Cybercrop challenges

There’s been a cybercrop at Svensk Scrapbooking this weekend, and I manage to complete four of the challenges

Wednesday is Gazelle day at Bumblebee

Every Wednesday me or my DT-friend Bea posts a new Gazelle-related project at the Bumblebee blog. This week I’ve been playing around with fonts. I created this initial card for my son

The font is Goudy Initialen, and to my surprise it was not vectorized! So there was some fiddling before I got it to work as a cutable picture. I cut it about 18×18 cm in black cardstock and mounted it on a shiny silver colored very thick cardstock, almost like chipboard.

Cards and altered at CropStop

A card just for inspiration on using punches in the CropStop Forum

The border is made using a Fiskars border punch, the lantern is cut with the Gazelle using a dingbat font, and the glass in the lantern is vellum, embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

It was my turn for the challenge this week, which is to alter something on the theme “time”. Read more here.

I used a cigar box – I get them for free at our local tobacco shop – which I painted with Crackle Paint. Unfortunately it chipped! I didn’t think of the glossy paper the box was covered with! So I went over the painted areas – very lightly – with Beacon Liquid Laminate, which seemed to seal the crackle paint on the box. But now it got all shiny… So I decided to cover it all with another crackle paint – Tarnished Brass – and got a lovely structure!

Next step… Papers… K&Co Ancestry was my choice for this. The edges are distressed with edger and Distress Inks in several hues depending on the color of the paper.

Decorations! Yep, love those! A Maya Road chipboard Celtic Knot, painted with Crackle Paint and very lightly with Distress Inks over that.  The MR key is painted with Crackle Paint, Tarnished Brass. The clock stamp is Heidi Swapp, embossed with Ranger Gold, the musical paper is of unknown origin, I worked hard with the Distress Ink – Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain – on that. Various paper flowers and a page pebble covered with Alcohol Ink. A few lampworked beads on a piece of jute yarn.

The inside paper has been misted using Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and a Glimmer Screen from the Tattered Traveler collection. A Tim Holtz gamespinner, a few “chinese” coins, a mother of pearl shell and some pictures I downloaded from internet. Done!

It now contains my most recent toys that I got from CropStop the other day…

Have toys… Will play… See you later!

Cupcakes in the Christmas Tree?

With all the fun decorations that can be bought nowadays, why not make your own cupcakes for the Christmas tree?

The Cupcake Wrapper and Poinsettia are BossKut dies, available from Bumblebee, or download directly from BossKut for your Gazelle. The cupcake is made of a Christmas bauble, covered with relief paste, the cherry is made of polymer clay and the chocolate icing is 3D-liner.

And one more, this for the table

For more inspiration on what to use the Gazelle for, check out the Bumblebee blog and forum!

It’s officially fall…

… which means it’s perfectly OK to start with Christmas cards and decorations!

I started off with these two, a 3D snowflake and a Christmas Wreath

Both are made with the Gazelle, and finished in a flash!

There’s a lot to make with this lovely machine, if you want to read more about it go to Bumblebee for the Swedish version, and BossKut for the English one.

There’s a challenge at the Bumblebee blog, go check it out! Amazing things to win!