RSS week 3

Right, I have done my entry for the Ready Steady Stamp week 3 challenge.
This challenge has the 5 ingredients :



This time, when I read the list, I knew straight away what I was going to do (makes a change!)

Here is my card :

1) The monument is the stamp - Glastonbury Abbey
2) Blue colouring is obvious
3) The brads are my metal embellishments
4) The background is done using the cuttle wax technique (which is great fun!)
5) Finally, the snowflakes are made of cork. I have a large sheet of self adhesive cork (given to me by my sister, Jenni), and I put it through the cuttlebug with the snowflake dies. I then painted them with blue and silver Adirondak paint dabbers. Finally I added glitter glue (Icicle) to the blue ones.

I may still add words to it - something like Merry Christmas or Season's Greetings. I am not yet sure about that.

Thank you for looking

Some more cards

I am back again, with 2 more cards I made when my father was out here.
This card is made using my favourite distress ink technique. The background has been sprayed with glimmer mist (gold) to add a sparkle.

Here I combined the distress ink technique with some copper metal.

Thank you for looking, and for your comments.

RSS challenge - week 2

I have managed to do the new Ready Steady Stamp (RSS) challenge. It is every 2 weeks, and gives 5 ingrediants to be included in your card/art/scrapbook page/ATC/whatever you make.
As you can see, this week's ingrediants are :


Having just returned from hot and sunny Portugal, I decided to go with a very bright and summery feel (well, the theme is SUN)! To be honest, I am not sure if I like my card or not, so I do hope you will comment and let me know what you think.

1. As you can see the sun is in the sky (as it should be LOL)
2. I have plenty of yellow on the card
3. I have a blue ribbon on the card
4. I created an abstract triangle (bottom left) using an inkpad (I got this idea from Hermine Koster)
5. Finally the acetate is over the picture, to look like glass (you can't really see it in a photo).

The stamps are from Art Specially and Katzelkraft
The picture and frame are from Crafty Individuals

Trying new techniques

Here is another card I made with my father when he was here. I got the technique from the July issue of Craft Stamper magazine.
Basically, use glossy card and stamp the flowers with black stazon, then colour with adirondak inks and finally when it is dry, emboss the butterflies in white.
I really love the effect!

Christmas cards

I have not posted for ages, I have just been too busy! I have had my father here, and we made quite a few cards together, then he and my Mom headed for Portugal to meet the rest of the family for 2 weeks in a beautiful villa. Dave and I joined them for a few days.
It was a hot and fun break for us all.

Here are some of the cards my Dad and I made :

This is just a simple card, coloured with distress ink, and highlighted with icicle stickles.

In the next 2 cards I used a technique I learnt from Hermine Koster at the Art Specially event (in the Netherlands) earlier this year. Start with glossy card, and stamp with Stazon ink. Then use ditress ink or Adiromdak ink over. Finally highlight with white pen and glitter glue.

For the last Christmas card I tried my hand at metal work, using the Ten Second Studio tools to create a frame. I got the technique from Leandra Franich of PaperArtsy, the article was in the July 2009 Craft Stamper magazine. The photo does not really do the metal justice.

Thank you for looking, and for any comments you leave.