Ruby-dooby-doo's Crafty Creations

Ha, I remember the good old days when I used to come up with witty post titles, now it's just straight in with no messing about ;)

I've been struggling with my mojo recently but Marina's lovely book cover over at the Library Challenge #45 was just what I needed to get me going again.

I've used my old truck set from Stampin Up - I remember when I bought this I wasn't sure if I'd ever use it or not, but it's turned out to be one of my most inked stamps!
Coloured with polychromos, clear gloss added to the windows and chrome work, and then popped up on foam pads.  I've also used a little plane die from Gummiapan that I bought in the sale ages ago and hadn't tried till now.

• Word Art Wednesday #410/411 - anything goes
• Crafty Catz #480 - anything goes

And here's this season's snow dude again - coloured with polychromos, sparkle added to his scarf and pocket, clear gloss/glitter to his nose, and then popped up on foam pads.

• Layout from MFT Wednesday Sketch challenge #460
• Cute Card Thursday #605 - sparkles
• CHNC #461 - Christmas + make your own background

Apologies for the rubbish photos, we're back into the dark nights again :(  It always takes me a week or two to adjust to the clock change!  We'd the most gorgeous sunny autumn day - we were down in our local park this morning and it looked like the world and his wife had the same idea!  I don't think I've ever seen it so busy!

I do struggle with Valentine's cards, so this set from Stampin Up is an old favourite!

I've coloured my fish with purple and pink polychromos and then blended it out with Gamsol, but I think I prefer the non-blended look.  I added some sparkle to the fish and heart and clear gloss to his eyes.  My wavy background also uses a metallic ink pad so it's lovely and sparkly :)
My scribble swirls are an MFT die.

• Layout from Atlantic Hearts #303
• Creatalicious #156 - love / hearts
• Daisy Chain #27 - have a heart
• Crafters Castle #14 - Valentine

I bought this starry stencil and a metallic blue ink pad in a recent shopping spree, so I was bursting to use them.  This card for a friend in work was the perfect excuse.  He's got a new job as a manager of his local forest park, so I thought this oldie Stampin Up bear would give him a laugh, hopefully there's no wild ones where he's going ;)  I also used this oldie tree stamp from Eat Cake Graphics and then watercoloured in some grass.  Just noticed I've forgotten to colour in the tree trunks.  My bear is popped up on foam pads and clear gloss added to his nose and teeth.  Elizabeth Bell square stitched die.

• Make My Monday #83 - stencil stories
• Cardz 4 Guys #206 - into the woods
• Die Cuttin Divas #393 - anything goes
• Penny Black and More November - make someone smile
• Sweet Stampin - trees

There's a change in the weather this past week and the leaves are on the change, autumn is here!  So it's time to get a hoof on with my Christmas cards, I'm absolutely determined this year to not have the usual last minute rush that takes all the fun out of it!

I'd coloured Snowy back during our heatwave and rediscovered him this morning.  I've used him with my MFT town die and my Paper Smooches hills die.
Snowy coloured with watercolour pencils, sparkle added to his scarf and hat and then popped up on foam pads.  Silver stars from stash.

• Allsorts #485 - create a scene
• Christmas with the Cuties #19 - cute snowman
• Get Creative #73 - lots of bling and sparkle
• Cute Card Thursday #547 - dies/punches

We'd another lovely sunny day today, it's just so nice being able to sit in the garden and have fun colouring!   I'd actually put away the seat pads of the chairs outside as I'd figured we'd had our summer, but hurrah, it's come back again!  Remind me I said that when I'm moaning that it's too hot in work LOL

This card is based on the last Library Challenge #9, I'm a bit late in playing as the new book is already up!
My scary bear is an olide from Stampin Up and the palm trees are from an MFT set.
Coloured with watercolour pencils.  The tree to the left and the bear are both popped up on foam pads.

• Creative with Stamps 27 - cute animals
• Love to Craft #23 - anything goes
• Sweet Stampers #21 - animals
• Penny's challenge #385 - anything goes

Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge

My brief for this card was to make a retirement card for a lady who runs a playgroup.

