Sunday, 12 April 2015

INKspired blog hop #15

Yah, blog hop time again. Welcome to my blog! You may have already been visiting the other ladies and would have hopped through to my blog from the wonderfully talented Barbara Williams  or maybe you have started with me. If that is the case welcome and make sure that you check out all the other creative ladies in our blog hop team.
I really had fun this week as it was quite a challenge to come up with a design this week. The sketch appeared quite simple to do however when trying to put a design to it I really struggled. I finally came up with something and really was happy with the result.
Here is this week's sketch;
I really liked the circles and thought I would stick to using circles instead of changing the shape. ( I almost went with a heart shape originally ) and changed the size of the circles on mine to give it a little more character. Here it is;



I have used quite a few punches- 2 different sized circles, the heart punch from the , and the bitty butterfly punch. Gorgeous Grunge of course has made an appearance on the card. I also have added one of my favourite background stamps on this card- I love lace. This back ground stamp is beautiful and it is an absolute must in anybody's stamp collection. Here is an up close picture on how I used it.



 Thanks for dropping by and checking out my blog. I hope you enjoyed seeing my take on this week's sketch. Up next is the extremely talented Kabrina. She is sure to impress with her amazing 'undefined' carving creations.
See you soon,
Cherie x



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Sunday, 22 March 2015

INKspired Blog Hop #14

Yah, it is blog hop time again. I really love being a part of this blog hop. It is wonderful seeing everyone's creations all based on the same sketch. Hope you had fun hopping from the lovely Barbara Williams to my blog and hope you have enjoyed the other INKspired artists' creations as well. If you have not seen the other's creations then make sure you continue on through our blogs using the NEXT blog button that you will find at the bottom of our posts. This week's sketch was quite a bit different than Blog Hop #13. It was perfect timing for me as well as I had already a similiar layout that I was working on for a child's birthday card and then when I saw this week's sketch I thought to myself how wonderful as I can adapt my idea to it. Here it is:-




Now I haven't done alot of punch art and because I try my hardest in keeping my cards somewhat to the theme of the party that we have been invited to I was forced to do have a crack at it. The ever so popular theme was Octonauts. The finished product was much to my daughter's delight as it is one of her favourite shows at the moment. Googling the octonaut characters gave me lots of ideas to base the punch art on. There were very similiar versions of punch art to my final result created by various other crafters. However  the one that inspired me the most is a very talented Stampin' Up! demostrator in W.A. Kelly Kent. It was difficult to try and create the characters different to hers so I used the same basic shapes however using different size punches and also changed the colours slightly. And boy did I give my range of punches a work out. Here are close ups of the little fellows-Captain Barnacles and Kwazii Kitten.









This partiular punch art challenged me and I still dont know which ended up with more glue on it-the card or my fingertips!!!! I definitely had fun putting this together though.



I loved using the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder to emboss the background because I think it gives a sense of being in water with lots of bubbles!!!








 Here is the whole card;

I was very happy with the final result of the little punch art characters and the overall card. I really hope the little girl who received the card thinks so too!
Thanks for having a look at my project and  I hope you enjoy the rest of the blog hop. Next up is the lovely Kabrina Piirlaid I am sure she will not disappoint with her creation.

http://kabrinapiirlaid.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/inkspired-blog-hop-bundled-baby.html
Thanks for dropping by,

Cherie
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Sunday, 8 March 2015

INKspired Blog Hop 13

I cant believe it has been 2 weeks already. The time flies so quickly! I also cant believe that we are in March already. It seems like Christmas wasn't that long ago. Well here we are again at the INKspired blog hop and we are up to the 13th round. If you have just come to me via the lovely Barbara Williams welcome to my blog. I am sure that you have been wowed by Barbara's project this week. If you are new to my blog or to the blog hop just click on the links below and you will continue seeing everyone's creations. Enjoy!
This week's sketch looks like this;

I had so many ideas for this one. But I added up going with the Swallowtail butterfly and how my idea started off was not at all like how it finished. I tend to do that alot!!!! Here is my creation this week.




