After our huge traditional Good Friday lunch of cod and chips, I had to waddle to my craftroom to play with some newly acquired Kokeshi Doll digi images from Digistamp Boutique...
Isn't she adorable!I coloured her with pro-markers and mounted her on a tic tac toe style background - 9 squares die-cut from some pretty floral patterned paper. I've mounted these on gold mirri-card then on black card. The greeting was created in Publisher using white font on a black background. I'm entering this card into the challenges at: My Favorite Things Sketch #378
One of my friends at work asked me to make a version of a card she has seen all over Pinterest...
She asked for it in shades of pink so I used some of my favourite patterned papers from NitWits. The bags themselves were pretty straightforward to make - just lots of scoring and folding. For the handles I made good use of some of those ribbons that you always find in tops and t-shirts and added some flat-backed pearls to cover the edges. Finally, I created a greeting in Publisher and added a strip of die-cut border. To add 'filling' to the bags i used some small pieces of net gauze. I'm entering this into the challenges at: Always Happy Birthday - use patterned paper Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes March 27 Creative Craft Cottage #105 - make it feminine Everybody Art Challenge #422 - pink/green Creative Moments #139- anything goes Dream Valley Challenge #175- spring colours Time Out Challenges #105 - inspired by the words below:
Before I went on holiday I discovered a website (https://www.aliexpress.com/) which sells very cheap unbranded metal dies from China with free postage - the only catch is that delivery can take a while! So I'm very sceptical about internet shopping in general and part of me did not believe I would ever receive my orders which is why I only spent about 8 pounds.... Imagine my surprise when I got back from holiday to find 4 small packages in the post from China! This is what I made with one of the dies...
As soon as I saw this die it made me think of paintings by the artist Piet Mondrian, I cut the shape in 4 colours; black, red, yellow and blue, then pieced some red, yellow and blue shapes into the black frame. The greeting die is from The Range. I'm entering this card into the challenges at: Pile It On Challenge- circles or squares Penny's Paper-crafty Challenge #372- anything goes Incy Wincy Designs - no more than 3 colours Southern Girls Challenge - die-cuts Cards In Envy- no patterned paper Craft Rocket Challenges- something new (my die!) Thanks for visiting Sharon x
I've been back in my craft-room this weekend after a lovely long break in Mexico - while the rest of the UK was battling the Beast from the East, I was on a sun-bed in the Caribbean sipping cocktails - I feel so much better for it. So I was asked to make an anniversary card with a pool playing penguin - I have some weird friends right! This is what I created...
