Animal Farm

Hi everyone!

Is it just me or is it really cold??  My office feels like someone left the freezer door open, but people keep saying it's gonna warm up again - do they mean this year or next year??!  Lol!
I've got a long awaited appointment tomorrow to see about my achy shoulders.  It's almost 11 months since my accident and my shoulders are still really sore but my main problem is that I've got so little strength in them.  I used to be quite strong but I struggle to put cups in my cupboard now :(  Hopefully they'll be able to tell me some good news tomorrow and I can get back to my old self soon.  I've got a concert to go to then tomorrow evening so hopefully they won't do anything to leave me too sore!  Nine Inch Nails might just be a concert that you don't want to go to already feeling the pain!

Anyway, time for another new challenge at the Creative Card Crew!

We have a fab sponsor this week with the Scrapping Center!

They're offering another $15 to one lucky winner to spend in their store!

Our challenge for the next fortnight is...

Down on the farm!

Oh arr!
I must admit that I made these cards quite a while ago for a swap on our forum but they fitted this challenge so well that I kept them to blog until now.

Here's what I did:

The stamps are from Woodware but they're clear stamps and you can build a scene with them which is fun!  I coloured them with the following promarkers:  Slate, lilac, lavendar, burnt orange, tequila sun rise, soft peach, warm grey 3,2,1, fuschia pink, pink lobster, tropical orchid.  I cut some cloud shapes out of paper and used them as a mask to sponge some distress ink for the sky.

The papers are Pink Petticoat Gingham and Daisy Bouquet in cranberry and sunshine.  The die is a Spellbinders Eyelet Square die.  I also used some twine and raffia from my stash.

The inside matches the front with the colours of paper flipped.

Here's the whole set:

So I do hope you can join us for this fun challenge at the Creative Card Crew - the rest of the DT have some great inspiration for you, and some also showing that you don't need animals on your card!

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog; Colourful
A Gem of a Challenge; Punch it out
Just For Fun Challenge Blog; Just for fun
Perfect Sentiments Challenge Blog; The great outdoors
Southern Girls Challenge Blog; Things beginning with F - Farm animals
Top Tip Tuesday; Things beginning with your initials - S for Stamp, F for Farm animals
Twisted Tuesday Challenges; Pink as all outdoors

Don't forget to check out my candy!

Thanks for looking!
 

Mackintosh - and not an Apple in sight!

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all well?
I've had a very busy, interesting and exciting week!  I'm gonna spill all in a separate post (and I'm gonna have some blog candy too, sure why not?!) so make sure to check back a little later to see!
It's terrible when you have a few days doing something different and it really puts you off track.  It takes ages to get back into your routine again too.  Not that I ever really have a proper "routine"!

So helping to put me back on track again is a new challenge from the Pink Team at Eclectic Ellapu!
We have a fab new challenge for this week from our lovely boss lady Elaine with a theme of...

Art Deco!

Isn't it fab to have something different to try?!  I have never made anything in this style before so it was a challenge, but I have always loved the style of both Deco and Nouveau.  Part of my inspiration for this comes from the first thing I bought when I was old enough to have a credit card and is my Mackintosh chair.  I always wanted to get a full set but I don't know if you can get them anymore so one will have to do me!

Here's my card:

The stamp is called Glasgow Rose by Woodware (yep, it's a wood-mounted stamp so I had to dig for it!) and there is very little colouring to do on it!  I used my copics and coloured the roses with R20, the leaves with YG95 and a little bit of shading with C0.

I matted onto a layer of pink card (which is hard to see) and a layer of black card and I cut strips of the black card to make the design which gives the card some great texture.  I worked out what I wanted to do before I started making the card and printed the sentiment so it would fit in the design. (The font is called AR Bonnie)

I did the design again on the inside along with a LOTV stamped sentiment.

 This is nothing like what I would usually make, but I really like it.  I thought about colouring some of the squares pink, but decided not to.  I might do it yet!

Make sure to check out the rest of the DT's creations at Eclectic Ellapu, they have made a great job of fulfilling the task of this theme!

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Eureka Stamps Challenge; Clean & simple
Just For Fun Challenge Blog; Just for fun
Ohh La La Challenge Blog; A step back in time - Art Deco/Nouveau circa 1920's
Papertake Weekly; Anything goes
Stamp n Doodle; Anything goes
The Pink Elephant; Texture
Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenges; Clean & simple


Thanks for looking!