May

This is a quiet month on the card production front....several friends on Facebook but they only get wishes not cards, my ex sister-in-law (today), my dad next week, there were 2 anniversaries (in-laws & parents) sadly those are no longer required.

Today saw me finish my dads card ready to mail off to France 

Thanks to Tim Holtz I have a stamp of a gentleman with a moustache to rival my dad's!

Inch

....by inch we work our way through another year, this week with a diagram!

I scratched my head a bit for this one lol but I managed to come up with something.....

A Tim Holtz rub-on for the inchie

And one of his blueprint stamps for my ATC.

I wonder what I'll come up with for next week?  See you later....

N,O,P

Some more alphabet tags to share....

Numbers stencil in the background, Jayne Nestorenko numbers, Tim Holtz bingo card.

Embossing folder, branch & leaves are all Tim Holtz - the owl was fussy cut from a card.

CI poppy plate, cuttlebug alphabet, tattered garland die for flower

Every inchie Monday

This week the theme is SONG 

I just happened to have a scrap of "inkblot" card that is stamped with the music stamp from Tim Holtz "joyful song"  so all that I had to do was edge with a little black archival to define the piece & add a musical instrument that I've been hoarding forever!

Grey & raining

No, not here thank goodness! We are currently enjoying our 4th consecutive day of summer :-) but as I am entering the LIM: shades of grey & the ATCAS#17 which is water it seemed appropriate to go with the usual weather!!!!

A 4x6 shades of grey piece of paper (stash) which reminds me of sheeting rain, Tim Holtz's umbrella man die which has been layered - the head & umbrella are plain grey, the coat is a scrap of black/grey & white, his trousers are a slightly iridescent charcoal as is the brolly handle, the shoes are a shiny slate grey & his hat is a silver grey! Not fifty shades but I did my best using scraps ;-)

I'm off to the garden now to practice dealing with the warm weather as I am soon to be off on my holidays!  

Late february tag time

I eventually resorted to cheating so as to have this tag finished in time! Yes, I know... Not in the spirit of things but I desperately needed it to put on the front of an anniversary card!!!!

37 years tomorrow & still counting- where have all the years gone since Bill & I got married in Abu Dhabi?

So, to cut to the chase, I've coloured my tag with Festive Berries DI & then spritzed with paper, heat tool dried it....so far so good, I then used some Whispers for DoCrafts stamps (love set) which I stamped (using ColorQ in Merlot) in 2 bands across the tag & clear embossed.

I really could not find anything amongst my stamps (WHAT! I hear you all cry) so I decided to give the Tim Holtz stamp picture a try - I printed it off 3 times as I was happy enough with the size - I'm no computer whizz & could hardly ask Bill to do anything with it.....
So I coloured the base layer with Festive Berries, cut the playing out for the next layer, this got a quick brush with Frayed Burlap around the edges & I coloured the hearts with a Whispers strokes pen. The next layer, the queens, I have coloured with a mix of Promarkers & DI.

I had some Butchers twine in red/white which I toned down using Frayed Burlap, I also coloured a small piece of card at the same time, I cut an arrow out of it (freehand) & added a fine line to define it.
Whilst on a trip to Stirling last year I found a couple of packs of TH frosted mosaic tiles in a bargain bin....I finally got round to using one :-). I used some Chit Chat on the back, used Glossy Accents to glue down a piece of Festive Berries paper behind the whole tile.

Along the top I have added a strip of ribbon (stash) and some heart buttons that have their shanks removed.

I just need to mount this onto a card and I am all set for tomorrow's celebration. Hopefully I will not wake feeling like this queen because....oh no! She is upside down! TOO LATE TO CHANGE HER NOW :-(

More fun with Lynne Perella

Snowflakes falling from the sky...so more time to play instead of clearing stuff in the garden!

TOP HAT plate 2: I have used paper from Raspberry Road Christmas collection, Promarkers , ribbon & brad, stencilled through sequin waste

TASSELS plate 4: the papers are Prima botanicals and colouring done with Promarkers

FRINGE plate 3: here the papers are from the Fancy Pants Beach Babe pack, more Promarkers colouring & brads plus the yellow paper has been cut as a circle and then punched using a Martha Stewart Corner punch.

MEDALS plate2: Prima botanicals over stamped in Victorian Velvet DI using the Tim Holtz papillon plate, I have used Spellbinders Persian border and coloured with Promarkers & metallic water soluble pencils, brads

DL CARD plate 4: cuttlebug embossing folder, watercolour paper, Promarkers and some tiny orange seed pearl bling

Frenchie

Time to share a birthday card that I made for a pal that lives in France - he knows nothing about my blog so the chances of him stumbling across it are????

Black & white papers, black Stazon ink & a freebie stamp by Rainbow Studios, Tim Holtz flourish & Tattered Floral flowers, some pewter coloured brads and I have just the card for Lionel.

They say that the emblem of France is a cockerel & that he is king of the "basse cour" (the farm yard to us) who can only sing when truly happy - and that would be with both feet in the dung heap!

