Tilda in the long grass...

This is my card for the challenge on http://magnoliachallengeblog.blogspot.com/ which is 'That torn it'!

The grass in my Tilda picture is torn from two different shades of green to create Tilda's garden. The flower face and the 'just because' are from a set of Studio G stamps.

The blue sky backing paper is from the DCWV Spring Pack.

Sorry about the little scrap of red on the leaves - it shouldn't be there! Don't know how it balanced there for the photo but I didn't notice it until I uploaded it. It has now been removed but I'm just tooooooooooo lazy to take another photo.

Graduation card - for a fella!

The challenge on http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ was to make a card for 'the fellas'. There were all kinds of things I wanted to try and may still - time permitting, but when I started following the sketch on http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/ this graduation card seemed to fall into place. That does not happen to me often!!!

The 'congratulations' paper is by DCWV and is from one of their fabulous paper stacks. The actual circle is a CD but it's not showing up too well on the photo. The black half of the circle has been embossed with the spots cuttlebug folder and on this particular black card it punctures the card slightly allowing the white back to come through but I quite like the effect so have kept it out of the bin!

The 'Congratulations' stamp is a clear stamp from Autumn Leaves in the range designed by Tia Bennett. Mine came free in a 'thank you ' bag with an order from one of my favourite American craft sites - Bargain Garden - see link in side panel. Amazing stamps at amazing prices and you get gifts with your order too!!! Please don't buy everything if you do visit though will you?

The space at the bottom will be used to place a name to personalise the card when I know who it's for.

Engagement cards...

Well my internet, phone and TV service was down most of the day yesterday - thank you so much Virgin Media!! Felt pretty much the same way myself too as I am still full of a dreadful chest infection that is stopping me from sleeping and making me feel so low. Off to doctors today - hoping for a miracle cure!!!

However, card making alway helps and I had a little flurry yesterday making engagement cards for a commission from one of Laura's Uni friends.

I printed a whole sheet of romantic images from Joanna Sheen's fabulous Dancing with Shadows CD on to inkjet acetate. I love the effect you get when you lay a silhouette printed on acetate on to a sheet of glitter card. Winter scenes look stunning on white and others look good on some blue and white shaded glitter card I have that looks almost like a cloudy sky.

For this romantic couple in the sunset I used some glitter card that has almost a rainbow of warm shades running through it. I was hoping to pick up the sunset that was already printed on the image to some extent.

Quite difficult to take photos of acetate cards -tried one on white paper which looked really silly and finally decided that this one was the best. The tag will have the couples name on to finish the card.