Stampin' Saturday

365 Cards Day 175 - Layering stamps, not masking
This will also fit for Crafty Creations Challenge # 29 - 'Tags'
Now I was really in my element, but I seriously didn't know when to stop...so a case of 'less is more' it is not.

Ingredients used:-
Stamps - Hero Arts 'Polka Dot Pattern', All Night Media ' Script', Hero Arts 'Skylark Bookmark', Clarity corner stamp, Image by European Memories, Sentiment by Paper Artsy
Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Inks in 'Tea Dye' and 'Walnut Stain'
Paper from Costco
Card blank - Kraft from Lakeland
Cotton twine
I still feel I need to put something else on it, like a button!..lol!!!

Just Peachy

A card to cover 2 challenges
365 Cards Day 174 - Peach to be the dominant colour
Mojo Monday Sketch 100

I do love a vintage look and so many very arty people do some wonderful work which I am in awe of. So I dug out one of my old vintage style stamps ...another eBay find, and got to work....whether the result is vintage or arty is in the eye of the beholder...lol!!...but I've had a try at it.

Base Card - SU Kraft
Papers - My Mind's Eye 'Bloom & Grow'
Stamp - Misc. um
Ink - Tim Holtz 'Walnut Stain'
Peach Die-cut sticker - Kay & Co 'Romanza' Images
Peach satin ribbon and rub-on from my stash

Fiskars small square hand held punch to make the hole for the ribbon to go through.
I loved using these colours for a change and am pleased I found the die-cut peach sticker :)

Peek-a-Boo to You

365 Cards Day 152
This was to create a card with a fun flap somewhere on the card.
Oh! how I had fun making this today.
It's left me worn out though!!

It took me a long time to come up with the idea, but once I came upon the book of ephemera amongst all my dated stash, which has the date of 2004 on it and never been used, I knew where I was going with this. The 6 x 6 book is by Plaid and called Paper Journeys.
The stripey paper is by Laura Ashley and the idea behind using that was to resemble deck chair canvas.
I started with 5 little pages, but thought that a little over generous and cut it down to 3, which is plenty enough. These pages show all the adults having fun on their holiday by the sea. So the poor little chappie on the front has every right to be down in the dumps and want his friends.
I edged the pages and card with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad in Tea Dye and don't know why I do this, everyone else who does it achieves the desired effect...me?...nah!! always looks liked I've slipped with the pad and it looks messy.
I also dug out more peel-offs for the hinges. I will not throw these away, after buying them all those years ago I am determined they will be used. Frugal, that's me.....waste not, want not!!
Ribbons, sentiment tag and flat backed pearls (why use those?...'cos I can :D) from my stash.

365 Cards...Challenge Day 135

Well I'm playing catch-up as this is yesterdays challenge
'Card to incorporate a see through window of some sort'
I have done a shaker card and hope it will slip through the rule net.
I had to think long and hard over this as I haven't done a card with a window or used acetate for years...oh! the shame...all these techniques and I hardly ever step outside of my box.
The idea for this card is from one I did a few years back.
And I remember why I don't do them now LOL!! :-
The acetate shaker 'bubble' was slightly filled with a couple of flowers a punched swirl and some accent micro beads and backed with a piece of the patterned paper before being inserted into a pre-cut aperture in the piece of plainish card....oh! the joy of accent beads sticking to where they were not supposed to be stuck and staticly clinging to the acetate in all manner of silly ways and jumping out when I tried to stick the DST on ...never again.
Ingredients :-
Papers & white card - Basic Grey 'Cupcake'
Base Card - Misc. from stash
Wording - Tim Holtz Junkitz epoxy stickerz
Accent micro beads, flowers, acetate shaker bubble, ribbon and clip all from my stash.
The mini swirly flourishes were cut using my Woodware punch

I apologize yet again for the poor photography, but I have since found a tutorial on how to make a light box for photography so you won't have to wait much longer for a, hopefully, decent piccy.
I will still scan flat cards though. :D

Just Magnolia meets Mojo Monday

A great combo again of a fab sketch at Mojo Monday week 83 with a great theme of 'Pink & Green over at Just Magnolia challenge #2
This was a card of mistake after mistake, all covered with corrections of some sort. lol!! Not telling though. :-)

Ingredients used :-
Stamped Image - Magnolia 'Tilda'
Paper - Basic Grey 'Sultry'
Green card - DCWV Christmas Matstack
Hydrangeaa, pearls, lace, ribbon and sentiment from my stash

Tools used :-
Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 1
DSST
Glue Dots
Letraset Pro-Markers - Blossom, Emerald, Lemon, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Apple & Apricot
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Tattered Rose

Smile

As it is not a competition week over at Basic Grey Challenge #25 I have combined this with Arty Girls weekly Challenge #76 which is 'Smile'. Arty Girls guest designer this week is Anna Koziarek.
I have really stepped outside my comfort zone with this as I ache to do artsy cards but have never had the courage although I have collected so many arty stamps. So as this is my first attempt you wonderful arty girls out there please be gentle with me and realise I haven't stepped that far out of my box. lol!!
The Basic Grey elements I have used are papers from the 'Two Scoops' range. Also a small piece of brown BG which was just the thing in my scraps. The stamps used were 'Live Life!' by Paperbag Studios and 'Smile....' by Clarity/Imagina. The ink used to stamp with was Versafine Antique Sepia and to swoosh around the papers was Tim Holtz Distress Ink 'Brushed Corduroy'. The metal corners are Scrapbook Basics. The round was cut out using largest Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Circle, and the pink paper was scalloped using Fiskars Wide Scallop scissors. The lace,buttons and ribbon were from my stash.
I shed a tear doing this card, as I always do when I use buttons, because out comes 'The Button Tin' which I inherited from my dear mum who only passed away 2 years ago at the age of 95 and whenever I hear the buttons swishing about in the tin I am whisked back to my childhood when the best thing to play with were Mum's buttons. How some children miss out today.