Card No 2 an easel card. Again I used my little daisy punch, this time punched 3 layers and added a punched out hole for the centre.
I'm late doing this as we have had no power for 24 hrs. We had violent storms with terrific winds on Friday and at 5 o'clock off went the electric. It came back on briefly and went off again then we had to wait until 10 o'clock last night before they came to repair it. The main line across our adjoining field had completly broken and was dangling in the wind. A couple of years ago the same line shorted out when a couple of starlings got amourous on it and it set the field on fire. Unfortunately it killed both the birds as well.
Another one for the Challenge. This again is Darrian Frames Font and the letter A. Again copied and pasted from Microsoft Word into Publisher and resized. I coloured in using my Promarkers. The outside frame looks silver but actually its a very light beige.
Good Morning from the Loire. A mix week weather wise but today is gorgeous sunshine. Our family of Black Redstarts have finally flown and now we are waiting for the House Sparrow family to go having taken up residence in the blue tits box. Its an old log the woodpeckers had made a hole in. Robin (my husband) cut it into sections and made a lid and a bottom. The blue tits nested there last year and also this year so its being well used. Perhaps we should put a "To Let" sign on it.
Well I just had to have another go at this embossing so I used a pearlescant white card and printed on the image I found on Google as soon as it came out of the printer the ink is still wet I covered it in clear embossing powder, then got out the heat gun, it buckled a little but on the advice of you lovely lot I put on a heavy weight and its not too bad. I made it in honour of 2 of my 7 cats. Mr Thomas (Ginger) and his sister Miss Tabitha (Fluffly Tortoiseshell) who are 8 today. They were born across the road at my French neighbours house, their Mummy was a Fluffy Tortoiseshell and had 4 kittens and only Mr Thomas was ginger. I do have a passion for ginger cats, the other one we have is ginger and white called Geoffrey and he is 11.
" for todays challenge. I am not into stamping so have very limited stamps but found this one and thought it appropriate as it was my 67th Birthday yesterday so I am still celebrating. I used a very pale blue pearlescant card A6 landscape. Cuttlebug embossing folder and silver ink pad and embossing powder. Just highlighted the few flowers across the front with a silver glue stick. Off to watch a little video my son sent me, my grandson of 9 months has just started to crawl and they captured the moment for me and sent it in an e-mail as I live so far away. The wonders of the Internet.
Good Morning from a very peacful and quiet corner of the Loire. Our neighbours are having a small lake dug out in their newly acquire plot of land, and we've had a very large digger working all week but today its "tranquil".
The gravel is now all spread and looking lovely, we've just had a very sharp rain shower so I came in to create. I cann't take all the credit for this as the image was designed by "create with TLC" at createwithtlc.blogspot.com. The other inspiration came from my sister in UK at craftingdi.blogspot.com She printed a card and then embossed it as soon as it came from the printer. I remember I had done this years ago but forgot about it (as you do) and when she mentioned it the other day I thought to give it a go. I used white pearl card and lightly painted in the flower and leaves with my watercolour brushes. So a big "Thank you" to Di and TLC.
Good Morning everyone from another beautiful day in Echemire (Loire Valley - France) The sun is shinning and its warm, just been to collect some gravel to enhance the garden around our swimming pool. No - its not yet warmer enough to swim.
My inspiration...........
I was out in the garden this morning and spotted our large Shirley Poppies just coming out, they are a gorgeous red/orange with big black middles and I got inspired. I used a red metallic paper, cut with a circle nestie and my new Quickutz Cookie Cutter called "Flower" but it looks like a Dandelion Clock, for the middle. Green stem and Marianne Die cut for the leaves. The sentiment is done with my faithful design runner with a red ink cartridge. Hope this fits the bill for off centre.
Good morning everyone what another beautiful day here in the Loire. Cann't believe its a week gone since "the Acetate" challenge. We've been busy in our garden and its looking good but dare I say it "we neeed some rain" Anyway I digress here is my card for this weeks challenge. Very simple I used my design runner for the sentiment (I have problems putting card in my printer so the design runner suits me fine) A Marianne die cut for the leaves. The card stock is slightly glittered and an off white flower. Hope its "Offcentre" enough.
Xyron Design Runner and Disc Maker
This is Card No 2. I had time late afternoon (after my planting and grass cutting) and found this piece of gold printed acetate (Dawn Bibby) I used my nesties to make a frame in gold mirri card and cut a hole in the front of the card to match. Mounted the acetate onto the back of the frame - it looks very neat at the back of the card when open. I tried my hand at stamping and gold embossing (why does the card tend to bend when heating with a heat gun?) added gold card candy and this is the result.