Amber's Crafts & Stuff #12 Teen Celebration.

At Amber's Crafts and Stuff this week we are making projects with a Teen in mind. My teen project is my very first easel draw box, which I've made for the lovely daughter of a good friend of mine. She has the most beautiful red gold hair...which I've tried to imitate on the image. 

I'll be stuffing the draw with crafting goodies for her to make a few cards - it was orginally going to be chocs but there were just toooo many to fit....so she's getting a extra gift lol. 

The pin is made using some beautiful purple glass beads that Joan kindly sent to me a few days ago. The 'draw nob's' are also made with some of the beads she gave me.  My image is coloured with promarkers and the flowers and butterflies are highlighted with Sakura tira glitter pens, and glazed with the glaze pens. I used a couple of Marianne Design corners to 'frame' my image and made some roses with matching cardstock. 

Inside the easel. 

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I hope you'll pop over to Amber's and check out the work the rest of the DT have made for your inspiration, and join us this week. 

My Receipe..

Image..Gingerloft

Colourants ..Promarkers, Sakura

DP's ...Craft Creations

Die's ...Marianne Creatable & QuicKutz

Stick pin & Roses ... Homemade

Teal Cardstock... TBA

Ribbon & Gems ...Stash

Challenges I'd like to enter :-
A Spoonful Of Sugar - Flower Power
Anita Be Stampin' -  Layer it On Me
Claudia & Co - Fancy Folds
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge -  Make Your Own Embellishments (Stick pin and Roses)
 Paper Minutes -  Something in Quadruplicate( 4 Roses)
Tuesday Throwdown - DIY  Embellishments (Stick Pin and Roses)
Happileigh Scrappin - Lots and Lots of Embellishments
There's Magic in the Air - Easel Cards
Allsorts -  Things With Wings

Shapely Dino

This cute little dino is from my own template. She cut out on textured card and coloured with aqua pencils, and does look like she has reptiley type skin. The first one I made was the blue one at the bottom of the post, my grandson had that for no reason what-so-ever other than that he saw it lol. 

Not much more to say about her except if you'd like the template let me know in a comment and I'll put it in my next post. 

A few Challenges I'd like to enter if you'll have me :-

The Shabby Tea Room ... Get in Shape

There She Goes Clear Stamps ... Cards for Kids

Woodware USA Clear Stamps ... Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge Blog ... Monochrome

Charisma Cardz Challenge ... One for the Girls

Sassy Studio Designs ... Monochromatic

Craft Your Passion ... Monochrome

Scanned version, colours a bit truer. 

The Blue one. 

Tucked up with Space to Dream.

I've made this card for my Grandson Jack, who I'm quite frankly besotted with. He's just turned 6yrs and unfortunately often ill through the winter because of Asthma. I saw this image (ain't it the cutest) on Mami Doodles and just had to have him. There is also one of a girl in pj's very cute, and you get 4 versions of her. Jack love Dino's but he's had four dino cards this year so I've gone for space and aliens. The novelty buttons are a bit OTT I know... but he'll love them - and will have them ripped off the card before the day is out. I turned the teddy into a panda because he has asked me to crochet one for him. After this card he'll want me to crochet a space ship or robot....trust me he will ....and I'll do it lol. 

I coloured my image with promarkers, and also used them to colour the plain green and orange ribbon. Edged with promarker too.  I put sparkles on his pj's and on bits of the planets etc with glitter pen, hopefully you'll see that better in close up. Used it on the sticker greeting too, but can see I'm going to have to go over that again now it's dried. 

Receipe for this card...

Image - Mami Doodles Kaz & Teddy

Sketch - Eat, Sleep, Stamp

Card & DPS - 12 x 12 from stash (unused I have to add)

Novelty buttons - Craft Creations

Glitter pen - Sakura Tiara

Peel off stickers - stash

Die Cuts - Spellbinders nesties

Ribbons plain - stash

Ribbon fancy - Do Craft Boutique Ribbon Verde

Colourants - Promarkers

 Vanilla, Blush and Tan for Skin

meadow, grass, lime and Forest greens for onesie

Canary, Tulip yellow, tan and sandstone for hair (cus all I had for it)

I'd like to enter my card for the following challenges ...

Eat, Sleep, Stamp Thursday - Sketch

Digi's With Attitude! challenge - sparkle, ribbons, 2 DP's

AiFactory Challenge - Die cuts or Punches

Pixie Dust Studio - The Boys in Our Lives

Southern Girls Challenge - Transport/Travel

Moving Along With the Time - Nice and Bright

365 challenge - Warm and Cozy

Lexi's Creations -Anything Goes

Without more ado, my Darling Jack. The pix on the right has been altered by my friend Ulina - doesn't it look so much better. She does the most beautiful photo's and you can find her blog here

A few close ups :-

 Kaz changed into Jack

A little bit of sparkle

Sentiment and ribbons

Will Work for Chocolate in Autumn Colours

Well Wouldn't we all eh lol. Having spent so long making this card I'm going to have to really get a move on to avoid missing any of the challenges....again.

I found both buttons at the bottom of one of my sewing boxes (I have three lol). The wide ribbons are some of my very unused stash...I'm getting real good a digging deep now : D. One of my challenges is to use three different kinds of ribbons so I have the extremely wide satin coppery ribbon, the wide red velvet and the very narrow orange....would never have thought to use them together like that....challenges are great fun aren't they.

I'm loving the paper peicing so much that I actually did two images, lot of work but I enjoyed every minute.
I missed my colour challenge that I'd put so much thought into lol. Brown, Green & Orange.

My Recipe.

