Paper Patchwork

Hi Guys

I hope that you are all well and enjoying the good weather.

After a number of male birthdays over the past few months my supply of men's cards has got a bit low, so I decided to make patchwork men's card today.

I love making patchwork cards as they are a great way of using up all the small bits of paper that always seem to get left over from background papers. I keep them all in a box and periodically use them to make patchwork backgrounds for a card. Well onto the card itself, the background is papers from stash highlighted by silver outline stickers and the image is a decoupage (though its not clear from the photo) of a 1951 Jaguar XKI20 that was left over from another card that I had made.

I am going to be sitting some exams over the next 3 weeks so won't be making any posts until the middle/end of June.

Happy Crafting and I will look forward to seeing all your creations when I am back in blog land

Ben

Water Colour

Hi Guys

Hope that you are all well and enjoying the sunshine that has finally decided to arrive.

Today I have a card that I made as part of my craft club's 'stash challenge' - this a challenge that the six of us in the club do each month, it involves each member selecting either an image or topper from their stash along with a colour combo to give to another member in the club, who then has to make a project or card using the topper and colour combination, we pick names out of a hat each month - well this month I was given this lovely stamped image and the colour combo of turquoise and purple.

I decided to colour the image using watercolour paints and pencils to give it a subtle feel I then mounted it on to holographic purple card and added to the card, backed with turquoise paper I had in stash. A purple ribbon and a sentiment backed on the the remaining holographic card finished it off.

I am off to do some blog hopping.

Happy Crafting

Ben