Puppy Love

Greetings, thank you for visiting, and I trust you feel welcome.

This is an image that is being released this week by McMahon Vintage called Puppy Love.

The image was coloured with chalks and the panel edges distressed and sponged.

The image was then mounted onto the angled plain paper, then onto the dp which is from the Prima 6x6 stack, Romantique - it is somewhat more green IRL than the camera showed.

The ribbon was some I had on hand from the Warehouse (local equivalent of K Mart) and the pearl mini swirl is by Zva Creative.

I am linking this to:

Gingersnap Challenge #136 - Glorious Green

Little Darlings Challenge #16 - Polka Dots

The Paper Shelter Challenge - Pearls and Swirls

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Whimsy Inspiration - Pearls or bling

Thank you for calling - May your day be blessed.

CAS and Wood Themed

Welcome to my little spot of blogland.

I had to make a birthday card recently which was done in a hurry, and was the second one I had had to make for this person. This was the result.

The creative process was started with the tree stamp - one I had received earlier in the week in a blog candy/RAK from Kary over at Papercrafting and Travels as part of her birthday give-aways.

Next step was when this tag fell out from a tray as I was getting out some scrap paper for my desk - it was an old one which I promptly turned over and re-purposed.

I applied two inks to the tree stamp fairly randomly, not in a true rock and roll technique, but the idea came from that.

The edges of both the main tag and the white image panel were distressed and sponged, and the sentiment was stamped using the same ink.

The ribbon was originally white, but I ran it over the darker inkpad to colour it.  Although it looks as though a thread on the edges has not taken the die, it did eventually spread right through the ribbon.

The dp was from an "el-cheapo" pack I bought from the Warehouse when I first started to consider using layers - very early in my paper crafting days!! It had a very pale striped pattern on it, which did not quite 'fit', so I ran it through a woodgrain embossing folder, and then swiped it with an ink pad.

The base card is a dark hunter green, and the whole was finished with some bronze bling.

Total time from sitting down to completion - 25 minutes!!  Pretty quick considering I really didn't have anything in mind when I started.

I am linking this to:

Card Making Mamas Challenge #34 - Sentiments

The Culture Shock - DIY (for a DIY guy, who works with wood!)

Our Craft Lounge Challenge #94 - Tag you're it

Stempelsonnen Challenge #51 - Fir trees

Thanks for calling by. May your day be blessed.

Recipe:

Stamps - sentiment Kiwistamping, tree from Peace, Joy, Love set by Unity Stamps

Inks      - Memento Cottage Ivy, Bamboo Leaves, Desert Sand

Paper    - Warehouse pack,

Card      - hunter and lime green

Accessories - Rhinestones by Kaisercraft

Aspen and Tennis Anyone

Good morning good folks - the time zones have caught me out again and I am late..... 

The first card from the McMahon Five Designs this week is Tennis Anyone?

As soon as I saw this image I thought of this paper from the Le Chateau pad of dp by Kaiser Craft.  This sat well on the gray base I had decided to use.

Naturally I left his trousers white, but used chalks to colour his jacket  and a pale blue glitter pen for his tie - a wee smidgen of grey sponged at his feet, and pale blue for the sky and he was 'done'.

The whole was mounted onto cream card-stock but still looked rather stark, so out came the button jar and on went a corner full of assorted ones, and some doodled lines which make me think of tennis court markings.

So what do you think of this rather suave looking tennis player from

 McMahon Vintage collection?  

My next image is from Solocosmo Digi Stamps by Jessica Grundy, marketed by McMahon Five Design. 

I had one thing planned for days, but just before I went to make it, the idea of sepia tones like on old photograph popped into my head, along with a different layout, and this is what the result is:

Isn't Aspen just so sweet holding his frog toy?

I used a chalk to colour the main image - just one colour applied in different intensities. This panel was then distressed and sponged with Tea Stain Distress ink and mounted on very dark brown card.

The image panel was then layered over a light brown card which I doodled around the edge of with gold, as my brown pen would not co-operate.

To finish I mounted it all on a white base card stock which was distressed and sponged and layered with some dp from a generic pack I bought years ago.  (Yes I am a bit of a hoarder.)


