Teddy Bo's Gon Fishin!!

Well, sadly  I haven't found anything else that had gone missing whilst continuing my blitzing of my craftroom.

I managed another two DT cards for whilst I'm away yesterday afternoon and evening - when I looked at them this morning I just thought 'What a load of rubbish!!' and took them apart, so I decided to do something totally different - hence the Teddy Bo. I had already coloured the image and decided to use him for the Teddy Bo challenge which is a fabulous sketch by the lovely Kathy.

Teddy Bo is coloured with Copics and I used the Copic watercolour technique for his clothes and wellies as I wanted them a Khaki green and the only two available colours are G94 & 96 which are a little dark.

My papers are Basic Grey's Phresh and Phunky, the blue circle is cut with a Joy embossing die, and the bottom border with an EK Success punch. Th little buttons are the tiny center pieces from a Nellie's Multi frame which I thought I would never use. I cut out 4 layers for each button, stuck them together and coated them with Glossy Accents. I use wire through the holes and the little 'Gone Fishin' sign is computer generated and I couldn't resist adding the little whale - I do have a fish charm but thought the whale would be more fun.

 I've struggled photographing this, after keep moaning it was too dark, today my complaint is it's too light LOL.

It's a very harsh light which is altering the colours - never content am I???

Oh Dear - look what I've found!!

I've been so busy trying to get all my DT work done before I fly back to the UK I haven't been stopping to tidy up inbetween. This morning I'd reached the end and just had to have a tidy up and putting things away session and look what I found, I did wonder where it had disappeared to.

This was supposed to be a 'Sneak peek' - a little late now methinks!!

This is one of yesterday's releases - have you got yours yet??

It is called 'Spring Swing' and you can purchase it HERE along with the other new little cuties.
I've coloured the image with Copics, the pink is embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder and the dp is a piece from my 'bit box' I'm being so good at the moment using up - that's only to justify buying more LOL!!
The flowers are Prima, the leaves cut with a Crealies die and the scrumptious lace is from Wild Orchid crafts.


Now I shall continue blitzing my craftroom - let's see what other long lost items will re-appear!!

Simon Says....................Anything goes

Good Morning everyone - yet another week has flown by and Simon Says  it's time for new challenge .

 and thank you for all your fabulous entries for our No-cook recipe challenge, we certainly have some fantastic 'cooks' out there!!

This week ....................Anything goes.......................

can't be simpler than that, can it?? The Design team are featuring Unity Stamps and if you have any would love to see what you create with them, but it isn't necessary to use them to enter the challenge.

Another card that is very difficult to photograph, I have photographed this one so many times I ended up with the message 'Card Full' on my camera. I shall keep trying until it look reasonably like it does IRL.

I created a background paper first using the Unity Butterfly  stamp randomly then heat embossing it using White embossing powder then I used distress inks (Dusty Concorde, Faded Jeans and Peeled paint) and gently sponged the background.

I used the Unity Balloon as my image and I tried to give the whole card a  'light and floaty' feel. I used the same distress inks to colour the balloon with the addition of Victorian Velvet. The sentiment is part of the stamp set and this and the balloon are coated with Glamour Dust. The swirls is a Sizzix die the Butterflies pare a Martha Stewart punch and the flowers cut from vellum with the EK Success retro flower punches. The ribbon is fro my stash and the pearl beading I dug out from my sewing box and I have to say I'm glad to have found a use for it eventually!!

As usual Heidi will be giving one lucky entrant a $50 voucher to her FANTASTIC Simon Says Stamp Superstore  !! and with so many new goodies arriving daily HOT from the CHA there is masses to choose from !! See the NEWEST stuff on the All New Just In Page 

For fabulous tutorials and the chance to win some fabby blog candy you really need to keep a close eye on the Simon Says Stamp Blog too.

I'm also entering this card into the ABC challenge - P is for pearls

and The Alphabet Challenge which is R for ribbon

I hope you're all having a great week, I'm off to try and re-start my day. 

The Simon Says Gift voucher above I always place in the center of the post.

This week it's refusing to go! When I click right, it goes to the right, when I click left it goes to the left, when I click center it goes to the left. I wonder is it some sort of puzzle Mr Blogger has devised for us????

Step Card Tutorial and a Sneak Peek!!

So many of you showed an interest in this step card, both here and on the Lili of the Valley inspiration blog, I've done you a small tutorial.  It is so easy you won't believe it. Just a case of getting the measurements so it all balances. The beauty of it is you can cut your image to any shape, heart, circle, square etc and they all fit the card beautifully.

You need a piece of card 51/2 x 12 inches (30.5 x 14.5 centimeters) 

Score along the length at 11/2,   3,   5,  7 and 91/2 inches

(3.8,  7.6,  12.7,  17.8 and 24.2 centimeters)

Now concertina fold your card, from left to right first a mountain fold, then a valley, mountain, valley and finally the last mountain.

There it is - how easy is that?

5mins to make the card and about 5 hours to embellish it if you're like me. 

I'm not the fastest cardmaker around!!

I begin by adding my dp to the card - 

Then onto the image and embellishments. 

This one measures 51/2" wide and including the image and frame just short of 51/2 " in height.

I Hope you enjoy this little tutorial and find it easy - any problems please feel free to email me.

Ingredients - 

Stamps Lili of the Valley 'Bunches of Love' image and sentiment

Copics

Papers - unknown, from 'bit box'

Marianne creatable - flourishes, Cuttlebug Fancy tags, circle and Eyelet circle , MS butterfly punch

Pearls and ribbon from stash

A LOTV sneak peek

I've a Lili of the Valley sneak peek for you today. I have quite a few images coloured up but have been struggling with time to turn them into cards.

This one is called 'Bunches of Love', so adorable and absolutely perfect for either a birthday or Mother's Day.

I've made a step card and am rather partial to these at the moment and have a few more on their way!! The image is coloured with Copics and the pretty dp is some by Paper Adventures I've had for years. The flowers are by Wild Orchid Crafts and I've cut the leaves with a Crealies die, the label is cut with a Spellbinders Fancy labels die and I've used seam binding for the ribbon. 

Here is the reverse of the card which I will decorate when I know where this card is going.

And finally a close up of the image.

I am working on a tutorial for the step card which I hope to publish sometime this week. This is approximately 51/2" *width) x 43/4" from the base to the top of the flowers but I would like to work on one that will turn out aproximately 51/2" square.