I love the Swallowtail Butterfly stamp. It is a fantastic background stamp. This time I had a go at trying to make the butterfly 3D. I got my inspiration from a fantastic demo Giselle Watts who made a card that had a 3D butterfly added to it. I actually have only made one half of the butterfly 3D and the other half had been stamped on the card. The background stamp I have used is the gorgeous I Love Lace.
Inside the card I have just added a little strip of stamped paper to finish it off.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my blog today. Next up is the gorgeous and the very talented Kabrina Piirlaid. Enjoy seeing her creation and the rest of the blog hop.
http://kabrinapiirlaid.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/inkspired-blog-hop-blended-bloom.html

Thanks for dropping by!!!
                                                  Love Cherie!

Products that I have used a found below.


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Sunday, 22 February 2015

INKspired Blog Hop 12

Well this is the first blog hop with INKspired Artists this year for me. The past few months all my prize craft possessions have been boxed up whilst we renovated my craft studio. I am finally back in ( with a little unpaking to go ) and able to get some paper crafting done. Yay!!!!
So we are on Blog Hop 12. If you are visiting me for the first time welcome! You may have just come from the talented Barbara Williams who I am sure impressed you with her take on this week's sketch.
















Well since love has been in the air this month, it was only appropriate for me to design a Valentine's Day Card using this sketch. I designed 3 this year for classes so there is not really any excuses for not giving hubby a card for Valentine's Day but would you believe it, he didn't recieve one! Whoops.
Now onto the card. I kept the card very simple this round and I really liked how it turned out. I used a stampset that I have been meaning to use for a long time- Honeycomb Hello. When I saw the cute little bee and the 'bee mine' sentiment I had to use it for a Valentine themed card. Here is a close up of this cute litte fellow.





Now for the whole card;


All of the products that I used other than HoneyComb Hello came from the Occasions catalogue. There are some fantastic things in there. If you are an embossing folder hoarder like myself then you have to get your hands on the gorgeous Happy Heart Embossing Folder. It is great. The cute heart paper is part of the great Stacked With Love Designer Paper Stack.

I have just finished the card off in the inside with a hexagon from the Honeycomb Hello and a punched out heart.

Hope you have enjoyed seeing my version of this week's sketch. Now you can jump on over to the gorgeous talented Kabrina Piirlaid.

http://kabrinapiirlaid.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/inkspired-blog-hop-stippled-blossoms.html



Thanks for dropping by,

Cherie x




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Sunday, 16 November 2014

INKspired Blog Hop #5

Hi again for the next blog hop challenge. Welcome back if you are a regular with my blog or a regular follower of the INKspired Artists blog hop. If you are new to this page a great big welcome to you as well. As always a quick summary on what our blog is about. We are a group of crafters that love to create cards/projects and are given a sketch every fortnight to use as inspiration to make our own creation with. You can start where ever you like and continue through everyone's blogs checking out their creations as you go. I love being part of this blog hop. I am sure those of you who are currently visiting my page from the lovely Barbara Williams' blog enjoyed seeing her project this week.

Onto this weeks challenge and here is the sketch:

This was a great sketch and can be used in many ways. What I love about sketches, you can change it up to create you own and I have definitely done that this week. Firstly I was going to create something using the exact shape that was on the sketch and I discovered that I didnt have any oval shaped framelits so I went with my absolute favourite framelit at the moment which is the star framelits.
Now as I love the star framelits so much I had to also use the wonderful Bright and Beautiful Stampset to go with it as it so incredibly beautiful.
With this sketch I have created another Christmas card using the cool and beautiful colours of Bermuda Bay and Pool Party. They are a lovely combination together. Alot of my Christmas cards have been in similiar colour tones this year and would match perfectly for the cool wintery Christmas that the Northern Hemisphere get. Very different to the weather that I am experiencing right now on my holiday up in the Sunny Gold Coast.  Definitely nothing like the wintery Christmas in Europe etc that they are currently experiencing as the Christmas session is almost upon us. Yesterday we stood ( I had a 3 year old on my shoulders for what felt like forever ) with hundreds of other crazy Santa Claus and Frozen fans in the 36 degree heat and humidity waiting for the arrival of Santa Claus at Robina Shopping Centre yesterday! Poor Santa in his Santa Suit! He really should get changed into an Australian climate friendly suit upon arrival!

