Partly recycled card

Hello dear bloggers,

Hope you are having a good week...

A warm welcome to my new followers - Jane and Sasha. Delighted to have you on board!

Here is a card I made late last night for a friend who has undergone a surgery.

Supplies:

Base card stock - multishaded mocha

Teddy stamp - Inkadinkadoh, stamped with Amercan Crafts clay and popped up with foam dots

Border punch - MS, distressed with Tim Holtz wild honey

Printed orange patch at the bottom - recycled from a Starbuck take away cup

Orange rose - made by me with coiled paper, distressed with peeled paint

Small flowers -punched from MS border punch

Leaves - punched from leaf punches and distressed with Tim Holtz wild honey and crushed olive

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

http://scrap-creations1.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/ - for kids/teenagers

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/ - fall
http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/ - punches and dies
http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/ - distressing
http://heartsonginspirations.blogspot.com/ - orange and/or buttons

Will come and do my rounds soon.

Hugs,

Monica

Helen's new Etsy store

Hello bloggers,

You know Helen of  www.helenmade.blogspot.com has opened her new Etsy store with her beautiful handmade crafts.

She is an amazing crafter and makes great paper craft - a visit to her blog will endorse what I am saying.

Do check out her new store if you have a moment:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/HelenCreations

Hugs and have a nice week ahead,

Monica

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