July

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This week's challenge on the Less is More blog is to use a recycled item on a card. Please be aware that no drawers were opened in the making of this card! All this junk useful stuff was on my desk even the kraft card which I cut into an A6 card blank. The leaf patterned card is a tag from an Orla Kiely gift (I think). The leaf pattern is made up of pin holes and I saved it as a template to prick out the pattern (one day). I backed it with some neon red card that was on the back of a birthday card I received in April. I also used the same card for the sentiment. The flower is made up of 2 fabric flowers from my stock and a resin flower that was on another birthday card. Does my desk look better as a result of using up some 'may come in useful' bits? Er... unfortunately not.

Happy Days

This isn't my usual style of card but I guess it makes a change to mix it up sometimes. I originally started this card for this week's Less Is More challenge (see previous post) but decided it wasn't going to end up CAS enough. The stamp set is one I picked up for £1 (at Hobbycraft I think) and at that price I thought it would be useful for kids cards. Detailed colouring is not really my thing but I used my watercolour pencils and tried to create some shading on the fur. The sentiment is from the same set.

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Watercolour is the theme for this week's Less Is More. I decided to use my Whispers markers to colour the Darkroom Door stamp and then spritzed it with water. I left the stamp on the paper for a bit longer than usual in order to enable the paper to absorb more of the colour. I spritzed again and managed to get a lighter second generation image which I will use on a slightly different card:

 The ticket stamp is by Papermania. The flower panel has been raised on foam pads for added interest. Here's a slightly better pic:

June Katzelkraft Challenge

There are still 5 days in which to enter this month's Katzelkraft Challenge, the theme of which is summer/summer colours. The details are here so grab your Katzelkraft stamps and have a go. There's a €15 voucher for the lucky winner.

Quotes & Lyrics - Vintage

This fortnight's words for the Craft Barn challenge are Proud and Vintage. I decide to use a quote and the word vintage. The quote is by a musician and record producer called Tony Visconti (who was married to Mary Hopkins  for a while). It reads 'it is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new'. Although unintentional my page ended up being a sort of homage to Tim Holtz's products. The label die is the only non-TH item I've used.

I look forward to seeing the other entries this fortnight.

A Painted Card

I bought this Woodware cling stamp on Saturday at the Craft Barn. They had some gorgeous samples using it and at £3.99 I decide it was a worthy addition to my floral stamp collection. I'm trying to give an airing to neglected items in my craft hoard that are languishing in the inner recesses of drawers etc so I pulled out my Twinkling H2Os (remember those?). I had such fun using them and the colours are so vibrant with a glorious sheen. The scan shows up as sky blue but it's got more of a greenish tinge to it and the pearlescent paper (from an ancient Craftwork Cards punching pad) matches perfectly. I highlighted the dots with Ranger enamel accents and went over the squiggly lines with a pen. I didn't immediately think of using a Kraft card blank for this but it's quite a dark Kraft and seemed to fit better than the other base cards I tried. So something new and several old items used. I'm keeping the H2Os out on my desk for a while longer ...