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I will be back here soon. I break up for Christmas in two weeks, after much French exam preparation, article critiquing and seminar assessments!
Got a few cards to upload as soon as I can.. I've found my Passport so I've got more time for crafting now (yay!) I've also been working overtime this week and been forgetting to photograph my cards. But I will. And hope to tonight. Hopefully I will get some good natural light but it's looking really gloomy out there..
Also not sure if I'll have time to take part in kwerners colour challange..ah. I hope so..
Tamsin :)
I tried something a little different this weekend, card wise. I broke open my 3D handbag stickers and off I went.
Green on green looked too much.. and the pale pink as a background to the bag seemed too pale so I used this as a layer behing the brighter pink, bringing out the colour of the flowers. (I do like to bring out the colours!)
After doing the 'Thanks' card I wanted to use white again because it's a very clean and crisp colour, but I didn't want to deflate the colours on the centrepiece so I layered two strips of green on the left hand side and then broke it up with a bit of shiny white ribbon.
I got the idea of the pink ribbon and brad clips from a magazine.. all you do is cut strips of ribbon off..fold them in half, poke a hole where you want the brad clip to go through (I found I could do this more accurately by measuring with the trimmed ribbon) and then clipped them in place. I really like how they turned out.
Because the ribbon and brad clips stick out from the paper I stuck double sided foam sticky tape to raise the other edges and then stuck it on the white background.
Finally I added a few little gems (including the pink one on the handbag clasp) and that's it :)
I'm not sure when I'm going to get chance to make my next card now..I go on holiday for a week in less than two weeks time and I cannot find my passport so I'm having to turn my house inside out!!
So here's my third card using a 3D animal sticker as the centre point (well, not exactly centre but you know what I mean). The purple of the Rhino meant it made sense to match with similar tones. I tried adding some yellow to bring out the colour of the horns but it just looked wrong so I left it.
I originally wanted the sticky outty bit to be more cloud shaped with smoother rounder edges..but my scissors just started to ruin the paper so I got my good pinking scissors out and trimmed it down.
I used brad clips on the right handside to contrast with the purples and then purple gems on the left handside to go with the ribbon. I think that's it.. after paper punching the corners! (Which I think would have looked better with smoother lines on the rhino background!) :)
I've not forgotten about you! It's been a busy week (for a change) and I've been shattered throughout it. I honestly don't know how mums find time for crafting!
Just to illustrate my lack of time, here's how my weeks been:
Monday, work 8.30-4.30, tea, poker 7.30-11.00
Tuesday, work 8.30-4.30, dad's at 6.00-10.00 (and left them to go home to bed because I was so tired!)
Wednesday, work 8.30-4.30, went to Ian's parents house to look after his nan for the night.
Thursday (yesterday), work 8.30-4.30, had to see a nurse just before the end of work and had 4 antibiotics that made me feel queezy to say the very least so I ended up driving home and snuggled up in bed watching The OC at 5pm!! Then we had a takeaway because I really didn't feel like cooking or doing anything and watched Mr Bean's Holiday (which was AWFUL).
So here I am today. At work, until 4.30. Unless I stay late. Which I ought to do for the money but the chances are very very slim. I'm too eager to go home and chill/be crafty. And tonight I have a few hours to do that.
(I have during the course of the week managed to complete one card...however I forgot my camera lead so I can't upload it until I get home..!)
Tamsin :)
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