Lazy Sunday

Morning,

How's the weather with you all? Sunshine again? This is getting to be almost regular - next thing we know it'll be ....... SPRING! YAY!

And on the crafting front - my good friend, Wynneth, set a challenge for February over on the Craftbubble group Craft Mad and Loving It ..... she selected WoW+1 (that's White on White plus 1 other colour) and here's my take on it ..... using GOLD as my PLUS ONE!

Materials used:

• 15 cm square, 300 gsm scallop edged card and matching sized envelope
• 12½ cm square  white card panel and a Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page set of punches.
• 12½ cm square satin gold paper - mounted behind the Martha Stewart punched panel - to give definition. I tried it without but it looked kind of ordinary so changed it - I LIKE this one better
• Go Kreate flower dies in two sizes, I used the large one once and the smaller twice.
• Two embossing folders (swiss dots and scrolls)
• I curled the edges of my flowers using my trusty pokey tool
• Large gold sugared brad, to hold flower layers in place

Hope you like it.

And over on the Pan Pastels challenge blog their new challenge is animals, but they included birds and insects etc ..... I have a fab Stampers Anonymous bird I wanted to use as soon as I saw the challenge.

Materials used:

• Large manila tag
• Glue stick (for resist technique)
• Stampers Anonymous "Poison" image inked using versamark and then WOW white puffy twinkle embossing powder applied and heated. This was plainly a mistake to use this product beause, whilst it's a fab ep, it didn't show up enough detail of the image AND the "twinkle" brushed off when I applied distress inks - hmmmm, maybe the effect ended up closer to a Tim Holtz distress ep - happy accident?????
• Stampers Anonymous "random dots" and "harlequin" images mounted on acrylic blocks and then a glue stick applied before stamping.
• Distress Inks: faded jeans, seedless preserves, black soot
• Water spritzed
• Kitchen roll to rub off some of the ink and reveal the "resist"
• Inkadinkado "wax drip" stamped multiple times using a Versafine onyx black ink
• Inkadinkado "splat" image inked using tumbled glass distress ink and Memento rich cocoa
• Stampers Anonymous crow image inked using Versafine onyx black on to white card and then distress ink applied using a Tim Holtz blender and the residual DI colour on the pad before cutting out and adhering to my tag using Aleene's tacky glue.
• Goosebumpz "shimmer" spray spritzed over the entire project to give it an atmospheric gleam - hope it works!!! It will also "seal" the distress inks and prevent any reaction should the tag get wet! Twofer!!!!



And a close up which MIGHT show the resist and goosebumpz a little better .... or it might not!

 
It's also my pal Naomi's birthday today but I can't tell you how old she is as that might give away my age too!!! Have a fabulous day with your daughter's and future S-i-L, Naomi.

Have a great Sunday everyone - I hope you have sunshine today.