Return to Frostvale

Today the Lady Commander of Copics and I travelled to Frostvale to see how their sparkle fields were faring this season. With Christmas on the way, the realm was soon to be in need of a vast amount of the powdery glitter. Upon arriving we were surprised to see that the “white beast” that had given them some problems last year had since procreated. The little white offspring was frolicking merrily amongst the townsfolk of Frostvale, who were all too happy to stop and snuggle him.

I started this card by stamping the Penny Black “Snow Kiss” image and, borrowing my sister’s weapons, coloured it with Copics. Being that those aren’t my usual battling sticks, I was surprised when it didn’t turn out hideous and managed to earn me +80 Copic-y exp points. I added some glitter to the girl’s hat for some extra sparkle damage. The card base was cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge and embossed with the Cuttlebug. I stamped the sentiment using the My Pink Stamper “Christmas Wishes” set. Last I added the blingy snowflake and some small gems to the centers of the red stars.

On the inside I cut the shape out with the Art Philosophy cartridge and stamped the sentiment using the “Christmas Wishes” set again.

The envelope was stamped with some little snowflakes using Lawn Fawn’s “Making Frosty Friends” and “Winter in the Park” sets.

This card will sparkle in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Penny’s Challenge #151: Add Black or Bling

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #293: Sparkles

Jingle Belles: Not a Creature Was Stirring

CHNC Challenge #149: Bling it Up

Catch the Bug November Anything Goes Challenge

Allsorts Challenge #231: Christmas Cheer

A Gem of a Challenge #104: Christmas is Coming

CAS-UAL Fridays Challenge #119: Embossing

Penny Black and More November Challenge: Anything Goes

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #34: Have a Beary Christmas

One Crazy Stamper November Christmas Challenge

CHNC Challenge Extra for November

Penny Black Saturday November Challenge: Sparklers

Christmas Cards All Year Round November Challenge: Winter Wonderland

We were pleased to see that the villagers were living in harmony with the friendly bears and seemed to have created a symbiotic living arrangement. After spending the afternoon playing with the cute little bundle of white fur and snuggling the heck out of him, Angela and I took our leave and headed back to the Guild Hall laden with bags of sparkly harvest.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

Have My Cake & Eat It Too

Today Olga, one of our house gnomes, approached me wondering what flavour of cake I wanted for my upcoming name day. I assured her that a cake was quite unnecessary, as my lord husband and I were not having a name day celebration for me this year. “But my lady must have a cake!” she squeaked. “It’s tradition!” She walked away muttering to herself about the importance of upholding traditions and cursing my “stubborn nature” under her breath. I had a feeling there would be a cake for me come Sunday, despite my protests. Suddenly inspired by all the dessert talk, I went to the crafting chambers to create, snagging a brownie on the way.

I started this card by colouring The Greeting Farm’s Birthday Anya, wielding the Lady Commander’s Copic markers. This earned me +148 Copic colouring exp, allowing me to level up. My sister will be so proud. I then cast a bravery spell which allowed me to cut up my Bo Bunny “Sweet Treats” paper *gaaaaaaaaasp*. I know...I didn’t think I’d ever cut it either. I do believe that my lady mother bestowed that paper upon me on my last name day! I stamped some hearts using Lawn Fawn’s “My Silly Valentine” onto pink cardstock, cut them out, glued them on, and covered ‘em in Glossy Accents. This made them look more candy-like. The sentiment I stamped using the My Pink Stamper “Family & Friends” set. Lastly, I broke open the roll of brown and pink ribbon that I’ve also had for quite some time, and used it to finish off the front of the card. Brown and pink are my favourite colours together. In fact, I have a brown and pink Paul Frank hoodie that I’ve had for eight years and the sleeves have holes in them, but I can’t fathom getting rid of it because I love the brown and pink so much! But I digress...

On the inside I used the Dylusions “Bordering on the Edge” set and stamped the whooshy things. I stamped the sentiment using My Pink Stamper’s “Birthday Crazy” set.

I subtly stamped the same whooshy swirliness on the envelope in light pink.

