Voodoo man

Hi, everyone,

It's the reminder post for our current challenge at Friday Sketch Challenge.

This fortnight we have another new sponsor to the Friday Sketch Challenge!  The sponsor is Rick St Dennis.  Here's a little bit of information about him:

"Rick St. Dennis MFA has been an artist, designer, stage designer and instructor for over 45 years, you can find his full Bio here. His digital stamp images can be found on Zibbet or Etsy . Inspiration projects from the Rick St. Dennis Elite Design Team can be found on the Sparkle and Glitter blog, or for the darker images on the Airless Chambers blog.

Rick also has a personal blog  and on Facebook there is the Rick St.dennis Digi fans and friends group, showcase your cards and other projects using RSD images there to be eligible to win prizes."

The prize on offer for this challenge is a choice of 2 digis or a 25% discount coupon for Rick's Zibbet shop - the decision is up to you!

Here is the sketch we are working from this fortnight:

This is my DT card for this challenge:

 

For my card I used the following:

Image from Rick St. Dennis

Promarkers

Papers from magazine

Purple and orange card from Papermill

Spellbinder die

I will now love you and leave you and wish you all a good weekend

Childhood Memories

Hello everyone,  my hand  feels a little better now and I am hoping it will be okay, I think keeping it straped and trying to protect it for a few days has made the difference.

I hope everyone is enjoying our few days of sunshine.  I have managed to get quite a lot of washing done, nothing like be able to dry your washing outside. 

My latest card is featuring a Lili of the Valley image, all their images are just lovely.   I must buy myself at least one of the little boys playing with their toys, these remind me of my childhood when everything was different.  In those days you would be sent off for the day, no one worried about health and safety and I can never remember anyone getting hurt except for the odd skinned knee.  We would all dash off on our bikes which were frequently made up of old bikes put together, I remember mine was an old frame found on waste land near where I lived in Tilbury (local dumping ground for things people didn't want) and then we picked up various wheels etc, painted them in what ever colours we could find at home and the only expense was new tyres and brakes.  Mine was a drop handle bike and I would go tearing off with several of my siblings and friends.  I was one of eight children so there was always someone to go with.

We would take bottles of water and jam sandwiches and that was us set for the day.  We would often go to the moat which surrounds Tilbury Fort and swim in that, of course there were signs saying "No Swimming" but no one took any notice and the place was packed on warm days.  You could meet all your friends and have a lovely day out for nothing.  Now it is completely cut off and you can no longer go and sit by the water and eat sandwiches or jump in if you feel like it.   I suppose if you pay to go in you can have your sandwiches there, but as a child it was fun and I have some great pictures of people sitting there by the moat.  I remember the hand knitted swimsuit episode which was disastrous, once in the water and it would be down by your knees.

Anyway, back to the present.

For this card I have used:

Lili of the Valley image

Promarkers

Cherry Lynn corner die

Crafts Too square die

Orange card from stash from Papermill

Printed card from DCWV called "Pocket full of Posies"

Flowers from stash which I distressed slightly with Whispers "Straw Matt" ink pad

Glitz glitter glue

I'd like to enter this card in for the following challenge:

Fussy and Fancy Friday - Fairies

Bobbins, Thimbles and Cotton

This is my second card of the day (click here to find my first) using the Pink Petticoat digi stamp.  This time I have worked in red, black and white.  The scissors have been around my house for about two years and never found anything to use them on.

On this card I have used the following items:

Digi from Pink Petticoat
Promarkers
Glitz glitter glue
Black card from Papermill
Printed card from GCD Homespun Chic
Scissors, buttons and twine from stash
Words typed on computer
Crafts-Too square dies

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Wishcraft - Waste Not Wednesday
Moving Along With The Times - Cute as a Button

All Sewn Up

This is my first card for today.  I have used a digi stamp from Pink Petticoat.  I was quite surprised how cheap their digi's are, worth a look at their site if you haven't heard of them.  In this set you have four sewing machines (all the same) on an A4 page, or you can have four with different sentiments underneath and you get little reels of cotton all for £1.99.  This is what I call a bargain.

I raised the image on foam pads  and added some glitter to the roses on the sewing machine.

For this card I used the following items:
Pink Petticoat digi
Promarkers
Glitz glitter glue
button and ribbon from stash
scissors - Woodware brad with back taken off
Card from GCD Studio - Homespun Chic

Wild Thing

My card of the day, is for a child and the image comes from Woodware.  I find their images always stamp out beautifully.  

I love this backing paper which comes from DCWV and is called "All About Boys", it has some lovely papers in the pack including, comic heroes, pirates, cowboys, robots, circus and wild animals.  Beautiful papers if you are a scrapbooker, you could produce some lovely pages.

I used the following for this card:

Woodware stamps
Promarkers
Giraffe highlighted with glossy accents
Card Candy
Brown card from Papermill
Patterned paper from DCWV called All about Boys

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Whimsy Stamps - No Sentiment

Even more Cupcakes

Last night  I sat happily colouring in digi stamps and when I came to look at papers to use, nothing I had matched in any way.  So my big tip for me today is look first at your papers and then do your colouring, I am sure all you excellent cardmakers have found this out already and are shaking your heads at me.

Well I decided in the end to use the spare image I had done the day before of the Lili of the Valley cupcake stamp, the same as my last card. This time I decided to add a cupcake recipe which I aged so that it looked like it had been used many times; I used my Tim Holtz blending tool which is really excellent for this.  I found that the boxes of cards that you buy often have a thick sheet of card in them and the reverse side is white so you can place your picture on this and distress it without using good paper or having to clean off your craft mat.  I have been using the same piece of card for about two months now.

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For this card I used:

Lili of the Valley stamp

Sentiment and small cupcake stamp from Papermania

Ticket stamp from Die-namics blank outline and die - words typed on computer

Cupcake recipe from internet

Stripe paper from Craftworkcards Vintage Rose Paper Pack

Blue card from Papermill