Inspiration from India



Yesterday I found some beautiful sparkly paisley embellishments in Oxfam of all places. I did not know they sold craft kits and bits and pieces but now I do I shall check them out more often. I wonder if making cards with embellishments from a charity shop makes them 'charity cards'. I also used some coloured paper and home made marbled paper. The card measures 10cm square.

I would like to enter it in the following challenges:


Artistic Inspiration challenge 24 anything goes

Lady Anne's Challenges 3rd anything goes

Creative Creations Challenges #1 Anything Goes

Victorine Originals Challenge #50 Sparkle and Shine
Cards Galore January challenge anything goes

Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog #12 anything goes

Card Makin Mamas New Year anything goes

Delicious Inkylicious Dandelion



New year, new shop, new embossing powder and pad, new stamp and lots of new techniques.

I found a new (to me) craft shop, Carole's Crafts, this week. In the shop I found some embossing powders at a bargain price 24 for £6.72 these did not have a maker' name on them.

With a choice of 24 colours I decided to practise on the colours I didn't think I would use a lot. I took the colour scheme from some pastel marbled paper I made recently and decided to emboss an Inkylicious dandelion and two butterflies in blue. I also used the bargain priced Dovecraft embossing pad to stamp the card background which I coloured with Rowney Soft pastels. Finally, I edged the picture with some more vintage lace from my Mum's stash. I had to use a hairdryer to emboss as I don't have a heat gun but all in all I am quite happy with my first attempt and quite like the effect of candyfloss colours.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Lady Anne's Challenges

Milk Coffee Challenge - New Beginnings

Crafting for all Seasons #43 - Something New

Timeless Tuesdays #203

Crafty Creations #204 - Something New

Everybody Art #213 - Pastell Colors

Flutterby Wednesday #222

Tuesday Throwdown #129 Shiny and New

Vintage Fashion card



The card layout which inspired me is from Tracy at Cupboard Trilogy
The images come from adverts in a piece of a vintage magazine I have. I think it is from the 1930s. Two of the buttons are also vintage.


I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

The Cupboard Trilogy Challenge #7 Lead by Example


Pile it on - Black, white and another color challenge

Craft Your Passion challenge #144 Vintage or shabby chic

Songbird Challenge #11 Paint it black

Simon Says Stamp challenge -black white and splash of colour

Thank You card for a friend



This Thank You card is personalised for a friend . Making a thank you card shows you care but I think making it personal with things special to a friend shows even more thought and hopefully true friendship.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Stamping Sensation's January Challenge - Friendship

Moving Along With the Times challenge- Thank You

Heck of a Challenge January challenge - Thank You

Christmas Deer Tag



This year I made some plain and simple gift tags. On this tag I have used a vintage stamp of a fallow deer on plain brown wrapping paper with a touch of gold glitter. The stamp came from a set of stamps called British Wild Animals which were originally used in primary schools and I found in a car boot sale. The tie is red raffia and the tartan ribbon came from Mason's, the most wonderful family run Aladdin's cave of a shop, in Abingdon on Thames near Oxford.
　
Mason's has to be seen to be believed as it it is a step back into the past. Mason's have three shops which cover every apect of needlework and crafts with staff who are both knowledgeable and helpful. They do have a limited selection on line at www.masonsneedlecraft.co.uk www.masonsneedlecraft.co.uk including nearly 1000 ribbons available by the metre.

I would like to enter the tag in the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss - Anything goes with ribbon

Christmas at Sweet Stampin challenge 1 anything goes　


Craft Room Challenge Make a Tag

Ladybug Crafts challenge - anything but a card

Dodo dressed to party

Inspired by Simon Says Stamp and Show theme of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party I dug out my own linocut of the Dodo who thinks he should have been invited too. Dressed only in a few feathers he and a potential offspring are here seen either coming or going to the maddest party of the year – so far.

I am entering it in:

Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge-totally-mad-no-rules-tea-party

Divas by Design Challenge 66 anything goes

Vintage Tag with Old Lace

On this tag I have used some vintage lace which I inherited from my mother. My mother saved lots of bits and pieces, as did most people who struggled through WWII, and I am still finding uses for it.

I would like to enter it in:

Craft Room Challenge - Make a Tag

Live and Love Crafts challenge-7-something-old

Divas by Design challenge-66-anything-goes

Vintage and Beauty challenge 34-pitsiunelma-lace-dream