Chocolate Baroque meets Sheena Douglas.

Some time ago I made a card for the CD Sunday challenge which a friend had seen. The other day the friend asked if I could make a similar card for a 90th birthday, only she wanted it in brighter colours. So I found the stamp in the back of the cupboard (this is a Chocolate Baroque stamp but I'm not sure if it is a discontinued one) and hunted around for a brightly coloured background to use. Last time I had used an Artylicious CD for the papers, this time I found myself reaching for the Sheena Douglas Taste of India resource CD, and this lovely backing paper that is on there, I also used an A4 embossing folder from Sheena Douglas. I've stamped and embossed the stamp several times and then coloured with Spectrum Noir pens. I cut out parts of the stamped images and layered them using glue gel, finishing off by adding some flat backed pearls in matching colours. I then dusted off the Cricut and cut out the 90 Today. I just hope that the customer like the colours I chose.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft A Scene - By The Silvery Moon - Week 3

It's week three over on the Craft a Scene blog, and we're still asking for your scenes to be By the The Silvery Moon. For my card this week I've used all stamps by Sheena Douglas, and this wonderful steam train going through the station at night. I used distress inks to darken the card, then stamped the train and embossed with black glint embossing powder. I then took a wet brush and removed some of the ink to give light patches. I then used a white pencil and white jelly roll pen to high light some areas. For the moon I lightened using a little white gesso. I do hope that you'll find the time to pop over to the challenge blog and see what the DT have made for your inspiration.

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Sue

Mr & Mrs

This weekend we're off to a family wedding in Cornwall, and this is the card that I've made for the big day. My first card that I've made using just die cuts and embellishments. I started with a pearled white card and made an 8x8 card base, then matted some silver mirri card and the white pearled card for the next layer. Next I added some white organza ribbon around the middle of the card. All of the dies are from Tonic, what I like about these dies is the fact that you can cut out a layer to mat onto and it's exactly the same size. This was done with all of the layers, I used foam pads in-between each layer. I then added some gems to the corner dies and the the middle of the flowers, these were made using a crealies die.

After having to travelling to Cornwall for the wedding we decided we would hire a cottage and make a week of it, along with my Mother, Father-in-law, Sister-in-law and her husband. My Daughter and Son-in-law will be there until Monday, then they have to be back for work. We're hoping that the weather clears up for the weekend and even next week.

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Sue

Daughters Birthday

October is my busiest month for Birthdays, as my Daughter and my Nieces are born within five days of each other (on different years of course). It starts with the elder niece born on the 5th, followed by the younger who was born on the 8th and then followed by my daughter the eldest on the 10th. I made this card for my son to give to my daughter, I was not happy with the photos as I had to take them in the evening with my daylight lamp. I was so disappointed with the photo of the card that I made from hubby and I, that I won't be posting it here. I used an A5 card base for the card, some silver matting and white card that I sprayed with some Dylusions ink, sorry can't remember what the colour was. I stamped a Prima Doll and coloured her with spectrum noir pencils before fussy cutting her out. Over the background I used one of the new stencils from Sheena Douglas with the Eiffel Tower on and then added some french text. This was from a stamp by Inkylicious. The trees were from Stampscapes, stamped in a navy blue. I added some ribbon from my stash, and the Happy Birthday which was from a Rob Addams die.

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Sue

The Real Meaning Of Christmas

I've made this card for this fortnight's challenge over on the CD Sunday blog, which is Christmas Is Coming.  I had to have this wonderful CD when Debbi Moore bought it out, the images on it gorgeous and depict the true meaning of Christmas. It brought back memories from my childhood when my Mum would take me to Church on Christmas Eve (or the Sunday before Christmas) to see the baby Jesus being placed into the manger. I'm not a particularly religious person, but I still like to go to the Midnight service at the local church, it somehow makes it feel like Christmas. Anyway onto my card, it's an 8x8 card base as the topper was a large one, it fact it filled the card, there was just enough space for a bit of blue matting card. I then added the sentiment and Away in the manager verse. There are no embellishments added as I felt they looked too much.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft A Scene - By The Silvery Moon - Week 1

October has snuck up on me while I was crafting. I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. Anyway as it's the beginning of a new month, it's time for another new challenge over on the Craft A Scene blog. This month we're asking for your entries to have moonlight in it. For my card this week I've used this wonderful new stamp from Visible Image (part of a collection of stamps celebrating The Wizard Of Oz). This also fell just right for my nieces birthday which is today, and she is a massive fan of the musical Wicked, which is why the witch is coloured green. I also used Stampscape stamps for the trees in the background. First I stamped the witch onto stamping card and the onto some copier paper and masked her. Next I stamped the trees over the top and masked these. I cut a circle with a large circle punch and place onto the card to make the moon. This then allowed me to get my brushes out for the background colours, which were different shades of blues starting with the lightest to the darkest in distress inks and then a couple of different greens, again in distress inks. After removing all of the masks I then coloured the witch with spectrum noir pens. The sentiment was from the same set as the witch. I do hope that you can find the time to pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at the wonderful cards the DT has made for your inspiration this week.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Tim Holtz Snowman

Another Christmas card today, again using craft card. For this one I've treated the base card with a little gesso painted lightly over surface, then when dry I brushed a little tumbled glass distress ink over the top. Next I made some splodges by whacking my distress stains onto the surface in tumbled glass and broken china. I allowed this to dry before stamping the snowman stamp directly onto the card along with the sentiment. I then stamped the snowman onto some white card and cut out using the die that came with this stamp. I coloured the twigs, hat and scarf with pro markers and the base of the snowman with tumbled glass on a brush.  He's stuck onto the card with a thin layer of glue gel, I'm trying not to make my cards to dimensional to keep the cost of the postage down.

It seems that our lovely weather from September is leaving us, although the sun is our here in the south of the UK at the moment there is a nip in the air when you go outside. But at least it's not raining yet.

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Christmas Robin

I thought I would share this card I've made for Christmas using craft card. I took the card base (a 6x6 craft card) and put the front half into an embossing folder from Crafters Companion, after embossing it I lightly blended some Vintage Photo distress ink over the raised bits. I then stamped the image from Stampendous onto some craft card and coloured with spectrum noir pencils, cutting it out with an oval spellbinders die and blending around the edges, again with Vintage Photo. I then added some polar white Flowersoft to the tops of the berries and the branch. I then finished it off by adding the poinsettia which was made with a Marianne die.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue