Bah! Humbug! Day ... Apertures

A very quick post from me today as I'm off to work shortly.  This week at Bah! Humbug! sees us using apertures on our cards.  Something I don't do as often as I should as they can be quite effective.  I decided to make my aperture a mouse sized one and create a mouse hole on the front of my card using part of a nestie circle.

I tried to make the front look like wall and skirting board. I suppose if the proportions were as in real life the skirting board would be far bigger, but I think it works okay as it is.  The little sign was printed on the computer and the holly was made using a punch.

On the inside the image from a stamp set by Joanna Sheen was coloured using Promarkers with a touch of Sakura white glaze pen and some glitter.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

My card is also for the challenges at...

• Fab's Big Christmas Challenge - curls (will be on my next creation) or pictures (on this one)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Christmas Sparkles - Predominantly red and green

Have a great weekend everyone.  I'm working most of it, but have a whole week off to look forward to. Yeah!

Ann xxx

Scrapping with help from Poundworld...

I'm not actually sure whether the glittery puffy stickers that I've used on these two holiday scrap book pages were from Poundworld or Poundland, but aren't they just fabbie?  I bought them last week when the challenge at Daring Cardmakers was to use something from a pound shop, but as per usual I didn't quite finish my projects on time.

I've got loads of them left including some really funky crabs that my daughter wants for her scrapbook.

On my first page I printed some journaling on to acetate and then mat and layed this to match the rest of the page before attaching it to the organza ribbon.

On page two I am so proud of the fact that I remembered to use my very expensive impulse buy toy - the Xyron Design Runner.  Again I printed on acetate and then lay the strip across the page fastening it behind the paper.  The bubbles were some embellishments that were in my Graphicus Goodie box and I love them so if anyone knows their proper name please let me know cause I've only about two left and I don't know what to ask for in craft shops.

Can't believe I'm being brave enough to put photos of me on here!  Please keep eyes focussed on the cute octopus or fishand not me!

Challenges...

• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Have a fantastic evening everyone.

See you on Friday hopefully for the new challenge at Bah! Humbug!

Ann xxx

Pound Shop bargain alert...

Having a really busy week this week so haven't got that much time for crafting, but just look what I picked up at Pound World on the way to work yesterday.  A card board weather resistant bird house!  How cute would this be with added digi characters and flowers maybe? 

It's on my list of things to do, but I wanted to put a post on here just in case anyone wanted to buy one themselves.  By the time I finish mine (if I ever do) they may not still be on sale. 

This is the bag they are sold in and they are really easy (speaking as someone who didn't get round to reading the instructions) to put together.  There were two versions in the shop I went to.  One was a tudor house (as in the photo) and I can't remember the name of the other, but it's kinda barn looking.  I must admit I was disappointed because neither are the lovely bright colours of the example on the packet and I'm not sure whether painting them would work or not.  Will have a think about that.

At Poundland I found a gorgeous card of ribbons just right for all the Spring theme challenges in blog land at the moment.  Well at least they would be if I had time to play.

As both Pound Shops are very near to where I wait for the bus to work I seem to pop in them more and more just lately so maybe there will be regular updates on things to watch out for.  Just waiting for a bus seems to be costing me a fortune!  I might as well tempt everyone else to spend too.

Ann xxx

Birthday Time...

Oh my goodness it's not today, tomorrow or even this week and yet I've actually finished my daughter's birthday card.  Yikes, this has to be a first as I'm usually at the very last minute.  I suppose I have to thank Cynthia at Rainbow Lady's Challenges for the inspiration as the theme over there this week is 'masked ball' and as soon as I saw it I remembered how much Shelley loved the masks on display when we visited Venice.  Another thank you has to go to Christine at Lady Lace's Crafting Space as she jogged my memory about the Debbie Moore images on this theme.  Crikey this post is beginning to sound like an Oscar ceremony!

Anyway less rambling and more detail.  These are the materials I used...

• image and diamond backing paper from Debbie Moore's first magazine
• green and purplish card
• purplish vellum attached over the diamond paper using brads.  Used this so there would be a shadow of the diamond pattern coming through
• diamond embossing folder - Cuttlebug
• corner die cuts by Spellbinders (cut smaller than actual die)
• gems and organza ribbon

Being so organised and doing my card extra early I even had chance to do a special inner.  Shelley will be so impressed as she's all too aware that normally I get into such a flap at the 11th hour.  Again the image is from the magazine.  I used the Hallmark card making CD to create the sentiment.

My card is also for the challenge at Crafty Ann's where this week the challenge is to create a birthday card.

Have a fab day everyone.  The sun is actually shining today in South Yorkshire - maybe Spring is finally here.  I do hope so.

Ann xxx