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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Happy as a Bee on a Sunflower :)

Depression and low mood has completely kicked my arse this week so I have found myself wanting to create bright and happy things to try and snap myself out of it. I am so very, very tired and no matter how much sleep I have I can't seem to feel lively in any way. It is times like this I feel completely trapped and I am just so thankful for my cardmaking and my little craft room of joy.

It is week 3 of the progressive freebie challenge at Delightful Inspiration and Faith gave us a lovely row of flowers with a choice with and without the sentiment. I chose to go without and created a little scene with the flowers, a row of bees above them from Happileigh Scrappin' and a sentiment from TLC Creations. The image is coloured in with Promarkers in happy bright colours.

I used a sketch from Sketch & Stash for the layout and as my image is quite large I used an 8" scalloped edge card. The main paper is from a Dovecraft pad from the First Edition range. The other papers in oranges, yellow and brown are from a really old HOTP Citrus Cardmakers pack that I have from QVC, gotta be about 5 years old!!

I used a Fiskars punch on the yellow paper and added a chocolate suede ribbon on top with a Papermania ribbon bow and a red star gem centre. I added faux stitching to the edges of the orange strips to make them stand out better from the main background paper. The image is mounted onto 3d foam so it adds more dimension to it.

Around the edges of the card I have added loads of Craftwork Cards Candi. I had initially put all the flower patterned ones on there but it looked too much so changed it to a random colouring of one patterned one plain and I am a lot happier with how that looks.

Paul has just come home from work and said he loves my card :)

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size - 8" square scalloped edge
Paper - Dovecraft & HOTP
Sentiment - TLC Creations
Embellishments - Candi from Craftwork Cards, Bow from Papermania, Suede Ribbon & star gem from stash
Tools - 3D Foam & Scissors, Promarkers, Fiskars Treading water punch
Techniques - punching, faux stitching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

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Monday, 22 August 2011

1st Wedding Anniversary

My goodness, how fast does a year fly by? It only seems like 2 minutes since we attended the wedding of the daughter of a very good friend. My hubby and her chap did the photos, I was the assistant, saved the day when the flowers came off the headband just before the ceremony and video'd the wedding in the registry office.

I also saved one of the corks and some of the table confetti with the plan of incorporating them into this card for their 1st wedding anniversary.

I started with a red and cream colour scheme which was the same as the wedding. I punched the edges of a piece if card with my Martha Stewart heart punch.

The champagne bottle and glasses are a rubber stamp, embossed with gold embossing powder and coloured with Twinkling H20's. They came from a friend who embossed a load onto a sheet for me some years ago and have come in very handy on several occasions. I added the 1st with a Sharpie pen. The champagne cork I sliced with a craft knife so it was about 1cm deep and added the confetti to fill the background. The sentiment banner is from my stash and I matted it onto red cardstock to provide a contrast to the background.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size - A5
Image - Rubber stamped images from my stash, no idea who they are by
Sentiment - Miscellaneous foiled banner from stash
Embellishments - Champagne cork and table confetti from wedding
Tools - 3D Foam & Scissors,Twinkling H20's, Martha Stewart Heart lace punch,
Techniques - Punching, wet embossing

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

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