The Captain and Peas and Thank You

Welcome again - I am so glad to see you here.

This week at McMahon Five Design.com there are quite a few images being released, so once you have finished here, I invite you to visit the other blogs (click on the links on my side bar) to see all the gorgeous-ness!

I start this week with The Captain from McMahon Vintage Digis.

 This handsome fellow was coloured using chalks, cut out  using an oval Nesties die  by Spellbinders.  The edges were sponged with Memento Summer Sky.  He was then mounted on a blue oval that was sponged with Memento Danube Blue, and lightly sprayed with a silver glimmer mist.

 He embodies the dignity of a Cruise Liner Captain, so he deserved the wonderful dp Ocean Waters from Studio 313, to set him off to perfection.  The paper was printed onto Cryogen Mysterious Metallics paper with the very discrete sparkle that shines through whatever colour is applied over it.

I mounted this simply over some blue cardstock with the addition of a corner embellishment (a Cuttlebug Vintage Corner halved on the diagional),

and a simple stitched ribbon knotted in the centre.

In contrast the next release is by Studio 313 and is titled Peas and Thank You and is a rather fun set.  I have taken two elements of the nine in the set (nine images, how generous is that!) to make this card.

I just loved these wee peas in a pod and could not resist using them.  

I coloured them using dye inks as paint - after painting the image I then cut them using the nestie oval dies and sponged some ink to form a background before removing the die. The green layer was cut using the scalloped oval.

The sentiment was printed, trimmed and the corners rounded, and mounted on  a layer of green card.  When mounting it I used foam dots to give some dimension.

To assemble the card I  took some dp from a scrap pack, embossed it using the hounds-tooth folder, added the long ribbons then layered it onto the green base.

The images were then layered onto that, and for additional detail I added the three bows.


I am linking this to:
Deep ocean Challenge #6 - Light Blue (Card One)
Lady Bugs Crafts - challenge #36 - Favourite Stamp (card two)
Shopping Our Stash SOS Challenge #13 - Weakest Link - ribbon
Try it on Tuesdays - Anything Goes - Card 2
HotSpot Challenge #7 - colour palette - Quarry (First card)

Thank you for visiting with me today.  May your day be blessed.

Break over!!

The summer (mid-winter for me) break for the Design Team for McMahon Five Design is over and we are all keen to present to you the new releases for this week.

This first image Shipwrecked is a wonderful atmospheric vintage image from McMahon Five Vintage Stamps

I painted the image with Twinkling H2Os after printing it out on watercolour paper giving the whole a rather eerie impression.

I then mounted the image over some distressed, double embossed card.

Here is a close up of the double embossed card. 

After mounting this on a deep blue base card, I then added the white panel and buttons.  This then had the ribbon added before it was mounted onto a white base card.

My second card this week is using an image from Solocosmo Digital Stamps.

I took the baby cupcake image and came up with this card

I made the background of the card by 'blocking' Pearlescent Lavender and Orchid inks direct to white card. (I learnt the technique here)  This gives a subtle sheen to the base.

The image was printed out and painted with Twinkling H2O's, had some pink rhinestones added and was mounted on dimensional foam dots.

The sentiment was stamped in the Orchid ink and mounted over some lace

The very base of the card is pink, and I taped some narrow pink lace to the edges before machine stitching the main panel onto it.

Please visit the rest of the design team (names and links on my sidebar) to see all the other exciting releases from McMahon Five Designs.com this week.

Thank you for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Sunflower Wishes

Greetings once more to my cyber-visitors - it is always wonderful to know you have been here.

I wanted a cheerful card to send to a friend who is a bit under the weather at the moment, added to the fact it is the end of autumn (fall) here and the weather is rather wet and cold!!

I chose a sunflower image from Rebecca of Beccy's Place and printed it off four times, and the joined leaves twice, painted them with water colours and Twinkling H2O's, then cut two of the flower images back to give some layers, adhering them with foam dots to increase the dimension.

I wanted the flowers on a blue backdrop, but the blue card I found was a wee bit small, so ran it through the Cuttlebug in the Rellie Rave folder to give it some texture.

The sentiment (from Layers of Color Happy Wishes Set) was stamped with blue ink and embossed.

And as I assembled the whole I added some hand made tatting and chocolate pearls for some final detail.

I am linking this to:

Southern Girls Challenge #19 - Frills and Polish - use lace and pearls

Bunny Zoe's Challenge #12 - Lace - hand made tatting

Craft Your Passion - #59 - Let it all hang out (over the edge)

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #46 - Embossing

Get Hippity With Ippity Challenge #2 - Flowers

House of Gilli - Flowers

Make it Monday #38 - Anything Goes

Stamps + Fun = Creativity challenge #48 - Flowers

Stamps R Us - Goin' digital

Woodware USA - Challenge #28 - Anything Goes

Anita Be Stampin challenge #21 - Pearls and Lace

Clear it Out Challenge - Colouring

Use It Tuesdays - Flowers and a stamp not previously inked - the 'get well' part of the sentiment

Thank you so much for visiting - may your day be blessed