New baby

Hi everyone! Our challenge at Craft Punked this week has a "New Baby" theme. The prize is something new for us - a chance to join our DT for a week! I'm interested to see how this works out!

Here's my card for this week:

This is actually a card I made for my mum to give to some friends of hers who just became grandparents. The digi is from Pink Petticoat, coloured with Promarkers. The sentiment in black was a magazine freebie and the other one I made on the computer to personalise it a bit. Papers and buttons are from Papermania capsule collections. I had to add the little glittered star to cover a mark on the image :) - I can't print digis at the moment, printer dramas but luckily I had this one already printed.

Anyway that's about it from me, hope you will join us at Craft Punked this week!

Monochrome

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't blogged for a while. I got a bit disillusioned with the whole blogging thing. But anyway, I was inspired by this week's Passion for Promarkers challenge  - Monochrome with an unusual hair colour - so here's my entry!

I would love to have turquoise hair wouldn't you?! I coloured my image with Cool Greys 1, 3, and 5, and I used Aquamarine (Flexmarker), Turquoise and Marine for the hair. The background is linen card stamped with a Hobbycraft background in Archival ink, then sprayed with Vibrant Turquoise Dylusions; I sprayed the ribbon with it too. The resin flower is one I bought at Michael's when I was in Canada and I added a bit of glitter glue as an afterthought really.

Anyway thanks for visiting today! I'm off out now to buy some organisational bits and bobs for my craft room.

Movie time!

Hi everyone! This week at Craft Punked our challenge theme is "At the Movies" and we're sponsored by the Octopode Factory - yay! Here's my card:

This is Frankie Boy, designed by our lovely sponsor. I've coloured him with Promarkers. The background paper started life on the Polkadoodles Pen & Paper Circle 3 CD and I distressed it with some Pumice Stone Distress Ink, lots around the edges with foam and then some more all over with my ink duster brush (which reminds me very much of the old fashioned shaving brush my dad used to use!) The words were printed on my computer. The whole thing looks very black/grey in the photo but I can assure you than in real life Frankie is a nauseating shade of green and the patterned paper matches!

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you will drop by & join us at Craft Punked this week!

Olympics!

Hi everyone! If you aren't excited about the Olympics yet, maybe this will help - an Olympic theme challenge at Craft Punked! We want to see anything & everything inspired by the Olympic Games.

This cute digi is from Little Musings. I've coloured him with Promarkers. The papers and tag are American Crafts freebies from quite recently. I cut the n and the o with my Xcut alphabet die but I had to cut the 1 by hand which is why it's a bit weird looking! I edged everything with dark brown ink.

Thanks for visiting today and hope you will join us at Craft Punked this week!

Summertime!

Hi everyone! Thanks for coming by. This week at Craft Punked our challenge is themed around Summertime. Hopefully we will get some summer here in England soon...

This is the kind of thing I would do in summer if I didn't hate dirt and bugs... I would need a chair in this scene! The digi is by Slieke, coloured with Promarkers. The paper is a My Mind's Eye one I got in Canada. I punched some lace from Bazzil card and added a ribbon I think was from Christmas! The sentiment is handwritten because when I made this card, my printer was broken and I didn't have an appropriate sentiment. I must have written Happy Retirement about 50 times before I got one I liked. Still not sure about it actually!

Hope you will be inspired to join in with this week's challenge, we'd love to see you!

Monochrome

Hi everyone! Thanks for coming by. This week our challenge at Craft Punked is "Monochrome". I saw this card idea on Pinterest and thought I'd have a go. It was actually pretty easy to do.

The patterned paper is a Papermania one and I used a piece of light blue Bazzil card for the top layer. My butterfly dies are from Joycraft and I love them a lot, I've been using them quite a bit recently. The greeting stamp... now I can't remember where I got that. I stamped with Versamark and embossed with white powder.

Hope you will be inspired to join in our Monochrome challenge this week! We'd love to see you.

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday no.2

Hi everyone. I had a fun time with WOYWW last week so here I am again! I didn't visit even nearly everybody, I was quite surprised actually by just how many people participate... something to biuld up slowly I think. 

Some people wanted to see the outcome of last week's project. I hope you won't mind if I don't show it yet - it is still on its way to the recipient & I would rather it is a surprise to her.

