tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60079871115758299312024-02-28T10:21:29.523+00:00Izzwizz CreationsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.comBlogger415125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-29407803531906267462015-05-15T17:11:00.002+01:002015-05-15T17:11:36.468+01:00A New HomeNo, I'm not moving house, but I am changing blogs. Recently I have been painting rather than cardmaking and I wanted to let you know where to find me...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-32581288186722718942015-01-26T19:02:00.000+00:002015-01-26T12:04:39.708+00:00Pax<div>
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This picture is inspired by nature. It started life as a plain A4 picture frame from that large Swedish store.<br />
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There are layers of lace, texture paste, paperclay embellishments and white diecut card stuck down to make a scene with lots of texture before the whole thing is coated with a few coats of white gesso and left to dry. <br />
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Some pearls are added to some of the flowers.<br />
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Some straw with a few flat-backed pearls makes a pretty nest for this little wooden bird.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-1617028616646276842014-12-07T08:00:00.000+00:002014-12-07T08:00:12.440+00:00Walking in a Winter Wonderland...My goodness, time flies at this time of year. There is so much to do before Christmas, but there's still time to make a few cards and this month we are making it easy for you at <a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a>. Share one of your handmade Christmas cards with the theme of "Winter Wonderland"and you could win a fabulous prize from <a href="http://www.chloescreativecards.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stamps by Chloe</a>. Before you head on over to our challenge blog to see my teamies' wonderful creations, here's a little inspiration from yours truly...<br />
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3. Remove the shapes to a clean sheet of paper and sprinkle heat-emboss in clear. I used a clear holographic powder on these snowflakes for added sparkle. The great thing about distress stains is they stay wet for a while, so it's a perfect ink for embossing.<br />
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4. Here's the free background you created once the shapes are removed, and below are some more closeups of the snowflakes... <br />
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If you like, you can turn the shapes over and repeat the process, then add some jump rings and use them in your cards or in jewellery or ornaments, etc. I'll be sharing a card next week that features one of these snowflakes.<br />
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This is why you need a big non-stick mat (some people use a box to spray in, but I'm not that organised)! Don't worry though, it cleans off with a wipe. Oh, and don't waste all that lovely ink on the mat. Spritz with a little water and drag some card through to create another background :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-61423540057570363132014-11-02T08:00:00.000+00:002014-11-02T08:00:06.847+00:00Christmas is coming.....it's only November, but Christmas is just around the corner and this month at <a href="http://www.sirstampalot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> we have a nice and easy Christmas theme for you, so get started on those Christmas cards! <br />
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The background of my card is made using Tim Holtz' snowflake stamps with an embossing resist technique and Peacock Feathers distress ink. The sentiment is cut from a scrap of the decorated card, and the card itself is finished with a few gems, some ribbon and a couple of handmade stickpins.<br />
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As always, we have a fantastic prize for the winning entry on our challenge blog, which is a £35 store voucher for <a href="http://www.littleclaire.co.uk/" target="_blank">Little Clare designs</a>.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-23814489872673986842014-10-18T13:06:00.000+01:002014-10-19T10:36:52.232+01:00 A Goldfish BowlThis card was a lot of fun to make! <br />
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I started by making a box from white card and cutting the aperture before decorating the front with some wood patterned paper and blue distress inks. Some acetate was sealed behind the aperture and the background sealed in place.<br />
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I wanted something really colourful, and found this in my "ones I prepared earlier" file lol! Anyway, I used a Sizzix stamp and emboss set over the top of this together with some clear heat-embossing to create the "fronds", and went over the whole thing with darker inks to mimic the bottom of the sea. It was cut down to size to fit the base of the box, and the fish were attached using little strips of acetate and dabs of glossy accents so they wiggle when you move the box.<br />
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Before glueing the lid down, some little drops of glossy accents are added to the acetate and some seed beads and shells glued into the base of the box to look like the bottom of the bowl.<br />
