Cuttlebug Day...

Wednesday is the Be Inspired Challenge at http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/. This week the theme is distressing your work in any way you like. It may be sanding the embossing as I have done in my card or tearing or you might even want to stamp on your card. I've felt like that more than once in the past ! The choice is yours!

For my card I used one of the folders from the Stitched Squares set to form a quilt like effect. Each square was cut out using my Nestibility die set and then embossed. I found that the squares tended to slip when put through the machine and after a couple of dud quilt pieces I tried out a small piece of tape on the rear of the embossing folder to hole the card in place. It worked a treat.

The heart images and flowers are from a set by
Elusive Images.

I painted them to match the DCWV card and as you can see in the photo I added foam squares to give some depth. I decoupaged the central flowers.

I hope you can see the subtle sparkle - after finishing the painting I added a touch of Sakura Clear Stardust using it scribbled on my acrylic block and then added with a wet brush like water colour paints.



I particularly wanted to create a quilt style card to match up with this wonderful sentiment stamp that I have used on the inside of my card....

I believe it's from a sheet of stamps from the company My Heart Stamps for You - a truly lovely sentiment.

I do hope you will find time to join in the challenge this week and...

Do make sure you visit http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/ at the weekend as it is going to be a very exciting one - lots of inspiring projects, prizes and lurve around!!!

Check out the little poster in my sidebar for more information.

Black letters...

Suzanne at http://suzannelily.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/weekly-challenge-make-a-card-using-letters/ has just started a weekly challenge and this week the instructions were:

'make a card using letters as the main feature
can be the whole card or letters on the base of a standard card - you chose '.

I decided to go with this unmounted NOEL stamp. I love the way this stamp has silhouettes of the Christmas story behind the letters.

I stamped the image twice so that as well as the central square of letters I could also cut each letter out and layer these on top using foam pads to give a more 3D effect.









As the card is mainly black it is also ideal for the challenge at http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ who are celebrating 'Black Friday', which sounds like a frenzied day to be shopping in the US, by challenging everyone to use black on their projects.


Materials used:

• black and white card
• acetate
• black corner and border peel offs
• gems from stash
• unmounted stamp from 'My heart stamps for you'

Papertakeweekly Challenge

This week the challenge at http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ is a sketch by Katharina. On my card I have used DCWV checked paper teamed with green and pink card. The ballerina image and words are from a sheet of rubber stamps by an American company called My Heart Stamps for you. The little ballet dancer is called Brianna.

Looking at the card now I wish I had textured the bottom piece of green too but ah well!!