Quick Make Commission

Came home this evening with a commission for a wedding card to take back into work tomorrow.

The brief colourful, lace and flowers, romantic.   It was also suggested that I go for it! ummmmm this from someone who does not know the kind of things I like to make.

The card Marianne Heart Die and coloured vellum attached to a smaller die cut in card, this vellum has been a treasured unused sheet in my stash for years long before I moved in 2011.   This has been raised off the card with the deepest pads I have, very few of these left no idea where to get anymore, another long treasured and grudgingly used item.    Wedding wishes and rings stamped and embossed in gold both stamps that have been with me for years and years maybe about 15 years!   Flowers and ribbon and heart shaped gems.   The couple another Marianne die coloured with Adirondack ink and Promarkers.

Find out tomorrow if I've filled the brief.
Update card well received think they thought it was OK.

For now I'm sharing this card with
Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
Pause, Dream, Enjoy - Happy [blank] This happy creative band hope that you will see this link and go join them, and why not?
Pretty little ribbon - Lace

Time to clean up and wind down for the day.

Well I couldn't resist this challenge

It's the Less is More Challenge this week.   CAS is a style that intrigues me, sometimes you need a quick and simple card others it is the best way to get impact which no amount of dressing a card up will provide.    They might take 5 minutes to make but several hours to design and plan or more likely with me you make it up as you go!

This one took a little time the main image is fussy cut and stands proud on sticky pads.   All the colouring is in Promakers.  

The Less is More theme is Cats &/or Dogs and an invitation to celebrate your family pet(s).    You might have heard of the IMPs Izzy, Minx and Pounce and before them Chaos and Havoc or my childhood cat Blackie/Lucky.   All cats all little treasures and or independent little masters and mistresses depending.

Here is Pounce hoping to distract me from taking a photo of the card and to play with him instead.

I need a few tags

So as you do I decided to make them and of course before doing that I turned to challenge land for inspiration.   Here are two that I'm quite pleased with!

TH tag die to cut some brown card and some cream card.  The cream card had already been stamped with a netting background stamp.   This tag was then coloured in places with blue Brilliance ink from a little teardrop pad.   A daisy stamp was then used randomly over it in a darker blue.  Another Brilliance teardrop (Coffee Bean) swiped over the edges of the tag basic direct to paper technique here!  Next it was embossed in the TH splash folder.   Two of the stamped daisy's coloured dark blue with ProMarkers.  An old chipboard flower sprayed with Dylisions blue and touched with Viva copper metallic ink.  Still thinking it needed something I played around with some brown and blue lace and some sticky backed pearls.

The second tag was much less work!   Brown tag, new Crafty Individuals dragon fly masks and Dylisions blue spray.   Dried with a heat gun, some brown beading cord wrapped around it, with a blue bead threaded on and held in place with a glue dot.

The challenges that inspired this
Inky Chicks - Blue and Brown
Allsorts - True Blue
Daring Cardmakers - Stencil it
I would add Craft-Room Challenge (Stamp your own background) except it's my challenge!

Right like it or not I've got to go out to the shops now.....

Craft-Room Challenge - Stamp your own Background

Two weeks have whizzed by again and it is time for a new challenge at the Craft-Room Challenge.    We are using a theme set by your former teamie Nikki this time it is such a great idea, thank you Nikki.   The challenge is to stamp your own background/background paper.  As Nikki will not be with us to choose her top 3 the whole team will vote for our collective favourites.   As usual there will be a random draw for one lucky person to win our sponsor's prize.

Our Sponsor this time is The Stamp Man whose online shop is full of crafty goodies.

For my background I used Moon Glow Starburst Stains on plain paper and scrunched it.   The musical instruments are from an Aspects of Design set, the trumpet stamped randomly over the paper along with musical notes also in the set.   The toppers use the same stamp set this time with Frantage shabby ep.

Please follow the links to the challenge and then perhaps over to my teamies to see all their fabulous projects.

Now it just happens
Stamping Sensations have a monthly challenge - Embossing and Texture, so I thought I'd share this with them.

