Stayed up Late

I just had to do the RSS Challenge before I go away (yes, I am going on holiday soon) but every time I looked at the criteria (pink, grey, white, braces, letter B, corrugated card, masking on background) I shuddered. What could I do?

Well, tonight I decided to give "Jamie's American Road Trip" a miss and do the challenge. I had already thought "B" is for "Bird(s)" and then I hit upon these two postoid stamps with an Oriental flavour.

I stamped the two bird images on white cardstock and then put them on some mountboard to give them more stability and painted the flowers pink (both different IRL - Twinkling H20's again). Next I found a nice grey cardstock and, after hunting for ages, put it through my ribber. This was my "Oriental Scroll" so I put eyelets in the top and a piece of silver cord. Mounted the "scroll" on pink mottled cardstock and then on black.

The main grey card is the same as the ribbed one and I stamped my favourite Geisha on it and then masked her out and stamped some bird feathers on the side with Peony Brilliance Ink. The "scroll" piece was then mounted alongside and I put my brace at the bottom. This had been my stumbling block in the thought process as I didn't have either a die or a rubber stamp for it. "Ting" the light bulb went on and I made one from two of my Nestabilities.

Finally the letter "B" was diecut and mounted - voila - here is my entry for the RSS challenge.

Black and Orange - Christmas?

The theme this week on Lots to Do Challenge is "Black and Orange" so immediately my mind went to Halloween but then I thought I could do something else and I made a Christmas card. New festive colourways?

I first stamped the image (Elusive Images) in black and then embossed it. Coloured the whole of the bauble with orange chalks (three different colours but it does not show in the scan) and then got my Twinkling H2o's out and began painting each little shape. Would you believe it, I used eight different shades of orange. Not content with using all of my orange Twinkling H2o's I decided to mix some more myself and began with reds and yellows. I mixed them on a piece of plastic and oh what gorgeous shimmering shades I got. Not that you can tell on the scan, or the actual card - but they looked fantastic on the plastic. So each different shape is done in a different shade in reality.

I had to take advantage of having made an image for a card so did a couple of diecut shapes to mount it on so I can take it with me to my demo on Sunday.