Going Japanese

My card today is one my friend has asked me to make for her friend who is jetting off to Japan, so I've tried to combine it with two challenges.

First is ColourQ with these colours ( not what you would  immediately pick for an oriental card!?)

and secondly, Paper Players who have this sketch   

Here is my card

                                             

I cut the four panels in white, stamped the images on them, and then laid them down onto dark grey card which was on a white base. The Buddha was stamped in Archival ink so that I could use my Aqua Painter to colour it with washed down black ink, and then positioned him on 3D pads.

Marilyn was really pleased with it, what do you think?

Supplies :

Card = Whisper White, Naturals White, Dark Grey and white base FMS

Stamps = Inkadinkado and Baroque Motif 

Inks = Real Red, Crushed Curry, Pool Party, Black and Archival Black

Tools = Aqua Painter

Thanks for dropping by and I hope you can come back soon.

Folded Frame Card

My card today was made at our Craft Club workshop. I had in mind the  colour scheme from the Dynamic Duos challenge, so based my card around these.


This is it

I made my own DSP with a Blue flourish one side and a Raspberry script stamp on the other. It was scored and folded to create the four corners as the frame sides, and then it was laid on some raspberry card and then blue card. The butterflies were stamped in raspberry on White card and punched out and placed on 3D pads.

The sentiment  and a coordinated border is all on the inside.

Supplies :

Card = Raspberry Ripple, Pool Party, White card  and base FMS

Stamps = French Foliage, Baroque Motifs, Papillon Potpourri, and Verve

Inks = Raspberry Ripple and Pool Party

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig, Elegant and Cute Butterfly Punches

Extras = 3D pads

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I have also made a new baby card for my sister who has made me an Auntie again at the weekend with the birth of little Henry George.

I embossed some blue card in the Big Shot, sponged the edges and wrapped it with a cream ribbon before laying it on a blue card base. The Ark was stamped in Black Archival on a white Nestie label, and coloured with Write Markers and an Aqua Painter. 

I sponged over the edge of a scallop circle in the sky with blue to create clouds, and then layered this on a Navy, and a Crumb Cake label, before placing it down on 3D pads. I stamped the tag, layered it, and added it with a big cream bow.

For the greeting inside, I used a Curvy Verse broken up by a Verve sentiment so it reads,

 " One little bundle of joy, many happy hearts!"

and I stamped the Ark again at the bottom of the insert in blue.

I hope Cass and Russell like it.

Supplies :

Card = Pacific Point, Night of Navy, Naturals White, Crumb Cake, and blue base FMS

Stamps = Two by Two, Curvy Verses and Verve

Inks = Black Archival, and Too Many to mention but all SU.

Tools  = Big Shot, Nestie Labels and scallop circle, Stamp-a-ma-jig, and Swirl EF

Extras = 3D pads and Ribbon 

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Hopefully, you haven't yet been bored to tears and have got this far down today's long post, for me to share with you the photos of Sophie and her rescued baby bunny.

Sophie is still breast feeding, and during a conversation her Mum was having with someone from the village explaining how they came about bringing Bunny home, the person asked Sophie if he was eating all her carrots, to which Sophie said " No he's having Mummy's boobies!!!"

My sister said she was so embarrassed by the response she just wanted to the earth to open up and swallow her. 

Bless her. Out of the mouth of Babes!!!!!

Needless, to say, Mummy went straight home and got the carrots out for Sophie to give Bunny one.

As soon as the threat of cold weather is over, Bunny will be released back at the field for him to find his family or at least another bunny to live with.

Right, that's me done for tonight. I'm in hospital again tomorrow, so I may be AWOL for a few days but will hopefully be back soon.

Thanks for dropping by, and I hope I've not rambled on too much.

Baroque Best Wishes

Yaaaaay!! I've made a card and it's still daylight!!!

Just for two challenges today, firstly at Pals Paper Arts where they have these colours for us,

and again over at Addicted to Stamps where we are required to Make a Mark with marker pens.

So without further a do, here it is

I have used my SU Write markers to colour the rubber stamps before stamping onto the white card, and then using the Big Shot to cut the Nestabilities Labels, and mounting them on 3D pads. The finishing touch was the addition of white pearls to the centres of the small flowers, and three under the sentiment.

