Set of 6

Deciding what to take to the Wednesday evening craft club is always a problem.  Most of the lovely ladies there are knitting and don't take up much space on the table but even so, us cardmakers tend to hog a lot of space.

Also, there's only so much a girl can carry.  So I decided to limit myself to one paper pad, some punches, Neenah Kraft and White card and some pearls.

The results were a set of six cards, all following the same basic sketch but switching the orientation around.

I think I should limit myself like this more often! Oh I also brought along a Hero Arts Sentiment stamp set

See you soon with another card. Ger x

90 Minute Scramble at Hero Arts

The Hero Arts 90 minute scramble was hosted last night by the lovely Debbie and her challenge was to use a colour combination of Navy and Mint.  I used Chipped Sapphire and Evergreen Bough to ink up a Hero Arts Butterfly and used the die from the same set to cut them out, adding a Hero Arts sentiment and some sequins.  The paper is My Mind's Eye Remarkable.

It always amazes me how many gorgeous cards are created during these hour and a half scrambles - you should check them out here

Enjoy your Sunday!

Ger x

March Challenge at Crafty Bloggers Network

There's still time to enter your cards at Crafty Bloggers Network where the theme this month is Nature.

Our sponsor this month is Imagine That and I used this cute image, also using one of their sentiments and some digital papers.  I used some of the papers to create the bunting and the image was coloured with Copics and Promarkers.

Have a great St Patrick's Day, and see you tomorrow with another card!

Ger x

Another Something Green at Craft for the Craic

Morning! Time for another little Something Green at Craft for the Craic.  This month our challenge is to have something green in your project (and we love to see all kinds of crafts!).

For my second project I decided to make a necklace.  As soon as I saw these teal green beads I fell in love with them.  I wanted some silver chain to match with them but had none left so I popped down to Penneys and bought a cheap as chips necklace and cut the chain into suitable lengths.

I always put all my beads onto eye pins before starting, makes life so much easier then to make up the necklace as you have only to open each eye pin and attach lengths of chain, finishing with a little lobster clasp.

I teamed the beads with 6mm and 10mm Hematite beads to bring out the greys in those gorgeous flat beads:

Why not join us this month for the craic, we'd love to see your projects!

Ger x

Male Birthday

Morning! I had another play with stencils.  This time I ombred the colour from top to bottom, starting with Shabby Shutters down to Peeled Paint.   Neenah White and Kraft card, some postage stamp dies and a Hero Arts sentiment.  The Washi tape was from a Simon Says Stamp monthly card kit.

I'd like to enter this into:

Amusing Challenge - Green
Anyone for Anya - Masculine or Grungy
One Stitch at a Time #203 - For a Boy
Sentimental Sundays - For a Boy/Man
A Blog Named Hero - Stencil

Lupins

I've been using the distress inks as watercolours again.  This time I white embossed these Creative Expressions lupins.  I spritzed the card with water then used Picked Raspsberry to paint the lupins.  Then I swiped Satly Ocean over the whole card, turning the lupins from pink to lilac, which was the intention.  Then I picked up some more Salty Ocean on the brush and splattered the page.

I was going to put the sentiment on a vellum strip but I found some heat proof acetate and embossed the Hero Arts sentiment with a Cosmic Shimmers viola black, the acetate was then scored and folded behind the card and stuck down. Some leftover card was splodged into the pink and blue ink drops left on the craft sheet, dried, and the butterflies cut from that.

I'd like to enter this into:

Virginia's View Challenge Blog - Watercolour

Something Green at Craft for the Craic

I'm very excited to be on the Design Team at new challenge blog - Craft for the Craic (Irish for fun)! Isn't that while we all started crafting - for the craic?  It's not just for cards or even just papercrafting - knitting, crochet, altered items, jewellery, sewing, baking - whatever you love to craft, we want to see it!

I've been admiring the watercolour cards trend around the blogs so for the Something Green theme I decided to use Broken China and Mustard Seed distress inks and let the Something Green happen where the two inks met.  I white embossed a Hero Arts flower and sentiment onto some Neenah white card, spritzed the card with water, then added the ink colours with a paintbrush.

As the colours blended, the Something Green appeared :)

I then dragged some more Neenah card through the ink splodges left on my craft sheet and punched some butterflies out of the blue-green-yellow colours on the card and mounted everything onto some Neenah Kraft cardstock.

Have a look at the wonderful variety of crafts the other Design Team members have created at their blogs -

Eithne

Michelle

   
Pixie
     
Emily
     
Sylvie
     
Katya

I hope you'll all join us and show us what you made for the craic!  Looking forward to seeing your creations at Craft for the Craic.

I'd like to enter this into Virginia's View Challenge - Watercolour
Ger x