Shadowed Tiles Technique

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Last month's swap card is still 'in transit', but this month's swap card has arrived!

I will never understand the vagaries of the postal system....

This card was created by stamping a panel with Catherine Pooler's Cottage Garden background stamp in her Queen for a Day ink, and then colouring it with one Faber-Castel polychromo pencil

I then coloured a plain piece of card with the same ink, direct to paper, and cut both panels into 2 cm square blocks, before very carefully offsetting the plain blocks behind the patterned ones, and then adhering them all to the white layer - what a marathon, with a few quick removals enroute - glue is far better for this technique than tape....

The only accents after layering onto the purple base (again white card coloured with the same ink) was the silver ribbon, the silver embossed tag, and some silver rhinestones

and a few dots of silver ink on some of the stamens.

The liner was edged with the purple ink and had silver scotch tape added. Washi tape was added to the envelope.

I have just come back from a wonderful weekend, participating in a needlelace workshop, and will be away with girlfriends for a long weekend this coming weekend, so I won't be around blogland much for a day or so... 

I am linking this to:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2641- Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #772 + 773 - Anything Goes

Ellieblle's Garden Party Challenge #20 - Anything in or From a Garden

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends October Challenge - Anything Goes

We Love Stamping October Challenge - Colours of Autumn or Anything Goes

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Thank you Birdie

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Still waiting to hear that last month's swap card has arrived.... the national post office is trying to take itself out of business with high prices and appalling service...   Enough

I attended a family function recently, and the serviettes used were the same as some I had on hand, so I sent a Thank You card made with one from my stash - I didn't have to snaffle this one :)

I mounted the serviette/napkin onto white card, wrapped the red ribbon around it and added it to the red layer to frame it.  The sentiment stamp was a magazine freebie and stamped beautifully, and was die cut and layered over red before being added to the card, with a wee tad of ribbon at the bottom of the words.

This was all mounted onto a white base.

I added the red ribbon to the inside panel, but unfortunately the photo was blurry. 

The envelope was decorated with two layers of washi tape.

I am linking this to:

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #334 - Lots and lots of colours (or Anything Goes)

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2640 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #772 + 773 - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #2780 -Anything Goes or Autumn Foliage

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use Patterned Paper

The Paper Funday Challenge #92 - Anything Goes

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Washi, Napkin and Flowers

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I was waiting for a particular card to arrive to be able to post again this month, as I am still waiting for notification of it's arrival, I will instead post this card!

It was made for a garden lover, but the illustrated panel started life as a napkin

The napkin was adhered to white card, and then the dark coloured strips were added to the existing design using an extremely narrow washi tape.

A simple birthday greeting, embossed using dark blue ep on light blue card. 

A narrow border of gold card was added at the base before it was adhered with foam strips.

This panel was then mounted on a layer of gold card over the dark blue base.

I loved how this turned out, and the recipient enjoyed it too.

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #770 + 771  - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge # 2639  - Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts Challenge #579 - Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams September Challenge - Monochromatic

'Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #286 - Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create Challenge 9 - Anything Mixed Media

Father's Day - part 2

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Here's the other card I made that rushed afternoon!

I started playing with a dye re-inker, a T.H stain and a mica spray, dabbed, dropped and sprayed onto my glass work surface, then a light spritz with water, and I smooshed some TH tissue paper through it, and then some card to mop up....  I was quite surprised to later find that the tissue was not transparent.

The result was this wonderful grungy but glimmery piece.

I was wondering what to put with it, when I recalled I had this (CUTplorations) mug die, (used once in many years) and then found the coffee sentiment (in the matching STAMPloration set - which I have owned for years and never used) - as the recipient loves his coffee, this was perfect.  The father's day sentiment is a magazine freebie from years ago

The inside was finished with this faux marble tape, as was the envelope.

I am linking this to:

First Cup Challenge #18 - Any beverage

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2637 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #768 + 769 - Anything Goes

A Cut Above September Challenge #20 - Use a Die

Neglected Stuff September '26 Challenge - Use neglected supplies

The mug die, the coffee stamp and the tissue paper are all hoarded lovingly stored products

NBUS Challenge #90 - Anything previously unused

The tissue paper and the coffee sentiment

STAMPlorations Never-ending Anything Goes Challenge

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Just a note to those whom I regularly visit - blogger has not refreshed my "reading List" for over 24 hours, so I cannot find any new posts to comment on.

I will be back when blogger behaves again

Father's Day - part 1

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Here Down Under, we observe Father's Day on the first Sunday in September - which was yesterday.

I live with family, and they are masters of the 'last minute rush' , so Saturday afternoon I was asked for cards.... I made two, and this one was for my DD to give to her DH

I had just come across this piece of grey green pearlised card in my stash, so started with that - and embossed it with a very old Creative Memories folder

I decided that deep green would be the card base, and I used snippets of that green from my stash to silver emboss the sentiment and image on - both are freebies from old magazines

I cut the embossed panels with square dies, and then a silver matting layer with a die one size up.  Adhered these to the embossed panel, then when I went to adhere the main panel to the base, decided to add a sliver of silver  behind the opposite corners... 

I added silver polka dot washi tape to the inside panel and also the envelope

DD was very happy with this.  

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #768 + 769 - Anything Goes

Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge (8/2026) - Anything Goes option taken

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #285 - Anything Goes

We Love Stamping September Challenge - Anything Goes option taken

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Use a Die Cut

Pixie Snippets Playground Challenge #540 - Anything Goes using snippets

Snippets used were the pieces used for the embossing - from my  box of bits

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Cards for Gamers

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I don't generally make more than one card of any one design, but I was running short of time and mojo, and had cards to make for two gaming obsessed boys, so this was the result.

I found the image on google images and printed it off - got my sizing a bit small the first time through, so trimmed it with a white border, gave the card a background of (Uniko) circles stamped in Delicata Golden Glitz ink, swiped the ink around the panel, 

embossed the sentiment in glitter gold EP and assembled and called it done.

The inside panel was decorated with the same washi tape as I used on the envelope.

The second image was printed a bit larger, mounted over some handmade orange paper that has been in my stash forever a long time.  The sentiment was embossed in orange EP (A NBUS Brutus Monroe stamp) and the strip mounted on foam dots for dimension

A close up of the textured paper

The inside of the card had the last scrap of the orange paper glued down one side, and I stamped a Uniko border stamp down the envelope, and coloured the dots with similar colours to those on the front of the card. 

As the cards are so similar, and have minimal stamping, I am not linking up to any challenges

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