Back Again Keeping It Simple

Well, only a quick posting this time - here is my second card for the Less Is More Challenge - Pick a Square.  This time I chose the bottom right hand square because I wanted her to have her eyes (only thing coloured - Key Lime Twinkling H2o's) stand out and look at whoever is opening the card.  I used my Sun Rays folder for the front of the card and placed her over the circular bit so that the rays are coming from the image.

I love this stamp which was a freebie with Craft Stamper and to emphasise her eyes I mounted the image on Lime Green cardstock before putting it on the main card.

Hope you like it.

Kept it Simple

Well, this morning I decided to mount a couple of rubber stamps - then a couple turned into four, four into eight - you get the picture?  Now I have quite a little pile all waiting to be stamped onto the index card ready for the laminator.  Somehow I think that is a tomorrow job.

No, it did not take me all day, I went into the study intending to tidy up a bit but one thing led to another and before I knew it I was sitting on the floor surrounded by the entire contents of one cupboard.  Couldn't leave it at one - so they all had to be done.  Looks better but I did not achieve the crafting I intended.

Anyhow I did manage to make a couple of cards for the Less Is More Challenge which I have never joined before but which I have always intended doing.  First of all I used four inchies with my new stamps (Inkadinkadoo - bought at Aintree) which were stamped in Black onto mountboard coloured with Distress Inks.   Then I covered them with Glossy Accents to make them into tiny tiles.

I had one left over so I made a gift tag

Both follow the criteria laid down for this weeks Challenge which is Pick a Square.  As you can see for my card I have chosen the centre square and for the gift tag the bottom left one.  It will be the card I am entering.  

Off to do another one.

I've Turned Into The White Rabbit

Just knew it would happen one time - my obsession with Alice in Wonderland - today I am definitely the White Rabbit "I'm late, I'm late".  Completely forgot to post my TEA CARDS for Just for Fun and it was my choice of theme!  Doh!  What am I like?

Well, here they are

Three tea cards stamped with butterflies (part of a collection?), painted with Twinkling H2o's, chalk background overstamped with a dotty stamp and then the images mounted on white card.

You can find all the details over on  the Just for Fun Challenge Blog plus some fabulous samples from the rest of the Design Team. Then there is a special treat today - we have our very first Guest Designer.  Florence!  Florence has been with us since the beginning and does some amazing work - you never know what she is going to stamp her design on - pieces of wood, metal, tiles, even board from a builder's skip!  Every one she does simply blows you away - you really must check out her tea cards - a fantastic idea and I love the link she has made to the wrap.  You must click on each picture too and look at all the details there is in them all.

Well, better get this "live" and out there, bet the others wonder where I am.  Do visit the challenge blog and it would be lovely to see your take on tea cards - lots of information on the blog and do remember you do not have to have tiny stamps, partial images look lovely too.  Hope to see you there over the coming week.

Can't be Wednesday Again

Gosh! these Wednesdays seem to come round awfully quickly.  Am sure it was only two or three days ago since it was Wednesday yet my calendar tells me it is Wednesday today.  That can only mean one thing - it's WOYWW.  Guess what?  Have nothing really to show for it.  Thanks anyway to all of you who so kindly commented last week, promise next week I will be more organised.

There's my new stamps at the left hand side of the photo, then there is my Queen card - that might be interesting to you, some diecuts waiting transformation and a tray full of buttons.

I bought one of the button packets (three of us shared the £10 offer) and tonight set about making a necklace.  The guy did not tell us how much ribbon you needed and as my head was not working I just measured off the length I want plus a bit (you know how you do) and it is too short - more like a choker!  Forgot to allow for the up and down through each button hole.  Doh!  Reckon you need about three times your length.

The card - well first of all the bodice is an acrylic piece with a stamped image behind it and then coloured in with Glitter pens.  The wings are a stamp, as is the head and legs.  Two cards from a mini pack - Joker and Queen of Hearts - the words are all computer generated as is the negative look picture.  Lastly there are some glow in the dark hearts scattered about , a skeleton leaf and a butterfly.

Right, better go now as I have heaps to do and got a hospital appointment later - off for a lovely soak in the bath!  Have a nice WOYWW day everyone and don't forget to go over to The Stamping Ground and see what everyone has been up to.

When is Twine Twine?

Or "what is twine?"  According to Wikipedia "Twine is a light string or strong thread composed of two or more smaller strands or yarns twisted together.  More generally, the term can be applied to any thin cord."

Why am I puzzling over this?  Because it is one of the Challenges over on Gingersnap Creations and I have a yen to enter.  Missed out last month when the themes were centred around "Asian" (I adore Asian themes) so am trying to enter some this month but not got many things I can use as the general overall theme is Cowboys.  OK so mine is not Cowboyish at all.

Here is my card for "Twine"

As you can see I have stamped a Tim Holtz image for my background (used Momento London Fog) and then cut out a shape with Labels 20 (new - bought at weekend) and stamped and embossed in Black another TH image.

To finish off I have cut out some buttons (coloured with UTEE) and cotton reels (again TH but this time dies) and both with Twine on.

Didn't get around to showing you any photographs of when I went to Aintree on Saturday - only took a couple so here is one showing some of my friends from Victoria Stampers who met up and were introduced to Marie from Greece.

from left to right: Mo, Marie, Jeannie, Carmel, Jacqui (Lorraine and Sue were sat outside on a bench which I never found).  Poor Marie, everyone talked her head off and I rummaged in her shopping to see what she had bought.  Then encouraged her to buy more - not that she needed that much encouragement.  It was lovely to meet up with her and really quite comical when it finally happened.  Hope you have a safe journey back to Greece Marie and come again soon - please.

Asian Again

Well, I did finish off my second entry for the Gingersnap Creations Color Challenge by adding some beaded fringing to the base of the card when I got up this morning.

I had begun this card ages ago by stamping the Geisha on acetate twice.  That meant I could turn one of them back to front and so get a mirror image.  I wanted to create the illusion of twin Geisha's welcoming you to the karyukai as I thought twin Geisha's would be quite novel in a situation like that.  I then added the acetate to some gold mirror card and made a shrine type frame for it in black cardstock to which I added some red jewels.  

I then added some red beads which to me looked as if they could have been Asian and a second row to fill them out.  The whole was then mounted on Gold mirror card and finally on red cardstock.

This really is a last minute entry to the Challenge but one which I started when the Challenge was first put up - hence the determination to finish.

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.