Monday, 30 November 2009

Pink Elephant Day...

I really can't believe Monday is here again and we have a new challenge at The Pink Elephant.

This week is a colour theme and wow it's a super easy one...

Use your favourite colouring medium - how fun is that? For my card I used Promarkers - since buying the new colour range I just can't stop using these pens. I just love them.

I decided to make an acetate card and this may be the last one I ever do as it was just so hard to take a photo of. Some of the shots had a reflection of me on complete with camera - some had the windows etc - oh it was so tricky. I must try to find out how the experts manage as this card is really quite nice in real life (honest) and yet the photo does not do it justice at all.

The image I've used is Swiss Pixies Nora by C.C. Designs and oh my do they do some gorgeous stamps? I hadn't heard of them until my friend Irene won a challenge in the Summer and received a couple of beautiful stamps. Check out her cards here and here. Aren't they just fabulous?

Each month at C. C. Designs there are new designs and the great thing is you can get the images in both rubber and digi versions. I love my rubber, but for us over here in England it can take a long time for stamps to travel over the pond and the postage makes them more expensive too. Buying the digi version solves both those problems.

The fancy border on my card and 'snow' sentiment are all rub ons which were very kindly sent to me as part of some lovely blog candy from Fab at Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge. Thank you again Fab - I love these rub ons.

Have a great day everyone and hope you are able to join in our challenge at The Pink Elephant this week.

Ann xxx

Friday, 27 November 2009

Here come's Santa Claus...

Well Messy Rabbit in Santa suit which is near enough as long as it's craft stuff in those parcels! Wonder why he's delivering presents in a room where the calender says it's only half way through December? I'm got a degree in worrying about tiny details like this!!

Materials used:
  • Messy Rabbit Santa by Joanna Sheen
  • bedroom room backing paper is from backing paper pad also by Joanna Sheen
  • silver mirri card and blue pearlescent
  • Fiskars Shapeboss to emboss holly border on card
  • rub on white Christmas sentiment
  • tag cut using Spellbinder tag die
  • gem and ribbon from stash
Challenges:
and of course Allsorts Challenge Blog (and I have so enjoyed entering cards for this - ends Saturday - what am I going to do?) - Christmas Songs or Carols. Today's song is 'Here comes Santa Claus'.

Have a great weekend everyone - see you on Monday for the Pink Elephant Challenge.

Ann xxx

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Stunning lady...

I don't usually like large A4 cards, but when I saw this glamourous lady A3 decoupage sheet at the Kanban outlet shop I just couldn't leave her behind. You can't tell in this photo, unfortunately, but she is decoupaged and both her dress and the tree in the background are embellished with gems and I added some Sakura Stardust to her skirt which is subtle but in real life looks really glitzy.

Due to the size of the card the sentiment was a bit of a problem. Sometimes, and maybe you do this too, I make the whole card and then can neither think where best to put the sentiment or what would fit best. On this occasion all the peel offs I had were just too tiny! Thank goodness for Keith at Wath market - what would I do without him? Not only did he have the right size (or the best fit I could have got), but it was in a box where all the peel offs were 5 sheets for a pound! Don't you just love it when that happens?

Materials used:
  • Kanban A3 decoupage sheet
  • gold sparkly card, red and black card
  • gold border and sentiment peel offs
  • gems from stash
Challenges:
and last but not least (I really can't resist entering this one yet again - just so much fun)....

Allsorts Challenge Blog - a Christmas song or Christmas Carol - I think with this glam lady my song has to be 'Mistletoe and Wine' by Cliff Richard which is I remember rightly has a romantic feel to it and this lady certainly looks like she's heading to a romantic 'mistletoe and wine' night out.

And lastly but really importantly Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. Yeah - hope each and everyone of you has a fabulous day.

Thank you so much to great friends who have become followers of my blog. Love having you around.