Edenland Designs – Page 52 – Creative Stuff by Eden and Landons mom :)

edenlandSeptember 9, 20184 Comments

Autumn’s Whisper

Hi there!! It’s my turn again to share some inspiration for the current Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook group challenge 🙂 The theme for September is Autumn. There are so many beautiful autumn images in the CCK Etsy store, that a person really is spoiled for choice. For this particular card, I chose Autumn Whisper, and colored it with my Copics before die cutting the image out.

4 or 5 years ago, I was in a store, and found packages of “lace” paper. I had to buy one of each pack, and have used one or 2 sheets!!! I loved the colors on this particular sheet, as they are reminiscent of autumn, and perfect for the card. The only thing is, these lace sheets are intended for a 12 x 12″ scrap booking spread, and not for cards!! I cut the sheet down as best as I could in order to use it. I found this cool green ribbon piece in my stash, and used it to tie a lush bow and border the card with. I added some punched butterflies, die cut leaves and a beautiful Petal Lu flower to finish this autumn card off 🙂 I hope you can join us in the challenge, while the weather lasts!

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Craft-Dee BowZ – September ATG with a handmade bow

Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge– Week 36 ATG

Crafty Catz – #428 ATG with optional Add a Butterfly

The Corrosive Challenge – #9 September ATG

Crafting With an Attitude – #43 ATG

edenlandSeptember 7, 20188 Comments

Forget Me Not

Good morning 🙂 We have a new ATG challenge for you over at Creative Fingers, with a brand new sponsor!!! We are so THRILLED to say that Christine Karron is our sponsor for this month!!!!! 🙂

We have two packs that the DT has worked with, and that are up for prizes of the challenge, one grayscale, one lineart. Check them out on the blog, I promise, you will not be sorry!!! I chose the Forget Me Not Fairy from the line art pack, also available individually here. After printing her off (about 3 x 4″), I colored her up with my Copics.

I was so taken with the image, and so thrilled with the coloring job I did, that I wanted to keep the design relatively simple. I die cut a gold branch wreath, and some little blue flowers and placed them behind the image on some distressed and inked paper. All of this was adhered to some burgundy CS that I’d stamped and embossed the “Believe” and sprinkled some gold UTEE onto.

I’d like to enter this in the following challenges:

World Wide Open DT Challenge – #08 ATG

Stamping Sensations – I Spy With My Little Eye, Something Beginning with “B” —> Branch, Blossom, Blue, Believe

DL Art – September Linky Challenge

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG Week of September 4

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie – #102 4th Anniversary ATG

edenlandSeptember 3, 201813 Comments

Wonderful

Good morning!!! A bit of a rushed one here, but that’s another whole story that I won’t bore you with, lol. The exciting thing is, is that today is the reminder post day for the new challenge at the Aurora Wings Challenge Blog. The 2 design teams have switched, so the Aurora team is doing the reminder post, and the Stella team introduces the challenges for the rest of the year.

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The current challenge is a Sketch, on of my favorite types of challenge. And this sketch is a doozy…one that I have saved for future use!!! And heeeeere it is…………….

I used Orchids In the Rain (available HERE at aurorawings.com and HERE at the AW Etsy Store) and Orchid Corner (HERE at aurorawings.com and HERE at Etsy). I colored both images up with my Copics, adding some clear Nuvo drops to it to look like rain drops… It’s been a long time since I did a water shaker/gel shaker….so I set to work doing that for this project. I added the last bit of hair gel and some glitter to a bag, and had everything laid out, trying to figure the best way to assemble. I went to work and stopped for groceries on the way home. When I got home, I tossed my grocery bags on the counter, where my dog couldn’t get in them….well….they slipped, and I dove for them, caught them, and tossed the bag up….onto my project – more specifically, onto the darn bag of gel. It burst!!! Gel plus ink jet ink makes a big mess, and smears, and way more work for Susan!!! You’d think that that would teach me to do my crafting in the craft room, not the kitchen, right?? WRONG!! I did the second one in the kitchen as well, and will probably continue to do so, lol. Anyway, I digress. After I had the images colored again, and the card layers prepared with windows cut, I was ready to prepare the bag of gel (see, I was smart this time, I left the gel to the very end, so it couldn’t wreck everything!). Look back to where I wrote…LAST BIT of hair gel….in the first bag….oy!! I was not in the mood to run to the store to get more hair gel by that time!!! I had hand sanitizer gel, though, lol, so I used that 🙂 After putting things all together again, I added some silver dots and a silver sentiment, die cut from mirror CS. I so hope you can join in the fun at the AWCB with this great sketch, the possibilities are endless!!!

