tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542837202991748322024-02-07T06:25:48.822+00:00INKY FINGERSCath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.comBlogger966125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-35529629529208813542022-07-01T15:50:00.002+01:002022-07-01T15:50:18.559+01:00Hello July - 2022<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Wow! It's such a long time since I blogged, but I haven't stopped creating - not completely.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Sadly, my eldest son was found dead last year and, as you can imagine, I was devastated. It's amazing how grief dries up all your creativity. A lot of my creative friends have also passed away this last few months - some very, very close to me. I've missed them and I'm sure I will do in future. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">But the biggest tribute is to continue creating, don't you think?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">I'm just going to post one or two of my bits and see if anyone looks these days - I've so lost touch with all the blogs, the challenges, etc. Emotions don't ask permission to mess with your life.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">I really liked the larger flowers in Lou Withers' Studio Light Just Lou range, so I played with watercolouring them in different colourways. I did have a plan to use them as book covers - they're a lovely size for a nice big journal. (Yes, I'm still making lots of books, mainly with Studio Light dies!)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lTA8Hfus6kM4FRijE1gu2Lt8w1sCkYXbDuO2UkIfQl0TboPT5ra1YsP12PJMsTxsD1xRRxa6ewPuJ1s6qF5JVtbVkK2XCWttTHvqcqIyhTNk54o5LuorWEPpszEXsd1Utkiv3eBScZ04FKm8Wdkt_tUx1NZS2kxPORKsKvfq5EKQP7igdo35cBkIOQ/s2417/IMG_20220323_162333.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="2417" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lTA8Hfus6kM4FRijE1gu2Lt8w1sCkYXbDuO2UkIfQl0TboPT5ra1YsP12PJMsTxsD1xRRxa6ewPuJ1s6qF5JVtbVkK2XCWttTHvqcqIyhTNk54o5LuorWEPpszEXsd1Utkiv3eBScZ04FKm8Wdkt_tUx1NZS2kxPORKsKvfq5EKQP7igdo35cBkIOQ/w640-h306/IMG_20220323_162333.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">There's another design somewhere, but I obviously haven't scanned or photographed it - I thought I had. I'll also share the card I made for my best friend's birthday - one of the few I've made this year.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6CAh8u0lmU88jkbd6Q1tE0m6EJxlKxdVvA1HbTV9oxaUNknokPe_cJlwFmDEvtYSSi1Lg-PK14Fp7cxERVhl7Oi2q-Xcd_Zv9YnvyRjdOnIuC1R_afqPD7-DIZFLyArJ95vU9L4M4iUWMnRMtkECrKWVbN1srBM3EnUkbOXIjtrTgkLE9acgFxoizg/s1788/LYNNE%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1788" data-original-width="1778" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6CAh8u0lmU88jkbd6Q1tE0m6EJxlKxdVvA1HbTV9oxaUNknokPe_cJlwFmDEvtYSSi1Lg-PK14Fp7cxERVhl7Oi2q-Xcd_Zv9YnvyRjdOnIuC1R_afqPD7-DIZFLyArJ95vU9L4M4iUWMnRMtkECrKWVbN1srBM3EnUkbOXIjtrTgkLE9acgFxoizg/w398-h400/LYNNE%202022.jpg" width="398" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">I used digistamps - unusual for me - and enjoyed this. Unfortunately, I've really struggled with colouring of any type of late. I watercoloured a canvas (preprinted) with my granddaughter (now 9) a few weeks ago. Loved it but could barely walk for a couple of days, which was a bit of a problem because I had their dog to walk and look after while they were in Spain for a family wedding. That was fun - I broke my heart when he finally went home, though it was tough when he first arrived. He's only a pup, really. I've never known a dog like him but he is a little love. I had to cover everything while he was here... 😊</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxn_F_DEOpCkIbHIxRPEtURzsyIXHneykJBx_WEI-aI525LgUE2DH_P0oPRX_DtwArR1DdwiA0l4IObnprhxk1ui6TXmpIQZDx8ldl9oWfdG78lzVlntnb3w1gVLD1Lpsbo1SD6-0YAVmNQQd0BLQ1v1y5LpAFCf5MYhrnk_j8TT7nptRuZBDL3OuD4g/s3648/IMG_20220530_154519.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="2736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxn_F_DEOpCkIbHIxRPEtURzsyIXHneykJBx_WEI-aI525LgUE2DH_P0oPRX_DtwArR1DdwiA0l4IObnprhxk1ui6TXmpIQZDx8ldl9oWfdG78lzVlntnb3w1gVLD1Lpsbo1SD6-0YAVmNQQd0BLQ1v1y5LpAFCf5MYhrnk_j8TT7nptRuZBDL3OuD4g/w300-h400/IMG_20220530_154519.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Right, that's it for now - I have a Zoom call at 4pm, which I always look forward to. Hope you're all really well and enjoying life. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Many Blessings</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-44660737518892302812021-08-30T19:16:00.008+01:002021-08-30T19:19:11.023+01:00Happy Monday!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">That was originally Happy Sunday! Oops! I hope you're all well and enjoying the last little bits of Summer. It's been a lovely week here and I hope it has where you are.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">I have a couple of cards for you to see. I actually added the Happy Birthday to this so I could enter it into the Birthday challenge, then didn't manage it, and that's probably over 2 weeks ago! It will come in handy. As you can see, the little masked minx on the left has been dying her bunny to match today's outfit - poor little bunny. I quite like this stencil. I think it's a Uniko stencil and I like it because it's irregular. I used Oxides for the ink sponging.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJBE4YjxOGwo-_I0lqzEgPK0CLvpdtW1m8tA2Y28X4e9RFceDifXINnY8ygEeGRy9kqV2i_fTdYzCZ4VbVtiv_W4oqu8tBYDr8tkZLwOJAotzWfOvxh1J9Wl8BZcIqa2gL1auvWQGjWtn/s1785/CRAYONS+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1628" data-original-width="1785" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJBE4YjxOGwo-_I0lqzEgPK0CLvpdtW1m8tA2Y28X4e9RFceDifXINnY8ygEeGRy9kqV2i_fTdYzCZ4VbVtiv_W4oqu8tBYDr8tkZLwOJAotzWfOvxh1J9Wl8BZcIqa2gL1auvWQGjWtn/w400-h365/CRAYONS+3.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">This one was made with Dark Room Door stamps but I really don't like the die cut words I added, so I think I'll have to try to take them off! If I'm honest, I thought it a bit boring before I added them but I have lots of word stamps I could have used! Must have been one of those senior moments - I'm having way too many of them these days 😖 I used the new Prize Ribbon and Kitsch Flamingo, with a touch of Salvaged Patina. </span></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7TlrQu_rz7tJuKj5HNbWP60ObT1ZMieycfs5r8-h9Gg3dvPMhA9cLxXwccurDhMGiCpQKseKFp3XeipNI8IIKLli0hz6Ajg_QiAyMfFoKlr-aI03zT5HXsOFh-WEoFF6MG_e1bDLbYhLX/s1597/THINKING+OF+YOU+.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1597" data-original-width="1597" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7TlrQu_rz7tJuKj5HNbWP60ObT1ZMieycfs5r8-h9Gg3dvPMhA9cLxXwccurDhMGiCpQKseKFp3XeipNI8IIKLli0hz6Ajg_QiAyMfFoKlr-aI03zT5HXsOFh-WEoFF6MG_e1bDLbYhLX/w400-h400/THINKING+OF+YOU+.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">This one I love but that's partly because I love the stamp - I love echinaceas and have a drawing I found a few weeks ago somewhere. I also have a recently acquired new one in a pot in my yard, which is coming into bloom right now. It's beautiful. This background was made with acrylic paints and was gorgeous until I started stamping... but I still like the result in a quirky kind of way. The colours I stamped with are a bit strong and I added too much text, I know. I just got carried away, lol.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIUMoA0ET1FlCdJLHibDpN8LzOuifOdviQoBMnmQlNQ1r7mLygrw5QyJbJtRkZvxNMc7JRuhQgVhJNDoHxWy4F-M2mNHXdwRC8VVyU-YPS28CgLcr_-xSF46ICfDuYLV1Sl4eYUtOboGgi/s1775/BEAUTIFUL+DAY1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1775" data-original-width="1761" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIUMoA0ET1FlCdJLHibDpN8LzOuifOdviQoBMnmQlNQ1r7mLygrw5QyJbJtRkZvxNMc7JRuhQgVhJNDoHxWy4F-M2mNHXdwRC8VVyU-YPS28CgLcr_-xSF46ICfDuYLV1Sl4eYUtOboGgi/w396-h400/BEAUTIFUL+DAY1.jpg" width="396" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I did say I'd add some Bible Journalling, so here are a couple of Genesis pages that almost everyone will recognise. Most people get the animal numbers wrong, though - there were 7 pairs of every 'clean' animal on that ark and 1 pair of every unclean animal, plus 7 pairs of birds... it is difficult to imagine how huge that ark was! I did get the animal stamps specifically for this and I love the way they turned out... </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowCTWP0-ZxXh3zKGPYq1dIm9buxPK-RtKBbSH_Lk41xLm7YaEuLxwbmappDC9yDMXt7Z0h-24Hm9Xi1sbVs8SqC3s90pwPdqiBcv4ku5QxvHxdCMkh8AyaIq9pCQEDjpHq6QhuLe10a_l/s2048/IMG_20210705_170754.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2043" data-original-width="2048" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowCTWP0-ZxXh3zKGPYq1dIm9buxPK-RtKBbSH_Lk41xLm7YaEuLxwbmappDC9yDMXt7Z0h-24Hm9Xi1sbVs8SqC3s90pwPdqiBcv4ku5QxvHxdCMkh8AyaIq9pCQEDjpHq6QhuLe10a_l/w400-h399/IMG_20210705_170754.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I just love making rainbow backgrounds, so this one was a lot of fun to do. I was doing my best to get it as vivid as possible, so I used Inktense pencils, which worked beautifully. Love those alphabet stamps, too 😉</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTfSQpTvHFwLtHDYwaWftGcHiKYuH4UTpw5BKSx66CAI2jI_VlvrKVxQsuBO-XTzuqxyLdsdUfoO_AVHjXTIhrm9ZCC98THQPSTJwmlNcXmwyManvvNP5Ki4Rgo_rw7ZjLWnpLQ0U8oE0Q/s2048/IMG_20210705_170703.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTfSQpTvHFwLtHDYwaWftGcHiKYuH4UTpw5BKSx66CAI2jI_VlvrKVxQsuBO-XTzuqxyLdsdUfoO_AVHjXTIhrm9ZCC98THQPSTJwmlNcXmwyManvvNP5Ki4Rgo_rw7ZjLWnpLQ0U8oE0Q/w329-h400/IMG_20210705_170703.jpg" width="329" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Linking to</div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://challengeupyourlife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Challenge Up Your Life</a>, Circles</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Creatalicious</a>, Anything Goes</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Try it on Tuesday</a>, Summer Blooms</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/" target="_blank">Simon Says Wednesday Challenge</a>, Anything Goes</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Thank you for calling in today</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></p>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-28085755503959548962021-08-12T17:03:00.002+01:002021-08-12T17:03:30.364+01:00If I were Queen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I made this one as a birthday card for a friend. I hadn't used Salvaged Patina Oxide (nor have I used the most recent one yet!) until this last two weeks or so and it really is one of my favourite shades, so you'll no doubt see it more. It's such a soothing colour and it goes well with the lovely Darkroom Door thistle stamps. I used their long Birthday stamp in the background, too. Adding white highlights to the thistles makes all the difference.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN4w2k0Xm1YgcITyVpFa8dkL4t2RG-ocv3oiC9noCbDGrDV8ijsz73fZjiXggHs8B_sqiGb1GvbqS4-2ZvwAB3iUMO0-_bBngu7AnMMWPjAfkh4j2smaSCYZcoIY1rpJVYiTcV5jhHLZ_1/s1923/Thistle+birthday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1923" data-original-width="1576" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN4w2k0Xm1YgcITyVpFa8dkL4t2RG-ocv3oiC9noCbDGrDV8ijsz73fZjiXggHs8B_sqiGb1GvbqS4-2ZvwAB3iUMO0-_bBngu7AnMMWPjAfkh4j2smaSCYZcoIY1rpJVYiTcV5jhHLZ_1/w328-h400/Thistle+birthday.jpg" width="328" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I used it on this one, too. Just a play with some Paperartsy stamps.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmV4zqy6Rq24xBVf75BEDA0WjD5JEN53ljWboF8vgC-n8XDC90k2MQk4GvBbnpLx6pxYgyfYlK9bC2aexKPp_wVmYay1Rfpuf4_3BzHkIhAAg7H8HHVnnA2fDNkwfwMtw4-fm_ZF8MUNdY/s2048/soblessed2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1574" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmV4zqy6Rq24xBVf75BEDA0WjD5JEN53ljWboF8vgC-n8XDC90k2MQk4GvBbnpLx6pxYgyfYlK9bC2aexKPp_wVmYay1Rfpuf4_3BzHkIhAAg7H8HHVnnA2fDNkwfwMtw4-fm_ZF8MUNdY/w308-h400/soblessed2.jpg" width="308" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And another over a stencilled background..</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyWdj9gB6kpmcz7Dv6EEKvfPKMua5MtkZXLTCxMu_L-WCT1G54Dhkq_I7r8xiDse5H-2kl7itbnL8kMm60SvwUWjIcLxn6jUqZ9QfN6dw3i0vjd_jJVafzsf_CllxypBQbidTtFHIY-OU/s2048/find+joy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyWdj9gB6kpmcz7Dv6EEKvfPKMua5MtkZXLTCxMu_L-WCT1G54Dhkq_I7r8xiDse5H-2kl7itbnL8kMm60SvwUWjIcLxn6jUqZ9QfN6dw3i0vjd_jJVafzsf_CllxypBQbidTtFHIY-OU/w298-h400/find+joy.jpg" width="298" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then, some simple ink blending for a change...scan on the left, photo on the right. I really like the way this one turned out.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxW3URdAKIJ91c8uqe3Yuxf1rEpQIWfQmHg48AXIWS0pbYnc2tOzBJTVXWf8EKjowqyPowjEC16zsPxxh3GMnETsDQSXFxYwtud9IOKXCcy3OFedZrv_7ccOf5ko0LLHLdYZXUs4C-QYUb/s2048/nevertooold+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1690" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxW3URdAKIJ91c8uqe3Yuxf1rEpQIWfQmHg48AXIWS0pbYnc2tOzBJTVXWf8EKjowqyPowjEC16zsPxxh3GMnETsDQSXFxYwtud9IOKXCcy3OFedZrv_7ccOf5ko0LLHLdYZXUs4C-QYUb/s320/nevertooold+%25282%2529.jpg" width="264" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2kz-j0weFWyutZOxNHg4nEtxS4yk9Wi620iCH8zZnTciSH0ZKJr3pSSFlasaRjUorgJY68eMVXup-U3Tm5nqV1obpOE6vHF4I9Mif7oPc2GzKnV5UW_2nA8GeAliKPCElE-jhEqS_BVp/s2048/NEVER+TOO+OLD+PHOTO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1733" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2kz-j0weFWyutZOxNHg4nEtxS4yk9Wi620iCH8zZnTciSH0ZKJr3pSSFlasaRjUorgJY68eMVXup-U3Tm5nqV1obpOE6vHF4I9Mif7oPc2GzKnV5UW_2nA8GeAliKPCElE-jhEqS_BVp/w271-h320/NEVER+TOO+OLD+PHOTO.jpg" width="271" /></a> </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And for a bit of fun. Another stencilled and stamped background and one of those images that always makes me smile. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJ3cy7s7nmbvouTrG_VwKjgE4rcN9KCykeeH5GfhQpWgU9EpmfoZ22tDGrsEZq50LW8SahyphenhyphenFikCDTLdGA7uH2ZBKD8_5YcA-S5Xc9wNswIFyqe0rwp3QBVvuVeAstCwmWxKcgXw7dEAp8/s1946/IFIWEREQUEEN3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1946" data-original-width="1486" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJ3cy7s7nmbvouTrG_VwKjgE4rcN9KCykeeH5GfhQpWgU9EpmfoZ22tDGrsEZq50LW8SahyphenhyphenFikCDTLdGA7uH2ZBKD8_5YcA-S5Xc9wNswIFyqe0rwp3QBVvuVeAstCwmWxKcgXw7dEAp8/w305-h400/IFIWEREQUEEN3.jpg" width="305" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Linking to </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/">Watercooler Wednesday Challenge</a>, Occasions</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge</a>, Heat Embossing</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/2021/08/august-favourite-stamps.html" target="_blank">We Love Chocolate Baroque</a>, Favourite Stamps</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/" target="_blank">Retro Rubber,</a> Anything Goes (Lady with broom stamp)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://challengeupyourlife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Challenge Up Your Life</a>, Circles</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a>, Any Celebration</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you for calling in today</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back soon</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cath</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">xxx</span></p>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-12759747903644897162021-08-04T14:01:00.007+01:002021-08-05T09:08:52.568+01:00Hello August...<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Where did the year go? Just popping in to share some of my recent creations... no excuses for delaying - it's just been a time for doing other things. We just had a 5 and a half day conference' at my church (streamed live instead of the usual camping holiday) which was brilliant, but it was an all day thing. Even though I didn't get to the afternoon sessions, I was doing other things, so I've just been going straight to bed when I did get home. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">I'll check current challenges but I just want to share what's in my folder, so will try to do that this week. The cards I'm posting today feature my favourite colour combinations - definitely feel good colours for me. They also feature mostly florals. Isn't it strange how we go through phases of using different types of images? </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">This is one of my favourite Paperartsy stamp sets. These stamps just go so well together and fit a variety of purposes. The Friends stamp is an old Hero Arts stamp I've well and truly had my money's worth from. I love it and use it over and over again.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ_fdhAqyYtJ7AWls_piDWPY2h0fL8YCRCgFygatp0GqpHw0rsikFJSB4-k4v9wd83ipsnMPlTZaEgp2z6_m7zlv6CPybhqK_glSVXFa8ynBYnKARxSZ0UhQ0oAJKFXtE5t5b6KjU9JBZP/s1742/FRIENDS+PA+FLEURS+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1729" data-original-width="1742" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ_fdhAqyYtJ7AWls_piDWPY2h0fL8YCRCgFygatp0GqpHw0rsikFJSB4-k4v9wd83ipsnMPlTZaEgp2z6_m7zlv6CPybhqK_glSVXFa8ynBYnKARxSZ0UhQ0oAJKFXtE5t5b6KjU9JBZP/w400-h398/FRIENDS+PA+FLEURS+1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">The next two cards are cut from the same background piece I made with one of my favourite stencils and a Hero Arts background text I'd just unmounted and put on EZ mount.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAFBqcryz0mZ5EvA-4B9FjL8Hpp39fOGRrVgZcGM2UbSvFTBRgJKF2lG8mkE3DzYmRus04F4Pf0aN9kECw6XZObmzICl-stlSwcIOT_LsQDq5SLSjc5jkdAsSAdE1c-M7dbfyBUzW7c-8/s1924/MAKE+DAY+COUNT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1924" data-original-width="1414" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAFBqcryz0mZ5EvA-4B9FjL8Hpp39fOGRrVgZcGM2UbSvFTBRgJKF2lG8mkE3DzYmRus04F4Pf0aN9kECw6XZObmzICl-stlSwcIOT_LsQDq5SLSjc5jkdAsSAdE1c-M7dbfyBUzW7c-8/w294-h400/MAKE+DAY+COUNT.jpg" width="294" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">This next one features Darkroom Door stamps, and is from the same background I used in the previous card..</span></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVfHJRuAZ0hC3mfMNZoNMYz4lq-uE0TPoeDUeagimv3c4AXqW-ReQ3UspqpO1tPSFRYUNtJ-xiX95G-7imp6heb3yzV23IvQsmzYcZEV2sAcqj3RXZi7V9TZpA12NRjl1DuBo8RXIPQzV/s1824/NOT+PERFECT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1803" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVfHJRuAZ0hC3mfMNZoNMYz4lq-uE0TPoeDUeagimv3c4AXqW-ReQ3UspqpO1tPSFRYUNtJ-xiX95G-7imp6heb3yzV23IvQsmzYcZEV2sAcqj3RXZi7V9TZpA12NRjl1DuBo8RXIPQzV/w395-h400/NOT+PERFECT.jpg" width="395" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">This was a birthday card for a very special lady. A friend's mum was 80 a couple of weeks ago and I actually got to see her last month, too - which was lovely, though it made me miss my own mum, who's been in New Zealand for 13 years now. My mum wouldn't have appreciated this card, though. She's much more a floral, pastel and traditional die cut type of lady.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZM69kpQTzv2nrdG3scMRUMILxvYsTsa4btrddr9igRSSI8NmnP7vD3ovU8Toc5uxE4N4Vn8qaZMhRYvAdN4EV5VUKnN1jvq5LHFHNilJDDqtWUFzBnDcZbjBdMEfEO6ybMIvl4ObypUM/s1787/RAINBOWS1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1787" data-original-width="1764" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZM69kpQTzv2nrdG3scMRUMILxvYsTsa4btrddr9igRSSI8NmnP7vD3ovU8Toc5uxE4N4Vn8qaZMhRYvAdN4EV5VUKnN1jvq5LHFHNilJDDqtWUFzBnDcZbjBdMEfEO6ybMIvl4ObypUM/w395-h400/RAINBOWS1.jpg" width="395" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have a few others (not many unless I finish off the ones I've begun!) and some Bible Journalling to share but I'll come back with that.-</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Linking to:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Addicted to Stamps and More</a>, Make Your Mark</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/" target="_blank">Retro Rubber</a>, Anything Goes (Paperartsy stamps around 12 years old)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge</a>, Birthday challenge All and Create (second card)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">A Place to Start,</a> Create in 'Your style' - any or all the above</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Allsorts</a>, Anything Goes (Optional roses)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/" target="_blank">We love Chocolate Baroque</a>, Favourite stamps (Thanks, Brenda)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://challengeupyourlife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Challenge Up Your Life</a>, Circles</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Thank you for calling in today</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Back soon</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Cath</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">xxx</span></p>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-70393208413684259432021-07-06T14:34:00.003+01:002021-07-06T14:34:26.597+01:00Bees and Blooms<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"> Hello friends. Almost back to normal now - whatever normality may mean to you 😊</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">I'm trying to reclaim some time for crafting, so this is what came out of my daily (well, almost) playtimes.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">First of all, I'll show you Bees and Blooms, because the theme over on <a href="http://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Make My Monday</a> is <b>Anything Airborne</b>. Yes, it's another Janet Klein image - but I do love them. This is a photo, and it looks very washed out, so I'll also show you a scan, which is VERY different - and, as usual, it's half way between the two. It is very bright, but that's because I used Ripe Persimmon and Abandoned Coral, with a bit of Squeezed Lemonade, using one of my favourite all time stencils to add some interest This little one doesn't require much colouring but is fun to play with. The words are from a whole plate of Bee words which have come in handy since bee mania began. The white lines are added with a stencil (Uniko).