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DCM - Wishi Washi

It’s Jo’s turn to set the challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers, and she’s chosen ‘Wishi Washi’.  She wants us to use Washi Tape on our cards this week.

Well, I had all intentions of buying some tape – I even saw some in Liberty’s a few weeks ago that I thought I’d pop back and get, but somehow I just didn’t and ended up with a bit of a dilema about how to make a card without any!  Luckily Jo had some ideas for how to make your own by printing onto tracing paper.  Whilst rummaging in my stash for tracing paper, I came across some vellum that had a gold music note print, and I decided to have a go with that instead of printing something.  It worked really well, and is definitely something I’d use again – it’s nice to be able to see the patterned paper underneath shining through.

It’s a shame it doesn’t show well in this pic – but the little frame around the text is actually embossed in a lovely pearly green powder called Sea Mist Pearl.  It looks much nicer than the murky brown in this pic!

Shabby Tea Room – Sparkly and Bright

This week’s challenge at the Shabby Tea Room is ‘Sparkly and Bright’.  Using this photo as inspiration, to create a card with white/cream, silver and a splash of pink.

I used a digi stamp from Scrapbook Stamp Society, coloured with Promarkers.  I stamped the background directly onto the card with Sterling Silver embossing powder, then added some Papertrey die cut borders and a chipboard flourish which I coated with some more silver embossing powder for real sparkle.

Hearts and Flowers

The latest challenge over at the Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge blog is ‘Hearts and Flowers’.  I decided to use this lovely digi stamp called ‘my hearts just for you’.  You can buy it here.   I wanted to go for a subtle colour scheme rather than the obvious pinks and reds, and I decided to use my new ‘stitches’ stamp set from Papertrey to create a nice background on kraft card.  The little heart border is also from Papertrey – my fab friend Chris sent me a few die cuts last week, and I coloured this one in the same pink as the hearts she’s holding. 

DCM – Kitchenalia

It’s Kathy’s turn to set the challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers, and she’s chosen -

 Kitchenalia!
As we've just started work on remodelling some areas of our house, including knocking the Kitchen and Utility rooms into one space, kitchens, and all things Cookery are very much on my mind at the moment. So these are the things I'd like you to incorporate on your card this week. I'd like to see kitchen and cooking themes - but not just cupcakes, though of course you can add some of those into your design if you wish.

I couldn’t find any inspiration in my stamps so I started looking on Etsy for some suitable images and found this cute little girl with her mixing bowl and spoon.  To go with the vintage theme, I added some vintage style papers, doily, some seam binding and a little silver heart that I think was part of a necklace.

My fabulous teamies have come up with some brilliant takes on this challenge, so pop over to the blog to have a look.

Fly Away Hearts

Well I’m starting to get ready for Valentine’s Day.  I haven’t quite decided what to do for Andy’s card, but he absolutely loved the Papertrey border card I did recently (because it’s all straight lines and he’s even more OCD than me!), so I might do something similar in reds for him.  In the meantime, I’ve got  some gorgeous images from Scrapbook Stamp Society to play with, some of which are just perfect for Valentine’s Day:

 

Isn’t this a gorgeous image?  It’s called Fly Away Hearts.  I coloured the image with Promarkers, then I created the heart background with some white core card and a Sizzix texture plate.  I sanded the card to highlight the hearts.  The lovely ‘Smooches’ stamp is from Papertrey, and I finished off the card with some pretty pearls and bakers twine.

Vintage space theme

I was asked to make a 40th birthday card this week for a guy that likes rugby and space.  Hmm a tricky one.  After much googling of vintage rugby posters to no avail, my fab DCM teamie Zuzana found me some fantastic vintage space printables which were just perfect!

I printed off some Pink Petticoat papers from the vintage star range, and matched the blue to the one on the space paper.  I love these vintage star papers, they’re very like some of the Cath Kidston patterns I love and just ideal for this masculine vintage feel.  I cut the numbers out with a Fiskars template then added some glossy accents to make them nice and glossy.  I covered a chipboard button in the same paper then added a little tiny tag stamped in broken china.

Let’s hope he likes it!

I’ve been playing with some fabulous new images from Scrapbook Stamp Society so I’ll be back later to share some of those.

It’s been a lovely sunny but cold weekend in London, and we’ve had the best time.  Yesterday we popped to the National Gallery for a wander (and to look at the same pictures that we always do!)  My favourite is a Stubbs painting of a horse called Whistlejacket, and Andy loves to look at a set of two paintings by Edouard Vuillard.   We both also love looking at the impressionist section – I never bore of looking at those fabulous Monet’s and Van Gough’s Sunflowers.  It amazes me to stand in front of such famous and well known paintings.  It’s funny, when I first met Andy he said he hated art galleries – now I usually have to drag him out or we’d be there forever – I’ve definitely converted him!  After the gallery we went for a stroll past Downing Street and Big Ben, across the river and past the London Eye before hopping on the tube home.  Last night we went for a Thai meal at a local restaurant.  A perfect Saturday!  And now I’m having a relaxing Sunday, just crafting.  I’m so lucky :)

Papertrey Make It Monday #48 - Creating Backgrounds with Border Dies

This week’s challenge over at Papertrey Ink is to create a background for your card using border dies.

I decided to use just one border die but add interest by graduating the colour, and rather than just a flat colour I decided to use some Pink Petticoat tiny polkadot paper. 

The stamp is from the PTI Taqs for Spring set and to tie in with the warm colour scheme I used WOW olive embossing powder for the leaf circle and pomegranite ep for the text.

DCM - Miraculous Social Networks

It's Zuzana’s turn to set the challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers and she has chosen:

MIRACULOUS SOCIAL NETWORKS

She would like to see Facebook, Twitter, Skype, You Tube ... on your cards.

You can use funny sentiments, colour scheme, fonts, style, layout or PC image.

Well, I have to say this one had me well and truly stumped.  I don’t use twitter or skype, so decided to think about how I could use Facebook to come up with an idea.  As it’s Valentine’s day soon I thought I’d use the relationship status bit from Facebook to make a Valentine’s card:

The heart is hand cut from chipboard then covered with some Pink Petticoat paper and edged with glitter.  The paper is some 12x12 sheets I have had for absolutely years so I was pleased to finally find a use for them!  I tried to replicate the font and colours from Facebook for the text and I personalised it by adding mine and my boyfriend’s names, and the date we met.  How sweet is that?! 

18th Birthday boy

My nephew is going to be 18 in a few weeks time so I thought I’d better start on his card as I knew it might take some time – oh how I hate doing boy cards – especially teenage boy cards, that’s doubly hard :)

I thought I’d go for a bit of a grungy style:

The background is stamped using the free Star stamp that came with Craft Stamper magazine a couple of months ago, then I flicked some watered down white acrylic paint onto it to grunge it up a bit.  The label dies are both from Papertrey and I put the greeting in a painted grungeboard bookplate which I then added a bit of gold metallic rub-on to highlight the texture.

My next job is to make a 40th card for another man – oh dear…….

Shabby Tea Room – Vintage Boudoir

This weeks challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room is Vintage Boudoir, using this photo for inspiration and incorporating a sewing theme.

I love the colours in this inspiration photo and quickly found some background papers that worked.  I used a Pink Petticoat sewing machine digi image, and coloured it in similar shades, then added a bit of glamour dust to the flowers.  I then added a bit of faux stitching, a vintage button and some lovely pale turquoise pearls.  A friend of mine has just had a back operation, so this card is on it’s way to her.