Yellow………………………

is the theme of this weeks card challenge at Scrapbook Sisters.

I had to have a go with my Tim Holtz dies. Scrapbook Sisters is receiving a lot of deliveries in the shop now full of  Tims goodies.

I have used his new dress form die with cotton reel and buttons and his old faithful the tattered florals. The dress form, reel and buttons were cut from Grunge paper and inked with distress inks. Another form was cut from patterned paper and the stand section cut off and stamped over with a grid stamp.

 

The flowers were cut from patterned paper. I wanted a bronze embellishment to go in the centres of the flowers but couldn’t find anything in my stash so I resorted to swiping a silver jewellery finding across a Versamark ink pad  and dipping it into bronze embossing powder and heating up. 

The smaller petals of the large  flower were formed by cutting  two tiny scalloped  circles from a nestibility ( didn’t have a scalloped punch). Misted with water to dampen down and then scrunched up. When the paper dries it retains its shape and hardens off a little.

The sentiment stamped onto the card and over stamped with the grid stamp. I thoroughly enjoyed making this card as I love all things Tim! I love making dimensional cards. I don’t seem to be able to create anything flat now that I’m happy with.

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to have a go and enter the challenge. 

Gayle x

Leaving card

Hi everyone

Tonight I am sharing a card I made on Sunday for a work colleague who is leaving us on Friday.

Pondered for along while as to what to do and so decided to go through my wood mounted stamps(there are many!) and decided on yes a Butterfly.

I decided on an easel style card. I stamped the image and coloured with copics.

 

 

The pictures were taken early in the morning so the light wasn’t particularly good but the background paper is a dark chocolate with white spots.

Distress stickles added in areas of the image. The butterfly was then stamped onto acetate and cut out and layered over the main image.

I’m in the process of making a card for my sons birthday on Monday. I can’t believe he will be 18!   They grow up all too fast. His loves are Roller Blading and of course the Xbox so I’m trying to incorporate them into a special card for him. If I succeed I’ll show it next week.

Until tomorrow when I’ll be posting this weeks card challenge from Scrapbook Sisters.

Nite nite

Gayle x

Card Challenge

Sorry its been a while but not enough hours in the day as usual. Decided tonight to take half an hour out and do a long over due post - Scrapbook Sisters latest challenge.

This weeks theme is Mothers Day or for Someone special. I did cheat a bit this week as I have used the birthday card I made for Karen at Scrapbook Sisters. It was her birthday yesterday.

The beautiful  image is a stamp I have had for a few years that was hidden away until I re-discovered it at the weekend. I bet I’m not the only one who finds things that they’ve long forgotten about.

She is coloured with copics. I used a nestabilities oval die cutting into the legs part of the image so she is standing outside of the oval.

 

The organza ribbon was coloured with the red copic and heated with the heat gun until it starts to shrivel up. Be careful if you try this  as it is best done with a heat gun with a slow speed- 2 speed gun on the lowest setting, otherwise it will burn and melt. I then cut some slits in the card and threaded the ribbon through to create a shawl.

The background paper is from a K&Co paper stack. The roses were cut from the same paper and moulded to give a 3D effect and attached with silicone. Hope you like it. If you haven't entered the challenge yet have a go.

A bit more prep now for my next card class in a couple of weeks time ‘one for the boys’. Hopefully these cards should help make life a little easier when making for the male species.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

A finished class project.

This is a card holder class that I attended and contributed to at Scrapbook Sisters before christmas. I designed a range of digi stamps of which some were included in the kits for the cards.

I finally finished the card holder for my sister for her birthday. I didn’t decorate the box as I was up against the clock to get a selection of cards made to go in the box.

It ended up slightly different to the class one. I had some metal letters in my stash that I stuck onto the front of the holder.

The following are some of the cards I made to go inside.

This first one was a magazine free stamp. The icing is sprinkled  with Glamour Dust but unfortunately doesn't show up in the photos. It looked really pretty in the flesh so to speak.

This is one of my digi stamps. The frame is so versatile as you can put text in the centre or a photo or use it in a scrapbook  page to highlight a particular photo.

The image was coloured with copics and accented with  Glossy accents   for a water droplet effect. Photos are a bit rubbish – sorry.

I love this little bear in the bath. I think this was from a set of stamps that came free with a magazine.

I will post some more later this week.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

Don’t think I’ll ever be warm again!

Boiler is only firing up for a few minutes at a time so I have not had any heating since Thursday. Trying to run a bath is a nightmare! Run the bath until boiler cuts out, run up stairs to turn off tap, leave it for a while, boil up the kettle a few times, turn on the taps again to fire up the boiler and this goes on for about 3/4 hour, the poor kettle is working overtime! Plumber is ringing me with a quote for new boiler tomorrow – groan, more expense, but he wont be able to fit it until Friday. Bed and 2 microwave wheatie bags as soon as I’ve finished this post.

Well enough of my troubles. My sister requested another one of my number cards for her friends 60th birthday.Must admit these are a no brainer as I don’t have to think about it. Just decide what colours I’m going to do. The hardest part is trying to find the papers I  want in my stash!

The butterflies were stamped onto the patterned paper and glittered. Wire is sandwiched between the double butterfly image to give them movement.

 

The flowers are cut from Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers die. I LOOOVE Tim Holtz dies. Cant wait to get my hands on his new releases. Julie at Scrapbook Sisters tells me they will be stocking them in the shop watch this space!!!!!!

The centre of the flowers are filled with glossy accents  and little bugle beads. I don’t normally go for orangey colours but was pleased with how it came out.

Bed and warmth now.

Thanks for stopping by

Gayle x

‘Spring’ card challenge

Hi all.

Long time no post again! Must do better.

Anyway Scrapbook Sisters latest card challenge is ‘Spring’ so I thought I’d have a go at some blossom. This what I came up with.

I drew out the branch and leaves and coloured them with Copics.

I then drew the blossoms in different sizes with some extra petals layered on the top to give it a bit of dimension.

And a bit of faux cross stitching to finish it off.

If you haven't joined in any of their challenges  do have a go. Its great to see everyone's different styles and their take on each challenge.

Thanks for stopping by   

Gayle x

Back tracking to Christmas ….

Hi

Something a little different for me - my first completed mini book. My sisters sort of step daughter had a little boy Jack in October, so for Christmas I decided to make the parents a little book to keep some of his first Christmas pictures. As usual with the run up for Christmas it was left as the last  thing to do so I didn’t have the time to really go to town on it, but they were over the moon with it. This what I came up with.

I think the papers were Bo Bunny which I purchased at Scrapbook Sisters.

I left areas for Rachael to put in her pics and any journaling she wanted.

These two pages had Glamour Dust around the swirls but you can’t really see it in the pictures.

The snow flakes were cut from a Sizzix die.

A friend cut out the train & rocking horse for me on her Cricut.

 

  and finally the back cover.

Sorry the photos are a bit naff. Don’t you just hate it when the pictures look ok on the camera but once you get them onto the computer they are not all that! By this time what you have photographed has gone so you can’t do them again.

I enjoy doing these mini books and have another two on the go – well have been on the go for a long long time so I must get them finished.

Thanks for stopping by

Gayle x