Hey!
Firstly, thank you everyone for such a warm welcome back! In all honesty, I wasn't expecting any comments on my posts as I've been out of the loop for a while and thought it might take me a little while to get back into the groove again, but you gals have taken me back with open arms and I love ya for that, thank you!
Anyone noticed a theme running through my posts so far this year?! I have birthday cards and wedding card to make this month too so I promise they won't all be thank you's!
The WOW! Embossing Powder challenge to use fabric inspired me to delve into my bag of remnants and actually use them for a change! So yes, I'm back with another fabric based card.
This one is for my little bro, I just hope he likes it :)
As you can see, I used four different fabrics to 'fill' the die cut circular holes. It's not very obvious from this small photo, but the red fabric in the top right corner is velvet and I defy anyone not to stroke it! The rings around the velvet circle are popped up on foam adhesive too to give the card a bit of dimension. I'm pretty sure that I physically CANNOT make a card without foam adhesive! The sentiment is an NBUS stamp and I was so pleased that it was just the right size to fill the gap on the top left! I have to admit to not having really planned this card out at all, I just kinda cut a bunch of circles in it and then shoe-horned the design around it - probably not the best technique and it made it a lot more challenging to finish the thing than it should've been...but then that's the whole idea...right?!! Not something I'm going to be repeating soon if I can at all help it! :)
I also have another card to show you...this little sausage slipped through the net the other day when I was posting my Christmas cards...not entirely sure how but there you go!? I can only assume it's my age...I have a big birthday approaching this year (as does DOH actually) and so that must be the explanation! Enough blabbing, here it is...
This is another one that I made having been inspired by a challenge (Retro Sketches) but sadly missed the deadline due to my international absence. Not to worry, I enjoyed making it anyway! I love embossing on tracing paper (I have run out of vellum and found that actually tracing paper behaves in more or less the same way and is cheaper - bonus!) it doesn't seem to lose it's shape as much as cardstock and I like the translucency it creates :) A strip of glitter card and some glitter glue on the snowflake made it sparkly enough for Christmas! :)
Thanks for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card One:
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Bright Red
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Chit Chat
Ink: Ranger - Perfect medium
Other: Spellbinders circle dies; WOW! Ebony e/p; fabric remnants; rhinestones
Card Two:
Card: Paper Mill direct - White, Black; Papermania - Silver glitter card; tracing paper
Stamps: Papermania - Let It Snow
Ink: VersaColor - Silver
Other: WOW! Silver Super Fine e/p; glitter glue; Spellbinders - Create-A-Flake 3
Howdily doodily peoples!
Can you believe it...I have posted three days in a row now! Woohoo! I'm hoping to keep it up, but I'm more realistic than to think life won't throw something at me that will get in the way of daily blogging - doh!! Ah well, make hay while the sun shines and all that :)
I'm back with another thank you card and using the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch again too actually! This card is also inspired by the challenge over at WOW! Embossing Powder this month which is 'Fabric'. I'm lucky, my brother's hobby is tailoring...yep, you guessed it, I get all the off cuts! He he :) He has recently set up a Pinterest board actually, if you fancy having a snoop then go for it, he's very good and there's quite an amusing photo of him looking mischievous! :)
Here is what I came up with...
I took three different fabric off cuts and wrapped them around pieces of card...my OCD's will not allow too many frayed edges, I just couldn't cope with that! I then adhered them to the white panel and added some stitching in silver. The lines of stitching look a bit skewiff in this picture, they're not in real life...my OCD's would not allow that either!! I heat embossed this lovely thank you sentiment in WOW! Primary Indigo powder. I actually overheated it a bit in the middle (I burnt it!!) and it kinda went a slightly pinky colour but I like it - two tone embossing :) Some pearls and mats and I was done...that makes it sound like it was a quick card but alas no! I am just glad to be back crafting :)
The challenges:
Thank you for stopping by, as always ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Lilac
Stamps: Flourishes - With Gratitude
Ink: VersaColor - Violet
Other: WOW! - Indigo e/p; pearls; fabric remnants; silver thread
Hello there!
It's been a while hasn't it!!? My absence has been due to technical internet issues I'm afraid - I don't know how I've coped without it for so long?!! Two weeks is way too long! Also, during this time my iPhone decided the best thing to do would be to delete ALL of my contacts! I was horrified! Luckily I managed to retrieve them - phew! I have now realised that I should back my phone up a little more often - apparently it hadn't been done since November 2011 when I got the phone - whoops! I am a little concerned about how much my life depends on all this technology and how lost I am without it!
Anyway, enough of all that! Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who still stopped by my little blog and left so much love and encouragement during my absence - I did manage to receive a few emails intermittently throughout my internet-less time so that was lovely :) I am planning on visiting you all very soon!
Another wonderful thing that has happened (possibly given away by the title of this post!) is that I have the opportunity to be a Guest Designer over at Catered Crop this week! Woohoo! I was one of the three winners of the Make An Impression Recipe Swap :) My first ever GD spot and I'm so excited!! Another great big thank you to Lyndal for introducing me to this challenge ;)
Some shameless boasting there, sorry! I'm just too excited! The Recipe Swap this time round is 'Fabric of Friendship' - how fab is that?! I have a bag full of fabric remnants from my brother and a friend of my sister who is a seamstress so this was the perfect opportunity to use some unfairly neglected fabric!
Here is my contribution to the challenge;
I have to say, I was part way through this card when I thought 'wouldn't it be lovely to have a sewing machine!' My fingers were somewhat sore after this! (I had done some sewing for another three cards previous to this one and my paper piercer makes the holes slightly too large so I have to use my needle - after 100 holes or so it really starts piercing through your finger with the eye end! Ouch!)
I had an image of how I wanted this card to look in my mind, as we all do. When I was part way through, I really didn't think it was going in the right direction, however I persevered and it actually ended up just how I wanted it!! Phew! I like that the fabric and the stitching looks a little messy (for me anyway!) that was the soft touch I was going for :) If my brother doesn't see it on here first, I think this may end up as a birthday card for him!!
I can't wait to see what the other GD's and the DT come up with, not to mention all the participants too - the last challenge was jam packed full of beauties!
Thanks again to Linda for this opportunity - you've made this girls week! :)
Thanks for stopping by everyone, I'm hoping to be back a little providing that the internet behaves! Ciao for now ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Sky Blue
Stamps: Stamping All Day - Art Deco Birthday
Ink: VersaColor - Silver
Other: Fabric remnants; thread, WOW! - Silver Super Fine e/p; sore fingers!!!
