A new Challenge Blog

Crafter's Companions have set up a new monthly Blog Challenge.

For the first week they have decided upon a sketch. The only stipulation being that the image should be available on the Crafter's Companion website. As they sell loads of different images in various forms, this doesn't present too much of a problem. This morning I bought some more Penny Black clear stamps and they have a fabulous offer of any 2 sets for £20. How cool is that!!!

This card uses the PB stamp Garden Gossip, don't you just love it!

The paper is a digi download but sadly I can't remember where is was from. The white panel has been overstamped with SU's Vintage wheel, and the panel with the horizontal lines with random dots, both using gold ink.

The flower is made from Nellie Snellen's punch/emboss duo and the leaves are made with an XCut cut/emboss punch.

I just had to pop a little something in the top right hand corner and the Cuttlebug corner won the day.

Looking at it now, I think a little stitching wouldn't have gone amiss, maybe next time!

WOYWW Week 52

For the special week, a little bunting!
Good morning all you WOYWWers!

Not a great deal of interest to show this morning... a few stamps which I didn't have time to clean before going to my choir last night, my box of mini punches which I said I would show at some stage... and the detritus of yesterday's efforts. You may just be able to see my prize from the Penny Black Challenge Blog, it's a big old stamp with some mice on a keyboard... fabulous!

The funny shaped thing to the left of the shot is my attempt at making a pop-up ball like the Sizzix one. I think that I probably won't pursue the matter much further as it involves loads of cutting out. I can see why a die was made for the purpose. Actually I haven't got the proportions quite right, (it's not quite tall enough) but that could be easily rectified on the computer.

On the notice board is a paper with my workings out to make a tri-shutter card from a sheet of A4 card. The tutorials on the web are nearly all in metric measures, which don't tie in with the sizes of card we buy here. SO I fiddled around until I found something which worked and looked proportionally OK.

The card I made with this set of dimensions can be seen here.

Do you remember my set of drawers which went all wonky? Well this is the replacement. There is one fewer drawer, but each one holds more, so everything is accommodated. I must say that with all the bits and bobs on my desk there's not actually a lot of room to work, but I guess that if I had a larger area, it would be so full of stuff that I'd probably only have the same amount of space as I have now. It's the nature of the beast!

Hop over to Julia's and join in the fun! (Link on my sidebar).

Pink & Green

I was really pleased with this card. The colours look so clean and fresh and I just happened to have card and paper which matched perfectly. I coloured the Heather Ellis, Pure Innocence digi image with Copics and also just happened to have a ribbon which matched the shade I chose too. What a piece of luck. It sometimes happens like that doesn't it... but not often!

At Inspirational Card Sketches this week, it's a chance to choose any previous sketch from the blog. This is Sketch #68 from last week. I loved it so much that I think that I will be using it again and again.

It's also for the Pink & Green challenge at the Creative Card Crew and I love the colour combo.

The paper was a free download and I must say that I really rather like the simplicity of it. Hectic papers can often overpower a card... if you know what I mean.

I sold quite a lot of cards at choir tonight, probably due to the fact that I offered a discount as it was the last rehearsal before the summer break. I also gave another £50 donation to choir funds from the sales this term.

5 a Day

The colours in this card are a little out of my comfort zone. I'm not really an orangey person, and it doesn't appear at all in my palette of colours from 'Colour Me Beautiful' or whatever it is they call themselves these days, so I never wear it.

Anyway, it's for these challenges.

Pink Elephant - Orange

Pile it On - Veggies

Penny's Challenge - Fruit or Veggies

Crafty Angels - Sketch

Totally Papercrafts - Monochromatic

The image is from Cuddly Buddly and I believe that the paper is from Pollycraft. The sentiment is from SU mounted on a Nestie and then a Cuttlebug tag.

The corners were made from a Cuttlebug Vintage square, with the centre cut out with a small square Nestie and then cut diagonally to make the corners. I haven't tried this before but I quite like them. The flowers, brads and ribbons are from Papermania.