Capture Life's Moments

I have a colleague leaving work soon to spend more time with her family and I wanted to make a quirky card for her.

I stamped the image which is from the Gwendoline set from the Doo Lally Pip range from Lindsay Mason onto watercolour paper. This was one of three bargain sets I bought at Ali Craft at Ally Pally recently. I masked her off and placed her on the wall from the Chocolate Baroque clear landscape edges set. In the stamp she is juggling with birds which I didn't want, so I set about finding something that would act as suitable balls. I am currently index stamping all my stamps and that made it a lot easier to find something suitable. These are actually flower centres from a Technique Tuesday set Loves me, Loves Me Not. The image is coloured with Promarkers. I cut out the image and balls and mounted them onto an inked background that I made using the Memory Box Texture Shine stencil. I stamped some foliage stamps from the Gwendoline set.

I finished off with the sentiment from the Art Sayings Creative Expressions set designed by Sam Poole and some black die cut butterflies using the Tim Holtz Butterfly Frenzy die. I mounted the panel onto a black matt to bring all the elements together.

It's been a nice Easter weekend and I have been sorting out the craft shed for the new season. I have already covered my desk after an afternoon of mixed media playtime yesterday. It was great to sit with the door open and listen to a radio play and the sounds of the birds singing and bees humming. Sadly I am back to work today!

Have a good week!

Elaine

New Year!

Well I am rather late with my first post of the new year. Life has been a bit hectic around here over the last couple of weeks.

This is a birthday card I made for my dear friend Sally. This uses a stamp set I bought recently called Vintage Cooking from Creative Expressions. I had to have this set because as people who know me well will be aware, I adore baking and cooking generally. Sally is also a great cook.

I do feel I made the main image a bit murky looking, but that's the way it goes sometimes. If I remember rightly I stamped in Cocoa Bean Memento Ink and shaded with Vintage Photo DI. The backing paper is from a 6 x 6 Websters Pages pad, I added some lovely brown and cream gingham ribbon I bought on my one and only visit to LB Crafts and a little wooden heart button tied with paper string. The whole thing is matted onto a 6 x 6 kraft card blank.

To celebrate my love of cooking and collecting pretty china, I have started a new blog The Chintz Tea Cup. It is not crafty, but it would be lovely if you would like to pop over and take a peek.

Wishing you the best of everything on 2011.

Elaine