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The white box is wrapped in a brown card wrapper decorated with door stamps heat-embossed in gold.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-49485482261670033042014-10-05T08:00:00.000+01:002014-10-05T08:00:02.069+01:00Warm Autumn Colours - October at Stamping SensationsWow, October is here already. What a wonderful warm September we have had here in Northern Ireland, and the trees are looking fantastic in all their Autumn glory, so what better inspiration than nature for this month's theme at Stamping Sensations and we are asking you to produce something with "Warm Autumn Colours". Share your creation on the challenge blog and you have a chance to win a fabulous prize from Imagination Crafts.<br />
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For my project this time I chose to make an easel card a la Sue Wilson. You can make the front of the card any size you like (as long as you have an envelope to fit!), and then just adhere an easel stand to the back cut using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz easel die.<br />
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I started with a piece of faded orange backing paper from DCVW Pumpkin Patch, then overstamped with some of my favourite meadow stamps, colouring some in and creating a leafy frame. Various autumnal shades of archival inks are used to give some depth.<br />
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The bird is stamped from a Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz set in archival, and overpainted using watercolour paints. I love the effect you get using this technique, which allows some of the stamp detail to show through the translucent paint. The branch and tree trunk are painted in by hand to match, using the same colours as the bird to tie the scene together.<br />
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... but instead diecut a lot of leaves from Pumpkin Patch patterned paper and used them to decorate the frame giving the feel of a bird peeping through the leaves.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-12115258622955921072014-09-21T14:08:00.000+01:002014-09-21T14:08:28.417+01:00Small frameThis small frame is decorated with diecuts, paper flowers, paperclay embellishments and texture paste, covered with a couple of coats of good quality gesso, then sprayed with water-based inks to decorate.<br />
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Sorry for the washed-out photos. The pictures came out too dark and I tried to rememdy by increasing the brightness. I'm finding photography a bit challenging with the deterioration in my eyesight, I'm not too sure what I've snapped until I see it on the big computer screen, but I'm learning. Next time this happens, I'll take the photos again :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-37510608062269906542014-09-07T08:00:00.000+01:002014-09-07T08:00:08.708+01:00Things With Wings - September at Stamping SensationsThis month at <a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> we are asking you to submit projects with the theme "Things with Wings". This can be anything you like, even fairies or angels, but I went with the obvious and chose birds and butterflies.<br />
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The background is inked with my favourite subtle distress colours and overstamped using lots of different nature stamps and a grey archival ink.<br />
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The vintage graphics bird and butterfly are dipped in clear, melted UTEE before adhering to the card with Pinflair glue gel.<br />
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The honeycomb frame is cut (using the new Tim Holtz die) from old cardboard packaging, sanded and stained with metallic distress stain. Inner pieces are added from spare pieces of the background stamped card.<br />
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Well, that's my Stamping Sensations "Thing With Wings" Design Team piece for the month. I do hope you will visit the blog to see my team mates' creations, and enter our challenge. As always, we have a fantastic prize. This month, <a href="http://www.craftydevilspapercraft.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafty Devils</a> are offering the winner a massive gift voucher to spend on anything in their store, so why not go have a browse and dream what you could spend the winnings on :-) Maddy x<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-37962334171896673102014-08-02T08:00:00.000+01:002014-08-02T08:00:06.251+01:00Anything Goes in August at Stamping Sensations"Anything Goes" this month, so I'm sharing something very different, a pair of altered shoes! I couldn't resist a pair of comfy Clarks shoes at a tenner in their sale, but I'm really not ready for beige shoes. They had a lovely nubuck finish which is just ideal for stamping on, so I got out my new birthday stamps from Crafty Individuals and set about changing the look...<br />
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Of course, shoes have to look like a matching pair, so I was careful to repeat the stamping on both shoes.<br />
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These tiny meadow stamps are just perfect for the velcro straps.<br />
