Its a Mo's Celebration

Well I had hoped to have a crafty weekend and I did play but not as much as I has hoped.  I have just completed this little card using a few new things I received from my friend in the States,  I used the copics for the skin and whilst I haven't got it quite right its ok for a first attempt.  I also used this very useful stamp alphabet set for the word "enjoy" and inked around the flowers to make them the colour I wanted. The image is "Kansas" from Mo Manning.  Mo's are celebrating their 100th challenge and so its a "Celebration" challenge.  I have also been playing with alcohol inks but I need to play some more and I think I read somewhere to use transparencies (can you still get them?) because I think my acetate is too thick and won't die cut.  And I also discovered you need glossy card - so I have learned a few things along the way.  Anyway prattle, prattle here is the card.  P.S:  Go the All Blacks.

Just Playing!!

I received an email this morning prompting me to post a picture of something.  Si thats what I will do.  I have been working on something else that I can't post because I don't want a certain someone to see it  but suffice to say it is taking up some of my time at the moment.  But here a couple of shots of a card I have made for a swap.  The criteria is cats and dogs and peace.  Quite a tricky combination to put together and I'm not quite sure that I have got it right but here it is anyway.

This is the card closed - suppossed to resemble a kennel



This is is opened  and this is my contribution towards peace



This is the card opened completely with cats on the paper.



One For Mo and One For Sassy Cheryl

Well today I bashed out not one, not two, but three cards.....making up for lost time.  One I can't post as it is going to be on its way to someone celebrating a September birthday, but here are the other two.  The first is a Mo Manning Image, coloured in pencil and I hope that Mo adds to this collection as I think she is quite lovely and needs a few friends. Purple is not a colour I usually play with and I can't seem to loose this thing I have going with red, I think it adds a little bit of drama.  Its a little hard to see but the black background is embossed with one of my new folders.

I haven't entered any challenges in a while so I am entering this one into Mo's Challenge #98

 This next card is A Sassy Cheryl image and is nice and soft and glittery.  Quite different from the one above and if I could show you the third card it is again completely different and not a flower in sight.  Anyway back to this card.  Coloured in pencils and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, I think they do the best flowers and I get them direct as I have not found anyone here that stocks anything quite as good as these.

He is very cute this cheeky little fellow. 

 I am entering this one into Sassy Cheryl's Challenge #79

August and playing with Inks

Well I have been very neglectful of my poor wee blog of late.  I see it is almost a month since I posted - and I have no idea just where that month went.  Well.....actually I do really.  You may or may not know that I am on the committee of the Dance & Performing Arts Society and this weekend just past we hosted our annual Competitions,  Entries far exceeded our expectation and we took on running two venues simultaneously.  It was a huge undertaking, with lots of preparation and challenges along the way.  But I think overall we did a pretty good job and can tick the weekend off as being successful.  I was totally exhausted by Monday. 

At school we have also had inter school cross country and Nick was one of the 8 boys to represent the school and he came a very respectable 21st out of around 80 boys. Taking into consideration his asthma this was a fantastic result and he was rightly very proud of himself. We also have had the annual speech contest.  Both Nick and Abbey got into the finals and Abbey gained first place.  She went on to represent our school at the finals against all the schools in the area and gained third place.  The competition was really tough and she is the first student from our school to have ever placed in this competition. So yes I am extremely proud of them both.

This month also saw the school production take place - no wonder the month disappeared so fast.  The kids did a wonderful job with the direction of the teachers.  It was called the Button Box and the whole school was involved.  Just quickly it was based around a box of buttons from around the world and each one told a story.  It was fantastic.

Finally I have received some wonderful packages this past week from some very thoughtful friends and you all know who you are and I want to say a huge thank you. So THANK YOU.  One of these packages was also from a comment I made on a local scrap booking online shop and as a consequence have been playing with this beautiful La Blanche stamp and inks.  Quite pleased with my first attempt.

La Blanche stamp (German Company) coloured in Inks