Cajun Daisy

Hi All! I'm back in the land of the living after my hospital treatment, although I still don't feel 100%.

This evening I've made a card that I'm going to enter into two challenges.

The first is Mojo Monday where they have this sketch,


and the second is Color Throwdown where they have this colour palette






Here is my card

I inked the SU stamp with my Write markers and stamped it onto card which was then cut with a Nestabilities die in the Big Shot. I did the same with the sentiment, and layered these onto scalloped circles. The background  was embossed with dots, and wrapped with a ribbon before the circles were placed slightly off centre on top ( the smaller one on 3D pads). Two leaves were added before the sponged daisies were layered together, and topped with the butterfly.
( As I don't have any Soft Suede or Lucky Limeade card, I used my SU markers to colour white card shapes)

Recipe :
Card = Marina Mist, Very Vanilla, Whisper White ( coloured with markers), tan and card base FMS
Stamps = Just Believe and Bliss
Inks = Soft Suede, Lucky Limeade, Marina Mist, Basic Black, and Cajun Craze
Tools = Big Shot, SB Nestabilities and Shapeabilities, Cuttlebug dots embossing folder
Extras = Ribbon and 3D pads

Tomorrow is the last day of the school break, so my last day of entertaining my Niece and Nephew. I hope to be able to get back to blogging after that, so I'm sorry that I haven't had any time to blog hop and leave any comments, but I will try to catch up over the weekend.

Whatever you are doing, I hope you have fun and don't get too much snow, as I hear there's more on the way.

Keep warm, and I'll be back soon

Inspired by Nature

For today's card I have combined two challenges.

The first is a new challenge blog I've discovered, over at Fab Fridays with this sketch,

and The Paper Players with these colours





Here is my card

I love the daisies in this set, and I haven't used it for ages, so thought I'd give it an airing. I used my favourite technique of colouring the stamp with my new Write Markers before stamping it onto white card. Both the yellow and pink ( strangely the photo makes it look orange but it is pink, honest! ) cards, were put through the Big Shot in embossing folders before layering them on the base card. The blue flower border was made by colouring some white card blue with the marker, and cut with a border punch and stuck under the central panel. I cut the banner with with two SB Labels Nestabilities that were bigger than the pieces of card so that just the ends were embossed and shaped, and stuck it down on 3D pads.

Recipe :
Card = Whisper White, Summer Star Fruit, Primrose Petals, and white base FMS
Stamps = Inspired by Nature and Verve sentiment
Inks = Summer Star fruit, Primrose Petals, and Midnight Muse
Tools = Big Shot, SB Nestabilities, Spots and Constellations embossing folders, and Martha Stewart border punch


This morning I helped my friend Rita, sort through boxes of china and kitchenware that belonged to her Mum, Angela, who recently passed away from the dreaded C word. She gave me a beautiful heavy crystal vase that I lovingly wrapped in tissue paper and placed in the boot of my car with boxes of bric-a-brac for the charity shop. After dropping the boxes off, I thought my vase would be ok on its own, and it was, till I reversed onto my slopping driveway. When I opened the boot, the world turned into slow motion time, and I helplessly watched as the vase rolled towards the lip of the tailgate. I bent to grab it, but ended up juggling with it from one Arthritic hand to the other, finally with it smashing in thousands of crystal splinters on my drive. Somehow, during this commotion I sliced my little finger on my left hand, and middle finger on my right, and even now, 4 hours later, the bleeding still hasn't stopped.

It's the craft club tomorrow, and then I'm in hospital for another IV treatment on Wednesday, and will be in bed till the weekend, so I hope to be back then.

Please bear with me, so until then, keep warm and Happy Crafting

Jane Austen

Hi All

In between my house work today, I have made a card for two challenges.

