Yeah The Pink Elephant Day...

This week at The Pink Elephant our Spotlight Company is The Cutting Cafe and the design team were really lucky to be given some super cute images by the owner Regina Easter.  If you haven't spotted The Cutting Cafe before do pop over and take a look.  The whole site is full of inspiration and some amazing designs.

Due to a really long and difficult shift at work and being ill myself I haven't had time to do an all dancing and singing creation.  However, I think this is where digi images and printables really come into their own as you can play for ages and do a fantastically artistic creation or some thing quick and easy as I have done today.

I got the idea for my paper clip bookmarks from Vicki at Blue Jelly Too.  She sent me some wonderful blog candy and two fabulous handmade book marks, which were the initial inspiration for my versions.  I used one of the rabbit images from The Cutting Cafe Easter Set and printed a sheet of the bunnies in many different pastel shades.

Then using the smallest of the Nellie Snellen circle dies and using masking tape to ensure the image was central I cut the circular flowers.  Matching circles were cut and the paperclip was then sandwiched between the two flowers with Pinflair glue. 

So quick and super easy to make and yet great fund raisers - I hope!  My daughter has already put in an order for some for the Nursing Home she works at and I'm going to make some to sell in aid of Mencap.

I have a feeling the rest of The Pink Elephant team will have done some really amazing stuff so do take a look at their creations and watch out for something really exciting happening at TPE on April 1st!!!
FAO  Carole...
I placed the Nellie Snellen die over the image so that the rabbit and sentiment were central.  As the sentiment is quite close to the actual cut edge I used masking tape (the sort that Barbara Gray recommends as that does not tear the paper on removal) to hold the die securely.  I do find that sometimes dies slip in my Wizard.  Not sure whether this applies to other machines or not.

Bah!Humbug! Day - Peel offs for Christmas...

This week at Bah! Humbug! we are digging deep into our craftroom stock and finding those long forgotten peel offs.  I still love to use peel offs for borders and sentiments, but when I first started cardmaking with my daughter, we seemed to buy some very weird and wonderful peel off sheets that have never seen the light of day.

Well, this week with the challenge of using peel offs to create a Christmas card at Bah! Humbug! I got some of them out.  I found a sheet that I really liked with small Christmas trees on and a stag in full flight.  With fingers crossed I got out my Cuttlebug village embossing folder to see if the proportions would fit together okay.  I was really pleased to find they did and went on to create these two cards.

I used core'dinations cardstock and the village Cuttlebug embossing folder for the main scene on both cards.  After embossing I sanded the card to reveal the white core and then used a white glaze pen and glitter to touch up the roof tops, etc.  The peel off tree and sentiment were stuck directly on to the scene in the second card.  The deer was stuck on to blue card and then attached to the base card.  Then I glittered the surrounding area to create the snow effect.

Both cards have silver peel off borders and sentiments.   The snowflakes were made using a Quickcutz die and a small punch.

Thank you so much for looking and for your lovely comments (fingers crossed and hopeful to get some).  Hope to see you joining in at Bah! Humbug! this week.

Another Easter Card...

Another Easter card using one of the fabulous Pollycraft images I won recently.  How lucky was I?  Just love them.  As well as the cat and the duck being super cute I love the tree on this image, because it lends itself to adding paper flowers or gemstones as I have done on this card.   The image was coloured with Promarkers and the designer paper is from the DCWV Spring stack again.

Challenges...

• Simon Says Stamp - Easter with some glimmer (hope my gemstones have enough glimmer)
• The Sweet Stop Sketch - sketch and something fuzzy (hmmm well cats have fuzzy fur and I go fuzzy when I see a cute image like this one - hope that counts.)
• Incy Wincy Designs - Spring

Short post today as busy getting house ready for very important guest...

Irene from All Occasions Cards, Papers and More  She's staying here and we're visiting the N.E.C. together tomorrow.  Only to look round you understand - we're not buying - lol!!!