WOYWW 228

Morning everyone. Once again, Wednesdays here, and time to go link in with the Mistress of Desks, Julia at The Stamping Ground. This pic of my desk is a bit of a shocker, I have to admit. I've been making cards with those images from last week, (last but one post) and still have a few more to do. Prepare yourselves, sit down with a nice strong coffee (or whatever takes your fancy...)

You name it,its probably on there! DST, sticky tabs, ink pad,sticky ribbon, card blanks,peel-offs, baby wipes, ordinary ribbon, ruler, glasses, scalpels, backing paper from the DST- good job you can't see the table behind me, lol.But, a good time was had, and a dozen cards emerged unscathed from the carnage.Hope you are all having a great Wednesday, we'll meet up on a desk somewhere around the world over the next few days.

Weddings and Anniversary

A couple of recent cards for this post, One made for a couples Civil Wedding, and  a card for my Beloved Hubby for our Wedding Anniversary.
 Hubbies card is based on the design for our Wedding Invites, using the same colours and fold.

Instead of our initials, I stamped and heat embossed the number 4 , as its our fourth anniversary.











The second card was asked for by a friend at work, for a gay couple of her friends getting married, as she couldn't find anything suitable in the shops.

 I used a Chocolate baroque stamp, Harlequin Rose, that had been stamped onto Transparency film, then glittered. I layered it over some gold card embossed with hearts. Some Wedding vellum and white ribbon on the left, and dry embossing from a Glitter Girls Embossing board on the right. Finally added a few half pearls to the embossing, and a couple of satin hearts to the image.

Batch cards with those 'filler' stamps

So, in my WOYWW post I had a lot of small stamped images.  I'd pinned a number of cards onto this Pinterest board, which had given me an idea how to make some use of those little 'filler' stamps that every set seems to include. Usually, most of my cards are made with a folded sheet of A4 card, so they always seem too tiny for me, and just hang around never getting used.

















All of these were done by double stamping the image. I used a pale and bright version of each colour, but you'd get the same effect by stamping the image, then stamping again with the ink left on the stamp.





 

  For this one, the grasses in the bottom card were stamped in Versamark, then heat embossed with White detail embossing powder. The shades of yellow & orange Distress Inks were sponged over the top, then the white image wiped over with some kitchen towel to take off any ink.

These three are done the same way, mounted onto a smaller card base- A5 folded.In the top two, I punched out parts of the images, using a Woodware punch, which measures about an inch & a quarter. I added some dry embossing detail to two of them, and the Dandelion heads have Diamond Stickles added.
Some have stamped sentiments, others have peel-offs, coloured with markers to match.Something else I have loads of, as I bought a lot of sentiment peeloffs in the days before I had many sentiment stamps!
 Its given me a dozen cards, and I have images left to do another half a dozen. All bright & cheerful, and I really like the Versamark & White Embossing powder technique.

WOYWW #227

Morning all! MIA last week, mainly thanks to Beloved Hubby. Despite telling him he doesn't have to share EVERYTHING with me, he absolutely insisted on giving me his leftover flu germs. Of course, I didn't get the full, terrible type of man-flu, just the weedy female bird-flu version (!), but left me fit for nothing. Plus the week from hell at work didn't help. But I'm back again, and as you see, have been playing with stamps & inkpads. A lot of smallish images to make some batch cards with, which I will be putting together & blogging later in the week. Probably over the weekend, as Thursday is our 4th Wedding Anniversary, so Friday night we are going out for a celebratory meal. Bonus- no washing up!
This was how they all started:

You know all those little 'filler' type stamps you get in sets?The ones that you never seem to use? I decided I'd have a go at using some of them, based on some similar cards I'd seen on Pinterest recently.
And by the way, no, its not a blurred image, and its not your eyes, even if it is early. The images have been stamped twice, in a pale, then vivid, version of the same colour. So, do the right thing, pop over to Auntie Julia's at The Stamping Ground and link in, show us what you got! On earlies this week (groan), so with a bit of luck, and no oversleeping, I'll link before going to work and visit this afternoon.

WOYWW #225- I'm Back!!!

Hi folks, back from 2 weeks in the sun, on Corfu, mozzie capital of the world! Thats a panoramic pic taken by Beloved Hubby on his new tablet gadget thingy.

This was the view from our balcony, the beach & sea just over the road. Me and Beloved Hubby having a pony & carriage ride around Sidari, where we stayed.
So not a lot of crafting done, as yet. I did have to throw together rather fast yesterday afternoon, a card for a girl at work leaving to have a baby. She was going to go next week, but decided to go this Friday instead, so it was a bit of a rush job, but didn't come out too badly, I have to say.

Biggest help was all the glittering I did a while ago- the squares & Baby word are Chocolate Baroque stamps, in White Staz-on on transparency film, silver glitter on the back of the squares, and white on the letters. The background paper I have had for ages, and I went with white for the glitter & ribbon, because when I started it, I realised I could not remember if she's having a boy or girl. I thought she was having a boy, but didn't want to take the risk that I had the wrong idea in my head- wouldn't be the first time- so played safe with a paper that covers all options, :) .So thats me for this week, I'll hopefully post early, and be back later to visit. I'm back on double day shift for a few weeks,which is a whole other story, but if I start telling it, a lot of bad language will be involved, and I wouldn't want to shock my visitors.Have a great Wednesday!