More Rainbow Scrapping...

I mentioned last week when I scrapped with this pretty rainbow kit that I felt I was going to use this particular kit for many crafty items...

With a rainbow kit I of course had to scrap... a rainbow! I had some photos from the other year of the most strong and bright (and full/complete!) rainbow I have ever seen in my life. As we all know, taking photos of rainbows is tricky. They tend to turn out a lot paler on the photo than in real life. Same with these photos. But because it was SO bright in reality, the photos turned out pretty ok anyway (though nothing in comparison with reality)...

[Supplies: Over The Rainbow - Kate Hadfield, Studio Flergs, Grow With Love Letters June - Sara Gleason (both from the Lilypad)]

Playing With New Stamp...

The other day I got a great new background stamp. Straight away I knew I wanted to have lots of fun colouring it in with my Copics. :)

Above is this week's colour combo for Summer Card Camp. So I got my Copics out (plus my Copic colour chart) and started trying to match the colours to my markers. It's always hard as monitors display shades differently... but these are the colours I came up with:

YR30 Macadamia Nut, E04 Lipstick Natural, E25 Caribe Cocoa, R29 Lipstick Red and E47 Dark Brown.

I coloured in selected parts of the image (I already knew I wanted to leave some parts white) and then I used some Ranger white enamel accents on a few shapes too. In reality these enamel parts looks really white, slightly raised and glossy but that doesn't really show up so well in a photo.

A greeting stamped on a homemade banner, some flowers, a button and some embroidery floss later and the card was complete. :)

Fun With Beads...

I've done some more playing with the cute Over The Rainbow kit that I mentioned earlier in the week...

My little niece loves beads... making necklaces and bracelets. Who doesn't? :) But all kids bead kits are so limited. Yes they might have pretty boxes with lots of compartments & beads sorted into colour groups. But when you stop and look at how many beads you actually get (not so much!) for what you pay it's not so good. And of course I want her to get LOTS of beads! So instead we bought some big packs of pretty beads plus some elasticated cord and an empty pink box...

As we got home I came up with the idea of personalising it with her name and some pretty flowers. This is what I started off with:

And here's the finished box:

[Digital Supplies: Maths Class Alpha - Kate Hadfield, Over The Rainbow - Kate Hadfield, Studio Flergs (both from the Lilypad)]

I'm pretty sure she's going to love it and I can't wait to give it to her when we see her next :)

Beautiful Blooms...

Thanks for all the nice comments that have been left about the cards I made for the Summer Card camp class - they have made me very happy :) So, really, thanks for taking the time to comment :)

I've been working with the most amazing colourful happy kit by Kate Hadfield this week. It literally is a rainbow full of colours and it makes me smile so much :)

Nice and colourful, eh?! :) It's called "Over The Rainbow" (it's available right now here at the Lilypad) and it's a collab with Studio Flergs.

[Supplies: Maths Class Alpha - Kate Hadfield, Tiny Marker Alpha - Kate Hadfield, Over The Rainbow - Kate Hadfield, Studio Flergs, Sun Splash - Gina Miller, Basic Kraft - Gina Miller
Grow With Love Letters June - Sara Gleason (all from The Lilypad)]

The first page I made with this I teamed with some beautiful kraft cardstock. The next one I make will be a lot more colourful...

A Little Bird...

I was tired and in pain... but still wanted to work on a card for the day, and take advantage of the class and the great inspiration. So I decided to follow a video for the class by Kristina Werner, rather than doing my own thing...

So this is kinda a "scraplift"... of a card... whatever that can be called LOL! Her card was different in the way of different patterned papers, ribbon and a different stamp. Otherwise the idea is the same.

So, simple card making without having to think, but still that happy feeling of being crafty :)

Birthday Card...

I'm so enjoying the Summer Card Camp class. I've already got a few cards done which is great. :) I kinda wish I had even more time to make cards for this class. But hey, you can only do as much as you have time for I guess...

I've become totally in love with making kraft cardstock cards during these two weeks of class. There's just something so..... great with it :) I can't put my finger on what exactly LOL! I'm sure I'm making another one VERY soon!

The previous cards I have made for the class have all been very dimensional. This one not so. Lots of stamping and Copic colouring. Happy girl :)

Lazy Days...

Ouch, just sitting here with some toothache after having been to the dentist this morning. Not fun!

Anyway onto something more fun, some digital scrapping. :) Kay Miller has released two great kits today. The first one is a template kit:

And the second kit is a Sweet Summer kit. Check out the house! And the little cat + dog! So cute :) This was a "definite" kit for me :)

I knew I wanted to use this kit as soon as I saw it and I chose to pick some recent photos from this weekend when we finally had a few days of summer weather.

[Supplies used: Pieces Of My Heart 5 - Kay Miller, Sweet Summer - Kay Miller (both from A5D)]

Right I'm off to find some more pain killers...

Making My Own Butterfly Embellishments...

I think we all know how expensive scrapbooking supplies can be, right? Tools are more of an investment, that get used often, so a bit more justifiable. Paper and cardstock I'm fine with, but some embellishments I think are just far, far too over priced. I don't know if it's just me, but I find it easier buying patterned paper than embellishments. Like you can get a lot of sheets for £10. Yet for £10 you might only get two little packets of embellishments...

Anyway, at the weekend we went to a craft shop. There I saw these super pretty embellishments by Jenni Bowlin, a pack of pink and a pack of blue butterflies:

I really, really wanted them. But they were £4.30. For a pack of FIVE. That's nearly £1 per little butterfly! A small piece of card and 3 tiny gems. That's a lot. But I kept coming back to them in the shop and wanted them badly...

Then I had this idea - why not make them myself? I found a Martha Stewart butterfly punch, on special offer, at £9.99. Apart from that I used scraps of card & paper and some little gems I'd had for ages. 10 butterflies later and I'd nearly "earned back" (£8.60) the amount I paid for the punch (£9.99) already. AND I actually prefer the colours shades that I chose too. This was fun :)

Flowery Birthday Happiness...

I have really, really enjoyed this first week of Summer Card Camp. It's so inspiring and it's definitely a class that's a great one to take. I really can't wait for next week's colour combination. I hope it's got some GREEN in it :)

I'm really hooked on making these transparency cards. Though after 3 I think I might just try something new next LOL! Again I varied what I did compared to the other days. Today white is the big colour and I have gone for yet another different shaped window/frame on the front of the card.

I've decided to try and make "useful" cards, rather than just "random cards for the sake of the class". Therefore I'm trying to aim for my most used cards of all ---> birthday cards in Swedish. That way I'm learning fun techniques from the class & make cards PLUS at the same time I have cards that I need for the future :)

Another Version...

I have decided to make 3 versions of the transparency cards... or at least, I think, 3 versions. Maybe only 2. Definitely 2... as I have done one more already :)

This time I decided to pick one of the other colours as my main colour for the card. Today it's blue. I also wanted to do something different with the shape. So I went for a square card and a different type of shaped window/frame.

It's another Swedish Birthday card. And what fits a birthday better than some cake and in this case a cupcake? Yum! :)