Horsin' Around

Hello hello hello..... I'm here today because it's the first of the month and time for a new challenge at St Luke's Charity Card Challenge ...that's another month chalked off this year!!!

You can't have escaped noticing the Olympics going on in London at the moment so this month we have decided to keep with the theme and challenge you to make a sporty card :0)

My favourite sport is anything equestrian but particularly the cross-country and the Olympics coverage means we get to see it on TV!!!
I've always been horse-mad, I learn't to ride and would often write about, daydream about or draw them as a youngster, I was convinced I would have my own one day but life had other ideas!!!

I found a diagram of a saddle from a book which I made bigger and used as a template then hand cut the saddle blanket and horsey card base to fit the saddle proportions.... it was great fun making the stirrup leathers and running the stirrups up the straps as you do in real life :0)
This card pleases the 'making things in miniature' part of me.... I love playing with card or paper :0)

Our prize this month is generously donated by Waltzingmouse Stamps and is this stamp set called 'Blessed By You'

So what's your favourite sport and is it in the Olympics??? Why not hop over to the St Luke's blog and see how the rest of the DT were inspired by this theme.... all the details can be found there about the challenge.

Thanks for looking :0)

Jenny x

A CASual feast

Hello fellow crafters,

I was so excited to see that CASual Fridays has 'shaped cards' for there challenge this week ... I love anything novelty or made from materials to look like something else but this is CASual fridays and I'm not sure if my card is CAS????

I cannot take credit for designing the card as I've used a printed template from an old craft magazine ( I have a large folder full of cuttings and templates from when I reduced my magazine pile ) so I chose the card stock and traced the shapes to cut out and ink . I'm most pleased with the burger itself as I've used a fabric texture stamp by Inkadinkadoo in red brick, eggplant and sahara sand chalk inks on the plain brown card to make it look meaty and juicy :)

The onion rings are made from 'off white' vellum and the sesame seeds, with Anitas 3d glossy paint in cream ... I'm surprised this has not dried up as it's quite old now :)
The individual pieces are all stuck onto a piece of plain card that I trimmed to shape and folded on the side .
The sentiment is from Paper smooches 'vegtastic' stamp set and was just begging to be used :)

I'm also linking this to Julies snippets challenge because all of the card was from my scrap bin, including the card for the base shape too :)

I hope it fits the bill....or menu in this case:)
Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend X