Make a Decision Ref!

This weekend saw my hubby's birthday and hence the need for another footy themed card.  It's always a challenge to design yet another manly card, but to do it using a stamp that you have used year in year out so that it is different to all the previous times is even more of a challenge.

Luckily for me though he has been promoted....we now have to watch the football league show every Saturday to see if he's on it!...but this now means that he could have to wear a black, yellow, green or red shirt depending on what the teams are wearing and this decision is made by the main referee on the day.  Now Hubby can be a little vain so the idea of one colour looking better than another gave me the starting point. 

Using the masking technique I stamped the Jolly Nation footballer stamp 4 times and coloured them with my watercolour paints.  I stamped the grass and distressed with Weathered Wood distress ink.  The speach bubbles were die cut and stamped using some tiny alphabet stamps.  The rosette was a Tim Holtz die.  The little ink blots are from a paperartzy stamp that is never off my desk!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

"Allsorts - Men Only"
"ATC's and Cards with attitude - Add Sentiment"
"Cardmaking Mamas - anything goes"
"Cards by Lady Ann - Must use sentiment anything goes"
"Raise the Bar - anything goes"
"The Crafty Pad - Anything goes"

"Penny Black and more - Any die will do"
"One Stitch at a time - Anything goes"
"Here come the boys - Die cuts/punches"
"Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes"

Meet Peggy!

Hi, I just thought that I would share what I was up to last night.

As you will know from my last post Zoe gave me a peg to decorate.....so that is what I got up to last night. It was the perfect excuse to open some Clearly Impressed stamps that I bought at the Stamp Attic on Saturday. I've been thinking about making some art dolls and the Botanical Illustration set seemed like the perfect place to start.

One of the stamps in the set seemed to be the perfect size for the peg so I stamped it out in Stazon onto white card and onto white tissue paper. I watercoloured the skin, wings, bodice and flowers with pearlised watercolours from the works. When this was dry I cut out the tissue paper face, shoulders and bust and used modge podge to stick them onto the head of the peg. I then cut out the tissue paper wings, sandwiched them between two layers of fantasy film, ironed and then trimmed. (I didn't want to risk stamping and ironing direct onto my nice new stamp as it isn't rubber!). I cut out the bodice, arms and garland from the card image and left these on one side.

Using the bodice I worked out where Peggy's skirt would start and then stuck white feathers around the peg to form her underskirt....then I stuck lavender skeleton leaves on top of the feathers to make her over skirt. I used a tiny piece of lace on top of this to neaten it off. Once this was done I stuck the bodice onto the front of the peg and the wings onto the back. Some flower soft and glitter finished the Peggy's garland, hair and dress. I added some more feathers at the back to give her a really floaty look.

As those of you who came to Wantage will know, I do not have my own dedicated craft space so all crafting tends to take place on the kitchen counter. When I had finished Peggie I sat her on top of the Modge Podge bottle to dry. It was only then that I saw that she made quite a funny picture infront of the rice snaps packet my husband had left out on the counter:) Looks like Peggie is about to become a tasty snack!

I hope Zoe likes her....I think that I might just have to make a few more for our Christmas tree!

Simply Spring!

Wendy has set the perfect Tanda Teaser this week! With Mother's Day on Sunday I had the perfect excuse to make a floral spring card..well two actually. They are both the same so hopefully there won't be any thoughts of favouritism!

For my card I used one of my favourite PSX stamps stamped in Ancient Page ink and then water coloured with ordinary watercolour paints.

I hope you can all find time to join in over on the Tanda Blog!

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.




Enjoy
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Tanda Teaser Watercolour!

This week it is Wendy's turn to set the Tanda Teaser and she has chosen watercolours as the theme. I love watercolours, as you will probably all know from reading this blog, and there are so many ways to use them! This card was made using le plume pens and stamps from Sir Stamp a Lot. The paper is not technically watercolour paper....it's from a pad I got in the Outlets in Swindon....there's a small papercrafting shop there selling docraft products...this pad has a red cover, and is called the Lakeland Artist Pad 270g/m2 High Quality Board. It's really nice with watercolours as it is very easy to control the colour. I find I'm using it a lot with the brusho inks too.
Enjoy
Sue
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Butterflies

Hi there I just thought I would share the atc that I sent into Craft Stamper for the bugs challenge. This one didn't make it into the magazine, but seeing Zoe's "spring" card on the Tanda forum this week reminded me of it!
Enjoy
Sue
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Where did the week go?!

Where has this week gone? I did mean to blog between tanda teasers but it just didn't happen!

Oh well, Wendy has set us a challenge to make a card for mothers day so hopefully my two will make up for my lack of blogging during the last week!

The first is for my mother in law, the second is for my mum, using watercolours. The forma hasn't got a computer and the latter hasn't found my blog yet so I think I'm safe posting them!

Have a good evening
Sue x