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Monday, 29 April 2013

Janey's Digi Designs Daylily Beth


Okay get your sunglasses on because this bright beauty will burn your eyes if you look at your screen for too long! It may be cold and possibly piddling down, but you will soon warm up when you have colourful flowers around you J

I have used Promarkers & Flexmarkers to colour this fabulous image Daylily Beth from Janey’s Digi Designs in bright orange colours and coloured them both differently. The one on the left has a yellow line in the centre of the petal which I have added glitter to. The one on the right I am most proud of as I have used a darker pen to draw lines on and then use glossy accents to raise them up. I’m pretty sure I have seen real lilies that look like that….. I cut around the image and mounted it on 3d Foam.

I have used the sketch from 2 Sisters Challenge for the layout. The papers are from the Boho Chic and Blank Canvas First Edition pads. I loved that there are so many orange shades of papers to choose from in these pads. Lots of them have encapsulated glitter or glossy effects on them too, they are lush J

The flowers are mounted onto a diecut using the Crafters Companion Grace Die’sire die. I love the intricacy of the shape and distressed the edges with a small inkpad.

The sentiment is part of a free digistamp from Michelle Perkett’s blog. She is very generous in giving away special blog freebies as well as full digi’s that are for sale on her Etsy store.

Janey’s Daylily Beth image can be purchased from the Etsy store. For inspiration please pop over to the blog and Facebook page where our very talented designers will be regularly showcasing these amazing images. There are cards featured which are from customers who have purchased the stamps too which must be an amazing feeling for Jane to see her images being used to create some fabulous cards.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size – A5
Sentiment – Freebie from Michelle Perkett
Paper – Boho Chic & Blank Canvas First Editions pad by Dovecraft
Tools - Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Dies from Nestabilities and Die’sire,
Techniques – Diecutting, Distressing

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

Monday, 22 April 2013

Twinkle the Snow baby


OMG, I have made a card without any Designer Paper. That is virtually unheard of in the world of Made By Mandy I can tell you….. I am however very proud as both the sentiment and paper strips have been recycled from old Christmas cards.

The cute snowman is Twinkle The Snow baby by Michelle Perkett. The current challenge at Sparkle n Sprinkle is to use a digi and you get a free image from Michelle Perkett if you use a store image. I do follow Michelle’s blog and have been lucky to have quite a few freebies and have also purchased some images in the past too. This little Snowman is just so cute and anyone who knows me / follows me / takes even a tiny bit of notice of me know that I love making Christmas cards with snowmen images.

I coloured it up with some Promarkers and added some glitter to my silver star. I cut it out using a Fiskars round template and then used some scrap blue card for the Nestabilities die.
I had a look at the current sketches with a circle focal point and found this brilliant one from Artful Delight’s challenge blog. The striped panels inspired me to dig out bits and pieces that I have cut from old Christmas cards. I found the most glittery mid blue twinkly border and using a scrap of blue card laid strips of the papers on it and trimmed to fit on my card base. I then used an old sentiment, cut it out with another nesties die and then matted that onto dark blue. Other than the base every single bit of paper/cardstock is recycled or an oddment so essentially this is a ‘free’ card. I therefore decided to add oodles of gems to the scalloped frame J That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

So we have a gorgeous cutie patootie image with the teeny little heart and I have another Christmas card ready to go. That’s 12 already this year so I know I will be avoiding the last minute panic I had last year. I was so unhappy last year, it was a very stressful time made worse by a death in the family on Christmas Eve and I never even got my tree up. I am determined to be better organised for it this year so I can enjoy it more and RELAX J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-
Card size – A6
Paper strips & Sentiment – All Recycled from Christmas Cards
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities dies, 3d foam pads, Glamour dust glitter, lots of gems
Techniques – Diecutting & Recycling

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-


2 Sisters Challenge - #140 Blue and/or Green
613 Avenue Create – #16 Anything Goes & optional colours
Artful Delight – 31 Sketch for Layout
Catered Crop – Add Glitter
CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft
Christmas Stampin All Year Long - #12 Celebrating Snow
Craft Your Passion - #159 Diamonds are a girls best friend
Crafts and Me - #129 Bling It Up
Crafty Boots – Recycle (paper strips & sentiment all from old cards)
Creative Inspirations Paint – Anything Goes
Cupcake Craft Challenge - #239 Monochromatic
Desert Island Crafters – #52  (1, 4, 6, 7)
Die Cutting Diva’s - #111 Use A Star
Digi Darla Challenge - #59 Use a recycled item (paper strips & sentiment all from old cards)
Everybody Art – #232 Bling
Get Inky - #2 Bring on the Bling
Hobbycutz Challenge – #4 Monochrome
Inky Impressions - #105 Punches/Dies
Jingle Belles – Recycled (paper strips & sentiment all from old cards)
Joanna Sheen – Recycle
Make It Monday –  #137 Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey – Use A sentiment
Penny’s Challenge - #123 Use a Sentiment
QKR Stampede – #35 Punches or Dies
Sparkle & Sprinkle – Use a Digi
Tammy Scrapin’ Corner - #59 Bling It Up
Three Scrappy Gals – Recycle
Whoopsi Daisy – Use Circles
Word Art Wednesday - #76  Anything Goes

Thursday, 28 July 2011

Guest Designer at Michelle Perkett Studios

Good Morning from a sunny Birmingham. I cannot tell you how happy I am to see some sunshine, goodness know we have had some miserable weather in the UK!! Hopefully I will be able to shake this cold I am saddled with at the moment too :)

Today I am delighted to be a Guest Designer at Michelle Perkett Studios. They have a challenge at the moment of Let's Go To The Beach. I would love to go to the beach, shame we live so far away so I will have to be satisfied with making images of the beach instead.

I used a gorgeous little digi 'Olive' to make this card and coloured her in with Promarkers.

I used a Kraft base, layered some paper from DCWV which has been inked around the edges to knock it back a little. I mounted the image on some more Kraft and using one of the DCWV papers cut the waves out in 2 layers to emulate the sea. These are mounted on a thin 3d foam and I curled the edges forward to make it look more tactile. These were very fiddly to cut out but so worth it.

I had been following the sketch from Card Patterns #125 and up to this point everything was going well but with the trims and mats my image became too big for my card base and looked out of proportion so I 'fixed' it by moving it over towards the right hand side and added a strip of paper from the ribbon sheet that the waves came from. Last but not least I dug a little shell embellishment from my stash and added it to the sand.

There is a freebie available with the current challenge so no excuse not to take part, hope this little spell of sunshine will have you enspired :)

Card Size - 5 1/4" square
Paper - DCWV (ALL SCRAPS!!)
Embellishments - resin shell
Tools - 3d Foam pads and good old scissors

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical order) :-