Maggie Bob Makes: Sunday Sketch & Stamp #31

We are on to challenge #31 at Sunday Sketch & Stamp, and it’s my sketch we’re working from this time:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #31

And here is my take on it.

SS&S31: Get Well Soon

This is a great clean and simple (CAS) card. I have to keep reminding myself not to be frightened of white space on my cards, and I think this shows it can be used to great effect, and really shows off this wonderful stamp! Here’s what went into it…

Ingredients

Stamp: The Greetings Farm, Nurse Anya, coloured with Promarkers; Ivory, Blush, Ruby, Sandstone, Teracotta, Apricot, Pumpkin, Cornflour & Cool Grey 4.
Card: Core’dinations cardstock in pale pink and raspberry pink. Embossed using Cuttlebug & Swiss Dots embossing folder, distressed using a nail file, and punched using an X-cut circle punch. Hammered white card from stash
Other: Sentiment peel-off and heart sticker from stash.

Maggie Bob Makes: OSCC83 Make Your Own DP

It’s another bright and sunny morning here in London – I hope you all have pleasent weathet wherever you are.

This week at One Stop Craft Challenge, DT ‘newbie’ Carrie got to pick the theme, and she chose ‘Make Your Own DP’ – so that meant I had to put all my pretty pre-made papers away. This is what I came up with:

OSCC 83: Make Your Own DP

I used a technique here which I saw ages ago and wanted to try, but knowing what I’m like I feared I would probably mess it up, or make a complete mess of my craft desk. I’m pleased to report I didn’t.

Making a patterened paper with bubblewrap

This technique is so simple to do. Take a piece of bubblewrap – all the better if it’s used and a few of the bubbles are popped. Brush some paint over it (I use those little tester pots), the paint should just sit on top of the bubbles and not fall into the ‘grooves’. Then, use your painted bubble sheet to ’stamp’ on to your paper or card. Easy peasy! I also employed some more thriftyness on this card – all of my brown embelishments are made from a recycled paper bag.

Ingredients

Topper: Sugar Nellie Manga Girl 2, coloured with promarkers. Mounted on cream card, then pearleascent blue paper, then framed with crimped brown paper strip (torn from brown paper bag)
Base: Pale blue card blank, hope made bubblewrap stamped DP
Sentiment: Basic grey letter stickers
Embelishments: White fabric flower, brown paper bag punched flower, brown paper bag swirls, brown mini-brad (papermania I think)

P.S. I completely forgot about my blog candy! I was ill for a while after putting it up, and completely forgot about it. So, without further ado, the winner is coment number 3, which is Ang D – well done Ang. Drop me an email with your address, and I’ll post your candy off to you.

Maggie Bob Makes: Sunday Sketch & Stamp #29

It’s a sad day over at Sunday Sketch & Stamp – 2 wonderful members of our design team have decided to step down. Barb and Sem are ‘retiring’ from the challenge to focus on new and exciting projects. As a parting gift, Sem has given us this fantastic sketch.

Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch #29

I decided to make a card for my brother who’s birthday it is next month (the last of my family birthdays for a while, thankfully). I went a little out of my comfort zone on this card though, and I think it shows…

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #29: Green Bubbles Birthday

See, I’ve been a lucky girl lately. I follow docrafts on Twitter, and they ran a competition to win some Daisy & Dandelion goodies – for which I was one of the lucky recipients. I expected to receive maybe just a paper pack, or a set of stamps, but a few days later a bulging envelope arrived, with two stamp sets, 1 paper pad, a triple pack of stickers, a packet of embossed transfers and 3 die-cut decoupage packs – wow! I don’t do a lot of decoupage, so I decided to challenge myself by using one of the decoupage sets here, layered up with silicon glue for a subtle effect – I think maybe too subtle? Well, I’ve got nearly a month until my brother’s birthday, so I’m sure I can make something else by then if I change my mind.

Ingredients

Topper: Bubbles & Squeak Die Cut Decoupage
Paper: This green card from stash. DP from Daisy & Dandelion Picnic Patch
Sentiment: Dandelion goes Fishing clear stamps
Tools: Fiskars border punch

Maggie Bob Makes: Pearls & Swirls

The design team over at One Stop Craft Challenge has grown – from this challenge, we are joined by Cat Spicer, Kathryn, Carrie, Val, Lyndsey, Lisa A, Debs, Lorraine and Francesca – all very talented crafters whom I look forward to working with!

Now, on to my card for this week’s challenge. Suzi has set us the theme, and she has gone for ‘Pearls & Swirls’.

Maggie Bob Makes: Pearls & Swirls

I’ve gone for pure elegance with this card, but I couldn’t resist slipping a little (or a lot) of pink in there. It’s always handy to have a few spare wedding/engagement cards around too – you never know when you might need one!

