FGM Paris

Challenge day with my friends Frances and Gai, this month's challenge was French inspired.

For the front of my card I have used some French poodle designer paper, ECD paris edges, french washi tape and the word Paris.

 On the inside I have used the same supplies as the front, but have made a pop up card using the  Eiffel Tower pop up die designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. I added the Rubber Romance French Mademoiselle.

Au revior 

Maryann

21 Glitters

Today's card was made with Rectangle pull card die designed by Karen Burniston for  Elizabeth Crafts Designs

 For the background on the center panel I have used shimmer sheetz and Key to my heart embossing folder. The shimmer sheetz was then sanded to reveal the white core. I have also added peel off stickers and micro fine glitter to the front panels. Along with My Favorite things A'la Mode diva.

 When the card flips open another A'la mode Diva in a glass, with a spinner key and the words It's party time.

Supplies.
ECD Rectangle Pull Card  die, Micro fine glitter, peel off stickers, shimmer sheetz, copic pens, Embossing folder, My Favorite things stamps, wink of stella brush pen.


Cheers
Maryann

My Lucky Dress

It is challenge time with my CCEE friends. March's holiday is St. Patrick's Day and Anne has asked us to make a card using the color GREEN.

Yeah my favourite colour and who doesn't think of the luck of the Irish when they see green.
For the front I have used an unmounted rubber Irish script and purchased glitter 4 leaf clover leaves.

Inside I have made an Irish dress with petticoats. I have used the Stampin up Dress form die and Elizabeth Craft Designs Lots of pops both designed by Karen Burniston

 I also added some more clover leaves and a map of Ireland.

Here is a close up of the dress with its petticoats and gems. When my daughter did Irish dancing the dancing school kept their costumes very simple for they displays and Ceilidhs, many of the costumes were sown by the Mothers group.

slàinte mhòr

Maryann

Wild animals again

Hi Everyone,

I had some leftover papers from the card I made the other day, still on my desk so I made another card for CCEE Stampers challenge 1510 this time with the Katie Pivot die, also designed by Karen Bruniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

For the trees I have used the All seasons die and paper pieced the leaves with designer paper.

Maryann

CCEE1510 Lion/Wild animals

Welcome to another CCEE Stampers Challenge. Our new Hostess for March is Anne Harmon and Anne says there is a saying "March comes in like a lion."  So Anne has challenges us, this week is to make a card with a wild animal theme.

I don't know about wild but this lion sure is cute.

 For the inside I have used the Lorna Label pop up die, designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs , to create a double platform, this is a favourite die and I love this technique. The designer paper is from DCWV and the images are Kanban stamps.

Thanks for looking, remember to go over to CCEE Stampers to see all the other teams creations.

Maryann

Glitter and Sparkles

 The other day I was asked if I had a card for a sweet 16th, all my cards didn't suit so I made another one using the oval accordion die and peel off sticker from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I created the sticker using the micro fine glitter technique. Down in the right had corner I added a flower made with shimmer sheetz base and glitter  overlay, coloured with copic pens and added a store bought embellishment in the centre.

Here is the card opened with the true colours that I have used, I am not sure I like the light changes when I take the photos.

 On the back of the card I have covered up the seam with some Happy Birthday washi tape.

Have a great day
Maryann

Inlaid diecuts

Today on CCEE Stampers hostess Sabrina asks us to try inlaid diecuts technique.

You can find a tutorial on this technique here.

I still had this tag die on my desk when it was time for this challenge. Next week it will be Autumn here I decided to go with a leaf theme. I cut coloured card with the leaf dies I wanted and embossed them. I then cut the tag out of designer paper. After choosing the way I wanted the leaves to look, I then took the die that would appear on the bottom and cut out the leaf. Then placed the previously cut out leaf  and taped it on the back to hold it in place. Facing the front again I then cut out the second leaf and the replaced it with the coloured one and so on with the pine cones and happy birthday die and filled in the top of the tag die with black card. Before matting it and adding the wool threads.

This is a fun technique and it really looks harder that it was.

Have a great day

Maryann

Supplies:
ECD Tags and more 2 Deco
Cheery Lynn dimensional leaves
ECD Happy Birthday stand up helper

Paradise Found

The Boomerang Special Sister Challenge for March was a beach theme.

I have used the MFT palm tree die and turned it into a sticker for the front of this card.

 The DCWV designer paper is just fabulous for this theme. I love this combi bus from Kaiser craft it reminds me of the mystery machine from Scooby Doo Cartoons. I have teamed it with the lots of pops die, poles,clouds and oval dies designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs

Supplies:
Stamps, Kaiser Craft, My Favorite Things, Verses
Have a great day
Maryann

Ooh La La class

I recently had the chance to join a card class with Frances Byrne aka Stampowl a  Elizabeth Craft Designs and Karen Burniston pop its challenge design team member at our favourite craft store Craft Giraffe previously know as Photo Contential.'s craft section.

For the card front we used the Paris edges

 and in the center the Eiffel Tower Pop stand with another die from the Paris edges set.

Frances was kind enough to pose for this photo.

Merci beaucoup Frances

It was a great class
Maryann

Moonstruck

For our challenge 1508 on CCEE Stampers this week Sabrina has another bit of Trivia.

 Interestingly, because February is a short month, there can actually be years in which there is no full moon at all. The last time this happened was 1999, the next time will be 2018. So while this is not one of those years - feature the moon on your cards.

I have used a wood mounted stamp that is years old, it is great for creating scenes, using gloss card, I stamped the images with black ink. Punched a circle and masked the area and added the ink sponging it in layers until I created the desired effect. I would have liked the sky a bit darker but I think I may need another distress colour in my supplies for that.

Supplies:
Stamps: Stamp it Reflection pool, Sentiment Taylored expressions, stampscapes - branches
Distressed inks, sponging tool, cloud stencil

You can find the challenge creations on the CCEE Stampers blog. Add your creation there and link it back to your site, so that we can see.

Cheers
Maryann