L is for Love - and Lace

Well it's time to post off my Alphatags for the swap this month and this is one of the months when we need to do three so as to fit all 26 into the year.  L for Love isn't the most original theme but I've used a stamp from the Chocolate Baroque Harlequin Rose set and coloured it red using Coloursoft pencils. The tag was cut using a Sizzix die from a sheet card which I printed with a love letters download (also from Chocolate Baroque).  The word was a CB stamp as was the strip of lace stamped onto vellum and white embossed before cutting out. Again apart from the printed A4 sheet, the rest of the elements on this tag started from my scraps boxes - of course I also now have a partial sheet of printed love letter to use up sometime!!

Sunday Stamper week 209

The Sunday Stamper challenge theme this week is PRETTY IN PINK and this card has pink flowers although I have used yellow and other colours as well so hope it will be OK.  The stamp is from Chocolate Baroque and has been coloured with Coloursoft pencils. You will be pleased to hear I'm still managing to use bits and pieces from my scrap boxes and apart from the base card all the paper and card used here came from that source. 

Make My Monday Week 53

As it is Fathers' Day soon that is the theme for the challenge on Make My Monday this week and fortunately they also mention a masculine card.  I am quite pleased because I am rather too old to require a card for Fathers' Day!!  This is another card using something found in my oddments boxes, namely a printed digital image from the George at Work range by Charmed Cards and Crafts which I've actually made into a birthday card.  Background paper and the various die cut or punched pieces were all found in the oddments boxes as well - odd thing is that despite using lots of scraps recently the boxes are still brimming so I reckon they are quietly breeding overnight!!

Forgotten Friday

I have an offering for Judith's Forgotten Friday challenge today which is a mixture of 'forgotten', 'scraps', and a 'cased' idea which I saw on a recent Penny Black challenge blog. Do take a look at Judith's blog because she has a lovely card using the latest stamp set from Chocolate Baroque - fabulous sunflowers which should cheer up what is looking like another dull, wet and windy day.  Anyway back to my card - the thing I liked about the idea was the two tags with text which form part of the design so I went to the scrap box and pulled out a couple of die-cuts which I knew were lying there unused since I did a Big shot demo last year.  I stamped some text onto them and sponged with distess ink, then dug my Cropodile out of hiding (can't recall when that was last used) to add eyelets, then tied together with some baker twine and a little punched tag (Stampin' Up). Background paper was a magazine  freebie overstamped with swirls; the floral panel behind the circle is a Chocolate Baroque stamp, from the Fantastic Florals sheet and the first time this particular image has been used.  The daisy flower is from a Crafty Individuals stamp which I've had for some years but has been neglected for too long.  Both flowers were stamped onto scraps of card and the die-cut circle (Nellies Die) from a scrap of kraft card. Finally the tickets were in the scraps box too - leftovers from another project when I stamped extra ones which I didn't need at the time.

Hybrid Crafting

A bit of hybrid crafting  steampunk style today combining stamping and some digital dabblings using Craft Artist.- not much more to say about this really. The fellow on the bicycle is a stamp from Chocolate Baroque Teeny Tiny set and has been stamped onto a Tim Holtz large ticket shape with a bit more overstamping.

Make My Monday week 52

The main topic this month at Make My Monday is EVENTS associated with JUNE and as the birth stone for the month is PEARL they are asking for a birthday card with pearls.  I'm afraid I just had to break into a new sheet of paper for the background on this one but the rest of it all came from my scrap boxes.  The flower is a stamp from Imagination Crafts and has been coloured using Coloursoft pencils, background paper is from Prima  with added strips of card embossed or punched.  The border strip was punched with a Martha Stewart punch and Stampin' Up punches were used for the sentiment and the piece with pearls at the top. If you follow the link you will see  some great ideas from the Design Team.

Sunday Stamper Week 208

The theme set by Hels for Sunday Stamper this week is very 'jubilee' with red, white and blue to be used and as usual she has come up with a great project for inspiration.  I decided I'd make a Jubilee tag for my collection and started off by printing a Union flag design (My Craft Studio) onto card from which I then cut out the tag.  This was overstamped with a selection of stamps from Papermania Urban collections and the 'stamp-edged' square was one of those stamps also.  Some scraps of die-cut lace were coloured  to go along the bottom with a patriotic flower. The numbers for the year were cut from scraps of sponged card using X-cut dies, a Tim Holtz Type charm and some 'diamonds' on the crown and that's it.  Apart from a sheet of card for printing the background everything else here was from the 'scraps boxes.