Pretty as a Peacock!

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and New Year....with the kids around I haven't had a chance to get on the computer much over the holidays...this should all change though. I am still waiting for my Christmas present to arrive, but when it does, I will have my very own laptop!!! Apparently it is currently sat in a warehouse somewhere in Leicestershire waiting to be delivered, I just hope it arrives soon.

This week's Tanda Teaser has been set by Wendy and she has chosen peacocks as her theme, either using peacock colours or the bird itself. As they are my favourite colours I am using them for my card. The Gorjuss girl has been coloured with Promarkers and the flowers and backing papers are all from the Artylicious Peacock CD Rom.

Sue
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Nice and Narrow, the new Tanda Teaser

Hello again....another week closer to Christmas....where has this year gone?! I'm going to have to be quick with this post...as I have far too much to do atm!!!

My card is narrow...I hope you think it nice....but it isn't tall..sorry Wendy..narrow and broad would probably be a better description....never mind it's done now!

The stamps are all Tanda...you saw the sledgers a few posts back. I've stamped the images using Adirondack Winter Sky and as before the sledgers have been coloured using the warm grey Promarkers. The stamped images have been matted onto copper coloured card and then onto paper printed from the Artylicious Decadent Brocade CD Rom. Before sticking everything down the edges were distressed with Colorbox Chalk Inks then I punched two holes and inserted copper eyelets before threading a piece of ribbon though to finish the card.

I hope you enjoy the teaser!
Sue
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Tanda Teaser "Winter Sports"

This week's Tanda Teaser is called Winter Sports....I fell in love with a certain Tanda stamp but it was a little bit too tiny....no worries...Andrew resized it..(see Tanda blog for details)...so here we go...and I used some of my stash from the NEC...how smug am I feeling!

I stamped the boys using Adirondack winter sky and then set it aside to dry...once dry..I used my promarkers (NEC purchase!!)..in WARM grey 1 - 5 to colour the image. I trimmed this and matted and layered with metallic copper and beige card.

The next layer was white card...I swirled a bit of ink, from Adirondack winter sky pad, around using a stencil brush to take the white away, then I stamped foliage and cones using Tapestry stamps from Holly Border and Pine Branch Border sets (foliage and cones in Adirondack winter sky, berries in Impress Poppy Red. The edges were then punched with my new Martha Stewart punch (I'm so glad I managed to get this at the NEC!)

This was again layered onto a piece of paper printed from the Artylicious Decadent Brocade CD Rom and then onto the base card.

The bow was stitched with gold embroidery thread...I really must do a step by step to do these bows...they are perfect every time!...watch this space.

I hope that you can find time to join in with the teaser...

Sue
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Kind Thoughts

Wendy has set the Tanda Teaser this week, and she has chosen "Kind Thoughts" as the theme. I bought the angel Gorjuss girl a while ago and thought that it would work perfectly for this challenge.

The card is based on a Craft Stamper sketch challenge from a while ago and uses papers from the new Artylicious cd rom Decadent Brocade. I stamped the image in black impress and then coloured it using the cool grey promarkers. I started with the palest grey first and worked my way up to the darkest shade. The Sentiment is from Tanda Christian Set 1 that I have embossed, in a cuttlebug folder, after stamping.


Sue
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Oh Baby, It's the Tanda Teaser

Well I accidentally posted the pic of this week's card earlier on in my Blog. I meant to post the boy baby card and save the girl one for the challenge. Anyway the pink one is now on the Tanda Blog. I've used the baby starter set and letraset promarkers to colour the images. The tag and the label were coloured with the promarker too.

The baby boy card is very similar just blue instead of pink and I only used one scalloped border.....

Oh, I almost forgot, the pram is painted with glossy accents.

Enjoy

Sue

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New Stamps!

Hi,
I thought that I would share my new stamp designs that have just been launched by Tanda...you can see them over at www.tandastamps.com/

The stamps are designed to be used for baby and toddlers upto the age of 5, although I think that there may be other uses for them as well. I have drawn the stamps to give focal points, backgrounds and borders for boys and girls. The baby quilts are designed so that one is boy related and one is girl related and they can be used in conjuction with the letters and numbers on the Toddler set.

Here are some sample cards using the new stamps.....

This card used stamps from both sets...I think I might be doing one similar to this for my little brother...he's into sailing and he's going to be 42 next birthday so you see what I mean about not just being for babies and toddlers.

The next card is a baby girl card and all the stamps used for this one come from the baby starter set...I used promarkers to colour and glossy accents on the pram.



The third sample card is made using both sets, the heart border from the starter set and the teddy from the toddler set. Again I think this has potential for more than babies and toddlers as it could be used for anniversary and valentine cards.


The stamps are available from Tanda and come unmounted in red rubber or in clear polymer.

Enjoy

Sue

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F is for Flowers

This is my entry for this week's alphabet challenge set by Linda...I used the flower stamp from the friendship set of stamps from innovative stamp creations and coloured it using my new copic markers...one of my first experiments with them.





While I'm on the subject of the friendship set I'd like to share the atc I made for Chrissy Rollins atc swap..the theme was to use pages of a phone directory on the atc...I gessoed my phone directory (aka my stamping pad) and then stamped and layered up my images..... I made the mistake of using letrast promarkers to colour the flowers..I don't think they liked the gesso, which seems to have dried the tip rather. So I used conventional watercolour paints to colour the rest of the image. Two little spots of glossy accents on the eyes and some stickles on the flower centres and butterfly.




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B is for Baby

Well as promised, here is my second alphabet atc orignally for Chrissy Rollins swap, but I thought it would be perfect for Linda's alphabet challenge...I am now thinking I should do an atc for every letter of the alphabet and make a big poster out of them for one of my nephews...just hope I can keep up all the way through to Z!

I did have a bit of a panic the other day when I wondered if Linda would be setting these in alphabetical order...that would have kept me on my toes!

Also as promised this is actually a sneaky peak at one of the stamps in a baby set that Tanda will be launching very very soon. Andrew and I decided that the Tanda catalogue needed a bit of a boost in the baby department and to that end I have drawn some designs covering backgounds, borders and focal points...I am really excited about these new stamps as I think they will be very useful and not just for babies! Can't tell you any more than this at the moment...you will just have to keep checking the Tanda Website...all I can tell you is that the sample cards have all been made!

Oh almost forgot to say, the construction of this is the same as for my A is for Apple atc and I've used my trusty brusho inks again!

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sue
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