Another card

This time for CAS - Colours and Sketches challenge ...

My interpretation of this sketch ..

More cards

Seems I'm into making cards at the moment - who would have thought ...

Yesterday's was an original but I'm not always able to formulate an idea when I want one so resort to 'casing' (copying!) someone else's at those times - I figure it's OK as long as I let you all know who did the original ...

Today's card is well 'cased' - I loved the original so much ... anyway here's mine ...

.. totally copied from this http://www.pinterest.com/pin/177610779028090597/ beauty ...

PS I'm not publishing it or using it for any competitions/challenges or anything else ... just enjoyed making it ... 

CASual Fridays 124

Another clean and simple card for the challenge over at CASual Fridays ...

Less is More

I've been looking at a few challenge blogs this week and the Less is More one caught my eye ... so this is my entry ... it didn't take long to put together . the hardest part was making sure the borders were level!

It's now completely dark here so the light is terrible for photographs - this is the best that I could do ...

Challenge

Darcy over at Art and Sole is running a challenge this week. She has designed some fabulous stamps for Paperartsy and has been making Christmas cards. Her challenge was to take one stamp and make several different cards with it. I only caught up with the challenge late last night and with limited time today have only had time to make three ...

I have used the Christmas trees from Egg & Nog 1 as my main stamp(s) and added word stamps from the same set, from Egg & Nog 2 and from Egg & Nog 4

Card 1 is clean and simple style ... I've cut the trees apart and just stamped 2 of them so they would fit nicely inside the frame which I have embossed with a die. The 'snow' is Paperartsy Fresco Finish paint in Snowcap ... I just masked the space off with post-its and sponged it on ... silver star brads top the trees to finish it off...

Card 2 is made using a pattern ... I think its from Mojo Monday ... this time the trees are embossed onto different papers, cut out and added to the top mat ... the middle tree is coloured with Stickles in candy Cane and Patina and the tiny tree next to the 'Goodwill' is also glittered ... a gold start brad has been added to the centre tree ... the red backing paper is patterned with tiny handwriting text but it doesn't show up in my photogrph ...

Card 3 is my favourite and is made in a similar way to the one above but I have used painted papers that I have made as the background and for the trees too, maybe I should have reversed the colourway though :-))

The reason I have no more time is because we're off to see Gravity 3D in and hour or so - I am a bit scared ... hope I don't get 'seasick'

A Little Bit Crafty time again ...

... and we are asking you to Sparkle and Shine ... you have probably realized by now that I'm not overly keen on cute, but I was attracted to this image from one of our sponsors this month,  Pink Gem Designs. I love tags but don't like colouring in too much so this is what I came up with ...

I've used a bit of bling in the form of pearls and gems to add the 'Sparkle and Shine', some lace and ric rac, a metal flower and some punched flowers to finish off and really like how this turned out. Hope you do too - why don't you come and join us at A Little Bit Crafty this month - there are prizes from our sponsors ...

  2 free digis       Prize to follow   £20 voucher