This card uses an image I made whilst making this card but which I didn’t use because the colours didn’t quite match the backing paper. The image is from Digistamp Boutique but traced onto vellum & coloured from the back using Promarkers & watercolour pencils.
Archive | September 2013
Thank You So Very Much – LIM #158
I’ve only recently started entering blog challenges, but sometimes they’re almost a challenge too far! This week at Less is More the theme is to use felt or fabric. Felt? I’ve not used that since my son was a toddler, but having tidied up my stash the other day I knew I had some felt flowers which had been languishing unloved in a box for a couple of years so I decided to put them to good use.
Clean & Simple Stamping Sketch 258
I’m well out of my comfort zone today! I saw this sketch and decided I’d play along, using up some of the crafty stash I’ve been hoarding for ages.
The papers & green cupcake tag are by WRMK. I used an EK Success punch to make another cupcake out of matching paper & plain white card (covered in Glamour Dust) then mounted it on some of the matching cardstock.
Bon Voyage!
A really quick card because my son is going to a party this afternoon to say goodbye to a friend from Scouts who is emigrating to America and – last minute as ever! – asked me to make a card for her.
Butterfly Thanks
A few challenges have caught my eye this week. The first is at Stamping Sensations where the inspiration is a picture of poppies. The second is a colour challenge at Less is More, the colours being dark green & rust, and the third is at CAS-ology where the cue is silhouettes. I immediately decided against rust-coloured poppies as they would look like they should be thrown on the compost heap!
CAS Guitar Card
Yesterday I received my prize from the “Summer” challenge the other week at Addicted to CAS which had been sponsored by Joanna at Inspired by Stamping. They’re an Australian firm who make such fantastic stamps I had a hard time choosing my prize!
One of the things I chose was a set of guitar stamps which were perfect for making a card for a friend who is the lead guitarist in a band in his spare time. The “splodge” shapes which I’ve used to make the background behind the greeting came in the same set & I can foresee them being used frequently, they’re really useful.
I’m entering this into the Addicted to CAS “Music” challenge & the Inspired by Stamping Customer Gallery challenge.
Silver Wedding Anniversary
Today is my silver wedding anniversary – well, not just mine of course! People who knew us way back when will be amazed we made it to 25 years, but here we still are despite (or perhaps because of) all the trials & tribulations we’ve had to weather over the years.
For once I had this card more or less planned for weeks, the words having just popped into my head one day. My husband doesn’t like anything fussy or feminine, and when I saw this simply stunning card my ideas fell into place.