Evening all
Just posting my card for the DCM dare.
This week Jane has set the challenge to use pins on our cards and I have chosen a teeny little safety pin to hold the tag on this card I have stamped using a clear stamp set just released by Dovecraft in the Laura Ashley Collection.
I started off with a humungous puzzle piece from a kiddies jigsaw which I have sanded down and coloured with various inks....the green isn't quite so vivid IRL that was just how it scanned.
I then stamped with the first text stamp I put my hand on which is from the Aspects Of Design Nautical set.
The butterfly image from the LA set was then stamped in Brilliance-Pearlescent Poppy. I wrapped the ribbon round and then pinned the tiny stamped tag on....... and boy was that fiddly to do or what?
The centre of the card was masked off at four inches and a border coloured with inks and stamped.
I'm off to look at everybody else's dare cards now.
Ta ta for now.
Sheila-x-
The new weekly challenge is posted now over at TandaStamps
This week the challenge is to use blue and butterflies.
If you decide to take up the challenge, let us know by leaving a comment and a link to where we can see your work.
This is the card I have done for the challenge using a TandaStamps background stamp but you don't have to be a stamper to join in......anything goes.....we just love to see what everyone comes up with.
Have fun
Sheila
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-
Evening all
