Playtime

Friday morning I decided that my stencils which were house in 3 A4 boxes could do with sorting out. In my cupboard I had some 6x6 scrapbooks that were unused, they looked ideal for the 6x6 stencils. after a productive morning filling 4 6x6 scrapbooks with the 6x6 stencils and a clarity stencils book with the clarity stencils I was inspired to get out the inks and have a play in the afternoon. Below is the result. I started with the flower stencil (sorry I've had this stencil so long I can't remember where it comes from) and some gesso which was splodged though the stencil onto some white card, this acts as  resist for the inks over the top, which came next when the gesso was dried. Then I went back with the same colours and inked through the stencil. I chose colours that I would not normally reach for, Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and worn lipstick Distress Inks. Then I used a stencil from Peerless Designs which again I've had for sometime but it was unused. I inked through the stencil with Archival black and used the word dream from another unused Peerless Designs set at the bottom. Finally I highlighted some of the black before matting it onto a 7x7 card base.

I'm going to enter thins into the challenge over at Stamping Sensations which this month is anything goes.

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

Sue

Rudolph Days

I can't believe that it's almost the end of August already, but as it is it's time for this months challenge Rudolph Days Challenge over at Scrappy Mo's. For my card this month I have used an image that I found on the Internet, I took it into a graphics program and made 4 toppers for my cards. I found  backing paper on a Debbi Moore Christmas CD that teamed with it and also some green card for the matting. The holly die is from Tattered Lace and the sentiment stamp is from Crafter's Companion. The dies that the sentiment are on were from the Works.

Another four made for the box this year.

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

Sue

Forest Friends

My card today is to enter into the Allsorts Challenge this week, which is Forest Friends. I had this topper left over from a previous project and thought I would make it into a card. As the topper was a circular one I either had to cut a circular mat for it or do something else. I went for cutting apertures into my backing paper and matting. This was done on the Cameo, something that does not get used very often. The sentiments were cut using dies from Robert Addams All Occasion dies and then some card candy was added. This is one for my box for a later date.

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

Sue

Pixies Snippets Playground

I'm off to Pixies Snippets Playground with my card today. This was make as a "Just because" card for a crafty friend and my snippet was the wood effect background. I had made several in different colours earlier this year including two in this colour way which I had not used. So that was my starting place for the card, I then rummaged through my stencils and found these two, which are from Imagination Crafts, and then used some white pearlised embossing paste through the stencils. Straight away before it dried I sprinkled some purple glitter from my glitter mountain over the top and left to dry. Next I found my Lavinia stamp with the verse "Don't Let Life Dull Your Sparkle" stamped onto a scrap of white card and the cut the words apart edging with a little bit of black promarker I then stuck the onto the front. Next I mounted the topper onto some black card and then a piece of matching mirri card (it matches better in real life than in this photo). Finally I found a lovely poem about friend and printed this off onto an insert before giving to my friend. I'm glad to say the she loved it.

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

Sue

Old Cardboard

I've been trying to get this posted all week but just had not managed it until now. On Saturday I had four crafty friends around to play, one who does exquisite parchment and sat doing that all day while the rest of us got messy. I always save any decent pieces of cardboard with the intentions of using it, so Saturday that was what we did. We all used the same stamp (from Indigo Blu) and flower dies (from Heartfelt Creations). We also used some tissue paper and Tattered Angels sprays and needless to say we all ended up with something different. I got the Cricut out and cut some words out and the butterfly was added right at the end and was a Tim Holtz Sisix die.

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

Sue xx

Sing

This card was made while at Eileen's workshop last Saturday, well when I say made  the topper was made but not mounted onto a card base or matted up. So after a tidy around my craft room yesterday (it was defiantly a case of where is my workspace, rather than what's on it),I got around to finishing it off. I'm going to enter this into the Stamping Sensations challenge this month as it's Anything Goes. It was made using Visible Image stamps and Distress Inks plus a little water on a stencil.

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

Sue

CD Sunday - Anything Goes

I made this card for my Father-in-law to give to our Son for his Birthday yesterday and as the theme over at CD Sunday this time is Anything Goes I'm going to enter into the challenge. I've used Pollyanna Pickering's A Walk In The Wild CD from Creative Crafting World. Her wonderful images of wildlife are fantastic for making male themed cards. I often find myself reaching for these CD's when I have to make one. I have no Grandson to mind today and all my housework is either done or can wait so I'm off to play in the craft room.

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

Sue

Red, White and Blue

The challenge over on the Allsorts blog this week is the colours of your flag, so I didn't have to think to hard on what to choose. But just in case anyone should be any doubt as to what country my colours are from I decorated the card with appropriate stamps. I used the London set of Stamps from Stampers Anonymous and also the Bitty Grunge stamps also from Stampers Anonymous and then a little bit of white Acrylic paint and a couple of bottle tops.

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Sue

Workshop Results

Today I have my makes from Eileen's workshop on Saturday. It was a great day with the weather and the roads being kind to us on our journey to Kent, it takes about 2 hours from where we live in the top corner of Hampshire. We used 4 colours of Distress inks for all of the cards here. Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers and just for the centre of the eye we used Peeled Paint. Visible Image stamps were used for two of the cards and an Inkylicious stamps for the middle card. Lots of white dots were added to the top card using a white pen.

 On this next card I added some raindrops using a stamp by Ryn.

 This last card was using the same colours as the top two cards but used very differently.

All to soon it was time to get back into the car and travel home. The road was a lot busier and the heavens opened at one point, but we made it home safe and sound.

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

Sue

Pixies Snippets Playground

Well I made it back again today with a new card, this one is for Pixies Snippets Playground. Everything except the base card came out of the scraps box. The wood effect background is from packaging, the black matting and sentiment card was from the scrap box along with the piece of silver card that I put behind the sentiment. The image itself was stamped and embossed with black embossing powder about two years ago and had sat in a box uncoloured until today. I coloured it with pencils and then cut it to size using a Crealies die. The stamp was from a set by Chocolate Baroque.

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Sue

Kay Carley Stamps

My poor neglected blog, I've been so busy the last few weeks I really don't know where that time has gone. The card that I have to show you today, I made while having a crafty play at a friends house a couple of weeks ago. The stamps I bought at the Newbury show at the beginning of July after standing and watching Kay Carley demoing with them. She was making the backgrounds for her cards using water colour paints and a 1/2 inch paint brush by just splodging the colours across the card. Then layering stencils and stamps on top. The backgrounds were so quick and easy to make and I think look very effective too. Tomorrow I'm off to Kent in the morning for a day's workshop with the wonderful Eileen Godwin, hopefully I'll have something to show you on Sunday or at least at the beginning of the week.

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

Sue