This brown and pink card will sweeten up the following challenges:
TGF Farm Fresh Friday Challenge: Use Ribbon and/or Lace
Love to Create Challenge #51: Let’s Celebrate
Penny’s Paper Crafty Challenge #113: Ribbon and Bows
Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Have a Heart
Simply Create Too Challenge #30: Valentine’s Day (Or Hearts)
Challenges 4 Everybody Challenge #13: Anything Goes
Spark Your Creativity Now! Challenge #6: Anything Goes
Crafts and Me Challenge #119: Your Favourite Colour Combo (pink & brown!)
Anyone for Anya February Photo Inspiration

Crafting For All Seasons Challenge #45: Colour Inspiration


After spending so much time in the crafting chambers surrounded by images of cake, I immediately changed my mind and flew down the stairs and headed straight to the kitchens to find Olga. As soon as I burst through the door she smiled knowingly at me, “I knew you would come ‘round,” she said, her face splitting into a huge grin. What can I say...I like cake.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

A Photo Finish

In two days time it shall be my lord husband’s nameday. I scoured the market square searching for a gift to bestow upon him. He truly is the most infuriating person to shop for and I was quickly becoming frustrated by the process. As I was about to make my way back to Guild Hall empty-handed I spotted an old man painting portraits using a combination of fairy dusts and unicorn blood as a medium. I don’t think I could’ve asked for a more unique gift idea. Surely my lord husband would enjoy a mystical painting such as this.

I started this card by stamping Ian and Anya from The Greeting Farm’s “Special Autumn” set. I’ve never used Ian before and was excited to finally ink him up. I coloured them both with *shudder* Copics from the Lady Commander of Copics weapon rack. I do most of my colouring in Prismacolors, so I was a little out of my element. I did manage to earn myself a colourful +109 Copic exp points with this though. The sentiment on the "Polaroid" came from the same TGF set. I then stamped and cut out the word balloon using an Imaginisce stamp and added the Happy Birthday sentiment. I painfully cut up some of my cute monkey paper because his nickname for me is "monkey", so I thought is appropriate.

The inside sentiment is from the My Creative Time “Wow! So Many Candles” set.

This card will be in for a photo phinish in the phollowing challenges:
Penny Black Allsorts December Challenge: It’s Your Choice
Simon Says Stamp Challenge: What’s Your Favourite (TGF stamps are my favourite stamps!)
Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge #106: Something New (these TGF stamps are new to me)
Challenges 4 Everybody Challenge #9: Anything Goes
Love To Create Challenge #45: Anything Goes
Spark Your Creativity Now! Challenge #4: Anything Goes
Card Crafter’s Circle Challenge #52: December Celebrations
Retrosketches #41
 
As I was packing my painting onto my horse, Ruffles, an old crone approached me whispering in a strange tongue. I’m not sure as I’m not 100% on my fairyspeak, but I’m fairly certain she was cursing me for purchasing the mystical painting! Great...now I have a curse to deal with.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

Holly, That's Risque!

As I was strolling through the Market Square in the village last night, finishing up some Winter Festival shopping, I spotted a lady of the night peddling her wares from a dimly lit corner. In an attempt to be festive, she had hung some mistletoe and holly plants from the eave above her. This unsightly display did manage to provide some needed inspiration for a recent crafting quest that was thrust upon the Crafters Guild - to create a “sexy” Christmas card. Warning: this is not your grandmother’s Christmas card!

I started by stamping Kraftin’ Kimmie’s “Raychel” and colouring her with Copics. Eeech...not my best work. I am not well practiced wiedling the Copic, but I did still manage to earn +70 Copic exp points. I will need much much more to level up that skill. Hopefully the Lady Commander of Copics will be able to assist me in that endeavor.

*Ahem* moving on... I added some glitter to her dress to make it more fancy (like the holiday dresses you see in the stores this time of year...you know the ones...you try them on and you have glitter all over your face and hair for the next eight days). Somewhere I could hear the Guardian of Glitter's heart smiling as I shook those sparkles on!

I cut out some holly from the Art Philosophy cartridge and used a white gel pen to jazz them up. I hung one of the holly pieces with some red thread and left it “dangly” above Raychel’s head. I embossed the red piece of paper using the Cuttlebug and stamped the sentiment using the Dylusions “Christmas Words” set.

The inside “sexy” sentiment I just made up and printed off my computer. The Happy Holidays was stamped from the My Pink Stamper “Christmas Wishes” set. I added some holly in the corner from the Tim Holtz “Christmas Memories” set, inking it using Distress Markers.

I also stamped the same holly on the envelope to tie it all together.

This “too hot to handle” greeting will be tossed into the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #246: Red and Green
Paper Playtime Challenge #90: Christmas Colors
Card Crafter’s Circle Challenge #52: December Celebrations
Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge #137: Red and Green
Die Cuttin’ Divas Challenge #94: Holiday Spirit
Jingle Belles: December to Remember
One Crazy Stamper December Sketch or Holiday Challenge
Dream Valley Challenge #47: Christmas
Hooked On Craft Challenge #27: Christmas
Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge #158: Sketch

The “sexy” Christmas card successfully created, I was able to call this QUEST COMPLETE! Phew...now to go cool down...

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

The Glide Boots

Today the Lady Commander of Copics and I went to the market square to purchase some new winter equipment. After taking stock of what we had, it seemed we were lacking some key necessities. We came across a stall where a fellow was selling unusual looking boots with blades attached to the bottom. I asked what purpose they served, as they were obviously ill suited for walking. With a smile he simply gestured behind him. There was a frozen pond behind the man and across it a girl was gliding as if dancing on the ice. I watched mesmerized as she was able to slide across the frozen water without slipping and sliding. I looked at Angela who nodded once. Turning to the man I purchased two pairs of the Glide Boots.

I started by stamping one of the images from the Penny Black “Christmas With Mimi” set and colouring her with Copics, warming the Lady Commander’s heart. I then stamped the tag from the Lawn Fawn “Bows and Holly” set. I then used a skill never before attempted and heat embossed the sentiment on the tag. I earned myself +203 heat embossing exp points and leveled up!

The inside sentiment was stamped from the My Pink Stamper “Biggie Christmas Sentiments” set.

I stamped some snowflakes on the envelope to make it all wintery, just like the card.

This skate-astic card will be entered into the following challenges:
Penny Black Saturday November Challenge: Cute Christmas
Tammy’s Scrapin’ Corner Challenge #38: Let It Snow
Pixie Dust Studio: Winter Holiday Creation
Dream Valley Challenge #46: Non-Traditional Christmas
Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything Goes
The Corrosive Challenge #163: Anything Goes
Hooked On Craft Challenge #27: Christmas

It turns out the Glide Boots aren’t as easy to use as the girl on the pond made them look. Angela and I will spend the remainder of the evening practicing as I feel they will come in handy in our winter quests once we get the hang of them.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

A Polar Bear's Tale

Today the Crafters Guild was dispatched to slay a giant white beast who was terrorizing the ice village of Frostvale. We donned our winter gear (in which the Lady Commander of Copics was already clad due to her unreasonable affliction to the cold), armed ourselves, drank some mana potions, packed some elixirs and mounted our horses for the journey to Frostvale. Upon arriving it wasn't immediately clear what the danger was. We could see no visible damage to any of the huts or market stalls. It wasn't long before we spotted the massive white bear in the sparkle fields beyond the town. 

I started off by colouring the "Bear Hug" image from Penny Black using Copics, causing the Lady Commander of Copics great pleasure. I used a scrap piece of that snowflake paper left over from another card for the background. I then used some scraps of that "glitter" paper and cut them into even rectangles. I used a snowflake Cuttlebug folder and embossed the pieces. A couple brads, and the front of this puppy was done.

For the inside I used the last scrap of that snowflake paper and a small bit of some leftover seafoam paper to stamp the sentiment on. I earned +98 neatness points with this card for using up so much scrap paper.

I stamped a pretty snowflake design onto the envelope, since I thought it went with all the other snowflakes on this wintery-fresh card.

This chilly creation will be entered into the following challenges:
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long Challenge #32: Anything Goes
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge: Scrappy Christmas 
Crafty Hazlenut's Christmas Challenge #94: Snowflakes 
Creative Card Crew Challenge #21: Birds
Penny Black Allsorts October Challenge: Animal Magic

It turns out the gentle bear wasn't trying to create havoc in the sparkle fields of Frostvale; he was just trying to gather some sparkles to decorate his cave for Christmas. The Guardian of Glitter  bestowed a sack full 'o sparkles upon the cute bear so he wouldn't have to ravage Frostvale's sparkle fields any longer. Once again, the Crafters Guild save the day (and the sparkles)!

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

The Paperweaver's Preview

Welcome to the Guild Hall. Today we were paid a visit from the local Paperweaver. He stopped by to give us an advanced look at the various patterns of paper-wrapping he will be weaving for his shop this holiday season. The Lady Commander of Copics and I like to coordinate our holiday cards with the wrapping paper of the gifts, and his visit gives us some advance time to prepare accordingly. He also gave us a new spell scroll that supposedly can turn any colour of paper into a plaid pattern. You do need a rather high die roll to cast it successfully though, so it may be a bit before we see it in use.

