Monday 25 July 2011

Christmas in July?

Hello everyone,

I hope you are enjoying the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop - there are some beautiful cards on display, so I recommend hopping over.

I have a card to share for the Stamp a Faire Challenge no 10. I wasn't able to play along on Saturday but it seems the last challenge was delayed, so I could have a try today. "The challenge is to add a stamped focal point over a stamped background, all in the same layer! There is really a lot of opportunity here for some fun mixing and matching!" I decided to make my first Christmas card of the year for this one:-


I used Snowfall to stamp the background, Believe for the tree and Snowflake Serenade for the sentiment, all stamped on Spring Rain card. All these stamp sets really do mix well. I'm also going to enter this card into the Christmas in July challenge at Paper Creations , Craft your Passion, and Crafty Creations .
Thanks for looking.
Hugs
Carol x

PTI Blog hop

Hello everyone,

I hope you have had a good weekend and are looking forward to the week ahead. I really wanted to take part in the PTI Stamp-a-faire event on Saturday but we we had tickets for the Tatton Flower Show so I was unable to get inky or look at the great samples the team produced. I did however get our order in and so have some lovely goodies to look forward to.



Today is the PTI Blog Hop and the challenge this time was to use this photo as inspiration for a project


Isn't it gorgeous with all those rich colours and pretty patterns, and I've always wanted a window seat! I decided to take my inspiration from the butterfly cushion and the colours which I interpreted as Orange Zest, Ocean Tides and Aqua Mist. I didn't get time to join in the Make it Monday challenge last week to use a dry brushing technique with paint so I wanted to have a try with it on this card. I used a variety of flower stamps and stamped them in Fresh Snow onto Ocean Tides card stock and then dry brushed white acrylic paint around the edges. I layered this onto orange zest card with a strip of orange zest twill, and stitched around the edge to resemble a square cushion.

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For the central panel, I cut a mat stack die out of Aqua Mist and used stamps from Round and Round to build up the circle and butterflies. I couldn't resist adding another little tag from Teeny Tags to finish the panel off and I found a little brad that was an exact colour match!


I used a best wishes sentiment because I can then personalise the inside of the card with birthday or get well greetings. I'll stop there so that you can move on to all the other entries. Happy hopping and thanks for looking in.

Hugs
Carol x










Saturday 16 July 2011

Waltzing Mouse Stamps Birthday card

Hello everyone,


I hope you are enjoying your weekend and doing something you want to do instead of chores. Its the 17th so its Waltzing Mouse Stamps Blog Waltz, and the theme this month is 'birthday'.

I had very good intentions about the waltz this month and I was going to make a set of birthday party items but my mojo is still AWOL and I only managed a simple card


I made a similar card at Christmas but decided to give it different colourway and a birthday theme.

I'm keeping this short so you can hop along to all the blogs and see the inspiration.

Thanks for looking,
Hugs
Carol x



Thursday 14 July 2011

New Baby card Papertrey Ink

Hello everyone,

I hope you are enjoying the summer sunshine when you have it. I've been going to clean out my pantry for a couple of weeks now but I've finally learned that putting things off 'til tomorrow is a good thing when the sun is shining! I'll only mess it up again when I've been food shopping.

I'd like to share a card I made for the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday challenge which this week was to make a pocket and use it on a card.



I decided to make a baby card and made the pocket with edger dies and then repeated the cut in a contrasting colour to make a little focal edges. I finally inked up Places Please which I've had for ages and over stamped it with a sentiment from Signature Greetings.

I had a sweet little brass charm that I wanted to use that could be kept as a keepsake, so I attached it to a tag I made using the bookmark die which I shortened to fit the pocket. I just had to add one of the tiny tags (I think I'm getting addicted to these), some ribbon and a little button tied with twine so that the tag could be used as a bookmark.


A few little hearts finished the pocket off and I mounted it onto a mat of polka dot parade paper.

I really like these challenges because they encourage me to try new things.

Well I better move on because we are going to the theatre to see 'As you Like It' tonight and I need to read up on the plot before we go.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs
Carol x

Friday 8 July 2011

Cricut Birthday card for Make it Monday challenge

Hello everyone,

Yay its Friday and the start of another weekend. I've got a busy one lined up with my choir singing in a concert tonight and friends for dinner tomorrow night so I don't think I'll have much time for crafting. As I said in my last post, I'm having problems with my craft mojo at present so I thought I'd try to do a card for Papertrey Ink Make it Monday challenge. The challenge this week is to stamp using re inkers rather than stamp pads and as I only own 2 re inkers (fresh snow and simply chartreuse),  my choices were rather limited. As I was going to stamp onto white card, the white ink wouldn't show up so I decided to try marbling the ink on some fun foam to get a two tone effect which is easier to see if you click on the photo to enlarge it.


I used my Cricut to cut a couple of mats with the Just Because Cards cartridge


and used a focal mat for the sentiment from Think Big Favourites 2 and the 3 little dots stamp from Out of This World. The star tag was cut from the Tiny Tags die in black and white and the sentiment was from Enjoy the Ride.

The butterfly was again cut in black and white from a Nestabilities die and as I had a lot of ink left on the fun foam, I stencilled through the die to pick up the butterfly details. I also used the fun foam to colour some white ribbon


to thread through the buttons and this was such an easy way to do it that I will try it again. When I have used stamp pads for this, the foam has often come out of the box and I've had to mess around with glue to stick it back in.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to use more colours but when PTI launch the new inks, I'll invest in some more.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Hugs
Carol x

Sunday 3 July 2011

Birthday Card with Waltzing Mouse Stamps

Hello everyone,

Its a glorious sunny day here and I should be out enjoying the garden in the sunshine but I've been trying to convince myself that my current lack of crafting mojo is down to the fact that I've spent so little time crafting recently. I sat myself down and decided to follow a sketch challenge in the hope it would all come back. Ha. Bad decision. I've spent most of the day second guessing myself and I'm still not happy with what I've come up with, but it is going to have to do because a long cold drink is calling to me and I have my book group book to read by next week.

This is the sketch I took from Waltzing Mouse

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and this is the first card I came up with


I thought it was ok, but its missing something and so I had another go and this is the second version.


Now I think its too busy and I cannot decide which one to enter into the sketch challenge. Oh well, I'll go off into the garden and come back to it later. Do you have days like this? Any comments would be very helpful at this stage.

Hugs
Carol x

Edited to add

Thanks for the comments Laura and Stella, I agree with you that the first card is probably better - I often do not know when to stop!

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