Showing posts with label BLOG CANDY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BLOG CANDY. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 April 2014

Morning and welcome to Saturday

Morning all,

Welcome to another scintillating Saturday - the weather is glorious here and I hope you have some of the same!

Have had occasion to stay in for a couple of days whilst we've had contractors on site ... needless to say, more than a little crafting has been happening which I will share over the next day or so ... anyhoo, here's an ATC to share with you today, trying to use new images and old stash! I had a piece of blue paper just a little larger than an ATC but not firm enough to use an ATC blank on its own so .....
 
 
 
 
Materials used:
  • ATC blank
  • Blue paper cut to ATCC size
  • Dylusions borders, Hero Arts sentiment and Inkadinkado dog image (on to white card and cut out)stamped using Versafine onyx black ink
  • RPC Studio flower image stamped on to ATC using Memento lilac posies ink
  • Faux crystal gemstones used to embellish flowers and spots on the dog too
 
And a journal page - been a while (QUITE a while, if I'm honest) since I did a journal page.




Materials used:
  • Fresh page in my Strathmore journal
  • Versamark mini ink pad pressed on to the page repeatedly to form a geometric design before applying Diarylide Yellow pan pastel all over the page using a wedge sponge from Sofft..
  • Permanent Red pan pastel applied around the edge with a small Sofft tool. Once done with the pan pastels I buffed with a piece of paper towel and then sprayed with hairspray, to set.
  • I worked a background design using a variety of images from Kaisercraft background images, Dylusions border images and Stampers Anonymous background images  along with the following inks: Memento rosebud, lilac posies, sweet plum, Color Box coral
  • I stamped the sentiment (by Hampton Arts) and the two female images (Dylusions mini couture set), using the masked image created recently, using Versafine onyx black ink. I also stamped again on to coloured card and paper pieced their skirts.
  • Alcohol marker to colour the tops of both images
  • Stardust stickles to highlight the belt on both images and the large text on the sentiment

Felt good to be journaling again, mustn't leave it so long before I have another go!!

Over at Simply Less Is More their new challenge is for a One Layer Card and the theme is "Shadow Stamping"! Used to dread the OLC but now often use it - from CHOICE!!!! How weird is that?

Other challenges are available and launched today - for some of my faves check out my side bar!

Here's my card

And the co-ordinating inside and the envelope

Materials used:
  • 15cm square white, 300 gsm, scallop edged card blank and matching sized envelope
  • Kaisercraft "stains" images stamped using Memento lilac posies and rosebud inks, shadow stamping a second time without re-inking
  • Hampton Arts sentiment stamped using Memento sweet plum ink
  • Stardust stickles used to highlight the larger text sentiment (card only)

As it's Challenge day again today so I might nip off and see what I can do for some of my fave regular challenges - I MAY be back later ..... if not, have a good day

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Tuesday Trivia

Morning readers
 
Well, yet another dull and grey day has dawned here but at least it's not raining!!! Yee Haa

Imagine my surprise last night when I swung by my blog to check out new posts from followed blogs and any new comments that may have appeared on my own ....... Opened up my dashboard and found about 30 new posts from blogs I follow ..... except that they were ALL from an on-line loan company that I'd never heard of, let alone followed! Grrrr, spammers!! Needless to say, I just left well enough alone as I imagine that the very thing I wanted to do (which was visit their blog and give them a piece of my mind) was EXACTLY what they wanted - I HOPE they won't be back though as I may miss some genuine posts from blogs I follow. So, if you don't see me visiting your blog it may NOT be due to laziness on my part and I apologise.

Anyhoo, on to the real reasons for this post ..... 1) I have a card to share with you and 2) I have news of a new blog I spotted on a blog hop earlier.

First out of the gate is the card I have to share with you all - a bit of a marathon make, if you ask me ... read on:



Materials used:
  • 12½ cm square white, 250 gsm card and matching sized envelope
  • 12½cm square piece of Kraft card and an off cut for matting
  • 12cm square piece of Teresa Collins designer paper, free with a recent issue of Card Making and Paper Craft
  • Black card for matting
  • Tan organza ribbon knotted off centre
  • White card panel colour with Distress Ink in wild honey, splashed with water and allowed to develop before blotting with paper towel
  • Inkylicious floral background stamped on to image panel using Memento tangelo (stamped off once each inking to make it more subtle)
  • Dina Wakley image stamped using Memento rich cocoa

I can tell you now that this is recycling at its very best as I had made what I felt was a sub standard card .... I knew as soon as I finished it because I never quite got round to the insert or envelope! This explains the edge to edge use of the patterned paper. It gets better, my original image panel was distressed using tea dye before stamping with a stark black thistle image. It's a shame I ever glued it down as .... guess what? I NEVER LIKED IT. So, it sat on my desk for two days whilst I thought about it .... or should I say dreamt about it as I woke up this morning with the finished card you see before you, in my head!! Phewwwwww - I used to like making QUICK cards - this was NOT one of them!
 
And the new challenge blog on the block? .... launching on July 5th 2013 but offering a giveaway as we speak. It's called CraftsTooChallengeYou and is open to all crafters - why not pop across and check them out to see if it's for you.
 
Fab giveaway huh!?
 
 
Thanks for stopping by -  have a fun day

Friday, 8 July 2011

BLOG CANDY WINNER

Hi there,

Quick post as my blog candy offer closed at 8 pm (GMT) and the lucky Blog Candy winner, using www.random.org is as follows:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:
  
11 Timestamp: 2011-07-08 21:16:10 UTC

Which is CHERRY - well done Cherry - your prize will be winging it's way to you next week, Congratulations to you and apologies to those of you who entered and weren't lucky