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Miss You Monday – Making My Own Piece of Summery-ness

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Hey everyone.

I’ve had four days of illness, and I was only really able to get up and about yesterday evening. I was thankful that I was able to have the energy to make a Miss You Monday card for today. After all that time in a dark, germ-infested room, I wanted light and summery-ness. Well, I wasn’t going to get it outside, so I made my own little piece of happiness with this card.

Sometimes I just love Hero arts stamps so much that it hurts! I picked up this fab background stamp a little while ago, and I wanted to use it, but in a slightly different way – a background with a difference. Of course my distress inks were my first craft-comfort after a week of non-crafting, and I turned to my two favourite colours: shabby shutters and broken china. Yum yum.

I’ve been wanting chipboard flourishes lately, and as this was my last Bisous chipboard swirl, i really must buy some when I next see ones that I like.

Thanks for looking.

Products used
background stamp – hero arts
embossing powder clear gloss
distress ink: shabby shutters, peeled paint, broken china, shattered straw
decorative edge scissors
black ribbon
string
button
foam tape
pink cardstock
quickutz butterfly die
bisous chipboard swirl
Liquid Pearls

Rossanowlagh Beach – Summery Memories!

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

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Hey everyone,
Today I have a scrapbook layout to share. It’s funny how a single photo can bring back so many memories.

When we were growing up, summer holidays were full of fond memories of Rossanowlagh Beach. Every year we would go, with either friends or family. When we were very young, the beach meant jumping the waves with mummy, or building sandcastles. As we grew up, the beach meant playing with velcro-catch and digging massive dad-sized holes, and eventually it meant playing frisbee and catching the rays. No matter what we were doing, the beach always meant fun!

So the last time I was home in Northern Ireland, and Mum and Dad mentioned a trip to the beach, I jumped at the chance of re-living my childhood memories. I couldn’t help but take a photo through the car window of the ‘wee house’ that is the iconic feature of Rossanowlagh beach. All those memories came flooding back with just one glance of that stone structure. It makes me happy!

And so, it needed to be scrapped! With happy, bright summery colours, perfect for the beach! It was fun putting it all together.

Love it!!

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(p.s. just figured out that Rossnowlagh doesn’t have an ‘a’ in the middle. Whoopsies! ah, well, it did in my memories, so i’m not bothered’. hee heee!)

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MYM- Live By The Sun, Love By The Moon

Monday, June 28th, 2010

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Happy Monday everybody! And its time for another Miss You Monday card.

My Unity Stamps June Kit of the Month arrived last week, and I was so excited to start playing with them. There are so many really cool, versatile stamps this month. Check them out:

My favourites are: the flying bird, the owls, the large arc stamp and the ‘today’ stamp. They are yummy scrummy.

So lets talk about todays card.

I started by making a coloured wash background. To do this, simply tap the distress ink pads onto a craft sheet and then spritz with water. When you lay the card on top, the ink and the water transfer over to the card, creating a nice watercolour effect. I did this once with ‘tumbled glass‘ distress ink, then I used some ‘stormy sky‘ colour and tapped the edge onto the craft sheet, creating an asterix shape, misted with water and laid my card on top of it again. This gives the great dark blue definition in the sky.

Next I stamped the horizon stamp onto the card and then before cleaning the stamp, i pressed the image into a post it note. I did this to create a mask so that I could ink the ground in ’shabby shutters‘ green. I also used the arcs stamp from the kit above to add some detail. I think it kinda looks like pattern paper – don’t you?!

The clouds are coloured using a white opaque pen from the Inkssentials line form Ranger. I’ve tried a couple of white pens over the years, and I think this one is by far the best.

I had some pre-stamped card left over from an earlier project, which I used to create a sun, by simply punching a circle using a paper punch. The design is a stamp from Heroarts and the ink is ‘mustard seed‘ distress ink. {No surprise there, I’m a distress ink junkie!}

The background for the card – of course, its that raindrop stamp from Heroarts again. You must think i’d addicted to that stamp …(you’d kinda be right!)

I didn’t really have a vision for this card when I started out making it, it just came together of its own accord, but i really like it, and find it very optimistic – yes, optimistic is the right word! So here’s hoping it will have the desired effect when it reaches Sarah’s door all the way in Oregon.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful Monday.

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