Anyway back to my cool wintery colour toned card. Here it is:-

Hopefully you will be able to see from my picture that it is another shaker card. I have really been enjoying these cards. So much fun to make and really add a wow factor to your project. I did this card in a card class recently at my craft studio at Summerland Point ( Central Coast )and the ladies loved it. It was a little more time consuming then your average card but it was well worth it. The hardest bit is deciding who to give it to!!!!

 Next up is the very talented Janelle Taylor so enjoy hopping over to her to see her wonderful creation by clicking on the next blog button.
http://stampwithjanelle.blogspot.com/2014/11/inkspired-sketch-blog-hop-5.html

Thanks again for dropping by and checking out my creation, hope you enjoyed it! If you are interested in checking out the products I have used to create this card scroll below and click on the products to be taken to my online store.
Love
Cherie.
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Sunday, 2 November 2014

INKspired Blog Hop Sketch #4

Here we are again for another exciting blog hop with some very talented ladies indeed. If you are new to this blog hop welcome. Just a quick note about our blog hop- we are a bunch of ladies who love to craft and have been given a different sketch challenge each fortnight. We then take this sketch and use it as inspiration to create our own design from it. If you are new to my blog, thank you for dropping in and if you are visiting me again I really appreciate you coming back and checking this week's challenge. Some of you may be visiting my page because you have just traveled from the lovely Barbara Williams

Here is my creation for this week.


Do you like this colour combo? I love it! It is Blackberry Bliss, Daffodil Delight and Bermuda Bay. I really enjoyed getting out my Marvelous Markers and doing some colouring in. It is so relaxing and the results always look great. There are so many fantastic stampsets at the moment for using Blendibilities or the write markers. This one 'In this together' is a really fun one.

Here is the sketch that I got my inspiration from:






Well, I hope you enjoyed seeing my creation from this sketch, now it is time for you to check out the next project by the talented Janelle Taylor.

http://stampwithjanelle.blogspot.com/2014/11/inkspired-sketch-blog-hop-4.html



Thank you for stopping by and hope to see you again. The products that I used are below for you to click onto an be taken to my online shop.
                                                                  Love Cherie

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Sunday, 19 October 2014

INKspired Blog Hop Sketch #3

Welcome back to my blog and the third challenge of the INKspired blog hop. If you are new to my blog- welcome and I hope you enjoy visiting and checking out my designs and those of the other members of the INKspired Artists team. You may also be visiting my blog from the lovely Barbara and I welcome you as you hop from blog to blog. Okay onto this weeks sketch.
As soon as I saw this sketch I immediately thought of the Scalloped Tag Topper and as I am crazy about designing Xmas cards so I thought I would incorporate the two.
    What is great about this challenge is looking at a sketch and using it for inspiration to design a card or project from it. The card I designed I made for this challenge and used it in my card classes over the last couple of weeks and the ladies loved it. Here is my creation using this sketch:


I just love washi tape! I use it on lots of projects particularly on my photos and journalling cards on my Project Life scrapbook pages coupled with some of my favourite colours at the moment. I am really enjoying the blues and silvers combos. Lost Lagoon, Smokey Slate and Silver Ribbon/ Glimmer Paper are a fantastic combo.
                     Alot of my projects also use the versatile stampset "Gorgeous Grunge" I love filling in big white spaces with the splatters. It is a fabulous and fun background stamp.
Well I hope you enjoyed my card and also get some inspiration for your own project using Stampin' UP! wonderful  All is Calm Designer Washi Tape.  Next up on our blog hop is Janelle Taylor click on the next blog button below to be sent to her creation.
http://stampwithjanelle.blogspot.com/2014/10/inkspired-sketch-blog-hop-sketch-3.html
Thanks for dropping by. If you are interested in what wonderful products I used in this design scroll down to view them all. Click on an item to go to my online shop.
Happy crafting!
Love Cherie

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