Paper Parrot

Friday, 29 November 2013

Event!!

Hello crafters,

I'm joining in the shout-out.

Crafty Ribbons is having a Christmas Advent Event!!

Runs from 1st December through to the 24th December.

Lots of prizes to be won.

Click HERE for further details.

Smiles

Phi

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Christmas Gossmere

Hi hi,

It has been a while since I've picked up my copics and coloured something. For this card I jumped right in.......and it took me forever to colour.

The image is called Gossmere from Tiddly Inks. I have adapted her for a Christmas card and coloured her in traditional Christmas colours. Replaced her spooky sceptre with mistletoe (leaf punchies)

The papers are freebies from Simply Cards magazine by Hot Off The Press (Vintage Christmas range). The sentiment reads "Merry Christmas" and along with the swirl stamps, are also freebies from the same magazine.

Copic colours used:

Dress: R20 R24 R27 R29 E19

Crown: Y15 Y35 Y38

Skin: E00 E01 E02 E11 E25 R20

Hair: E13 E15 E18

Whites: C0 C1

Ground: W1 W2 W3 W5

The mistletoe and mini poinsettias are made with punches. Added some rhinestones for the mistletoe berries and also to add some bling. Added some liquid pearl for the center of the poinsettias.

I've seen many cards out there using frantage and love the effect it gives. I would have loved to use it for the snow on all the layers of the card but as I don't have any I've used white embossing powder instead.

All layers of the card were distressed with TH Vintage Photo and a pair of old scissors.

That's all from me today.

Thank you so much for visiting my little blog.

Hope you liked my card

Phi

Challenges:

Inky Chicks #17 - Pearls and Swirls - I've used liquid pearl and swirl stamps, papers are also covered with swirls.

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Christmas

Fashionista Magnolia & More Challenge #3 - Christmas Bling

One Crazy Stamper November challenge - Christmas

Designed to Color #23 - Christmas/Winter

Vintage Stamping Challenges #14 - Traditional Christmas Time
Deep Ocean Challenge #65 - Favourite colour combo - Red, green, brown (fave colour combo for Christmas)
Tiddly Inks Challenge #122 - Anything goes
Crafty Ribbons Challenge #70 - Anything goes with Ribbon
Charisma Cards Challenge #45 - Vintage

Yay! This card won challenge #70 at Crafty Ribbons.

OMG! I'm featured on Fashionista Manolia & More Challenge #3 and made top 5.

Woohoo!! Won top 3 at Inky Chicks challenge #17

YAY!! Featured at Tiddly Inks!

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Colleen Bow

Hello friends,

I have just learnt how to tie a "Colleen Bow" and wanted to show it off on this gift card holder I made. As soon as I knew what I wanted to do, this card took 10 minutes to put together.

First I stamped and embossed some small snowflake on cream cardstock. Then stamped the sentiment in red. I glittered the edges with chunky glitter I had in my stash for over a year and have not used. Then comes the bow. To see how to tie this bow, click on the link above. This bow is so gorgeous I didn't think the card needed anything else. To finish, I stuck the cream panel, bow and all, onto white card.

On the inside I created a little pocket for a gift card to sit. Used cream cardstock and matching ribbon to finish off.

And there you have it. A pretty little gift card holder. It's so easy and quick to put together that you could easily make a heap in no time ready for Christmas.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Smiles

Phi

Challenges:

Inspired by Stamping WHW#122 - Make a Colleen Bow

Inspired by Stamping IBSIC #69 - Colour challenge - Cream, Baby blue, Red

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Keep it clean and simple

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Got ink?

One Crazy Stamper November challenge - Christmas

Deep Ocean Challenge #64 - Winter

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Snow and Ice - blue and cold colours

Crafty Sentiments designs - Blues

Creative Creations Challenges #23 - Sparkle and shine

Oldie but a Goodie Challenge - CAS Christmas (Old stash - chunky blue gilitter)

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Birthday Pocket

Hi,

Today I'm sharing with you a pocket/gift card holder I made.

The sentiment I have added with the chalkboard technique.

The layout I have followed a sketch #3 from Inspired by Stamping.

The colours were chosen to match the #2 colour challenge from Inspired by Stamping (white, pink, teal).

To finish off the pocket, edges were inked, lace, twine, and a button were added.

A very quick post from me today.

Thank you for stopping by.

Phi

Challenges:

Inspired by Stamping colour challenge - Colours #2 - white, pink, teal

Inspired by Stamping - Chalkboard technique

Inspired by Stamping sketch challenge - sketch #3

Inspired by Stamping - Birthday Theme

Dream Valley Challenges #67 - Buttons

Inky Chicks #15 - Favourite Sentiment

Monday, 30 September 2013

Birthday Balloon

Hi,

Just popped in to share a cute little window card with you today. I followed a sketch from the Less is More blog.

Balloon and background are from Kaiser Craft papers.

Dies used:

Quickutz - nesting circles

Memory Box - Puffy clouds

Memory Box - Modern Landscape Border

Clouds were also embossed with Sizzix embossing folder (Swirls)

Sentiment reads "Happy Birthday". Stamped with Dovecraft alphabet stamp set.

Hope you like my window card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Phi

Challenges:

Cuttlebug Mania - Flying high

Less is More #139 - Sketch #10

Crafty Catz #200 - Birthday

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes

Yay!! I made runner up for the Cuttlebug Mania Flying High challenge.

Friday, 13 September 2013

Ghosting

Hello,

Today's card contains a technique called ghosting which I have learnt from Shea Marshall from the Inspired by Stamping site. Please click here if you wish to see the tutorial.

For the background I "ghosted" the leaves in a random fashion then flicked some water for the little splashed effect. I had so much fun with this new technique and I think it looks great.

For some added interest I stamped and embossed some butterflies in the corner with clear embossing powder. Then stamped and embossed some more butterflies in white for the little popped up panel. The sentiment is also embossed in white and reads "always".

Stamps used:

Butterflies - Grace Taylor (sorry, don't know which set it came from, lost the packaging)

Leaves - BasicGrey, Dainty set

Sentiment - Stampin Up, Small Script set

Hope you enjoyed my card today.

Thank you for stopping by.

Phi

Challenges:

Less is More #136 - Colour challenge - dark green and rust

Allsorts #223 - Butterflies

Totally Gorjuss #200 - Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - Embossed

Bearly Mine Challenge #103 - Fall colours

Inspired by Stamping WHW#116 - Ghosting

BasicGrey challenge #102 - Anything goes - BasicGrey, Dainty stamp set

Anything Goes Challenge blog #100 - In the garden + add some butterflies

Just for Fun challenge #2 - Colours of Autumn

Penny's Paper-Crafty challenge #144 - Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Emboss it!

Vintage Stamping Challenge #12 - Anything from your garden

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Butterfly Baby

Hello Bloggers,

I am so excited to be sharing this card with you.

I created a subtle background by stamping some word stamps in versamark, from a stamp set called Favorite Features by See-Ds. Then embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Hopefully this picture shows the lovely sheen on the embossed background.

Ribbon, button, and cloud die cuts were added to the card. Also added a mini handcut butterfly. Glitter was used to highlight the butterfly and the heart on the baby wings. Faux stitching was added to the clouds to make it stand out a little more.

I kept the whole background white as I really wanted to show off my little coloured image.

The image is called Butterfly Baby by Krista Smith and is coloured with copics using the no-lines technique. This is my first attempt at colouring this way and seriously I didn't know what I was doing half the time. Not an easy way to colour my friends. Needless to say I went super slow. Thankfully, there is a super talented lady called Zoe from Make it Crafty. I have watched her colouring videos many times before I felt ready to try this awesome colouring technique. Quite a long time later I ended up with this little cutie. I know I have a long way to go before I can colour like Zoe but oh! was I proud of myself. Not bad for a first try. Not bad at all!! If you ignore some wonky bits and squint your eyes then this baby is just perfect...LOL.