Monday, 22 June 2009

Pink Elephant Sketch Week...

This week we have a great sketch by Carol and we are being sponsored by the Unity Stamp Company. If you haven't seen the fabulous stamps sets by Unity do check them out. They have some amazing quote stamps and other really cool designs.

Unity Stamps not only provided a prize for our challenge, but also gave each member of the team a set of stamps to play with. Yeah how kind is that?

I got a really fabulous set called Folk Inspired and I'm sure I will be using it to make lots of cards over the coming weeks. Actually I quite fancy stamping on to material and doing some stitching too. Hmmm maybe something to take on holiday with me methinks.

On today's card I have used the heart scroll and a sentiment stamp from the set. I stamped them on to water colour card and then painted with Adirondack inks. To finish the design I added a couple of pearls and mounted the oval on to two shades of maroon card. The ribbon is dyed with Cranberry ink too (thanks again Ali) to match the image and papers.

If you would like to join in the challenge this week (don't forget we have a great prize up for grabs for some lucky person chosen by random org.) pop over to The Pink Elephant and check out Carol's great sketch for yourself. We would love to see your interpretations of the sketch.

Friday, 19 June 2009

A Birthday for you...

A birthday card for my box and for quite a few challenges. I actually coloured this image the other week, but put it to one side because I wasn't happy with the hair. I thought I'd got it way too dark, but having bought a white inkssentials pen this week I used it to add a couple of highlights. I'm much happier with the effect now.

Challenges:

Materials used:

  • Pollycraft stamp
  • Paper by DCWV
  • Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder
  • Cricut - flowers
  • Green card, buttons, gems and peel offs from stash

Thursday, 18 June 2009

New Punches...

Sorry my photos are terrible this morning but my new punches are just stunning. If you haven't checked out the Docrafts sale yet do, because they are selling some things amazingly cheaply. I recently ordered a set of 5 (huge) Papermania punches for only £5.99. They were reduced from £49.99!!!

Last night I had a little play and used the floral circle punch to create this card and the bookmark below. The circles are punched into white card and then matted on to glitter card which unfortunately you can't really see to it's advantage in the photo.

I can see all kinds of possibilities for these punches. The other punch I played with was a square design and it by punching closely together it made a fabulous ornate border - love it - watch this space!!

Challenges:

Materials used:

  • Papermania punch
  • glitter card and white card
  • gems, peel offs and tassel from stash

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