Daisy, Daisy!

Well another fortnight has gone by already so it's time for another "Tanda Teaser". This time the theme is to use at least one Daisy on your project. I have used stamps from Tandas Flourish set, their crackle background, my dune dots stamp and a Graphicus stamp for the quote. The butterfly circles are punched. The images were stamped and distressed using spiced marmalade distress ink.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

"Crafts and Me - Distressed"

"Divas By Design - Wings"

"Flutterby Wednesdays - Anything with wings"

"Inky Impressions - Punches/dies"

"truly Scrumptious - All Creatures great and small" butterflies are my small creatures.

White and one other colour

The Alphabet challenge this week is W for white and one other colour...had to think about this one...have something planned for a future teaser but didn't want to use it now....so I'm doing white and blue...the stamps are from Graphicus..the card perfect for a moody teenage skater boy! LOL!

Stamped with black soot distress ink and coloured with Copics.

Just been speaking to Zoe tonight (11/04/2011)....and she has just told me about another challenge that this card fits....so I am entering this card into "Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight Teenage boy challenge"

There doesn't seem to be anything about back linking in the rules so I hope this is OK!

Two Challenges in One!

I thought that I should try to take part in the X is for Xmas challenge over on the "alphabet challenge blog". I had an idea in mind, just hadn't got round to making it happen. Then I spotted the theme for this week's challenge over on "Tuesday Taggers" is 'more than two legs'. This fitted my idea down to the ground so I had a play this afternoon. I'm not sure that I ended up quite where I planned and I am not entirely sure that I am so happy with it that it will be our family Christmas card this year.

The lambs and Bethlehem scene are from Art Impressions and I have coloured them with water colour paint, the blue is Prussian blue. Having stamped the lambs directly onto the card and matted and layered the Bethlehem scene, I still wasn't happy with it so I positioned the base card in a snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder and ran it through my Wizard. I then used cut and dry foam to colour the right hand side of the card with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink, leaving the left hand side of the card white. Running the card through the Wizard had left a line down the edge of the embossing that I wasn't happy with so I ran a piece of ribbon (from fantastic ribbons) down the card to hide it before positioning the Bethlehem scene. The tag was stamped using Chipped Sapphire and a stamp from Graphicus. I attached this to the card with a bow in the same ribbon as I used before. The card has been finished off with a Clear star gelly roll saKura pen.

Well I guess that's me done before tomorrow's Tanda Teaser...so watch this space...

Thanks for looking!

Sue

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Musical Christmas

It's Wendy's turn to set the Tanda Teaser this week. She has decided to go for a musical theme, so the subject of the card should be a Christmas carol or have music somewhere on the card. For my card I used the first day of Christmas as my theme, although I am now having second thoughts....Is this a carol or just a Christmas song?...I'm really not sure. Well no time to do another now, so it will have to do.

For my card I stamped the pear tree, in olive green Impress dye ink, onto a piece of paper printed from the Artylicious Decadent Brocade CD Rom. I then heat embossed the pears in gold ep. I tore a strip of vellum that I had printed with the verse in green to match the ink. Using a Versamark pen I picked out the pears and embossed them with gold ep. The pear was stamped onto vellum and embossed in gold ep before being coloured using UsArt Quest paints. The partridge was stamped and embossed in gold ep on brown card and then coloured with UsArt Quest interference paints. Pear and Partridge stamps come from the Tanda Partridge Set 1 (mini).

The base card was stamped using the tree and distressed in the same ink. The tags were cut out using Spellbinders' dies, these were embossed in a Cuttlebug embossing folder before being distressed with the same ink as I used for the tree.

Well I think that just about wraps it up. Hope you all find time to join in this week!

Sue
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Graphicus March Challenge - Yellow

Hi, Well I've been racking my brains about what to do for the Graphicus March Challenge and eventually I got it...hopefully just in time too! Well that's if I manage to link back to here from the graphicus blog...haven't managed it so far though so this just might be academic!



The card is made using Tim Holtz Pattern Pieces from Stampers Anonymous. The stamped images have been coloured with inktense pencils. The flowers were white, but I sprayed them with buttercup ink and the whole card has been sprayed with irridescent gold glimmer mist. I didn't like the brad in the centre of my flower so I covered it with glossy accent and spilt gold accent beads all over it to make a more interesting centre.



Well I think I've managed to suss moving pictures about, just need to work out how the text fits itself around the pictures! All I have to do now to enter the competition is to get the link right!

regards
Sue
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In Print Again!

Linda Luckin emailed me the other day to ask me if I was in craft stamper this month...I had to say I didn't know because I hadn't managed to track down a copy....it seems a shame that such a good stamping magazine is not more widely distributed! I have since found a copy, and yes, my Paris ATC is in the trade it section. Shame you can't see it properly in the photo though. It is made using a stair card constrution and stamps from graphicus. The pyramid was stamped onto acetate in the back layer.

This atc also won the Graphicus December challenge...I had no idea that it had been entered into the challenge, but I was thrilled that it won!

Well I think I need a lesson on positoning pictures in the blog...I just don't seem to be able to get these photos to appear where I want them to! Will have to do a lot more blogging before I get the hang of it!!

Night all
enjoy
Sue x