I love this stamping technique as several colours can be used in one go, instead of several times with the different colours and the hassle of trying to match the designs up. A little tip with a larger stamp ( such as the flourish in this SU set) is to huff a breath on the stamp to moisten the whole design before stamping onto the card, as it can take a while to colour the stamp, the starting point can dry before the final detail is reached.


Recipe :                                  
Card = Real Red and White card FMS
Stamps = Baroque Motifs,Fresh Vintage, and Fiskars sentiment
Inks = Real Red, Primrose Petals, and Pool Party
Tools = Big Shot and Nestabilities
Extras = 3D pads and White Pearls

 Thanks for dropping by and I hope to be back soon.

Romance and Diamonds

Today, I've finished the card I started at Jacqueline's on Tuesday, that I was making for the Make My Monday challenge where the theme is still Romance, and this week they are looking for Flourishes and Diamonds.


Here is my card

The heart flourishes were stamped in Versamark and heat embossed in gold and the hearts cut out by hand ( I must get a set of heart dies) with the one in the front raised on 3D pads. The rose buds are a spiral circle rolled up with a pink diamond bead in the centres, and the leaves were made with the SU Bird punch in white card and coloured with the green SU Write Marker. The sentiment "always" was  part of a stamp from Whimsical words, and the "love" was written by hand, with a diamond in place of the O.

Recipe :

Card = Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, and cream card from stash

Stamps = Always Elegant, Baroque Motifs, and Whimsical Words

Inks = Versamark, Old Olive, and Cherry Cobbler

Tools = SU Bird Punch, and heat gun

Extras = 3D pads, pink diamond beads, diamante gems

Thanks for looking today.



Happy Birthday

Today's card is for 2 challenges.

The first is Stampin Royalty where they have this sketch

and the second is ColourQ where they have this colour palette

Here is my card

Recipe :

Card = Very Vanilla, Real Red, Pretty in Pink, and cream card from my stash

Stamps = Baroque Motifs, Ornate Flowers, and Verve

Inks = Real Red, Pretty in Pink, and Pool Party ( I don't have Cool Caribbean )

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug Swirl embossing folder, Martha Stewart border punch, and Readicut 2 step flower punches

Extras = 3D pads and white Pearl gems

I wasn't too sure about the blue flower stems and Baroque Motif at first, but I think because they are so pale they can pass as bluey green foliage. What do you think??

I've had a terrible few days............On Thursday night, I found my old neighbour ( a widower who is on the verge of  Dementia) in a Diabetic coma again and had to get the ambulance out. Thankfully, he is still in hospital and the Dr.s have found more complications that I wasn't aware of, so he is now getting the right treatment he needs. I hope for his sake he will be there for a while yet, so that some Home care can be sorted out for when he comes home, as his son lives in London and there is no one else other than me.

I hope to get some more crafting done in the next few days, but who knows what will happen??

Thanks for looking today

Love Letter

Today's card is for Make My Monday Challenge . Their theme is ROMANCE and this week it's also SCRIPT OR VERSE

 This is my card

I've torn all the cards and sponged the edges to age them, and the letter I've rolled up each end to make it look like a scroll. The Fimo wax seal has had the Postmark stamp pressed into it and then stuck down to hold the ribbon in place. I made the rose buds by cutting a circle of card into a spiral and then rolling it up, and added a pearl in the centres.

Recipe :
Card = Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, and cream card from my stash
Stamps = French Foliage and Baroque Motifs
Inks = Sahara Sand and TH Tea Dye
Tools = 2 Step Bird Punch
Extras = Fimo, Ribbon, and White Pearls


Thanks for looking today and I hope you'll come back soon

Baroque Noel

This afternoon I've been to Jacqueline's to get some crafting done, ignoring all the chores I should be doing!, but my excuse is that with lack of sleep through pain, I'm too tired to do anything ( except craft that is!!)

The card I've made is for the Simply Stampin Challenge where they have this sketch


and the colours are from the ColourQ challenge

This is the card, and although these colours are not associated with Christmas I was happy with the outcome. What do you think?

I turned the sketch on its side and stamped the swirl onto some white card, and then layered it on some brown card. I then cut 2 strips of cherry card in different thicknesses and laid them horizontally on a white card. I inked up just the NOEL sentiment on the SU roller and stamped it onto one end of a white card strip ( using the Stamp-a-ma-jig ) that was then matted onto brown card and positioned between the cherry strips. The swirl panel was then stuck vertically across the strips. I then stamped the gingerbread men, candy canes, and baubles onto white cards and cut them out. The baubles were placed on 3D pads and placed as if hanging from the swirls, and the gingerbread men in opposing corners of the card. The one cane was added to cover an ink mark, and the other to even out the picture.

