Well after the fiasco that has been the last few days crafty speaking of course, all of a sudden, inspiration, albeit in the form of some magazines and a HUGE kick up the jacks from Mrs Dunnit, in the form of an idea for paper piecing, all of a sudden last night I was up and running!
Firstly came the daffodil cards, the first one paper pieced and the second, the "easy" one.
I always try to do one that takes a bit of thought and effort on the part of the maker, well they are there to learn something! And a second that when theyhave got over having a good whinge about the first one, is easy on the mind and fingers to do. In this one, the image is stamped, mounted and some pretty flower edged organza ribbon is wrapped round the card.
Then came the Damask one. This paper is just gorgeous, it does not take a lot of "doing" to make a classy card with it, and the Inkadinkado stamp set is divine, it is a Christmas set, but I have used it all year round as I love it :)
The "easy" one is a vellum butterfly tea bag fold. This one , with larger 3" squares for the butterfly. Most of them have done before, but it does no harm to remind them does it!? And to my way of thinking, the more often that a technique is practiced, the easier it becomes to do it, not only that, but it is a pretty card to do :)
Next, and yes, there is a next! Came the purple beauties, and if you don't mind if I blow my own trumpet here, I am rather taken with them :)
These bees are about as cute as I get, aaaaaaaand it uses offcuts! Coloured with my Promarkers ...........of course!
But the one I am most pleased with, even if I did pinch the idea from a magazine, is the flowers one. Embossed with gold and coloured with Promarkers. I like the effect of stamping outside the box, it is a technique I use a lot. There are some in the class that I know will just not be able to do this, they will HAVE to have the image centred, but is OK too. I like the effect, but I know that there are some who just cannot "get" off centre stamping, and I do want them to go away happy, that way, they will come back!
4 comments:
SEE? I knew you would release the inner mojo that was lurking within, and, wow, that's what I call being on a roll! Love the diversity and colours, but that birdie stamp is absolutely on my SEE/WANT/HAVE list!!! Well done that Ffrog!
Wow, when you get going you really get going LOL
Those cards are just fab - well done. Really like the Damask one.
Toni :o)
OMG, when you get going with that MOJO there is no stopping you. Fabulous cards, great colours and images. Well Done Ffrog. Hugs Avril xx
Wow. Didn't realise I was kicking your a*** but am happy to take credit for that lot! Crikey, when you start, you really go!!
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