No Cards Allowed...

'You can make anything you like Bag, Note Book, Box, Candle, Tag, Tin etc but NO CARD please, and your creations MUST feature at least one Penny Black Image.'

These were the instructions at http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ last Saturday and strangely enough for an addicted 'card maker' I've had all kinds of ideas for this. In the end I used a small container (Poundland) and buttons from my stash to make a little xmas gift/RAK for one of my crafting friends. Haven't decided which one yet so everyone be nice to me till Christmas!!!

Materials used:

• plastic container


• buttons from stash


• Penny Black clear stamp


• Versafine ink pad


• Derwent Inktense pencils


• corrugated red and black card


• red button and pre-printed label from stash


• punched snowflake

Iris Folding...

Today I'm adding a card I've made for a close friend's birthday. The challenge of the week at http://lotstodocallenges.blogspot.com/ is to create a card using iris folding. This is a technique that I particularly like and as I have an unused rubber stamp of a perfume bottle by Personal Impressions that includes the pattern for the iris folding I decided to use that.

I do hope she likes the finished card.

Materials used:

* gold mirror card

* vellum with white ivy pattern

* vellum with gold ivy pattern

* different kinds of gold paper for iris folding at neck of bottle

* perfume bottle stamp by Personal Impressions

* Stazon black

* cream organza ribbon

* tag die cut

Hot tip: Test stamp Stazon on scrap of mirror card before stamping real image.

I discovered while making this card that not all mirror card reacts well to Stazon ink. My first attemps went really badly as the ink seemed to bring off some of the gold coating. After moving to a different type of mirror card everything was fine.

Babies...

Our challenge this week at http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/ is 'Babies'. I do hope lots of people will join in.

Materials used for baby girl card...

* pink card

* pink gingham paper and gold paper for matting and layering
* cabbage patch decoupage sheet
* pink satin ribbon