Due to my lack of imagination this is another card I have 'cased' from the lovely Jane Gill - I shall shortly start to think of my own ideas!
The background paper is from the stash and I have used a script stamp on the right hand side of it but rather more subtly than I had envisaged.
The main image is a woodware stamp called going to seed which I have heat embossed and added a couple of gems to.
I have also added some little bird stamps to the paper and 'dashed' round the edge. Card candi coloured in copics to tie in with ribbon and SU sentiment stamped and punched out with some daubing to tone it in.
After seeing Jose at the weekend she commented that sometimes it is hard to know what size the cards are posted on blogs - you have an image in your head of their size and they can look completely different in the flesh - this card is 6x6" today.
Another new stamp!
I saw some lovely cards using this stamp made by Karen Watson for Stamps & Memories and not only loved it but know I can get some use out of it.
It is a Stamping Bella image called 'Victoria & Juliette's night out'.
I don't usually like images that don't include an facial expression but didn't even notice until I coloured the girls faces in. I've coloured the skin, hair and drinks with copics. The dresses are paper pieced with added glitter and stickles. I've daubed round the edge, added matching gems and mounted on a piece from a lovely paper pad which I can find the name of when I've unburied my desk from the weekend!
Ribbon from the stash and the sentiment stamped from the same set.
Had to have a nap after I got home from today's bike race before cracking on with the next set of quilling samples.
Well, I am exhausted but another good 2 days spreading the 'Quilling' word.
Thanks to Jose from Jose's Jottings for popping by this morning after reading yesterday's post.
The sun was out first thing this morning although it was frosty so we were all much chirpier to start the day! A bit cold when we first started but we were so busy the morning flew by.
More fuchsias today but mainly lots of basic shapes showing people how easy and fun it is to quill.
Next project is to complete some samples for next weeks event which I did start today and they are already proving to be a bit epic!
To finish, a sneaky pic of Val from Aquarius Blog (sorry!) who was very busy making lovely fabric flowers & shapes from yo-yo templates - and very popular they were proving too.
I have actually done some quilling this week - hooray!
I have made a few samples as I have been demo-ing quilling today and will be back tomorrow.
I made a fuchsia from Judy Cardinal's Quilled Borders & Motifs book which has been very popular. As my first request of the day was for an anniversary card (which I didn't have) I quilled some more and made them in to this card.
I had many admirers of Jane Jenkins lovely three dimensional creatures today - especially the frog which always wins in the popularity vote and many people still wondering why I had some chocolates stuck to cards - at least they are realistic.
I did have some in an actual chocolate box and a work colleague took some convincing that they were really made of paper - so well done to Diane Boden for coming up with such a crazy idea!
Hoping for a few degrees more in temperature tomorrow as today wasn't the best for sitting in a draughty marquee!
The mix of card requests recently is certainly varied.
This card was for a colleague who is celebrating their 30th Wedding Anniversary this week.
After going through a few designs and some stamps (so new I hadn't made a card with them) it turned out his wife's favourite flowers are fuchsias, so this stamp it had to be!
This was a new Woodware purchase.
I've stamped it on plain card and re-stamped for the actual petals which I've coloured in copics, cut out and added to the base. The sepals and buds I have paper pieced.
The leaves are a combination of colouring the original image and colouring separate leaves which I have 3D'd on top. Some of the stamens have a touch of stickles too.
I've daubed round the edge of this piece and double mounted, the bottom layer using a fiskars punch - which I only found whilst trying to find an SU one I had mislaid!
Computer generated sentiment layered on card and ribbon.
The card itself is Anna Marie pearl card and I've used 4 large pearls on the corner of the main image and little ones in the punched border to bring in the fact that it is a pearl anniversary.
Now, I'm sure you will all be jealous you didn't get one of these for your Birthday!!
This was a request for my boss for his daughters birthday today.
She loves One Direction so after finding a suitable picture I subjected it to the DOCrafts Digital Designer and made a pyramage of them.
I layered this on a piece of card mounted on a CD.
Computer generated sentiment with band logo and some little punched musical notes to finish.
This pyramage is very effective I also did a retirement card last week using pictures of the 'subject' which has turned it into a very popular card requirement!
In what will be the first of several baby cards in the next few weeks, here is the first one:
I've used the Woodware stamp, slightly unfortunately named 'Huge Baby'!!
I've stamped it on white and paper pieced the letters with various pink related papers.
The inspiration for this card came from a card Francoise Read (the stamps designer) made and I saw at the Exmouth workshop I went to recently. Hers had a few more additions than this but the basic design is very much 'cased'.
The 3 little sentiments are separate stamps within the same set which I think is really good value.
Finished with some card candy, a ribbon bow and a couple of layers that I've added to an A5 card blank.
