Anything but a card

Good morning friends,

Tuesday is the colour challenge at The Outlawz and this week my team mate AJ, selected this colour palette and challenged us to make anything but a card.

We have a lovely prize of  a $15 gift certificate to the store of your choice, which is being sponsored by another of my teammies, Susan. So do come along and join in the fun.

For my project I have made 3 gift tags for my Christmas gifting.



Used black cardstock to cut the tags.

Printed music paper, tore each piece and distressed with Distress inkpads.

Made a quilled angel for each tag, added glitter to the halo and the wings. I had wanted to make different angels, but only discovered too late I didn't have enough papers, so will have to do some shopping.

Printed the sentiment words and cut out with a diecut, attached with ribbon and finished off with a peeloff Merry Christmas.

Will enter it in the following challenges:

That Craft Place...Christmas
The Corrosive challenge #239...Merry Christmas
The Christmas challenge #74...Anything goes
The Ribbon Girls ...Anything goes with ribbon
A Gem of a challenge #159...Anything Christmas goes
Crafting with Dragonflies #49...Anything Christmas
Crafty Friends challenge #20...Christmas
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge #259...Anything goes
PDE Linky Party #101...Anything goes
Simply Papercraft #19...Anything goes
The Glory of Christmas #74...Anything goes
613 Avenue Create #154...Anything goes
Love to Create...#25...Anything goes
Card Mania challenge #75...Christmas
Emerald Fairies #74...Merry Christmas
Creatalicious Challenge #82 ...Something old, something new. (old..the quilling papers..new The music paper)
Just Keep on Creating ...Anything goes
Natalie and Amy #93...Anything goes..Christmas
A Snowflakes Promise #12...Anything Christmas
Clear it Out...Anything goes...Stash..quilling paper
Die Cutting Divas #246 ...Anything Christmas
Scrap Creations...Christmas
Retarte #67...Anything goes
Through the Craftroom Door...Anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown #274...Anything goes
Craft your Passion #292...Anything goes
Crafty Boots ...Christmas
Not Just Cards ...Anything goes
The Crazy Challenge #211...Christmas
The Paper Girls #93...Christmas

Have a great day and a wonderful week.Take care and see you soon.

Love Ursula

Using Dies or punches

Good morning bloggers,
I hope you are all looking forward to a great weekend. We have had some beautiful rain on Thursday night and it has turned a little chilly as well, but having the rain is so welcome. I can just see the garden rejoicing.

The challenge at Let's Craft and Create this month is to use your dies or punches, so I decided to make a wine bottle tag as I received some lovely new dies when my family came to visit last month. These are just so right for this tag.

I cut the small tag with the circle from  burgundy cardstock and matted this to a Kraft rectangle with rounded corners.

Cut the wine glass and grape diecuts, then coloured these with Pan Pastels. These are Marianne Design ..Creatables LR0366 and 0367

The sentiment I printed and then tore the edges and antiqued this with Distress inks.

Please visit the challenge and see the lovely cards made by the DT for inspiration.



Entering the following challenges:






Crafting with an Attitude #7...Anything goes
Crafty Girls Creations #3...Anything goes
Crafting with Friends #5...Anything goes
Crafty Catz #291...Anything goes
Simply Papercraft #12...Anything goes
Crafting by Designs...Anything goes
Creative Moments #76...Anything goes with a sentiment
The Male Room #18...Fruit
Inspiration Destination #49...Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #199...Anything goes
Wonderful Wednesday...Anything goes
City Crafter  #277...In a jam/use fruit
Cuttlebug Mania...Anything goes
Deep Ocean challenge #111...For the boys
Through the Craftroom Door...Anything goes

Enjoy your weekend and thank you for popping in. I do love reading your comments. 

Take care and see you soon.

Love, Ursula

A Christmas tag.

