Willing on the sunshine :-)

Hello!!

I'm keeping this short and sweet as I just typed this post, then I don't know what I did but it went..... AHHHHHH!!!!

Anyway, I think we are pretty much packed up for this weekend - HB is dragging me camping (not good, I don't do camping) at a car show, and I'm not convinced yet that I want to go.  Fingers crossed that it doesn't rain or I think I'll be home.  We are taking the Mini and I am taking everything else in the estate car - well four of you can't get in a Mini with all the camping stuff as well!!  It's only about an hour or so's drive away from where we live, so not too far to go

In what may turn out to be a fruitless attempt to will on the sun I've gone all bright and sunny with both the Echo Park papers and the Paper Shelter image

Please can I enter these challenges

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Summertime

Creative Inspirations - Lemonade (Yellow and White)

Delightful Challenges - Stitching

Paper Shelter - Flower, Flowers, Flowers

Diva's By Design - Summer

Craft Room Challenge - Summer Holidays

Creative Craft Challenges - Summertime

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Sizzlin' Summer

Sweet Stamps - Hot Time In the Summer

Thanks for looking, fingers crossed I will have time to schedule some posts over the weekend, if not I'll be all back to normal (and back to work... boooo!!!) on Monday

Have a great weekend

Sue xx

Just a quick post

Good evening

Just a quick post from me then bed is calling :-)

It's been a busy weekend, despite me getting crafters block in the second half of last week, I managed to get this card and a few more done which I will share over the next few days

I followed the sketch over at Truly Scrumptious, and die cut, embossed and inked this lovely butterfly.  The purple panel to the left has been run through a dotty embossing folder and sanded back to reveal the core

I'd also like to enter these challenges

The Stamp Man - Butterflies and Dragonflies

Totally Papercrafts - Die Cuts and Punches

Have a great week

Sue xx

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge 21 - Red, Red, Red

Hi! This weeks theme at Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge is

Red, Red, Red

Well I've gone for Red, Red, Red (and a teensy bit of black, thrown in as an accent!!)

I've used one of the stunning Digi Masks by Gayle Bond available exclusively from Scrapbook Sisters - click here to see the range, and there are more shoe and flower stamps coming soon and I can't wait to get my hands on them!!

For some reason I just couldn't stop tinkering with this image, and kept blending and blending light and dark until I was happy, and then added stickles to accent the image.

I've taken my cue from Gayle on the handle for this mask and have wrapped a bit of a bamboo skewer in double sided tape then ribbon and the mask is mounted on half a tube (well, it seemed like it!) of Silicon, and I've left a couple of bits of ribbon hanging free.  I was going to add beads to this ribbon but it just didn't look right, so I left it!

I printed the image out twice then coloured the second flower again.  Before I assembled the mask I went round all the edges with a ball tool to give the image some shape and then layered the cut out flower on top of the mask.

The panel on the right hand side has been stamped with the greeting which has been masked up (no pun intended!) and then I've used this really detailed Heart Vine background stamp by Stampabilities around it.  I don't use this stamp as much as I should as it is stunning, but I kept it simple here are just used black ink, rather than embossing it.  I ran this panel and the main background panel through my sewing machine set to a simple straight stitch using red and black machine embroidery silks.

The rather lovely organza ribbon was rescued from a box of choccies at Christmas (shame this wasn't a recycling challenge!!) and I have made my own flowers (please pick yourselves up off the floor) and they look rather good for a first attempt!  I've put a brad pearl in the middle of each flower, and added red gems to the bottom left and the middle of the mask's flower to finish it off.

Right that's it from me today - hope you are having a good week!  Looking forward to seeing all of your lovely red creations!!

Sue xx