Hey peeps!
I am popping in with a little card for the Fusion challenge today...talk about last minute hey?!! That's just how I roll ;)
Once again, I decided to go with just the sketch. Don't get me wrong, the colours and the flowers from the inspiration image were wonderful, but there was no way I was going to be able to make them look anything other than an experiment in achieving the ugliest recycling paper! I am aware of my limitations and sometimes it does just as well to stick within them as it to push them :)
Here is the fab Fusion sketch and image for this/last week...
...and here is my card...
This card is another one that is destined for my Mother's address. Her friend is moving at the end of the month and she asked if I could make a card for her. Now, I am aware that there is no mention of 'new home' or even an image of a house anywhere on this card, but I think it is a cause for felicitations. Her friend has been trying to sell her house for over a year and it has finally happened! Too tenuous? I don't know - I'll send it to Mother and see what she says...I still have plenty of time to make another one when she says that this one won't do! ;)
I had a bit of fun with this card...you see those outer rings? They have been heat embossed with glow in the dark embossing powder! Te he! The inner circles have been embossed with clear gloss embossing powder. I thought they looked like little planets and that it might be fun if a card on someone's mantel piece was to glow in the evening! (I think this cold has gone to my head a little more than I first thought!) I did try to take a photograph of it 'glowing' to no avail...I was not impressed. Danielle Daws made this card and she seemed to be able to capture the 'glowing'...my photo's just came out black :( I'd love to blame the camera, but only a bad craftsman blames his tools. You can see in Danielle's photo what it look like in the dark though :)
ETA: Lyndal kindly pointed out that this card would also qualify for the challenge currently on over at Catered Crop so I'm popping it in there as well! Thanks girl! :)
Thanks, as always, for stopping by...your time and comments mean a lot to me ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Bright Red
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Big Day Additions
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Glow-In-The-Dark, Clear, Metalline Red e/p; Spellbinder - Large and Small Circle Dies;
Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots e/f; Tonic - duo corner punch
Hey peeps!!
How are we all?! Good I hope :) Hello to my new followers, I'm glad you could join me! I hope that you enjoy my blog and I can keep you interested with my posts...I shall certainly try! ;)
My brother came down to visit us this weekend which was lovely! I haven't seen him for a few months which is strange for us as he ordinarily comes to visit at least once a month or thereabouts. So, it was really good to catch up and drink some wine! Hence, no blogging or card making of any description over the weekend. I have had a chance to sit at my desk today though, after the clean up!
I have made a card using this weeks sketch for CAS(E) this sketch...I have taken a little liberty though, only a little one...I hope that's ok?! ;) I'm so rubbish at sticking to the rules! I hope you can still see the sketch in there!
Here's the sketch...
...and here's my card...
...you see...I replaced the three cascading tags with one label, but my redeeming feature (as I see it anyway) are the three pearls placed vertically down the solid strip ;) This card took on a life of it's own if I'm honest. The blue/green blended strip was actually an off cut from this card I made last week. Because I am a messy crafter (I hate to admit this, but it is so true that I just cannot deny it!) this off cut happened to be left sitting on top of a black piece of card and a grey piece, which made me think that they looked pretty good together! I guess that makes this an organic card...maybe?! ;) I decided to go with the clear matt embossing on the background again because I liked it so much last time I did it :)
I am also going to enter this baby into CAS-ual Fridays Birthday Bash as it is still open and this is a birthday card! They're going to be sick of seeing my name pop up on the linky's - sorry girls!! :)
So there we are..another day, another card :)
Thank you ever so for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Grey
Stamps: SU! - En Francais; Stamping All Day - Art Deco Birthday
Ink: Ranger - Perfect medium; Distress Ink - Broken China, Crushed Olive
Other: WOW! - Clear Matt Dull, White Opaque Super Fine, Metallic Blue e/p; Spellbinders - Labels 1;
pearls
Hello!
I have followed the Runway Inspired Challenge since Jennifer first started it way back in November 2011 - I can't believe it's been so long!! It's an absolutely brilliant idea and completely different from any other challenge out there as far as inspiration is concerned. I love Jennifer's work, and that of the design team and to be honest, they're all so good that I have been a bit too daunted to join in for fear of not being good enough! The level that Jennifer, the design team and the participants of this challenge are at is way beyond me - however, this time around the inspiration photo was just so gorgeous that I couldn't resist making a fool of myself! He he!
I absolutely NEED this dress in my life!!!...
...I mean...drool!! How stunning is that dress?! I am going to have to find one like it as I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to afford the original, not in a month of Sundays! Although, if my darling brother is reading this...I'd like one of these please!! (My brother is a hobby tailor, a very good one at that! So Jack, get on the hunt for some of this material and we'll call it a birthday and Christmas present! ;) )
Anyways; black, white and red is one of my favourite colour combinations...EVER. You always end up with something classy...hopefully! Here is my attempt...
I know the dress has a floral pattern, but a lot of the other entries had flowers on and I wanted to be different! I'm pretty pleased with how this came together, especially as I made a landscape card! I'm not sure I've made one this way round before?! It doesn't really show in the photograph, but the sentiment is embossed so that it stands out a little from the background. I'm also pleased with myself for biting the bullet and jumping in the deep end :)
Thanks for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Big Day Additions, Fancy Flourishes & Scallops & Dots
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium; SU! - Black
Other: WOW! - Ebony e/p; pearls
Hello!
