Hey peeps!
Get me, two cards in two days! Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up :)
Today I have a card for the Fusion card challenge. I consider it to be a 'fusion' card as I used the chalkboard element from the inspiration image and loosely used the sketch...that's where the layout started anyway...I hope you can see that!?
Here is the inspiration board...
...and my little card...
Can you see the sketch?! I kept the banner and exchanged the flower for a circular snowflake-y element. I have had this stamp for years and I think this is actually the first time I've used it on a card...shame on me! I 'adjusted' the panels too...they're still there, just in a different proportion to the sketch ;) I kinda ad-libbed with this card, I had a vague idea in my head when I started and then just made the rest up as I went along...I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out too which is always a bonus!
The sentiment is embossed in WOW's White Twinkle embossing glitter which is GORGEOUS! However, due to my lighting set up still being the same as it was the last time I tried to take photo's of sparkles you can't see that! I tried taking a close up photo but it really didn't show anything so it wasn't really worth posting...I tried though! Thinking about it, I should've embossed the tree using the same powder, it may have added a touch of elegance...maybe I'll make another one that's more sparkly! ;)
Thank you for stopping by guys ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black
Stamps: Inkadinkado - Doodle Frames Holiday; Papermania - Let It Snow; Verve - Glad Tidings
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Opaque Bright White, White Twinkle; Spellbinders - Classic Edges One; rhinestones
Hello guys and girls!
Tomorrow is my cousin's son's birthday and I made him a card based on this week's Muse challenge. This week the Muse guest designer is Lynn Mangan. If you don't know Lynn already (which I'm pretty sure everyone does!) then you need to get yourself over to her blog - she's just amazing!
Being as I had to come up with a card for a boy, I was so pleased when I saw Lynn's muse card...it was perfect!!
Here it is...
..and here's my card...
As you can see, I kept it pretty much true to Lynn's original, I just swapped out the flowers for balloons - I don't think a 9 year old boy would appreciate the flowers somehow!!? ;) I love the 'Polaroid' frame look!
I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with for this challenge, it's very much open to interpretation and I bet there'll be some really out-of-the-box corkers for this one :)
I hope Charlie has a fantastic day :)
Thank you for stopping by guys ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Navy, Bright Red, Sky Blue, Daffodil, Citrus Orange, Apple Green
Stamps: Stamping All Day - Art Deco Birthday
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Opaque Pastel Blue e/p; jewellery wire; white pencil
Hey!
I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend...I certainly have :) I would like to say thank you to all you lovely lovelies who have stopped by my blog and left comments, and also to those who just came for a nose! I appreciate that you still stop by even though I've been MIA :) I love blogland, don't you?!
I was snooping checking out some blogs the other day and I saw this one by Ardyth. It has occurred to me that Christmas, in crafting terms, really isn't that far away and that I ought to get my finger out of my 'nose' (I thought I should be polite!) and get some Christmas card making underway. I haven't participated in the Festive Friday challenge before so I thought I'd give it a go :) The challenge this time is to make a Christmas project using the colours pink, white and silver. I LOVE non-traditional Christmas colours so I was in there like swimwear!
How pretty is that inspiration picture!!? I hope those are little square 'biscuit-tiles' (yes, I just made that up) because they look scrumptious...almost too good to eat! :)
Here is my pink, white and silver Christmas card contribution...
Once again, my inability to photograph glitter has let me down and so unless you zoom in on this picture you can't see the sparkly sparkles on my snowflake :( If you don't want to/can't click on it then you'll just have to take my word for it that it's there. I'm still not sure about this card...one minute I like it, the next I'm not sure? Maybe it'll be a 'grower' - I hope so :)
Thank you for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Pink Sorbet; John Lewis - silver tissue mesh paper
Stamps: Penny Black - Crystalline
Ink: VersaColor - Old Rose
Other: WOW! - White Pearl e/p; Spellbinders - Parisian Motifs, Create A Flake 3; glitter glue; rhinestones
Well hello there!
I have missed you all and I have missed sitting at my desk and being creative!! But today I had the opportunity to cram some card making into my life and I feel so much better for it :)
I haven't been completely cut off from goings-ons in blogland, I still get my email updates even if I haven't had the chance to visit you all. Through my emails I was aware that the Curtain Call Challenge is back! Now, I never played the first time round and I'll be honest, it was on the peripheral of my blog challenge radar as I was a complete blogging novice at that point. This time though I am going to join in!
This challenge couldn't have been more perfectly timed for me. The inspiration is 'Feeling Nautical'. This weekend just gone a friend of mine told me that she had passed my details on to a friend of hers who is getting married; she's planning a nautical themed wedding. Like I said - perfect timing! I have SO many ideas for this theme, however very few stamps etc that relate to anything remotely nautical, so for now I am working with what I have but it's a situation that will be resolved promptly!! Any excuse to shop hey?! ;)
The Design Team have done a fantastic job with their samples for this theme, I am in awe :)
Ok, enough babble, card time!
...I have started with the obvious...blue, white, red, gold, stripes and a little 'star-fish' (?!) The sentiment is embossed in gold (I don't know how well it shows in the picture?)
Like I said, I have LOADS of ideas for this and I am hoping to find the time to turn them all into reality before the deadline, but to be honest I'm pleased to have made a card and posted it! I have made a few cards for challenges recently but ran out of time to post/enter them! That's more frustrating than not making one in the first place don't you find?!
Thank you, as always, for stopping by...I do appreciate your support especially given my intermittent posting of late :) I'm really hoping I'll be here a bit more often ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Navy, Bright Red
Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps - Big Day Essentials
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Metallic Gold Rich; rhinestones
Hello peeps!
I hope everyone is well :) I am here today with some exciting news! Some good friends of mine from University, Jemma and Tom, have FINALLY got engaged!!!! Whoop whoop! I am so pleased for them! They have been together since our last year at Uni, which was a whopping 7 years ago now! Yup, feeling a bit old!
I admit, I did get this news a little while ago and it has taken me an AGE to get this card made - partly due to a lack of opportunity, but partly because I wanted to make something that was just right. It has been such a long time since I saw either of them :( I hope to catch up with them at some point soon :)
Anyway, that's enough nostalgia...here's the card...
Jemma has always been a turquoise gal so I tried to incorporate this into the card. The colours are loosely based on a Play Date Cafe colour board from a while ago. I didn't get to participate, but I LOVE the colour combination and wanted to use it anyway :)
It doesn't really show well in the photograph, but the sentiment is embossed in silver and IRL it looks all shiny and special :) I really hope that Jemma (and Tom) like this card. When she let me know about the engagement she said, and I quote... "I expect a place on handmade by Sian!!!" Ha ha! Here you go Jems! :) I had no idea that she followed my blog so I was doubly pleased and I am honoured to have her on here!! :)
Miss you Jemma! :)
Some more happy news is that I was one of the winners over at Catered Crop last week so I get the honour of being part of the Quickfire on Sunday line up - woohoo! The challenge this week is 'So Shapely' and is all about using die cuts and punches. This is a wonderfully ambiguous starting point and it will surely bring out something different in everyone - I can't wait to browse the entries! So, this card is my contribution to this challenge with the border and the flowers all being die cuts :)
Thank you for stopping by today, and always ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Grey, Pale Turquoise, Teal, Raspberry Pink
Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps - Big Day Additions
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: Spellbinders - Classic Edges Two, Classic Decorative Inserts Three, Anemone Flower Topper;
WOW! - Silver super fine e/p; pearls
Hi guys!
How are you all? It's been ages again hasn't it...I hope you're all well :)
I am here today with a few cards, all based on the same layout. The first one is the birthday card I made for my other half's son's birthday this Thursday just gone...
His favourite colour is yellow, so as you can see I ran with that. Also, this ties in nicely with CASology's cue card for this week, which is 'Yellow'. It's been such a long time since I was able to join in at CASology, I'm really pleased I had a chance this week!