Hello friends,
We have almost reached the last day of June, and I am pleased to say that I have made my two Christmas cards for the month...only just. OK the one is not a card but a tag...that also counts as I will need a lot of those

I have used a Marianne die, which makes a lovely tag, and the paper is a glossy paper I have had for some years.
The image is called Stanley from Beccy's Place I coloured it with Distress inkpads and I paper pieced the bauble. Cut it out with a smaller die from the same Marianne die set and attached it with a brad.
The sentiment was stamped onto a label from Nellie Snellen and finished off with a gold bow.

Will enter it into the following challenges:
12 Months of Christmas linkup...Anything goes
Beccy's Place...June challenge
ATW challenge...Anything goes
Christmas Card challenge #30 ...Anything goes
Fairytale Stampers #57...Anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends...Anything goes
Glitter n Sparkle #143...Sentimental..must have a sentiment
Scrappy Hands #42...Anything goes
Love to Scrap challenge ...No rulz
Not Just Cards #21...Anything goes
Use Your Stuff #200...Anything goes
Craft-Dee Bowz...Anything goes

Have a lovely day and see you again tomorrow with another DT card.

 

Love Ursula

A get well tag

Good afternoon my friends,
I have had a good day creating, and trying to get ahead of some DT work. I also needed a quick get well card and when I say the lovely card,  made by Dawn Turley it inspired me to make one.

This is my version and I am entering the challenge at Tag You're it.

 

 







The paper is from another of my collection of 'old' paper blocs with only a couple of sheets left in them.
The die for the tag is a Nellie Snellen shape die. Attached the two tags with a flower brad.
The image is a new release from Digistamps4Joy - Daisies and you can find it HERE  coloured with Distress inkpads.
Sentiments are from my collection.

I will enter the following challenges:
Tag You're it #17
A Gem of a challenge #130 ...Pretty in pink
Little Claire Designs #55...Springtime
Crafty Calendar challenge...Add some metal (not sure if my brad will count)
Fairytale Stampers #52...Anything goes
Frosted Designs...Think pink
Crafting with an Attitude #1...Freestyle
Fresh Brewed Designs #17...Flowers
The House that Stamps Built #311...Diecuts/punches with stamping
Mod Squad challenge ...Flowers
Whimsy Stamps challenge #80...Use a sentiment
Crafts Galore Encore ...Anything goes
Country View challenges ...Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper...Anything goes
My Craft Creations...Anything goes
Natalie and Amy #30...Flowers

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. I will be back tomorrow with a DT card.

Take care.

Love Ursula

Some quilling today

Happy Sunday friends,
Well the last Sunday of the year has dawned with cloudy, misty weather...not the sunny weekend we all wish for. I don't really mind as I do enjoy this weather as well.

I haven't done any quilling for a bout 2 years now, but got out my tools and papers after attending a refresher class a couple of weeks ago. I have always enjoyed the various ways of working with paper. I decided to make some tags to go onto gifts this year. One of my nieces has always loved penguins and when I saw a quilled penguin, I just new this had her name on it. I made the snowflakes with the papers that I had and just love the way they came out.

 

I will see if there are any challenges to enter these.

 

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge #209...Anything goes

C.R.A.F.T challenge #291...Anything goes

The Crafter's Café challenge #96...CAS gift tag

Scrapper's Delight challenge #37...Anything goes

Crafting for all Seasons #92...Anything Christmas but a card

Creative Moments challenge #58...Anything goes..non traditional Christmas colours

Inspiration Destination #13...Anything goes

Moo-Mania challenge ...Merry Christmas

Penny's Paper Crafty challenge #208...Anything goes

The Paper Shelter...Anything goes

Deep Ocean challenge #93...Christmas is all around

Just Inspirational challenge...Christmas

 Through the Craftroom Door...Anything goes

All Crafts challenge...Anything goes, but no cards

Top Tip Tuesday...Make your own

Not Just Cards #9...Anything goes

The Paper Girls challenge #70...Ornaments

 

 I wish you a lovely Sunday and a great week. If there is still something you wanted to do this year, then best you get on with it...not much time left now.