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGn0WtiGm1MLOTObb6CBpK0IGTHCcs9vjJfiDCEdwE7r9aNOiLxv3aNMVEE0mzLKBLTLf2F3C_9USk2tlnRLP9L4OGcyryiutEPJrl8wXANbkfT3mimejaBcIrrIvyMTz9YK6BRJLK9qEr/s1724/IMG_20210628_212641.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1719" data-original-width="1724" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGn0WtiGm1MLOTObb6CBpK0IGTHCcs9vjJfiDCEdwE7r9aNOiLxv3aNMVEE0mzLKBLTLf2F3C_9USk2tlnRLP9L4OGcyryiutEPJrl8wXANbkfT3mimejaBcIrrIvyMTz9YK6BRJLK9qEr/w400-h399/IMG_20210628_212641.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Scan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvJC_42tBshiTQct8slyv6LGnrMPvH1Xg7uJNJooi4i_nYOnNTDUpQNxWYYOABDBoOTkBdo70sYcBLJtqsM7GqkNCYh6VSCMBf8w1dGQ8TRXl8KZlIUsD0-7Zakwst4uHT5JM6geyzv9lz/s1825/BEECAUSE+OF+YOU+B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1811" data-original-width="1825" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvJC_42tBshiTQct8slyv6LGnrMPvH1Xg7uJNJooi4i_nYOnNTDUpQNxWYYOABDBoOTkBdo70sYcBLJtqsM7GqkNCYh6VSCMBf8w1dGQ8TRXl8KZlIUsD0-7Zakwst4uHT5JM6geyzv9lz/w400-h398/BEECAUSE+OF+YOU+B.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">This was in my 'half done' basket, so I decided to finish it off because I do actually like it and I love tall cards. I was trying to use up my old Ecoline watercolour inks with a new (at the time) leafy stamp and an old leafy stencil. I have a real weakness for leaves and always have had. It was really tough to find a background colour to match, so I ended up going with white and the nearest shade I could find to the leaves - everything else changed the appearance way too much.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilgfOqBrsBsmbFPVd2CqvYS4jKwrnbg2-wZFYdxZ9CzWyofyHygE4-9vMzlssVY48V7xw-WMaZuxEEipyvQGOyeA12W7z6T-Jl_-jnzRbkW2hTS3yEyKpuD1KziELAl8dTV0ZLEqS8ZL8s/s2048/LEAFY+IMPERFECTIONS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1186" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilgfOqBrsBsmbFPVd2CqvYS4jKwrnbg2-wZFYdxZ9CzWyofyHygE4-9vMzlssVY48V7xw-WMaZuxEEipyvQGOyeA12W7z6T-Jl_-jnzRbkW2hTS3yEyKpuD1KziELAl8dTV0ZLEqS8ZL8s/w370-h640/LEAFY+IMPERFECTIONS.jpg" width="370" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">One of my most Janet Klein purchases next. I thought I'd use a cloud stencil for a change and keep it simple. I intended using rainbow shades, but ended up just using Blueprint Sketch. using just the ink I first had on the sponge. I quite like it, though because it's subtle, despite the deeper blue. I didn't use the potted plants that came with her, but chose flowers from other sets and a simple grassy stamp. I've been experimenting with different pencil blending methods, using a variety of pencils.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJkvRa4Luy-ISJmYV9mfDrYdQ550EqOpBGgbKNGD5_tje-k7Hv056kT4QY6BGN2aYinbT_FrW55AwF9P9QdsLn88xnGuQUGX8owfUF89wEeJ_FKEc50FSifrvDs0-58N4pyorKUmjn91X/s2048/BEST+DIRT+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1220" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJkvRa4Luy-ISJmYV9mfDrYdQ550EqOpBGgbKNGD5_tje-k7Hv056kT4QY6BGN2aYinbT_FrW55AwF9P9QdsLn88xnGuQUGX8owfUF89wEeJ_FKEc50FSifrvDs0-58N4pyorKUmjn91X/w240-h400/BEST+DIRT+1.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">A gift from a friend, I stamped these flowers (Studio Light) onto a tag I'd used some of my favourite colours on. I'm really not happy with these flowers. I think I'll have to restamp on white and layer over the top. One of my favourite types of background on this tall (22cm) tag. I used the Uniko stencil on it, again - with Moonlight White Brilliance ink.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOHx2F3_zentqaZ86lZ9kIxIRUmThVjq_3-JewcRkGkDeHnGefBDZ747Lt7Sf9-gkcis1ohXYrnkenz9wFMx-e2E6YippafpPVi_NQcchyphenhyphenOpWqFTOgFr8fmeWMOY0rirRZciL0UpV0PJw/s2535/TALLTAG1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2535" data-original-width="1241" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOHx2F3_zentqaZ86lZ9kIxIRUmThVjq_3-JewcRkGkDeHnGefBDZ747Lt7Sf9-gkcis1ohXYrnkenz9wFMx-e2E6YippafpPVi_NQcchyphenhyphenOpWqFTOgFr8fmeWMOY0rirRZciL0UpV0PJw/w196-h400/TALLTAG1.jpg" width="196" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Linking to the following challenges</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="I'm so enjoying my clematis this year - I have a few different ones planted in the same boxes, so am always pleasantly surprised to see what grows 😂 I'm not a brilliant gardener, and thinking I'd remember which was which (famous last words!) I managed to mix up early and late flowering species, which means I don't have a clue when or how to prune! 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I'll also do my best to visit some blogs this week, tennis allowing 😎 I love watching Wimbledon! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Thank you for calling in today</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">See you soon!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Cath</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">xxx</span></p>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-76562092711499712612021-06-16T19:41:00.001+01:002021-06-16T19:41:12.356+01:00Rainbow Playtime<p><span style="font-size: large;"> A fun playtime today 😁</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I couldn't resist this elephant stamp from Katzelcraft, and of course a couple of other small items somehow found their way into my shopping basket 😖 I just don't understand how that happens. Does it happen to you, too?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I cheated because I made this background either just before or just after Christmas, when I tried out some watercolour paints on watercolour paper, trying to get a deeper result with them. They are plastered on, so far from a watercolour effect, but that was exactly what I was after at the time. I can't tell you how many images have been on this piece, waiting to be glue(d down, until I changed my mind - again! But I decided it would be a perfect place for Ms Picasso Elephant. I did also end up, somehow, with the Les Pabos sheet I used last week. I have no idea what Pabos are...I should ask my friend in France. She has grandchildren, so maybe she'll know. I just know they make me smile.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So this is coloured with pencils - a variety of types, with some blending experiments, too. Some is finished off with Inktense pencils and acrylic paint pens because I wanted the vivid rainbow look on Ms Picasso's painting. I thought she'd enjoy a pedicure, so I painted her toe nails to match her beret, and added a few red jewel like dots - the dots were part of the image, so I just coloured them. I used some oddments for the background, which was stamped both in grey and in white - and an Aall and Create Circles background stamp.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_j9W5SqnGzTekBRQ0FUA8u5VD1F1XP7FGAz4H8Wwh6FnUW2EMIFygVJtcA48nDLikNQAEEDtX3GQdnRD7n51F8z2ZZWu8E07aq5369mHpcqr0Zjj6w35qjYcCoivygb3j3Ddrwrl6JU02/s1843/PLAY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1830" data-original-width="1843" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_j9W5SqnGzTekBRQ0FUA8u5VD1F1XP7FGAz4H8Wwh6FnUW2EMIFygVJtcA48nDLikNQAEEDtX3GQdnRD7n51F8z2ZZWu8E07aq5369mHpcqr0Zjj6w35qjYcCoivygb3j3Ddrwrl6JU02/w400-h398/PLAY.