The first stamps that popped into my head was this oldie set from Stampin' Up  - I think it's called Kids at Play but I wouldn't swear to it.
I repeated the stamp at the top so it looked like a load of kids were peeping over the wall and then drew in a line to join them up.  Coloured with watercolour pencils and the 2 kids at the bottom were popped up on foam pads.  Background chalked through a brick stencil.  My grass border is an old Martha Stewart punch.  Little silver stars from stash.

• Stamping Sensations June - anything goes
• Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
• Dream Valley #181 - add some bling
• Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes

Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge

This card is for the current challenge over at The Library Challenge based on Brideshead Revisited.  Not a book I've read I confess, but I'll have to add it to my reading list.

I don't think I have any old car stamps so used this old Stampin Up truck and Dienamics town die.  I couldn't think how to interpret the white banner from the book, so just added some white splatters and white enamel dots instead.  Clear gloss added to the windows and truck popped up on foam pads.

• Allsorts #468 - Happy Birthday
• The Male Room #85 - cars
• CAS on Friday #133 - Birthday card

So this one's basically the same as last night but different!  The same workmate who wanted the Valentine's cards for his kids, asked for a silly Valentine/Birthday for his brother!
I've used used the Stampin' Up set again - added clear sparkle to the fish and then I sponged in the background through a stencil.  A few enamel dots and clear gloss to his eyes and hearts, and that was it!

• Seize the Birthday - anything goes
• Creative Knockouts #232 - Birthday Wishes
• Crafting by Designs February anything goes

I've a few special request cards to make - first up is these Valentine's cards for a work mate to give to his 2 girls.  I usually only make one Valentine a year for Greg, so I enjoyed making these :)

I've used a really old Stampin' Up set, I think it was maybe one of the first stamp sets I bought!
For this first one Elen is spelt right! LOL I just had to google my spelling there to check spelt was correct or if it should be spelled ;)

I used a Simon Says Stamp wave die and watercoloured through it by taking the paint off my pencil with a wet brush, didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped but think it looks kinda under-watery!  I went over my fishie with my clear sparkle pen and added some googly eyes. Little pink heart and sequins from stash.

• Happy Little Stampers February CAS challenge - add a heart
• JUGS #426 - love
• Addicted to CAS #129 - teal
• Fab'n Funky #380 - Valentine
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - it must be love

For my second one I added some stamped leaves round the edge, added clear gloss to his beak and gloss/glitter to the hearts.  Oh, and clear sparkle to the pink bit on his chest.  I also had to google what colour a toucan actually was.  What did we do before the internet?!!

• Crafty Animals #11 - anything goes
• Creatalicious #132 - love
• Creative with Stamps #23 - heart
• Love to Scrap #106 - I love you

I've decided that I've become boring and hardly ever try anything new ... so here's 2 new techniques from me tonight!

I loved Yana's card from a recent Simon Says Stamp hop using lots of little stamps, so thought I'd have a go.  I've had these bitty faces from The Alley Way Stamps for years and have never had a clue what to do with them!  I stamped one daft face in black, and added clear gloss and googly eyes.

• AAA Cards #106 - let today be the start of something new
• Allsorts #450 - no patterned papers
• As You Like It - anything goes

Just a quickie post tonight ... Peaky Blinders is on the telly, one of the very few programmes I sit down to watch properly!

This one is inspired by Kimberly's card over at the Muse challenge.  I've used an oldie Stampin Up image - coloured with watercolour pencils.  Clear gloss added to the windows and little mini gems to the flower centres.  The dotty line is a silver pen which I also used to colour the wheel hubs.

• Muse Challenge #244
• That's Crafty - green as main colour
• Seize the Birthday - monochromatic

Ha, would you guess this card was actually made for a paper piecing challenge? ;)  I started off with a different paper-piecable image, then changed the sketch I wanted to use, then changed the DP I had out, and then changed the stamp I used and forgot about the original intent!  So my paper peiced effort is .... that little heart LOL

My kangaroo is an old-oldie from Stampin Up - coloured with watercolours and popped up on dimensionals.  Pink paint splattered on the white cardstock.

