C is for Corset Again!

The Alpha Challenge over at the Craft Barn this week is also for the letter C and I have again gone with the word Corset as I had this  free digi,  download from here  which I wanted to use on my page.
 

 

I used a well watered down pink paint as a wash over the dictionary page . The digi is coloured in using distress markers in navy and pink.  I have used more of my undwear snippets on the page which  I thought to be highly appropriate given the content.  The Letter C was downloaded from here.

Close up of the page is below.

 

 

Entering into the following:

The Craft Barn: Alpha challenge letter C.







January Mystery Crime reading Challenge.

The Mystery/Crime reading challenge started this month. The book I chose to download and read was

 

328 pages.

 

Since July 2011 'The One You love' has been downloaded over one and a half million times, has spent a full month at number 1 in the UK Kindle free download chard (July-August 2011) and has spent over a year near or at the top of UK Apple ibookstore free crime and thriller chart.

 

The story revolves around Emma who is shortly to be married. On her hen night she receives a phone call from her brother who should be out on her Fiance (Dan's)  stag night to say that Dan has gone missing. They race over to his flat to find a body on the floor badly injured and Dan nowhere to be found. Emma's nightmare is about to begin as first one then another of her friends and family come under suspicion. The race is on to find Dan before the police do.  Who can she trust and who is she to believe. The pace is fast and keeps you guessing right up until almost the last with a good twist at the end. 

A sequel has been written to this book  called  'The one you Fear' which takes up the story 4 weeks later.

My rating 9/10.

 

Full details of The Crafty Book Nerd 2013 mystery /crime reading challenge can be found here. you can join in the challenge at time during the course of the year.

 

 



Something begining with C.

Over at Tag Tuesday we are also playing with the letters of the Alphabet and the letter this week is C. Looking through the dictionary I found the word Corset and knowing I had this wooden  one from Crafty -Emblies in my stash decided to raid the rest of my stash looking for suitable papers and vintage bits and bobs to go with it.

 

The papers were free in the craft magazine  Making Cards.  The fancy letter was downloaded from this site. The little bow with the wording ' with love'  was cut from the tag inside a jumper I had bought  and as I thought it too pretty to throw away had kept safely in my stash along with the rest of the items.

 

Along with Tag Tuesday

Entering into the following Challenges:

 

Pixies Crafty workshop: Use your Snippets.

Simply Create Too: Anytjhing goes.

Crafts & Me Challenges: Vintage  Themed.

Anything Goes: Buttons and Bows.

Crafting For All Seasons: Buttons and Bows.

Crafty Creations: Just take two. (used 2 papers, 2 buttons, 2 pieces of lace, 2 ribbons)

4 Crafty Chicks: Buttons.

Papertake Weekly: Tie up your loose ends.

Make it Monday Party: Anyting goes #125

 

 



Thinking of you.

I made this card for The Doc's  Aunt as sadly his Uncle died this week. I actually made 3 cards and let The doc choose. He thought she would like this one so this card is for
Aunty Eileen.

 

Difficult to decide on colours and embellishments but I had this lovely pink/beige paper in my left over scraps. It has a delicate lacy pattern on it and I have matched it to a snippet of digi paper by Chocolate Barroque called Cream Ice (a very pale pink). The die is  new from

Crealies  (Creative Flowers CL CF 25) and I'm already loving using it as is layers really well. The leaves were made using their CL CS 09 die. Swirl is a Sizzix die. Stamps are by Wow.

I adhered the paper to a piece of cardboard cut to size and distressed the edges for a worrn look. I have used T.H. Vintage Photo ink  for the sentiment and edges of the flower/leaves.

Finished off with a white pearl in the centre of the flower. Verse inside was created in word and printed off in a brown to match. Close up of flower detail below.

 



 

Entering:

 

Crealies challenge: Anything goes. (Dies listed above).

   

Also the following:

One Crazy Stamper: Anything Goes.

Crafty Calendar: Whats new. (New stash)

Craft Room: Monochrome.

Creative Inspirations: Anything goes +an option of a flower.

In The PInk: Distressed.

Totally Gorjuss: Flowers

Pixies Crafty Workshop: Use your snippets. (papers from snippet box)

The squirrel and The Fox: Something New. (Dies)

 



10 Minute Craft Dash.

I somehow managed to talk myself into doing this challenge that I came across on another blog. How difficult can that be I thought!!!!

