Gone Fishin' - again...

Welcome

Once again I have been much slower than I intended in blogging again

I have been trying to catch up on commenting, but the more I tried, it seemed the behinder I got, so I am trying to make a clean start....again :)

I made this card for one of the fishermen in the extended family - fishing is a major hobby of his, especially in the summer.

I used a set of stamps sent to me by the beautiful Karen Letchworth -  a Whimsy stamp set, Born to Fish

The background was made with a Uniko stencil, Wonky Stripes  and two shades of blue ink, then sprayed some blue Mica spray across the bottom of the card.

Initially I silver embossed the fish images, but they were 'lost' on the background, so I stamped them in Memento Paris Twilight ink on white card, fussy cut them and adhered them over the embossed images.

The sentiment is also from a Uniko stamp set

I repeat stamped the the fish 'off the edge' on the inside panel

As well as on the envelope, as seen in the top photo. 

I am linking this to 

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #708 +709 - Anything Goes

                                      Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2529 - Anything Goes

                                           Cardz For Guys Challenge #376 - Summer Holidays

Tiles

Welcome

Thank  you for taking the time to visit.

I had hoped to post this before now, but I was waiting on a card to be delivered, and I thought the postal service was being very tardy with it.... It is part of June's card swap,  and the recipient is only an hour up the road.... 

Ooops, my bad, I omitted a line of the address from the envelope - I will be thankful that it arrived, and was not sent back to me!

The brief in June from our swap group, was to create a background using mosaic tiles made of paper, and several tutorials were linked to choose from. I chose this one  by Stamptastic Design. 

I started by using some Brusho'd watercoloured paper that I had cut into.  The offcuts were cut into strips and further cut down for the shapes.  

These were placed onto copy paper I had laid double sided adhesive onto. I trimmed it and sprinkled over silver embossing powder and heated.... 

Once I had assembled the main panel onto the background, I felt it needed a silver edge, so ran an embossing pen around it, added more powder and heated again, hoping that I did not wreck the whole panel and need to start again....  

I added in a raised diecut negative, a concept I was inspired to use by from Natasha Foote.  (It is approximately 3/4 the way through the linked video.) The die is part of a Scrapbook.com set, I will edit to add the name later.

 I dipped the edges of the panel into embossing ink, then 'silvered' that also.  The wee sentiment was also silver embossed.

The inside of the card, and envelope, were decorated with silver dotted washi tape.

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Weeks #706 +707 - Anything Goes 

Elliebelle's Crafty Wednesday June and July Challenge - Anything Goes

Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #509 - Anything Goes using snippets

All the 'B's....

Welcome

I have another post half done, that I cannot post until the card is delivered - it was posted on 19th June..

This card was posted 48 hours ago, to a destination twice as far away, and has arrived!!

The vagaries of the postal system are beyond my comprehension!!

Rant over....

This is the July card for our wee swap group, and the theme was the letter B

This is somewhat photo heavy, but first I will start with the 'story' behind the card...

As we were due a very wet and cold weekend, we were given the theme a couple of days early

The Story behind my ‘B’ card

Despite the blustery breeze and the sea birds wheeling, Belinda donned her best blue dress and bopped along the beach, her beautiful balloons bouncing in the breeze, trying to sell them, so she could have a bacon buttie before bed. 

 That’s what happens when you have time, and a brain full of antibiotics, well that’s my excuse. I couldn’t think past beach and balloons initially, but this is the outcome...

The ‘sand’ is course texture gel, coloured with Lindy’s magicals – Grab a Guy Gold and Bratworst Brown. 

 The sea and sky were brayered on, using four different blue inks. White ball point and Kindy Glitz were added to the sea.  Clouds were cut using Whimsy stamps Stitched clouds, and had grey brushed across the bottom edges. 

The figurine is a Tim Holtz ephemera from the Paper Dolls series Poses.  Balloons were punched from various colours of glitter card.

I wanted to use some balloon washi tape, but could not find any in my stash, so used seaside themed tapes from an old magazine freebie pack.  This is the inside of the card, and there was another pattern on the envelope.

I am linking this to:

Allsorts Challenge #826 - Seaside or Anything Goes

Make My Monday Challenge #255 - Summer fun

Dream Valley Challenge #340 - Anything Goes