Margo's handmade cards and crafts

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

From The Heart Stamps - Cozy Kittens - January 2016 Challenge

Hi all!

Hope 2016 is going well so far!

This card featured today has another adorable image from, FromTheHeartStamps called Cozy Kittens!

Entering this card for the January FromTheHeart Stamps Progressive Challenge. :)

I am showing two photos in this post - as the first one shows more of sparkle and shine detail of the heart sequins, Stickles detail and the gelly pen on the scarves! :D
It's hard to photograph sequins and sparkles and I do love to use them on my cards!

The other

Working on some more CAS style cards and really love how this one turned out! Hope you like it!

Thanks for looking!

This first photo shows a bit more of the sparkle and shine - the gold and red of the sequins, the gold and silver detail in the two scarves and even the gold stickles on the sequins!

This next photo shows a little bit of detail of the white 'fur' I tried to create for the white kitten. :)

Materials used:

5x7 white cardbase and white cardstock
Patterned paper
Prismacolor pencils - watercolor and softcore
Gelly pens - white, silver and gold
Gold and red heart sequins
Stickles - gold and diamond
Sentiment - one that was included in the Cozy Kittens image

Thanks again for looking! :D

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

FromTheHeart Stamps - Gift Stack Teddy Bear, December challenge

I love FromTheHeartStamps and was excited to work on another image!

A fun and cute image, Gift Stack Teddy Bear, for Christmas (or even a birthday!)

Entering this card for the December FromTheHeart Stamps Progressive Challenge. :)

Materials used:

5x7 white cardbase
Textured cardstock
Designer paper
Patterned paper
Prismacolor watercolor pencils
Markers
Gelly pens
Martha Stewart aspen snowflake punch

FromTheHeart Stamps - Birthday blog hop card

The Birdbrain character from FromTheHeart Stamps with the sentiments are so cute and funny!

Working on using some of my scrap papers and more of my sequins on cards, so I was pretty happy with how this one came together! :D I think it's a great masculine birthday card, but certainly can be given to anyone - male or female, boy or girl! :D

Entering this card into the December 2015 FromTheHeart Stamps Birthday Blog challenge. :D Hope you like it and thank for looking!

Materials used:

5x7 white cardbase
Solid and textured cardstock
Patterned paper
Assorted sequins
Glossy Accents
Prismacolor watercolor pencils
Markers

Thanks again for looking! :)

Gerda Steiner Designs - PEACE Santa

Love this adorable Santa from the Progressive Monthly Challenge at Gerda Steiner Designs Stamps!

So fun to color and what a great image to add to my Christmas images!
It is too late to send this one for this year, but a great card to add to next year's stash! :D

Materials used:

5x7 white cardbase
Solid and textured cardstock
Patterned paper
Gelly pens
Archival marker
Martha Steward Aspen Snowflake Punch
Prismacolor softcore and watercolor pencils

Thanks for looking!

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Holly & Olive - The East Wind! :D

Hi!

I entered my initial coloring of the lovely Holly & Olive image into the Kit&Clowder Advent Calendar Colouring Challenge - East Wind!

This is my overall card that I made with the coloring and happy with how it turned out! So fun to work with! :D

I went with non-traditional holiday/Christmas colors and went for more cool colors. :D

For some reason my photo isn't showing up as crisp as it needs to be and I've tried it several times..:( Though hope you can still see that I added purple half pearls and purple rhinestones to the corners of the card, small clear rhinestones to edges of the patterened paper, the lady's eyes. Also added Diamond Stickles to the snowflake punch.

Despite my photo issues...I hope you like her! :) I was very happy with how she turned out. :D

Thanks for looking!

Materials & Supplies -
Paper- Cream colored 5x7 cardbase, image on white cardstock, patterned paper, colored and metallic cardstock
Coloring - Prismacolor soft core colored pencils, Prismacolor watercolor pencils, white and silver gelly roll pens,
Techniques - watercolor background with Distress inks
Other supplies - purple and clear rhinestones, half pearls, snowflake punches from Martha Steward Aspen Snowflake punch and Diamond Stickles

Holiday Lighting Enchantress! :D

Hi there!

I received this adorable image, Holiday Lighting Enchantress, as a Lacy Sunshine Facebook freebie recently from the Lacy Sunshine Color n Craft Community Facebook group! Join the group and you can find the freebie there! :D

You can also find this adorable image in the Lacy Sunshine Shoppe here!

