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DCM – Marie Antoinette

It’s my turn to set the challenge over at The Daring Cardmakers this week, and I decided to pick the theme of Marie Antoinette.  I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with.  You don’t necessarily need to have an image of Marie Antoinette, you could make a card with a general Palace of Versailles/vintage Parisian style, or perhaps something along the ‘let them eat cake’ theme.  Here are a couple of photos to hopefully give you some inspiration:

Check out the film website for more inspiration here

And here’s my card.  I wanted to recreate the feel of the fantastic mirrored hall above, so chose to include some really rich gold stitched paper, gold chandeliers, and this gorgeous digi stamp of Marie Antoinette from Scrapbook Stamp Society

Rainy Days

Although I have the full set of Promarkers, I wanted to try some of the new Flexmarkers so I picked up a couple yesterday.  Cass Art had a good sale on, so I also picked up a Tria marker to try.  I used all the new markers on this card , and oh my goodness, I love them all – I can see that my collection is going to get out of hand.  They mix and match so well with the Promarkers so I will have to get some other colours to extend my collection (not that I don’t have more than enough colours already!)

This lovely digi stamp is from Scrapbook Stamp Society.  The polkadot paper is from Pink Petticoat and the other stamps and little tags are all from Papertrey.

Another lovely weekend

Oh how I love living in London again.  Living away for a few years has really made me see London in a new light and appreciate all it has to offer.  It’s funny when you grow up somewhere you just take it for granted, and don’t even bother to go and see the sights, but now Andy and I are living apart during the week, we don’t want to waste any of our precious time together just sitting around so we have been cramming so much into our weekends.

This weekend was no exception, Andy met me straight from work on Friday and I had decided to take him somewhere he’d never been before.  The building is just one of the most beautiful places in London in my opinion (but then I really do have a bit of a thing for art deco).  Luckily we have similar tastes, and Andy was blown away too.  This is where we went:

 

We sat just here, in the oyster bar, for the whole evening, and had the most amazing prawns to start with, then a whole crab between us, and a couple of bottles of crisp white wine.  I wish I’d taken my camera, because the crab was the most beautiful thing, really, it was amazing.  I think this might just be our new Friday night place. 

We were up bright and early on Saturday, and headed straight off to the West End for breakfast, then for a wander around the National Gallery.  This is also becoming a regular outing for us.  This time we had a look at the Dutch section – the Rembrandts in particular, then a quick look at our favourite paintings in the impressionist section before heading off to Soho and a bit of shopping – a new book for Andy, a book about Blogging for me, and of course a quick visit to Cass Art for me to pick up a few pens.  I’ve now got all the Promarker pens, but I was keen to try the new Flexmarkers, so I bought a couple to try, as well as a Tria marker as they were on sale.  I’m now hooked, so will definitely be getting a few more to add to my ever growing collection of pens!

Today Andy has gone back home to play in a golf competition, so I’ve got the day to myself to catch up on my blog visiting, and some design team projects.  It’s a lovely sunny day, so sitting at my desk in the window is the perfect Sunday.  Hopefully I’ll be back later to share whatever I get done today x

DCM - Postage

It’s Rein’s turn to set the challenge this week at The Daring Cardmakers and she’s chosen postage/stamps. 

I realised as I started looking through my stamps that I’ve got quite a lot with a postage theme, and have got several postmarks and stamps, and actually have a whole set with that theme from Tanda Stamps.  I thought I’d create my own background paper using all these stamps, and to avoid it being too fussy I used Buttermilk ink on a cream background.  I also thought I’d go one step further and go for a ‘new delivery’ theme too!

The stamped background is quite hard to photograph, so here’s a close up:

WOYWW

I thought I’d join in with this week’s WOYWW.   Now this is actually a bit messy for me – I know some of you messy crafters will be rolling around laughing at that, but I’m a bit of a tidy freak and I find I get distracted if I have mess around me and can’t focus.  Today my desk is covered in bits and bobs I’ve dug out for inspiration (can’t tell you any more than that at the moment!).

Once Upon a Time Challenge

The current challenge over at The Scrapbook Stamp Society challenge blog is Once Upon a Time.   Here’s my entry:

I used the Glinda Got the Shoes image and coloured her with Promarkers, then for added shimmer I dug out my neglected Twinkling H2Os and used them for the crown and wand.  I then added some stickles for even more sparkle to the wand, jewels and the bows on her shoes.  I remembered I had this cute little ticket stamp that says something about admittance to the fairyland park so I thought that would be an interesting little embellishment.  I made a little pocket for them so you can take them out to read.  The paper roses were made using my Sizzix 3D rose die.

DCM - Hearts and Doilies

It’s Nat’s turn to set the challenges this week:

With Valentine's Day just around the corner I wasn't about to let the opportunity for using my current two favourite design elements pass us by!
This week I want to see you make a card that features both...

Hearts and doilies

There are so many ways to combine the two. Why not experiment and try something new?

As we did pink and red last week, I wanted to avoid the obvious Valentine’s colours and go for something a bit different. 

The doily die is from PTI, and is called Parisian Lace.  The little heart tree stamp is also from Papertrey.  The backing papers are Pink Petticoat. 

DCM – February’s Colour Combo Challenge

This week it's the First Friday of the Month Colour Combo Challenge and it's Jo back again with her choice of colours:

Pink and Red

Just in case you need a little more colour-inspiration here's a photo to get you thinking:

Well I’m a bit late this week – sorry.  I have had an absolutely mad week at work and have been working late every evening which has thrown me totally off course with my crafting and blogging.  My New Year resolution of blogging more has gone totally out of the window.  I did manage to get my card done (which is all I’ve achieved this week), but have only just managed get time to photograph and blog it.

I decided to use the theme to make Andy’s Valentine card, so I only added a touch of pink as I didn’t want it to be too girlie.  I used some patterned background paper that’s kraft with white spots and just a bit of red, then I used some red core Whitewash card to run though a ledger embossing folder for a bit of texture.  The lovely stamps are all for PTI, and of course I couldn’t resist using more tiny tags.  The little heart border is also from PTI – I haven’t got the die but this is one of the die cuts my lovely friend Chris sent me recently. 

Hope you like it – and don’t forget to pop over to The Daring Cardmakers to check out the other cards by the Design Team.

DCM - Wishi Washi

It’s Jo’s turn to set the challenge this week over at The Daring Cardmakers, and she’s chosen ‘Wishi Washi’.  She wants us to use Washi Tape on our cards this week.

Well, I had all intentions of buying some tape – I even saw some in Liberty’s a few weeks ago that I thought I’d pop back and get, but somehow I just didn’t and ended up with a bit of a dilema about how to make a card without any!  Luckily Jo had some ideas for how to make your own by printing onto tracing paper.  Whilst rummaging in my stash for tracing paper, I came across some vellum that had a gold music note print, and I decided to have a go with that instead of printing something.  It worked really well, and is definitely something I’d use again – it’s nice to be able to see the patterned paper underneath shining through.

It’s a shame it doesn’t show well in this pic – but the little frame around the text is actually embossed in a lovely pearly green powder called Sea Mist Pearl.  It looks much nicer than the murky brown in this pic!

Shabby Tea Room – Sparkly and Bright

This week’s challenge at the Shabby Tea Room is ‘Sparkly and Bright’.  Using this photo as inspiration, to create a card with white/cream, silver and a splash of pink.

I used a digi stamp from Scrapbook Stamp Society, coloured with Promarkers.  I stamped the background directly onto the card with Sterling Silver embossing powder, then added some Papertrey die cut borders and a chipboard flourish which I coated with some more silver embossing powder for real sparkle.