Another Trishutter card

Made this card for my son-in-law. Men's cards are so difficult aren't they. Found some card in my Kanban stash black with black and white check on back, so the reverse made a nice background for the greeting.

I also had the car images and the playing card images in my Kanban stash - and finding some red car peel-offs - that was the theme sorted. Then found a sheet of silver alphabet squares from same stash to spell Paul on the front, and on one of the sheets I used there were some die-cut dots. To complete I found a gardening themed peel-off. S-i-l normally gets train orientated cards - so thought I'd try something different this year - so he likes formula racing and other car related things, gardening and he is a bit evil when we are playing cards !

More Lilies!

Do you think I like this stamp? Need I say more!

More promarker playing

Well we had some horrendous passing storms tonight, so computer got turned off, but kept myself occupied playing with some new stamps and my promarkers. Would have liked computer on really so that I had some pictures of Arums to look at, these were done from memory!

Trishutter Card

The "In" card shape at the moment on the JS Forum is the trishutter card. there are many variations, and I noticed that there was another variation in my new Making Cards magazine which arrived today.

My version is done with A5 blue stardream, and starts with a normal tri-fold.

As it is my husband's birthday next week, I thought I would experiment with this shape for his card, on the pretext that if it went wrong it wouldn't matter too much!

The first and third sections have stamped images on them, using JS Techy Lofty and one of the images I was playing with which I showed on an earlier post. Both coloured with my new promarker pens., and mounted on some blue backing paper from my stash (which originally came from Lakeland). As I am getting low on this stash - it was quite hard to part with it!

The middle section was created in Publisher, and is basically a birthday wishes message mounted on some blue backing paper with white seagulls from Joanna's Cottage Garden cd, with some corner peel-off embelishments.

The bottom and top of the card was decorated with some more card stash - had it yonks - it was 12" square card. Possibly came free with a Docrafts Goody Bag. I edged this will the new peel-off on a roll from Joanna Sheen - brilliant for those times, when a normal peel-off isn't long enough. It was very shiny too a bit like mirri card.

The three central sections were also edged with silver peel-offs, and finally some navy card candy buttons were placed along the striped card.

I tried to keep it fairly simple (well as you know I only do simple) as it was for a man, and we all know how difficult men's cards are.

Having, I think, been successful with my first attempt - will now attempt some variations. Now as it is my birthday at end of month - what would I like OH's card to me to look like, and how much shall I charge him! grin!

Get Well card

A quickie card yesterday for a friend's husband who was rushed into hospital on Tuesday. Thankfully the symptoms that required the ambulance to be called, seem to have settled, although he is still undergoing various tests. Hopefully this will put a smile on his face. The image is from Andy Carolan's Professional Nuttiness cd.

UPDATE: He loved it! Gave the nurses a giggle too!

sorry to be boring ....

...... but having so much fun. Sat out in the garden doing these this afternoon. I have used the JS Rose stamp before, and normally water-coloured it, using Lyra or Sakura.

The other three are stamps I have purchased at some point and not got around to using. The poppy and the Medallion ones are stamps from Glenda, and the owl was one I bought at the Craft Barn one day, couldn't resist it - as the sentiment made me laugh!

Think the owl one might get used on husband's birthday card!

Quietly playing ...

I have sat quietly this afternoon, playing with my new promarker pens, that my husband treated me to as an early birthday present.

I have really enjoyed myself, and it was so relaxing and rewarding to get a decent finished image. I decided to prepare some card toppers for future use.

First three using some stamps that I have had for years, and that haven't seen the light of day in a long time. (It also means I have made a start on my Christmas cards!)

These four are some newer stamp purchases.

I really love these new pens.

They give such a professional finish to the colouring of the image. Don't think I have ever done so much colouring in one afternoon!

Panic over!

so I sat clicking on the followers of my blog over the weekend and created a new Blog favs folder, and started adding everybody - and having done about 5 - suddenly when I clicked add to favs - I had a choice of the old blog favs and the new blog favs - Obviously the original file had finished its wanderings around cyber space and returned home! blinking technology! (well those weren't my exact words!) rofl!

Not a Happy Bunny!

I am not a Happy Bunny today - the Blog Folder in "My Favourites" on my Computer has disappeared into Cyber Space! It is only the Blog folder that appears to be missing - although there could be a few other links missing from other folders that I haven't discovered yet. Would have to be the folder I used most wouldn't it!

Theoretically the "My Favourites" file is kept on the AOL Server and should be available if I sign on from any computer - well I haven't managed to access it from any of ours - so looks as though I will have to go round to my daughter's and try and access from hers.

I even lost the link to my own blog - fortunately I had about three of the ones I follow duplicated on IE as well as my own. Thank goodness! So if you are reading this and know that I normally follow your blog - could you either send me a link to your blog via an email (if you know my email address), or via YUKU for JS forum members or through FaceBook, for those of you that are on there.

Thankfully I can at least click on the friends that follow this blog and add some of them back into my file.



Mags

Playing about

One of my forum pals posted a link to a programme for making these Rubik's cube images. So naturally I had to play. Think I am a techno crafter rather than a stamping crafter, as I love doing things like this!

The one on the left is one of my granddaughters at the beach last week, and the other is using one of the Kaleidoscope images I made with my clematis picture (See earlier posting). You can also make jigsaws and christmas baubles. I think the Rubik's cube one would be very useful for those difficult mens cards. Can see myself creating an image in My Craft Studio and then saving it as a jpeg and converting to a rubik image.

and if you want to know what the programme I used was click on this link:

http://www.dumpr.net/