Take care and see you soon.

 

Love Ursula

Lovely bells and other images at DS4J

Happy Sunday morning friends.

I do hope everyone is having a relaxing day before the rush of last minute details for Christmas. It is such a gorgeous summer's day here that I am enjoying the beautiful weather, sitting on my patio and relaxing......doing some colouring and cutting and......., but still relaxing.

Today there are a number of gorgeous images at Digistamps4Joy and the one I have used is called 'Bells are ringing'

If you need inspiration have a look at the cards made by our talented DT. You will find them HERE I was too late to put mine there, so am just showing it here.



I decided to make a tag for an anniversary, as I will be needing a few of these shortly.
I cut my tag with a Marianne Design Creatable LR0335, then cut a backing in a darker shade.
The image I coloured with Pan Pastels for a change, adding 3D dots with Pontura and some bling for the flower centres.
A pearl brad to finish it off.


I will enter it into some challenges:
A little bit Crafty...Anything goes, but not Christmas
CCC Digi Creations #15...Digi/Rhinestones or ribbon
The Sisters of Craft...Anything goes
Chalk N Stock ...Anything goes with chalk
Stempelsonne challenge #130...Anything goes
Crafty Creations challenge #278...Something to Die for
Inspiration Destination #12...Anything goes
Penny's Paper Crafty challenge #208...Anything goes

Have a wonderful day, a great week...not too stressful and rushed, I hope.

Take care and see your soon.
 

 Love Ursula

Midway challenge #104 at Digistamps4Joy

Good morning friends and a happy Wednesday to you all,

There is still a week left for the challenge at Digistamps4Joy  hosted by Berni and she has chosen the theme....Preparing for holidays/fall.
The DT have made gorgeous projects for this challenge, so go and have a look for some inspiration.
You do not have to use a ds4j image, but you stand a chance to win the $10 voucher if you do. There are a number of images in the SHOP which can be used for this theme and there is also a reward points system, so have a browse there.
 

You can choose any holiday for this, and as I am trying to get ahead for Christmas I made a wine bottle tag, as I need a few of these, and it saves wrapping the bottle.

I cut a tag and embossed it with a CB embossing folder.

Image is Steampunk Tree and you can find it HERE This will be a gift for my nephew, who loves his red wine and also does a lot of DIY...so thought this a perfect image for him.

I printed the image on patterned paper and then decorated with gold, black glitter, bronze EP, and gold peel-off stars. Cut it out and attached to the tag.

The sentiment if from a Papermania set.


These are the challenges I will enter:
Delightful challenges...Happy Holidays
C.R.A.F.T challenge...Christmas
 DL ART..Thankful Thursday
Crafty Catz challenge #255...Christmas is coming
Allsorts challenge #285....Anything but a card
Crafty calendar challenge...It's all about Christmas
Love to Create challenge #142...Make it for Christmas
Not Just Cards challenge #6...Anything goes
The Pink Elephant challenge
Perfectly Rustics challenge #36...Embossing

Wishing you all a fantastic week. and will see you again soon. Thank you so much for visiting, and hope you leave me a comment.. Take care.

Love Ursula

Card or tag

Good morning friends,
Wednesday morning so another challenge from DigiStamps4Joy. This week we are playing "Tic Tac Toe in full colour" So why not hop on over and have a look at the challenge.
For my entry this week I decided on a tag. This one fits over a wine bottle...very easy to make and can be your card at the same time.

Here is what I used.
Paper...gold cardstock, DP...Papermania...Silent Night
Image...DS4J,,,Cchristmas Treee coloured with distress inkpads, added glitter and peeloff gold stars, cut it out and mounted with foam pads.
Sentiment...Do Crafts, embossed with gold
Embellishment...Marianne Creatables Die.

That's my entry so we would like to see what you can do this week. You have 2 weeks to enter so hop on over and have a go. You do not have to have a DS4J image, but it will increase your chances of winning if you do.
That's it from me, take care and have fun.