28 days left on that ticking clock!!

Evening crafty folk. 28 days. There's a film about that - mind you was it 28 days later? 

Back to the job in hand Pujol. Okay, a relatively quick card today, well it should have been, but I did end up faffing a little. I decided to use part of an old Kanban kit I had:

I selected this pretty panel

And decided to emboss it, to add texture.

I couldn't remember what the folder was called...its this one:

I selected a sentiment which matched the cut away corners of the panel die cut, and added a little distress ink to the panel. I applied the ink lightly so as to only ink the embossed image

As usual, I had a play to decide on the layout of the card

I'm looking forward to being able to re-open my web site - I have so much ribbon! This is one of them, it's sheer yet has a stunning sparkle

I tied a bow in the centre to pull the ribbon in - this is where the sentiment will sit

I was going to cut a slit in the card to thread the ribbon - but because I had embossed the card, attempting to cut it with a craft knife just ended with me tearing the card. Plan. If you want to cut the card, do it prior to embossing. Instead I just stuck the ribbon with double sided sticky on the back of the panel

I found some pretty tonic die cuts, which I feel frame the panel beautifully. I then decided I would plum for some flowers as well

The die cuts are to white so i colour tinted them with the distress ink. I also added gold gilding wax. Actually, I added gilding wax to everything.

I decided to cut a frame from the brown card

And then cut a piece of gold to mat and layer onto. I then stuck this onto a co-ordinating card, and distressed the edges

I used two more little pieces of ribbon for the corners, which I pulled in using double sided tape

Have a little look...

Change my mind :) More flowers were added

And more gilding wax. The pebeo gilding wax is just so nice. And here we have our finished card for this evening...

Up North again

Well, my post is long overdue, but it's been so busy this has been my first opportunity to get on the computer (you can imagine what my emails look like - I've looked at them but came away again, just looks scary!).

A Makey Do was really good. Me and Ashley had a great day, completely different to normal crafty stuff that I do, so definitely something we are going to do again. We met some great people, including Jen who did a fantastic job organising the whole event. Well done Jen.

Then straight after that we had the wonderful Kanban TSV. Dawn got the day rolling and I was in for the morning show. The evening before we had a major gooseberry picking, which meant I went on air full of scratches and bites - looking good! Anyhow, I really like the characters from Patchwork Pals, they are so cute, and brill for everyone. Great TSV.

It was a long ole day, and then we worked from the hotel for the Wednesday show. The lovely Lindsay Mason came along to the hotel, love her cards, she's brilliant. She got ready for her TV debut, and then I had to leave so didn't see her show (cheesed off about that one). We had to get up North for Nicky's mums graduation, she was there in cap and gown and collected her Degree, she has done brilliant and everyone was really proud.

That's what we've been up to, so sorry for the delays in the ATC club and getting back to people who have emailed - I'm hoping to catch up (mmmmmm).

In the meantime here's some pics of a few of the cards I did for this week:

I had the chocolate colour core pad to play with, I used it with die cuts, scrunched up the card and stencils. Love it. It's my fav as I'm really into brown card at the mo, so found it dead easy to work with:









Also played with the clear background stamps, which were also really cool. For this card I stamped on a patterned background paper with corresponding ink (using a clear block so I could see where I was stamping to make a continuous image), then just outlined part of the image with a white gel pen, dead easy but so effective.

I'll pop some more on during the next few days. ttfn xxx