At the moment my desk is looking like this:

At the weekend I started working on this canvas. I keep seeing all these lovely mixed media pieces on blogs, Pinterest, in magazines, etc etc. and I just thought, I'll have a proper go at that. It's not going how I wanted, really; I want to paint some of it brown, but I haven't got any brown paint, so it's sort of stalled. Supplies may need to be bought (including some sort of palette - as you can see I have been using an empty box of card blanks in that capacity). On the left you can see the book I tore pages out of for my initial layer. 

Here's something else I'm thinking about getting into... an ATC. Although I have nobody to trade with, so for now I guess it's just an AC.

I have a bit of a thing for making tags with song lyrics on and this mania seemed to translate pretty well to this format. This one's Queens of the Stone Age. I used Distress Inks (Peacock Feathers & Peeled Paint), an Indigo Blu stamp, some multimedium and words cut from a book - the book in the photo above actually, of which I may need another copy as it is a rather interesting story and this copy is in bits now.

Anyway, thanks for coming by today. Do leave me a comment and then I can come and visit you, too!

Red, white & blue

Hi everyone! This week at Craft Punked our challenge is themed around American Independence Day, 4th July. I feel I ought to be doing something to celebrate this since I now have an American sister... maybe I'll get some blueberries or something!

Anyway, here is my project. I decided this would be a good time to scrap some of our pictures from the big North America trip...

This is just a nice 12x12 sheet of white cardstock on which I have made a sort-of US flag with masking tape, sequin waste, Distress Inks and white paint. I printed the photos, title and wording and then added some handwritten details too. The stickers are from a big sheet of Minnesota theme ones I bought at the Mall of America - there was a fab craft shop there called Archiver's which would be worth the airfare just to go back and look round again...

Thanks for visiting today and do please join us at Craft Punked this week!

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Well this is a first for me. I've been following the very interesting What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday for a while now and I thought it might be time to join in. Hopefully if I can get some momentum going it might help me get into the habit of blogging more often.

Without further ado:

This is my desk c. 9pm, Tuesday 26th June. The arrangement of orange and teal things near the middle is what I was working on when I decided that what I really needed were some custom buttons, so out came the Fimo (red tin) and the results are on the little tile there waiting to be cooked. On the right near the back you can just see my first stab at this project, a dress form gone wrong. The Promarkers are left languishing there from another project, bits of which are awaiting further consideration on top of my ribbon jars.

I'm quite excited now to post my link and see what happens next. If you're visiting from WOYWW, please do leave me a comment and I'll try to come and visit you too.

Strawberries & Cream

Hi everyone! I am painfully aware that I haven't blogged for ages and ages. I was so organised before our trip, scheduling all the posts but since we came back I've been struggling a bit to get back into the swing of things! The dismal weather certainly hasn't helped with my jet lag.

Anyway today I have the time and motivation to blog! so here I am. Over at Glitter Geeks we've had a bit of a change - same DT and fun challenges but a new name and a new look. Please come and visit us over at Craft Punked!

This week our challenge is Wimbledon related (not that Wimbledon's going to be on much if it carries on pouring down!) and we want to see all your entries inspired by that very British dish, strawberries and cream! Here's what I made:

I feel like I could have done much better with the colour matching on this. The reds do not match at all! That'll teach me to colour first and think second! This is an Elisabeth Bell stamp, stamped on linen card and coloured with Promarkers. I'm still getting to grips with the linen which bleeds a bit. The papers are from Serif and I've used my new Memory Box corner dies with some nice textured Bazzil cardstock I bought in America (they sell it by the pound, which I've never seen here).

Thanks for visiting today and hope you will join in with this week's challenge. I am going to try and blog twice a week again from now on, let's see how well I can do!

Superheroes!

Hi everyone! Our theme at Glitter Geeks this week is 'Superheroes'. I wasn't sure originally where I was going with this, but I suddenly remembered Freakazoid! Maybe not the first superhero you'd remember, but a pretty cool one.

I found this image on Google; where would we be without Google? He's coloured with Promarkers and I printed out the sentiment. The stars are punched from some pearlescent blue origami paper, it shimmers beautifully but unfortunately that doesn't really show in the photo.