So fun to color and create a holiday card with this image! :D

Hope you like her! :D

A few other details about the card - added Silver Gelly pen to the lightbulb ends, to the stripes on her leggings, around the scallop ended of the light blue cardstock and randomly around the edges of the card). :D

Glossy accents are on the two small lightbulbs, large bulb she's sitting on, to the bow in her hair and to her eyes. Added Silver Stickles to the other two lightbulbs.

Used white gelly pen to accent the fur on her coat and shoes! :D

Materials and details -
*Papers - white 5x7 card base, textured cardstock
*Coloring - Prismacolor watercolor pencils, Prismacolor Soft Core colored pencils, Distress Markers, Tombow markers and archival markers, silver and white gelly pens
*Other materials - Silver, Gold and Diamond Stickles, Glossy Accents, glittered foam stickers, purple and clear rhinestones

Entering this card into these challenges:
Lacy Sunshine "Anything Goes" challenge

Lacy Sunshine Color n Craft Community FB group - Sparkly challenge

Thanks for looking! <3

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Aurora Wings Nutcracker Giftbag! :D

Hi!
I had a lot of fun coloring this Aurora Wings beautiful image, Nutcracker and Chipmunk Ballerina, and creating this gift bag! :)

Hope you like it too! :)

Materials and details -
*Papers - white cardstock, textured cardstock, patterned paper
*Coloring - Prismacolor watercolor pencils, Prismacolor Soft Core colored pencils, archival markers, gold and white gelly pens
*Other materials - black gift bag (7.8"x9.8"), Silver Stickles, Martha Stewart Aspen Snowflake Punch Around The Page punch, glittered foam stickers, chipboard holiday sentiment

Entering this into these challenges:
Facebook Aurora Wings Group challenge, December 2015 Contest "Tags & Bags"

Aurora Wings Blog Challenge #20 Anything but Cards

Thanks for looking! <3

Meowy Christmas - The East Wind!

Hi!
I'm so happy to be able to share with you my Meowy Christmas image that I received as a freebie from The East Wind!

Sign up for The East Wind newsletter to join in on the awesomeness that are Unky's designs! :D

Hope you like this card! I had fun working with the image and making up the card! It will be a special Christmas card one of our loved family this year! :D

Materials and details -
*Papers - 5x7 white card base, textured/smooth cardstock, patterned/textured paper
*Coloring - Prismacolor watercolor pencils and regular Crayola colored pencils, some gold and silver gelly pens, archival markers
*Techniques - glue dots heat embossed with gold embossing powder :)
*Other materials - Glossy Accents, rhinestones

Entering this into the challenge:

Challenge #44 ~ Meowy Christmas December 1-10

Thanks for looking!!! <3

Update!!! 12.14.15

I wanted to share that I won one of the Designer Team (DT) Favorite's for this challenge! Whoohoo!!! Thank you, Vicky, so much for choosing my card as your favorite and your kind words!

Thank you, Unky, for the prize!!!! I am so excited to pick a digi and use the coupon too! :)

Thank you so much again for looking!

Monday, November 30, 2015

Little Mug Bear!

Hi!

Gerda Steiner Designs is such a cute stamp company! I I don't believe I've shared one of her designs on my blog before, so here ya go!

Entering this card into these challenges with the adorable bear called, Little Mug Bear !
GSD November challenge
Di's Digi Stamps Cute and Cuddly Challenge

Isn't this such a cute image!?

Hmmm...looks like the glossy accented mug got a little lost in this pic...so going to try and show it again in the pic below

Used an A2 size kraft cardstock card for the base.

Colored the bear with colored pencils and paper pieced his scarf and added some silver gelly pen to add some more sparkle for a festive feel. Added some Glossy Accents to his nose and the mug too! Used some watercolor pencil to the bottom of the image so it looks like he's standing on cold ground (perhaps some ice!)

Backed the white cardstock image onto some textured red cardstock and added some small rhinestones to the corners.

Used some patterned paper that resembled snowflakes for the background and adhered it to the kraft cardstock base, added some silver stickles around the page and to the red foam candy canes too!

The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Black ink, edged the white cardstock with some red ink and then added some silver stickles to the sentiment too for more fun! :)

I really liked how this card turned out (simple, yet festive)!

Hope you like it too! Thanks for looking! Have a great day!

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Sweet Pea Stamps Blog Hop - #26 spot of the hop!!! :D

Welcome to the Sweet Pea stamps Blog Hop!

