Well the weather has changed yet again! What is going on???

Nevermind, it's a good excuse to do some crafting instead of anything else. So, today I have played along with the Mojo Monday challenge #209 and followed this sketch.



This is my card

To make it, I stamped a white card with green leaves and sponged the edges with the same green. I then used a border punch on some blue card and stuck it along the edge of some green card which was added to the stamped card. Some blue card was then put through the BS with a labels nestabilities and then again in an embossing folder. While the BS was out I also cut a scalloped and a plain circle in dark and light blue.The label was stuck on the green card, and then a ribbon was added across the top left corner and secured behind the stamped white card before all was stuck to the cream base card. A sentiment was stamped on the circle which was layered on the scallop circle, and some stamped flowers and leaves were mounted on the shape to give dimension.

This is a close up of the flowers and sentiment on the circle labels.

I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the darker blue on the light blue of the flower spray behind the roses.

Recipe :  Card = Green Galore, Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Pacific Point, and a cream card from my stash

Stamps = Baby Blossoms and Verve
Inks = Green Galore, Certainly Celery, Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue, and Tempting Turquoise
Tools = Big Shot, labels and circles nestabilitiues, and Martha Stewart border punch

I went round to my friends this afternoon and started to make a card for another challenge. I've used the "resist method" on it and its nearly finished so I'll post it tomorrow. Pop back then if you can to find out what this technique is if you haven't heard of it before.

Waterfall card

Today at our craft club we made waterfall cards, and here is my version

I started with a white 5" square card and layered it with pink and green patterned papers. A strip of cream card was then scored 5 times, and under each score line I stuck a pink card square layered with a cream square, on which I stamped a rose in 2 shades of pink. A thin strip of card was then stuck at the bottom of the reverse side and secured through the base layers with little star brads, and then all this was stuck on the base card. The frame and sentiment were stamped in pink on cream card, and some stamped roses were added around the frame, before it was stuck down on 3D pads. The finishing touch was the brad securing the pink ribbon for the pull mechanism.

Recipe : Card = Pink Passion, Very Vanilla, and white card from my stash

Stamps = Baby Blossom, and Verve

Inks = Pink Passion and Pixie Pink

Tools = Piercing tool , brads, and 3Dpads

Extras = Patterned paper and Ribbon

I hope you like what you see, and I'd love to read any comments you have.

Off to play Super Heroes tomorrow, so I'll be back in a few days. Thanks for dropping by today.



Colour of my eyes

Well this  Less is More challenge made me laugh!......."The colour of your eyes". I was stood staring into the mirror for ages ( something which I never do) trying to decide what colour me eyes were, and for the first time in years I noticed wrinkles, lines, and age spots that I didn't know where there. Oh well, we all get older don't we??

Anyway, I eventually realised that my eyes are still the same old colour that they've always been.........Hazel (a greeny brown)

With that decision made, I created one of my signature cards of stamping a scene through a faux aperture. Here it is

I started by putting a label nestabilities through the Big Shot with some scrap paper, and through this aperture I stamped the tree, and sponged around the shaped hole with the same colour.The sentiment was stamped underneath in the same colour.

Recipe: Card = White card from my stash

Stamps = Lovely as a Tree, and Verve

Inks = Soft Suede and Certainly Celery

Tools = Big Shot and Labels nestabilities

Tomorrow is our club workshop so hopefully I'll have a finished project to show you.

Today, a nurse came to show me what to do with my fortnightly injections. I can't tell you how worked up I was about injecting myself, but when the time came I did it with no trouble. I don't know what all the fuss is about!!??!! Still that's it now for 2 weeks, so I can now prepare myself for then.

Thanks for stopping by, and please come back soon.

 

Simple Chocolate Bliss

It's scorchio again today and my back garden has turned yellow with all the fallen leaves everywhere, and no sooner do you sweep them up, more replace them. Needless to say, I gave up and sat down to catch up on some crafting.

Over at the Clean and Simple Challenge they had this sketch, and also at the Stampin Royalty challenge#91 they are asking for K.I.S.S ( Keep It Simple Sweetie )

So, here is the simple card I'll be entering into both challenges

I started with a cream card and layered it with some brown card. I then added a strip of paler brown card across the top, and with the same card cut it with a decorative punch. I then stamped the filigree image onto some cream card in dark brown ink, and added  the punched card to the bottom and stuck it in the center, To finish it the sentiment was stamped on cream card mounted onto brown card and stuck down on 3D pads for some dimension.

