CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is...Think of a number

This is my entry

Well it had to be

The papers and butterfly are from Debbi Moore's Shabby Chic Butterflies CD.

The card was created in CAP2 using the decoupage feature for the numbers and some messing about to get the butterfly to stand out.



TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 12

Day 12 of my Twelve Days of Christmas

I set myself a challenge to use as many of my digikits as I could for this one!

Christmas Patchwork Party...using 2 of the squares to make a frame.

Icy and Frosty Papers for the central scene.

Layered Christmas Trees for the tree.

Christmas Silhouettes Sepia 1 and Christmas Silhouettes Sepia 2 for the stars, reindeeer and robin.

The scene border and snow are brushes in CAP2.



TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 11

Day 11 of my Twelve Days of Christmas

Christmas Patchwork Party



TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 10

Day 10 of my Twelve Days of Christmas

Christmas Patchwork Party



TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS ...DAY 9

Day 9 of my Twelve Days of Christmas

Christmas Patchwork Party

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 8

Day 8 of my Twelve Days of Christmas with special prices for the kits used.

Christmas Silhouettes Sepia 1 digikit
Icy and Frosty Paper Collection

The background for the circular silhouette scene was created from one of the Icy and Frosty papers.by 'kaleidoscoping' it in CAP2.



CRAFT A SCENE CHALLENGE

This month's Craft-a-Scene Challenge is  A Winter Scene

This is my entry

This uses my Christmas Silhouettes Sepia 1 Digikit and the blue background paper is from my

 Icy and Frosty Paper Collection. The latter has been 'kaleidoscoped' in CAP2.

The snow is a brush in CAP2.

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 7

Day 7 of my Twelve Days of Christmas

This card uses Christmas Silhouettes 1, Christmas Silhouettes Add-On (images in dark blue) and a paper from the Icy and Frosty Paper Collection



TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 6

Day 6 of my Twelve Days of Christmas

Christmas Patchwork Party



TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 5

Day 5 of my Twelve Days of Christmas with a special price for the featured digikit.

Layered Christmas Trees Digikits
Icy and Frosty Paper Collection

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is...Teddy Bears

This is my entry

The image is from Joanna Sheen's CD Thomas Kincade. The papers and other elements are from

 Pam Lefors new Live, Love, Laugh Kit.

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 4

Day 4 of my Twelve Days of Christmas with a special price for the featured digikit

Christmas Silhouettes Sepia 2



TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 3

Day 3 of my Twelve Days of Christmas

Christmas Sepia Silhouettes 1



TWELVE DATS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 2

Here is Day 2 of my Twelve Days of Christmas...with a special only price for the Digikit.

I've decided to keep the special prices until Christmas Day.

DAY 2

Christmas Silhouettes 2 Digikit

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS...DAY 1

Each day until Christmas Day I shall be featuring a Christmas card design using one of my Digikits with a one-day only reduced price

DAY 1

Christmas Silhouettes 1 Digikit 

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is...Frosty Days

My latest digikit is Icy and Frosty Papers so of course I had to use one of the papers in this challenge!

Here is my entry

 

The picture is from Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kincade CD.

 The background paper is from my Icy and Frosty Paper Collection.

The row of snowflakes is from Pam Lefors 'A Little Bit Flaky' digkit.

The icicles are from Obsidian Dawn.

NEW ICY AND FROSTY PAPERS!

A new digital Paper Collection

ICY AND FROSTY PAPERS

24 papers in 4 different pattern sets.

High quality jpg background papers at 300 dpi

Zipped Folder 51.3 MB

Sample card of a couple of the papers with designs from the Christmas Patchwork Party Digkit

CHRISTMAS PATCHWORK PARTY 6

Yet another Christmas Tree made with the triangles in the Christmas Patchwork Party Digikit!

Created in Serif CraftArtist 2

The row of tree was created using the patchwork triangles in the kit with a bit of drop shadowing. The snow is one of CAP2's brushes and the stars punched from the same paper as the background. The snowflake borders were made by cropping another of the papers in the kit.

CHRISTMAS PATCHWORK PARTY 5

This time it's a card made using the diamonds from our new digikit...Christmas Patchwork Party 1

It has been created in Serif CraftArtist 2

I made the star first...2 layers of glitter stars from the diamond section and then a patterned star in the centre.

Grouped and saved. Then it was loaded into Photolab (in CAP2) and the Zoom Blur feature was applied.

This was then placed over the plain green paper from the digikit, grouped and layered with the dark blue and green patterned papers.

The snowflakes around the star were made using one of CAP2's brushes.



CHRISTMAS PATCHWORK PARTY 4

Another tree made from the Patchwork Fan Segments in the Christmas Patchwork Party Digikit

This card has been made hybridally (?)...the tree was made in CAP2 and then 'deconstructed', printed on to card and then the design put together by hand. The tree has depth by angling the segments with silicone rubber glue.

The green background paper is from the digikit and by happy accident I found some mint coloured sequin stars!

CHRISTMAS PATCHWORK PARTY 3

This is another sample card made using the new Christmas Patchwork Party Digikit

Created in Serif CraftArtist 2

This card uses the Fan Segements and Fan Inners (which can make a fan aslo). The fan segemnst and inners were arranged to make a fan...the inner segments have drop shadows to give depth to the fan

(not very well I'm afraid!).

The snowflakes and lace are features in CAP2 and the fan handle has been used as buttons in the corners of the topper.



