The Craft Barn - An unusual shape card

Here is a shoe card, for the Craft Barn unusual shaped card challenge. This makes a big change for me in more ways than one, mainly there is no stamping. It opens where the two black brads are, just above the edge of the heel. I used embossed card with a pretty flocked red pattern. If a girl likes shoes, this is a card for her. Pop over to The Craft Barn there is a £30 goodie prize available for the winner. Good luck to everyone who enters.

Tag Your It - By the Beach

I have had this set of stamps for ages, it's nice to be able to find a use for them again, from Joanna Sheen -On the Beach. I have used Distress inks, Mustard Seed, Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, Frayed Burlap. I used watercolour pencils for the little person. I finger rubbed some clear glitter glue on the water to get a sparkly glistening finish.

I am also adding this in to the

Alphabet Challenge Blog K - Kids. I think there are some fabulous challenges again this month, but I am beginning to think, I am not a cutsie person, so I may come over as being old fashioned or just out of date, if so, I still hope you can like my style.

The Stampman Swaps - Wings

The bees and dragonfly backgrounds have both been painted with a mixture of Cosmic Shimmer powders, watercolours, LuminArte paints and a quick spritz with Cosmic Shimmer Mists - Red Lava and Aqua Lagoon, onto glossy card. The background on the bird is a mixture of paints, scrunched when wet, heat dried, then a spritz of gold Cosmic Shimmer watercolour.

Stamps used Bees - Botanical Creative Expressions

Foliage on bees and dragonfly Eastern Grasses - Elusive Images.

All the stamps on the Bird ATC are from Birds - Creative Expressions.

The dragonfly is from Debbie Moore Dragonfly and Butterflies set.

I do hope the partners who receive them will like them.

I am looking forward to receiving my swaps.

GC (Gingersnap Creations) 59 Fairies - I like making easel cards, but pink and fairies is not my usual comfort zone. The stamp is from Lili of the Valley - Thistledown Fairy, I think.

coloured with Worn Lipstick Distress Inks, flowers and touch of lace and glitter to complete.

Many thanks for the comments fellow bloggers. Isn't this exciting? I have so much to learn. I mis-typed helicopter earlier and am still trying to work out how to edit it. LOL I want to run before I can walk, typical of me. I am looking forward to learning so much, to joining in other bloggers challenges, I have been looking at lots of blogs for a long time, so I am on my marks, ready, set and raring to go.

Decoupaged helicopter - I needed to make the simple deoupaged helicopter more exciting for a grandson's birthday. Again I used TH Distress inks, direct to card, dipped by fingers into a cup of water and splashed the water onto the background. Dried the card, using 3 different TH Distress inks I stamped the trees, with a stamp from Elusive Images.

Mr. Fix-it was my first stepper card, I found it wouldn't stay up so I fixed a bar between the back and the front which worked a treat. I have used Tim Holtz Distress inks, as watercolours. The skin tones are Promarkers.