Monday, 31 May 2010
Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 22 - Least and Most
A little bird
It was my Mother in Law's birthday so I thought this Joanna Sheen stamp was just the thing. I stamped it in black StazOn onto watercolour paper and the watercoloured it using my trusty Whispers Pens. I wasn't happy with the look when I finished and after checking my bird book I could see why! Blackcaps are not BROWN! but grey, so I had to make adjustments, lol. The bg paper is from a lovely K&Co 6x6 pad alled Hydrangea Stripe and the image is cut and backed using my cuttlebug and nesties.
My attempt at a Side Stepped card
I like to make something different for my niece Aimee and as she is a keen gardener and works at a Garden Centre I made her this sidestepped card using a tutorial from http://juliedavison.com/Tutorials/0909_SideStepCard.pdf. It was really easy to follow. I used Art Impression Clear Stamps (Poject Series 6 English Garden) for the door and pots which were watercoloured with Whispers pens and then Stamps Away Montage set K400a and Floral Filigree Wreath Tapestry Stamps for the flowers which I then covered with flowersoft. The Happy Birthday is an Anitas stamp, and the flowers from my small(ish!!!) stash
Dressmaking
I am making Deco pages for a group I am in and I made this card to go with the pages themed 'Dressmaking' for my friend Lynne. The stamp is from Joanna Sheen stamped onto tissue paper and coloured on the back with Inktense pencils. The little background stamps are from a set of CDs that I've had ages and thought they would come in useful. I think my sewing machine (courtesy of my sister's lovely Mother in Law) needs a service but I quite like the effect,and the tapemeasure bow was in a packet of sewing themed embellishments I had hidden away in a drawer. I think I prefer the card to the actual pages I made.
My clever friend
My clever friend Teresa makes and sells Digi stamps and I thought this one was just crying out for some of my secret stash of flowersoft to be added to it! I coloured the image 'watercolour style' with Whisper pens (yep, I'm still using the cheap ones) and then added the flowersoft to the bushes. I mounted it on card that I had mopped up excess ink with and then ran through my cuttlebug with the tiny mosaic folder so that it looks a bit like masonry and then added frames (with dear old nesties) with holographic card.
Alice Canvas
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