Well it's taken me forever to get around to making one of these but at last I have had a go......yay!!! It was so much easier than I thought it would be. I found the instructions on Splitcoast Stampers and they were very easy to follow.
The stamps I have used are a new set from Prima called Build A Frame by Iron Orchid Designs. It's a very useful set as it has seven 5.5 inch long borders in various widths including music, lace and text, four good sized corner stamps and six smaller stamps for backgrounds.....all for £19.99...brilliant value for money.
Colouring is chalks which has then been glittered in places with Stickles. I'm not at all happy with the peeloff greeting but I had mounted it all up before I decided to add a greeting and couldn't stamp one.........hey ho......I shall know next time won't I?
We have some snow at last........a sprinkling on the shed roof, the top step leading up from the garden and a smidgeon on the patio......not as much as I would have liked seeing as the moorlands all around us have apparently had a foot of snow.....unless that is hubby trying to wind me up with his tales......lol!!!
Right well I am off to make up another sample card for the class tomorrow and then I had best get some sleep.
Bye for now
Sheila-x
Here is the card I made the other day but couldn't show. It should have reached it's destination and been opened now.......hopefully.
Paper is All Around The Block. Image is from a sheet by Kanban. I cut around the figure and layered it onto another piece of the background paper, edged it with a black pen and then matted that onto a piece of black card. Music is peeloffs.
Well not much snow to report. I did get a bit excited at about 9am when we got some big fluffy flakes. It snowed for oooooooooh all of two minutes. While I was at work we had a good old hail storm and then two more minutes of snow when I got home......how mean is that eh? I almost begged a customer to take me home with her as she has snow at home in Canada........six feet of it!!!
I'm off Easter Sunday so I'm going to have a lie in for a bit before I make a start on designing something new for the ladies on Tuesday. Not a single idea in my head yet but I'm hoping it will come together later.
Off to beddy byes now.......night night.
Sheila-x-
Been a very busy girl this morning and have completed my cards for both the Tanda Teaser and The Daring Cardmakers challenges.
First up is the Tanda Teaser Va Va VROOM which has been set by Wendy who challenged us to make a card using anything with an engine. I thought I would have a go at doing a childs card and have used my Thin Cuts Monster Truck die and my new CuttleKids Tadpole alphabet with the addition of some doodling for the edging and on the letters.
Next is the DCM challenge. It's All In The Game is Sue's first challenge......it's brilliant Sue......thank you.
The challenge is to make a card with a game theme so I have chosen Chess. The board is made from two colours of the alcohol ink backgrounds I did last week which were chopped into 1" squares. The chess piece is a stamp by Rubbadubbadoo.
I have made this card for Judy NZ so that she could see the alcohol inks on the nasty mirror/holograph card as she expressed an interest in it.
Inside the the card is this gift for you Judy
Just to say thank you for your kind comments and encouragement.
Well it's a gorgeous day here.......bright sunshine but a very strong wind and quite nippy. I am hoping for but not expecting the promised snow.......at least then I won't be too disappointed if we don't get it...........lol!!!
Off to tidy up my desk as I made the biggest mess doing these two cards.
Bye for now
Sheila-x-
Just a really quick blog post tonight. Hubby is not well and I am very worried about him as he is never ill apart from the odd cold or stomach upset. This seems a little more serious than either of those although he insists he is going to work today. If he is no better in the morning I am going to be doing some insisting of my own and will make him go and see if he can get into the docs as an emergency. He does have an appointment but the earliest I could get him in is the 28th March.....if it wasn't so damned unfunny I would laugh.
So not had much time for cardmaking tonight just a couple of quick cards one of which is up yonder. A black and white photo with the background trimmed out which has then been layered onto bright pink card and embellished with flowers and gems.
The other I won't be able to show for a couple of days as it has been sent out for someone's birthday and I don't know if they visit my blog or not.
Bye for now
Sheila-x-
Here's what I have been up to today.
I've put the job of topping up on anniversary cards off for so long that I have made the job worse and ended up having to make more than I usually can stand to do in one sitting. So tonight I have come in from work and made a batch of these 50th and have started on 40th. I've never been a huge fan of dry embossing......mostly due to the length of time it took to do with a lightbox and stylus but the Cuttlebug makes it so easy......and makes a simple card look soooooo posh. This flower folder is my favourite at the moment but only until I get my hands on the spotty one. Unfortunately ours haven't arrived from the supplier yet as they are out of stock.....boo hoo!!!
Yesterday we had a guy at home with a JCB levelling off a piece of land at the back of our house to prepare it for a hard standing for parking. We have pure clay soil here so with the heavy rain we had yesterday........we now have a swimming pool at the bottom of the garden. Don't fancy a dip in it though......it looks decidedly murky. DH and the dog have tramped clay mud all up the path and through the house so I will have to find some time to get the shampooer out and clean the kitchen and lounge carpets.....as if I'm not busy enough.........bloomin' men and dogs....lol!!!
Hugely disappointed that Dancing On Ice has come to an end and not happy with the result as I really wanted Chris to win........even though Suzanne was fantastic. What am I going to do now on Sunday evenings.........that is about all of the TV I watch in a week and I can't really settle to see a film through at the minute as I get fidgety after about 20 minutes. I haven't seen a good film for ages. I think the last one we watched was the second Elizabeth one which was a load of pants compared to the first one. I want to see Atonement and I Am Legend which we'll buy at the end of the month so until then it will have to be season three of Grey's Anatomy on the computer for the twentieth time.
Well I best get off and do some work.......I have to bag up these cards and finish off the 40th's before I go to bed.
Nighty night
Sheila-x-
Well it's taken me forever to get around to making one of these but at last I have had a go......yay!!! It was so much easier than I thought it would be. I found the instructions on Splitcoast Stampers and they were very easy to follow.
