Monochrome at Fashionable Stamping

Wow! We had some fabulous cards for men, over the last two weeks at Fashionable Stamping Challenges, it's never easy choosing an overall winner and top 3 but this will be a very difficult choice to make for each of the Design Team. For the next two weeks we are asking you to make a project using Monochromatic plus one other colour.  Check out the instructions over on the blog to be sure of being in with a chance of winning.  Our sponsor, Cottage Crafts offers each winner a choice from her shop to the value of E7.

There is a lot of Love floating around during the early part of February, so here is my Monochrome card in red with a little black for contrast. The three hearts are from a free stamp with a Craft Stamper magazine.  I used  Fired Brick TH Distress ink all over the card including the background, which was then stamped with a small text stamp from Paperartsy. The negative Love stamp is a foam stamp from Papermania. I look forward to once again visiting you over the next two weeks. Have fun, there are some amazing samples on the blog by the marvellous Design team, please do take a look.

I am entering this card into a few challenge blogs with a theme connected to Valentine's Day.
Crafty Bloggers~ Love is in the Air
Creative Belli Blog Hearts/Valentine
Creative Inspirations - Inspired by Hearts
Rainbow Lady ~Have a Heart
Crafty Cardmaker - Monochromatic Card
Cards For Men   Valentine's Day/Love

Week 6 - Postcard Challenge

For Week 6 Darcy hasn't sent us far, in fact just over the border to Belguim, or if given it's true name it is the
Kingdom of Belguim, the constitutional present monach being King Albert II. I have visited a small area of Belguim, but when I listed what I knew of the country I am ashamed to admit very little. The highly praised and priced hand made lace from Bruge. My most favourite lager is a well known Belguim beer. Chocolates from Belguim yummmee!. The world's most favourite and well known Belgian detective is of course Monsieur Hercule Poirot, from the pen of Agatha Christie. The European Parliament is based in Brussels, the European Union Flag with the stars and the Belgian flag. There are 3 main languages - Flemish, French and German. All of these are detailed on my postcard.

The postcard will of course be delivered by owl post from Mr. Mrs. Grainger, currently in Belguim to their   daughter Hermione at the Hogwart's School of Magic, somewhere in the United Kingdom.  Roll on Monday,  for our next destination. Hope I will be able to do more stamping. I'm off to post this on Darcy's blog, check out the log on my side bar, and to visit some of my fellow travellers and check out their postcards.

A = Animal Antics

It's the start of a new round of the alphabet at the Alphabet Challenge Blog - my first run on the Design Team. I am so pleased to have joined this group and am looking forward to the coming  months. Last fortnight we were limited to animals found in a zoo, this week we want to see your Animal Antics. Please remember we accept any form of paperwork for an entry, the rules are few, and we are a fun only blog. We greatly look forward to your creations of showing us animals and their antics, the team have created a wonderful mixed selection which will surely inspire you. For my card, I stamped a crackled background, coloured it with Tea Dye TH Distress Ink, seemed appropriate, the main image is from a Crafty Individuals stamp and the 3 greedy cats at the front are from a free stamp from the Craft Stamper magazine, stamped in 3 different Distress ink colours. I hope you have fun making your project, looking forward to visiting your blogs.

February IS the month of Romance

At Make My Monday, we are starting our new theme for February, and what else could it be but ROMANCE, of course February IS the month of Romance. It's so cold at present, everyone is cuddling up to keep warm. Our first subject is Text and Letters. The theme and all the weekly topics have been chosen by Suzanne, we have a lovely month of femininity and love ahead of us. Please pop over to the blog for the DT have made some super cards to inspire you. I have used a small 5" square card, covered with a Basic grey piece of paper, old but so useful. I stamped directly onto the paper, mostly using stamps from The Stampman ~Aspects of Design ~ Across The Miles. The letters are also from The Stampman, a well used stamp, it is so useful as an embellishment. The two butterflies are Lyndsay Mason - Tattered Butterflies. I hope you have some fun, making your project, anything connected with papercrafts. I look forward to visiting you over the next week.



Aqua is the Colour at LIM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LESS IS MORE

CHRISSIE AND MANDI

THANK YOU FOR CREATING SUCH A FABULOUS CHALLENGE SITE.

Aqua is the colour chosen for this weeks's card at Less is More. Sorry about the pic, everyone is having the same problems, during this time of the year, most of the card can be seen in the poor light. I first used a La Blanche small flower, embossed it using clear E.P. I then rubbed a Colour Box Aqua pigment ink pad, all over the piece of card. Rubbed off the excess, to clean the embossed areas. Carefully with the point of the Colour Box eye, added another layer of ink inside the flowers. Matted onto a sheet of Aqua card, tore a piece of tissue paper, stamped a greeting. Secured at the back. Added a few Aqua gems.

Here is to the next year ladies, and continued success.

Winter Scene

For February at Craft-a-Scene, the challenge is to make a scene with a Winter theme. I made this 4" x 4" Fat Page for the Do Crafts Fat Page swap, which has now been posted to my partner. The stamps I used are all from an A5 plate by Creative Expressions, with Winter and Christmas type stamps. I used Memento Cottage Ivy to stamp the greenery. I painted the stag with several of the TH Distress inks brown shades.

Postcard Challenge Wk 5 - France

Here we are at Week 5 - France on our journey with Darcy's Postcard Challenge, to see my Postcard Book, to see my previous week's postcards, all details can be found .here  This week the journey takes us to France, but for my story, I am writing about Hermoine Grainger who is at Hogwart's School. Her parents Victoria (Vicky) and Vincent Grainger are the persons travelling the world. Hermione's father sent her a parcel of foreign postcards, for her to use, to help in the subterfuge of keeping Hermione's whereabouts unknown, whilst they are travelling. To continue the story................................

I am so enjoying this journey, it is interesting not only to create my own postcards and hopefully to interest others with the story, but to visit others, many talented artists and crafters, who are travelling their own journey.  Reading their stories too. Thanks Darcy and thanks to the ladies who visit me, and to those who leave me comments, I greatly appreciate each and everyone. Roll on next Monday, for our next destination.