Words Of Wisdom

Wooh! two posts in one day ....  after the weeks of inaction and moping around "mojo less" seems having a rotten cold has stirred the old mojo up again (probably because I've been feeling so lousy I don't have any guilt feeling about sitting around just playing instead of doing useful things !) This is my card for Gingersnap CreationsChestnut Theme Challenge - Words Of Wisdom. Stamps are Indigo Blu apart from butterflies, I think they are Elusive Images but were just in a pile of bits and pieces waiting to be used.  So sorry to see the challenges are finishing on Gingersnaps but wish them well with their new ventures

ps; the green strip is more washi tape !

Love Letters

Did this card for Make My Monday whose challenge is Love letters- script or verse, there is script in the background if you look closely. I have had both the stamps for ever, the Maiden is a Paper Inspirations and the bundle of letters is a Sarah Lugg at Rubber Stampede. What made me go all pink and girly on this card was my latest acquisition a lovely little tin full of washi tape, I love Cavallini products and when I saw the tape on ebay the fingers were clicking before the brain had time to think!Iwas not disappointed when it arrived, its lovely and will be appearing ad nauseam from now on  Apart from M.M.M there were a host of other challenges so putting it on a few

Make My Monday-  love letters-script or verse
Crafty Catz           -   Valentine
Frosted Designs    -   Love Is in The Air
Simon Says Stamp -  Love is in The Air
Fussy and Fancy    -With all my heart
4 Crafty Chicks     - Love is In The Air
Our Crafty Lounge- Vintage Love
Daring Card Makers - Hearts and doilies

Enjoy the ride

As soon as I saw this Lost Coast stamp I had to have it and then having got it didn't have a clue what to do with it ! Not really happy with this but as I've faffed about with it forever decided to put in on here anyway.  While I was messing with the scanned picture I accidentally turned it to black and white and it looked soooooooooo much better, so then I tried it in sepia and that was pretty good too so I'm going to do it again in monotone and maybe I will be happier with it.  Not done much crafting this week, was shattered after the birthday celebrations and someone who came kindly left me with a cold, sore throat and cough so I'm not the happiest bunny right now. Off to bed with my hottie bottle and a lemsip with honey ! In such a rush to get to bed last night I forgot to enter my card on Make It Monday

Make It Monday - Anything goes

Bit Of A Strop !

Oh dear !  Elsie is in a bit of a strop, Edward has been seen around town with a certain "fast" young lady and Elsie is not happy ....... 

As soon as I saw France I knew I wanted to use The Moulin Rouge and fancied another go at drawing something, I wished I had not drawn the sails with such a black pen but once its done its done as they say, the dancing girls are a Lost Coast Design stamp and I thought they suited the Music hall theme although please don't get the idea Elsie is a showgirl ,heavens forbid ! Although she is in Music Hall she is quite a serious musician and classes herself as an "Artiste "

This is for Darcy's postcard challenge

Old Movies

Not a stamp in sight on this one which is the card I finally made for my husband's birthday next week,if you check the date on the card you will see he will be 80 ( I'm a lot younger that him I hasten to add ......... lol  )  I forced myself to use some of my hoarded G45 papers just for him as he loves old films.  Found a challenge on My Grafico Crafts which is for tickets

My Grafico Crafts - Tickets anywhere for someone special

Enjoy the journey

When I started making this card is was going to be for my husband's birthday and feature clocks but it sort of evolved into a card about journey and time and was not quite what I wanted for him so its going in the box of general cards for now. Thought I would put in on a couple of challenges it seemed to fit.

Fashionable stamping- Its a guy thing
Sugar Creek Hollow - Cream/brown/blue

Butterflies

Well "yee hah " Mr Mojo made a brief appearance tonight and I really enjoyed making this card.messing about with distress ink pads and perfect pearls spray again, I can't get over the lovely  shimmery effect it gives and I love daubing it all on with my fingers, mucky tyke ! Every time I use the Tim Holtz butterflies I get the "wow" feeling, I just love this stamp ! The Hero flowers were done with markers and spritzed with the spray and worked just as I wanted (for once)   . I'm just happy that I finally got a bit of enjoyment back instead of struggling to create . I also made a start on a second card which I hope I can finish tomorrow if Mr Mojo hangs around .This is for:-

Make My Monday - Nature- Butterflies or dragonflies

Make It Monday - Anything goes

Slow boat to China !