 

The rules are fairly simple.

1. To create a card/project within ten minutes using the colour palette above.

2. Post the time it took to create.

 

and the one I liked the sound of the most

You can pull out your supplies before your time starts.

Yay!

How difficult can that be I thought!

  





 

Selected items to use and found stopwatch facility on mobile. How difficult can that be I thought.  Went and retrieved  mobile user guide. 30 minutes later chucked the  instruction book away which is half written in Malay and worked it out for myself instead.

Two minutes and so many seconds into the first card(note I said first) the land line phone goes? I have to answer this so put the stopwatch on hold. Finish call and find the stop watch has reset itself.

How difficult can that be I thought. Went and cut fresh supplies and started again.  Another two cards later and I cannot get the time to under 10mins.

It has now become a matter of pride to do this so a fresh strategy was needed. I had been cutting a sheet of card in all 3 colurs and layering up.This I decided was where my time was being eaten up so I reduced down to one green sheet, a pink distress marker and Memento London Fog (Grey) ink pad.

Ta da!!

  



And the one you have all been waiting for .







 

09:30.44

 

If you try this at home yourself just make sure that you have a glass of suitably chilled wine sat on the top shelf in the fridge and a reason for passing said fridge door!!!

 

Entering into the following challenges:

Pretty Pink Posh: 10 minute Craft Dash.

Addicted to CAS: Lets get Embossed.

A Gem of a challenge: Emboss it wet/or dry.

 

 

 



4 U.

This really is a left overs card from making a couple at the Weekend that needed to get sent to Australia today.  Can't show those two at the moment as they are destined for a swap and do not want to spoil the suprise before they are seen in real life. I can say  though that the theme for the swap was to use a die cut shape on each one.
The butterfly is part of a two piece die that I have begged, borrowed and stolen from Fluff in the past but she finally relented and gave it to me as part of my Chirstmas present. Yay!!!
I love this die to bits  so all I can say is watch this space in future months.

It was a joy to get back  to using Pink after the last few cards being in blue.  The tiny,  tiny butterflies are acutally what gets punched out from a Tonic Studios border punch that I have. (Well you didn't think I was going  to throw them out did you!!!!)  After glueing them + my fingers + anything else I touched I managed to get them stuck on the card.  Sentiment was created in word and printed out onto cream/ivory paper. Again the shaped window is what was left from cutting and using the inside shape on another card. I added a  few gems to the butterfly to mimic the design of the wings. The pink paper underneath has a swirl pattern on it that the die cut swirl reflects in mirror image which you can see better in the close up below.

 



 

Entering into the following challenges:

Glitter n Sparkle: Sentimental.

Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes.

The Squirrel & The Fox: Anything Goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Use your Snippets #56

The Ribbon Girl: Pink & Ivory.

Created with Love: Anything Goes.

Cute Card Thursday: Diamonds are Forever.

UnstampaBelles: Use one or more Dies.

Card Crafter's Circle: Layers.

Make it Monday: Paper crafts # 124



 

 

 

V is for Venus.

Over at The Craft Barn  they are starting something new called the Alpha Challenge. If you have an old dictionary you can play along. You can either alter the dictionary itself or you can take pages to insert them into an art journal. A new letter of the alphabet will be posted every two weeks. The first letter is V.

I have chosen to make a journal book  of my dictionary  pages.  I made the hard covers for the front and back from sturdy card which I have rounded the edges on and punched holes to take the book ring binders. Apart from the dictionary which I purchased from the local charity shop every else used is from my stash

 



 

Looking through the pages for V  I found Venus the God of love and as I knew I had this roman stamp and the heart stamp decided to use them on my page.  I painted over  the page ( except for the defintion on venus which you must leave showing)with white paint

and when dry stamped over the top using a distressed ink pad. The fancy letter I downloaded from the  internet here. Scrap of ribbon and lace from my stash.

 



 

Here is a close up of the page showing the detail. I think on future pages I will water down the white paint as you cannot really see much of the dictionary page  but it is there trust me!

I wonder what the next letter will be as they are being randomly picked each time.

 

Entering into:

The Craft Barn : Alpha challenge  letter V.