Oops

Well blow me over... I meant to post this for CASual Friday CFC114 back to school but I've missed the boat :-(

It has got arrows though... So I'm going to do another link with CAS.ology 62

Die cut cuttlebug circle, unknown number stamps & brads on a Kraft card

ARROWS

This weeks CAS-ology challenge is all about arrows....

Cupid ?

Game spinners ?

Directions ?

I really could not make up my mind....

All I could think about was Left Under Bottom Right!

I may well come back to that one as I'm sure I can go somewhere with it :-)

Hmmmm, it's an old friends birthday soon, turning 60! No names....! None of you know him!

So I decided a birthday card was needed. I've gone for an A5 size in dark green with a 3" square white panel that has been stamped with YOU ( part of a paper artsy stamp) and some arrows - the 3 in front of YOU are cut from some Paper Artsy hearts (love & kisses1) the short broad arrow is from their Bricks & Mortar 2 plate whilst the long skinny one is from a gaming sheet of stamps by Invoke.

I have used DI seedless preserves, pine needles & festive berries - Colorbox alpine & peony for the inking.

No numbers appear anywhere....but I may still put a 60 inside because I can!!!

Bits and bobs

I been using up more of the odds & ends that have been sitting on my desk or in the oddments box and made up some small square cards. As luck would have it there are 2 twinchie challenges that these will fit :-) www.showusyourtwinchies.blogspot.co.uk challenge (autumn) & www.twinchieschallenge.blogspot.co.uk (anything goes)

The backgrounds are some papers coloured with oil pastels, I used the reverse side of the paper as I liked the texture. And the leaves are tissue paper that has been coloured with distress inks, over stamped and then diecut. The leaves are left over from a Tammy Tutterow tutorial that I tried out a couple of months ago, some of the leaves are in fact a few layers thick (hellish difficult to separate) so just to make sure that everything stayed together...I dabbed the twinchies with versamark & sprinkled with clear embossing powder! Once they had been heated the colours popped so much more :-)

I've used a textured paint chip (USA) to mount this one.

A leftover dry embossed wallpaper scrap for this one!

A piece of gift wrap...

Another textured paint chip.

AUTUMN HERE WE COME!

Monday inchies

The theme this week over at everyinchiemonday is ROAD. 

I have a few that fit the bill so here is my share

Keep on rolling is an inkadinkadoo stamp, stop, traffic lights, US 101 & interstate 95 are all from a journaling pad that I got years ago - both roads are near my grandchildren!

Just playing

2 ATCs where I have used TH spiders web embossing folder with some treasure gold, cuttlebug 

 Skulls, Boo & pumpkins and a Spellbinders pumpkin. The "scary eyes" are some stickers I found in my stash- I think the grandchildren may have given me them!

I get about a dozen "Trick or Treaters" come round every year so this year I thought I'd do some little cards to give as well as a few sweets, I might make cinder toffee this year :-)

Moo mania

I had a lot of fun with this new MOO challenge - sewing being the latest theme

I had the good fortune to find the Tim Holtz weathered textiles stamps in TKMAXX  last week and it only seemed right to use them to create the base for this collection of MOOs - stamped in archival & coloured with Milled Lavender.

Here are the front & back

A small left over + ribbon & a button

2 eyelets coloured with Promarker to blend as they were pale pink!

Pages 1&2

The sewing machine is from a set of free stamps (Cardmaking & Papercraft)

The strip of buttons is part of a Paper Artsy set (buttons plate 2) I've added a little colour with Promarkers, added a Nitwits paper button & 2 button brads.

Pages 3&4

The needle & thread is from the same free set, learn to sew is PA buttons plate 4 & the stitches comes from another set of free stamps :-) - the fringing is a Prima stamp I got on a visit to the USA.

Pages 5&6

The hook & eye and the rolled tape measure are also from a free set of stamps.

The scissors is part of the Cardmaking & Papercraft set ant the thimble & Pins and needles are from Paper Artsy Buttons 4.

Pages 7&8

Lace piece & lady in a lace coiffe are PA Buttons 2 & the word lace from plate 4,

Hand stitched is another free stamp as is the patchwork square (craft stamper) 

Hope you've managed to stick with me to the end - here is the opened out booklet

Birthdays

Two of the cards that are going out this...one person has no computer & the other is a technophobe so no fear of them seeing these :-) 

I'm off to consider my next moo creation (sewing)...