I am linking these to:
The Paper Shelter Challenge #20 - Anything Goes - both cards 

Stampavie and More - #146 - more than three layers - Tennis Card

Bearly Mine challenge #13 - Summer - Tennis Card
My time To Craft #146 - summer - Tennis player
Art Impressions Stamps Challenge #22 - Distressing - Aspen
Charisma Cardz Challenge #26 - Ice Cream Colours - Aspen, Caramel Ripple
Moving Along with the Times Challenge #105 - Here comes the Summer Sun - Tennis card
Pals paper Arts Challenge #100 - Your favourite technique - colouring with chalks - Aspen
SouthernGirls Challenge - Bring out the Inner child - Aspen

I do hope you have enjoyed these images - they were fun to work with  and I really appreciate being able to work with these images.  Do  go and look at what the other DT members have done with the other images released this week - their blog links are on the side of my page.

May your day be blessed

First Cards for McMahon 5 Designs

I am so pleased to be able to show you what I have been working on - and thank you for you patience - I must admit I have not blogged much recently.

On this first card the main image is from the McMahon Vintage, and just goes to show that the "flower power children" of the  '60's were not as original as they thought.

Introducing Wildflower

I painted her with twinkling H20's after printing her out twice - I then cut out the two flowers - her skirt and hat - painted them and layered them onto the main image which had been cut out using a Spellbinders labels 14 die and sponged.

As she is a Wildflower I used the Leafy Branches embossing folder behind her - I used the letterpress technique to colour the de-bossed area, and although it was not quite what I expected, I like the way it turned out for this card.

The paper I used at the base of the card is from the Studio 313 exclusive selection at McMahon Five Designs.

A couple of corners from the Cuttlebug Vintage corners and some rhinestones and Wildflower was ready for her debut.

My second project is again from McMahon Vintage  and is called Tea Time.

As soon as I saw this image I thought of a maid leaving the kitchen to take tea to her employer, and having read a lot of historical fiction, I know that the kitchens of old were poorly planned, dark and unpleasant, so I tried to tell this story in the card....

She was coloured using chalks, and the kitchen area smudged with Tea Stain Distress ink.  
Here is a close up of the detail in her face and the tea things on the tray.

The wall covering in the area she is walking into is a piece of figured vellum, and the 'portrait' was made using a wee oval of brown card and some white embossing.

Some white pearls trimmed the top of the vellum

The white flowers were smudged with orange ink, stacked with an orange one, and held with a flower brad.

This was mounted over some lace which had been 'glammed-up' with some more pearls.

I have really enjoyed working with these images, and I invite you to 'tour' the other design team creations and enjoy yourself - their work is outstanding.

There are also some exciting new releases being announced on Sue's blog today.

Thank you for visiting today, and may your day be blessed.

MSSC#77 - Floral Birthday

Greetings again - it is so great that you call by and visit me here.


The card I am featuring today I made for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #77, featuring this sketch .


                                      
I started out with some background paper from Christina Re that I had been given some time ago, and decided on my colour scheme from that.  I loved the paper so much that I kept the central feature fairly contained to show off the design.

Although it is not easily apparent, the stamens in the paper (which has a lovely rich sheen to it IRL) are pale blue, and the blue card I used is an almost identical colour.  The central panel is stamped with the head of a flower from the Ornate Flowers clear stamp set by Paper Studio.  I inked it using the 'rock and roll' technique using the Memento inks Desert Sand and Rich Cocoa, and distressed and sponged the edges of that panel with the paler ink. 

I chose the double sided ribbon as the brown fitted so well, and the pink added just enough contrast to balance things out  with the pink flowers, which were a packet I had had on hand for ages.... I really am starting to use some of my stash!!  There were enough flowers in varying sizes to add some real interest, and for the main feature I layered three. Each flower then had a wee pink dimensional flower added which is quite shiney and really lifts the whole card.

The final feature was the wee tag and sentiment tucked in under the big flower.  The edges of that were also distressed and sponged.

I am linking this to the following challenges:

2 Sisters Challenge #10 - Anything Goes

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #77

I Did It Challenge Blog - anything goes

Aifactorychallenges - Blue and Brown

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #7 - Anything Goes

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge - Anything Goes But Buttons and Bows

Thank you for calling by, I do treasure your visits and comments.

May your day be blessed.