Sew Happy

I quite had fun making this card. I saw this inspiration card (below) at Muse and remembered that I had bought some Kanban tape measure stamps which to date had not seen ink, so out they came. I also found a piece of card from some packaging which I thought would make great chipboard shapes and so out also came my Movers and Shapers dies.

For the bottom panel, I used the technique from Technique Time Tuesday, (but missed the deadline) which is to colour a piece of card with Distress Inks using sponge daubers and then stamp onto it using a pad made from kitchen towel soaked in water instead of ink.

I used a zig zag stamp which I had removed and separated from a Stampin' Up wheel containing several stitch images. I think it makes quite a subtle effect.
The sentiment is partly from the Alley Way stamps and partly handwritten, you can probably guess which word is which!

Yet another lovely day today, aren't we lucky!

Bank Holiday Monday

Addicted to CAS has the code word rainbow this week.

I decided to go with inking a piece of card in rainbow colours with Copics, to use as the backdrop behind some die cut letters. I die-cut the word panel with a rectangular Nestie, which I elongated a little to accommodate the whole word.

I then added the little bee from A Day for Daisies, also coloured with Copics.

This one uses the sketch from Retro Sketches and a stamp from Blockheads. It is actually a huge stamp, so I stamped it and then scanned it so that I could use it in a reduced size. It's coloured with watercolour pencils and a water brush.

I added a scrap of Pink Petticoat DP and a length of green twine.

This final one uses elements from Casual Friday's Tic Tac Toe. 

I chose Punches or Dies, Text and Black and White.

I also based it on the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch

I really love the effect of this technique.

The sun is shining, I really should get out and do a little tidying in the garden today.

Sunny Sunday

I downloaded an album from iTunes of Gerald Finzi's music and I could listen to it all day. I discovered that my phone would charge when on the iPod dock and so it sits on my desk and accompanies me throughout the day.

It really is the most beautiful music!

Anyway onto a few cards... the first is for a couple of challenges.

The colours are from Crazy 4 Challenges

 I really love this combo! 

The sketch is from Seize the Birthday 

This one is for the A Day for Daisies Lace(y) challenge with the colour inspiration from the Fusion Challenge

This last one combined three challenges.

The colour turned out a rather startling blue when I tweaked it in Picasa, sorry about that, it's not actually so vivid!

I used the sketch from Clean and Simple, the colours from Dynamic Duos and the the theme of Mothers from  Paper Players.

We are going to watch Hampshire play cricket this afternoon, but we'll be having a carvery lunch first... wonderful!

Enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend.

Another Saturday

It must be a sign of old age, but Saturdays come around really quickly!

Here are a few more sample cards for the "Less is More" challenge this week, which is to use opposite colours from this colour wheel!

Some of them are quite tricky, but this first card was an attempt to use these colours NOT as a Christmas card!

The image and embossing are from Stampin' Up.

Another Stampin' Up stamp here, coloured with Marker Pens before stamping. I love the watercolour effect!

The new sponsor at Less is More this month is Acid Drops and Whatnots. 

I met Karen at the show at Ally Pally and thought that the images and sentiments were such fun. I am delighted that she has agreed to sponsor our challenge this month. DO check out the fun stuff on her site.

Here's another card using the same set of images, called One out of Three.

Here's another violet and green, but this time the colours were achieved with my squished leaves and flowers technique.

Same colours again here, but this time using ink!

Stampin' Up background and a Rubber Stampede flower.

Well it was fun... I hope you'll join in this week too!