Deacon

Updating my card box for work (what else am I going to do on a week off?).

This little boy is from Bugaboo and I think he looks like a right cheeky monkey!

He is coloured with promarkers (as always).

I have used deliberately clashing backing papers and created some more buttons but using a sparkly paper.

Sentiment is made using some of the sticky words where you sprinkle glitter over (name escapes me at the moment!).

Decorated the inside but the paper was a little thin to use so has creased when going through the epic six machine. Please my flex mat needs replacing!

Biker chick

Tomorrow is my OH's twins birthday and I got OH to chose an image. They are both learning to ride motorbikes at the moment so he immediately chose this Kenny K image for one of them.

I have used promarkers to colour the image and used greys (mainly cool grey 5 but with cool grey 3 for for the highlighted areas) for her outfit and the tyres. I used cool grey 2 for the metal on the bike to try and give it a chrome look. I used glossy accents on the bike to make it all shiny!

I embossed the panels and stuck on some ribbon.

And created some little buttons!

The main backing paper is a freebie from a fab site http://www.computerscrapbook.com/epapersets.html# They have so many gorgeous papers and they are all free! Every crafters favourite word.

Best of British

I have had some Union Jack ribbon for absolutely ages and finally got round to using it (started to use quite a few bits of my old stash lately. How odd!).

Of course, going for a British theme, had to use a mini! Wanted to go for red white and blue backing paper but the ones I had were all a bit American so went for plaid (Burberry anyone?).

Made a couple of little buttons for the corners.

Birthday Bath

Made this card with someone in mind but changed my mind and have made them another card! Anyway, have had this Flippin Men decoupage sheet made up for ages and finally got round to using it.

Took my several goes to cut of the oval correctly, as well as cutting the backing papers correctly!

I used some left over paper that I had from a card I made a few weeks ago and some other left overs for the sentiments.

The inside of the card:

Diamond Dust

Brought most gorgeous tub of Diamond Dust a couple of days ago. It is like little tiny diamond chips.

See how sparkly it is!

A gorgeous sparkly, shiny additional to cards x

Black and Gold birthday card

I adore the combination of black and gold. There is something very striking and dramatic about the combination. I love how it can be used to male or female cards.

I went for the black and gold colour combo for this card, although this was only because a trip to Hobbycraft today resulted in some gorgeous kanban card ending up in my craft room (how did that happen???).

I used an image from Debbie Moore's Paris Glamour cd.

I made the tassle by adding a jewellery bead (eventually) to some black ribbon and them pulling at it to unravel it.

Entering this into the following challenges:
http://craftypurplefrogchallenges.blogspot.com/ Birthday cards of gifts challange
http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/ Bling It challenge

Toshiro Hitsygaya

Who?!?

Another commissioned card (for the friend who's daughter specifically requested the cards she wanted me to make for her birthday).

I had no idea who this character was until I was shown an image of him and had never heard of him. Spent ages looking for the perfect image and got it cleared by her dad before I used it.

Anyway, for anyone wondering, he is a character from an anime cartoon called Bleach and is her favourite character.

The backing is blue mirror board embossed using the polka dot embossing folder.

I used lots of glitter on the image to make it pop a bit.

I cut the flourishes using my Epic Six and cut them in blue glitter card and stuck on little gems.

Made the bows and used feathers from an old fascinator.