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And a butterfly always makes a great focal point :-)<br />
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I used Ranger Archival ink for nice, crisp images that hopefully should resist the water (not that it rains in Ireland...)<br />
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...and stamped without using an acrylic block, just holding the stamp and pressing onto the shoe.<br />
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My Nan (you know, the one who was a cross between Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax who alwyas said she wasn't superstitious) wouldn't let us put our shoes on the table because it was bad luck. I thought of her while I was taking the photographs! <br />
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The newly released Twisted Twine 674e and 584e, together worth nearly forty pounds!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-88015646675851429932014-08-01T00:01:00.000+01:002014-08-01T00:01:00.281+01:00LoveI won this "Love" wooden blank from a blog challenge earlier in the year, but am posting it today to say a "Happy Anniversary" to my husband Tom. We have been married 25 years today, so are celebrating our silver wedding anniversary with a big party in the garden. Please keep you fingers crossed for us that we have good weather!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-45249490053085854692014-07-12T13:12:00.001+01:002014-07-12T13:12:29.456+01:00Shabby Chic Altered MirrorI've been altering a lot of stuff lately instead of making cards. Don't know what has come over me! Anyway, this Ikea mirror has been in my stash for ages and I had a sudden inspiration on what I wanted to do with it.<br />
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Then I cut some of my favourite diecuts from white card and used them to make a scene. Once happy with the layout, I stuck those down too.<br />
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The final step is to add some colour by spraying with distress reinker diluted in mister pens. I used lots of Tattered Rose, Antique Linen , Tumbled Glass and Bundled Sage.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-56335448699332809372014-07-06T08:00:00.000+01:002014-07-06T08:00:04.440+01:00Summer Blooms at Stamping SensationsThis month at <a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/p/ur-sponsors.html" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> we are asking you to submit projects with the theme "Summer Blooms". It can be anything you like, but must feature some stamping. There is a brilliant prize on offer of $60 to spend at <a href="http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/" target="_blank">Heartfelt Creations</a> (please note that PP&S will apply outside the US). They are one of my favourite companies so it really is a terrific prize this month! So, on to my DT card.<br />
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The background is stamped in Archival using Kaisercraft's "Secret Bird Society" stamp set and coloured using distress markers. This is matted onto card and decorated with lace before layering and fixing to the base card.<br />
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The Heartfelt Creations Chateau Gate die is used to cut the window from brown card. There are matching stamp sets for this die which can change the look from wood to stone, etc. but here I've just added some gilding for an old painted look. There is a tutorial to make the window box. I couldn't resist adding a bit of bling in the form of these teardrop gem sprigs that I bought in a tiny craft shop just outside Derry / Londonderry. That lovely image is from the Graphic45 Birdsong paper pad. There are a host of images just the right size for this window if you are careful which part of the paper you use.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-82204937271790322642014-07-05T08:00:00.000+01:002014-07-05T08:00:01.061+01:00Stencil it! at Countryviewcrafts this month.I'm honoured to be guest designing for <a href="http://www.countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Country View Challenges</a> this month. <a href="http://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/" target="_blank">Country View Crafts</a> is one of my favourite companies. They have a huge range of craft stash at reasonable prices and free P&P, even to here in Northern Ireland! For July the challenge is "Stencil it!" and it gave me a great excuse to get the texture paste out.<br />
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I came across some blank Artemio frames in a local department store. They are probably the largest pieces I've worked on to date, and this first one to be finished is probably a bit full of small details, but it was great fun to do. I thought you might like to see some of the intermediate steps and some closeups of the details, so there are plenty of pics to follow.<br />
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Bought stencils are great, and I've used a few in this project, but it's also easy to make your own from acetate by diecutting. The best dies to use to cut acetate are the steel rule type, such the Sizzix Bigz and Originals dies. Here, I've used the Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz "Garden Greens". After diecutting the plastic, I like to spray the back with repositionable adhesive and this makes it easy to stick the stencil to your artwork while applying the paste, and to remove it when you're done.<br />