Anyway thanks for visiting today and I hope you will be inspired to join in with this week's challenge!

Diamond girl

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is themed around the upcoming Diamond Jubilee. I do love all things royal - and what could be more British than a nice cup of tea?

This lovely cuppa is a digi from Little Musings - it comes in a set with corgis and all sorts of other Britishness. The background is made from a Union Jack tissue, some cardboard and some gel medium. I added some stripy ribbon, some sparkly brads, and a handwritten sentiment because I couldn't face trying to get the computer to arrange it exactly how I wanted it!

Thanks for visiting today and hope you will be inspired to join in with this week's challenge!

PolkaDots!

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our theme is Polka Dots. I've recently got back into scrapbooking, which is something I haven't done for a while; as a big fan of Craft Stamper, I couldn't resist their new magazine Scrap365 and it's been very inspirational! Here's a layout I made recently using lots of dots:

The 12x12 paper was a gift from my brother & sister-in-law in the US. I chose it for this layout because the direction of the stripes matched the direction Ed's hair is blowing in! I remember saying when I took this photo that we'd always remember the wind direction when we looked at it. I cut out lots of different circles from dotty and stripy papers to frame the photo, and punched out some stars for accents. The title is die-cut from black card and the journalling is just handwritten, my favourite kind.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you'll be inspired to join in with the challenge this week!

Wings 'n' things

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is 'Wings & Things' so we want to see all your projects featuring winged things - fairies, butterflies, birds, you name it!

I made this background using Dusty Concord and Broken China Distress Inks. I need a reinker for the blue I think... it's not as strong as it was. The floral background (quite faint) is Prima and stamped with more Dusty Concord, the flower stamp is from last month's Craft Stamper, the leaves are from an oriental set and the butterflies are from Accessorize, all stamped with StazOn and highlighted with a silver pen. I wrote the greeting myself and drew the tiny dots in the top left too.

Thanks for visiting today and hope you can join in with this week's challenge. Apologies if I don't get round to commenting on any entries for the next few challenges - we are off on holidays on Monday for two weeks, can't wait!

If you go down to the woods today...

Hi everyone! Our challenge at Glitter Geeks this week is 'Teddy Bears' Picnic'. Ever since I saw this coming up, I've been singing the song non-stop... :)

This sweet little bear is from Meljen's Designs. The papers were free with a magazine last year, all picnic-themed which was very handy. I just added some Glossy Accents to the apple, some dark brown ink around the edges and some faux stitches. I also used a couple of Distress Inks on the diecut oval to tone down the original bright white of the card.

Well, thanks for visiting today and I hope you've been inspired to join us at Glitter Geeks this week!

In stitches

Hi everyone! Over at Glitter Geeks this week our theme is 'Stitches', so we just want to see any and all projects with some stitches on, real or faux. I've gone for faux, because I can't actually sew to save my life!

I did my usual trick of stamping and colouring first, and then struggling to find a patterned paper to match... I need to stop doing that! The sweet little girl is an Elisabeth Bell stamp, and the paper is a magazine freebie from a long time ago. I coloured some seam binding to match with a Promarker and stamped the stitches on it with StazOn. The other stitches are hand drawn with a fineliner.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you'll be inspired to join in with our 'Stitches' challenge this week!

Red & white

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge has a Red & White theme to celebrate St George's Day. I've never understood why the English don't make more of St George, the way we do in Wales with St David or the way the whole world does with St Patrick... but anyway. Our sponsor this week is the awesome Octopode Factory...

I decided not to do a card this week and started with an 8"x10 canvas board instead. I stamped and heat embossed the paisley motif first, then painted the whole thing with red acrylic paint and wiped the paint off the stamped images. I'd never done that before, I was suprised how hard you have to scrub! Then I added the circles using white acrylic and some pen lids, and edged the whole thing with white to close it in. 

I knew when I started that I wanted to use one of the two digis and have a quote above... I couldn't decide which to use though or what to write, and then a song came on the radio and inspired me. The band is called fun., they are an American band and this song "We Are Young" is pretty cool - you can watch the video on YouTube. Anyway the song title seemed to fit, since the characters are pretty youthful-looking, and in the end I used them both - they remind me of a school disco, with the girls on one side and the boys on the other, too scared to talk to each other. The text is printed onto old book pages, another thing I'd never done before which worked suprisingly well.