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Linking to</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Wednesdays</a>, Animal Antics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.ch/" target="_blank">Word Art Wednesdays</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Creatalicious</a>, Anything Goes/Water</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://rainbowcardchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rainbow Card Challenge</a>, Radically Rainbow</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://bastel-traum.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bastel-traum ch Challenge Blog</a>, Animals</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you for calling in today 😊</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back soon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-51621233634141067182021-06-12T20:46:00.003+01:002021-06-12T20:46:55.928+01:00Magical<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Yay! I stamped...I've been colouring some images the last few days and today I just felt the urge to make something. So, knowing I have a few KCUK birthdays coming up, I made this. They're not colours I use often but I love them. It's Ripe Persimmon, Abandoned Coral and Toasted Marmalade. They work well together. I think they almost look like Pomegranate shades or Watermelon.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGM3oQDIqDagpEFSRBzi2xMpb_m4m99_R0gedPRBiO4NJGdHWi7IYJW36lIxp34FodgK6SGktWlHcyXNAqwnpIE4WLBJB0qAmblMrGkZqnfWkbWtchVY6oZytkHr1MBnjd9lvOwBQG3tX0/s1824/img20210612_20223885.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1821" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGM3oQDIqDagpEFSRBzi2xMpb_m4m99_R0gedPRBiO4NJGdHWi7IYJW36lIxp34FodgK6SGktWlHcyXNAqwnpIE4WLBJB0qAmblMrGkZqnfWkbWtchVY6oZytkHr1MBnjd9lvOwBQG3tX0/w399-h400/img20210612_20223885.jpg" width="399" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Linking to</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Creative Fingers</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Mix it Up</a>, Anything Goes + stamping</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafting Happiness Challenge</a>, Anything Goes + optional Summer</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you for calling in today</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back soon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-71629194179076097892021-06-03T17:30:00.025+01:002021-06-05T07:34:30.878+01:00Books, books and more books...<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Hello! Happy June!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">I'm here to share the last book I stamped. I've made so little since then but I'm so yearning to get back in the creative space and play again, weather and 'sorting out' allowing 😊 Some of my shelves are looking quite bare, but that's deliberate and it makes me happy. I'll be starting to put some online this weekend, all being well.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">This one is a bit of a strange shape - again - because I kept adding to it, as I so often do and got in a bit of a pickle with the closure, etc - but what's new? It's Janet Klein themed again - these images are so much fun to play with and to colour, plus the pages are small enough to be relatively quick to decorate.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">So here it is...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX33r6ofAJFCxgUW-33H21tnnVb5WCuSkxjp2NBU_oM_-Q2xqAva6U6lNuiWP2h1F33HnklWhu1tckZ-N68xyJ4MXtyvQJXKmUSBC9s1nFHykRFnGxfDCMWSMua2M0cFAT4LQz-nteMRNd/s1780/MB5+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1549" data-original-width="1780" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX33r6ofAJFCxgUW-33H21tnnVb5WCuSkxjp2NBU_oM_-Q2xqAva6U6lNuiWP2h1F33HnklWhu1tckZ-N68xyJ4MXtyvQJXKmUSBC9s1nFHykRFnGxfDCMWSMua2M0cFAT4LQz-nteMRNd/w400-h348/MB5+1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Only showing this one because you hadn't seen the inside cover.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDNs2eINKmpR3_KkBuHa_0lI6dwudzZQTbDbbQzD1nNG486z3dSNDxGwm7Uqg6om-z9rXKtxjj732qjzTgw0h1sqlkrqSl-Ka870SuMHCfbWxUIlpjGRN5RzlX6eBI1dkNrzDATfSOv7mR/s2048/MB5+6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1293" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDNs2eINKmpR3_KkBuHa_0lI6dwudzZQTbDbbQzD1nNG486z3dSNDxGwm7Uqg6om-z9rXKtxjj732qjzTgw0h1sqlkrqSl-Ka870SuMHCfbWxUIlpjGRN5RzlX6eBI1dkNrzDATfSOv7mR/w404-h640/MB5+6.jpg" width="404" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">I know it's upside down, but this is the cover I made in the end.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZGtAqJzpBLl8jUPQIFY4-YXnGmhoGXY0TByhbT6X0pHppC-u2cnNDtovMs7xXMTi6DtieYDTKvp7sIyFXMLL2r615lEOvyk2NmGvj_qpemDjNfdM8soiQ-GCpQaCfe7iLspuT7G4OD8T0/s2048/MB516+BACK.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1054" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZGtAqJzpBLl8jUPQIFY4-YXnGmhoGXY0TByhbT6X0pHppC-u2cnNDtovMs7xXMTi6DtieYDTKvp7sIyFXMLL2r615lEOvyk2NmGvj_qpemDjNfdM8soiQ-GCpQaCfe7iLspuT7G4OD8T0/w330-h640/MB516+BACK.jpg" width="330" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">And this is how they look opened up - front and back.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3BBYRhOBFHP0OestNbtZdjUg2Uua4uxn5fVsHLAvXA1lTj5BSFZbM18LvNsAjfpvczl10YVnw1arnRZb_j_UI7H3qIDo6KWoe0rI6Ypl8Fqkr4FFU0Fjv5fC7gq_fqo6x7LLuJ5bJlzW/s3177/MB5+SIDE+1B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3177" data-original-width="990" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3BBYRhOBFHP0OestNbtZdjUg2Uua4uxn5fVsHLAvXA1lTj5BSFZbM18LvNsAjfpvczl10YVnw1arnRZb_j_UI7H3qIDo6KWoe0rI6Ypl8Fqkr4FFU0Fjv5fC7gq_fqo6x7LLuJ5bJlzW/w125-h400/MB5+SIDE+1B.jpg" width="125" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRrUKwFLwVUY5hrzcc_Jc0ZW2oziGtGtiIVqiyc6CtoMCzTYuJUfQiIzLij5SigJHwYRdX-fqGcDY7_h_SQ5xuMFG1ddqSf7JY6Mcrq8fDj3SRzRLzCW6Te3OJf4NyH2QB-0pGk0jqStQ/s3121/MB5+SIDE+2B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3121" data-original-width="1007" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRrUKwFLwVUY5hrzcc_Jc0ZW2oziGtGtiIVqiyc6CtoMCzTYuJUfQiIzLij5SigJHwYRdX-fqGcDY7_h_SQ5xuMFG1ddqSf7JY6Mcrq8fDj3SRzRLzCW6Te3OJf4NyH2QB-0pGk0jqStQ/w129-h400/MB5+SIDE+2B.jpg" width="129" /></a><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Just looking at this makes me want to stamp again and play with some colour! It's so therapeutic, don't you think? </div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Linking to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">As You Like it</a> - CAS or Full and Fancy and why?</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">I find it really hard to make CAS because I'm just too messy! Plus, I love the therapeutic effect of colour and colour and more colour!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Fab 'n' Funky</a> - Go Girlie!