Stitched Triggers

I've not played along with the Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World in a while but this week's trigger image really shouted at me and I went straight on and made a quick little card perfect for this time of year. http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/02/tuesday-trigger-cross-my-heart.html

The blue die cut tag is from an spellbinders set that is exclusive to Waltzingmouse stamps  (it has matching stamps too "wink") and I simply added a cream panel to the centre by drawing around the inside and fussy cutting it out.  The reason this trigger image spoke to me so loudly was that I knew I had an as yet uninked cross-stitch style alphabet stamp set - so I used the letters to spell out love instead of stamping a heart (there is one of those in this stamp set too - it's by marianne designs)  I finished with some hand drawn stitching around the edge of the cream panel, added a little paper rose and used some pink floral washi tape to add interest to the background.

I'm also entering it into the following challenges:

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-255-love-struck.html

Spectacular Spectacles!

I'm kind of new to the world of Moxie Fab but I'm really glad I've found my way in as I'm so inspired by the pictures and trends Cath posts there.  So, I thought I'd throw myself in at the deep end and enter one of their challenges - this one is all about the trend for spectacles in papercrafting images and the images she collected are fabulous - I love the black and white dress http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2012/04/spectacular-spectacles-challenge.html

I went with a whimsical approach and this is my card:

The card is mostly computer generated - I designed the layout of the sentiment in word using text boxes to get the alignment how I wanted it.  The large glasses are clipart that I I printed onto card, cut out, stuck onto acetate and cut again popped up with pinflair glue.  I had drew the dotted red line and then stamped a couple of rows of matching red spectacles on the basecard with a stamp from papersmooches.

Hope it makes you all smile :-D