This hop is from a loyal group of Sweet Pea stamp fans who want to let Lynette know that we appreciate all her hard work bringing us the wonderful stamps in both rubber and digi format over the years.

Thanks so very much for all the wonderful images we have collected from you!

There are some random prizes along the way, as certain blog owners have decided to include a prize, so please leave some comments along the way as you see everyone's gorgeous Sweet Pea Stamp creations.

Also, the store closes at the end of the day on the 25th, so if you see some wonderful stamps on this blog hop, today is the last day to get them, so please drop by the store!
http://www.sweetpeastamps.com

(YOU ARE HERE)

26. Margo Davis http://cardsbymargo.blogspot.com

I have a lot of Sweet Pea Stamps (SPS) images in my collection, both rubber and digital stamps.
So, I chose one of each format and created two birthday cards for loved ones to share with you today! :)

The first card is by Ching Chou Kuik, Carousel Allure

I have the rubber stamp version and used it for this creation. Though if you are interested in this image, it's still available as a digital stamp in the SPS store!

http://www.sweetpeastamps.com/ching-chou-kuik-digi-stamps/ching-chou-kuiks-carousel-allure-digi

I loved this Ching Chou Kuik image (CCK) the first time I saw it in the SPS store!

I felt it would be perfect for a birthday card and especially for my cousin, who is like a sister to me! :)

<3!

The image has such elements of elegance, fun and celebration all in one. Perfect for my cousin!

So I tried to keep with that feeling and keep it a little bit simpler too.

5x7 cream card base, added patterned paper and a layer of cardstock.
Colored rubber stamped image with Prismacolor colored pencils, watercolor and soft core, with a few parts in marker.
Added dimension/fun elements: Gold Stickles, Gelly pen, Glossy Accents, Happy Birthday confetti, Recollections paper flowers and some added pearls/rhinestones.

Hope you can see that I added Stickles to the 'Happy Birthday' word confetti, part of the carousel globe and glossy accents to the lady's eyes too! :D

Couple more close up pics....

The next card is by Elaine Cox, Little Dreamer Mermaid
Used the digital stamp of this image and it's still available in the SPS store too if you are interested -

http://www.sweetpeastamps.com/elaine-cox-digi-stamps/elaine-coxs-little-dreamer-mermaid-digi

(I took several pics. of this card, but only 1 of them really came out the way I wanted it too...:/ :( )
I apologize, but hope that you can still see the detail and that you can still appreciate her beauty! :D

I loved the uniqueness of this image and thought it would be perfect for a girl's birthday card!

I have a dear college friend who's daughter and I share a birthday, so I try hard to pick out an image each year that I think she'll enjoy!

I liked the birthday fun elements of the Birthday confetti so I added them to this card as well!

I didn't want to make the colors too bold, so I thought pastel with some pops of darker shades and a little more fun dimension would be great for her card this year! :)

Not sure if you can see it...but I used metallic shimmer crayons in the mermaid top/body/tail! :D

5x7 white card base, patterned paper and a few layers of cardstock.
Colored digital image mostly with Crayola crayons
Added dimension/fun elements: Silver Gelly pen, Glossy Accents, Happy Birthday confetti, Recollections rhinestones and some green fabric ribbon that reminded me of seaweed! :D
Added number stickers to indicate her age this year! :)

I appreciate your comments and hope you've enjoyed my blog post!

*huge hugs!*

Thank you again, Lynette, and to the other SPS customers/DT team!

Thanks for having the SPS store, all you've done with your business these past years and allowing me to be one of your customers to create with these lovely artists stamps!

Thanks all for your inspiration over the years!

Wishing Lynette and each of you that visit the best and thanks again for stopping by!

If you have arrived here first...see the list below of the other spots along the Hop:

1. Sweet Pea stamps Blog (using card by Ester Berkhuysen)

http://sweetpearubberstamps.blogspot.com

2. Holley's Blog http://holleybarnhartsblog.blogspot.com

3. Colleen Dewis http://stressedisjustdessertsbackwards.blogspot.ca/

4. Suzi Baker McKenzie http://suzannebakermckenzie.blogspot.com

5. Cindy van Oorschot http://cmvanoorschot.blogspot.ca

6. Vannessa Hasty http://www.saffiresstamping.blogspot.co.uk/

7. Barb Poole http://www.abarbcardblog.blogspot.ca/

8. Pat Martin http://patacakespages.blogspot.com