two for one

Birthday card done especially for a friend's birthday.

Used elements from the Gecko Galz email freebie design sheet for January, copied out the bird postcard, resized it to fit my chosen card size, because I had paper space left I also duplicated the image & randomly resized just to fill the paper, also did a couple of sentiments.

 

 

                                     

 

Gecko Galz freebie

Do Craft pastel ribbon freebie

dress maker pins

lace scrap

The works backing paper

 

 

 

 

Once the card was done, I was going to do an atc with the bits & bobs left, but decided to do this cute little birthday tag.

 

 

 

same as above

pink mulberry paper

ribbon scraps

 

entering the tag into Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge Group over on Facebook.



scrapbook layout

100% digital scrap page done in CAP2, using the Indie Chic kit. The layout inspiration is from the current issue of Do Crafts magazine - Jo's 'flowers from mum'.

entered into: digitally sweet - layouts only

Go Girl!!

Normal blog service will be back to normal as soon as possible - obviously Blogger didn't save my layout!!!
If you can bear to keep looking, this is a sparkly atc done for a wicked wednesday atc challenge, but not entered as I missed the closing!!

 

bits of Debbi Moore glamour & glitz

stick on shiny gems

 

 



a rose for Charlie

 

"Peace and tranquillity is but a dream, can anyone make this dream come true? Trust to fate?"

 

 mulberry/fibre papers

Debbi Moore white rose design sheet

fine black pen

words & grammatical errors by me

 

 

 

 

 

entering into: wicked wednesday atc - colour palette

 

 

 

 

 

2015 - new ideas & projects

So I decided to push myself into new challenges this year. normally its all fiff faff and it kinda fizzles out a couple of days after I get all roared up but not this year!! I am determined to try new things/........ and whilst in that frame of mind last week, I came across this fairefoxes blog, and this post and thought FATE!!!, so I immediately joined the journal challenge.

Having no paperbook/notebook/album/journal I didn't know what to use but as I was tidying my stash I came across some 8x8 pages I'd bought from The Works, one was of a wall and I knew what I wanted to do.

Looking round the t'intenet & fellow group my journaling isn't exactly run of the mill journaling at the moment but I can but hope.

Plain & simple for my first ever page, just used promarkers & pens & a favourite quote.

then I got messy, apparently I am a grungy dark kinda girl *lol* the page is best viewed tilted in the light, as you can see the embossed bits better than you can flat/dark but then that led me to the wording ,so I guess my plan worked *cough* (I hate my hand writing)

goodness knows what my 3rd page will look like.

The pages will be put together, randomly, and hole punched & tied with something....... or not.

love conquers all

image from "Marie's Garden pt 2" design sheet

background paper "Steampowered" from Steampunk Paper kit

 

all from Gecko Galz

 

designed in CAP2

 

100% digital

 

 

From the design sheet, I cut out my chosen image, placed it onto a blank page and using a heart shaped digi punch, punched out the main bit of the image, I was just going to use that but then decided to use the 'off cut' as well and started layering the page up till I got the look I wanted. I altered the transparency of the background sheet to give it a faded look. Added a red square which I then placed behind the main heart to matt & layer a contrast, the shade of red was taken from the large rose so everything matched.

I tried to match the hand writing on the image as best I could and faded the words a little bit to make them look worn 7 faded into the paper.



I wanted to embellish it a little as it looked quite plain around the edges but couldn't find any embellishments I liked so I ended up matt & layering the image and reducing it in shape to fill the gap.

Another idea to fill the gap would be to write a sentiment or little poem to whoever the card was meant to be for.

If my printer was good, I would print it all as is, but if I do make this into an actual card I will just use the images as my ink tends to be a bit darker than the appearance on screen. And there would be a doily involved.  (*lol*)

 

 

entered into: digitally sweet challenge - whats your favourite shape
also entered into 'not a card' January challenge on Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge Group over on Facebook.

 

 

 

on yer bike

atc made using an off cut from a birthday card done in CAP2 eons ago, added a glittered butterfly (Steampunk digi kit) with copper wire for its antennae, and some mixed threads a friend gave me.

entered into: wicked wednesday atc = anything goes