As it is Father's Day today (Happy Father;s Day to all you Dads out there!) I have two cards, one for my Dad and one for the Father-In-Law (maybe he'll be my actual father-in-law one day, but I consider him to be my second Dad already :))
My Dad's favourite colour combination has always been blue and orange. Whenever he made scale model aeroplanes he always made them in blue and orange...
Once again, my stamp collection is seriously lacking and I don't have a Father's Day stamp of any description, so the pen and ink came out to finish this bad boy off! Thank you for all your comments last time about using a Versamark pen so that I could emboss my hand written sentiments...I did give it a go. Unfortunately, with calligraphy you require a flat tip nib (width to suit) and the Versamark is obviously round tipped so no matter how hard I tried, the effect didn't turn out quite right :( So I am still on a mission to find a liquid embossing ink that I can dip my nibs into like I do with the coloured ink...I may have to email Versamark!! :) I am entering this card into the Recipe Swap over at Catered Crop this week - the theme being 'For The Boys'
The Father-In-Law's card I made in black and white...
I'll admit, I made a mistake here. My Father-In-Law is an avid supporter of Tottenham Hotspurs having grown up in Tottenham and played for the youth team back in the day. I'm not a big football fan and have only seen the Spurs kit at a glance if it's been on the TV. I thought the colours were black and white - they're not! Their colours are NAVY and white, so I think I can be excused for getting it wrong! When I found out it was too late to make another card in the right colours so I had to leave it - maybe next time Richard - sorry!! It doesn't matter too much though as he didn't know that's what I was aiming for in the first place :)
That's all for today...I am hoping to get some cards made by the time the weekend is out although it hasn't gone well so far! I miss posting and being in blogland with you all! You'll be glad to know that the training of my other half to cook dinner is going well...he did try to cut his finger off when we were at work at the beginning of the week though so he hasn't been able to cook, or do much else, all week or I would've had a chance to sit down and craft! Oh well, he's on the mend now and hopefully his finger won't take too long to heal so that I can get out of the kitchen and back to my desk :)
Thanks so much for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Yellow Card:
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Grey, Daffodil, Primrose
Stamps: Stamping All Day - Art Deco Birthday
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: Thread; rhinestones
Blue and Orange Card:
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Grey, Sky Blue, Citrus Orange
Stamps: NONE!
Ink: Windsor & Newton - Light Blue
Other: Thread; rhinestones
Black and White Card:
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Grey
Stamps: NONE!
Ink: Windsor & Newton - Black
Other: Thread
Hello!
I cannot believe it has been a whole YEAR since the birth of my darling other half's granddaughter. Although she is not strictly my granddaughter, I am known as 'Nanny Sian' apparently which makes me so happy :) (She is my granddaughter as far as I'm concerned - she's too adorable!) Unfortunately DOH's eldest son and little family live in Australia so we have yet to meet little baby Madison, or not so little now as it would seem!
As we can't be there, this time, I have made her a card...of course! Obviously, she is only one, a card is going to mean very little to her. This in mind, I wanted to make something that would interest her, if only for a minute of two! I have seen some people making shaker cards lately, and while I never thought I would make one myself...here we are!
Shaky, shaky!! I am hoping that Madison will enjoy the fact that this card is slightly interactive and should keep her entertained for a moment or two :) As we all know, I am NOT a pink person, but even I quite like the pinks and purples on this card - it's all girly! I wanted the seed beads to reveal the number 'one' showing her age.
I got the original idea to make a shaker card from Laura Bassen and this card, and more obviously was inspired by this card by Amy Wanford - the queen of the interactive card!! Thank you ladies! :)
So, here's wishing a happy first birthday to MY granddaughter! We'll meet you soon darling!
Thanks for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Pink Sorbet
Stamps: Verve - Hope Blooms
Ink: VersaColor - Magenta, Old Rose; Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Ebony e/p; acetate; seed beads; rhinestones
