Rainy days

Good morning crafty friends.

 

Jen told you yesterday about some of the things we purchased at GBCF on Sunday.  We spent fffaaaarrrrrr too much money, but thoroughly enjoyed ourselves lol.  The stash is now filling every corner of our craftroom/study and still we nnneeeeeeddd more ;)  I know you understand tee hee!

In spite of all our purchases my card only uses two new items - the pink and green spectrum noir pens used to colour Tilda - all the rest was in the stash already.

 

I started with an 8x8 card blank (my size of choice lately) and covered with 2 coordinating papers.  I covered the join with yellow spotty ribbon then layered my embossed card, the image and a paper pieced umbrella.

 

This is the first time I've attempted paper piecing and I'm happy with the result.

Tilda was coloured with the alcohol pens, inked with 2 distress inks and cut out with a spellbinder die.

I couldn't find a sentiment I liked in my ready-mades, so this one is printed from the computer.  I probably should have matted them, or inked the edges, but they work ok.

 

 

I like the implication behind the words.  Hope you do too.

 

TTFN Jude xx

April showers...

Good morning all, Jen back again today. Did you play along with the birthday blog hop yesterday? Good wasn't it? If not, don't worry it's not too late, pop over to the Anything Goes Challenge Blog and join in. When you've finished here obviously lol.

 

Anyway on to today, this is a card I have made using free papers from a craft mag. I think the colours are really nice, and perfect for Spring.

 

 

I started with the topper and cut this out using the largest of the Lacey Circle dies. Then I cut out again just the image part in the inner circle by hand, and stuck it over the top. Then I mounted this on to a paper doily.

 

I used a 6x6 plain white scalloped edge card blank and covered it with one of the co-ordinating papers, matted on to green core-dinations card. Next a cut strips from two of the other papers and matted these on a slightly lighter green card.

 

 

I arranged the card with the doily and topper and added in some green spotty ribbon across the centre and to make two little bows for the top corners. I really like this ribbon and that was my last piece ;-(. Oh well I'll just have to keep a look out for some more lol.

 

Next I cut out a sentiment that came with the papers and matted this on to the same green card.

Then I added this to the bottom of the card.

 

All it needed to finish the card was a few flat backed pearls in the bottom corners,

 

and then some smaller green ones around the image. Then a final dab over with some glossy accents to look like rain drops. A super quick card, all done and dusted.

 

Hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by today, see you soon.

 

xxx

 

I am entering this card in to the following challenge: http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/weather-with-you.html