Here’s a few more shots of my project, to show some detail, and maybe the gel bag a bit better…

I’d love to enter this in the following challenges:

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge – #09 ATG

Crafts Galore Encore – #55 ATG

Morgan’s Artworld Open Challenge – #09 ATG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #89 ATG

Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge – Week 35 ATG

edenlandSeptember 2, 20187 Comments

Autumn Sunflower

Good morning 🙂 I just got in from taking my dog for a walk, and noticed that the leaves are starting to get a yellow autumnal tint to them. The temperatures certainly feel like fall, and the pumpkin spice craze is gearing up…..so I guess it’s that time of year 🙂 Which brings me to the theme of the brand new monthly challenge at the Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook group – Autumn. I used one of the new images available at Ching-Chou’s Etsy store, called Towards the Sunshine. I colored the image with my Copics, then fussy cut her out before placing her on a pretty oval shape that was die cut from brown CS.

I decided on a Double Dutch fold card, and, after making the card base, I added some autumn print DP to the panels. Because I wanted the sentiment on the inside (nope, didn’t get a picture, because my brain hasn’t been attached lately, lol), I was a bit stumped on what to embellish the panels with, without going overboard. I found a small wooden acorn embelly that went with the acorn on the DP, and added some color to it with Copics. I then addes some red adhesive dots before calling this card done!!

I’d like to enter this in the following challenges:

Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge – Week 35 ATG

Crafty Calendar Challenge – September: Unusual Folds

Mod Squad Challenge – ATG

DL Art – September Linky Challenge

Di’s Digi Designs Challenge – Fancy Folds

edenlandAugust 26, 20186 Comments

Daisy Birthday Wishes

Hi there 🙂 I have a friend who loves daisies, and it was a special birthday for her (60!). I’ve been eyeing up this sweet image from Di’s Digi Stamps for a while, but one thing or another kept coming up. Well, I made it a priority to do it this time, so printed this adorable image, called Hedgehog Popsy Daisy, and colored it with my Prismacolor pencils.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a fancy fold card, and I wanted to implement a pocket for a gift card in this, so I went to work, wrecking more sheets of paper than I’d care to say……This project was a bit more “math-y” than I’m comfortable with lol. When I finally got the folds and windows right, I started dressing things up a bit.

I’ve had the pretty pink daisy paper for quite some time, and this was the perfect card to use it on!! I cut the lacy corners with a Cheery Lynn corner die, the sentiment was cut with a die that I threw the packaging out before recording the brand….my bad!! The little white daisies were cut with my Cricut and Nuvo drops made the centres. I used a MS punch for a bit of greenery. I printed the sentiment on the computer and used the same shape die to cut it out as I used for the window. The gift card pocket is cut with the same die again, which I cut in half.

I’m super thrilled with the finished product, and my friend was too 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Di’s Digi Challenge – Fancy Folds

Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge – Week 34 ATG

Aud Sentiments Challenge – #210 ATG + a Sentiment

Cute Card Thursday – #54 Just for Girls

Classic Design Team Open Challenge – #8 ATG

edenlandAugust 26, 20182 Comments

Dragonfly Gift Bag

Well, we’re in our final week of August, so this is my last inspiration piece for the Recycle challenge at the Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook group. After using my Copics to color the dragonfly image from THIS set, available at Ching-Chou’s Etsy store, I added some silver dots around the edges with a gel pen. After all my talk this month about how you can recycle almost ANYTHING, I was at a total loss as to what to do!! That all changed one day at work, when my friend that owns the business next door came in to show me something, and before she left, left me a bag to throw out. Well, you guessed right, that bag was way too nice to toss, and was a perfect starting point for a recycling project!!! When I got home, I dug around, and came up with all kinds of things to decorate it with…ALL recycled!! The lace strip, I salvaged off of an old slip….who wears those anymore anyway?? The bow is something I dragged home years ago from a former job (they used to laugh at me for taking “garbage” home all the time)….it came off of a tag that we had to remove from some undergarments that we received….so I have about a bazillion little white bows. As I never buy buttons anymore, any loose button is, of course, recycled from something!!! When I was putting all of this together, I noticed that the dragonfly image was printed on the back of an “oops” printing….so I guess the paper is recycled as well!!! Even the tissue that I used for the photo is recycled from another gift! After being stumped, I’m quite thrilled with my completely recycled project!!!

I’d love to enter the following with this project:

PaperBabe Stamps Challenge – #80 ATG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #88 ATG

Lemon Shortbread Challenge – #74 ATG

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG for the week of August 21st

Tuesday Throwdown – #406 Up In the Air

edenlandAugust 26, 20187 Comments

Christmas Robin

Hi there 🙂 There’s a new challenge going at the Sheepski Designs Facebook Group!! As always, it’s ATG with a Sheepski image (found at the Etsy store), but if you’re stumped as to where to start, we have an optional theme….this month, it’s “winged things”. Andrea has a ton of images with wings…..from cars to butterflies to pigs……but I chose this sweet Winter Robin for my card. I’ve been making Christmas cards since January, so I don’t get caught in a panic when the season hits, and since it was +40C outside, I figured it was just the time to make another one, lol. I colored the image with my Copics, then cut it out with a Xyron stacking die.

