Gold Fingers ....

.... that's what I had after finishing a card for my friend's 50th birthday.  I do like a little bit of glitter, from time to time, but this card was absolutely laden with it, and the shiny debris was everywhere - under my nails, on the floor and, thanks to a few little spillages, all over one leg of my trousers!!!  Here's what I made:

 

I used the sketch from this week's Mojo Monday and I'm also entering this the following challenges: Sentimental Sundays ("Flowery Springtime"), My Time to Craft ("Mother's Day/Special Lady"), Brown Sugar and Crafty Girls ("Anything Goes") and Charisma Cardz ("Birthday Girls").

 

My inspiration for this card was the gift I bought for Jocelyn - I was out to lunch in Monkstown on St. Patrick's Day and when walking back to the car, saw this jewellery designer's lovely shop - Vivien Walsh - I bought this beautiful bracelet for Jocelyn.  It's gold (appropriate for a 50th birthday, I thought!) and the white stones are jasper.  As the birthday girl is heading off to the sun for her birthday week, I thought this would look so pretty against a tanned arm!

 

 

So I used white and gold as the colours for her card.  I used some very old Japanese paper and some corrugated card painted white and embossed with gold.  I made rolled roses and glittered gold numbers (Jocelyn laughed when she saw them and said "Thanks for keeping the numbers small" - she's not relishing the thoughts of this birthday!).  Here's a close-up of the roses:

 

Recipe:

Font: Notera - www.dafont.com

Punch: MS "branch"

Other: Gold e.p., gold stickles, Japanese paper

Thanks for looking!

Inch by inch ....

.... I haven't made an inchie card in a very long time - before I had my blog I think.  I like the fiddlyness of them - the precision of stamping on the little grid of squares, adding colour, splatter or whatever, then separating them, inking, backing them and finally ever so carefully mounting them with a little, hopefully perfect, bit of a gap between each one.  Here's the finished inchie card:

I'm entering this in the following challenges: Stampin' for the Weekend and Crafty Girls ("Anything Goes"), Little Red Wagon ("Truly Dimensional"), Creative Inspirations ("Favourite Colour Combination" - I love blue and brown), Crafty Creations ("Happy Birthday") and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenges ("D is for Distress").

The map stamp is from a Tim Holtz set, which also has an airplane that I could have used, but as this card is for a Mini friend, I stamped a Mini instead - and combined with the awful punning sentiment!!  Here's a side-shot of the dimension of the card:

Recipe:

Papers: Authentique "Abroad"

Stamps: Tim Holtz "Warehouse District", Mini

Colouring Medium: Watercolour paints and distress inks
Font: Cheddar Jack - dafont.com

Other: Clear embossing powder, baker's twine, Doodlebug brads

Thanks for looking!

Forgot all about ....

.... this one.  I started making this card well over a year ago, at a crop I think.  Then bits of it sat on my desk for months and months until eventually I finished it at another crop.  Then it sat on the desk again for a while, then I put it in a storage box, and when I took it out to write for a friend's birthday today, I realised I'd never photographed or uploaded it!!  Here's the slow card:

I'm entering this in the following challenges: Crafty Cardmakers ("Slap it On"), Papertake Weekly ("Anything Goes") and Shopping our Stash ("3-2-1" - I have 3 banners, 2 flowers, 1 brad).

This card covers the change in style of my card-making - see, I was still spending ages and ages stitching when I started it (the background paper and the circle base for the flower) and then the other layers aren't stitched at all!!  Here's a little side-shot of the dimension on this card:

Recipe:

Papers: Basic Grey "Ambrosia" and MME "Stella Rose Hattie" - I think!!

Stamp: Hero Arts "Doodle Leaf Flower"

Colouring Medium: Prismacolor Pencils

Die: Nestabilities "Eyelet Circles"

Other: Hero Arts pearls, Julie Frog's washi tape, Basic Grey "Sugared" brad

Thanks for looking!