Gold! Always Believe in Your Soul!

We had some lovely cards last week at Addicted to Stamps for our 'Cards for Boys' challenge.  Don't forget to pop along later to see if you are a featured Addict this week!  We're back to a colour week today and we would like to see your 'gold' creations.

I made a wedding card this week:

The lovely script cake was stamped in VersaMark and embossed in sparkly gold powder, with three little flowers added (the Itty Bitty punches are ever so useful for things like this).  I had some gold thread rescued from a box of something or other, which I wrapped around the bottom and added a little heart on top.  The rest of the card was made up with some simple layering using some scraps of shiny gold card and some embossed white.

Here's a close-up of that scrummy cake:

Supplies
Stamps: Love & Laughter
Ink: VersaMark
Card: Whisper White, gold (recycled from a chocolate box!)
Other: gold thread (also recycled), Owl Punch (for the heart), Itty Bitty Shapes punches, rhinestones, BigShot, Perfect Polkadots embossing folder, gold sparkling embossing powder (non-SU), heat tool

Cats and a dog in today's picture: Edited to include a new picture. I inadvertently put on a picture from a couple of days ago.  Ah well, it can be a dog picture for my crime:

So pop over to the ATS blog for some golden inspiration, not that we need it here in the UK after our truly golden Olympics, and then show us what you make!

Thanks for stopping by,

Snippety Snippety!

A really quick card from me today, made with a few one inch square scraps of designer paper.  No scrap of paper is ever really too small to throw away, is it crafters?!  Obviously then this is a card for Headteacher Di over at the Snippets Playground.

Here's what I made (sorry about the bad light in the photo - it's the best I could get):

Take four squares 1" big.  Round a couple of the corners on each.  Adhere to a white card panel, embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.  Layer onto Blushing Bride card.  Stamp sentiment and cut into banner shape.  Stick edge to centre of inch squares and add a button.  Bob's your uncle!

Supplies
Stamps: Love and Laughter
Ink: Baja Breeze
Card: Whisper White and Blushing Bride
Paper: Twitterpated Designer Series Paper
Other: Twitterpated button in Baja Breeze, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder and BigShot


As always, if these or any other SU supplies have caught your eye, do not hesitate to get in touch with me on 07977 141605 or by email.  I will be delighted to assist you with your crafty makes and place an SU order for you.  Remember that if your order comes to £45 or more, you earn 2 9-yard spools of organdie ribbon and a box of Everyday Enchantment brads for absolutely free!


I've been busy doing a whole load (7 hours!) of gardening for a lady today.  I met her when our church had a 'Faith in Action' weekend a couple of months ago.  My husband and I knocked on her door to see if there were any odd jobs we could do to help and it turned out that she was really struggling with her garden as she'd had a heart attack not too long ago.  I've been helping her get it back to a manageable state, and I've cleared a lot of wilderness today.  I sure do ache though there is a tremendous sense of job satisfaction when you see how much you've cleared!


Oh, I almost forgot a cat picture....

Thanks so much for visiting,

Blue Bordering on Romance

Hello!  It's another colour challenge from me today.  This time it's Colour Q and the lovely combination of blues and green that they're asking us to work with.  I've been playing with Bordering on Romance and I decided to rotate the corner flower stamp through 360 degrees to make a floral square.

The flowers are coloured mostly in Bashful Blue and Night of Navy, with the little ones in Marina Mist (the closest I had to Brocade Blue).  The stamp-a-ma-jig featured prominently in today's card, necessary for both positioning the corners correctly and lining up the sentiment from Love & Laughter in the middle.  I picked out the words 'love' and 'laughter' with my Night of Navy marker before stamping.  This was then mounted onto Bashful Blue and Night of Navy card.

Supplies

Stamps: Bordering on Romance, Love & Laughter

Ink: Basic Black, marker pens in Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Night of Navy, So Saffron, Lucky Limeade and Basic Black

Card: Bashful Blue, Night of Navy and Whisper White

Other: stamp-a-ma-jig, aqua painter (to soften the lime green of the leaves)

As always, if any of these supplies have caught your eye, please do not hesitate to get in touch by phone on 07977 141605 or email.  I would be delighted to assist you with your crafty makes and place a SU order for you.

My husband has taken this week as holiday and is being ever so useful around the house.  He's been doing pretty much all of the cooking and washing up, which I really do appreciate!  It does lead to some interesting culinary presentation moments though.  When I asked if he could use up some meat from a barbecue, here is what he came up with:

Crackers, just like me!  Thanks as always for visiting me today,

Tying the Knot

There are some stamp sets that you see and you just *have* to have.... well, quite a lot of stamp sets in my case, but you know what I mean.  I don't usually buy stamp sets that are for a particular occasion - I like to get more bang for my buck (or, indeed, for my pound) but Love & Laughter in the new Summer Mini was calling out to me.  It is contemporary, stylish, so so elegant and... well... just plain beautiful!  I had to have it.

Here is a card made featuring the beautiful bridal gown:

I started by stamping the dress is Soft Suede ink onto paper vellum and adhering to a piece of gorgeous metallic paper from the Mocha Morning collection.  I spent a long time with different papers on my desk trying to decide which ones worked best together, but once I'd made my mind up, the card was very quick to put together.  I initially tied a bow with the ribbon (now retired - sorry!) but it looked too clunky so, as this is a wedding card, I just had to tie a knot!

Here's a close-up of that magnificent dress:

Supplies
Stamps: Love & Laughter
Ink: Soft Suede
Card: textured Very Vanilla, Whisper White
Paper: Mocha Morning Speciality Designer Series Paper
Other: pearls, Very Vanilla Velvet Designer Ribbon

I made the card following the rather lovely sketch at Retrosketches and I'd also like to enter this into Top Tip Tuesday's Clean & Simple challenge.  My tip is to consider careful placement of pearls and rhinestones to hide any adhesive when securing paper vellum or acetate... or, even better, use brads!

I mentioned yesterday that we had a busy weekend.  On Sunday afternoon I went down to the village tennis club's open day with an open mind... I have never played tennis before but my husband and I are looking for a summer sport given that the badminton club doesn't restart until October.  After an initial 30 minutes of trying to hold the racket like a badminton racket, I started to get into it.  The courts are lovely, right in the heart of the Lune Valley, and are at the end of a country lane so it was just us, tennis balls, afternoon tea and a spectator pheasant.  Life doesn't get any more British than that really.

Thanks for visiting,