An 'Oops" Rescued

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I am running a day late with this post.  I did get it part done yesterday, and then life happened! 

As it has a habit of doing.  

This card is for the new challenge at Word Art Wednesday , where our sponsor is the very generous company, Clearly Besotted Stamps, who will supply a 15 Pound gift voucher to the winner.

My card started as an oops, the embossing was not 100% for the technique I was trying, so it got put into my 'promise box'  after I had sponged the ink over it. 

Somehow I just don't seem to be able to successfully emboss on watercolour paper!

The verse was cut with a stitched circle die and sponged with yellow ink on the edges.

As the panel was too large for the card front, I trimmed one edge off  and mounted it to the side, layering it over a piece of gingham ribbon, then added vertical a bow to the right

A few blue sequins and the front was finished

The inside was finished with a trimming from the feature panel. 

When I was writing this post, it occurred to me that what I did with making the unsatisfactory panel into something attractive and useful, God does to us when we mess up (sin).  

When we admit/confess our sin, he will forgive and redeem us, and remake us into something beautiful, as we are all precious to Him. 

I am linking this to:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2038 - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge Week #38 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #129 - Anything Goes

Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Anything Goes

Funky Junkie Challenge - Staying In The Background

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

Arty Diva's Challenge #29 - Anything Goes

The House That Stamps Built Challenge S2320 - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations September Challenge #413 - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog, any comments you may leave are appreciated.

A Chalked Sunflower

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It's a slow process this purging and packing - but I did get this card done!

I have had this Magnificent Sunflower 3-D embossing folder  for a while now, and decided that I needed to use it.  So I embossed a long, narrow snippet of white card that was on my desk.

I decided to colour it with chalks, using a cotton bud (Q - Tip) .  As can be seen in this and the following photo, I built up the colours and shading using repeated layers

Once I was happy with the colours I sprayed it with a sealant to secure the colour on the card.

The sentiment was clear embossed over Memento Dandelion Ink, on white card, and then double mounted over another snippet of yellow card.  

Some sequins and bakers twine finished the outside of the card.

The inside was finished with washi tape

I am linking this to:

Paper Fundays September Challenge #21 - Anything Goes, Opt Fall Colours

Crafty Creations Challenge September #413 - Anything Goes

Through The Purple Haze Challenge #171 - Anything Goes (opt Stitching)

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #211 - Fall Colours

Little Red Wagon Challenge #567 - Nature - Flora or Fauna

Krafty Chicks Challenge #525 - CAS

NBUS Challenge #18 - Anything Goes using a NBUS item

Pixie's Snippets playground Challenge #386 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday  Challenge Weeks #456 + #457 - Anything Goes

                                 The House That Stamps Built Challenge - Inspiration Palette

A Swinked Scripture

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I recently discovered the technique of Swinking, as named by Laurel and Ardyth!

Their video  tutorials are here and here  and I had great fun making up some backgrounds, one of which I used for this weeks Word Art Wednesday's DT card.

Our Sponsor this week is  Stamp Simply  

who always supplies a generous prize of a voucher to be spent on their wonderful products.

My apologies, I made this card without checking who our sponsor was, and did not use any of the product supplied. 

This weeks scripture, which is available free on the blog, was designed by Karen Murray.  I die cut it with a M.B. Stitched Rectangle, and mounted it onto the background with a pair of tiny banners, cut from the same red card as the base.

The background was made by swiping three Catherine Pooler inks, Lemoncello, Aquatini and Blue Suede Shoes down a piece of lightly dampened watercolour paper, lifting the pad before I reached the bottom of the panel. 

I also sprayed it with some lemon mica spray, which gave an almost splashed effect where it reacted with the inks, giving a subtle touch of texture

The inside of the card was finished with some washi tape

I am linking this to:

Digi Choosday Challenge Week #36 - Anything Goes

Arty Divas Challenge #29 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

lemon Shortbread Challenge #128 - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown challenge #465 - Anything Goes

The Artsy Stamper Challenge #23 - Anything Goes

Crafting Happines Challenge #65 - Anything Goes

Jan's Digi Stamps September Challenge - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2036 - Anything Goes

An Ironed Swap

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I quick post today - I have surfaced from the craziness of cleaning and packing to share this card.

The challenge in our swap group last month was to use the iron-off resist technique,  as demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire.

I used a Stampendous stamp called Bandanna Background, which is slightly too small for our card, so I split the stamped panel and put the sentiment in the centre, directly onto the base card.

After stamping and clear embossing the design, I then randomly sponged over it with Catherine Pooler inks - I was happy with the result, so ironed off the embossing,,, but forgot to wipe the ink off the embossing first, so the result below means I have to really think as to how I am going to use it!!

When I went to mount the coloured panel, I had difficulty finding a card to really complement the panels, and ended up layering it on red, then onto the rich cream base.  I then used the same Rouge Red ink from the sponged panel to stamp the sentiment.

The inside of the card was finished simply with the edge of the white panel run over the red ink pad, and then some washi tape added.

I am linking this to:

Polka Doodles Craft Challenge Week #35 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #191 - Anything Goes

Pink Gem Challenge Week #18 - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #140 - Anything Goes

Dare 2B Artsy August Challenge - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #127 - Anything Goes

Jan's Digi Stamps August Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness Challenge #64 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #454 +455 - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge Week #35 - Anything Goes