I Nearly Did it Again

Almost forgot to post my card/bookmark before the closing date on Gingersnap Creations.  Would not be the first time!!

This is my card for the Colour Challenge - Red and Gold.  I hope it is ok that it has black in it but when I looked at the DT samples they were not pure red and gold so I guess it is.

The white bit at the base is the scanner lid - it's because of the beads dangling on the bookmark part.

I stamped and embossed in gold the small fan and then cut out, painstakingly, the  struts at the base of the fans so that I could mount the whole on red cardstock.  Next it was mounted on gold, then more red and finally on the black base card.  The writing down the side is on the inside back page and has perforations down the side so that it can be taken off by the recipient and used as a bookmark.  Hope you follow that.  Another fan, this time with beads attached, finishes it off.

I did start another one but whether I will manage to finish it or not remains to be seen - maybe it will get uploaded tomorrow as I think there is still time to enter.  Maybe it will remain unfinished and as an idea in my head.

Dragons Dream TIO

Over on Dragons Dream TIO (I thought that was "T - ten" - doh!) Zoe has chosen the theme this week and it is "All the Write Postage" so I guess it is about sending some form of mail.  I decided to use a Postcard stamp I have as I find Postcards evocative simply because we rarely use them apart from on holiday and because the Victorians used them a lot and you can find some very elaborate ones in antique shops.

Then I thought about the type of people who might have used the Postcard and went to my Non Sequitur "Love Letters" rubber stamps and used a couple of images from there.

The background is Distress Inks Tumbled Glass and Chipped Sapphire, a combination I have not used before but which I will use again.

Anywhere, here it is:

... minus fibres (I am not a fibre person with tags which probably explains why I have a tin full LOL) but with the obligatory postage stamp.

It's Postcards This Week ...

... On Just for Fun.  My third week of choosing under the umbrella "Size Matters" is Postcards (wonder what I chose for next week?).  Postcards are something that we automatically associate with holidays and send, hastily scribbled on the beach or in some cafe with a "Wish you were here" theme.  But they needn't be!  We can send a postcard at any time - to wish someone well, to cheer someone up, to congratulate or thank them - the possibilities are endless.  And the beauty of them is that they cost minimal postage.  (OK, so I have begun my last two sentences with a conjunction but I am writing as if I am talking to you so in my book I can get away with it.)

Why not go the whole hog and make someone a postcard, stamp an image and colour it in, make a scenic postcard, do a pattern, use a diecut, the possibilities are endless.  It would be fun to receive one through the post and imagine the look on the Postie's face as he pushed it through the letterbox.  You know what?  Think I will send myself one.  Only kidding!

I digress - here is my entry for the Just for Fun Challenge this week:

I adore the Mad Hatter - nothing to do with Johnny Depp although he does rather have a pair of gorgeous eyes - so the Mad Hatter had to be in on the scene.  You may have gathered I am an Alice fan so I had to do a second one

This was my original to be honest but I coloured in with Promarkers and, of course, they bled through.  Have now included the first one as one of my swaps on the Challenge.  There's even a message on the back from Alice for whoever gets it so why not do some swapping yourself this month.

Read all about it, lots of information regarding Postcards on the Just for Fun blog so let your fingers do the walking and take a trip over there - you won't be disappointed.

WOYWW 102 and Flying

Nothing much to show you on my desk today as I had a major clean up after the previous posting of my Steampunk Album.

There's a card in the making (see below), some legs with red shoes (don't ask) and a clear acrylic album I finished off that had been started at CHA.  See - I have been finishing stuff off - two more albums since my Steampunk one below.

I have been dumfing again - this time little bits and I have made some inchies (a bit late for the JFF Challenge) but it was an idea I saw on the web somewhere and I thought I would make one bookmark for each of my fellow DT'ers.  I can also enter this into the Spotlight Challenge which is to use at least three inchies - and there are three here on this card.

Don't look too closely at my stitching!  Please!  My lettering is not that brilliant either but I cannot remember how to do wiggly writing using "Word" so I did it by hand and stamped the illuminated "F" for contrast.