CASology 21: TIME

Tick tock, tick tock, 26 sleeps to Christmas! Where has this year gone?

A little something on the "time" front.... A simple card where I have embossed the front panel using a Tim Holtz embossing folder added a thin gold ribbon along the edge of the join and then added a gold ink & embossing powder clock face (also TH). I have made this as a timely reminder for a girlfriend that she will be joining the "50 & overs" in a few short weeks :-).

She is going to hate me!!!

Less is more week 91 sketch 7

Time to get my skates on as this closes soon & I am able to grab a little me time whilst Bill is busy cleaning out the gutters!

Long panel has been coloured with DI Broken China & stamped with a snowflake stamp in the same colour- cut into 3 panels that have had the edges coloured with DI Salty Ocean.

Once I had stuck these onto the base card I overstamped the panel with Tim Holtz's snowman in archival black, added a few small gems to him & added a "happy holidays".

I cannot believe its only 56 days to go!!!

Fir cones

:-D At last I have managed to get my hands on Tim's tattered pine cones... I convinced Bill to take me to Jo-Ann's this morning and they were having a reduced Tim Holtz products day so some grunge paper, salvage tickets, chitchat, nibs & the pine cone die all made their way into the shopping basket. Loads more I wanted but space is running out in the suitcase :-(. This time next week it will all be over- the up side will be that I can get back into my craft room :-)

Travel...

 Try it  on Tuesday is about travel this week so here a few ATCs on that theme...                        

 A paint strip with some stamping from Clear Choice Stamps (Travel & Trip to Paris) and another one using a Craft Stamper freebie (map) plus stamps from Limited Edition Stamps by Danielle Johnson

 Some Music paper,  a leaning tower of Pisa printed onto tracing paper & PISA stamped onto a paper scrap. The next one is a piece of Ordinance Survey map with Tim Holtz stamps (bicycle & postcard) with a flower attached with a brad, and finally Vacation stamped onto green card, a piece of travel advertising from who knows where but it was in my stash and another Tim Holtz stamp of a City Skyline. All this is well & truly putting me in the mood for my holidays :-))

Hope you like what's posted.

CASology Sky

A nice simple one today!

5" square base card, scalloped circle mask. I've used Tumbled Glass distress ink for the sky & the stamps are Birds on a wire (Tim Holtz clear) & the bluebird words are by Paper Artsy (hot picks HP1004)

14-7-1942

70 Years ago my dear husband was born! 35 of those years have been spent married to me.... and to mark the occasion I needed a card that would show some of his interests so here is the finished item where I have used some old maps (appropriate sections of course), papers that I won last December, the car/ beer mugs stamps are Creative Stamping freebies,the bicycle is Tim Holtz & the skier is from A Muse Art Stamps- the numbers were cut using my cuttlebug.

He fell off his bike back in December and damaged his rotator cuff so has had a 2cm tear to the tendon mended....so no cycling at the moment! He used to rally but not in a car like the one on the card, he does enjoy driving however & does all the driving when we go driving to the South of France. Ski-ing is our joint passion and we spend every winter on the ski slopes in the southern french alps.

A real fan of "real ale" we will be heading along to the Deeside Brewery beer fest later on today and as a birthday treat a friend has arranged s taxi for us all so no one has to be a designated driver :-D.

I don't expect to be receiving a handmade card from him on Monday but I am sure that there are some lovely cards for me to open.

 

Thanks for looking.

4th & 14th July

Tim Holtz has posted his July tag...so as I have no canned air, no alcohol ink, no Statue of Liberty....the list goes on & on....I tried to do something with what I did have.

So I set to with some white card, blue ink, red ink and my felt applicator! Not quite the same effect as Tim achieved but hey he's a pro!I did however use the New York skyline and the star strip from one of his clear stamp sets, the stars I stamped in red + red embossing powder & also ColorBox blue + blue glitter- the glitter was not very successful :-(  I mounted the white card onto red, then blue card.Die cut a white star & a red one to punch the tag hole through for the ribbon (stash) I do not consider this to be one of my finest by any stretch of the imagination but it's all part of the learning curve.

And then it was time to try something else... As I did all my education in french....Yes that would explain why my English is sometimes rubbish...and I still spend a lot of my time in France I just had to make a tag related to the "quatorze juillet", this also just happens to be my dear "other half for the past 35 years" birthday so time to get more ink on my fingers :-D.   More white card, Paper Artsy Hot Picks Xtra 01 (ink splats) stamped in Ranger distress inks in Festive Berries & Salty Ocean (both from limited ink collections) I used the same colours to ink the edges of the tag. A freebie fireworks stamp from Craft Stamper for some explosions that used clear embossing powder & red/blue glitters. The stamps Arc de Triomphe, Paris (hidden under the threads), France & Bonjour came from Clear Stamps.Some dymo tape for the date, ribbon from my stash , a die cut and a mini Eiffel Tower...Job done! Hope you like the end result.