A Great Crafty Day

I recently went to a wonderful Stampin' Up Day presented by the lovely Jill of Jill Stamps Up where we had a stamp set to use and take home with us.  We were given a wide selection of projects with 3D items to make and some cards too.  It was a very busy day and Jill had worked so hard to provide us all with comprehensive 'kits' and instructions for everything.  I didn't quite  manage to get everything done in the time and went away with 'homework' so to show some of my friends that I actually finished off things at home here are a couple of the cards - still two more to do!  It was amazing and interesting to see lots of lovely samples showing various ways to use this set of stamps in so many different ways.  There was double stamping involved here but relatively easy to do with the photopolymer stamps.

Stamp Set - High Tide by Stampin' Up
Colours - mainly Dapper Denim and Real Red

Tidying!

I've been making an effort to restore some semblance of order to the chaos which is my craft room and naturally have come across a selection of images, bits of card (some of which has been treated in some way) and other general detritus which all need either using up or throwing out.  Those who know me well know that I don't really 'do' throwing out except in extreme circumstances so at the moment I'm in 'using up' mode.  The image on this card was just waiting to be coloured, which I've now done using a mix of alcohol pen and coloured pencil; the pieces of card are all scraps which I've now die cut into useful shapes; the background paper is from my box of paper pad remnants and of course I've used three more pieces of 'card candy' - I probably have thousands of them in various colours (not counting though).

I'm ploughing my way through so hopefully I should have some more cards to show you.

Image - from Love You set Stampin' Up
Circles - Stitched shapes dies (SU) and scalloped circles (Tattered Lace)
Sentiment - free stamp with set from a magazine give away
Banner - Sue Wilson dies, white layer embossed after stamping - Sue Wilson embossing folder
Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

Card for a Friend

I have a friend who loves elephants so I thought this card would be just right.  Image has been coloured using alcohol pens and coloured pencil. A fairly quick card to make using background paper from my stash along with some die cut label shapes and an embossed strip of kraft card.  I came across a huge amount of 'card candy' recently when tidying up so I will be trying to use that up - all of two tiny pieces here so a long way to go!!

Image - from Stampin' Up
Sentiment - free with a magazine
Embossing Folder - dots by Sizzix
Die Cut shapes - Deco Labels from Stampin' Up
Oval - punch from Stampin' Up

Off to the Playground

It is time to dash off to the Pixie Snippets Playground again with a card for the fortnightly challenge and this time it is a simple offering of paper piecing.  Various snippets of patterned paper have been used for the background, a floral panel and of course for the dress and umbrella. Snippets of white and green card were used for the ovals and also for the sentiment.  The card featured on Di's post this week is quite humorous and of course uses stamps and dies which are offered as the prize - if you fancy owning them it would be worth entering for an opportunity to go into the 'draw.

Image - from Beautiful You set by Stampin' Up
Patterned papers - oddments from my 'bits' box
Sentiment Ovals - punches by Stampin' Up
Large ovals - Spellbinders dies

A Card at Last

Hopefully my computer glitch is now sorted and I can access  pictures to post this card for the Pixie Snippets fortnightly challenge.  The image on here is from a free set of stamps given away with a magazine (yes...again)  and this time there was an embossing folder although I've not used it here. The background is a fairly large snippet of card which had been printed quite a while ago using a gelli plate and acrylic paint.  This came to light when I was sorting out bits and pieces, reminding me that I've not used the gelli lately - sigh!!  I've used another square snippet which was embossed and sanded, snippets of white for the stamping, a snippet of red pearl card for the fancy oval and finally a little strip of embossed parchment - couldn't bear to throw that away.  There is a guest designer in the playground so do take a look at her lovely and clever card - there is still time to enter the challenge too if you fancy taking part.

Stamps - panda and sentiment free stamps with magazine
Embossing - Crafter's Companion folder
Ovals - white oval die from Stampin' Up, Red layer Spellbinders oval die

Aplogies Yet Again

Sorry I've not been posting on my blog - again - this time caused by a bit of a 'hiccup' with the computer which hopefully is about to be sorted.  I can assure you I've not been idle on the crafty front and 'I will be back'!!  I hope you are all having the lovely weather which seems to have arrived here today.

More Magazine Freebies

I have cut down on the number of magazines I pick up although I have to admit I still get tempted if there is a good free gift which I think I will use on more than just one occasion.  This fairy set was one such set which included an embossing folder and a set of fairy stamps (14 stamps in all).  I had a piece of watercolour paper which had been coloured with Pixie Powders so I put part of it through the embossing folder before carefully inking the embossed area with a black marker.  The fairy and sentiment were stamped onto this in black and the edges sponged with matching ink.  A larger piece of the coloured card was used as a background, topped with a piece of purple card which had a corner die cut to show the colours through.  Three little gems and that's it.  The mica in the Pixie powders gives a lovely sheen which unfortunately doesn't show in the picture.

Watercolour paper coloured with Pixie Powders
Corner die - Mixed media die from Tim Holtz
Dandelion - free embossing folder with magazine
Fairy and sentiment - stamps from free set with magazine