Bah Humbug

This is my first ever blog challenge for Bah Humbug. I don't want to be caught napping as I was this Christmas. The backing paper is from Glenda's Cd Seasons Greetings as is the tag. The wreath is made of individually cut leaves from a stamp that I bought to do my wedding stationary, I can't think where I bought it though. The leaves were coloured with el cheapo metallic pencils that I bought on holiday from a seaside gift shop, I think they cost about £1.

Ok so I have a new camera but someone has hidden the cables so regretfully I am back to having to scan cards, which really doesn't do them justice. I have some lovely piccies on the camera but until the leads show up, there they will have to stay.

I hope that like us here at Sassie Acres you are all starting to get back to something approaching normality after the Christmas and New Year festivities

Playtime

This photo doesn't really do this card justice, it is a mixture of cosmic shimmers, distress ink pads, Glenda Waterworth stamps and heat embossing. I just played, dabbed, stamped and spritzed until I was happy with it. It was such a lot of fun and very messy. I just wish I could remember exactly what I did to it!

Plans for the wedding are now well in hand and I must stop playing and print the invitation inserts. Or else it will be a telephone or e-mail invitation job lol

Symphony of blues

I have really been playing with colours a lot lately and having a lot of fun revisiting techniques I haven't used for ages. This card has backing paper from Glenda Waterworths Peacock Summer Party which has the most scrummy backing papers on it. The topper is made using a brayer with Kaleidacolour ink pad in Blue Breeze on glossy card stock. I then embossed in silver with a U-Mount stamp and embellished with blue and lilac gems. The girl image is from Sugar Nellie and has been coloured with Promarkers. It was lovely to do this card and lovely to be able to mess around and get really mucky!!

Scraps Card

I don't know about you, but I always seem to have so much in my scraps box and unless I really force myself I don't use them up. This card was made purely using scraps from my box and Glenda Waterworths Damask Delights stamp which I embossed in silver, a peeloff which was in a bumper pack and a sentiment from a kit. I must challenge myself more often to use up my scraps.

I hope you are enjoying this wonderful weather

Speedy Butterfly

A really quick card for any occasion. I used a deep purple card blank, edged it with gold PenTouch. I then matted 2 layers from a Papermill matting pack I then used a Versamark pad to stamp One of Glenda Waterworths Damask stamps which I then embossed with detail gold embossing powder, I then overstamped it and embossed it again. I trimmed it and edged it with the gold PenTouch. I then embellished it with a purple glitter butterfly from an Angel Envelope and some stick on crystal gems. A really speedy card which went in the post only 40 minutes after being started

Peacock Lady

I have finally had time to play with no particular purpose in mind. This beautiful card is made with a stamp from Glenda Waterworths Peacock Summer Party range and the background paper from her CDRom of the same name. I coloured the image with Twinkling H2o's in Periwinkle, French Lilac, Majestic Blue, Guatemalan Green and Carribean Mist. I trimmed the image and mounted it on a piece of scrap black glitter card. I edged the card and backing paper with a PenTouch Gold pen, and added a sentiment. I know the perfect recipient for this card.

Why is it that there are always so many 'card 'Occassions' seem to happen in June? I have been making loads of cards lately, many of which will appear on this blog.