Thursday, 7 July 2016

Take a tag

The challenge at AAA Cards is to create a card with a tag. I've had this sheep die set from Marianne Collectables for a while and thought I'd give it an outing! It simply uses bits of card from the scrap drawer.
The sentiment was computer generated using My Own Topher font on a black background with white lettering. The ribbon is a scrap cut from a sweater or blouse... I don't remember which, I know they help to keep the garments on the hangers in the store, but I can't cope with them once I have the item at home! Neat bit of recycling!

Guest Designer

I was honoured to have been asked to be the Guest Designer for July for 
This first one (Challenge #181) is to use these colours

As I don't have all these exact colours I have used as close as I could find.
Here I have used embossed leaves from Cheery Lynn and Impression Obsession dies, cut from some card coloured with Inka Gold Pastes and Distress Inks. After cutting I added a little more colour using Sponge Daubers and more Distress Ink.
The sentiment is from Creative Dies from Craft Essentials. In fact I don't have one which says Thanks... but I used the 'Thank' from 'Thank you' and added the 's' from Congratulations. The line fitted perfectly.
I can't remember the make of the little butterfly button die. I will try to find out.

Saturday, 2 July 2016

Kissing

The theme at Happy Little Stampers this month is to use the Kissing Technique!
For this card I used a plain Hero Arts Christmas tree, which I inked with Ranger Dye Ink in Lily Pad. I then stamped this onto a Personal Impressions Snowflake stamp to remove some of the ink and then stamped the image onto card before die cutting it with the matching die.
The rest of the layers were cut with SSS stitched dies..
The sentiment is from HLS Everyday Sentiments!



Kitchen colours

It feels strange today, as we should have been flying to Rome to join Cunard's Queen Victoria for a two week cruise in the Mediterranean. However, following a phone call from Cunard a couple of days ago we have been persuaded to cancel this cruise with a full refund and rebook another cruise free of charge next year. It seems as with lots of companies they overbook and rely on a certain number of cancellations to keep numbers viable. However this year, their calculations didn't work out and they were forced to try to find clients willing to postpone their holidays.  As we have already had a cruise to the Caribbean this year together with a week in Florida; will be going to Spain in August and to San Francisco in September, we thought that we could forego this one and rebook for next year.... and it will be free! Still feels odd though!

The challenge at "Less is More" this week is to use the colours from your kitchen.
Some years ago we had a caravan in which we used to go on holiday to France most years. One year we decided to buy a kitchen table and chairs in Caen and transport them back in said caravan. This set actually helped determine the colours in our kitchen.
The table is getting a little old now but is so practical and has two extending leaves, which are so useful when we have family staying with us.
Our work surface is black granite with twinkly bits in it... hence my card.
The old Hostess stamp set from Stampin' up seems redolent of the image on the table... so there you go!

Here I used the other piece of embossed card from last week, if I'd thought about it in time I would have sprinkled a little gold twinkle over this bit, but not to worry!