Fab Friday time.........

It's challenge time again, of course with it being a twisted week I had to stick with this theme, so I've used only the top sections of my twisted pyramid sheet for my ATC (using the larger sections would have been to big, this way I can get an ATC and a card for my trouble!). I had a decision to make as to the actual challenge title though, twisted, decoupage or "fitting something big onto something little" (the last one needs a little work with the title I recon). As decoupage is sooooo popular I thought I would go with that, so:
Decoupage Delights
However, to make it a little trickier I would be really impressed if you did have to chop your decoupage to actually fit it onto the ATC, and therefore altering it a little (it could be really funny if you had headless flower fairies!! haha, that's my kinda decoupage). Anyhow, I'm looking forward to seeing your wonderful creations as ever, and please do not feel you have to stick to shop bought decoupage sheets, you can use wrapping paper, patterned paper, even a cool magazine picture photocopied a few times - go for it.

xxx
Leonie

Twisted Pyramid

Mmmm, I think I feel like a twisted pyramid!! We had a massive house hunt yesterday (tricky, there are so few properties on the market for rent!), but we managed to find a house we both liked, filled in the forms and put some money down. Everything was tickity boo, until this afternoon when the Estate Agent rings to say the owner has agreed to rent it privately instead! What a cheek. And how annoying. This means we now have to spend the weekend house hunting instead of going having a surprise meal with my grandparents to celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary. We're so disappointed. Anyone want to rent their house? Or alternatively has anyone got lots of spare land that I can pop on a couple of log cabins, grow my own veg, have a little forested area, a pond, chickens, bee's...........it's the latest dream. Wouldn't it be great. I could have craft workshops in one of the log cabins, feed you with my home made honey and sell you some spuds!!

Well on the twisted front, I have been making cards for next week (full week of crafting on QVC - oh yes every day!). I don't think it's a secret that I'm not over keen on doing decoupage - all the cutting out drives me abit mad. How lucky am I that there's plenty of decoupage on then eh!! My scissors were creating sparks with the mad snipping. This time however, I've been able to play with the Twisted Pyramid decoupage, which is a little different (not as fiddly either). Thought I would share a few cards with you.

If you have never tried to do a Twisted Pyramid before (it was my first time as well), it's really easy. As with normal decoupage you are cutting your pieces starting with the largest and working your way down to the smallest. With the pyramid these are squares (I'm sure there are different shapes out there but mine were just squares). Great, makes it easier to cut. All you do it layer them, using 3D foam or silicone glue, allowing them to twist slightly, so the image is placed to correspond directly with the image on the first and larger square:

This is the first two squares, I hope you can see how the squares are not stacked directly on top of each other, but twisted slightly.

New Readers

I thought I would just pop a note on to anyone visiting my blog for the first time. The main reason for starting my blog was to share some of the brilliant ATC's I exchange through my club, you will find these on the right hand side following the Flickr link.

If you are interested in joining the ATC club please scroll back to the beginning of the blog where you will find full details, and where to write to.

I love sharing some of my work which I do for QVC, so keep having a nose to see what I've been up to. Also love your feedback, so let me know what you think, or if you have any queries drop me a line.

Finally I have started my weekly ATC Fab Friday challenge, where I will post an ATC theme for you to join in with, again it's great seeing your work so I'd love it if you could join in.

Thank you for visiting, hope to see you here again soon.
xxxx
Leonie

Animal Springy Stickers

This kit was great to work with, really cute stickers. I did quite a few cards, but just photographed my favourites, which I hope you will like.

I made this card by simply cutting out the tree trunks, and adding the tree tops. I then added the cute squirrels and bird. One of the squirrels is on the front, the second is on the inside of the card. Almost forgot to check if the card stood up, so had to be careful I didn't add to much foliage to my trees!



Again using card I cut out tree trunks and bushes then added the monkey stickers and a big banana.


For this card I used an aperture which I 3D to give dimension. I cut out the green seaweed and popped this behind the aperture. I added the stickers inside the aperture, and on the front, so there are plenty of layers to the card.


Finally 3 cards, the squirrel card and two nice and easy one's. Abit of matting and layering with some lovely card and the cute stickers makes effective and happy cards.

Papercrafting

Our day out in the sun was marvelous. Carley and Lottie joined us and we had a lovely time. Sipping wine, eating snacks and playing on the swings. Great fun. Today has been abit trickier - we are in the process of moving, so I have spent all day so far on the phone trying to book house viewings, as times running out to find somewhere! Not handy, as I haven't been able to do any work yet, but finding a home is a priority I suppose!

Anyway, I'll catch up with my posts on my blog before I head off to decoupage.

The following few cards were done working with wonderful paper kits from Saturday. I love working with paper, and you will see from the cards (and the ATC challenge this week), I enjoy taking elements out of the paper so it changes to look of the paper and you get more out of it.

This is lovely paper from the Kim Hodges range (586311), for both these cards I have taken a photo of the full sheet of paper so you can see where the images has been lifted from. I enjoyed taking out flower heads and adding them to the card using micro dots and 3D foam which gives added dimension.




For this card I took a swirl out of my paper which I ran up the left side of the card and cut out extra flowers which I added using 3D foam, I used eyelets and ribbons to finish off the card.



This K&Co kit was one of my favourites of the 2 hours, beautiful designs and great quality (586812). As this is a double sided paper I used part of the back of the paper, cut it out following the pattern, and stuck it to the matching paper. Again cut out some extra flowers and added them with 3D foam. Abit of glittler glue adds the finishing touches.

Sunny days

I was going to pop on a few more photo's from Saturdays show, and also some tips on using the fabulous Angelina fibres - but the sun is shining and the boys are playing cricket, so me and Kathryn are taking our bottle of wine and pretending the watch them!! It's a fine excuse to grab a nice break, gossip and sun. I will definately post the photo's of the cards tomorrow (there will be no excuses then I promise).
xx
Leonie

Fab Friday Challenge time.....

Well, as I've been getting tomorrows show ready I had to choose something that I had been working on. Bit tricky, as there's the moonglow and quite a few other bits and bobs I could have gone for(shouldn't give everything away should I!). The kit I picked eventually is a gorgeous paper kit by K&Co. The papers are fab, and I love working with them as they are double sided, so you can chop them up to make the most of the print on each side. This weeks challenge is titled:

Pretty Piece of Paper

What I would like you to do it try to get as much as possible from your piece of paper! Either choose something with a fantastic print which you can cut out and decoupage, or paper with brilliant texture. Try to make your ATC just paper crafting, try to avoid stamping, peel-offs etc. I'll let you have a bit of ink (just because I did!! haha), and things such as 3D glaze, chalks etc. If you have some beautiful paper this will be easy (I'm sure we all have fantastic paper). If not see what you can chop out of a magazine, wrapping paper or even wall paper. As usual I really look forward to your contributions.

For mine I used a backing paper which was slightly heavier for my ATC, then a double sided printed paper. I layered the plainer side of the paper directly onto my atc, first tearing it so it just covers half of the ATC. I then cut out some of the flowers from the other side of the paper and layer them on using micro dots and various depths of 3D foam to give variation in dimension. Added a little distress ink, and bob's mi uncle.

xxx