Team Brae-er's Blog Hop - No Worries

Welcome to the Brae-er's Team Blog Hop, this month we are creating artwork using the No Worries paper collection.

If you have just come from the fabulous Emily's blog then you are in the right place.

I started with a Sapphire mat for the woodgrain, which I also used at a mat for the sentiment.  The sentiment is from the Prickly Pear cardmaking stamp set.  I added doodling along the sentiment, and the banners are pieces of scrap from one of the pocket cards in this collection.  The enamel gems are actually white that I coloured with 2 blue shades of alcohol markers to create a marbled effect.  Just a simple masculine birthday card.

Now you can continue hopping along by visiting Sheena's blog.



Always craft with  <3

Happy Birthday Card from AHSC

I am always in need of brithday cards, how about you?  Everytime I blink it seems I need a birthday card.  Either the children are being invited to a kids party,family or friends are having birthdays, or my husband will ask for one for a co-worker.  It just seems like when I go looking for one, I'm all out. So my mission now is to try to create lots of quick and simple birthday cards to have as my go-to cards.

Here is this week's sketch:

I went digging through my scraps and pre-cut files to see what I could use up from my extras that I have colored and cut for other creations and put everything together.  This card is what I came up with.  

I hope you will now take a few minutes and head over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and see what our design team has created to inspire you.

Happy Birthday Balloon : AHSC #52 ( 1 year anniversary)

Wow, 52 weeks of sketches!

That is fantastic, and as of now we have over 1060 pieces of artwork in posted on my pinterest board. You can go there and be totally inspired by all the amazing artwork.

Here is my card, and I flipped the sketch and played around with the pieces to make it work with the cut outs.

I used the Quatrefoil Embossing folder, and actually used the reserve side, which makes this Sorbet Cardstock look quilted.  I used the Stamp Set Lifting Spirits(C1570).  I hand cut all the images and layered them for this card. They are colored with Alcohol Markers, Blending Pens and Chocolate Ink Pad.  I hand wrote the sentiment.

Here is the sketch:

Hope you make the time to stop by Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to check out the amazing artwork created by our Fabulous Design Team.