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This window uses a diecut from white card with lace stuck on behind the diecut, and the whole thing is covered with a layer of white gesso.<br />
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Or the one at the top of the gate? There are lots more birds hidden in the finished picture, but I'll leave them for you to find. I hope I've inspired you to get your stencils out and join in with the challenge - there's a fabulous prize on offer for the winner!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-27433420978594922822014-06-26T13:39:00.000+01:002014-06-26T13:39:19.837+01:00Cock-a-doodle-do!You know how hubby keeps chickens. Well, he also likes to hatch their eggs, but of course when you hatch eggs you get roughly half and half cockerels and hens. In normal practice, the cockerels would be despatched and cooked up in a sunday roast after a few months. But no, not ours. They are pampered, so this card is a tribute to our first born chick, Chirpy, who is over two years old now.<br />
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This section is cut using on of Tim Holtz' new dies. I diecut some old packaging for the outside edges and stained with metallic distress stain. The inner pieces are diecut from scraps of the decorated background card.<br />
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I found this bee and decoupaged cockerel in my stash. I think they were printed some time ago using some free images from the Graphics Fair. Anyway, a quick dip into the meltpot gives them a lovely glossy coating of UTEE. Cock-a-doodle-do!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-14841290659900694932014-06-20T17:45:00.000+01:002014-06-20T17:45:04.290+01:00Tim's Tags of 2014 - June Journal Page!Mea culpa, my bad. Once again I have used this month's tag techniques to make something other than a tag - these are a couple of journal pages from my new Dylusions journal. I've only recently started journalling and htis is the first time I've shared any journal pages, so please go easy on me :-)<br />
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I hope Tim will forgive me, but I just couldn't resist painting this little wren into his nest! If you want to have a go at your own version of Tim's tags, there's a new one posted on <a href="http://www.timholtz.com/" target="_blank">his website</a> every month.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-18116283013319165522014-06-10T12:44:00.000+01:002014-06-10T12:44:14.550+01:00A blingy birthday cardThis is the second of the "Animal Antics" cards I told you about last week. There's plenty of time for you to join in with us at <a href="http://www.sirstampalot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> with your take on this month's theme and the chance to win a £35 gift voucher for <a href="http://www.craftyindividuals.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafty Individuals</a>. Now back to the card. My mil loves a bit of bling, so that's the inspiration behind this card for her birthday, even though it's not my usual style. Actually, it's really not my type of card at all if I'm honest. <br />
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Flaming June it ain't! We have been having some terrific thunderstorms this week. Still, everything is growing well with all this rain so it's not all bad. Fingers crossed for some better weather later in the Summer and lots of blingy blooms :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-20235160744440734112014-06-07T17:15:00.000+01:002014-06-07T17:15:16.487+01:00If Friends Were Flowers...<br />
I promised to share the other cards I made for the <a href="http://www.sirstampalot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> "Animal Antics" theme, and this is the first one. The image is coloured with promarkers, the mad birds are from a DC swap (thank you) and the flower and feather embellishments are made from UTEE.<br />
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It's been a strange weather week. A couple of good days, a couple of cold days, and today has been thunderstorms and torrential rain with dry spells in between. Someone said not to worry, it's Summer so at least the rain is warmer :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-45849041249675260812014-06-01T08:00:00.000+01:002014-06-01T08:00:07.908+01:00Animal Antics - June Stamping Sensations Challenge This month's challenge at <a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> is "Animal Antics". You can create anything you like as long as it fits with the theme and features some stamping, and as always there is a fabulous prize on offer. The June prize is a bumper package of £35 of <a href="http://www.craftyindividuals.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafty Individuals</a> goodies of your choice! Wow :-)<br />
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I had four goes at making a card for this theme before I was happy. As you know, I'm not the sort of crafter who like to use cute images, so the first two cards I tried turned out nice enough, but they just weren't me. The third one I made I liked, but felt that it didn't really fit the theme. So I went back to the cute images, and came up with a design that is a bit more "me" iyswim! I'll show you the other three in the days to come, but first here's my DT card for June.<br />