Port Sunlight and Stuff

Yesterday was the spring Port Sunlight Craft Day, not the biggest sale but just about every stand is quality making it worth 160 mile drive across the island.   So I went, sat nav set and having gone before should have been a straight forward drive.   Should have been but the God's of Water, or their Children decided to usWie one of their streams as a hose and give us a down pour.   Then just to make the misery of the drive complete the God's of misdirection joined in adding about 20 miles and almost half an hour to the journey.   Still we got there and the spending commenced.   My colleague in shopping was Maria from the Craft-Room Team always good to catch up!

With a bag growing heavy with goodies a final circuit of the sale and now thinning crowd the Dimension stand was accessible.  There is was a stamp set like non other, the main stamp is a Harp with musical symbols and a musical score swirl.   Definitely the purchase of the day.

This morning  the idea of the music flowing through the instrument was tested.   The glossy card with stormy back ground is one I made ages ago using the DI and water technique.   Pleased with the result it has been kept, as so many things are, for the right project.   Harp stamped and heat embossed with silver ep, masked score stamped and embossed with gold ep.   Le Plume permanent markers used to add colour to the harp.   The Eagle stamped embossed (also gold) and coloured with Sakura white pen.    Corners rounded, scallop lace added to 2 corners with pink tipped flowers completing the picture.   I just love the dreamy, stormy drama of this, and am entering it in

A Gem of a Challenge - Things with Wings
Colour me Creative - Anything Goes (Le Plume are Alcohol markers)
Our Creative Corner - Anything Goes
Suger Creek Hollow - Spring Flowers
Creative Corner - Things with Wings
Daring Cardmakers - Lets Ink it Up
Fashionable Stamping - Anything Goes

May's Unrulyness

May Day when the village children celebrate some long forgotten rite by dancing round a May Pole holding ribbons streaming from the top.  Remember that?  For some peeps in some parts of the world today is a holiday but for us Brits we have to wait until Monday for our May Day break.

As usual we have a new month of Unruly Paperarts for you this month.  The theme for May is Faux Flowers and guess what there are Readers Art Quests for you to join in.   I've chosen 'use 5 flowers or more' making a green house.   Sorry about the back flash part of the painting involved Glimmer Mists.

Flowers are a mix of Grunge Paper, Shrink Plastic, Die cut, Stamping, and shop brought, making 5 different sorts of flowers.   Of course the best bit about RAQ's is that the readers vote for the best entries.

Sharing this with
Allsorts - Anything but a Card
Pattie's Creations - Anything but a Card (Must have a stamped or digi image)
That Craft Place - Altered Item
The Cheerful Stamp Pad - April Showers bring May flowers
Make my Monday - Anything but a Card

Craft-Room Challenge - Holiday Post Cards

Where the heck did April go?  It has been a good month lots of weather some of it really good did it get you thinking of days at the seaside?

Still blown away by all the fantastic entries for the last Challenge at Craft-Room Challenge I do not envy Mervi one little bit trying to select a top 3 from so many deserving entries.  Of course we have a new challenge for you today, hosted by Hazel we are looking for Holiday themed postcards.

This challenge see's the return of Crafty Individual's as our sponsor, they are giving a great little set of their products to one lucky random winner.   Thank you Jean and Malcolm.

Seaside towns have been the backdrop of my life, growing up one of our entertainments was looking at all the postcards in the giftshops.   Walking down the hill to the beach we would look at every single one in every single shop.  For my postcard I used Stamp set CI-284. which definitely  has the holiday/seaside feel.   The card is 4" x 6" stamped in Vintage Sepia, Inkylicious dusters and whisper pens coloured the background the girls were then dressed with ProMarkers.   The main images masked and a Personnel Impressions shell background stamped over the edges of the card.

The team have as always made terrific unique samples each in her own special style and all well worth taking a look at.   Please do, we are hoping you will be inspired to go on and make your own postcard to share with us, at Craft-Room Challenge