Frantic Friday

Well, it's frantic for me!LOL

Quiclky made this card last night to show on here today-I tried to keep a grungy feel to it in keeping with this week's teenager challenge.....not sure the loopy ribbon thing quite worked though.

Paper by K&Co, image - Madison with Attitude from the Holly & Madison Collection.

Monday Mojo - Joining the Images (and Challenge Winner)

Hi gang! Karen here with Monday's serving of Mojo, intended to stimulate your creativity and getting those juices flowing :-)

Today I am combining images. Most digital cameras, graphic tablets and printers etc comes with imaging software. It is a good idea to play around with yours and find out what's what, you'd be amazed what you can do once you start playing. For this image I used the software that came with my camera (Photoshop Pro), MS Paint and MS Word.

The Madion in Venice image had elements that I didn't want to use here, so I "erased it" with the eraser in Photoshop (you can also do this in Paint but be aware that this also removes the transparency of the image so save a copy first). I needed to make Mikey solid with only the background transparent, or Madison would show through, so I filled the body with white in MS Paint, then opened it up in Photoshop and removed the background around Mikey.

The images were then inserted into Word; Madision was set to float behind the text (double-click/Layout) and Mikey in front of text. They could then easily be resized and moved into the required position.

Alternatively you could of course print both images out separately and cut them out to arrange them. I think this is great for any "couple occasion". Make her dress white or Ivory and it's a perfect wedding card - even leave it as it is if the bride is somewhat "unconvential" :-)

Pop over to my blog for a list of products used. I wont keep you in suspenders anymore because I now have to draw the winner from my Sunday challenge. Not many of you enjoy a Christmas challenge in April it would seem but then there is of course more chance for those of you who did enter :-) Using random.org here is the winner:



That is CRAFTYANNY. Congratulations to you. Let me know you address and I'll get your prize off to you as soon as I can.

Have a wonderful week xx

Madison in China...goes Bold!

Well it's bold for a Dingle creation anyway! LOL. I have been wanting to try out this image from the Holly & Madison World Tour Collection ever since it was launched but time has just always been against me. When I saw these bold coloured papers I just knew I couldn't resist it any longer and she was such fun to colour...as you can see I went really mad with my glitter gel pen!!

I kept the inside very simple, just edge around in silver pen......you can put your sunglasses away now!

Rich.........

Hi every one, Im trying to get back into the routine,have managed this week so far!!
I thought I would follow on from Louises challenge of a shaped card...
I ued the idea from Making cards magazine and the backing paper also.
This is a strip of card which is scored and cut,then folded to make the shape and fits nicely into an ordinary c6 envelope.
I used the image from 'Holly and Madison' and coloured using my Whispers watercolour pens, the sentiment is taken from 'Girls about town' download.

I layered with pearl glitter card, yes we are again all wearing glitter, including the dog!.

Dont forget to join in and get the chance of a wonderful prize.

Nicola.xx

Monday Mojo - Easter Egg Hunt

Well you wouldn't have to hunt a lot to find Easter eggs in this house! Hello to you all, Karen here with your Monday Mojo card. Did you remember to put the clocks forward yesterday? If not then you are probably in an awful rush cos YOU'RE AN HOUR LATE!!! Quick, get to work, I'll wait until you come back home, ha ha ha.

As it's almost Easter I have created yet another Easter card, like my card for yesterday's challenge, plus I have gone with the challenge theme again and created a shaped card. This time the shape is a house.

The download images I have used here are Easter Holly 3-in-1 (from the original Holly & Madison bundle) and Henry Hare from the Animal Magic Bundle.


I used various colours of American Traditional plain textured cardstock for the house, path, door and base of roof. The window was cut on my Silhouette, as was the vine, the grass and the chicks. I used a Karen Foster Easter Rub-Ons for the sentiment.

Holly was attached to the card using foam pads:


All the eggs were cut on my Silhouette and coloured in with Copics (as were the two images). The bottom run of eggs is a Felt Fusion Easter Egg ribbon.

Quite a lot of work but the finished result is worth it I think. It's a sizable card and does look much better in real life.

Have a lovely day. If you make any Easter cards with the downloads then please link by comments to this post as I would love to see them.

Karen xxx

Holly in Spain

Woohoo! It's the weekend again and I'm off to the Papercrafts Show in Harrogate today (not spending though LOL). Today I have a Holly in Spain card to show you, hoping it will provide some inspiration. This image is sooooo gorgeous and I loved colouring her with my Copics and adding glitter here and there. Papers are K&Co Berry Sweet Speciality (loads of glitter) and the swirls and flower are cut from the paper too.