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Addicted to Stamps and More</a> - Make Your Mark</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafty Gals Corner</a> - For the Ladies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafters' Café </a>- Anything Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Creative Moments</a> - Anything Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">I don't seem to be able to add links at the moment, so I'll be back in a little while when I've figured out what's wrong - unless it's just a blogger issue, in which case I'll have to try again later.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Thanks so much for calling in today 😉</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-5743859569810097912021-05-21T16:52:00.003+01:002021-05-21T16:55:21.732+01:00Surprise!<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Thought I'd shock you and post next day 😍</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">I found my photos of the book I made for an old friend...a friend I really love and respect, to be honest. Although more my mum's age than mine, her youngest son is the same age as my younger son and they were best friends at school, until we went to live in France, many, many years ago. She's now one of a group I belong to in the church I'm currently at, and always someone to turn to - a real spiritual Mum. Because of lockdowns, we obviously haven't been able to meet up for the last year, communicating via Whatsapp instead. The first day we were able to meet up again - socially distanced, in our Community garden - was her birthday, so I was asked to make something for her. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">It was a disaster from beginning to end. I started by trying to make someone else's design - very NOT 'me'. Because of the mess I was in with medication problems I had, I tore it up and restarted it 3 times and was tearing my hair out by the time I finished it, crying every time I went into my craft room.. So, I decided against the die cut book and made a concertina. I still tore out pages and started over again a couple of times, but that was mainly because no matter how hard I tried, I ended up with marks on my white space every single time I touched the book. So by the time I gave it to her, some of these pages were missing - mainly tag pages - but I'd added a couple, too. I did a LOT of die cutting, as you can see - plus all the pages and layers I threw away!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Front of folded book</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBOPAVNp_PVLkS_R3IOoWYwG2lkIZarkb9E7BMlBM5mkUELSG6Z1rVGS3w0X9mrxmTC1dLide8xEv9sDoO4FnAh2cohGY0y8K_jqXJAeHArJSwTFtmlJ9Ec-dDaHzt_LKJ-W7P_-m76OP/s1723/80BD1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1655" data-original-width="1723" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBOPAVNp_PVLkS_R3IOoWYwG2lkIZarkb9E7BMlBM5mkUELSG6Z1rVGS3w0X9mrxmTC1dLide8xEv9sDoO4FnAh2cohGY0y8K_jqXJAeHArJSwTFtmlJ9Ec-dDaHzt_LKJ-W7P_-m76OP/w400-h384/80BD1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Page 1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwH65634rTsFbT0NKkWtFf1Y26HGAkpniDwjZMVbIaEmX6c7QbY49lKZozIlDZPed8THgcQepCn5kSuvrdjj8Y-aJTORnxcEs6tWWRkZap0f01EL8m49GzA_79WMGVwbV_26vhg3pUf0lu/s1794/80BD2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1695" data-original-width="1794" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwH65634rTsFbT0NKkWtFf1Y26HGAkpniDwjZMVbIaEmX6c7QbY49lKZozIlDZPed8THgcQepCn5kSuvrdjj8Y-aJTORnxcEs6tWWRkZap0f01EL8m49GzA_79WMGVwbV_26vhg3pUf0lu/w400-h378/80BD2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Page 2</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCel8Aeg0s-oMYerDmvoHfmY7FcIImxBZth34D9SFX0xqQd0I74Tm1ahQ72Ue6Eo1o6pbzimvVI_k478MHNyQNTxH4gM3_AUkR-xUgAgvL0sE_qwwoGHihX4lg1-6bAlHfPTiE9VMi7QQ1/s1801/80BD3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1391" data-original-width="1801" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCel8Aeg0s-oMYerDmvoHfmY7FcIImxBZth34D9SFX0xqQd0I74Tm1ahQ72Ue6Eo1o6pbzimvVI_k478MHNyQNTxH4gM3_AUkR-xUgAgvL0sE_qwwoGHihX4lg1-6bAlHfPTiE9VMi7QQ1/w400-h309/80BD3.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Page 3</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpCVpBMwr-xYrRb6xILX3p-SSfrf1K4m0mJPYIDu0dAZf6Rev-g4l45y8pcQThMMPDgMXG0JPKB5G0ZlX3blmvV91QpXfCK2vTku17Gf6xjZxbP2x03CstuPzNpXB-mr77lRd1lCncaFzu/s2048/80BD5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1255" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpCVpBMwr-xYrRb6xILX3p-SSfrf1K4m0mJPYIDu0dAZf6Rev-g4l45y8pcQThMMPDgMXG0JPKB5G0ZlX3blmvV91QpXfCK2vTku17Gf6xjZxbP2x03CstuPzNpXB-mr77lRd1lCncaFzu/s320/80BD5.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Page 4</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuYoB-CKcZvsYmtcFctzk0m9yONP3ayu_eTC-HmFA3e1XCwMdvTakLrUwmqayOmxRlHLgg5IQWfHUyBNVF7_3fO7ql7hm4xq67wHjpAHMNPUBLLKTYondnKaoQbwKxA5hDBwnAwHD65PXg/s2690/80BD6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1169" data-original-width="2690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuYoB-CKcZvsYmtcFctzk0m9yONP3ayu_eTC-HmFA3e1XCwMdvTakLrUwmqayOmxRlHLgg5IQWfHUyBNVF7_3fO7ql7hm4xq67wHjpAHMNPUBLLKTYondnKaoQbwKxA5hDBwnAwHD65PXg/s320/80BD6.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Book open on one side, with the die cut tags for the ladies to each write their birthday messages. I sponged and stencilled the backs, having glued two different sized tags back to back, and added ribbons/threads. Unusually, I used patterned papers to cover it. Sorry, but you'll have to click to enlarge in order to see each page - though you've seen them all above, really.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3rQUq4semTLs8VpcNqyJlSoyBMUixVR-oDZwLJd3_01YjsNta2te4WwtLDe_a71N1uyFdubwLQMemHRQ5UNQQ5yGQXiJVan2ejVTTV7DRoP0Yg5tdKqsDU7NCOeaVPEebRxeC0fSv_7t/s3061/80BDOPEN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="3061" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3rQUq4semTLs8VpcNqyJlSoyBMUixVR-oDZwLJd3_01YjsNta2te4WwtLDe_a71N1uyFdubwLQMemHRQ5UNQQ5yGQXiJVan2ejVTTV7DRoP0Yg5tdKqsDU7NCOeaVPEebRxeC0fSv_7t/w400-h79/80BDOPEN.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">So this is what probably put me off going into my craft room - along with the mess I created when I decided to clear a lot of the stash I no longer use, but taking up too much space. That's still in project, though I'm beginning to yearn to get back to creating again 😊</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">So, still one more 'Janet Klein' book to upload, then I'll have more or less cleared my folder for now.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">This is definitely 'for the ladies' so I'm going to enter a few challenges, because that seems to be a common theme at the moment, for some reason. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Challenges I'm linking to:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">As You Like It </a>- Favourite Colouring Medium and Why</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">I used Prisma Pencils because I find I have way more control with them than with pens or paint and can vary the shades more by blending and/or shading.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://stinkininkers.blogspot.com/2021/05/girls-just-wanna-have-fun.html" target="_blank">Stinkin Inkers</a> - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Try it on Tuesday</a> - Make it Feminine</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafty Gals Corner</a> - For the Ladies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafter's Café</a> - Feminine - Girls or Ladies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">That's all for now. Thank you so much for coming over today! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Blessings</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-28021878427496495282021-05-20T19:13:00.001+01:002021-05-20T19:13:13.184+01:00Loooooooooooong time no see!<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Just been catching up on a friend's blog posts and thought I'd put some more up here. I've done so little since Christmas, other than a few important occasion things. Life has just been focused on other things. I'm also still 'sorting out' my room and getting ready to clear all the stuff. Some of it is photographed and ready to upload. I just brought in the dies so I can take photos, but not in this dark, dreary weather. I'll have to wait until it's sunny again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So here are a few things I made earlier 😊</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUI6qr9JY-HJAKaC6XlRZQDNVUTyGaGa8bzUQjW0VHADCRaTONs-Ntk3tYvmjWq8XqVZzSPWYIMtHmfMMcPvZoFtjYMtiZa2UlFBKBuoi2vQ6DEZkuBz5_uciRgqVJh1jy7EWgF6JlUbr/s2048/BD+CARD+LYNNE+B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1141" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUI6qr9JY-HJAKaC6XlRZQDNVUTyGaGa8bzUQjW0VHADCRaTONs-Ntk3tYvmjWq8XqVZzSPWYIMtHmfMMcPvZoFtjYMtiZa2UlFBKBuoi2vQ6DEZkuBz5_uciRgqVJh1jy7EWgF6JlUbr/w223-h400/BD+CARD+LYNNE+B.jpg" width="223" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This is a card I made for my bestest friend - using the colours we both love to use.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This is the inside. I only added the purple card because I managed to get a tiny bit of ink on it - and then I didn't notice that the scanner had added its own little mark - duh! I really must clean that scanner bed again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCD2Tf57_pCbZCKh6EZsmDpRpgudMtybRK7tfVj9yB_o5aJOv_AH0HzmltcK7Hez5NdvUomnnlSk8vKtGuKyT6TNjpqJQ2I6BdNbMTkphuQFeOH5fXM5WPZBN6ZWUOdmuRE0EY16AkGp-/s2048/BDCARD+INSIDE+LYNNE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1868" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCD2Tf57_pCbZCKh6EZsmDpRpgudMtybRK7tfVj9yB_o5aJOv_AH0HzmltcK7Hez5NdvUomnnlSk8vKtGuKyT6TNjpqJQ2I6BdNbMTkphuQFeOH5fXM5WPZBN6ZWUOdmuRE0EY16AkGp-/s320/BDCARD+INSIDE+LYNNE.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This is one I made simply because I was doing my best not to throw away the background. Why, I don't know. I do love this Katzelcraft seagull, though. I managed to stain him with a bit of blue ink when I left him on my work surface for a couple of days, but I thought it actually looked appropriate. Birds often get bits of 'stuff' on their feathers and it always tickles me 😁</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3hOei1ida0X6LAnhtDOQMWt1VXZuW_gQ5HGnLceO10IoLf8qzSTqgwYNtzNOwS-EQCUqAskTVD4F3luFI2ImWhJREOZxJaO1ms7STlhRtBNoBE260XDxB2rsR2-dZhyphenhyphenTXwgaBaY-muiG/s1772/MOMENTS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1758" data-original-width="1772" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3hOei1ida0X6LAnhtDOQMWt1VXZuW_gQ5HGnLceO10IoLf8qzSTqgwYNtzNOwS-EQCUqAskTVD4F3luFI2ImWhJREOZxJaO1ms7STlhRtBNoBE260XDxB2rsR2-dZhyphenhyphenTXwgaBaY-muiG/w400-h396/MOMENTS.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A more recent creation - made early April.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I love these ladies and had a great time colouring them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I made it for a birthday card, then decided on another one, so it may actually go out as a mingle this week.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqx_fu_BneDjVpm_2OMw6ETvmBzIAXfSWWwgM_eUO9hKX2g1MkiPNr_4MnhDOQDvQKozlJnPZWstiXreqzcKYjBh85IrmDKpNL50iiR16wHiHVGihrCRkUk8s50PmC63t8S6cpFo2xxpY/s1817/RECYCLED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1817" data-original-width="1808" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqx_fu_BneDjVpm_2OMw6ETvmBzIAXfSWWwgM_eUO9hKX2g1MkiPNr_4MnhDOQDvQKozlJnPZWstiXreqzcKYjBh85IrmDKpNL50iiR16wHiHVGihrCRkUk8s50PmC63t8S6cpFo2xxpY/w398-h400/RECYCLED.jpg" width="398" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This stamp I fell in love with because I'd been reading and reading and reading and so enjoying my books that it fitted my mood at the time. Since the medication affected me so badly, I've read very little - which is sad. My 'to read' pile is still growing as I add to the already big enough pile from when I stopped. I love books, so this actually upsets me if I think about it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSVCltdGXOjcLFZ3hiyWyuXUGcoNCkpYrE-qK566UY7u1fNkx46ZWKef2lZeyE9FXn-9g3fhWCbu_IhEDzs9NihP6aJ6KL21OT81B_x3GIett5bphY0LXmcnz7KcbtklSQnXD7nTYlfrFV/s1762/READ1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1727" data-original-width="1762" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSVCltdGXOjcLFZ3hiyWyuXUGcoNCkpYrE-qK566UY7u1fNkx46ZWKef2lZeyE9FXn-9g3fhWCbu_IhEDzs9NihP6aJ6KL21OT81B_x3GIett5bphY0LXmcnz7KcbtklSQnXD7nTYlfrFV/w400-h393/READ1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And just one more to get it out of the folder... made for a Coffee challenge, of course - very simply.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIZyL9zlBzDqmjYOdbOFqc05E2nwhimT-cc6sO0OhxnMV3elti6d15CxyP1_4tw-w2a9Q59WtP4inkuwaJJeoJTacu86g_2SQ4Fz3Y1PNk07by0QeC8VXEJ_MrLBfCTsGpUarNqmN6UTSA/s2048/HAPPY+COFFEE+1B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2005" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIZyL9zlBzDqmjYOdbOFqc05E2nwhimT-cc6sO0OhxnMV3elti6d15CxyP1_4tw-w2a9Q59WtP4inkuwaJJeoJTacu86g_2SQ4Fz3Y1PNk07by0QeC8VXEJ_MrLBfCTsGpUarNqmN6UTSA/w391-h400/HAPPY+COFFEE+1B.jpg" width="391" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It doesn't look as if I have the last little book I made in my folder, though I do have one more to share. It must be on my phone, so I'll try to get round to uploading it to my laptop ASAP.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I'll just check current challenges to see if there's anything I can enter today...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Try it on Tuesday</a> - Something Feminine </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(I hope the girlie card counts cos that's the mingle theme, too!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://livelaughstamp.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday</a> - Blooming Beautiful</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Paper Funday</a> - Anything Goes, Optional Flowers</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> - Beautiful Blooms</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafter's Café Challenge</a> - Feminine</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Creatalicious</a> - For a Woman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sweetstamperschallenge.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Sweet Stampers</a> - Bird, Butterfly or Animals</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Thank you so much for calling in today - I have missed you all so much!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Back soon-ish</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Blessings</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-76808431069897093992021-03-25T14:45:00.002+00:002021-03-27T13:42:29.327+00:00Still Playing Catchup!