Madcap Manor

 Hi there! I hope you're all looking forward to a good weekend! We have a new Challenge at My Time to Craft Christmas which is to make a DL or Slimline card. Otherwise known as 'Tall and Skinny!' (I wish that described me, too!!!)  I have used a beautiful image by Francoise Reade for Woodware Stamps, this is Patchwork Angel. I heat-embossed the image and sentiment in gold, and layered it with a gold-coloured tone-on-tone paper.  She is so elegant that this simple treatment worked better than my first idea of using Copics! Slimline cards are very on trend at the moment, have a go! My teamies have left some wonderful work on the Challenge blog to spark your ideas. Thanks for looking, and take care! love Mags B x

Hi, guys! I hope your weekend is going well. I have the excitement of changing the sheets to look forward to: it's not easy stuffing a duvet into its cover when both are longer than you are tall!!!!! In the meantime, here is my card for the new Challenge at My Time to Craft which has the theme Oriental . Go and see the amazing work done by my teamies if you need some inspiration, they have excelled themselves! :) The lady flirting with her fan is from an old Woodware set by Francoise Read, Oriental Ladies , and the butterfly embellishment and the sentiment are from the same set. The papers are from an old Dovecraft paper pack, 'Eastern Promise.' I used a Martha Stewart doily Lace punch, and a Fiskars Scalloped Sentiment punch to make the scallops. The butterfly has been stamed 3 times and all layered together to look like chipboard, and then covered with Glossy Accents. The ribbon is cut from a pair of pink pyjamas lol!!! I am entering a Challenge! Mojo Monday ...