Not a girly girl!

Happy Birthday Tash! Thanks for a great night out.

It's always a little tricky to make cards for Tash as she's even less of a girly girl than me and flowers are out of the question, lol. Here's what I came up with this year inspired by the fashion for skulls. It's a font called Skullcaps and each letter is a skull with different eyes. You can get it here. I printed one letter at about 220 points.
Other bits I used: Dovecraft papers, white gel pen, sizzix star die, Penny Black Licorice Alpha and some spotty ribbon.

Charity Begins at Home

Gillian set the fabulously daring challenge this week, to go Charity shopping for stash! This is the first card idea I came up with...
Now I have to say I'm a bit funny about breaking useful stuff, even if it is second hand, and especially books. I asked if they had any incomplete jigsaws I could buy and books that were falling apart, and they did, so I didn't have to destroy a cartoon jigsaw or desecrate a book. They did look at me like I was slightly mad but hey ho. The slide thing is from a strange chain link belt thing which I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to wear but theres nowt strange as folk...

Anyway, I stamped onto paper torn from the book (gulp - vandalism!), inked and stamped the jigsaw piece and taadahh... I don't like it, lol, but I thought I'd share it anyway as it did lead me on to greater things, well a couple of cards I like much more!

So this time (er... Midnight last night) I coloured some of the pages with Adirondack ink, some watered down to get different tones. Then when it was dry this morning I stuck it to card and stamped my lush new Purple Onion heart stamps and cut them out. A little Elsie Rub on a stitching stamped border and a result I like!

And a bonus card with the leftover hearts!

Basic Grey... Joy!

Whoohoo! I made it into the Basic Grey Gallery! I love their papers so much, what a buzz! This is the card I submitted and it's shown here, using the gorgeous Phoebe papers. It makes cutting up those papers worthwhile... This was actually made for Jo's frills dare ages ago, *blush* but better late than never eh!

Golden

Wow! So many wonderful one word cards, thanks for sharing and if I haven't stopped by your blog yet I hope to very soon.

Todays Little Extra is in the same theme...a word challenge, GOLDEN ...


...and Golden Sunshine is what sprung to mind for me, a busy little card with lots of ribbons, texture and golden yellow tones.


I Used: MM foam Alpha stamps, Brilliance Ink, QK Sunshine dies, Cuttlebug Swirl Embossing Die, Bosscut Apricot Alpha, berisfords ribbon, some eyelets and a clip

In A Word

Wowee, I can't believe its been so long since I blogged, it just seems like half an hour to me. The wedding was wonderful, absolutely perfect despite the genuine Scottish weather, yes it rained like Monsoon season only not so warm! Luckily I had the forethought to buy a big white brolly and a snuggly pashmina and got to use them both. We havent got the pics back from the photographer yet but as soon as we do I'll share them! Meanwhile here's one from Lynne! Anyone watch heroes? We had the idea to try and get a pic like the sketch as soon as we heard it would rain!


Thank you all for your good wishes, cards and gifts, you know who you are and it meant so much knowing people from all around the world were thinking of us.

Its so good to be back in my craft room amongst all my paper and ribbons, after about 10 days in Greece I did get pangs for my paper, although lazing around in the sun was a pretty good alternative! Straight back into it and its my turn this week to set the dare, I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do, as always the design team have flabergasted me with their gorgeous cards, they never cease to amaze me, have a look at them all on the Daring Cardmakers Blog.

This week I dare you to use a Word as the main focal point to your card. It can be a name, a greeting or just a word that inspires you. You can use other text but only one word as a main embellishment. So dig out your dictionaries, die cutters, alphabet stamps, rubons or download a funky font and show us what you can do!I used Scrapworks Ethan Kate papers, I love the colours, ribbon from Ribbon Oasis and a Hero Arts Pattern Alphabet stamp set in brown onto plain turquoise card and cut out.

Time

I could really do with some more time at the moment, about 4 more hours in a day would be good! Two weeks tomorrow til the big day, I have some things to share on that front but it'll have to wait til I get some photos taken, time is short!

This weeks Dare is set by the wonderfully talented Kathy who has given us the challenge...

"It's About Time"
So you can use clocks, calendars, quotes, sayings, pictures, nursery rhymes, or altered art-type stuff, whatever takes your fancy - just take some time out to play and have some fun; remember, time flies when you're having fun!

I had a bit of a creative block at first, nothing would work, but after a busy day I had two ideas at ones. See, just like buses!

The first one uses Basic Grey Sublime papers. One of the older collection pads I have but such lovely warm colours. The border is cut freehand on one side and with those decorative edge scissors I never thought would see the light of day on the other. The clock hands are Papermania photo turns with a Making Memories Brad. The ribbon is from my local craft shop, inked to tone it in with everything else. The ribbon slide is trimmed down from a cuttlebug die cut, all on a kraft brown card blank.


I was less happy with this one to start with but its growing on me. Rusty Pickle Papers, Stamps by Hampton, Graphicus and Leave Memories. The border is cut with my new favourite toy the Basic Grey Notch tool, I love it!

It's actually black and cream whereas the pic makes it look black and white, I need a photography lesson, anyone doing any up this way?

The Daring Cardmakers Design Team have, as always, come up with some stunning examples of things to do with this theme. I hope you dare too!

Playing Catch Up!

Some exciting news today! I'm in Papercraft Inspirations with a card and an article for Daring Cardmakers! It's brilliant to know I'm in actual print, so exciting! I can't believe how widely read the DCM blog is, its immense, and of course we have another dare out tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled!


Thanks Kate for nominating me as a Rocking Girl Blogger! I'd like to nominate

Dingle

Sheila

Flower

Tracey

The girls at Salt

You ROCK!!!

See you tomorrow!