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Anniversary card

anniversary card, card, ivory

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Inspiration for this card came from the CBC forum birthday challenge where the challenge was to create a card using only one colour. Some people made classy all white cards that I really liked for not only the simplicity but also the elegance of the effect. For Chris and Grace’s wedding anniversary this year I made this using only ivory (with gold on the greeting). The photo however adds a slightly strange colour to the ivory ribbon.

Inks: versamark embossing ink with gold powder
Card: ivory card, cotton white broderie (which looks more ivory than white), ivory card (through embossing folder)
Stamp: Stampin up Cheer and wishes
Other: ivory ribbon (wired), Prima flowers Innocence collection, Cuttlebug embossing folder Textile

ATC swap Altered photos

ATC, digital stamp, Forth railway bridge, poppy

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My ATCs for this months CBC swap are altered via my PC rather than stamping so I made use of a couple of great tutorials I found over on Jessica Prague’s blog. I hardly ever do digital stuff so I never remember how I got the results. I press keys and add layers then every now and again I get some nice results that I can never emulate.
Harry took the photo of the Forth railway bridge and I added the grunge frame from Jessica’s site and altered the RGB balance. The edges were further distressed physically.
The poppy photo is a result of me playing around with the macro facility on my camera along with Jessica’s tutorial on how to get the text to look like it is behind a petal. This one has a small border and corners added digitally too.

A badger and an owl card

badger, card, owl

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A few weeks ago I was asked to make a badger and an owl card for a good friend of mine. I used a photo for the front of the badger card and a stamped image (kindly sent by Rachel) for the back of the card and as it was a man’s card I didn’t add blooms and swirls but just a tiny bit of bling on the corners.

Inks: versamark with silver embossing powder
Card: black, silver and blue card, photo
Stamp: Michael Strong’s Mosaic frame
Other: pearls

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For the owl card I kept to natural colours, used a photo of some bark (taken at Aviemore a few weeks ago) and a real feather which I hope is an owls. The background paper is hand made from recycled cotton T-shirts and the ribbon has leaves printed on it.

Inks: Moonshadow ink Burnt umber, Archival ink Coffee
Card: White card, hand made paper, brown card, photo
Stamps: owl stamp free from craft stamper mag
Other: peel-off leaves coloured and stuck to hand made paper, ribbon, hand made re-cycled paper, clear domes on eyes, copper brads, feather

Easter card

card, easter

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I don’t make Easter cards every year  but I made a few this year.  Nice bright spring colours and not an Easter egg in sight.

Inks: black document ink, stampin up Certainly celery, Brilliance pearlescent Orchid and Sunflower yellow
Card: Green card, white card, Bo-Bunny patterned paper
Stamps: Elusive images Spring, Rubber Stamp Tapestry Yummy’s Garden
Other: Maya Road ribbon, stickles, copics to colour butterfly, flower embellishments

A bit of Manga for Ceara

card, digital stamp, Manga, Oriental
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It is Ceara’s 18th birthday soon and I know she likes Manga style art and I have tried to emulate Ceara’s hair colour (although it changes every time I see her) hence the kind of red/purple mix – and would you believe it – she has gone brown again!
The digital stamp image is called FuwaFuwa created by CupuDOTexe: printed then coloured using copic pens. I heat set the ink just in case is smudged while colouring with the copics.Inks: black document, Memento rhubarb stalk (for edges)
Card: white card, Yuzen paper, origami paper, purple pearlescent card
Stamps: Elusive images Bookmark plate (greeting), digit stamp FuwaFuwa
Other: gem, stickles, copic pens, ribbon, mizuhiki cord, lucky kitty and blossom stickers, origami crane (for longevity)

Connell’s penny slider card

card, Connell, penny slider
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This card has a gap to enable the football to slide from side to side. The slider is just made up of two pennies held together via a magnet (hence the name of a penny slider card).

Inks: Black document ink
Card: white card, black card, football paper
Stamps: Snoopy footballer image was from a previous swap, football from Dimension Fourth Ltd
Other: Rock candy distress stickles, two pennies, tiny magnet, black peel-off stars, 3D foam strips

CBC ATC swaps theme – Easter or spring

ATC, CBC swap, easter, spring

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My two swaps for the CBC ATC swap for March are coloured using water colour pencils and soufflé pens with the addition of a few dabs of stickles.

Inks: black document ink
Card: white card, patterned paper for the vans
Stamps: Stampin up Loads of love and Pocket silhouettes, Woodware Nature fun
Other: pale blue brads, pale green tiny rik-rak, lucky rabbit stickers, diamond glaze

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – Another sketch

another sketch, card, CBC spring and birthday challenge

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This challenge is to make a card based on a sketch and for bonus points add a rub-on and something with wings. I have flipped the sketch over (mirror image) and turned it to portrait position. The rub- on is the coppery coloured circle on the folded over corner (it is actually concentric circles but the large brad cover a couple of them). Ladybirds fly (wings are under their elytra) but their wings are not shown here so I am not sure if this counts.

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – A recipe and Cut it out

CBC spring and birthday challenge, cut it out, recipe

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Yes I know it is anther poor photograph – it looks much nicer in real life (honest!)
I have put this layout together to conform to two of the challenges: to a recipe that must include a brad, arrow and some doodling, and -Cut it out which states that you must cut something out more than once.
I doodled the clouds and cut them out, there are two brads and a clear arrow (sponges lightly with white and blue but you can’t tell from this photo).