Anyway, thanks for visiting today! Hope you will be inspired to join in with the Red & White challenge!

A nautical card

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge has a nautical theme to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the loss of the Titanic. Kind of a sad subject in a way but I have tried to make my card as cheerful as possible!

This awesome lighthouse is from Tiddly Inks. I coloured it with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I was going to cut it into an oval, but my largest oval wasn't large enough - but it gave me the idea to make a porthole using my circle cutter, and I coloured the frame with a Flexmarker to match the lighthouse stripes. I've had the map paper for a while; the charm is from Primark and baker's twine from the Ribbon Girl.

Thanks for visiting today! Hope you will be inspired to enter our Nautical challenge.

Happy Easter!

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is Easter-themed, as befits the season! Here's my card:

The boxing hares are a free stamp from Craft Stamper magazine, stamped with Wild Honey Distress Ink. The papers are My Mind's Eye. I cut out some 'eggs' with the smallest of my oval Nesties and edged them with the same ink, and wrote the sentiment on a scrap of dotty paper with a calligraphy pen. I was very tempted to write 'hoppy easter' but resisted at the last moment - April Fools was last week, after all!

Anyway, that's about all - quite a quick and simple card this time. Thanks for visiting and hope you will join us in this week's challenge!

April Fools!

Our challenge at Glitter Geeks this week has an April Fools' Day theme, so we want to see a project that'll raise a laugh or a smile. I sat for quite a while trying to think of a joke to use, but all my favourites are either a bit inappropriate or would be so diffcult to make into a card that I couldn't raise the necessary enthusiasm. Eventually I settled on a clown - what's funnier than that? (Apologies now to anyone who finds clowns scary!)

This gorgeous clown digi I found through Free Digi Stamps - unfortunately I have lost the name of the site he came from but if he is yours, please let me know! He was a pleasure to colour actually and I added some purple and red glitter glue for extra detail. The ribbon and gingham paper are also of unknown origin - I think the paper came from a magazine freebie pack, it had one very wonky edge where I'd obviously chopped it from its fellows! The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards, and I altered the colour with a Flexmarker to match everything else although the picture doesn't show that due to my net curtains blocking some of the sunshine!

Anyway that's about all from me for today, hope you will be able to join in with us at Glitter Geeks this week!

A Disney Princess

This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is Disney-themed. I had a hard time thinking what to do on this one - Disney is not normally my kind of thing! But Google helped me out a lot and as soon as I saw Mulan, she reminded me of my good friend Liz who used to love that movie beyond all others, and I knew she'd be a good theme for my card.

Although it's not Liz's birthday for quite a while, I think I'll keep this card for her!

Mulan is coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. The papers are Dovecraft Eastern Promise which I've had for aaages, it's a huge pack and I don't think I'll ever use them all! I cut out the butterfly with my JoyCraft butterfly die (finally gave up on the punches!) and I think the ribbon might have been a Christmas one actually; the sentiment is a magazine freebie with some extra bits masked off.

Anyway thanks for visiting today and I hope you can join us at Glitter Geeks this week!

Mothers' Day

Hello everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is themed around Mothers' Day. Our sponsors are Jellypark and I've used one of their sweet digis to make my card:

She's coloured with Promarkers, mostly the new Spring collection. I've used DCWV papers, and a bit of seam binding, some paper rosebuds and pearls to embellish. I'm going through a seam binding phase at the moment, I seem to be adding it to everything recently!

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you can join in with our challenge this week.

Spring is in the air!

This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is to make something spring-like to celebrate the arrival of the lovely new season. Personally I am 100% ready to say goodbye to winter for a while! Here's my card:

This sweet little girl is from our sponsors this week Bugaboo. I've coloured her with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. The pink paper is something I've had for quite a while, not sure where I got it any more and the purple paper is a recent magazine freebie. I inked some edges with Distress Inks (Spun Sugar and Dusty Concord) and added some pearls and a peel-off greeting from Little Claires.

Hope you can join us this week!

Song title challenge

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is to make something inspired by a song title. I spent a while thinking about what to make this week, music is important to me and I wanted to make sure I chose something that was truly 'me'. I have a bit of a thing about song lyrics and since I was a teenager I've been a bit obsessed with writing them down and learning bits by heart... I had a whole folder one year at school that was just grafittied all over with words from songs I loved. So anyway, one of my favourite bands is Arcade Fire and last year we were lucky enough to see them live in Hyde Park. Since then I've made a fair few tags inspired by their songs and lyrics and here is what I made this week, inspired by the song 'Month of May' from their most recent album:

This is a blank tag from Inkylicious which I coloured with Broken China distress ink. The waves are cut from a piece of origami paper and I cut the words from old book pages (that took a very long time because I started reading the book as I went along!) The song is sort of about the winds of change and because the wind is pretty hard to draw a picture of I tried to represent things being affected by the wind instead - hence the waves, and the leaves blowing about.

I am in love with this tag! I gave it to Ed though so maybe I will have to make a duplicate for myself. I mostly use the tags I make as bookmarks although I have another Arcade Fire one pinned up on my desk at work to remind me of fun times.

Anyway I hope you like my project and can find some inspiration of your own to join the challenge this week, I'm really looking forward to seeing your entries :)

St David's Day

Hello everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is themed around St David's Day. Being Welsh myself I had to try my hardest to be as patriotic as possible on this one and I chose to interpret the theme quite literally:

This jug of daffs is a digi I've had for ages and ages, I can't remember where I got it, I tested the link in the file properties and it was dead unfortunately so I'm afraid I can't say where it's from - if this is your work, I'm sorry not to credit you but if you let me know who you are I will be happy to acknowledge that! I coloured the image with some of my new Spring Promarkers, the yellow shade is called Daffodil Bloom so it seemed pretty appropriate. The yellow gingham paper is from my latest bargain, a DCWV stack I got from Panduro Hobby for £1.60 (I know!!) and the flags and sentiment were made on my computer - in case you wondered, it says Happy St David's Day!

Thanks for visiting today and please do join us over at Glitter Geeks - my fellow DT members have all interpreted the theme quite differently so we have lots of inspiration to share :)

Boys & Girls

Our theme at Glitter Geeks this week is "Boys & Girls", which keeps reminding me of that Blur song although I think that's the other way round isn't it - either way I've got it in my head now, sorry if I've infected you too :)

Anyway, on to my card! I feel like this isn't quite finished but I always struggle with embellishments for male cards so I think it's better left alone! The argyle paper is from a magazine I got from a bargain bin at one of the shows last autumn - I think it was £1 and it's pretty old but there were some super cool masculine papers with it. The little boy is a digi from Polkadoodles, he's coloured with Promarkers as per usual and I'm pleased with his hair especially, which makes a change for me because I'm rarely satisfied with my colouring of hair... I seem to have more joy with blonde hair than dark, maybe I should just stick with that from now on!

I'm conscious that I haven't been posting much lately - I've been working on a big batch of cards to give my mum as a gift and I sort of wanted to post them all together, but there's getting to be loads now so maybe I will post some of them this week!

Valentines Day

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge is 'To The One I Love' and we want to see all your lovely Valentines! Here's my effort:

This is 'Sexy Cupid' from Kenny K. I coloured her with Promarkers, added some glitter glue and Glossy Accents, and cut her out. The heart paper is wrapping paper I've had for quite a few years - the hearts are sort of velvety which is great but makes the paper a nightmare to cut - you can see on the top right where I've had a bit of an issue! The ribbon is recycled from a cracker and the wire heart is another thing I've had for absolutely ages, I'm afraid I don't have the faintest idea where I got it. I added a little red bead to it to cover up the glue I blobbed everywhere when I was sticking it down.

Thanks for visiting today & hope to see your entry into the challenge!

Pets!

Our challenge over at Glitter Geeks this week is 'Pets' and we want to see any and all projects related to your favourite furry friends!

This little girl (from Panduro Hobby) is actually meant to be picking a flower, but she always looks to me as if she's laying a rose on a grave or something, so I've never used her - the solution though seems to be to mask off the offending rose and put a cute animal there for her to stroke instead, such as this puppy from Prima! I stamped the little girl without her flower, masked off her arm and knees and popped the puppy in the appropriate place. There seemed to be a lot of white space on the left so I added the butterfly, and then I cut out a few more butterflies and added those. I was going to use my butterfly punch - the second one I've bought since I jammed the first one up - except I've jammed that up too. Very annoyed with myself, and my punishment was to hand-cut these butterflies, which was a pain!

Thanks for visiting today and hope you can join in with this week's challenge :)

A princess and a frog

Hi everyone! Our challenge this week at Glitter Geeks is 'Myths & Legends' so we want to see some mythical or legendary creatures on your creations. Here's my card:

This little princess is a digistamp from Sliekje's. She's coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I cut her and the pink rectangle with my Nesties and used my new Swiss Dots embossing folder on the pink shape, then added glitter glue to the dots. The lovely blue foiled paper is from a 12x12 sheet I've had for ages and ages, unfortunately I've thrown away the bit that says where it's from though.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you can join in with this week's challenge!

Two Images

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our theme is "Two Images" - interpret it however you like as long as your project has two images on. I had a bit of bother with this one because the first card I made ended up with three images on, I got a bit carried away! But I managed to crack it in the end!

Sorry about the terrible photo. We don't get daylight round here any more!

This card is a tent-fold made following instructions in Craft Stamper magazine. The butterfly is attached to a strip like a bookmark which pulls out to give somewhere to write your message. The flowers stamp and paper were freebies and the butterfly stamp was in a set I got from Accessorize of all places, the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards. Colouring is with Promarkers as always.

Hope you will be inspired to join us this week, we'd love to see your projects.

Loveheart

Hello everyone! Hope you're all well and not suffering the January blues too much - is it February yet? :)

I got this magnetic cardboard heart at Hobbycraft just after Christmas. I didn't know what I wanted it for, but I knew I wanted it and it hasn't taken me long to find it a use. 

To start with I painted the whole thing white, then decoupaged a bit of floral napkin over. Then I stamped a crackle background (which you can't really see) onto some tissue paper and added that over one half. I rubbed it with some copper Perfect Pearls, and then added some flowers (the lily is Prima, the others I think I got from Joanna Sheen but don't quote me), some diecut letters, some hand-cut tiny leaves and some white half pearls. The letters were crackle glazed although when I took the photo they hadn't crackled yet!

I love this and it now has pride of place on my fridge where it clashes horribly with our red and mustard kitchen tiles :)

I would like to enter my magnet into the following challenges:
Crafty Creations - 153 Valentine's theme
Alota Rubber Stamps - Heart theme

Awareness & Causes

Hi everyone! This week at Glitter Geeks our challenge theme is "Awareness & Causes", so we want to see some creations inspired by the good causes that mean something special to you. 

Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo and they're giving their super generous prize of 7 digis to the lucky winner.  I've used the cute Ribbon Bear digi for my card - I think he's pretty awesome because his ribbon can be any colour you like for any cause you support, and there's literally a rainbow to choose from - check out this handy list on Wikipedia if you don't know what colour you need!

I've chosen green for Bipolar Disorder awareness. I think a lot of people forget sometimes to be thankful for their good mental health - it's just as important as your physical health after all and as with any illness, a little bit of kindness and support can help a sufferer a lot. So that's why I've chosen a green ribbon this time.

I coulored the image with Promarkers (Sandstone, Grass and Baby Pink). The papers are from my scraps box, punched with the 3 inch square punch I bought by accident the other day thinking it was one inch - don't ask! The sentiment is an ancient Papermania one which didn't stamp very well so I went over it with black fineliner.

Hope this inspires you to join in with our challenge this week, we'd love to see your creation!

Black, white & silver

I've just finished making my thankyou cards, I didn't need too many this year because I saw a lot of my relations over Christmas and thanked them personally :) but I did need a few, including one for Ed's brother so I had to think masculine! I wanted to use these new stamps I was given for Christmas by my soon to be sister-in-law, and here's what I came up with:

I kept the card as simple as possible really, stamping the design four times in black and then once in silver, which I embossed with silver powder. The sentiment is embossed the same way, matted onto black card, and that's it! I do like a nice clean & simple card now and again. Although I think I need a new black inkpad, the images could be blacker.

I'd like to enter this card into the Annabelle Stamps challenge, which is black, white & silver this week.