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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

I've Been Given A Blog Award

I had a lovely surprise today when I was given a blog award, from Misty's Mum of Ink On My Fingers? I'd like to say a big thank you to Misty's Mum for this, it's very kind.




Now I have to do a few things, which are:

Pass on the award to five other people, who's blogs have inspired me, It also needs to be someone who has less than 200 followers.

Put a comment on their blog, so that they know about it.

Link back to the person who gave me the award and thank them.

Post the award on my blog.

These are the five people that I would like to give this award to:

Judith at Judith@Poppy Cottage
Carol at Carol's Parchment Place
Shirley at Paper Creation By Shirley
Lesley at Crafty Love n Hugs
Val at Aquarius

I'm off now to leave my comments

Sue

Monday, 27 February 2012

CD Sunday - Recycling

This weeks challenge over at the CD Sunday blog is recycling. Now I will admit to being a little stumped to start with, as the only thing that I could think of that I had saved to use again was some ribbon. Then I remembered that after Christmas while going through my Christmas cards I came across this image of the 3 Kings, sent by a friend. They were in fact all joined together and had a sentiment below the image, I cut them off of the front of the card and separated them at the time, intending to use them next Christmas. This challenge was a great opportunity to get ahead and make that card now. These toppers already came with a gold edging so I just needed to add some gold mirri card for matting the backing paper and sentiment. The backing paper is from Artylicious Seasons greetings, from Chocolate Baroque, and the sentiment was computer generated and I changed the colour to match the colour in the King's cloak. The ribbon is from my stash, which I placed diagonally across the page. To finish I just added some card candi to the corners. 


Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue

Friday, 24 February 2012

Forgotten Friday 50 - Pink and Cream

Another week that flown by, and it's time again for Forgotten Friday. This week I've sorted out my Christmas Housemouse stamps and also the Housemouse CD which I've used for the backing paper (both have not been used since the middle of last year). Rather than stamp, colour, and then pick a backing paper that goes with it, this time I've picked the stamp and the backing paper, then coloured to match. I normally go for something with a bit more colour in it, but I'm pleased with the way this one turned out. The base card is made from very pale pink centrua pearl, and the corners, that are made with the left over card, are architectural accents from sizzix. The image is stamped with memento and coloured with promarker and spectrum noir pens. I've used cream card to mat both the image and the backing paper, and added some ribbon from my stash.



Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue

Sunday, 19 February 2012

CD Sunday Wings and Legs

This weeks challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is wings and legs, so what more could I do but reach for my favourite CD, Enchanted from Joanna Sheen. The image that I've used is from the Dragons and Unicorn section, with this sweet little green dragon. The girl reminds me of my niece, who's 20 this year, and has blond hair not blue. After I had printed the image and backing paper provided I decided that the backing paper was a little plain, so I took a snapshot of the main image and took it into photoshop, cropped it and manipulated it a little before taking it into MCS. Once in MCS I tiled the image and made an embossed backing sheet with it. The backing paper and image were matted onto silver mirri card, and I added silver mirri card embellishments, made from a Marianne die, a Spellbinders die, and the flower and leaves are Crealies dies. The sentiment is a Lili of the Valley stamp, which was stamped onto a piece of leftover backing paper. The ribbon and pearls were from my stash.




Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue

Friday, 17 February 2012

Forgotten Friday 49 - Dream

I can't believe that it's Friday again already, I don't know where this week has gone. I had a great day Wednesday, when I met up with some friends for lunch, not only was it a wonderful meal but it was also great to catch up with everyone. I have been rummaging in the back of a cupboard again, and found a box full of Glimmer Mists, that I've hardly touched and also some Glimmer Screens both by Tattered Angel. So this morning a had a great time spraying bits of card with all sorts of colours, I then packed them away without taking note of what colours that I used on each piece.  I decided to go with this one which has been sprayed with 2 different colours of lilac/purple. Then using the mask of a butterfly I went over the top of the mask with an Adirondack ink pad in purple twilight. I then found a swirl stamp that I think was from the Glitter Girls, stamping this in purple twilight around the edge of the card, then also brushing around again with what was left  on the brush. The sentiment  is from a MCS stamp sheet which went onto a tag that I found floating around in a box of bits, the flower and brad were from my stash.



Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue x

Monday, 13 February 2012

CD Sunday - L Is For....

This weeks challenge at the over on the CD Sunday blog it's L Is For. I've decided to go for L is for Love, and have given my House Mouse stamps an outing. I stamped the image coloured them with promarkers, I used a spellbinder oval to cut them out, then mounted them onto a scalloped oval cut in gold mirri card. The backing paper is from Popcorn the Bear Romance Collection CD. I punched a border with a Martha Stewart punch and placed a bit of gold ribbon around it. The sentiment was printed with a laser printer and foiled with red foil, then place onto a piece of gold mirri card. I just added some red roses to finish, which I just touched with a little gold glitter.




Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue

Friday, 10 February 2012

Forgotten Friday 48 - Another Christmas Card

Time again for another Forgotten Friday post, and this week it's a Christmas card. I've chosen to use another of the SWALK Christmas stamps that were unused, and the sentiment is definitely true today, after another dose of snow last night my hands are very cold today. Earlier the sun was out and the snow was melting but the sun has now disappeared.

For this card I've used a 6x6 card base, I stamped the image with Memento ink and coloured with promarkers. Then I added some colour around the edge of the image using the big-n-juicy Hydrangea ink pad, picking up some of the purple colour and a little of the blue that was next to it on a stipple brush, and then just pouncing the brush. The backing papers were from the SWALK Christmas CD, but I did change the colours in the colouriser to match the image, these I mounted onto some silver card. I just finished it with a little bit of ribbon from my stash and some snowflakes that have been in a pot since last year.




This is great fun challenge to take part in, all you need to do is use something forgotten or neglected, post it on your blog and leave a comment for Judith. Why not get a head start on your Christmas cards this year, like I am.

Thanks for taking the time to look.

Sue

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Forgotten Friday 47 - Butterfly Dreams

My card this week for Forgotten Friday was inspired by this beautiful creation by the very talented Claire from Claire's Crafty Creations. Claire used pan pastels on her card, but as I don't have any of these I've used Distress Ink pads. First I choose to use the large square stamp from the the Butterfly Dreams stamp sheet from Chocolate Baroque, it's the first time it's been inked so more than qualifies for this challenge. I stamped the image onto white card with versamark and then embossed with Patina Gold from Sparkle N Sprinkle which was rescued from the back of the cupboard. Then I coloured over the image with the Distress Ink pads, using Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, Barn door and Fired Brick and coloured the butterflies with promarkers. I then cut around the image and mounted first onto some black card and them some gold mirri card. The backing paper is from the Artylicous Essence of Nature CD in colours close to the image but I did go around the edge with Barn Door and Fired Brick to pull it all together, then mounted it onto gold mirri card. I tried several different colours of ribbon before settling on this beige/gold colour. So far I've not added a sentiment as there are a couple of occasions that this could be used for, I'll make up my mind nearer the time.




Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue

Monday, 6 February 2012

CD Sunday - A La Mode

What horrible weather this weekend, freezing cold Saturday, snow Sunday and fog today. I'm glad to say that most of the snow has now disappeared from our area, hopefully the fog will go soon too, on the up side it was perfect for crafting. The challenge this week over at the CD Sunday blog is A LA Mode, there are some amazing samples on the blog made by the design team using the Ooh La La Shoes in Bloom 2 CD. I've decided to combine this weeks challenge with a 40th birthday card that I was asked to make. I have used Debbi Moore's Glitter and Glitz New York CD for this. I made a large card base with centura pearl card in a colour matching the toppers and matted the backing paper onto some gold mirri card. The toppers were printed onto 200gms matt photo card and cut out around the frames, I then added some Crystal glamour dust to the dress. The flowers were some that I had in my stash and the swirls are from a Marianne die, finally the sentiment was made using MCS




Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue

Friday, 3 February 2012

Walking

This week I was asked to make several different cards, most of them straight forward, so I had no problems finding what to use. But this one was a little different, a card for a lady who is going to be 70, with the pastime of walking. I searched my CDs, looked at my stamps and was still scratching my head when I looked on the Internet for some inspiration. That was when I found this gorgeous picture of a sunrise/sunset. So after downloading it I set about seeing if I could use it on a card for this lady. I found a backing paper in MCS and changed the colours so that they matched the image. After printing this off on my ink jet printer, I then added swirls to the corners, because of the layers feature on MCS I was able to turn the main backing paper off while I printed the swirls on my laser printer. Now I was able to add some foil to the part that were laser printed. Both  the backing paper and the topper are mounted onto gold mirri card, also the sentiment which was made in MCS. I also downloaded a picture of some hiking boot which I printed and cut out, placing them at the bottom of the topper. At this stage I decided as it was for a lady it needed making more feminine. So I rummaged and found some orange organza ribbon and some cream flowers, these I painted with pearlidoodles to match, and some gems which I added to the middles. It took a bit of thought but in the end I'm pleased with the result,  I just hope that she likes it.




Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue x

Thursday, 2 February 2012

CD Sunday - Tag You're It

I've been busy this week and have only just got around to making a card for the CD Sunday challenge, which this week is Tag You're It. This week I've used MCS Men-y Happy Returns, which just happened to have a ready made tag section on it. I think this is the first card that I've made when I picked the embellishment (if you can call a tag an embellishment) before I've made the card. For this card I've used a turquoise card base, with silver mirri card to matt the backing papers onto. The topper is also matted onto silver mirri card, the other colours you can see were generated by colour changing the mats within MCS, along with the greeting. I then just added some ribbon to the tag and some card candy in a matching colour. We've only just got to the end of January and I already have 3 men's cards
ready for Birthdays.




Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sue