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Thank you for all the wonderful entries into Adele's 'Twice as Nice' Challenge - we've really enjoyed seeing how creative you all are and there's still time to enter.

Have a great day,

Julietxx

Monday Mojo and Prize Draw

Time to find out who won the prize for my sketch challenge last week. We enjoyed all your entries, thank you for playing along ♥♥♥


The winner was chosen at Random Org:

... that, according to my calculations, is JAC. Congratulations Jac, please email through your address so I can send you your goodies.

For your Monday Mojo card I used Holly in the Mountains. I employed a liberal amount of Stickles and it's still wet as I am writing this, couldn't wait any longer or I wouldn't be able to post it here today :-)

Have a lovely week. Don't forget to enter Adele's fantastic "Twice as Nice" challenge.

Karen xx

Monday Mojo goes Oriental

Tis Monday again and a whole week until the weekend! If you need something to spur you on then keep visiting Dottie's World throughout the week as we try to inspire with creations from our design team. Today is my Monday Mojo spot and I have gone oriental with the gorgeous Madison in China (although Japan is of course equally applicable).

The frame surrounding Madison was cut on my Silhouette then air brushed with Copic markers to match the colours on the parasol,. The main paper, ribbon, butterfly and Japanese symbol embellishments are all from the DCWV Far East collection. Lush fabric brads are K&Co Ancestry and pearls are K&Co Margo. The black brads in the ribbon are Basic Grey and flowers are Prima. Everything is available at Charmed Cards & Crafts. I don't know if you can see it but the paper is textured with symbols all over it. The symbols are also on the ribbon and here, perhaps also not apparent on the picture, the purple from the ribbon has been carried onto Madison's kimono suit thingie.

If you don't fancy cutting out all the little bits on the parasol then cut around the image as in the card below. Here Madison has gone blonde.

...and for my artistic shot here is the second card amongst some of my beautiful orchids...


Keep working on that sketch I gave you yesterday :-)

Have a wonderful day

Karen xx

My charming cards!

It has been hectic in the Dingle house yet again, not much time for crafting so I thought I'd show you two of the "Charming" birthday cards I received for my birthday last weekend.





Thank you Karen and Lou! Seeing your cards on the screen is one thing but having them there in front of you is a completely different matter! Stunning!!!!

World Tour News!

Good Morning World!!(or evening as the case may be!) Louise here.

As you know our Holly and Madison have packed their bags and taken off on a World tour- it's OK for some eh! Well I've had a couple of postcards from them so I decided to make them into cards to show you.

Before they set off they decided to spend one last day here in England making some final arrangements and buying extra hat pins. Here's Holly pictured between shops -it managed to stop raining for this shot!

I got a bit carried away with the old inking here but at least I've managed to capture the foggy, dusty atmosphere of the streets of London on a grey day.Here's a close up of the hat pin arrangement which you can't see very well on the first picture..

So, after a bit off last minute shopping they hopped on the plane for a short flight over to Germany......
Here we have Fraulein Holly getting some much needed refreshment! I think I'll just have a Baileys please Hol!

Basic Grey Boxer Papers, brads and downlaod images for both cards are from Charmed Cards and Crafts.

Stay tuned to find out where Holly and Madison go next on their adventures!

Monday Mojo - Holly & Madison's World Tour

The second collection featuring the fantastic duo Holly & Madison is now available for download. This time the girls are on a World Tour visiting an array of countries: you have Holly in Spain, England, Bavaria, USA, and on the beach, and you have Madison up a mountain, on safari, and in Venice, France and China.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW COLLECTION

I created a card for your Monday Mojo, using the Madison on Safari image.

Have fun with this fabulous new collection :-)

Karen xxx

Monday's Mojo - TARA!!!

Yep, my Monday's Mojo this week is the best one I have offered so far - it's our lovely new design team member TARA.

I stumbled upon Tara's blog just the other day and just knew that we had to get her onboard. Tara's work is just amazing. Just look at this card she made using Holly in the Garden.



Pop over to Tara's blog and have a look at all her other amazing creations, I warn you that you are going to be there for a while so make sure you have everything you need (toilet visit done, slippers, blanket, mug of coffee at the ready).


