Altered Art?

BEFORE AFTERDon't tell my MIL, but this went in the bin- but as you can see I took it out again, because I decided I could use it! Then swiftly covered up the logo with a sticker to make it look pretty and decorated with my new primas and some girly bling! Oh if you are wandering what it is... it is a mobile phone holder, now sitting pretty on my craft table

Juicy Lucy

Trying to incorporate 3 challenges this time! 2 of which were Daring Card Makers; 1 to make a card on the topic of love and friendship, and then the midweek challenge, of using juicy citrus clours like orange and yellow. Then I used the Di hickman sketch for the layout.

Silly String

This weeks challenge on the Magnolia site was to incorporate string! My imwediate thought was to put Edwin on a swing, sounds easy enough doesn't it- the reality well much harder and more fiddly then imagined! As I made all the bits up my self. Cut the tree from some bark scrapbook paper, coloured in the background using watercolour pencils then over the top in tapestry and swirly stamps.

Baby Love

I love it when I can combione challenges- kinda makes life easier that way. So here is the Caardvark challenge od 'Baby love' (which I have just noticed I am a bit behind with!) mixed with Di Hickmans sketch, great way of using up scraps by the way!

Dainty & Delicate

Papertake Weekly challenge is 'Simply Stripes' Now my stripes are hiding behind the ribbon... but I promise you they are there, just subtle! This card was made for a friend who wanted a 60th birthday card, she didnt really know the ladies taste and wanted spring colours, so I went fo muted greens and pinks, rather than the yellows and oranges. This card is a little different from what I normally would do and a lot of thought went into it (believe it or not!) and I couldn't get the photo to do it justice... So without further ado... here it is:

Reuse, Reduce, Recyle

Magnolia challenge for this week- to make a mothers Day card incorporating recycling! What a fab challenge. I wanted to find as much as I could to use on the card, but this proved to be a little difficult... So I ended up using 3 items The silver cardstock in the background is used from a takeaway lid (which I cleaned!!!), a ring pull from a can and ribbon from some packaging.

Making Sacrifices

This weeks Salt Challenge is the topic of 'Lent' a tricky one to say the least! I knew what text I wanted to use, but then it was a matter of portraying it... When I thought of the subject of lent, I thought about the Sacrifice's or dicipline that people make, and more importantly the sacrifice that God made for us in sending his Son Jesus to die on the cross for us. Ruth (my sister) gave me the suggestion of making 'Moo' cards, which are 2.8 x 7cm an unusual size to work with, but helps with stretching the imagination! The verse reads: GREATER LOVE HAS NOONE THAN THIS, THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS, JOHN 15:13
I used stamps, eyelets, prima, tiny shells, skeleton leaves, brads and gold thread

Also thought I would share with you the Valentine's Card I made for my DH, bit more abstract than I would usually attempt, but liked the way it turned out... I notice it ties in with Wednesday Stampers Valentine's theme.

I just can't get enough...

Of my new stamps! Here is Edwin giving away a heart balloon, for my second valentine's card of the year- bit slow off the ground this year... I was going to attempt the DCM challenge to only use red and white, but I had to sneak in the black, so dont think it counts... But on the magnolia blog however... they wanted romance, so that's what I went for!

My Magnolia's!

Can you tell these are my new favourite items? I think they are on par with my sqirly stamps and my paper flowers- now that's saying something! They arrived very speedily in the post this morning (after ordering them yesterday afternoon) and I got straight into colouring them in cutting them out!
It has been great for the mojo and for using up my scraps! I think you will be seeing a lot more of these little lovelies!...

Amazing Grace

God's Riches At Christ's Expense, is one way of summing up what the word Grace means to me as a Christian, thanks to Hazel who used this in her work on Salt. In my project I have put Christ's undeserved favour, which sums up not only his love but his 'Grace' to us in sending his Son Jesus to die on the cross to take away our sin. Next time you sing Amazing Grace, think about the words!

I wanted to go for a mix matched feel, so experimented with using different stamps to spell out the word grace in the hope that it would work! I added the floating butterflies to give it extra dimension