Floral Frenzy...

The challenge this week over at My Time to Craft is themed 'Floral Frenzy' so it seemed a good opportunity to show this card I made for a forum friend.

Yes, it's that enormous flower from Elusive Images that I used on the ATCs I showed yesterday. This time I stamped the flower twice and decoupaged it to give depth. The leaf is a stamp from the same set.

It doesn't show very much in the photo but the background is actually a swirly leaf design on tinted acetate. It's really unusual and lush to use. I believe it's by Kanban, but I got it at my favourite market stall.

Thanks for looking and also for leaving such fantastic comments. I really appreciate them. Have a great weekend everyone and see you Monday for the new Pink Elephant challenge.

Summer Flowers...

These are two ATCs I made recently for a forum swap I was involved in on the theme of Summer Flowers.

I had a fabulous time both stamping and colouring them. The quote was stamped in the centre of the ATC and then by masking sections off I stamped the huge (Elusive Images) flower around the quote.

I used many 'sunshine' shades of Promarkers to colour the images - one ATC was completely coloured and on the second on I attached a small tinted piece of acetate over the quote.

Charmed Cards and Crafts have a brilliant competion running at the moment so I have entered my ATCs into the 'Anything Goes' section - amazing prizes so fingers crossed! If you haven't entered this yet time is running out so do pop over and have a look - please don't win though!!

Hello Kitty...

Laura wanted a card for her friend's birthday and seeing as her friend is a big Hello Kitty fan it seemed a good time to pull out the fantastic Sizzix die given to me by my good friend Max. Thank you again Max and watch out for the postman today or maybe tomorrow!

I thought it would be really easy using the die but oh my it's quite fiddly getting all the seperate bits cut out in the different colours and putting it all together.

I found a great way of adding the eyes though. When you cut Kitty out the eyes and nose are holes - by adding DST on the back you get a stick surface in the hole into which you can pop the black eye and nose. I found doing it this way gives a super neat finish.

I've added as much bling as possible to the card to match the sparkly personality of her friend - I do hope she likes the card. Laura was thrilled and says her friend will be too.

As the theme at Creative Inspirations is Bling this time my card is perfect for that challenge too.