Art Deco Flapper

Chocolate Baroque have just released a new set of stamps called Fabulous Flappers, I knew as soon as the email arrived on Thursday to announce their release that I had to have them. I ordered them straight away and by Saturday they were sitting on my doormat, I spent the afternoon cutting them out ready to use. With the awful weather on Sunday it was the ideal time to get them out and have a play. I stamped all five of these beautiful ladies onto tags and embossed with ebony black embossing powder, before colouring them in with promarkers. I then went around the outside of the tag and added some distress inks in matching colours. For this finished card I hem made a matching background using one of the smaller stamps and the same coloured ink as the tags. Then I mounted onto some brown card and finally an A5 cream card base. The sentiments both come from the Macintosh Sentiments and match these stamps perfectly.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Deco Drama

This week over on the CD Sunday blog the theme of their challenge is Deco Drama. One of my favourite theme's and it's always handy to have Wedding Cards in the box so that's what I've gone for this week. I've used Debbi Moore's Art Deco Wedding CD and an 8x8 white card base. The backing paper is mounted onto some silver mirri card, I've also used silver mirri card for the corners and with the flowers. I added pearls to the topper and the flowers centres, these were made with a crealies die. Finally I added the sentiment which was made on the PC and put through the foiling machine.

Thanks for taking the time to look and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft a Scene Week 3 - Hills and Mountains

It's week 3 over on the Craft a Scene blog, and we're asking for your Scenes with Hills and Mountains this month. This week I've incorporated my card with Hubby's birthday which is on Wednesday 23rd April. He's a very keen fisherman, so every year I try to come up with something a little different but including fishing somewhere. For this card I've used all Stampscape stamps, except for the fisherman which is a Woodware stamp that I bought at a show last year. I then coloured it by masking areas off and using a brush and various colours of Adirondack ink pads. I do hope you have the time to join us this month, or even just pop over to the blog and take a look at the wonderful inspiration the DT has made for you.

Thanks for taking the time to look and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Repeat Stamping

Last year Glenda Waterworth from Chocolate Baroque ran a series of email tutorials called Mojo Monday. Every week I would save the email with the intention of getting around to trying some of the wonderful techniques. You've probably guessed I didn't get around to it. So when Glenda announced that she was going to run them again this year, my immediate thought was "This year I will make something the week the email is sent out". Which brings me to week one and the technique which is repeat stamping, for this I've worked on a tag (like Glenda and also used the same sets of stamps as she did, Indian Elephant and Indian Textiles). The stamp pads I used were Big and Juicy - Soothing Sunset and Hydrangea. As the stamps were small ones I could pick between the colours that I wanted to use. I then inked around the edge with Spiced Marmalade distress ink. Next I took one of the larger stamps from the Indian Textile sheet and embossed this with Wow Gold embossing powder, then coloured the image in with distess markers. Next I cut around the outside of the image before mounting it onto an oval of matching card. I also went around the outside with Spiced Marmalade, then mounted the complete topper onto the tag. I'm now waiting to see what is on the agenda for next week.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Diamond Wedding Anniversary

I've made this card to enter into the CD Sunday Challenge this week, which is Something Beginning With D. This is a Diamond Wedding Anniversary card using Die Cuts and also Debbi Moores One Fine Lady CD. I should have posted this earlier in the week, but unfortunately our poor dog who had been unwell recently had to be put down. He had leukaemia, and although we had only just found this out, he was going down hill really fast. We're now adjusting to a quieter house with out our furry friend following us around. Anyway onto the card, it's an 8x8 card base, matted with gold mirri card. The backing paper is from the CD, and the topper from one of the design sheets. The corners are from a Marianne die and also the swirls, the flowers are crealies dies and leaves a Nelli Snellen punch. The sentiment was made using my Foiling machine, and I've just added some diamantes from my stash. I'm off to cheer myself up tomorrow with some retail therapy at Ally Pally.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft A Scene - Hills And Mountains Week One

It's a new month, so time for a new challenge over on the Craft A Scene blog. This month the theme is Hills and Mountains, so why not dig out those stamps and see what you can come up with. For my card I've used some new stamps that have just come out from Chocolate Baroque, Patchwork Landscape. There are some beautiful stamps just right for building scenes with. I started with the Cottage and then the tree's and fence beside it, then with a fine Micron pen added a couple of hills in the background. There is a tree stamp on the set that is a patchwork of designs to make up the canopy, I used just the top of the stamp to give me flower bushes along the edge of my scene. I then masked off the middle and the bottom of the scene then using brushes added the blue sky and the green in front of the cottage, the rest was coloured by using promarkers. Finally I mounted the finished scene onto some black card and then a 6x6 white card base. I do hope you have time to pop over to the blog and take a look at the wonderful inspiration the DT has made for you this week.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Another Mirror

When I posted my the other mirror I'd made, I said that I had already started another. I thought it was about time that I show this to you. This time I've gone for a silver look. The flowers were cut out using a crealies die, the hearts and butterflies were spellbinders dies and the leaves from a Marianne die. Three layers of each die have been cut before being stuck together to give them depth. In my previous post I gave links to the blogs where the inspiration for these came from, so I will link my last post here if you wish to go visit and see how these lovely mirrors are made.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue