Sad Birthday Birds

Happy World Cardmaking Day folks - I hope you've managed more cards than I have so far today!

I did manage a couple, and this one is for the "jewel colours" challenge at Less is More.   Anne's card reminded me that I hadn't yet inked up my bird stamps so I gave them a go using topaz, amber and amethyst as my gems.  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/week-244-colour.html

I coloured them with distress markers and added some depth with polychromos pencils over the top.  Die cut them with the matching dies and then grouped them with some washi tape and a sentiment from Winston's Birthday form Newton's Nook.

Right - cards to make and a turbot to cook.

Catch you later - thanks for visiting.

Tara

One Layer Music

Last week may have been LIM's 2nd birthday, but this week is my second anniversary of playing along as I only found the challenge on week 2.  The theme this week is to make a one layer card featuring music  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/week-106-one-layer.html

I didn't use many supplies for this card but I did use a lot of techniques - all quite simple - but useful in the one layer arsenal.   I started by masking off a horizontal stripe on my card where I knew I wanted to put my sentiment.  I then decided to use a kissing technique to get some musical notes onto my bauble.  As I didn't have a solid bauble of the size I wanted I simply turned over one of the largest stamps in the Waltzingmouse 2011 Holiday Ornaments set and inked up the side you normally stick to your acrylic block with pool party ink.  I inked up a Tim Holtz musical note stamp which was designed for the kissing technique so it comes out the right way round (hope so anyway Chrissie as I can't read it!)  Kissing the two together gives lots of interest to your one layer card.

I removed the mask and then stamped a greeting from Hero Arts Very Merry Christmas in versamark and heat embossed in detail silver.  I also heat embossed the bauble top in the same silver ep.  I finished with a little black hemp cord tied in a bow so the bauble wasn't floating in mid air.  I think I may make a set of these ready for Christmas.

Moving Along with the Times - Fashion Challenge

This challenge caught my eye today, and immediately made me think of a Tim Holtz stamp I bought on first sight last year that has been sitting un-inked in a drawer ever since.  I loved the look of the stamp but its out of my usual colouring-in comfort zone, so I wasn't too sure what to do with it.

I'd got a lovely paper collection from Cosmo Cricket called material girl, so I figured, with this and the stamp, this challenge was going to get me over my distressing hang-up.  I stamped in black on white card, distressed the edges (again, probably didn't do this as much as I should have) and then distress inked with crushed olive, tattered straw and bundled sage.   I cut strips of paper from the sheet which looks like buttons, and threaded them through a couple of green buttons, and used the same paper to mat the stamped image onto which I distressed inked as well.

The fashion challenge can be found here - http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-87-fashion.html

It's also relevant to the button/bows challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow - http://sugarcreekhollow.blogspot.com/2011/02/buttons-bows-challenge.html

And the "distress" challenge at Creative Inspirations - http://creativeinspirationschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-53.html

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