This is a card I made yesterday for the less is more challenge. The sentiment is a Penny black stamp that my dad picked up on his car boot travels for next to nothing. After stamping my sentiment I cut out a heart shape which I laid onto the card in a few places and drew around it lightly with pencil. I then went over the pencil lines with my red stickles glitterglue. I think it took me about 10 minutes altogether. Clean and simple isn't really my thing but I do appreciate simpler styles can be just, if not more effective than a very busy card. It's a good job we're all different though isn't it otherwise we'd all be making the same cards!
I just thought I'd share another of my Joanna Sheen "Tales of the ocean" DT cards with you. This is a real CAS style (which is sooooo unlike me Lol) I stamped the shell image 4 times and then cut out 4 squares at random. I coloured them with my promarkers and then mounted them onto beige card after I inked all the edges in brushed cordouroy. The sentiment I printed out with blackout serif font in brown. A bit of raffia and a lovely large starfish charm and that's it. I wish all cards were as quick to make as this one. The real challenge with the DT cards is thinking up several very different designs. I probably spend more time thinking about them than actually making them Lol.
I received the new stamps today that I need to make 9 cards with for shows early April. That's me busy for the next week or so then!
For a limited time Mo is selling this cute image called "what's cooking?" for $1 (which is 64p) for a limited time only. All proceeds from Mo will be going to the Japan relief effort.
If you're going to do one good thing today - go and buy this stamp!!!
This is a sample card to display in my local craft shop to kinda advertise my April 16th workshop as I'm doing a few cards with a nice fresh spring theme (although this isn't one of the cards we'll be making) The stamp is a lovely sentiment one that my dad picked up on his car boot travels for about 50p (I have loads Lol) The papers were given to me by Barbara at the Windmill Craft Centre. The Marianne butterfly diecut was very kindly sent to me by Maureen from the Docrafts forum as I needed to use something that Barbara sold.
I coloured the butterfly in with my cool aqua all promarker all over and duck egg blue towards the egdes. I then went over the edges with stickles stardust glitter glue. The flowers are cut from my x-cut flower punch with card candy centres that I also glittered. I inked all the edges with tumbled glass. I think it makes a change to not have an actual image as the main focal point.
I am soooo pleased to show you my first DT card for Crafters Companion. I didn't really have a suitable easter image so I used my Popcorn bear birthday stamp and sat him on top of an egg after I cut him off the pressie he was originally sat on. I stamped him out 4 times, coloured him in with promarkers and layered him up a bit for a bit of interest. The papers are from a forever friends paperstack - I really like the lilac and green together and the punch is an MS one that I got for christmas that I realised I've never used!
Check out the Crafters Companion challenge blog here. It is a monthly challenge and you do not have to use a CC image but if you do you get counted twice - The challenge this month is Easter - One randomly picked winner will get £30 to spend at the Crafters Companion site!!!
This is another of my Joanna Sheen DT samples that I made for this weekends launch of the new "Tales of the ocean" rubber stamp sets. I coloured the image in with my distress inks. The papers are a light blue wash paper which has been stamped in blue ink with another of the stamps in the same set. I made up the frame by printing a piece of driftwood 4 times that I found on google. I shaped this to look a bit more weathered and inked the edges. I attached it together with mini silver brads. Before attaching it to the image with foam pads I draped a little natural paper string around the frame. I attached an anchor charm to the end of the "rope". I stamped out a couple of starfish and shells which I coloured in with my promarkers and attached them to the frame as well as a small shell I had in my stash. The sentiment was also on the stamp set which I stamped in blue ink. I was quite pleased with how this turned out as I was really making it up as I went along and I think it has a kinda quirky feel to it.
I made 6 samples and 5 are shown in this video. Mine are as follows:-
Blue puffin card with anchor charm
Message in a bottle card
Large brown card with crochet lace and "a shell can sing of the sea" in the corner
Green card with orange fish - individual words "You never know what the next tide may bring"
neutral card with 4 squares with shells, large starfish charm and "Happiness" quote
I did make an aqua dolphin card too but that wasn't shown for some reason - I'm not too sure why as there wasn't anything there similar to it. Ah well!
I shall list all the cards when I have the time but will start with the message in a bottle card.
The message in a bottle card consists of some basic aqua card, medium grade sandpaper, glossy accents, frost lace stickles glitterglue, sakura clear glaze pen (I'm loving this right now :D ) band the shell/starfish stamps.
I started off stamping out the starfish and shell stamp a couple of times each and I then coloured them in with my promarkers. I printed the sentiment out on ivory parchment paper then distressed the edges with my Tim Holtz tool. I then screwed it up and inked the edges (I think with brushed cordouroy) I mounted this onto beige card which I also inked and distressed. For the backing I mounted my aqua card onto some of the beige (distressed and inked as before) card. The aqua card I inked with tumbled glass distress ink. I then cut a square of sandpaper and cut out the appearance of a shoreline. After sticking this to the aqua card, I used lots of glossy accents all over the aqua card and over onto the sandpaper by about 5-10mm. After this dried I used frosted lace along the edge to give the appearance of the bubbles as the tide goes in and out. I then attached my sentiment, and added the starfish and shell images. The first images I attached with glue and the seond with a foam pad for a bit of height. I used my clear glaze pen on the tops of these images for some definition. The little bottle cost me about 30p from a craft shop that I've had for ages. I cut a small piece of the parchmentment and tied it up with a tiny offcut of raffia. I attached the bottle with mini glue dots. If I did it again I would try and straighten the card before attaching the bits onto it as the glossy accents warped the card a little but I was in a hurry and wasn't even sure it would turn out ok.
