Forgotten Friday 25

Friday again and time to dig out some forgotten item from my stash to make something for Judith's challenge - why don''t you have a go as well?  This week I'd been looking through folders on the computer at my digi images and I seem to have loads which have been used very rarely if at all which is a shame as I bought them because I liked them at the time.  This giraffe is from Pink Gem Designs; background papers are  from my stash; I've added a ribbon with daisies and punched out some little daisies to match. along with leaves using a Stampin Up punch.

Anniversary Card

I was asked to make a Golden Wedding Aniversary card recently and for this I printed a background paper onto gold pearlised paper from Decadent Brocade CD and stamped and gold embossed two hearts using Damask Hearts stamps - both products from Chocolate Baroque.  A piece of toning card was embossed using a heart Cuttlebug embossing folder and then sprayed with gold Glimmer Mist..  Sentiment and the number  were produced on the computer.  I've been a bit quiet on the blog this week because I've  been concentrating on playing catch-up with a mystery quilt project which I should have started in January when we had the first set of instructions and I purchased the fabric.  Thankfully I am almost there now and will take a photograph when it is completed.

Make My Monday Challenge 6

The Make My Monday challenge this week is still on the vintage theme but this week they are asking for embossing and I've included both dry and heat embossing.  Background paper is by Basic Grey - a pad which I've had a long time and it has been overstamped with small stamps from Paper Artsy and Chocolate Baroque to give it a more vintage look.  The dry embossing is done with a Tim Holtz folder; the main image from Paper Artsy was stamped with Distress ink and clear embossed;  the border was cut using a TH Sizzix die and the ticket sentiment cut with a TH Sizzix die also.  I thought I'd go for the male vintage look this week for a change instead of using lace and flowers.

Bah Humbug Week 27

The folks at Humbug Hall this week are asking for meeces looking seasonal and I remembered there was a cute mouse on Polkadoodles Magical Winter CD so how lucky was that because I'm sure I don't have any Christmas mouse stamps.  I printed the image twice so that I could cut part of the mouse out and layer it; background papers are from the CD and I've just added a few die cut poinsettias and a swirl.

Forgotten Friday 24

Earlier this week I received a lovely box of crafting goodies from an online friend, including a couple of stamp sets which I would guess may well have been lying around unused for a while so I've used one of the sets to make a card for this week's Forgotten Friday challenge.  The stamps were a set of two-step ones from Stampin Up and I first used some of them to make a small 'masterboard'; I then cut out a circle from this using a Nestabilities die, then stamped some of the two-step elements and also cut out using smaller Nesties.  These circles were then popped onto matching scalloped circles and turned into 'flowers' to make up the topper.  Background paper is also from SU and I used an EK success punch for the 'ground' - the ribbon is from Papermania and has been in my ribbon box for a while.

St Lukes Charity Challenge

The July challenge for St Luke's Charity challenge is a colour theme - black and white with one other colour. I've chosen green as my extra colour and coloured the image in the style of a photograph produced in black and white with spot colour in one area.  The image of Audrey in the rain is a digi stamp which probably came as a freebie a while ago and I'm afraid I don't know the source - the ticket was another digi image of unknown origin also so apologies to the designers.  Background papers are fron Funky Hand and I've just added some Prima flowers with Marianne die cut swirls.

Make My Monday Challenge 5

I've just discovered another challenge blog - Make My Monday - and their theme this week is vintage using brown, cream and either pink or blue.  I decided to go with blue; background paper is K and Co from my stash; birdcage is a Marianne die cut and the butterflies from Chocolate Baroque were stamped and cut out; a punched border in Kraft glassine and a bit of cream lace complete this card. The Martha Stewart punch I used didn't work too cleanly on the glassine (they are better cutting card) but I think this just adds to the vintage feel.