Twisted Sketches Cards #107

I would just like to say a big Thank You to the wonderful and talented Anam Stubbington for her fabulous sketches and inspiration through the Twisted Sketches Blog.  
Along with so many of life's challenges - Anam manages 2 teams for the Twisted Sketches Blog and has The Twisted Sketches Phone Apps for Cards and Layouts available with her sketches and examples of the sketches used - these are awesome!!!


This week's twist is "Chipboard"- any how, any way! 

I did rotate this sketch clockwise - I love how it turned out :-)

My interpretation:

And my usual close-up of course! 

Ingredients:

Black card and envelope from Twiddleybitz (NEW!!)

Nero Flourish from Twiddleybitz

Bo Bunny Enchanted Patterned Paper

Decorative Tile from My2Angels

Silver Rhinestones from Flourish With A Bling

Black Ric-Rac  from My2Angels

Miscellaneous Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!!

Twisted Sketches Cards #105

I love Twisted Sketches! Card Sketch this week is  #105 twist is "Flower"
- Would love you to join in and have a play too!
Feel free to comment below and leave a link to your interpretation of the sketch :-)

I found this sketch the perfect inspiration for Mum's Mother's Day Card :-)

 And the customary close up... shows how beautiful and shiny the Bling is!!

Ingredients:

White shimmer card and Envelope

Patterned Paper - Cross My Heart .com

Twiddleybitz - Alphabet - M, u, m

Flourish With A Bling - Chloe Pearl - Baby blue

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Stormy Sky

Adirondack paint dauber - Snow Cap

My2Angels Roses - Smokey Blue

Stampin' Up - Stamp n Write Marker - Night of Navy

Stampin Up Stamp set Whimsical words

Iron Orchid Designs - Rose Stamp IOD-782A

Bevvy of Butterflies - Love You stamp UK-413A

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen

Twisted Sketches Cards #99

Twisted Sketches Card again - #99 this time, with the twist of "Spring" - Would love you to join in and have a play too! Feel free to comment below and leave a link to your interpretation of the sketch :-)

I had a little trouble with the "spring" but this is my card :-)

 And the closeup - you can see the great quality of the FWAB pearls...

Ingredients:

Aqua Shimmer Cardstock

Kaisercraft Magic Happens Patterned Paper

Flourish With A Bling - Chloe Pearl Flourish - Purple

Purple Ribbon from ???

Thanks for stopping by!

Twisted Sketches Cards #97

Another one for the fantastic sketches over at Twisted Sketches;

Here's the sketch for #97, the twist was "Yellow"

And here's my little interpretation :-)

And the customary close-up! 

Ingredients:

Twiddleybits - Banner

Twiddleybits - Itty bitty nero alphabet

Twiddleybits - Heart

Patterned Paper - Pinkpaislee - old school (from Scrap Sanity)

Yellow Ribbon from goodness knows where!

Stazon ink - black

Thanks for stopping by - why don't you join in, I'd love to see your interpretation of the sketch too :-)

Twisted Sketches Card #95

It's A Girl!

The latest Twisted Card Sketch is no 95 - and the twist is "Leap".  I thought what a great idea to do a birth card for a little baby girl!

Here's the sketch -

And here's my take on it :-)

and the customary close-up :-) You can see the gorgeous flowers Maria Featon made me for the Scrap Sanity flower swap!

Ingredients:
Cream Shimmer Cardstock
Prima Botanicals PP - Adore
Flowers by Maria Featon
My Favourite Things Open Scallop Doily
1 1/2 " hole punch
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Aged Photo
My2Angels - Heart locket Charm
Papercraft Clear Cling stamps - Baby
Stampin Up Stamp n write Marker - close to cocoa
Green Tara brown flowers.

Thanks for stopping by!

Twisted Sketches Card #94

My next card for the Twisted Sketches Card Design Team has been published on the Twisted Sketches blog.  The twist was "Red",  So I carried through with the February Valentine theme.

And here's my interpretation, I decided to make it into a window card, and yep - that's more sewing!!!
As you can see I did another matching envelope.:

 And a close-up of course!

Ingredients:
Pearl Card and Envelope - white
Black cardstock
Bo Bunny Enchanted Patterned Paper
My2Angels Red - White and Red edged Mulberry flowers 
My2Angels - Resin Cabochon flowers Red 
Papercraft Cling Stamp - "You are special"
Stazon ink - Blazing Red
1 1/2 " Circle punch
Red Cotton


Thanks for stopping by!! 
Jen

Twisted Sketches Card #92

My next card for the Twisted Sketches Card Design Team has been published on the Twisted Sketches blog.  The ladies have done an amazing job with this simple sketch - no 92, the interpretations of the sketch are once again quite varied and inspirational!!  The Twist is "fresh" - I used "fresh" and bright colours - a change for me!

Here's the Sketch -

Once again I couldn't help sewing on this card - i think my machine has a new lease on life :-)

For the strip of decoration on the envelope, I did have to carefully unstick the flaps of the envelope - thin tape the paper on to it - sew it in pace, then tape the flaps back up!

Ingredients:

White Pearl Card and Envelope

Kaisercraft Patterned Paper and Die cut Elements from Konstrukt Collection 6x6 Pad

Twiddleybitz - "Celebration" word (WOR038)

White Paint

White Cotton

Thanks for stopping by!!

Twisted Sketchs Card #90

My first Card done officially for the Twisted Sketches Card Design Team has been published on the Twisted Sketches blog.  I am so excited as I really LOVE this card!!  The team have done an amazing job with a gorgeous sketch - no 90, I love to see how differently we all interpret it!!  The Twist was "new" - I used a new heart locket charm...

My second ever step card; and made for Madison, using her favourite colour blue...  Naturally I used some more My 2 Angels products because they were just so perfectly suitable!!

Here's the Sketch -

And here's a closeup showing how I used the stamen in the flower to 'attach' the heart charm.

Ingredients:
White Pearl Card and Envelope
Gold Pearl Card
Me and My Big Ideas PP from 2004
Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Vintage Photo and Stormy Sky
Flourish With a Bling - Antique Gold Pearls
Twiddleybitz - Ornate Frame Set - 2pieces (FSO001)
My 2 Angels - Hat pin
My 2 Angels - Heart Locket with key Antique Brass
Miscellaneous Flowers
Black Stazon Ink
Kaisercraft Stamp - Friendship sentiments
Photo Stamp source unknown

Thanks for stopping by!!

Don't Count The Miles...

Twisted Sketches is a fabulous blog.  Anam and the team post a sketch and really beautiful examples every week, alternating between cards and layouts.  I am so happy to be counted on the card team!! This week was a 'week off' for me but I loved the idea of the sketch and it suited my desire to try my hand at a step-card using more of the My 2 Angels products I got in my DT kit for January.

Here's my take on the sketch and naturally I did an envelope to match :-)

Here's the sketch - The twist was sparkle... I used glittery cardstock :-P

I used some gorgeous products from My 2 Angels again...  they really do work brilliantly, even if I do say so myself!!  I especially love the big brass flower and the love pin!

Ingredients:

Precut and scored Card and envelope (I adjusted to make it a step-card)

Black and Cream Cardstock

Dienamics Stamp & Die Set - First Class Friend

Stazon ink - Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Tim Holtz Distress Stickles

My 2 Angels - Love Pin

My 2 Angels - Stemmed Star Flowers

My 2 Angels - Metal Flower

My 2 Angels - Heart Charm

Flourish With A Bling - Antique Gold Pearls

Miscellaneous Ribbon

Anyhoo - that's it for another night, thanks for stopping by - I hope I have inspired you :-)

Magical

I can't believe I'm sharing yet another layout with you!!

I simply adore this photo of Erin, taken in 2006 in Mum and Dad's garden.  She was such a poser that day - I have quite a few other shots I will scrap as the opposite page for our albums.

This layout began from a humble sketch (no.133) found on the fantastic Twisted Sketches blog.  The twist was "Jewels" but I think I covered it with all the beads?  Or perhaps the "jewellery'? LOL

And a close up of the cluster - I LOVE these gorgeous large flowers from My2Angels - they have the colour changing leaves and being white - I just used some distress ink with my applicator to apply some colour and then added diamond dust...

As an almost first time sewer on layouts - I remembered this tip I was told years ago - if you are sewing ribbon on your layouts - first attach it with some double sided tape and then sewing will be easier as you won't have to hold and reposition all the time!!  The 3mm express it tape was perfect for this (it doesn't mess with your needle making it stick!) - especially as it was FREE with my first order for the year at My2Angels!!

Ingredients:

PP - assorted paper from about 8 years ago!

Twiddleybitz - "Magical" word (WOR064)

Twiddleybitz - Butterflies (BUT007)

Flourish With a Bling - Jasmine White Puffy

My2Angels - 3mm dble sided tape

My2Angels - Charming chain, pink and green

My2Angels - Large white flower

My2Angels - pink and green leaves

My2Angels - pink and white jewelled hat pin

Diamond Dust

Tattered Angels Glimmer mists - Forest green and pink bubblegum

Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Peeled Paint

Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Spun Sugar

Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Victorian Velvet

Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint - Tattered Rose (from ScrapSanity.com.au)

Doily for Masking

Kindy Glitz - Clear

Miscellaneous Ribbons

Miscellaneous pink flower spray

Dreams

I love this card - not sure if I've shown you yet...
It's sketch no 24 from Twisted Sketches - and the twist is "Tiny"

My twist was the Diamond dust as it's Tiny ground up shards of glass!!

Kaiser Paper and Tag
feathers from a $2 shop
Charming leaf pin from My2Angels.net
large paper rose also from My2Angels.net
Diamond Dust

I'm a Twisted Sister!!

I'm so excited to announce I have been accepted onto the Twisted Sketches Design Team for Cards!!

The girls on the team have such amazing talent and I am honoured to be working among them!  The creator of the sketches - Anam, is so bloody amazing!

Heres the LINK to the announcement...

And here's a sneak peak of my card that features in the announcement:

you can see in this pic the wonderful double bubbles from Crochet by Kim, used with a charm and bead pin from My2Angels.net

Thanks for dropping in!