Now it is time to pop on over to see Ms Dunnitt and what she is up to (a new look blog no less) and chase around all those links to the various blogs with lots of inspiration (unlike mine today).  

Steampunk Album

I decided to upload my Steampunk Album via Video as I thought it would be better for you all to see.  Not sure now I have viewed it so may add some photographs.  At least I am talking you through it but a  little annoyed as my head has got on the film and I didn't want to be on at all - not in the state I am in tonight!!!

Anyway, here it is

Think I had better get some photos taken as well and then you can see it better - sorry about that - afraid Chas will not be taking over from David Lean!

Sorry about all that folks - hope you get the picture with both still and movie!

Scraplings 12/5

Scraps? What do you do with them?  Save them up in endless bags intending to use them at some later date only to find you take out a new piece of cardstock instead?  Or do you use them?  I find I am a bit half and half. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I can't be bothered because there is a piece of pristine cardstock there in just the colour I want so it gets cut up.


Well, Scraplings, are the left over bits from the square cards that are so popular to make these days.  I think it was Shari Carroll of Hero Arts fame who first introduced Scraplings.  If I am wrong I know someone will correct me on this.  You can read about it here:


http://heroarts.com/learning/technique.cfm?techID=103&catID=3  then scroll down page to find scraplings.


We need to remember, however, that UK sized cardstock is different to that in the USA so if we make a 5.5" x 5.5" card the left over piece is approximately 2.5" x 11" which when folded in half gives us 2.5" x 5.5" to decorate.  it is the left over piece that makes a "scrapling".

The DT on Just for Fun made some crackers and here are my attempts - the first three you will already have seen but the last one is a new one.

I tried to do them differently so that it would give you some ideas.  The first one is a photo image (can't remember who the stamp is by) and I put some scrapbook paper on the cardstock and then carefully cut around the flowers on the left hand side with a scalpel.  Then I inserted the image.  A little bit of lace (got side-tracked and tidied my whole set of drawers whilst looking for the right piece) and the word "wonder" stamped in the bottom corner and that one was finished.

The next one is a Paperartsy image (Kids plate) stamped and embossed in brown with some Twinkling H2o's to add colour.  Corrugated card underneath coloured with Ink Stains (Weathered Wood and Broken China) and a Tim Holtz Gear which I thought looked like a ship's wheel.

The last one I thought I would use a die cut in case there was someone out there who wanted to do something like that.    A Spellbinders flower (Daisy Delight), coloured with Brilliance Peacock Tri Pad, top flower and leaves on sticky pads to make them stand out a bit and a sentiment courtesy of Stampin' Up.

Here is my other one - one for the men:

Again Paperartsy

Stamped mainly in Black with black tinges around the edges, some Walnut Stain rubbed on in places and Glossy Accents on the words.  All I need is a man to send it to now.

I do hope you will have a go at a Scrapling or two.  They make nice cards to just send as a RAK (Random Act of Kindness), to say "Thank You" or to include with a gift.  And they are made from Scraps!

For some reason when Blogger was down it changed this post from Thursday (day it went out - and was published!) to Friday.  It also did not download my comments that had been moderated so I had a couple in my Outlook Express and have copied them across.  Don't want anyone to feel they have wasted time commenting but sorry if yours was not there.

WOYWW 101 and The Green Mat Is Gone

Nothing much to show you.  Not having a good time with my Promarkers - I need one to one tuition.  Also need more colours and to get a chart going with the "true" colours on.

As you can see I keep my Promarkers in a drawer - in polythene bags in colour families.  Not very good but I don't seem to have a lot of room for storing these.

Trying to do a card for someone and it is not going right at all so I have given up - she may have to have a totally different one to the one in my head.  Maybe it is the way I am at the moment.

Anyway, there are much more interesting desks out there in the world than mine so why not pop yourselves over to Julia's blog and see what other peeps are offering - goodies, tips and "reet good snoops".  Where do you go?  The Stamping Ground of course - Wednesday's treat for all the crafters.  See you there!

ps the Green mat is on the floor (been there days) - looks better for photos - guess it will be back until I get a new one.