Waltzingmouse

Just a quick post - this card was created from a sketch on Waltzingmouse for a challenge, which I've got to get online for tomorrow. I know that this stamp is not one of Claire's, but if I win the Challenge, I'll have another 8 sets to choose from, so here goes!

Smookie again

I took this card over to Just Tracy's today to enter it into her first challenge - this little dragon is one of my favourites! If you've not been to the shop yet, you really must, fabulous atmosphere, great tea and lots of lovely craft stuff! Everything for this card came from Tracy's (well except the base card, but you can buy that there too).

Hope my card wins, as it will give me a bit more money to spend in the shop!

Elzybells Challenge 41

Wow, real challenge this one! single layer cards are just, well, so flat, but I've had a go & hope that this is okay. Have to say it's not my favourite card, I can see every little thing that's wrong from the dodgy colouring to the wonky dots - hey ho.

Anyway, hope you like it more than I do!

Couple of challenges in one

Okay, too much to do & too little time - maybe I'm just setting myself too many things to do. Anyway the challenge over on Creative Inspirations this week is an altered CD (check), and on Crafts and Me the challenge is a colour challenge of Brown, Pink and Yellow (check), and if that wasn't enough, this is my first ever altered CD!

The stamps are from Elzybells (I do so love them!) and I just had to make use of my new Martha Stewart button punch & emboss that I bought at Just Tracy's a couple of weekends ago on opening day. The background paper is from the Claire Curd Signature Range (I'm still trying to get through the 200 sheets - what was I thinking!), and instead of cutting the paper, once I glued it to the CD, I used my Basic Grey file set to file away the excess, it left a lovely smooth edge.

Well, hope you like - I'm quite pleased with it for a first attempt!

Waltzingmouse Blog Hop

Okay, so I know this was supposed to be yesterday, but I was composing the card in my head - I only have two of Claire's stamp sets (at the moment) so did not have a massive amount of choice - especially with the theme of Mother's Day. I decided on a simple sentiment 'with gratitude' and love the apples from the Peace and Plenty set. I had a great deal of trouble colouring the background, it should have been a lot smoother than this, but I don't think that chalk inks are the best ones for doing a soft blended background - will have to try chalks next time.

Anyway, hope you like, and I'm off to hop (boing! boing!)

Just Magnolia Challenge

Okay, so I'm cutting it fine getting this one entered for the challenge blog, but it's taken me a while to finish. I cannot take all of the credit for this card either, I got the idea for the lattice cut out from Jane's lovely cards, and thought that instead of the flowers and butterflies, it would work really well with snowflakes.

The icicles at the top are not really meant to be icicles, but is the Martha Stewart Drippy goo punch - think it works quite well as icicles!

Anyway, I really enjoyed making this - even if it did take forever to glue the snowflakes together & I hope Jane doesn't mind too much that I've used her idea (but it was such a fabulous one!). Thanks for looking!

Just for Fun

Well this card was just for fun, I picked out an old Sketch Saturday layout as it seemed to fit the image, and then just went to town.

The image was part of my FREE goodie bag from Just Tracy's opening day yesterday, and I was determined to make use of the wonderful set of stamps that I got. The backing paper was a Papermania double sided foam printed paper (I hate using double sided paper as it always seems such a waste that you can only see one side when its stuck down. The flowers were a new experiment from me, and a tutorial for them can be found on another Rachel's blog. The brown dots above the sentiment are made with Adirondack Acrylic in Expresso - I think they are too close together, but too late now.

I love how this card has turned out & if you like the stamps, just go to Just Tracy's website, and you can order them with FREE postage and packing!

Till later....