CHRISTMAS PATCHWORK PARTY

Here is another card made using designs from the Christmas Patchwork Party Digikit.

Created in Serif CraftArtist

This time the tree has been made of the patchwork square designs, with the decoupage button giving some depth to the tree. The scalloped white square was made from one of the stencils in CAP2 and stars were punched from background paper from the kit.



CHRISTMAS PATCHWORK SAMPLE 2

Here is another sample card made using designs from the new Christmas Patchwork Party 1 Digikit

This has been created in Serif CAP2 using the decoupage feature for the central diamonds. the corners were made from the green glitter diamond, cropped in half, positioned across each corner and then the whole design cropped so the triangles fit the corners...then a navy paper layer.



NEW CHRISTMAS PATCHWORK PARTY DIGKIT!

We have a new Digkit...Christmas Patchwork Party 1

A selection of digital patchwork shapes for you to use to create original Christmas cards, scrapbook pages and other crafty projects.

(You will need a graphics programme such as Serif CraftArtist or My Craft Studio to use this digikit.)

Designs include: 16 Fan Segments, 12 Fan Segment Inners, 12 Fan Handles/centres, 23 Diamonds, 16 Hexagons, 12 Circle Segments, 15 Squares, 8 Triangles, 20 background papers and ideas for use.

Personal Use Only

Images are high quality jpg and png at 300 dpi.

Zipped Folder 77 MB

Your creation can be created digitally or you can print the various elements and make your card by hand.

Some projects will be posted on this blog over the next few weeks, but here is one example of what can be made with the digikit.

REMEMBRANCE DAY

'Lest we forget'

Created in Serif CraftArtist 2 using images from my Poppy Parade Digikit.

Images layered and the 'thorn' brush from CAP2.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is 'Christmas In Pink'

This is my entry

The card has been created in Serif CAP2. The background is from Debbi Moore's Vintage Christmas CD coloured pink. The Christmas Tree has been made from layers from my Layered Christmas Tree Digikit. I wanted to put snow around the tree but the CAP2 brushes didn't work properly, so I used a snowflake brush from Photoshop. The glitter around the card was a CAP2 brush which did work!

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is...Beautiful Blue

This is my entry

The card has been created in Serif CAP2 using Debbi Moore's Shabby Chic Music CD.

The guitar topper has been altered using the Transform feature. The music notes were digitally punched from some of the CD's papers in the CAP2 programme and the borders cropped from one of the CD's images.

NEW DIGIKIT...LAYERED CHRISTMAS TREES

We have a new Digikit released today....Layered Christmas Trees.

This kit has a selection of layers for you to use to create original Christmas Trees.

It includes 36 Frosty Layers, 96 Glitter Layers, 24, Patterned Layers, 54 Special Layers, 51 Outlines, 22 Stars and Instructions / Ideas.

Personal Use Only.

The images are high quality png at 300 dpi.

2 Zipped Folders (which have to be bought separately) 91.7 MB and 106 MB

SAMPLES

FREEBIE

(right click and save)



CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This week's CD Sunday Challenge is...Autumn Splendour

This is my entry

The oval background is from Peerless Designs Secret Garden CD and the dahlia is from my

Floral Sketchbook 1 Digikit (coloured digitally see how here).

The beige leafy background is from Joanna Sheen Thomas Kincade CD, decoupaged in CAP2.

The oval rope border is one of CAP2's brushes and the bow from one of the Daisytrail Digikits.

The knotted border is from Pam LeFors as is the pin which has had the middle removed and a small dahlia placed on the pin head.

I should add that dahlias are late flowering plants and so overlap into autumn!



FLORAL SKETCHBOOK PLAYTIME Part 7

The Floral Sketchbook designs can be used to create backgrounds, borders and even bouquets.

Examples

Making a simple background in CAP2: Create a coloured square. Import the lily sketch, copy, paste and resize. Place over the background, rotating the designs until you have a pattern you like. Group together and crop to the edges of the square.

The 'bouquet' was created in CAP2, printed on to inkjet watercolour paper and then coloured with Radiant Rain Shimmering Mists.

A card made using the lily sketch. The lily was coloured with Shimmering Mists and Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls. The flower centre was embellished with black Liquid Pearls.

FLORAL SKETCHBOOK PLAYTIME Part 6

If you are using a graphics programme such as CAP2 or MCS there will be a way of turning the

 Floral Sketches to a sepia colour. These can be used as they are, to create greeting's cards or in scrapbook pages or could be tinted with very dilute Radiant Rain Shimmering Mists or watercolour paint.

Examples

Tinted with very dilute Simmering Mists.

Tinted with very dilute Simmering Mists.

Sprayed with Sunflower Yellow Perfect Pearls.

FLORAL SKETCHBOOK PLAYTIME Part 5

This time some of the Floral Sketchbook designs have been coloured with Pan Pastels.

The design were printed on to inkjet watercolour paper  and cut out.

The Pan Pastels were applied to the designs with a sponge and then a cotton bud for smaller detailed areas.

Examples

FLORAL SKETCHBOOK PLAYTIME Part 4

This time some of the Floral Sketches have been coloured with Brilliance ink.

The designs were printed on to inkjet watercolour paper, cut out and sprayed with water before colouring.

The Brilliance inks (lovely pearly colours) were applied by inking a paintbrush directly from the inkpad and then brushing it on the design.

Examples