• AAA Cards #83 - shape your love
• PINspirational challenge #183 - from the photo I used the pink / hearts theme
• Tuesday Throwdown #328 - love notes
• Love to Scrap #94 - who loves you baby
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - the colour of love
• Layout from Sketch Saturday #449 

We'd a gorgeous sunny and bright day today, a really perfect Autumnal day.  The leaves are starting to drop and are lovely and crunchy - some day when we win the Lottery I'd love to go to New England to see all those beautiful trees.  Our leaves are much more boring here!

This is another special request ... I've never made a wedding card with a red bride's dress before, but I think this is for an Indian wedding (or it might have been Chinese) not sure.  I probably should have had a bit of gold on it somewhere but it's too late now!  That'll teach me to google it before I make the card instead of after ;)
Image from Lili of the Valley.
 Coloured with watercolour pencils.  Clear gloss and glitter added to her white flowers.  Paper Smooches sentiment & alpha set.

• Creatalicious #100 - celebrate
• Cute Card Thursday #446 - anything goes
• Addicted to CAS #98 - watercolour
• Simply Create Too #119 - black, white and 1 other colour
• Love to Craft #3 - anything goes

Waaaa, Sunday night already!  It's got quite chilly here, there's a definite feel of Autumn about today.  I've got my cosy socks and fluffy dressing gown on, and all ready for the next expisode of Poldark.  A whole hour of drooling over Aidan Turner ;)  He's even nicer in 'real life' with his lovely Dublin accent.

Anyway, my first card is for an old lady who has sight problems, so I tried to keep it to nice clean lines.  I popped up a few of the flowers for a bit of dimension and added a matching butterfly - on purpose, it's not even covering a splodge! ;)
My stamp is from an oooooold Stampin' Up set that hasn't seen the light of day for quite a while.  coloured with watercolour pencils and some clear gems added to the flower centres.
I stamped the BG with an old text stamp, but can't remember the make.

• My layout was inspired by Gail, this week's featured stamper over at Splitcoast.  Here's her original.
• Less is More #294 - diamonds (in my flower centres)
• CASual Fridays #156 - dimension and bling
• Love to Scrap #85 - flower power

There's still time to play along with the Anything Goes challenge over at Naughty or Nice.
For the challenge mid-post I've used this oldie from Stampin Up (I think it's called Fishy Friends)

I coloured my little crab with watercolour pencils, covered him with Spectrum Noir clear sparkle and then added a couple of googly eyes for good measure :)
Red, blue and silver sequins from stash.
Alpha/ sentiment from Paper Smooches.

• Simply Create Too #113 - red white or blue
• Layout from Sketch Saturday #420
• Addicted to CAS #92 - stripes
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - flora and or fauna
• Creative Inspirations #255 - seaside

My card uses an oldie bear from Stampin' Up - not sure what make the sentiment is, and the trees are from Eat Cake Graphics:
7078-I Row of pine trees
Coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss added to his nose, teeth and eyes.

I found some wobble things when I had a recent tidy up of my stash, I've absolutely no idea where they came from but I totally LOVE them!  So my bear now wobbles just to be even more scary.  Ha. Not.

• MFT Camp Create Day 2 - sensational sliders: I don't have any slider dies and my craft knife is worse than useless, so I took the chicken-out option of making something move.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - animal magic
• Crafty Catz #328 - animal
  
• Tuesday Throwdown #298 - watercolour
• CASology #202 - masculine

Well our sunny sun returned today Hurrah!  And it was a scorcher!  Too hot for gardening and I only did a bit of crafting as the kitchen was the coolest room in the house.  Though I'm NOT complaining!


This card uses an old oldie from a Stampin Up set 'Fishy Friends'.  Coloured with watercolour pencils and his main body popped up on dimensionals and  then sparkled up with a Spectrum Noir pen.
Background chalked with a Simon Says stencil.  A doodled border and some sequins and bling to finish.  Nice and quick!

• Simon Says Stamp Monday - monochrome
• Crafty Cardmakers #165 - monochrome
• Cupcake Inspirations #363 - under the sea
• Inspiration Destination #88 - anything goes