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Les Feuilles Mortes is one of my favourite songs. This embossed Autumn Leaf card is for Rainbow Lady's challenge. The double aperture is backed with ivory gauze, the stamped image raised over the top window & in the bottom window I've put glass beads on wire in autumn shades.
I love recipe challenges. They make me root through boxes to find pieces that hang together & en route I find many bits & bobs I'd forgotten. So here are: 1 ribbon, 1 brad, 2 buttons, 1 stamped image & striped paper for the "Lots to Do" challenge.
This is actually a copy of a card I have posted before, but I am always intrigued by the effect of a different colour way on a design. I prefer this version. My Time to Craft asked for "Bright and Bold" this week. Isn't there a saying that goes something like "Be careful what you ask for -you might get it!"?!?!?
I think I took the easy option for the Arty Girlz altered anything challenge. I have spent a very rainy afternoon therapeutically glueing on glass tiles in a wonderfully rhythmic pattern & watery colours on a plain photo frame. The picture is of us on our boat on Lake Geneva.
My mouth began watering as I made this pink & brown card for the Created by Hand challenge. Then I realised the strawberry, vanilla & chocolate backing paper was inducing thoughts of Neapolitan ice-cream! I thoroughly enjoyed following a sketch for the first time & am proud to say it's made almost entirely of recycled bits & bobs. The sketch is Katharina's for PTW.
Just a quickie from me as I was in the theatre last night & will be again all today & tomorrow. That means mum's over here helping out & this time it's a Golden Wedding card she needs for a "do" on her return to the UK. La voila -shaker cards have to be my favourite makes.
tried to colour a stamp! So I grabbed the kids' school watercolour crayons then scoured the house for... a brush! Now a brush is well outside my comfort zone & it was just as tricky as I thought it would be! But I now have a card for my son's birthday & have completed the Created by Hand challenge.
could have saved 900! My duvet began to split & I didn't mend it for yonks till... the whole seam came undone! I hadn't used my machine for years -sew before I began I fiddled around on a piece of card for fun to ease me into the chore-bore! This card is the result & is for the PTW challenge.
My U.S niece is 13. I'm crafting with difficulty just now so thought I'd do unlike me things -like use glitter! Well I certainly did that & gave myself a laugh in the process! I'll send it her anyway, for what it is -& hope you'll laugh along with me!
Thanks for encouraging me to blog. I'll try & post a few times a week. Please leave a "coucou" & I'll pop by your blog. This card is for Rainbow Lady's Music Challenge. It's the most requested one in my musical circles by the girlz for their men.
I'm from Cromer & it's known for its crabs. Try spotting my well camouflaged inchie! It's for the Inchy by Inch places challenge.
... so I did! I avoid stamping. I buy stamps to make myself learn & still don't! I kept it simple & was still challenged outside my comfort zone. Guess that's why they're called challenges!
Here's my second DCM challenge -animals & this is for the Leo in my life, but I'll have to camouflage him until August!
My first DCM challenge -recycling. The "merci" & ribbon are from a card I received. I often recycle but don't dare give the cards in case I accidentally offend whoever gave it to me!
Not sure what came over me here - I am NOT a Sesame Street fan! But there does seem to be a Big Bird influence happening here! Rainbow Lady & her Bird Challenge may never recover!
My Time to Craft ribbons challenge and fiddling, a ribbon frame took shape. This resulted: a playschooler's riot of delight -ribbon, mesh, felt, wooden flowers, lots of fun, but probably OTT for most of my friends! Keep changing my mind as to what I think...
I enjoyed making a frame card earlier this year so I tried a different take on the Arty Girlz 3D challenge: the image going into the card rather than coming out. I love the effect of framing.
Funky Fairy is totally dotty! So am I cos I should be getting lunch ready! Looks like it's frozen pizza again -teeheehee!
The Inch by Inch challenge is to use a word starting with the initial of your first name -sew here's mine! Well that's what I thought the challenge was -duh! I had sew much fun creating this inchy -but the result is only sew-sew: I didn't see you were supposed to include things starting with the initial too! But hey -we all know that the old fashioned word "button" has been replaced by the much more user friendly expression "Sew-able/on-able/fastener" which quite obviously starts with S -sew I'm not as stupid as I seem. Then there's stitching & strands - and obviously I'm clutching at straws!!!
Buttons & a punched buckle to hold a ribbon bow et voila a gift box for the Funky Fairy recipe challenge & a moment of therapy after the theft of my mobile & purse today. Oh, and thanks to Inchy by Inch for cheering up my day too -my "hot" inchy (below) picked up the blog candy prize! Thank you, Fiona!
Thanks to Rainbow Lady for having pink in her challenge! To be combined with black & 1 other colour. Two firsts here -for ages I've wanted to give a spiral jotter a new lease of life & I've been wondering how to make those cheery ribbon flowers. This was great fun to create!
I love Rainbow Lady's challenges! Imaginative & with oodles of space for creativity. But this week I have failed & should be disqualified! I post my card nonetheless with a sense of arrogant pride: I tried, did not make the grade, but still have a card which is perfect for my nearly 30 year old step-daughter!
There's an awesome new challenge blog -Inch by Inch. Inspired by beautiful posts I thought I'd try it -how difficult & how much fun?!? One inch by one inch & to include any word is all -hah!!! Anyway here's mine which I dedicate to all the "Kiss Me Kate" cast & crew. We were indeed "Too Darn Hot"!!!
The Fairy Godmothers granting the baby's wishes -& so much acetate, iridescent hearts & glitter that it's too difficult to get a decent shot. Sorry everyone! This is for Rainbow Lady's challenge which this week is fairies.
Here is yet another commissioned baby card. I guess it will soon be the wedding season instead lol! This one was also designed to suit the DCM midweek challenge to use folds on the card -here the envelope is folded. I wish I had some gadget to emboss my card blanks and add interest..... but I haven't.
A card for Rainbow Lady's plastic challenge and a CD for the Lots to Do challenge! I'm feeling emotional as the "KMK" run finished yesterday -no more "Another op'nin, Another show" for me. This is a plastic cd cover attached to a card blank & a KMK poster as backing paper to decorate the CD. I cut the kiss & kate from a flyer, mounted them on red card & SWALKED the plastic shut.... a card for the producers!
Waves for the Papertake Weekly challenge hand-embossed onto the card blank & a scalloped edge that's 1cm shorter than the back so the card stands up balanced on the lighthouse panel. I used the scalloped off-cut on the bottom layer of the card to add dimension. TFL!
Are you thinking garters & "something borrowed, something blue"? Here's my Poppicrafts ribbon challenge card. Skim down & you'll see what a ribbon user I am -not! I've used 84cm & 7 different types here(there's an aqua ribbon under the lace).
Here is my Big Tree, Little Tree card for this week's challenge from Rainbow Lady. Please take a look. All the supplies came from my local supermarket in the post Christmas reductions, apart from the greeting banner which came from the Lakeland sale!
The prize I received from Dawny -thanks for your inspiration, for being there & for all the advice. Visit her at Pink Piggy -it's well worth it! Now I'll Pass It Forward to the first 3 people who leave a comment!
It's square! Here's my Papertake Weekly Challenge card. Hilarious! I made mistake after mistake. The card kept getting smaller as I cut it to start again. I was left with a dinky little 8 x 8cm card! BTW I used black funky foam for the matting & layering, just for fun & texture!
This is for the Papertake Weekly Challenge. I'm stuck in a rut at the moment with commissioned baby cards. My friend loves it, but I'm tired of doing prams for babies.
My brother-in-law is a round the world sailor. I loved playing with the wire & beads for this birthday card for him.