My mojo was going strong up until this point…..then poof!!! Gone!! I had no clue what to do next! I muddled around with papers and dies until I came up with this. I used a curvy edge die on the warm red print piece, then a Tim Holtz holly die to decorate the blue. I took my white gel pen and made the snowflake pattern behind the holly to match with the red paper, then cut a silver Merry Christmas sentiment to coordinate with the silver ball accents. I was pretty happy with the end result, considering Mr. Mojo took off on vacation at the most inopportune time!!!

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge – #400 Christmas ATG

12 Months of Christmas Link Up – #44 Add Some Greenery

Christmas Cards All Year Round – Use Warm/Hot Colors on Your Project

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge – August ATG with Patterned Paper

ABC Christmas Challenge – P, Q, R are for Plain, Quotes, Rabbits and ROBINS!

edenlandAugust 19, 20189 Comments

Sparkles Galore

Good morning 🙂 It’s my turn again to inspire you for our Recycle challenge at the Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook group 🙂 Since I never throw anything out (just in case, you never know if it can be made into something pretty!), I have lots of choices when it’s a challenge of this theme 🙂 I started this project with an empty notecard box. I loved the shape and the construction of it!

I started by painting the whole thing with gesso, then got the lovely piggy pink paint out. Not a pink person, but I had a special little girl in mind when I started this project 🙂 I was having huge issues with anything drying because of the humidity….but I persevered and got ‘er done 🙂 I colored the image, Rainbow After the Rain, with my Copics, and cut it out with a Wonky stitched rectangle die. I glued it to the top of the box, then attached (not very) adhesive rhinestones around the edge. I had to add some Glossy Accents to the rhinestones, as they just didn’t want to stick. A few pink daisies, centered with more rhinestones, and the top was done 🙂

I had some pretty lace that I wrapped around the sides of the box, then added a pretty rhinestone clasp. For the inside, I found a mirror in my stash, which I edged with the same not sticky rhinestones that I used on the outside. I added a few of the daisies for a pretty touch. For the bottom, I took a piece of pink fabric and a piece of sparkly tulle and wrapped them around some quilt batting to make a pillow for a necklace for a sweet girl who loves anything sparkly!!

We would love to see your project, using a beautiful image from Ching-Chou’s Etsy store!! You can recycle anything….cardboard from a cereal box, string, ribbon from a top (the ones that are on the inside to help keep it on the hanger), or anything else that someone else may have thrown in the bin 🙂

I would like to enter the following challenges with this:

World Wide Open DT Challenge – #08 August ATG

A Perfect Time to Craft – #08 ATG for August

Morgan’s ArtWorld – August ATG #08

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG for the week of 8-14-18

Time Out Challenges – #116 Bright

edenlandAugust 12, 20189 Comments

Upcycled Paintbrush

Hi there 🙂 It’s Sunday, which means that it’s my day for inspiration at the Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook group! Our theme for August is “Recycle” – it might sound hard at first, but it’s seriously easy….just reuse something….cardboard, tissue, jars, string, ribbon…..you get the hint 😉 I salvaged an old, used paintbrush for my wall hanging. It was on the way to the bin, when I scooped it up, as I’d seen some paintbrush projects on Pinterest, and never had a brush. I selected this image, available in the Circle Oriental Kimono Lady set. After coloring the image with Copics, I set it aside while I went to work on the brush. I randomly wrapped some cheesecloth and pearls around it, then added some yellow and blue seaweed-y type stuff. I popped the image over this with some foam, then added a gold seahorse that I diecut with a Sizzix die 🙂 I had so much fun making this, I’m going to be on the lookout for more paintbrushes, so I can make more!! Here’s some pics of different angles 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following challenges:

Stamping Sensations – August – Use Your Favorite “current” stamp (I looooove Ching-Chou’s images, and these elegant kimono ladies are just so pretty)

Classic Design Team Open Challenge – #8 August ATG

Morgan’s Artworld Open Challenge – #08 ATG

Southern Girls Challenge – Stamp Your Mark On It with Team Lou

Lemon Shortbread Challenge – #73 ATG

edenlandAugust 11, 20185 Comments

BBQ Buddy

Hi there!!! After a few technical difficulties, the brand new ATG challenge at Creative Fingers Challenges is finally starting 🙂 Technology is a wonderful thing, as long as it’s working!! Our wonderful leader, Angelique, is sponsoring this time, with this fabulous stamp and die set!

What a wonderfully versatile set this is!!! I chose to use an image from one of our regular sponsors, Bugaboo Stamps. I colored the image (found here) with my Copics. I cut a few strips of yellow with a stitched banner die, but cut the fishtail ends off when I layered them on the bright star background. I stamped a sentiment, then matted all the elements with a red CS, before popping some bright star shaped buttons on to finish it off 🙂 A bright and cheerful card for a barbecue aficionado!!

I would like to enter this in the following:

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge – August ATG with Patterned Paper

Catch the Bug Challenge – August ATG

Crafting With An Attitude – #42 ATG

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG week of 8-7-18

The Crafty Addicts – #51 ATG/ All About Boys/Men