Huge Words

Id been admiring cards on the blog of my friend Jill where she has used Woodware 'huge' stamps with various words and at the weekend she had pointed me in the way of a supplier offering free postage so I just had to indulge!! The package arrived yesterday which I thought was excellent service given that it was Bank Holiday weekend. I'd decided that the birthday one would probably get the most use but on reflection I might have chosen one with less letters, particularly after I spent ages cutting out separate letters from printed papers to paper piece this card.  Papers were all printed from Funky Hand Colour Me Happy collection and what is really good about theirs is that you can take papers onto the workspace and reduce them so that four fit onto an A4 page (they also just fit the stamp then  which is handy). I also printed some larger pieces of paper for the layers on the card and as the sentiment really is 'huge' it didn't need much else for this six inch square card.  I wish I'd have more use for something like 'golf' or other four-letter word (polite ones obviously) but I just know I'll be using this birthday one in lots of ways  rather than leaving it lurking in a drawer so thanks Jill.

Owl Birthday

Well I've done it again - succumbed to buying a magazine which was giving away free stamps, and that was something I'd sort of decided I wouldn't do.  It wasn't exactly a New Year resolution though so don't feel too bad about it because the set of Woodware stamps with owls is so appealing. They are a decent size and so suitable for paper piecing as I've done here, or for colouring in as required. The background paper was also a freebie from the magazine and I raided my scrap boxes again and found some toning bits of paper and card to build up the layout and the owl was cut out and layered for some dimension.  The tiny flowers are 'waste' from some border punching  and yes I'm sad enough to save these in a little container - fortunately there were some in just the right colours. The owl was popped onto a Sizzix die shape which in turn has been embossed with dots (Crafts Too folder), the sentiment comes with the stamp set and was cut out with an X-cut label die.The 'doodles' around the edges were done with a black fine liner pen.

Still very chilly this morning and I hear we can expect snow flurries today - hopefully they will be very light because I really want to get out for a brisk walk later.

PS - I've just spotted that the theme on Sunday Stampers is BIRDS so I'm putting this card in for that challenge.

Peel-Offs

Challenge for week 11 at Bah Humbug is to use peel-offs - something I don't actually use very much currently although I do have loads of them!! For this card I used the negative pieces left over from one of the trees on the sheet, popped onto some card and sponged ink around before removing the bits and discarding them. I then put two peel-offs from the sheet onto card, cut all pieces out and mounted onto gold mirri. Background papers are from Papermania and the peel-off sheet which I've had for a few years was by Woodware