Ingredients

Topper: Stamp-it image, free with Papercraft Essentials, mounted onto pale pink card. Corners rounded with CarlaCraft punch
Papers: Pink handmade paper, overlaid with LLB Retro Rose vellum
Embelishments: Pink felt trim (Papermania), flat back pearls, white fabric flowers

Maggie Bob Makes: Pretty In Pink

Maggie Bob Makes: Pretty In Pink

My Mum is a typical girly girl. She loves getting dressed up to go out, has more shoes and handbags than you can count and of course, her favourite colour is pink. This card is for her birthday, which is on Saturday, and I’m hoping she will love it – I certainly enjoyed making it and thinking of her. It’s hard living so far away from my Mum, but it’s nice to know we share a hobby (she also makes cards), and it’s nice to keep in touch by sending her a card, whether it’s for her birthday, or just because.

This card is for the following challenges:

Friday Sketchers: following Inge’s sketch
Anyone for Anya: ’sweet as sugar’
Anya Ink: ‘pink and sparkly’

Maggie Bob Makes: How Many Fingers?

Maggie Bob Makes: How Many Fingers?

Another male card, and you can tell I was running low on inspiration as I’ve resorted to old tactics – if all else fails, do something funny! This card is for my husband’s uncle, who has a birthday tomorrow.

This is for the following challenges:

Your Next Stamp Challenge: Stitching (mines is faux)
Sweet Stampin’ Challenge: In Stitches (both the faux stitching and the funny greeting)
Allsorts Challenge: In Stitches
Crazy 4 Challenges: Following the sketch
Creative Card Crew: Happy Birthday

Maggie Bob Makes: All Grown Up

Maggie Bob Makes: All Grown Up

I love this card, and it’s so perfect for the recipient it is going to – my baby brother. I cannot believe he is going to be 18 this week. I can remember him from the day he was born – makes me feel old!

This card is for the following challenges:

Truly Scrumptious: Mina’s Sketch
Creative Card Crew: Happy Birthday

Maggie Bob Makes: Sunday Sketch & Stamp Birthday Card (Contains Blog Candy!)

Yes ladies and gentlemen, Sunday Sketch & Stamp is 1 year old this challenge. When I started the challenge 1 year ago, I didn’t imagine how much it would grow. I’m so thankful to everyone who contributes to the success. Firstly, our wonderful sponsors. Secondly, all you amazing people who take part. Finally, to my wonderful design team, current and retired – thank you for all you put in to making this challenge work.

Now, on to the challenge. As a birthday treat, we are letting you all pick from any of our past sketches, and the design team get to choose which sketch to follow too. I genuinely couldn’t decide, so I showed my husband the gallery and asked him to pick. He must know me well, because he picked one of my sketches. So, this card is made following Sketch #2.

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #26: Eat Cupcakes

As it’s our birthday, I thought I would make a birthday card! If you want to know what it’s made of, see below.

If you are playing along with the blog hop, you should have come here directly from the challenge blog – fingers crossed. To continue the hop, you’ll now want to jump to Mira’s Blog.

Ingredients: Papers & main image taken from Papercraft Essentials. Epoxy cupcakes from Paperchase. Sentiment stamps from Coffee & Cupcakes by Inkadinkadoo.

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Blog Candy!

As a special birthday treat, I will be offering some blog candy. If you want to be entered for the candy, leave me a comment below, and link back to my candy from your blog. For every 5 comments I receive, I will add something to the candy. This candy runs until May 2nd. Good luck!

Candy (so far) consists of:

• 4 wood mounted Whispers stamps
• Papermania flower stickers
• Metal dog themed embelishments

After the next 5 comments, I will be adding some ribbon – so get spreading the word!

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Maggie Bob Makes: Things With Wings

OSCC 76: Things With Wings

The theme over at One Stop Craft Challenge this week is ‘Things With Wings’, as set by Gina. A theme which I forgot when selecting this great image from our sponsor, Glitterbabe Greetings. I fell in love with this image, and I failed to realise it had nothing to do with wings – oops!

A little frantic searching around quotes websites, and I had a solution! Hope you like this card – You can see what’s in it below.

This card is also for the following challenges:
ABC Challenge – S is For Sparkle (mirri-card, glitter gel and sparkling gems – hope that covers it!)
Sketch & Stash – Following sketch and using new digi-stamp.

Image: At The Moon, Glitterbabe Greetings
Paper: Just For Men collection, Simply Cards & Papercraft

Maggie Bob Makes: On The Move

It’s Saturday, and that can only mean one thing – time for another challenge at One Stop. This week, the theme is ‘On The Move’, set by the brilliant Chrissie.

OSCC 75: On The Move

OSCC 75: On The Move

OSCC 75: On The Move

I found this challenge, well, challenging because (and here’s where I let you in on a little secret) I am rubbish at cutting. I’ve bought the best craft knives and fancy rulers, new sharp blades, and tried more guillotines than I care to remember and I still just can’t get a line to cut straight. This is why I normally stick to pre-cut card blanks, and feel very out of my comfort zone when I have to cut anything bigger than a mat. After a failed attempt at cutting a swing card (well, actually 3 failed attempts), I took a browse around Splitcoast Stampers and found the perfect solution – this pop-up spiral card. Here’s what’s in it:

Sentiment: A Little Bird stamp from Kolette Hall for Studio G
Paper: Pretty Please Spring Papers from MME
Toppers/Embellishments: Matryoshka Twiggy from Kanban