CASual Twine

I've been trying all week to make a card for this fortnights CASual Friday challenge which is to use kraft and twine.  I saw the technique for making French knots in papercrafts magazine recently and wanted to give it go - in retrospect, trying to use thick bakers twine probably wasn't the right material to try it with!

After several attempts here is what I came up with for the challenge http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2011/12/cfc33.html

The central image is a papertrey ink image stamped on kraft in green ink and cut with a nestie.  I then back stitched the stems and added french knots for flower buds.   I added a green mat and a strip of brown card.  I then used my new sew-easy tool (I'm still to scared to get my sewing machine out of its box) to sew the scalloped border and used the same twine.  I added a few brown spotted craft candy dots to match the twine and a sentiment in the same green ink, which is from a hero arts sentiment set.  Simple matted onto a square kraft card to finish.

I'll be back later with my new challenge card for St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge - it's a great one for the New Year!

Cas-ual Friday Week 2

I've tried several times to make a card for the new challenge at Casual Fridays since it went live on Friday night which is to use twine and buttons, which sounded like a doddle, but it turned out not to be so.  I'm not sure I like this now its done, I think I needed a black mat behind the red, but can't get it off now its stuck....

The poppy is a two part stamp from chocolate baroque - one solid stamped in red, one line stamped over the top (should have used my lego blocks to align it!) in black.  The sentiment is personal impressions.  I like the tiny dotty buttons and need to buy some more.

I'm off to bed to read my book and to hope the crafting fairy visits with my missing mojo tomorrow....

Craftilicious x