Some Cards

These cards have been dry embossed along the top edges and down the side, and I touched them with chalks to add a little colour. I added a butterfly stamped on acetate and a 3D butterfly to one of the cards..


This one was painted with Twinkling H20's - it's such a shame the company making these tiny pots of paint has gone out of business, I recently discovered them, and love using them.........




I love this stamp - I have been asked to make some dog and cat cards for a friend, this one is the first. It's an Imagina stamp by Clarity Stamps. It's coloured with watercolour pencils.


I'ver shown the back and front of this card, so you can see how it's made, it's just a bit of fancy folding, but it looks so different.

Theme Thursday - Birds/eggs or nests

A day late, but here's my take on birds/eggs or nests. Well, I just happen to have found the perfect rubber stamp in my collection which incorporates all three items - and it seemed a nice stamp to use to make a card, which I did, coloured with Twinkling H2o's..
Why not pop over to Theme Thursday where you will find lots of gorgeous examples..

Arty Girlz - Blue and Yellow

These colours are out of my comfort zone, but I looked at my Audrey and i did her in blue and yellow - unintentionally - so I thought, let's have a go ... and here is my ATC in blue and yellow - the fabulous button is one I found in a bag of buttons I got from a charity shop for 50p - I coloured the outer part in felt tip, but it's come out black - sorry about that folks :-) the flower stamp is a Laura Ashley one.
Why not pop over to Arty Girls Challenge Blog to see all the gorgeous blue and yellow creations.

TMTA - Audrey Hepburn

Think Monday Think ATC this week has a lovely theme, Audrey Hepburn. Well, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Moon River are such wonderful memories for most of us I think. I found a Rubber Stampede stamp called Lady in a Hat, which reminds me so much of Audrey that I used it for my ATC. Also used one of Barbara's lovely Clarity stamps of the moon with clouds over it, the tips of the trees are a bit of All Night Media stamp called Winter Trees. The river is my scribble and the faux jewels are from my stash.. sounds like a lot of trouble for an ATC that took a very short while to make, and just came together perfectly for me..hope you like it.

TMTA - E

Wow, Think Monday,Think ATC has an amazing challenge this week, the letter 'E' - that conjours up sooo many things that I couldn't decide, and in the end decided to do two ATC's (not that I like making ATC's you understand :-) ) ....anyway, my trusted rubber stamps in hand, I used some Laura Ashley ones and Versafine Black for Elegance, and I used a Paper Inspirations stamp and Versafine Sepia for Engagement, adding bits of bling, and glitz and a bow as I thought necessary.

One Powerful Hour/TGIF - Queen of Hearts

My Queen of Hearts is an ATC made with a Magenta stamp. One Powerful Hour is the place to go to check out all the other altered playing cards..
This is also for Thank God it's Friday, where the challenge is Hands.

ATC Wednesday - Hair

Here's a fun theme, at ATC Wednesday thios week, Hair. I have used a gorgeous rubber stamp of a very blousy lady with a total Hair Attitude - love her, and I have glammed her up a bit with faux jewels in her hair and lovely shiny earrings..she looks as if she can't make up her mind whether it's her hair or a birthday cake on her head :-)

WS - Shiny

Wednesday Stamper has, for me anyway, a difficult challenge this week, Shiny. I have loads of shiny stuff, but getting it to scan properly is nigh on impossible. I made two ATC's for this theme, one with Gesso, silver paint, tissue, black card and silver embossing powder ..called Heavy Metal, and the other one, so pretty, but it hardly shows. I used shiny silver card, put it through my cuttlebug in an embossing folder, and attached with foam pads to raise them up, a couple of gorgeous faux jewel hearts in a lovely pink colour, on a small background of shiny card. I am so disappointed with the scans for both of them, because they really are glitzy ....sorry - not my best..

Arty Girlz Challenge - Wire

Arty Girlz this week have the theme of Wire for their challenge. I have made an ATC - hey I hear you say, an ATC for a change - well, yes, this one is made with two stamps for the background flowers and flourishes, Papermania Elements Wire Flowers, and faux rubies...very simple....

TMTA - Rooftops

TMTA this week has a theme of Rooftops, my ATC is called Eveningtime over Italian Rooftops, because I used a Judikins Italian Holiday cube, also used a tiny watch by Imagina and a sun/moon behind the clouds stamp also by Imagina. I coloured the sky with chalks ..

Awfully Big Art Adventure - Doors

Linda and Rosie over at their Awfully Big Art Adventure blog have a theme this week of doors, so I thought I might enter my door ATC. The door is open, leading off to pastures new and buildings new, so I thought it may be appropriate. The image is part of a Rubber Romance stamp, coloured with gel pens and watercolour pencils.

Valentine card

I thought I would share this card with you - it's the card I made for my hubby for Valentine's Day. Unfortunately the scan isn't very good because the card is 3d due to the spray of Roses. I made the hearts using my Cuttlebug Heart die and embossing folders. I used Elusive Images Valentine stamp sheet - love those images. Double click on the card to read the words, they are lovely.

Geisha with Fan card

Somewhere out there is a challenge to include Fans - but I can't find it now I've made my card - still I like the card anyway so am posting it. I made it for a friend's birthday, the card is Papermania printed card, and the stamp is a big Rubbernecker one. The image is coloured with watercolour pencils.

MMM - Hearts and Wings

Mixed Media
Monday this week has the gorgeous theme of Hearts and/or Wings. I just bought a new set of Cuttlebug Heart die and embossing folders which I used for this challenge, along with a couple of Crafty Individuals photo images (don't say 'again' - cuz I luuuuv these images) so here is my ATC of Big Hearted Gals..
EDIT: I have added Big Hearted Gals across the heart - think I like it better than the plain one - take a look and see what you think..it's on my ATC blog - link on the left.

Pretty Paper Hearts - Yellow

Pretty Paper Hearts has the lovely theme Yellow. I made a card with a yellow and gold heart on it, hope it's ok for the challenge. The stamped heart is Elusive Images, as is the greeting.