After I had made the two lots of heart cards I was concerned that perhaps they weren't quite following the sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge,
so, I decided to have another try. The hearts went back into the folder and out came the flower dies, banner dies & an embossing folder.
I originally used the plain green card to make the outer and inner parts of the flower but felt, that colourwise, it looked a little flat against the background I used left over embossed card for the base part of the flower and the textured patterened card I had used as a mat as the upper part, it has a slight sparkle to it but that doesn't seem to be picked up by the camera.
Good grief - two weeks in a row and two more posts!!!
Bit like a bus you wait for ages for one and then they all appear at once I have actually managed to put together a couple of more posts!
Not been sleeping too well so these are some insomniac specials. I was having a look at this weeks challenge at Freshly Made Sketches and hauled out one of my die folders and see what there was that I could use. Valentine's Day is only a couple of weeks away so I had a look for something appropriate that would fit with this week's sketch
Once I'd found the dies I wanted to use I couldn't make up my mind how to put it together so instead on one version I came up with two:
Wow, I didn't realise it had been over 5 months since I last posted on my blog!
There's been a lot going on, some good but unfortunately a lot that's not been quite so great and I've just not had the enthusiasm I perhaps should have had.
Whilst I have still been following the Freshly Made Sketches Challenges and have even made a few things I haven't posted anything, mainly due to the time it takes me to remember to take the photos, the link has closed! This weekend the planets have, eventually, aligned and I made not one but two cards and taken photos in plenty of time (with a couple of hours or so to spare) to actually enter something - hooray!!!
I actually had a wee laugh when I saw this week's sketch as, as a wee pick me up, I had just treated myself to the Tonic Studios Design Collection Magazine & Kit 4 which had a set of 10 "Hello Beautiful" Layering Hearts dies, 8 stamps, an A6 embossing folder and some papers. Yippee, off to a good start, I had something in the design I could work with!
I have a few Tonic dies, especially after being alerted to some great bargains on the CraftyDevils website last year. This "Just for You" die being one of them . . .
and "Dance All Night" being another . . .
