Friday again...

Oh my the week's are just flying by and I really don't seem to have much spare time at all.  I really need to have some hours for some fun crafting soon.  

At Bah! Humbug! this week our theme is Cute Critters - I'm thinking there will be thousands of entries as it's a theme everyone will love.  For my card I chose to use a House Mouse decoupage sheet by Joanna Sheen.  I'm not over keen on printed decoupage but this set came free with a mag subscription so I thought I would give it a go.  The images are really large so unless you're doing a massive card they don't need much else adding.  This card is an A5 so as you can see the image almost fills the front.  I used Pepper and friends papers to go alongside the image as they seemed to match up well.

A Marianne die cut holly branch and tag with ribbon completes the card.

Do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to see the fab work of our guest designer and my pal Max.  

Have a great weekend.

Ann xxx

Yeah, it's Friday...

and I'm working all weekend - Booo!  Hiss!!

However, before I go I must show my card for our challenge at Bah! Humbug!  This week our theme is Fabric.  Hmm, something a little different and maybe more challenging perhaps.  I had so many thoughts for this including altering one of my thousands of bags for life into something far more Christmassy, but in the end I decided to make a card for a crafting friend.

My original idea was to use an organza bag as part of the card and fill it with charms for her to use in her craft projects, but the bags I had were either too big or too small so in the end the bag has just one item in it - a wine glass charm ring.  This way she can either use it on a glass or pull it apart and use the tiny corkscrew (how cute is that?) and beads on cards, etc.  I think she will love it.

To attach the bag I punched two holes in the front of the card and then threaded and tied the bag strings inside.  Then I added a ribbon to jazz up the front and hide the fact I made the holes too big - must do better next time!

I matt and layered the other papers on top after cutting an apperture in the front of each one and added a die cut frame to draw the eye to the focal point of the bag.  Bling and silver peel offs and sentiment finish the card off.

Other challenges...

• C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Unusual Christmas Card
• Charisma - Snowflakes

Have a good weekend everyone whether you are working or playing - it's all good!

Ann xxx

Paradise...

After trying to find space for some beautiful new designer papers I bought this week I thought it might be an idea to do some 'real' scrapbooking for a change instead of using Serif Craft Artist and having the whole page printed.

Typically I ended up not using any of my patterned paper at all, but two plain blue sheets of 12" x 12" card by DCWV and a amazing sketch from Sketchy Thursdays.

It was quite nerve wracking to cut my 6" x 4" photos down to just the 3" x 3" that eventually turned out to be the right size for the layout, but I'm glad I did now as I love they way they turned out.  After trimming I matt and layered each photo on to white and the same navy paper as my base colour. 

The title and journalling, which if you look carefully at the sketch, had to include a list, was planned on Serif Craft Artist (hmm still ended up using it for one part of the page after all) and then printed on Inkjet Acetate before being laid over the light blue.  Then I attached the photos and strip of embossed card on top.

I didn't add any extra embellishments as I really liked the simplicity of the page.  Hope others do too!

My page is also for the challenges at...

• Crafty Ann's Challenge - Monochromatic (eeeeek well it is apart from photos)
• Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

Wow - three posts in one day!  I'm on a roll which is about to come to an end as I am working all weekend.

Ah well needs must have a good weekend everyone.

Ann xxx