We are so happy to have Tara on the team xxxx

WELCOME TARA

Shaped Cards

Hi folks, Louise here

If you've visited my own blog recently (Crafts By Louly) you'll know that I've been trying hard to get really stuck into card making again and trying to blog every day! (EEK!) Well I've found the whole thing to be quite a cathartic process. Over the two weeks that I've blogged every day I've seen my cards go through a complete change! The most recent evolution is shaped cards, I love em! In fact I love them so much I'm going to spend all next week blogging them!

Here's the one I showed on my blog on Wednesday.....

I really like this one and I'm planning on doing lots more.

So, onto today's shaped card.... This one, as with the first one uses shapes that I've cut on my Silhouette but you could use large punches or dies for this too, have a look through what you've got and think about them differently! Imagine how you could arrange them together to make a shaped card, it's loads of fun! To make it into a card make your shaped card front and then make a tent fold card in just the right size to stick on the back without being able to see it.
These lovely swirls were cut on my Silhouette too.
I love these beautiful flower brads from Charmed Cards and Crafts, aren't they just perfect!

I made a box for this card because it's quite fragile.

The papers are from my Basic Grey Off Beat 6X6 pad

The image is Holly in the Garden from the Holly & Madison download collection.

Its my birthday...

I thought i would use my slot to show you the wonderful birthday cards i received today, from Lou,Juliet and Karen.


Thankyou so much for thinking of me!!
Louise:-


Louise's card is soo brightly coloured and very touchy feely! And inside the naughty little lady put a gift in the little envelope! Thankyou, that will go to my Farnborough 'Make it' trip on Sunday!

Juliet:-

Juliets. card is gorgeous too, real stitching and loads different textures,thankyou juliet!!

Karen:-

This is an a5 card,with so much detail, its wonderful, the colours are amazing, a beuatiful card, thankyou.

The pictures just dont do these justice, even my dad was holding them upside down,back to front looking at them, he was impressed, a great honour indeed lol!

Nicola.xxxxx

Mid-week Mojo!

Hello everyone! I planned to do another stitched card to show you today but what with the children being off of school I just didn't get my act together. Instead I used some of the stash I received yesterday for Charmed Cards and Crafts .

I used Madison- Oh la la, from the Holly and Madison collection. I love my new leaf Quickutz and

the glitzy brads!

Monday Mojo - Grungy

I'm such a big fan of the grungy/shabby chic look, I'm just a grungy kinda gal at heart. The new Holly & Madison collection is PERFECT for this type of look. They are very versatile in fact as you can make them pretty pretty if you want to, or grungy and distressed if you prefer. This is my favourite collection, it inspires me to craft and I had lost my mojo a little so the inspiration was much needed. These images just ROCK!

It is Nicola's birthday on the 19th so I made this card for her. The image here is one of the fabulous Madison 3-in-1 images. I have more info on what I used on my blog. This is quite a large card, size A5, and illustrates once again how versatile these downloads are, and why I prefer them to stamps. I know I keep harping on about this but you can always get just the size you need for your project and are not limited in any way.

We have a new challenge on the Charmed Craft Talk forum where you can win a set of Le Plume markers; perfect for colouring in your downloads. The basic requirement for the challenge is one of our downloads so you are almost there already!! Read about it here.

TFL and have a lovely day

Karen xxx

A stitch in time!

Hello everyone, hope you are having a nice, relaxing Sunday.

It's my turn again to set the challenge and you may know how much I like texture on my cards. This week I want to see stitching, hand or machine - but REAL stitching, no faux stitching like I am so fond of in my work!You must of course use one of more of the many, wonderful Charmed Downloads but the rest is up to you.

Here are some examples of what the Design Team have come up with to help you on your way.

Tip Top

Anjie

Nicola

Juliet

Louise

Karen

Adele

Don't forget to pop back and share your creations, we love to see them!

Friday Feeling-So Chic!

Last night I decided to make up a card using the original images I had coloured for the new Holly & Madison Collection. After a lot of dithering around I eventually decided on Madison-So Chic! I loved colouring in dress. This is an image you can make look really different by the colours you choose! I think my colours are quite grungy! LOL

Paper by K & Co Margo Collection!

I apologise for the awful lighting but hopefully I can re-do the pics in natural light.

Hope your day.....

This card is made using the brand new image from 'Holly & Madison' Collection,available at charmed (checkout the blinkie)
I printed her onto light pink lightweight card, which means i just had to add colour to her clothes etc, i used whispers strokes Brush markers (watercolour pens) Cut her out and added her to the card, which is all from hot off the press,which is also available at Charmed,the HOTP embeliushments i added using silicone glue.
Nicola.xx