Crafty Pad # 16

The challenge this week is in a form of a sketch. :) :)

You may twist or turn it anyway you like
as long as we can see the basic sketch...
you may also add extras if you like. :)

Here is the sketch:-

This is my take on it.
I have used Faith ~sure

Her hat & belt are heat embossed.
She is coloured using promarkers .

I hope this makes sense.....I am still half asleep.

I wanted to try to do something different this week.
Since I don't have square nesties,
I measured the same distance from the outside edge
inside all the way round the front of the card,
marking it with pencil.
Used my craft knife to cut out the centre square.

Then I masked off a border using post it notes.....
High tech stuff here!
Stamped it with versamark,
then heat embossed with black powder.
The speckles are because I didn't use anti-static talc
so a few bits stuck on other bits than the edges.....

I used a larger square of white pearl card to make
next layer fixing it down with eyelets.
The next layer is black card, edged with silver peel off lines.

You can see the slight space
I have left between the two squares,
which when the card is closed you can
see the mirror card inside
So I can write inside the card I used white card
cut out & embossed using nesties label 1
I smudged the edges with red ink.

The challenge is open to anyone - but only those using a Crafty Pad stamp is eligible for the prize. :)

The prize this week is:-
some nice All Night Media chalks and some flowers and brads. :)


So come on over and join us at Crafty Pad & check out the lovely cards the other DT girlies have made!

Saturday Shanagins!

Yesterday was a Fantastic day!
Got to go see Amanda at long last!!!
It is years since we last saw each other....and met up again online due to our crafty blogs!
It takes two hours or so to drive to her house.


Amanda & I had both decided after posting we were gonna meet up twice & having to change it twice due to things happening, including her ending up in hospital!!!
That we were not gonna plan to meet again......but if I just ended up at her house,
and I just happened to have my stamps and craft stuff in my car.......
and if I wanted to stamp up with her .....then that would be ok.
So various texts going back and fore.
Both not doing doing any on Saturday
.....both healthy.....
I just happened to be passing her road end.....( once I got right road end!)
We got together!!!!
We spent ages stamping away for an image swap.....
And , what would you know, I also just happened to have the two new stamps Amanda wanted from Sugar Nellie & a new ink pad, as hers was done in my bag that we swaped for cash! LOL!

It was a lovely afternoon, the two DH's bleathered about all sorts,
The two doggy girls had a great time!!!!

This is the only picture we managed to get as they didn't stay still for long enough!
And Gypsy is coming to stay with Poppy in October!!!
No kennels for your holidays this year Gypsy!
Lily was a wee honey and did some stamping and played with dogs.
She is a beautiful wee lassie!
We had a lovely supper and I am still getting ink from under my nails.

I got fab goodies including papers, SU stamps and altered tin from Amanda!
And it had lovely goodies in it, charms, brads, and .....
her left over bit of my fave punpkin ribbons from the
Spring Time Crafty Ribbons challenge we both did!!!!!!!



Talking of Crafty Ribbons......

You know I have really enjoying working The Crafty Ribbons Challenges,
this time working with beautiful colours I would not normally pick.

I had made this wee folded tag book.

The Crafty Ribbon's Team are in Paris at a Craft show with the challenge cards.....

Well I did chuckle when I saw this on the Crafty Ribbons Blog ~

"One section of our stand has been turned into spring -
we have all your wonderful cards on display, hanging from a washing line, with wooden dollie pegs - looks wicked. Thank you for all your hard work. Tina made us a delightful little tag album, with photos from the blog and using all "Spring Time" ribbons, we have this on our demo table. I have never made one of these, so explaining it in english would be a problem, but in French!!! We had to take it off display today, it was causing too much of a stir! "