Silver Hearts and Great News!!!

Hello, I'm back again with another card that I made on Monday morning.... I was making up for lost crafty time last week!!!

I tuned into see the new Less is More challenge on Saturday and thought yippeee, Paper Piecing.... but no, on closer inspection of Chrissie's and Jen's inspirational cards I could see it was Paper Piercing.... that little r makes a whole world of difference, good job I studied them closely :0)

So I combined the piercing with the 'Hi Ho Silver' challenge at CASual Fridays this week...

I decided that I preferred the raised bumps when you pierce the card from the back, I just had to work out my curves back to front instead. I used a couple of large plastic circle stencils to prick along the edge of and then curved and stamped the sentiment to match. The heat embossing isn't great .... I'm gradually replacing old rubbish embossing powders and it looks like silver could be the next to go although to be fair the silver inkpad isn't up to much either but then it's not a colour I use a lot!!
I managed to solve the need for a smaller heart die cut for this card by finding an old sizzix sizzlets alphabet that has hearts set in the letters so I ran one of the dies through a few times to cut those those tiny hearts :0)

The great news is that the place to buy your favourite American stamps is back online today.... yes Make the Day Special has re-opened its doors with a new look, new owner and the same great stamps... with hopefully some new companies coming soon ..... pop over for a visit here and have a look around :0)

Thanks for stopping by today
Jenny x

Monster Truck!!

Hello there :0)

The ColourQ#177 palette this week are my kind of colours...... quite bold and great for masculine cards.
I'm trying to use some of my older, forgotten dies and after flicking through my Quickutz dies I found this monster truck and an idea was born.....

I've used Tumbled Glass as the blue in the sky but it's very hard to photograph without bleaching it out.... it's much more obvious IRL!!!
The fonts are a couple of Sizzix alphabets, I thought the different heights would give the rocky road effect :0)
The stripe on the base card is a happy accident too, having tried to re-stamp a patchy image and not quite lining it up again properly, but I thought it looked quite in keeping with the truck/big tyres theme :0)

I'm also linking this card upto Addicted to CAS 'Masculine' challenge..... and lets face it guys cards are a challenge to make!!!

This card reminds me when we all had a go in a Land Rover on an Off-Road course at a Country Show quite a few years ago now. We were passengers with an experienced driver and it was very 'exhilarating' seeing/feeling the car traversing all sorts of gradients at various angles, but James laughed the whole way round the course, he found being thrown about most amusing. Needless to say wanted to stay on for a second go!!..... as I remember it was all I could do to get my feet on flat ground and let my head catch up with them!!!

Thanks for stopping by :0)
Jenny x

To the Moon and back!!

Hello there :0)

I've made a card to enter for this weeks Less is More challenge

which has a theme of 'Up in the Air'.

Last weeks 'musical' one layer task eluded me.... more

difficult than the sports and exercise one layer last month!!

With James off school this week crafting time has been on the slim

side but I razzled this together last night...

The sentiment and rocket die-cut are from an MFT dienamics set...... love that fun font and what a cute sentiment it is too :0)

With no small heart gems in my stash I had to attempt my own with

red stickles.... that was a tense breath-holding moment!!!

Not the most amount of white space but clean and simple never the less :0)

Thanks Lyndal for kindly pointing out that my card would fit in with the Catered Crop
 Recipe Swap 'Star' challenge ..... I'll pop it in over there too :0)

Thanks for looking :0)

Jenny x

Dies : My Favourite Things Dienamics- 'You move me' (Stamp and die set)