Recipe : Card = Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, and white card stock from my stash

Inks = Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Cobbler, and Daffodil Delight

Stamps = Baroque Motifs, Jolly Jingles, and Hung Up on the Holidays ( borrowed from Jacqueline)

Extras = Stamp-a-ma-jig, and 3D pads

Thanks for looking at my blog today, and I hope you liked what you saw.

I hope you all have a good weekend, and I'll be back soon.



Baroque Tag

Today I've made a card for the ColourQ #110 challenge where they have these new colours as inspiration.

I'll also be entering it to the CAS-ual Fridays challenge where they want a tag or a card with a tag on it.





This is my card

I started by randomly stamping a white card with the flourish in brown, and then wrapping the ribbons around the top. 2 blue and 2 brown labels were then cut in the BS and layered on top to create one large and one small tag, that then had the brown flourish stamped on them.The small tag was raised with 3D pads and also had the stamped sentiment added. Some small flowers and butterflies were punched and stuck on with 3D pads to give some dimension, and the finishing touches were the sequins for the flower centers and double ribbon bow to attach the small tag.

Recipe: Card = Soft Suede, Pool Party, Dusty Durango, Peach Parfait, and white card from my stash

Stamps = Baroque Motifs and Verve

Inks = Soft Suede

Tools = Big Shot, Labels nestabilities, 2 Flower punches and a butterfly punch ( I've had these for years from Readicut but I dont know the manufacturer )

Extras = Flower sequins and ribbons

I hope you like the card, and I promise to put the Baroque Motifs stamps aside for a while and use something different. Please come back soon and see if I can !! 



Baroque Christmas

I've not had much time for crafting again lately, but yesterday it was our craft club day, and for once I managed to make, not just one card, but three.....I know, amazing!!( mind you, it's all down to Jacqueline who did all the hard work and prepared all the elements for us)

I'll show you those later, but first here is a card that I'll be entering into the CAS-ualfridays challenge #27 where the design or embellishments go over the edge of the base card.

As I've used traditional Christmas colours of red, green, and gold I'll also be entering it to the Make My Monday challenge #23, where Christmas is their months theme, and this week it's Traditional or Vintage.

So here it is

I started by drawing around a bauble card of my friend Louise, on some red card and cut it out. The flourish was Versamark stamped on it and heat embossed with gold powder and then gems randomly added. The same flourish was then stamped in green on a 5" square white card that had opposing corners rounded, before the bauble was placed slightly overhanging the edge, as if tied to the green branch behind it. The finishing touches were the gold bow and stamped red sentiment. 

Recipe:  Card = Real Red and Whisper White

Stamps = Baroque Motifs and sentiment ( Jacqueline's)

Inks = Versamark and Real Red

Tools = Heat gun and Xcut corner rounder

Extras = Gold embossing powder, ribbon, and gems

Here's one of the festive cards we made at our workshop. I love that it's so pretty yet so simple to make, and again in the traditional red and green colours.

I'll show you the others in my next post ( if you'd like to pop back?)

Thanks for looking at my blog today, and I'll be back soon with some more projects.

Baroque Motif

I've had a spare hour this afternoon to try to get some housework done, but, oh dear, I only got as far as my craft table, and that was SOOOOO messy that I had to tidy it up!!!.....And somehow, my laptop got turned on and found its way to the Less is More challenge???? Then, I don't know what happened but red and orange inks fell onto my stamps?!...............there was nothing I could do but make a card to save wasting the inks.

This was the result and I'll be linking it to the LIM red and orange colour challenge

The red swirl is enhanced with orange stamped flowers with punched centers ( placed with help of my Stamp-a-ma-jig), and the punched butterfly with the flower stamped on its wings.The sentiment finishes off the diagonal direction of the design across the face of the card.

Recipe : Card = Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White

Stamps = Baroque Motifs and Verve

Inks = Real Red and Peach Parfait

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig, SU Butterfly Punch and Fiskars small flower punch

Extras = Red gems

Thank you for dropping by today, and I hope that I can find the time to do some more crafting this week, as I've really missed getting covered in ink and double sided tape.

Hope to see you soon