Almost chickened out of the Postcard challenge this week, I just can't myself back into crafting mode,its a bit worrying as this mood has been going on too long !  So tonight I made myself find some bits and pieces and put together a postcard. Printed the map and stamps from good old internet and found a very old set of Chinese stamps that someone passed on to me years ago and I have never used,see everything comes in useful one day(my excuse for hoarding)  Elsie is still on her tour but she is getting fed up of all the travelling, she has not heard from Edward for a few weeks now and doesn't know if the mail is not catching up with her or if he is losing interest ?

Terrible teens

Well when I say terrible teens I mean making cards for them, was really stuck and needed a card like yesterday so ended up getting a Mo Manning digi , not something I often use but I was so happy with it,didn't need much adding to make the card and its really approriate for the boy it's for as he is always  engrossed in something electronic ! I haven't a clue about the stuff the kids have nowadays .
Found some challenges to enter it into:

Cards For Men - Boys and their toys
Celebrate The Occasion - Masculine birthday
My Craftspot - Lets Hear It For The Boys

Finger painting ?

Saw a little video on Hero Arts Blog using this stamp and loved what she (Think it was Sharri Carrol?)
was doing, painting using her fingers with distress inks and perfect pearls. I was really happy with how it turned out but struggled to make it into a card as I didn't want to cover any of it up, eventually just die cut a fancy label and added the sentiment. Its very glimmery too in real life.  Not been really much in the mood for crafting for some reason and made the mistake of trying to sort out my floor to ceiling craft cupboard, thrown all sorts away but whats left doesn't seem to want to fit back in let alone leave any more room.

Make It Monday - Anything goes
Make My Monday - Flowers and leaves

Brasil/Brazil ?

This is my third go at a postcard this week, my first attempt was a picture Of Christ The Redeemer statue but it was such a lovely picture I couldn't bring myself to alter or add anything to it. Its something I have always wanted to see but not likely to now. Tried a bit of drawing, again no success,left it to check my e-mails, one of them was from Dover Publications with their weekly freebies of which one was paper dolls and here was this beauty,meant to be or what ! Just daubed on background colours with distress dabbers and I was going to do "splats" all over to represent fireworks but once I'd done the first one it said "Sun" so left it at that.  My story has not advanced much, they are now a little less formal in that they are using Christian or first names. Elsie has had a great time in Brazil wonder where she will be next ?

Trying to get organised!

Well I finally got around to making some a book /book covers to store my various bits and pieces of steampunk . The cover was covered originally with some G45 steampunk paper,gessoed, then I used a couple of masks with pumice stone DI and stamped various steampunk images with black archival. The back cover and inside covers I just used up my very last pieces of G45 papers . Some of the pieces I put inside the book were really cards so I stuck them down the side and bottom to make them into pockets for tags.Have more stuff to put into it as I come across it. I am trying to stop having heaps of stuff on the dresser in here, so I also made a little book to put 4x4 pieces in.  I don't know how to do this post with text between the pictures so they will just be as they come .

Simon Says Stamp & Show - anything but a card

Do you believe in fairies?

Here's a quick card for Try It On Tuesday challenge which is do you believe in fairies? well not sure I do !  I do believe in Angels but fairies ??  what are they for !  Anyhow all that didn't stop me having a go. At first I was not sure I had any fairy stamps but a root about produced several including this Lily Of The Valley one.  I painted her with mica powders so she is quite irridescent in the flesh so to speak. I also managed to master the cutting with nestability oval without chopping her wings off (took a couple of goes before I got it right)  Not my usual sort of card but it will come in handy for one of the Great Grand children, there are three girls under the age of four so I'm sure it will suit one of them. I am trying to only make cards I know I can use so I don't end up with a lot more unused cards in my box.

Try In On Tuesday- Fairies
Crafty Cardmakers - No Floral Embellishments

Butterflies and bugs

I've been busy trying to make a batch of masculine cards as I have a bunch of mens birthdays coming up in February and March and I was determined not to be chucking something together at last minute as I usually end up doing, not made anything very exciting but have a reasonable stock of them now,might make a few more if inspiration happens to strike !!!  After all the boats/planes/trains etc its been a real pleasure to play about with some more feminine stuff. Fashionable stamping challenge is for butterflies/bugs and my main problem was which of the many butterfly stamps to use, I can never resist a pretty butterfly stamp to add to my stash. Settled for this Artemia collage set in the end, all the stamps are from the one set other that the small ones on the BG which is an old (1995!) PSX butterfly medley.All coloured with distress inks.

Fashionable Stamping - Butterflies or Bugs
Make It Monday - anything goes
Sugar Creek Hollow - embossing

Blogger problems

Is anyone else having blogger problems again ? For the last two days I've been struggling with it,now I can't post my entry on the postcard challenge as I can't open Darcy's blog, most frustrating !!!