I stamped the "Gift of Giving" Penny Black stamp and coloured it up with Copics under the direction of the Lady Commander. I am not well versed in the art of the Copic, but I suppose it wasn't a complete failure and it earned me +79 Copic exp points. Since she was holding a piece of post, I thought she needed a mailbox to put it in. I stamped that from the Lawn Fawn "You've Got Mail" set.

That house image was embossed using the Cuttlebug and cut out. I honestly can't remember what set that sentiment came from as I borrowed it from one of my guildys.

I also crafted a matching envelope for this card.

I shall be entering this card into the following challenges:
Penny Black Saturday September Challenge: Buttons and Bows
Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything Goes
Stamping for Pleasure September Rudolph Day
ABC Christmas Challenge: S is for Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Penny Black Allsorts September Challenge: Early Christmas Makes
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round September Challenge: Christmas Presents

Angela and I wasted most our mana trying to cast that darned spell. As you can see, we did get it to work though and changed the red background into a plaid one. It's a good thing the Guild Hall is well stocked on mana potions. The elixirs however...those still seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

Legend of the Tea Fairies

Ahhhh...what is more comforting than a nice warm mug of tea? Here at the Guild Hall, we stock many different flavours, some coming from as far away as the ancient realm of China. Imagine my surprise when I wandered into the kitchens to prepare a cup for myself and discovered a tea-fairy in our Hall! These fabled creatures were thought to be extinct, the last siting being over a century ago. I quickly hailed my sister, Lady Commander of Copics to the kitchen. Unsurprisingly, she squealed in delight upon seeing the tea-fairy, asking if we could "keep her". I assured Angela that the tea-fairy was not a pet that we could just slap a collar on, but if she chose to stay on her own accord, I wouldn't object. This little encounter also inspired me to create a card, and I rushed to my crafting chambers to get started.

I really loved making this card! I love pairing pink and brown together and the teal colour matched nicely. I used my brand spanking new Stamping Bella stamp and coloured her using the Lady Commander's Copics which gave me enough experience points to level up my colouring skilllz. The patterned paper with the mugs on it was from my stash that I've been hoarding and too scared to cut because it's so cute. It's from the Bo Bunny "Sweet Tooth" line. My mother bestowed me with a bunch of papers and embellishments from this line on my last name day and I haven't used a single one yet because they're too cute to cut. I earned +34 bravery exp points for chopping up that sheet of paper *sob*.

The little tea bag stamp and sentiment were from my Lawn Fawn "My Cup of Tea" set. I also used some stamps from that set for the inside of the card. I love this set, and the elements from it will combine nicely from my "Coffee & Tea" set I have by Crafty Secrets. 

I also made a coordinating envelope for the card, netting me +16 combo points. Again, I used that same Lawn Fawn set to stamp the image on the envelope.

I humbly offer this creation to the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash Challenge # 61: Something new (Stamping Bella "Tabitha The Tea Cup Girl" stamp is brand new) 

Use It Tuesday Challenge #36: Uncut Paper  (The "mugs" patterned paper at the bottom was painfully cut from my Bo Bunny Sweet Tooth paper) 

Simply Create Too Challenge #18: Use It Two Times

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge #4: Favourite Colours 

Simon Says Challenge: Anything Goes!

Cardz TV Design Team Challenge #12: Anything Goes

Well in the end, the tea-fairy did decide to stay in the Guild Hall, and has been beating the Lady Commander at Mario Party for the last half hour. How she is able to use the controller with such tiny hands is beyond me...

~ Guild Master Crystal ~ 

Welcome!

The Sisters of the Crafters Guild would like to welcome you to our corner of the internet and ask you to join us on our adventure to gain experience tokens through crafting and level up our abilities. 

Today we spent the day listening to video game soundtracks while getting inky by stamping out some images and colouring them with Ang's Copic markers. Sometimes it's nice to take a break from all the glue and glitter and just relax with a plethora of vibrant colours. 

Guild Master Crystal gained +15 experience chips by practicing her Copic colouring skillz with the Lady Commander of Copics. We'll save our stamped and coloured images for future projects.

Here's a sneak peek of some of Angela, Lady Commander of Copics colouring spoils.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the dungeon, Guild Master Crystal was slaying some Christmas themed stamps in preparation for the Crafters Guild Christmas Card Craft Crop (try to say that three times fast - haha) next Saturday, where the Sisters will be joined by Nikki, Guardian of Glitter, for some Christmasy dungeon crawling.

Thanks for stopping by our Guild Hall. We'll keep you updated on our next crafting quest!

~ Guild Master Crystal & Angela, Lady Commander of Copics ~