Fishing Days

Since attending the MFT workshop I have found myself drawn to a different style and size of card, I have always made square cards and struggled with the a6, a5 size but now I am trying them again. The american sizing is different to the UK and an a6 card is slightly narrower but longer than the standard US a2 but I kinda like it.

This card is a6 and I made the base myself from 300gsm anna marie card, lovely smooth cardstock and perfect for this. I cut a smaller layer from elegant evening (papertrey ink) and used the birthday die also from paper trey. I had seen this used on Beth's blog and really liked the negative look. I stamped the matching sentiment in simply chartreuse as the blue was a bit much and then used a cuttlebug folder to add interest to the blue layer. The bears are a 99p fizzy moon stamp set and quite small so worked perfectly on this size, I wanted it to look like a page from a book so coloured them in the warm greys and used the MFT notebook die to cut them out.

This was a simple but slightly time consuming card to make, I used the wrong tape to secure the die to the cardstock and it ripped slightly hence the small stars. I can see me using this again as it was very satisfying but it wont reduce my paper pad mountain lol.

Ingredients
Image: Fizzy moon
Sentiment: "wonderful words birthday" Papertrey Ink
Dies:
        Sentiment : "wonderful words: birthday" papertrey ink
        Stars: "summertime charm" lawn fawn
        Notepaper: mft
Cardstock:
       White base: Anna marie
       Blue: "Elegant evening" papertrey ink
       White: Neenah 110lb

Teddy, beer and a sketch

This mini but extremely cute stamp was such fun to colour,  I tried to capture the different colour behind the glass and think I may have succeeded yeah. I had so much fun making the glass shiny and the bubbles frothy too.

The papers have been printed since last year and sitting patiently in the snippet draw, the card is left over from a card you will see probably next week  and I am trying to use stuff that is on my desk before it gets to the snippet draw and it seems to be working.

I have used this weeks sketch saturday sketch and wow is it easy and effective too, I have challenged myself to start using sketches more as they can kick start the mojo even though sometimes they are scary. I think that the scariest part of this one was the embellies and trying to not overpower the image but josy rose came to the rescue yet again, I am so glad Jules introduced me to them.

Ingredients

Image: Fizzy moon

Papers: "this & that" Echo Park at Jessica Sprague

Cardstock: "Early Expresso" Stampin up

Nailheads: Josy Rose

Sentiment: papermania

Dies: Ticket border MFT

Challenges: Snippet Playground

Sketch Saturday

Happy New Year and a card

Happy 2012 to everyone, hope you are all feeling great this morning and there is no lingering hangover lol. Quiet evening here, takeaway curry and a few glasses of wine and feel bright and cheery this morning.

Has anyone made any new years resolutions....I did last year and wasn't very good at sticking to them so none from me this year lol.

Anyway onto the card, made for my Aunt whose birthday is tomorrow, no chance of her spotting it though as she doesn't even surf.

Ingredients:

Image: Fizzy Moon Stamp (ashamed to say had for a while and never used)

Papers: "Apron Strings" Raspberry Road

Cardstock: recycled again coloured using copics

Sentiment: Pollycraft freebie (used these so much)