So that's means it's Bah! Humbug! day and this is one week where I really felt like saying Bah! Humbug!, stamping my feet and scowling like a mad women. For some strange reason I decided on Monday that my craft area needed sorting. Hmm, bad idea as it is now the end of the week and what could have been a small job is turning into a marathon. If I had tried to enter 'What's on your Workdesk Wednesday' this week it would have been more a case of 'What desk? Where? Not good and it meant that to complete my card for this week's challenge of 'Candy Canes' I had to take all the things I needed downstairs and work on the dining table. So guess what - now the downstairs is a mess too now. Sigh!!
Ah well less rambling and on to describe what I've done for my candy cane card. I wanted to use the candy images to make a frame that had a love heart shape to it. I also thought that making the heart an apperture with a romantic image inside might work well. The image I've used is one from the Hallmark Forever Friends CD which I copy and pasted into Craft Artist so that I could play around with the heart and apperture idea.
My original thoughts were to have the image on the card inner and the apperture on the front, but of course I realised that it would mean cutting through far too many layers. Instead after printing and cutting out the apperture piece I matted it on to the cute bears image using a double layer of foam pads to really raise it up and give a nice window effect. After completing the card I realised that I could have kept the original opening idea by making the apperture and image a small card on the front of the main card and have fastened with a ribbon. Maybe next time I'll try that.
The papers are by We R Memory Keepers and I chose the fab glittery paper as it made me think of rolled up candy canes. A peel off sentiment, and stamped sentiment mounted on a matching snowflake complete the card. The red panels are embossed with Swiss Dots, but unfortunately they don't show up very well in the photo.
Additional Challenges...
Have a great weekend everyone. I'm hoping to complete my craft sort out so that I can actually do some fun playing. Have missed entering so many of my favourite challenges recently. Perhaps I will be able to catch up next week.
Ann xxx
