New stamps - new home ...

Today see's the release of a new range of stamps by Joanna Sheen.  The series of stamps are called Country Life and you can see a video of Joanna showing many of the sample cards (including mine) here. 

For any Sheenies reading this - yep I was responsible for the very tongue in cheek ATC and what Joanna didn't own up to was that on the back in very large capital letters it says 'BUY MORE STORAGE'.  Problem solved!

I used Promarkers to colour the image, but added texture for the hedge and thatched roof using Derwent Inktense pencil crayons.  The sentiment is part of the same set of stamps and papers, lace and card are all from my stash.

My card is also for the challenges at...

• Papertake Weekly - New Beginnings
• Cute Card Thursday - All New
• Crafty Ann's - New
• Stampin' for the Weekend - New Beginnings

Happy Sunday everyone.

Ann xxx

Recycled Snowflake Number 2...

Here's the second card using a snowflake from one of the shop bought cards I was sent this Christmas.  You can see the original card and my first card in the post below. 

This time, with the influence of the challenge at Fab's Christmas Challenge, I decided to do a tall slim card and use the snowflake and it's backing.  I did cut out a nestie scalloped square to mat the topper on to and sandwich the acetate.

Glitzy border peel offs and simple sentiments seperated by snowflakes with added gemstones finish the card off.

Yeah another card for my Christmas box and the challenges at...

• Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge - tall, slim and maybe icy colours (yeah I covered both options) 
• Creatalicious Challenges - old (the snowflake is recycled), new (acetate), blue (snowflake) and torn (hmmm pushing my luck here but I did drop the card and one of the arms of the snowflake needed repairs!)
• ABC Challenge - layering - (layering plays a big part on acetate cards as you have to ensure that you sandwich the DST between the layers using both sides of the acetate so that no DST shows)
• Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Recycling

Have a fabulous weekend everyone.

Ann xxx

Yeah it's Bah! Humbug! Day...

I'm just so excited that I can hardly type - at long last it's January 8th and the start of the very first challenge at Bah! Humbug!

If you haven't already guessed from the clues I've been leaving here, there and everywhere the theme for our first week is recycling.  We want crafters to try to use something from one of the shopbought (I would never ever take a handmade card apart - far too precious) cards they received at Christmas.  It could also be some wrapping paper that didn't get crumpled or maybe some gorgeous ribbon from around those Thorton's choccies.  There's loads of really wow stuff out there that can be put to good use in our crafting.

This is the card I chose to recycle.  A really beautiful one by the Simon Elvin company.  To be truthful as soon as I saw it I sort of 'wanted' the snowflakes.  Not card or chipboard they seem to be made out of a kind of polystyrene or something similar.  Anyway whatever they are made out of they are lush and the other two will be appearing on other cards quite soon.

For the main image on my recycled card I've used my favourite snowmen digi by Whimsy Doodles - I just love these two characters and the sentiment that accompanies them, which I'm going to use inside the card.

To celebrate our first challenge at Bah! Humbug! we've got a rather nice stamp set for one lucky, randomly chosen person.  Do pop over there to check it out and hopefully join in.  We are happy for you to combine our challenge with others out there - I have! 
 
My card is also for the challenge at... 

• Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog - Recycling (great minds think alike Cynthia) 

Have a fantastic day everyone and hope to see some amazing recycling going on over the next week.
Ann xxx