Kard Krazy " Postcards "

Firstly please ignore the background ! This time of night ( 12.30 ) I just can't find a good spot to take a photo, mind you cant find one in the daytime either, so it's leaning up against a picture frame which of course is visible. I spend ages making the thing only to ruin it with my non existent camera skills, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it ! This is taken with my iphone ,for some reason my scanner works intermittently , it has the final say in what I  post, and my camera takes a worse picture than my phone !

Excuses, excuses I here you say but it's true I am technically challenged , I have all the gadgets but I don't know how to use them ! So for those doubting Thomas-es you are quite welcome to visit me here in Greece to see my stuff up close and personal. This tag is for kardkrazy.blogspot.com tag Tuesday and the theme is postcards.

I used once again Crafty Individual postcard stamp ( I do love them does it show ? ) with an image from their mini book people and places , then stamped randomly with more of their postmark stamps and used Ranger brushed corduroy distress ink together with Stampin Up soft suede and tempting turquoise. The paper flower is also stamped with CI script and distressed  ( a bit like myself at this time of night !)

Marie

Sunday Stampers Challenge Parisean Walkways

When I think of Paris I always think of romance first and foremost (and then food ) So I really liked the theme over at pinkleart.blogspot.com Sunday Stampers Challenge.
I used a script stamp from Crafty Individuals which I inked all around using Stampin  Up crumb cake and pretty in pink, I added a couple of images from Crafty Individuals Mini Book People and Places which I matted onto pink paper.

Hope you like it

Marie

Sunday Postcard Art " Double Take" Double Take "

I thought this challenge would be easy as I had a lot of stamps that had the word two on them, all of which are Crafty Individuals my favourite stamps, but oh no it seems like having too much choice is not always a good thing.

The challenge this weeksundaypostcardart.wordpress.com is double take so here is my version.

I used Crafty individual paper from their lovely glossy mini books and used the same image in stamp form. I stamped it with versamark and then embossed with Ranger distress powder in Aged Mahogany and used my blending tool with various colours once again from Ranger distress range.  Oh and nearly forgot the key, Used my Silhouette to cut it out then stamped all over with what was left on the old blending tool.

Hope you like it.

Marie

Carnival Time !

For those of you that have read my profile you will know that I own a jewellery shop in Thessaloniki Greece. For those of you that haven't read it well now you know ! It's a busy time for us as we have a lot of exhibitions to attend ( or my husband does at least ) I stay at home and man the ship and the shop and the dogs and well you ladies know what I mean.

This week didn't have much time for crafting due to the manning of the ship etc but tried to get around to all my favourite blogs and take part in a challenge or two . The nice part about this card making and crafting to do is that I have been able to incorporate it into my window displays and am getting a great response from my customers and some weird requests to boot , it certainly adds a new dimension to it.

It's carnival time here in Greece and as usual the weather has turned from lovely spring weather back to autumnal misery you can set your watch by it ! it's the same every year !. As soon as carnival starts so does the cold. My youngest son went out yesterday wearing a cardboard box ( well actually two ) one for the head and one for the body and a pair of ten denier tights , mine not his and a pair of trainers, oh what a vision. It was freezing ! but then at sixteen you just don't feel the cold do you ?

All of this is my big "segway" as they say in radio land or at least they used to when I was a kid into why I'm posting an autumnal tag when you lot seem to be besotted with spring, butterflies and fairies !

For anyone who cares its my trusty CI script stamp ( yet again ) with Ranger distress inks and the leaf is SU, embossed with Ranger embossing powder.

Hope to get some crafting done tomorrow , until then Ta Ta xx

Just for fun challenge Angel Wings

I really like the Just for fun challenges they always seem to have such interesting themes this weeks is Angel Wings. Well I'm not sure if this qualifies but for me this is how I imagine angels a bit elfy like as opposed to the heavenly variety ( and besides this stamp is near enough )

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I used a children's stamp set for the image, the wings where made on my silhouette and then passed through my texture boutique and I used SU black ink wanted to keep it really simple.

Theme Thursday Flourishes

It just so happens that the last few days I have been playing around with flourishes and low and behold I came across a fantastic site who has a challenge this week  with  theme well....flourishes themethursday.wordpress.com 

As usual not a very good photograph ( just can't get the staff these days ) I have used a Crafty Individual script stamp underneath and  Ranger distress inks around the edges .The flourishes are SU two tone colours which of course you can't see and simply pearls shimmer mist in gold on top. I finished the bottom with  piece of acetate cut in a flourish shape and if you squint your eyes and cross them you can just about see that, I passed it through my texture boutique and it is embossed with more flourishes ......honest .

Crazy Amigo Challenge High Tea

Have decided to have another go at a challenge crazyamigochallenge.wordpress.com The theme this week is"  High Tea " . Like this site they seem to have very interesting topics and all of their contributors are wonderful artists. Mine is quite simple, I used my silhouette to cut my shapes, cake stand SU and T from childrens stamp set used Su black and pink inks .