I am here with my entry for the Dynamic Duos challenge this week which is a gorgeous combination of black and grey, with a dessert option of a masculine card.
When I saw these colours together I thought 'there are gonna be some real stunners this week'!! I was right :) I also thought, however, that I'd come up with something right off the bat...er...wrong! It's ok though, because I'm quite pleased with the card I did create :)
As per usual, I don't think you can get the full effect of this card from the photograph. It looks quite plain here, but in real life it's quite tactile. The background script is embossed in the awesome Clear Matt Dull powder from WOW! Embossing Powder - I love this stuff! It gives a completely different effect than normal clear embossing - obviously! It feels kinda soft and I think it's quite elegant :) I received my new embossing powders this morning (my prize for winning WOW!'s challenge in February with this card) and I cannot wait to give them a go!
I don't know if this counts as a masculine card because of the pearls and ribbons, but I'm pretty sure there are some guys out there who wouldn't mind that! ;)
I am also entering this into the CAS-ual Fridays Birthday Bash challenge. I hope Michele is enjoying her birthday and all the birthday love! :)
Thanks for stopping by, you guys are great! ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Grey
Stamps: Stamping All Day - Art Deco Birthday; SU! - En Francais script
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Clear Matt Dull and Silver super fine e/p; Spellbinders - Labels 18; Crafty Ribbons -
Mist seam binding; pearls
Hey!
First off - Happy St. George's Day to all my fellow country folk! :)
Now on to my post proper;
...the Fusion Challenge
Despite the gorgeous inspiration image and the very pretty sketch, I struggled a bit with the Fusion experiment this week. The problem was that I had an idea in my head and for the life of me I could not make it translate onto a card! Partly because I didn't have the right tools, but mostly because I just couldn't work it!
So...I decided to go with just the inspiration image - it's stunning!
...and my card...
...what do ya think? I'm also entering this into the challenge over at Addicted To CAS this week as the code word is FLOWER.
This is going into the CAS-ual Fridays Birthday Bash challenge too :)
Thanks for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White,Black, Raspberry Pink
Stamps: Verve - Elegant Flower Plain Jane; Stamping All Day - Art Deco Birthday
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Ebony and Silver Super Fine e/p; rhinestones
Hey!
I'm here with another post for today...I'm just bursting with ideas this afternoon and I am determined to make the most of it after the very long and drawn out period I had with absolutely NO ideas or mojo whatsoever!
That's not to say that the cards will be any good...I'm just having lots of ideas pop into my head!
This is another one for the scrumptious sketch over at CAS(E) this sketch - hence I'm posting twice in one day - I don't want to miss the deadline!
...the sketch...
...the card...
I think maybe I am still suffering the after effects of Olympic fever...?! I didn't get to go to the Olympics when they were here last summer, I did watch much of it on the television though and it was nice to see London buzzing more than usual! :)
Slight tangent there...I know this card isn't strictly like the sketch, but hopefully you can see where I'm coming from. This is another card to go in the parcel for my Mum - I hope she knows someone with a sense of humour else this card may be one of those that sits in the drawer for a long time!! :)
Thanks for stopping by, especially if you have done so twice today! ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black
Stamps: Stamping All Day - Stain distress; Papermania - Celebration
Ink: Distress Ink - Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade; Papermania - Yellow pigment ink; VersaColor -
Green, Cyan, Indigo, Violet; SU! - Black
Other: Thread; rhinestones
Hey guys!
How is everyone?! You all had a good weekend I trust? Mine turned out much more eventful than I expected, so that was a nice surprise :)
As the title implies, I am here with a card for the awesome sketch by N@Ali over at CASE(E) this sketch. As soon as I saw it I knew EXACTLY what I was going to do. I had planned to get it done over the weekend, but as I said, I ended up being much busier than anticipated and ran out of time. I thought I'd check out the CAS(E) this sketch blog this morning and someone else has already submitted a card that was almost identical to my idea, so I had to come up with something else! My card is along the same sort of lines as my original idea...just slightly tweaked and much more labour intensive!
Here's the fabulous sketch...
..and here's my little card...
Originally I had intended to make the rainbow striped out of strips of coloured card...but that's been done! (I'm so last week!!) Instead, I thought I'd measure and pierce a billion holes and sew some little zigzags of rainbow goodness! As I had used stitching for the vertical stripes, I decided to pop a little black banner up on foam tape and make it sparkly for the horizontal element.
As I started to do the sewing on this card, I realised that I didn't have any orange thread and the green thread I had was kinda dreary and not really the right colour green. So...I dyed some white thread with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink for the orange (obviously!) and VersaColor green pigment ink for the green. I am a SMIDGE impatient, so waiting for the thread to 'dry' was not fun...not fun! Worth it to not smear ink all over the card though :)
PS - I would like to apologise to any of those who may have been offended by my use of the word 'diddling' the other day - it was pointed out to me that it indeed does mean something different to you guys on the other side of the pond! Over here, it just means 'how are you doing'! Note to self: DO NOT use colloquialisms on my blog - it's international!! Sorry guys :(
Thanks for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black
Stamps: Verve - Hope Blooms
Ink: SU! - Black; VersaColor - Green; Distress Ink - Spiced Marmalade
Other: Thread; rhinestones
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