A bit of 'me time'

I've been lucky enough to get some time today to 'play' and make cards. I made a special card for a good friend who is getting married to his partner later this month. I won't post it here just in case he sees it but I'll post a pic next month.

I was also able to create a card for a couple of challenges I wanted to enter, the Colour Throwdown #151 (Rainbow colours) and the Sweet Stampin' f-f-f-f-fashion challenge (Fashion themed). Here's my entry...

Lift an Odd Girl Challenge

Some Odd Girl has an unusually titled challenge this week... Lift an Odd Girl! By 'lift' they mean 'be inspired by' and the challenge is to take inspiration from a card on one of the Odd Girl DT's blogs. I saw Asa's card and immediately thought of how I could use the ink spots stamp from 'French Foliage' to imitate the effect she got around her image. I also loved the sweet bow made from Twill tape. Here's my homage to Asa's card...

I masked off the 'Tiny Tia' image and then stamped around it using Crumb Cake both on the stamp and as a distress effect. To get the corrugated effect on the second layer I used my scoring blade on the paper trimmer to score lines across the card.I've then layered it up on So Saffron cardstock and added a sentiment from the 'Best Yet' stamp set (retired SU! set).

I coloured the image using my Promarkers and went for a subtle, almost monochrome colour scheme and I love the innocent look it gives.

Sneaky peek at... Light Up Your Life

This week's Papercraft Session is sure to be an illuminating one (*groan* ) as we're stamping on candles.

We'll be creating stamped tealights, and a pretty gift box to present them in, together with a co-ordinating greetings card. We'll also be tranferring stamped images onto a small pillar candle - these make fab Christmas presents! Here's a little look at the sort of treats we'll be making, although a choice of colours and designs will be available.

 

There are just 2 places left and booking closes at 8pm on Tuesday evening, to allow me the time to get all the materials prepared. Please call me on 0757 848 6669 to book your place.

On a different note, take a look to the left of my blog and you'll see I'm now sporting a banner to celebrate getting picked for the Top 3 in last week's Simply Stampin' Challenge! How chuffed am I?? It was first time entering the challenge so I'm especially proud. Now what can I come up with for this week's challenge I wonder?...

Simply Stampin' Challenge #16

I was really happy to discover that there is a Challenge blog especially for fans of Stampin' Up! products and couldn't wait to make and enter a card. This week's challenge is to make a card based on this sketch...

Seeing those flowers reminded me of a project I'd seen recently (on Sarah-Jane's Cards and a cuppa blog) and wanted to try; Scalloped Fan Toppers.

First I made my toppers using patterned papers from the Jolly Holiday DSP pack with Night of Navy CS and Very Vanilla CS. The large topper has been stamped using the french script and ink blot stamps from the 'French Foliage' set and the bird stamp from the Hostess set 'Silhouette Sentiments'. The smaller topper uses the ink blots again with the Paris postmark stamp, again from 'French Foliage'.

The base card is Cherry Cobbler CS layered with Night of Navy CS. I've stamped a wide strip of Very Vanilla CS with the 'Bella Toile' background stamp in Crumb Cake and added a narrow strip of the same DSP I used for the large topper. A piece of co-ordinating wide striped grosgrain ribbon finishes it off beautifully. Oh, nearly forgot the sentiment! It's from 'Perfect Punches' and is stamped in Night of Navy on Very Vanilla, cut out by hand and mounted onto a piece of DSP I punched out using the Oval Extra-Large punch.

I think it's quite 'Parisienne Chic' if I do say so myself ;)  Wish me luck!