Green Birthday

Welcome once again - I am back this time with a card inspired by the

Stampin' Sisters In Christ Challenge this week.

The challenge is based on this scripture,

Lam 3:22 –23 “The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning.”

And I would encourage you to go over to their site and read through the devotion there.  The challenge itself is to: 

Dig deep into your craft cupboard and use something from your stash that you 'just had to have' cause you would use it everyday....but have forgotten about...

I thought about this for a day or so, and went right back to my beginning days when I did not know about bling or die cuts etc, and I had bought several balls of plastic raffia, and a huge sheet of finely corrugated card from the local stationers... and have hardly used them!! These were my starting points.

I then saw a piece of card on my desk that was a 'trial' in colour blocking using watercolour crayons and spritzing , after it was dry I sprayed it with a silver glimmer mist.  I was not happy with it for the card I planned then, but it 'fitted' this card.

Here you can see some of the sheen it has.

I chose this quote from the Layers of Color Encouragement set and stamped it in bottle ink on the lemon card stock.  After cutting it with a Labels 14 Nestabilites die I sponged it with Memento Dandelion ink.  I also used that ink to sponge the edge of the coloured card.

The raffia was wound around the green corrugated card and secured with a bow, and adorned with a green rhinestone.

The sentiment was stamped and embossed - I love this sentiment as it is elegant but does not 'hog the limelight' on a card like this.

The final details were the rhinestones and the butterflies, flowers and leaves which were part of some paper lace (another acquisition that I just 'had' to have....) that I cut up and adhered randomly around the card.

I am linking this to:

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - challenge #101 - stash "had to haves"

Thanks for calling in - may your day be blessed

Fun Card

Greetings to all my cyber visitors again.

I made this card as an order - but as I know the recipient, it was specifically designed  - and I enjoyed the making of it.

I started knowing that the person it was intended for is an embroiderer, and she has a delightful sense of humour, so I went to this Bug-a-boo stamp Stella Sew, coloured her with chalks and added glitter, and dimensional glue for her glasses lenses.

The sentiment (unknown) was stamped on a scrap of apricot card and embossed in gold, and stitched under the edge of the image.

As you can see I sponged the edges of this panel and stitched it to the background paper, which was part of a pack from the Warehouse.  To give the dp some life I spayed it with silver Radiant Rain (part of the twinkling H2O range), and also sponged the edges with Tim Holtz tea stain ink. 

This was mounted by sewing it onto the base of dark cream card stock. and pearls were added for a little panache.

 This was a fun card to make, once I got the colours to 'work'.

I am linking this to:

Ginger Loft challenge #9 - Celebration

Pile it on - Anything Goes

Catch the Bug - Birthday Celebration

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Anything goes

Fairy Fun Friday #44 - Happy birthday

Sew Many Challenges - Birthday

Totally Papercraft Challenge #49 -  Birthday

Thank you for calling by and I pray your day will be/has been blessed

LOC fun

Greetings to my cyber visitors - I trust you have a wonderful Easter and that the weather was warm and sunny for you, no matter where you were.  We were both warm and sunny, but are now looking forward to some much needed rain.

    I had a couple of hours in the studio today and gave both my cuttlebug and my Layers of Color stamps a good workout.  


This card was started with a brick coloured piece of paper put through the Cuttlebug in the Fantastic Flowers folder, and then I ran a silver pen around some of the elements.


The sentiment was stamped with Brilliance Thyme ink and clear embossed, cut with a Nestabilities label and threaded on green gingham ribbon.


The butterflies, from the LOC Flutterby set, were stamped and embossed in gold, and the background chalked to add a wee bit of colour before they were cut out and mounted with glue from a hot glue gun - one of the few times I like using hot glue - much easier than trying to cut dimensional foam tape into small pieces!! This was then mounted onto a white base to finish the card.

This next card used a stamp 
 from the LOC Fruitful Harvest set for the central image. I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black before cutting it out with the large oval Classic nestability.  I sponged around the edge of the image with Memento Olive ink before colouring it with chalks.


This was mounted on a scalloped oval in the base card green, then mounted on a white card that I had run through the cuttlebug Textile Textures  folder, then sprayed with Glimmers silver and then a quick mist of yellow, which gave a lovely sheen to the card with an almost oyster colour, surprisingly!


The bow was tied and slipped onto the ribbon, and this was then adhered behind both corners of the white card, before mounting the whole onto the green base.


I was pleased with my afternoons work, and I hope you have enjoyed viewing it.


Thanks a lot for calling, and your comments are always appreciated.