The first is Mojo Monday where we have this sketch,

and the second is Make My Monday who have the Jane Austen Novel, Persuasion, as inspiration




This is my card

I'm embarrassed to say that I haven't read this novel, so I took my inspiration from the pastel colours of the lady's dress and the blossom trees behind her. I inked up the blossom branch and stamped it on scrap paper before randomly stamping the card ( the pale pink flowers aren't very clear on my photo, sorry ). The blue and pink cards were embossed before layering on the card under the Nestabilities panel, on which I sponged the sky and grass before colouring the little girls dress with SU Write markers which I blended with an Aqua painter.

Recipe:
Card = Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, Rich Razzelberry, Whisper White, Blushing Bride, and White card FMS
Stamps = Garden Silhouettes, Summer by the Sea and Woodware sentiment
Inks = Bashful Blue, Gumball Green, Summer Starfruit, Blushing Bride, Primrose Petals, Wisteria Wonder, and Basic Black
Tools = Big Shot, Butterfly Kisses and Cottage Floral embossing folders, Nestabilities and Shapeabilities, Aqua painter, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Martha Stewart border Punch
Extras = Gems

I'm off to see my 5year old nephew Nathan tomorrow, and he wants me to help him make a valentines card for his girl friend Adelaide, so I'll probably end up covered in ink again.

Last week, he had to go to school dressed as a Fairytale character and tell his class what the story was. As he believes in Elves, and has a special Elf named Boris ( it's me really !! ) watching over him and writing him letters, he decided to be the cobbler from the "Elves and the shoe maker". Nana made him an apron with a pocket for his tools, and I made him some shoes out of wallpaper with buttons on the toes. What do you think? Should Jimmy Choo be worried??

Anyway, must get something to eat now as it's 8.30pm and I'm starving.

Hope you can come back soon

Workshop Christmas cards

Would you believe it, I've had another busy day so have not had time to craft, so instead here are the other two cards we made at our Tuesday workshop run by Jacqueline. Click here to visit her fabulous blog to see the details of these cards and her many other stunning creations.

The tree is dimensional and is able to lie flat to fit into an envelope.

Here it is from a different angle.













The other card is this one. Unfortunately, I messed up the stamping of the white tree so it looks thicker than the purple one, oh well.

Hopefully, I can do something tomorrow, so please call again if you can.

 

Mojo #204 and Simply Stampin

Hi everyone, I have two questions for you this afternoon; first, can you believe that it's Thursday already???, and secondly, why do we keep loads of junk ( some say treasure ) in our cupboards?????

When Mum asked if I had anything for this weekends car boot,I didn't think I had much, but then, you open cupboards you haven't been into for ages, and there smiling at you is some hideous ornament you don't remember buying???!!

Anyway, enough of that for now, and onto more important things..........Crafting!!

This afternoon I have combined two challenges, Mojo Monday # 204 with this sketch, and then colour combo from Simply Stampin challenge

I started with some Pretty in Pink card which I triple stamped in Early Espresso with the text, splats, and leaves from French Foliage. I roughed the edges with my scissors and then inked them with EEspresso before matting it onto a Whisper White card.

Now, I've been suffering from BS withdrawal so I just had to get it out for today's project. I used WWhite for a scallop circle and 2 creeping vines, Pacific Point for the corner flourish, two flowers, and a strip that was put in a  Budding Vine embossing folder, EEsspresso for a label, and PiPink for 2 small flowers.

All together the card looks like this

On the PiPink matt, I placed the PPoint corner flourish and strip of embossed card. I then placed the 2 ( lightly sponged ) creeping vines horizontally across the middle of the card before placing the EEsspresso label on top with 3D pads. The scalloped circle had its edges sponged and stamped with a Verve sentiment in EEsspresso, and before it was put away I used it to stamp the butterfly from Strength and Hope, and 2 leaves from French Foliage onto WWhite card. The leaves and flowers were placed on the circle leaving room for the butterfly under the sentiment. The finishing touches were the gems from my stash for the butterfly's body and flower centers.

Phew, it doesn't look like it, or sound like it, but it has taken quite a while to combine everything, so I hope you like it.

I may not get chance to be here blogging tomorrow, so I hope you all have a good weekend and I'll see you soon.