Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 15 - Anything But A Card

Good morning, hope you are OK and raring to go for another Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge, and this weeks the lovely Mary J would like to see

Anything But A Card

Humph!  But waddya know, once you get thinking there are so many things you can do with stamps other than make cards and I love what all the Ladybugs have created.

I decided to get out the shrink plastic and see if I could stamp on it with Momento and colour with copics, and yep you can, blending is a bit of a no-no though! 

I enlisted the help of my Dad, who used to be a jeweller before he retired and he got me some silver chain and lent me some of his old tools (as they are better than the pliers etc that I liberated from HB's tool drawer!!) to twist the silver wire round to make the jump rings and the top of the pins that go through the beads, and after a bit of faffing (and wishing I'd just handed all the bits to my Dad to assemble for me, but that would have been cheating!!) I was done!!

Here's some close ups of each of the little charms

To give the image a bit of shine on both sides I used clear embossing powder on the dull side and got the heat gun out (again).  To be honest I wish I had invested in some better quality shrink plastic, as the stuff i had in my stash wasn't as good as some I have used in the past, but it's OK :-)

And once I'd done that I needed to make a case to put it in didn't I, and one of the metal tins stocked by Kerry was perfect, I kept the outside simple though :-)

I've used:

Baby Baby Stamp Set; Nikki and Buttercup Snow Angels; Cross Eyed Buttercup; Cherry On Top Cupcake Cutie; Daydreaming Ruby; and Cupcake Ruby all from Ladybug Crafts Ink

Silver bracelet, clasp and wire from my Dad!

Copics; Momento Ink; Shrink Plastic; Embossing Powder; Beads; CD Tin - Ladybug Crafts Ink; Bo Bunny DP; Cordinations CS; Stickles; Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink

I'd like to enter my bracelet into these challenges

A Spoon Full Of Sugar - Anything But A Card

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything But A Card

Gingersnap Crations - Charms (I'm hoping that this counts!)

Really looking forward to seeing your creations this week, and next week we are celebrating the release of a new range of stamps and there will be more chances to win than normal, so why not grab the banner below and pop it on your sidebar??

Thanks for stopping by,

Sue xx

Guilt trip

Don't you just love it when kids guilt trip you?

On the way home today my son told me quite a few of the kids in his class took pressies in for the teachers today - last day of school is tomorrow - and had I made them yet?  No, I was intending on buying them each a bottle of wine (after teaching a class of 7/8 year olds for a year I think they more than deserve it...) but to be honest he had a point.  Money is tighter for us as for most people this year than previous years and I am perfectly capable of making something...

OK, back home, what have we got???  Hmmm, there's those glass tealight holders I bought and have never used... and those lovely smelling tealights... they'll do...   right, cardstock, check, papers...  well if I'm going on an economy drive then I might as well go all out and use some of the freebie ones from Creative Cardmaking...

Once I'd figured out my measurements, it was a matter of cut, fold, cut, cut, cut, cut, feed and water hungry child, stick, stick, stick, stamp, stick and done.  OK, so I've edited it a bit, but you get the gist :-). 

One (more) thing I am going to try to get hold of is a scoring blade for my Woodware trimmer.  I used Stacey's at the crop the other week and it made things like this sooooo easy as long as you weren't an idiot and remembered to switch the blades to the right one you wanted... not that I did this you understand... oh no  :-)

Anyway, enought of my blah blah blah... here's how they turned out

I've added a bit Stickles to the flowers which are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The stamp is from one of the little sets by Studio G (I think!), and yet again I am pleasantly surprised by the quality for the price

So there you go, that's it for school for 6 weeks... they aren't anything posh, but they look fine, pity they only contain a candle holder and a tealight - I really hope they don't get too excited!!

I'd like to enter this for the following challenge

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge 41 - Anything but a Card

That's it from me tonight, more tomorrow

Sue