DSP - Basic Grey

Images - Imag-e-nation

Colours - Promarkers, Sakura and blendable pencils

Sentiment - The Quote Garden

Ribbons & Buttons - Stash

Skeleton leaves - syntego .co.uk

I hope to enter this card in the following challenges. 

Creative Belli Blog ... Embellishments begining with B (unused Stash)

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge ... Use quote or Phrase

Fresh Brewed Blog... Paper Piecing (love it, love it, just LOVE it.)
Paper Pretties ... Use 3 different types of Ribbon.
Stamp Insanity ... Embossing (border round card)
Stamping for the weekend ... Tag it
Stamp Challenges Blog ... Fall Colours
Aly's Sunday challenge ... 2 DP's and 2 buttons
Mami Doodles ... Boys and Red (My G.son will do anything for Chocolate lol)
Craftalicious Challenge ... Autumn Colours

Close ups of images

And the embellishments too 

http://paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com/

Rock-a-bye Baby

This is the scanned image, as could get a good one with camera, Pix below show the card standing up, it's a Wobble Card and rocks side to side. It's for another one of my swaps. The image is Dufex, hope everyone has seen how they look 'in real life' as they are not showing up to advantage here. It's a rectangle topper really but I cut it out using a nestie shape as a template. I had to 'map it out' on the rear of the topper so I'm pleased with how it turned out.

I saw the sketch and instantly thought it would work as a wobble card, love the layout of it.

Card Patterns sketch 82 

You can probably see that it's a doily for the 'rocker', another one of my unused stash items. It's an all white challenge so I'm pleased that my glitter paper came out so well, I was a little afraid it would scan as a load of black dots. I have mulberry paper along the top edge, above the bit of dry embossing, and paper 'lace'.  There is a bit of ribbon too, only you can't see it very well under the flowery paper 'lace'. Then just three clear flower gems to finish off. 

So you can see how it stands.

My receipe:=

Image - Dufex

paper lace - Ace catalogue

Flower gems - Melbecks garden centre

Doily - stash

Glitter paper - stash

Mulberry paper - stash.

I hope to enter this card in the following challenges ...

Card Patterns - Sketch 

Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything baby 

Crafty Emma - Baby Bonanza 

Incy Wincy Designs - All White except for the image.

The Anything Goes Challenge - Cute

Digi Doodle shop  - Embossing (across top of card)

Delightful Sketches - Make it sparkle

Colour Create Challenge - All White except for the image, plus embossing

Corrosive challenge - Clean up the Dust (Doily)

Loving this challenge lol.

A few close-ups

The image

a little detailing....

Dino Back to School

                   


I decided to go clean and simple with this one again. It is something I've always found a challenge, the urge to add something to 'balance it out' lol. I wanted to keep it bright too, as it's for my 5yr old Grandson. I'd saved some blue plastic parcel banding (they put it on heavy box like parcels that are sent by carrier). I was going to cut the 'teeth' pattern in it and use it as the 'ribbon'. However some people, ones I've considered my nearest and dearest, don't share my recycling fervour. Some people  actually go into your handbag (purse) and  take what you've saved and throw it away....I ask you!! LOL

I'm a little happier with my colouring this time - spent two days on it lol - but don't feel I got the beam of light right. Still it's not bending any more at least.

My Receipe:-

Papers ...Various 8x8 scrapbook, from stash

Image ... Elizabeth O Dullemba

Sentiment ... OWHdigi freebie

Alphabet Sticker ... Anita

Brad ... Stash

Colouring ... WH Smith Blendable pencils

I hope to enter this card in the following challenges :-

Meljen Designs - Stripes
Digi Doodle shops - Add a Sentiment
Pixie Dust Studio - Back To School
Mojo Monday - Sketch
Karber Weekly Challenge - Card for a Boy
Our Daily Bread - Button, Brad or eyelet
Crazy for Challenges - Book related
I Did it Creations - Blue, Beige, and one other colour
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Book Related

A couple of Close Ups

My colouring.

and the tag and sentiment

Skool dayz in the pink.

               


This card will be going to a young friend of mine. I always make her a going back to school card, unlike me she likes school and I think that's something to celebrate...I can't understand it, but I  celebrate it all the same lol. I still need some work on my colouring, it doesn't stand close scrutiny.....so it's practice, practice, practice for me. Will experiment with different papers too.

I made another little ribbon flower and coloured the bonnet charm with a permanent ink marker as didn't want to put anything gold on the card. Coloured my stickers too of course.

My new stash.

That is the little bonnet charm, part of a box of embellishments that were given as a gift. 

Sorry, no trade name on the box.

My Receipe.

Papers - scrapbook papers left over from a Winnie the Pooh set 

Image - Elizabeth O.Dudemba

Colours - Blendable pencils from WH Smith

Permanent ink maker by Tartan

Ribbon Rose - made from stash ribbon

embellishments - stash

Stickers - Anita 

I want to enter this card in the following Challenges.:-

Creative Card crew ... Back to School
Incey Wincey .... Back to School
Sketch and Stash ....Sketch and name new stash (bonnet charm)
Crazy 4 Challenges ...Book Theme
Tuesday Throwdown ...Ribbon with a twist
Crafty Creations ....White plus one
The Paper Players ... Clean and Simple
Pixie Dust Studio ...Back to school
Crafty Catz ...3 embellishments, 2 papers, 1 image
Fussy and Fancy ... Back to School
Aly's Sunday Challenge ... use the colour pink

A few close ups

The little bonnet charm, and pretty bow with pearls.

My ribbon flower and I snaffled the pearls from another of the little bows to use as it's centre.

OK I'm being brave and giving you another close up of my colouring.

That's all she wrote.