Corset Cards

As soon as I saw a corset card on another blog recently, I just had to make one.  I didn't have a template though so used a small blank card and drew a corset shape on one side with the card closed and then cut around it.

I used Distress Inks to colour the card, and stamped with Stampers Anonymous 'Pattern Pieces'.  I machine stitched some lace top and bottom

and the 'buttons' are Liquid Pearls.  

Of course, I couldn't stop at just one!

I covered the card in old book text first before colouring it with Distress Inks.

The 'buttons' this time are Stickles 'Black Diamond'.

Thanks for stopping to look and I'll get back to you

 in a couple of weeks (hopefully!!).

  I'm finishing my packing today as we're due

to fly off to Cyprus in the morning - Icelandic volcanic ash permitting!

Accordian Birthday Card / Booklet

Well, it's sort of an accordian card - as it made up of five small cards which fold up on one another - held together with two lengths of ribbon.

I used card from Tim Holtz 'Lost and Found' Paper Stash

and machine stitched everything together.

One side has the birthday boy's name on it

(an initial on each card),

and the other has pictures of trains locomotives

as my nephew is made about trains!

I couldn't photograph the whole thing in one go unfortunately

but here's some snippets

The birthday greeting will be written on the tag.

The featured locomotives are

Mallard

City of Truro

Flying Scotsman

Stepney

City of Wells

Well that's what they were supposed to be,

but it appears City of Wells is missing and there's an imposter

in there instead! 

This is according to my very knowledgable (and also train mad)

OH who provided me with a list of the locos, but left me

to find and print out the images on Google.

I've left the imposter in and wonder whether my nephew

who will be nine next month will notice it's not a proper locomotive -

probably I'm guessing!

Well, they're all just 'trains' to me - LOL,

but I hope he likes it anyway.

Spring Domino Doll Swap

I made this doll and ATC for a swap on the Flickr group

Altered Dominos & Other Game Pieces

The theme was 're-birth' and I went with Japanese flowers.

I started off with an ivory coloured domino and attached

a wooden stick with round shape at the top -

pefect for a head!

I painted hair and facial details onto the 'head'

and dressed the body with a kimono made with Washi papers.

Some flowers are attached at the waist.

She needed some shade from the Spring sunshine

and what better than a cocktail parasol!

I made a little holder from a thin straw

for the parasol which I attached to the back of the doll.

For the accompanying ATC I used more Washi paper

for the background and stamped the girl onto white card

for the face, and more of the paper for the body.

(The stamp is from an acrylic set by

Hero Arts CL297)

Here they are together - and the sun's come out

as the parasol's up!

Thanks for looking x

A Stampotique Sketch!

This is another 'first' for me - making a card using a 'sketch'!

Here's the sketch

It's from the

 Stampotique Designer Challenge blog

where the current challenge (set by the Basement Stamper) is to make something with this sketch using Stampotique stamps only.

Looking at some of the Design Teams' creations I'm guessing

that you only use the sketch as a guide and dimensions may

be altered?  If anyone has some advice or guidance on this I'd

really appreciate it.

For my card, I used Stampotique's 'Heart Shirt' rubber stamp.

I coloured him with Promarkers cut him out and stuck him onto

some scrapbook paper. 

I created a shadow around him with Distress Ink (Mustard Seed).

I masked off the background rectangle and coloured it in

with Distress Inks (Mustard Seed and Stormy Sky).

The band across the card I shamelessly copied from one

of the cards on the Challenge Blog - ie, used sequin waste

as a mask and coloured through it with the Stormy Sky Distress Ink.

The word 'Giggle' is a rub on, and mustn't forget

the Crown on the birthday boy's head

highlighted with some Platinum Stickles.

I don't normally like having to make birthday cards, but using a sketch

took a lot of the hard work out of this one, and I think I'll be

using them again! 

I'll be linking this to the Stampotique Designer Challenge Blog

- as this is what they say:

 ".... we encourage you to break out your Stampotique stamps and join our creative design team for your chance to add to your stamp collection with a prize of $30 gift certificate for stamps at Stampotique.  We will randomly pick a winner with the announcement of the next challenge".

Well, it'd be rude not to!

Dimensional Anniversary Card

The background paper is by Blonde Moments - Sugar Dumpling.

The word 'Love' is a rub on.

The hearts are wooden and the niche they're nestling in was created with two

layers of mountboard stuck together and a square cut out the middle.

I followed the technique outlined on Tim Holtz blog

May Technique Challenge

not to the letter, but this is my take on it.

I'm linking this up to Linda's blog

Studio L3

on which her current challenge Grungy Monday 05: A New Dimension

is to create something using this Tim Holtz technique

I hope this card fits the challenge as it's not particularly 'grungy',

although I did use distress ink around the edges of the niche!

Thanks for looking!