Finger prints on acetate cards....

Acetate can look really messy if you get finger prints and smudges on it when making the card and quite a few friends have asked how I manage to keep mine so clean. Well don't look too closely, but to be truthful I clean the card after it's finished.

If I place a peel off in the wrong place and it leaves a sticky residue when moved I use Sticky Stuff remover by Betterware, but I think Lakeland sell something similar to clean the area. You have to be really careful obviously not to get it on the card stock, but with care you can a get a really good smear free finish.

If it's just finger prints on the acetate I use a dry or almost dry cloth (from the Sticky Stuff remover) to buff the card up.

Hope that's been of help to someone.

Ann xxx

Clearly Christmas Fun...

Here comes Messy Rabbit again and this time he's in a bit of a mess with his Christmas tree lights - well that's what comes of dressing up as a reindeer to put the trimmings up!

This is one of my favourites from the Joanna Sheen Christmas Messy Rabbit stamps. I just think the look on Messy's face says it all and I love the way the extra stamps on the sheet are so useful. There is a strand of lights which I have used on the card inner and a single bulb too.




Inside the card I've also used a sentiment clear stamp from my stash and I can't for the life of me remember who it is by, but it seemed perfect to go with the theme of the card.



Card Ingredients:

• Messy Rabbit Rudolf set of stamps
  
• A4 thick acetate
• gold mirri card, Ice Gold white card and red card
  
• sentiment and gold peel offs from stash
• Spellbinders Nestie Rectangles

My card is for the challenges at...

• La La Land - 'Christmas'
• Paper Play Challenges - 'Favourite Embellishment' - peel offs (very few of my cards escape without a peel off border sneaking on somewhere).
• Daring Card Makers - 'I can see clearly now' - acetate

Thank you once again everyone for your amazing comments - it's lovely to read everyone of them and sooooooooo brightens my day.

Ann xxx

Yeah Monday and it's The Pink Elephant Day!

This week, at The Pink Elephant, we have a sketch by the incredibly talented Lori. Wow this one was a super cool one to follow.

I decided to use my free digi from MFT that Kim very kindly gave everyone the chance to pick up over the weekend. MFT stamps are definitely one of 'My Favourite Things' so I was over the moon with this offer. Thank you so much Kim.

In Kim's words the only catch with the free digi was that they would ...

"like you to send a card made with your new stamp to someone you know that needs a lift. A friend who's blue, a charity organization you support, whatever makes you happy."

Hmmm, what a great idea. I've made my 'shoppers' card to cheer up a friend, who I know is feeling the 'winter's coming' blues. Inside the card I've added a 'Let's go shopping and cheer ourselves up' message. I know the card will brighten her day and we'll both have a lovely shopping trip to look forward to. Yeah two people cheered up in one go!!

Materials used:

• MFT digi image
• Promarkers
  
• Purple 'stardust' type card
• yellow paper
• floral (Kanban?) card
• brads from stash
• flowers and scalloped border cut on Cricut machine