Are you bored yet……..

More cards to sell. There is some more interesting stuff coming along (promise!) but it takes time and I’ll be finished with my card making marathon by next Monday so you won’t have to suffer many more!!

 

               

 

Meanwhile this is what I have been up to.Using up some bits left from a Hunky Dory kit and other odds and ends. Still keeping it simple.

And just a few more frou frou cards……..

CD Crafting – more cards for MacMillan

Thought I really ought to make use of some of these CDs and digikits I keep buying. And the cards you can make with them have the advantage of being very quick if you want them to be!!

Here are a few made with the ‘Bloke’ collection from Serif (Not sure who the artist is but I’m pretty sure they do a lot of girly images as well – I have a mug and some rubber stamps in the same style). These are so simple it is almost a crime to call it card making but I think they turned out OK. Because I felt guilty they were so simple I put a matching insert inside each one.

I bought the original ‘Frou Frou’ papers and toppers and loved it so much it is one kit where I used every single scrap up. I was really pleased to see a CD brought out by Crafters Companion earlier this year with lots of new art work as well as the original. (I don’t think the original card kit wasunder license to Crafters Companion but I could be wrong).

The digikits loaded easily onto my Craft Artist programme and are a piece of proverbial to work with. There are some really lovely images (I have barely scratched the surface) and I have done very little to them apart from the odd bit of layering and decoupage and (of course) girly bling!!

Hope I am not boring you with my cards – sorry, there are more to come!!

Cute N Furry at Crafty Cardmakers

As regular readers may guess, cute n furry is a tad out of my comfort zone so quite a hard challenge for me – mainly because I only have a limited amount of materials that qualify!!

I opted for this little doggy image to make a simple little card . Hope you like.

There are many more great cards on this theme over at the Crafty Cardmaker’s Challenge Site. So why not pop over, grab some inspiration and join in!!

A Parliament of Owls…….

 

Stamps by Sam Poole and some owlish digis from a polkadoodle CD.

Using up some of those gelli backgrounds. 10 down….. how many more to go go? All for my MacMillan Open House on the 7th.

Eeek. Better get a move on.

Tim’s Tags of 2013 - September

These were very quick to do, I pretty much had all the bits (basically stencils, inks and stains!!) so no creative thinking required (!) and I stayed fairly close to the tut. However the jury’s still out out on whether I really like the way they turned out – the picket fence stencilling really didn’t work for me, it’s completely disappeared and perhaps it’s the lack of white that is making these not ‘pop’.

Stencil layering is however a great technique and does give a great depth to your pieces. I watched Leandra from Paper Artsy make a similar style tag on Sunday so I’d already been thinking about it. The words are just what popped in my head and done on the pc – feeling tired today, can you tell?

WOYWW?What’s on Your Workdesk? Wednesday #225 - Did ya miss me?

I have been AWOL so long I feel I need a note from teacher. Not that anything special has got in the way, just life, and work, and kids, and husbands and holidays………some more trying than others.

And hospitals. There have been a lot of hospital visit accompanying or driving to lately, for reasons I won’t go into to.Including late last night when I received a panic phone call rom a friend who had taken a nasty tumble on the way home. One and a half hours in A & E (quite good I thought) and a cuff injury rather than the suspected dislocated shoulder later, it’s time to get back to my desk, though the projects I planned to show you aren’t finished. 

So we have in various stages of completeness – 2 tags a la 12 tags of 2013 (September), an art doll ATC, a painted wooden bird, the beginnings of an altered frame and my first go at using my Stamping gear. A very mixed bag. And an overflowing bin.

Why am I telling you this? Well every Wednesday there is the most ginormous bloghop where we gawk at  peruse each other’s arty desks and WIPs courtesy of our leader Julia. The deets are here. Join in why don’t you –how to explanation here. You never know who may come and visit.

Going Dotty for Try It On Tuesday!!

Seeing spots, running round in circles…. yes this fortnight at Try It On Tuesday we want you to feature spots or circles on your projects.

I’d left making my sample quite late so I had the chance to use one of my new art doll stamps – so pretty!! I kept it fairly simple because I’m looking to sell things at my MacMillan Coffee morning in a couple of weeks and I find the highly decorated cards don’t sell that well.( Alternatively I’ll keep it for my own daughter’s next birthday – Shhh, don’t tell lol.)

I just loved the huge spots on this paper from one of the Papermania Capsule Collections and thought it looked really good for the background – a bit retro? The ‘daughter’ is a wooden embellishment that I’ve jazzed up with a wow vintage embossing powder and flower from my stash.

So a pretty easy theme this time – I do hope you’ll join in. Pop over to TioT to join in and see the rest of the DT’s inspiration.