Recipe : Card = So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, pale brown and cream card stock from my stash

Stamps = Bliss and Verve

Ink = Chocolate Chip

Tools = Martha Stewart Border Punch and 3D pads

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow as I have a nurse coming to show me how to inject my new medication. I have a phobia about needles, and although I have blood taken regularly and have IV hospital treatments, someone else is in control and I don't have to look!!! I keep telling myself that it'll be OK, but I'm still dreading it. I'll let you know if I manage to do it?!

Well that's all folks!, and I hope to have time to craft some more.

Thanks for dropping by today, and I hope you can return soon.



Loopy Birthday!

I'm busy again this weekend as it's my nephews 4th birthday, so with less free time it calls for another quick CAS card.


Over at CAS-ual Fridays challenge they are looking for something loopy! So out came my ribbon box, and I was drawn to the pink ribbons I won in the candy from Make My Monday, and my card was born.



Here it is with the other bits and pieces added, in one of my favourite colour combos of pink and green.

 

As I've just acquired my Baby Blossoms set ( just in the nick of time before it was retired ) I was itching to play with it, so I wanted to use it on this project. To match the ribbons I stamped 3 single roses in 2 pink inks, and added leaves to 2 of them before cutting them out. I then stamped the frame in green and added a pink sentiment, and stuck the ribbons along the bottom to create 3 loops. A 5" square card had the corners rounded and was put through the Big Shot in a butterfly embossing folder and the frame added. The finishing touch was the addition of 2 gems at the top and bottom of the frame, and the roses placed on 3D pads for dimension.

Recipe : Card = SU Whisper White and a White card from my stash 

Inks = Pixie Pink, Pink Passion, and Certainly Celery

Stamps = Baby Blossoms and Verve

Tools = Big Shot and Butterfly Kisses embossing folder

Extras = Pink ribbons, 3D pads, and gems.

Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope you can come back soon

Rockin' Robin

Phew, it's been scorchio here today, and it's supposed to get even hotter tomorrow, so I will be doing everything possible to keep in the shade.

I've had another busy day, but managed to find some time to make a card. I saw over at Kraft Journal challenge  they were asking for us to "Use a Sketch" as inspiration or CASE it.                                         Some time ago I saw this sketch at Clean and Simple challenge and loved it's simplicity, so have decided to use it.

I'm still doing the Christmas list for my friend ( and I think this is the last one?) so this is what I came up with.

 

 I started with a cream card and masked off an area a third of the way down with Post Its. I sponged this area with green, and then randomly stamped a pine sprig, a leaf, and holly leaves in various green inks, before drawing a wiggely gold line along the outline.  I then used the BS to cut 3 labels in cream and stuck them on the green stamped panel ( sadly the photo doesn't really show how the green makes the cream labels stand out ). I made 3 Robins with the Bird punch and stuck one on each of the labels. The finishing touch was the green stamped sentiment above the border which was put in place with my Stamp-a-ma-jig.

Recipe : Card = SU So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Poppy Parade, and cream card from my stash

Inks = Certainly Celery, Always Artichoke, and Handsome Hunter

Stamps = Dovecraft

Tools = Big Shot and Labels Nestabilities

Extras = Gold Pilot marker

Have you noticed the middle Robin is facing the wrong way? When sticking them together I hadn't noticed he was the other way around till I came to put them on the card, but I think I like it that he is different. What do you think?

  

Today, Mum has been here helping me to clean my carpet in my lounge and dining room with a Vax machine. Our logic was that the humid weather would help to dry them afterwards, but we didn't invisage just how hot we would get doing it. Neither of us are in the best of health and both are crippled with RA, so the moaning and groaning we did would have made a hole in the Ozone layer! Still it got done, and I was glad to sit and rest this evening and do some crafting.

This weekend we will be doing various things for Nathan's 4th birthday, so I wont get chance to do anything else till next week.

I hope you all have a good weekend and can make the most of the returning summer before it disappears again.

Thanks for dropping by today.

Triple Layer Dandelion Wish

This afternoon I have had an hour to myself, and I've spent it unwinding and trying to craft. Again, I've struggled with where and what to start, but finally decided to hit two for the price of one with the CAS-ual Fridays challenge #21 hinting at the colours idea ( I went with shades of Green with Brown ), and Less is More challenge for the layout.






I used a cream square card as the base and stamped the sentiment in brown in the bottom corner. With the BS I cut 3 label nestabilities in 3 different green cards and layered them with the darkest at the bottom and lightest on the top. I then stamped the dandelion head in brown on the top card.



This is the finished simple card, what do you think?

Recipe : Card = SU Garden Green, Green Galore, Gable Green, and cream card from my stash

Ink = Chocolate Chip

Stamps = Personal Impressions

Tools = Big Shot and Labels nestabilities

Thanks for looking here today, and I'll be back again with some more project soon ( I hope!)