MANday Monday is back! And today its all about the washi tape!
I picked up a bundle of tapes the other week and i wanted to make a quick masculine card with them to break them in. I have also moved our cocktail sticks into the craft room, giving them a new place of residence (same with our iron and ironing board, but shhhh, don’t tell hubby!).
I just love these dots and stripes 6×6 pads of pattern paper from Echo Park. They are so versatile, and for this card i have used the black and grey diagonal stripes. Hmm, it reminds me of mint humbugs! yum.
To carry through with the black and white, mint humbug feeling, I used some bakers twine to wrap around the card, but added a punch of colour with a strip of red cardstock from the Be You 6×6 pad from fancypantsdesigns.
Thanks for popping by. So glad to be back. x
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Im popping in to share two cards i made last month for my mummsy’s birthday. First i made a card from Piper with this cute hedgehog stamp from Penny Black. In the photos the brown looks really dark compared to the rest of the card, but the contrast wasn’t so immense in real life.
This card was a little more flowery that I’m used to, but it was fun to play with a different style for a bit. I just love adding lots of texture with lace and embossing folders and punch out butterflies.
For the other card which was from me and hubby, I decided to use some supplies which i had left over from a recent commission for The Scrapbook Magazine. The colours were browns and greys and blues and creams – and they worked beautifully together. Heres what i came up with:
I loved adding the machine stitching along the hearts. The yellow gives a real pop of colour and once again the sewing adds yummy scrummy texture. Couldn’t resist a few adhesive pearls as well.
I found a little piece of stuff in the craft room that was a bit like cork board. I think it was compressed tree pulp or something random like that. I used my scissors to cut out a M shape and adhered this to the bottom of the card to create a ‘Mummy’ greeting.
And yes, i do still call my mother Mummy! so what?!
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So September was a bit of a write off for me, as you may have noticed from the lack of craftiness on the site recently. Historically this month has always been super busy at work so for the first while I was just working flat out. Then we had a lovely enjoyable holiday up in Scotland seeing the in-laws, followed by a crazy stoopid catch up week at work – y’know the ones that make you wonder why on earth you went on holiday in the first place!
So here i am. Back on track. For a little while at least! lol.
Even though the site has been quiet, i have been crafting here, there and everywhere; every time i could steal a few snippets of time to myself. I even managed to take an Emergency Craft Kit up North with me so I made a few scrapbook pages too. I can’t wait to share them with you once I get them all photographed. I was a bit of an idiot and forgot to take photos with me so I had to finish them all off once i got home and I have one still to do.
So today all I’m doing is saying hello once again and letting you all know that theres a whole lotta projects on their way soon.
x
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