Wowsie! It is Friday again and thank God for that. I have to say this week went so fast.

Here is a card I made while Aleeza tried her best to snatch away my glue, distress inks and sponges. Somehow I managed to keep my cool.

I have followed the sketch by http://mytimemadeeasy.com/blog/ (you can see it down below after my card)
The layout is a tribute to 9/11 and as you can guess it resembles the American flag.

Here is my card - I think it looked better without the touch of bling. I created my own paper - yaaaay! And I distressed it with Tim Holtz old paper - as usual the real colours cannot be seen well.

Supplies:

Base card stock - white distressed with Tim Holtz old paper (I love how it turned out)

Printed paper - Hero Arts design block stamped with Brilliance graphite black

Leafy panels - MS  border punch distressed with Tim Holtz soot black

Heart stamp - from Hobby Ideas, India, stamped in graphite black and distressed with Tim Holtz fired brick

Heart punch on stamp - Carla craft with recylced scrap on table. I used a heart because I feel so deeply about what happened on that horrible day. 

Red colour on the two centre panels - filled in with metallic red Sakura pen (looked much better without it)

Bling and glitter - from stash

Down below is the sketch

I am also going this card in the following challenges as well:

http://jffchallenge.blogspot.com/ - vintage

http://blog.therubbercafe.com/ - no designer paper

http://atsblog.typepad.com - anything goes

Wishing you a relaxed and crafty weekend.

Hugs,

Monica

Distressing printed paper!

Hello bloggers,

First of all, a welcome to my new followers, Marlena Pedussi and Dusty Davi  - it makes me so happy to see my list of followers grow!

I made this card to participate in the challenge hosted by http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/ the theme being a sketch. Sorry, am too lazy to copy and paste the sketch.

I have done a lot of distressing here and that kinda of de-stressed me... lol!

Supplies:

Base card stock - red

Black stock - light weight card

Printed paper - new wrapping paper, distressed with Tim Holtz fired brick

Red embossed paper - distressed with Tim Holtz soot black

Sentiment - embossed with CB and distressed with Tim Holtz fired brick

Heart shaped border - MS and distressed as well with fired brick

Black Ribbon - American crafts

I am also going to submit this for the following challenges:

http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/ - vintage/shabby

http://ribboncarouselchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/ - embossing of any kind

Hope you like it...

Hugs,

Monica

Another card today!

Hello bloggers,

Life is good because I am getting to blog to my heart's content... what else does a little blogger like me want!!! Lol.

Here is a card I made yesterday and finished off today. 

Supplies:

Base card stock - light blue and distressed with grape (American craft pigment stamp pad)

White strip - punched with MS border punch and distressed with grape and Tim Holtz broken china
Also coloured in with Sakura metallic purple and silver pen

 Pop up butterfly border at the bottom - with a pop up punch and glittered

Flower - homemade by me using Sizzix flower dies and Carla craft punches - glittered as well

Flower centre - rhinestone from stash

Flourish stamp - Inkadinkado and stamped with Tim Holtz broken china

This is a closeup of the flower - a pretty hopeless picture!!!

Am entering this card for the following challenges:
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes (my second entry this week)

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/ - flowers

http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/ - fave colour combo

http://heartsonginspirations.blogspot.com/ - distressing and/or use paint

http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/ - make your own flower


Thanks for all the inspiration!


Hugs,


Monica