Pink Elephant Day...

Yeah it's...

at The Pink Elephant and the colours are Black, White, Red and Yellow!

A great combination - check out what my super talented team mates have created. My card is a tiny 4" x 4", which was a real change to the huge cards I have been working on lately. Sometimes it's great to work on a small scale.

I was looking through my paper collection when a I spotted a really dramatic black and white floral paper that was shouting out 'Use me - Use me'! So I decided to take one flower from the paper and using Promarkers colour it in this week's colour scheme. To add dimension I coloured 4 flowers and layered them up like a mandela.

Actually I stuck each flower on black card before cutting out as I felt the paper would be too floppy to be used on it's own. I hate decoupage that is fragile!

The sketch I used for the card is from this week's challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges. It's a fantastic sketch to work with and you should see the cards the DT have come up with - amazing.

This was such a super easy card to make - think I need to look at more patterned papers to see what else I can create with them.

Have a great day everyone.

Is it a bird?...

Is it a plane?

No it's a really cool pencil holder I picked up at 'The Works' for only £1.99 - what a bargain? I must admit it was about a month ago when I got mine, but I would think they will still have them in stock. It comes in a pack as two circles with supports that slot into both the top and bottom - very easy to put together and very sturdy once made.


I must admit I bought it for my Promarkers, but the spaces are not quite wide enough. What a shame as it's so nice to be able to see and pull out the colour you want so easily. Copics would probably be fine as they are a much slimmer pen.

Well celebrating Jame's birthday went well - hence no card and slight hangover plus I think I've had all my 'Slimming World' sins for the next month!! I daren't even look how many there are in naan bread - sheesh far too scary in my fragile condition!

Have a great weekend everyone and see you Monday for the Pink Elephant challenge.

Happy Birthday James...

Well James escaped the House Mouse in a blue tutu card. After Max's comment about him thinking I had got the wrong idea about his personality I decided that perhaps it was a bit much.

So out came the folded shirt that has saved my life so many times when making a quick card for a man. This time though instead of using patterned paper for the shirt I decided to use real money and combine the card with the gift so to speak.

I felt so extravagant folding up money - bit like those scenes where someone has won the lottery and lights their cigar with a note. I also had to remind myself to be really careful and not throw away the practice ones with the DST waste!

Due to this card my window cleaner has also joined the long line of people worried about my sanity. When he came today I grabbed one of my practice notes to pay him and you should have seen his face as I unfolded the shirt!!

As our paper money is such weird shades I decided to play safe and use acetate for the card and I must admit I'm rather chuffed with the way it's turned out. The photo is a bit iffy due to reflections - I did try all kinds of shots and this was the best one.

After deciding where to put the shirt on the card I made two holes in the bottom layer of the shirt and two holes in the acetate which enable me to sew a cotton loop which holds the shirt in place.

On the reverse of the shirt I've put a little instruction label. This not only hides the ends of the cotton, but also makes sure that James doesn't throw the card away. Last year I did him a card with a denim pocket with real money popping out of the top and it took him a few days to realise the note was real. Men!!!


Jame's card is also for the challenge at Rainbow Lady's challenge blog where the theme is/was acetate. I'm scheduling this post for really early in the morning before Cynthia changes the challenge. Is that cheating? Probably!

My card is also for the challenge at Allsorts where this week they want everyone to make a card using no stamps anywhere! Phew a tricky one there!