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I made an A5 landscape card blank from thick brown card, and diecut an aperture in the front to site the Spellbinders tree. The decorative diecuts on the front of the card are coloured by rubbing on some Inka Gold.<br />
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The hedgehog is stamped in Memento and coloured using Promarkers. He's an old Papermania stamp.<br />
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This panel is stuck inside the card to provide a backdrop. It was my first attempt using Panpastels and was fun to do, using lots of different nature stamps with versamark ink and brushing the pastels over the stamped images to colour. <br />
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Just for fun, here's a photo of the card before I added my wonky lettering. Diecut letters are great for adding whatever sentiment you like to a card, but as you can see I'm a bit too clumsy with my hands to do a neat job, so what I do is make it good and wonky then it looks like you've done it on purpose lol! Please come and join in with us this month on the challenge blog; I can't wait to see what you've been up to!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-23566915038920813702014-05-24T14:59:00.002+01:002014-05-24T14:59:43.067+01:00A more colourful accordion cardIf you liked last week's accordion card but prefer things a bit more colourful, then this might be the one for you.<br />
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A sizzix birdcage folder is used to emboss brown card for the front and back covers, and blue, red & gold Pinflair buff-it is rubbed on to highlight areas.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-33634023080889152292014-05-15T06:00:00.000+01:002014-05-18T17:22:08.829+01:00A Salt PotEntered for the following challenge:<br />
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Whenever I think of salt, it reminds me of my Nan. If even the tiniest bit of salt was ever spilt, we had to draw a cross in it and throw a piece over our left shoulder to "hit the devil in the face". It was bad luck to spill salt. It was also bad luck to walk under ladders, put your shoes on the table, put an umbrella up indoors, take your clothes off to turn them the right way if you had put something on inside-out, turn back if you'd started your journey and forgotten something, etc. etc. But she always maintained "I'm not superstitious" lol! If you know Terry Pratchett's writing, you can think of my Nan as a cross between Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax. In fact, I swear Terry Pratchett must have based the characters in his books on half the people who lived in my Nan's road when I was a kid. There was even a "Nobby Nobs"! So, bearing in mind that salt is not to be wasted, how about recycling the salt packaging to make this...<br />
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"Paintbrush Pot"</div>
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OK, I admit, it's not my best work, but it was free :-) Well sort of, if you don't count the money I spent on the pretty papers...<br />
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This is the type of salt container that I started with. Just get someone to cut the top off and make a nice neat job...<br />
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...a good pair of scissors should be all that is needed.<br />
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Cover the outside and inside with patterned papers and cover up the join with some hessian ribbon before adding some flower trim. Keep the decoration fairly simple if you want to be able to use the pot!!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007987111575829931.post-5771074556565419602014-05-14T06:00:00.000+01:002014-05-18T17:46:40.943+01:00Hi Chickadee!Entered for the following challenge:<br />
<a href="http://asprinkleofimagination.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">A sprinkle of imagination </a>- a sprinkle of colour<br />
<a href="http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/may-challenge-in-garden.html" target="_blank">The artistic stamper </a>- in the garden<br />
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Here's another card using from more of my bargains from the Sizzix Mega Sale. This one is just for a bit of fun :-)<br />
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The "stamp and diecut" pieces are backed with red card using a technique learned from Sue Wilson, diecut the red card using the same dies and cut in half before fixing to the back of each diecut so that the card is showing.</div>
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A "stamp and emboss" set was used to make the central white flower motif (do you recognise it as the same one used to make yesterday's card? It looks so different with a different colour scheme!). I also used a Stamposaurus stencil to ink through to make the rays of the sun and the lattice marks in the grass.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07046320821560763915noreply@blogger.com4