May Winner is....

Cathy of 'A Surcee Life'.

Hope you enjoy this little gift!!

Thanks to all who played this month, and another giveaway will be along soon!!

Cindx

It's here!! WOYWW 4th Anniversary - #208 (and extreme overuse of !!!)

Never mind the weeks, the years are flying by!! Here we are today for a very special WOYWW, celebrating 4 years of this delightful madness.

If you've been  in a cave for the last four years and have  no idea what I am rambling on about then hop on over to Julia's blog 'Stamping Ground' where you can follow the links to find out how to join in and a little about the history of this weekly bloghop.

To the rest of you - A BIG WELCOME!!

Not a lot been going on but I do have on my desk this week the ATC I have made so that I can send one out to the next person on the list as part of the anniversary celebrations. I have a further 5  ATCs to send out to 5 people who request them in a comment on this post. If there are more than 5 requests I will pick names out of a hat to be fair to those who don't get online until later in the day. International players welcome. I must be able to contact you via your blog or email. I'll allocate them at random but if you do have a preference please state which one and I'll see what I can do. I would love it if you were able to reciprocate but that is not a condition.

(If you are interested in a trade at any time I do have other ATCs and tags available - check out my FLICKR gallery HERE and get in touch if you see something you like).

I am at work today and that does rather restrict how often I can check in so please don't panic if you can't see your comment as moderation is on.

Happy Anniversary and have a great day!!

(see some of you Saturday!!!)

(NB Sorry if this post doesn't make an awful lot of sense - have been in twice to edit because blogger keeps moving the text round - hey ho!)

CRAFTY CARDMAKERS - Tri-fold shutter card with a twist...

Well, what's that you may ask?

This is my very first DT piece for the Crafty Cardmaker's Design Team and I had to go and check it out myself (thank goodness for the internet!!) as I didn't want to go off piste for my very first challenge. I discovered I have made these before and I love the effect but don't much like all that matting and layering (cutting straight lines is not my strong point).

The actual challenge has been set by Annette  who would like to see a tri-shutter card with a stamped image, either digital or rubber, with an added twist of using the colours Blue, Yellow and Green. 

Once I had, ahem, mastered the basic design with folds and cuts in the right place (it's really quite simple....) I went to a DCWV paper pad (Café Mediterranean) for some colour inspiration. Having chosen my papers I selected a newish design from Clarity Stamps for my main image and coloured with promarkers. The flowers are made with a Martha Stewart punch and stamp set. You can see from the photo that I have had a bit of difficulty with my self adhesive bling which keeps falling off - weird, I've never had that before must just be a duff sheet. So I've re-attached them all with wet glue.

I hope I haven't put you off, these cards are really easy to do and look quite impressive but still fold down flat to go in an envelope.  Just don't let your head get too befuddled with measurements you may see online - you can change these as much as you like, it's the proportions and the principle of cuts (there are only 2!!) and folds you need to grasp. In fact I've been so inspired I've started a more ambitious project which I hope to share soon.



To join in with the challenge hop on over to the Crafty Cardmakers Blog and post your entry. This challenge is sponsored by Di's Digi Downloads but please make sure you follow all of Annette's requirements to be eligible. And you'll need to be quick as this challenge is only running for a week.

Can't wait to see what you do!!

Quick tag... Using up the leftovers....

I blogged previously about my May 'Tags of 2013' here using the rub on resist technique. Some of it didn't go so well and I cut them down for  ATCs. Weirdly 
the leftover bits looked better together and I made this tag.

Neat eh?

More justification for being such a hoarder!! (Not that I need any!)

Gelli Prints!!!

First of all thanks for all the well wishes, I am feeling much better in myself but the poor old voice is still very hoarse even after resting it for 6 days - seriously, I've hardly said a word, it's been killing me. Have been drinking lemon, honey and ginger until it's coming out of my pores. Am going into work tomorrow as I have a kids activity but not sure how long the voice will last (maybe they'll send me home after hee hee.....).

yes, I know, the letters are back to front....

Anyhow, Weds I did indeed get out my gelli plate. I moved into the kitchen as I had a feeling it would require slightly more space - and I was right!! WHAT a mess!! I've still got paint on my fingernails (acrylic to acrylic, not good LOL). Anyhow had great fun and here are some of my favourites.

Upside down in the photo but at least they are
right way round here, I'm learning

Need to practise a little more and I shall be looking out now for good things to 'make marks' with. Also need to get my head round the whole layers/what ends up on top thing but that's just my control freak side coming out - you can't really second guess a gelli plate.





There are quite a few more - once you get started you kind of just keep going!! Not sure what I will use them all for though!

So that's that, bye for now!!

Love this one
 

 

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday # 207

Well there hasn't been an awful lot of action here lately and I've kind of forgotten what I was doing with most of this.  I've been poorly :o(. Still feel like c*** but have promised myself an hour or two with the gelli plate as my playtime with it is long overdue. Which is why it has prime position.

Want to find out about WOYWW? Then pop over to Julia's blog Stamping Ground. Join in why don't you?
Goodness look at the time!!
Better get a wriggle on.
Have a good day!!

TIOT On The Wild Side - Bird card

I am so glad I finished this design piece ahead of time as I have felt really poorly this last week with some sort of non-specific virus which ended up with me losing my voice on Sunday. Just managing to croak a few words but not really feeling up to much - all say 'aaah' !!!

However, back to business and this fortnight at Try It On Tuesday we are asking you to feature animals or birds on your projects. I have used embossed and sanded Kraft Core to make my backing paper. The main image is from a Kanban stamp set - it took 3 attempts to emboss this without getting speckles all over the background!!

It was coloured with promarkers in shades of blue green and lilac (I almost managed to get it to match the paper).

I thought this card would be suitable for a variety of occasions and have purposely left it bling-less so it would work as a male or female card.

So ferociously wild or cuddly and cute, get out your animal images and join us at at Try It On Tuesday.