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oops! I had a blip - and lost a week 😉 But I'm still determined to clean out my last year's folder, so here are some cards I made towards the end of last year. I've had this post waiting to upload for a week - so sorry. In between, it was my birthday and lots of other things have happened. I'm also working on a special project for a friend's 80th birthday, so it's been a little busy.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was a Christmas card for someone special. I love Wonky Tonk images, but they're a little limiting. I was practising watercolour with these - lots of room for improvement, but I really enjoyed it and spent a while on them. I used irridescent inks on part of her hair and gel pen for her earrings. It's never easy to stamp words on watercolour paper, especially without a stamping platform. The stars are Jane Davenport and I used a deckle edged die. I cut off her hair... gosh, it's a long time since my own hair was that long! Long hair always looks so good on other people.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyH12JQMivCBmjZC5UG9jshBMTZ72U12gEAWvJ2_WNFv0xgNGylUN1BbAkR0OzvzpoFlinZ2qZVbMEfC3mRpjUMgLlPvqV-T5kyaFuxcyV28qx3wnuCcAXrHGUeeacgJoX7lwinyvYQF9/s2048/WC+NEVER+ALONE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2043" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyH12JQMivCBmjZC5UG9jshBMTZ72U12gEAWvJ2_WNFv0xgNGylUN1BbAkR0OzvzpoFlinZ2qZVbMEfC3mRpjUMgLlPvqV-T5kyaFuxcyV28qx3wnuCcAXrHGUeeacgJoX7lwinyvYQF9/w399-h400/WC+NEVER+ALONE.jpg" width="399" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the same image, but with different words and for a January birthday.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpdF2SEw8TmlXTdGOvNsM9X2nAwIGUNUJbR922aVIaNq_7DfegezOoFyWrOLCrSpgAucph0vf3CaLL7DW3MLXk_-2B56Emu6oqK_3GaRjJh1VWYkpJBIDBUGuORdql6O4rnDWauwA2TDfP/s2048/WC+LET+YOUR+LIGHT+SHINE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2039" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpdF2SEw8TmlXTdGOvNsM9X2nAwIGUNUJbR922aVIaNq_7DfegezOoFyWrOLCrSpgAucph0vf3CaLL7DW3MLXk_-2B56Emu6oqK_3GaRjJh1VWYkpJBIDBUGuORdql6O4rnDWauwA2TDfP/w399-h400/WC+LET+YOUR+LIGHT+SHINE.jpg" width="399" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wonky Tonk 3 - I have another one I haven't yet scanned, and this one isn't quite finished, but I wanted to show it. It's a watercolour again, but I need to add some text to it and decide whether to use it for a card or a journal page...it was masked around the edges, so there's quite a deep border around it. I think this one is my favourite.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTL1XD9xWtJoW2uKyEXC44kNpfQEoj1r32m07T-wuCVvRlcq6BIScCnm1pv5FLLEun7vU7DCysHDq4r7HuzcA8LrTf6aCHRcvltBNY-8laidyf_VXuF-0A9kyWx-JTGwqT9LNiX1a2DDl/s1626/WC+WONKYTONK+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1626" data-original-width="1140" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTL1XD9xWtJoW2uKyEXC44kNpfQEoj1r32m07T-wuCVvRlcq6BIScCnm1pv5FLLEun7vU7DCysHDq4r7HuzcA8LrTf6aCHRcvltBNY-8laidyf_VXuF-0A9kyWx-JTGwqT9LNiX1a2DDl/w280-h400/WC+WONKYTONK+3.jpg" width="280" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Lavinia birthday card. Lavinia stamps are always fun to let your imagination go and be a little girl again 😊 I enjoy my playtimes with them. This is only a partial main image and it's 6x6 - well, the main card is.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-0kjrjYgDffXorA8DAFcTID8HLYwJ1e1J9BX6CdPKvdADum8WH9m6cJcWGlut3ivFr5-HyqVrHkU7gvxyZDG5D_kvCW8Gs6nYNAzEtwmplFWPt725PME2pTAreOYGnemQMopft372SJ1/s1802/SPARKLE+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1802" data-original-width="1800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-0kjrjYgDffXorA8DAFcTID8HLYwJ1e1J9BX6CdPKvdADum8WH9m6cJcWGlut3ivFr5-HyqVrHkU7gvxyZDG5D_kvCW8Gs6nYNAzEtwmplFWPt725PME2pTAreOYGnemQMopft372SJ1/w400-h400/SPARKLE+1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was repeating a design I made a couple of years ago when I made this - the first one seemed better, but the oxidisation from the inks just looks amazing on Kraft card, and the white embossing is striking amongst the shades of purple. Love these words.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMw9xW1rc7eZyQaoEf8ig0nF0RV-wn50aqXukgUQGKbsleoK78txFzA4vjlcU6DPFgWzVJbJ3oz5kOd78zBb11itfzbgZ19sGzHWot5HdlnMqwjDOt28Zayp2xrnR8rz_4NfrvkTJ3-ZO/s1719/SILENT+WOODS+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1719" data-original-width="1230" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMw9xW1rc7eZyQaoEf8ig0nF0RV-wn50aqXukgUQGKbsleoK78txFzA4vjlcU6DPFgWzVJbJ3oz5kOd78zBb11itfzbgZ19sGzHWot5HdlnMqwjDOt28Zayp2xrnR8rz_4NfrvkTJ3-ZO/w286-h400/SILENT+WOODS+3.jpg" width="286" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alcohol inks swiped on glossy, then an ink lift-off technique, using Blending fluid. Not a good example, really but that's mainly because I didn't choose the ideal stencil. I've found some more samples I did at the time and the stencilling shows up much more clearly, so I'm hoping to find a way to use those soon. Such a shame to waste them. I'll post another one below. I love this technique with the inks, though. Just a swipe with three colours on the felt gives you a lovely effect - very quick and easy - once you've found your AIs and got everything out all over the desk 😖 M<span style="text-align: center;">ore of the same for the one on the right, but I think you can see the lift off technique through the stencil a little more clearly. I didn't find this technique easy...the blending fluid is really difficult to control. They were for a CAS challenge, hence lots of white space.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcbAnF1Lh3t7lH4B4XAxs8olxJo_KmcNrJ2NH0IHjjEbf_Rk0rkiCJmKBCS20isohhqAOEMK6jKwRLrkhuE5fPTyL5mUimfO2qXKaLe39GRsV4sU2-MY4NWYz56v6mRk1tFZrUmu6al1KD/s1669/AI+7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1634" data-original-width="1669" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcbAnF1Lh3t7lH4B4XAxs8olxJo_KmcNrJ2NH0IHjjEbf_Rk0rkiCJmKBCS20isohhqAOEMK6jKwRLrkhuE5fPTyL5mUimfO2qXKaLe39GRsV4sU2-MY4NWYz56v6mRk1tFZrUmu6al1KD/w320-h314/AI+7.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPsSjTtN1RkGOkSf4VAq2D9POD91iQy5WH1Lyq6pWdBuaA5mIOwg6my10_pAjFF4NLl86t8MNmtYb9gNE1T6HUVn4ZzVl1R5JOX3CiH45CiKEklB4DEWLLXYqu1lOIRj0cMLsPW18-exn7/s1827/AI+STENCIL+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1827" data-original-width="1592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPsSjTtN1RkGOkSf4VAq2D9POD91iQy5WH1Lyq6pWdBuaA5mIOwg6my10_pAjFF4NLl86t8MNmtYb9gNE1T6HUVn4ZzVl1R5JOX3CiH45CiKEklB4DEWLLXYqu1lOIRj0cMLsPW18-exn7/w279-h320/AI+STENCIL+3.jpg" width="279" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And a card I finally put together, after having half most of it made fo rmonths! Having periods of being unable to stamp plays havoc with your organisation 😁 Lots of stencilling and stamping on this one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvgZ9i1eq_uUxzDpJ99oH2_RqRbuo4lclWYqhw5ijPpB7Czm9NeV1tDz79vJm2wT_FQjNx_0Tr680sBYMLLtGJEy1G5v9ICcdd-RuzcqB6tPopb5ikwnOAVnkTKzKgzxNFYJAuE0p3CIme/s1817/SCENIC+ROUTE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1817" data-original-width="1808" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvgZ9i1eq_uUxzDpJ99oH2_RqRbuo4lclWYqhw5ijPpB7Czm9NeV1tDz79vJm2wT_FQjNx_0Tr680sBYMLLtGJEy1G5v9ICcdd-RuzcqB6tPopb5ikwnOAVnkTKzKgzxNFYJAuE0p3CIme/w398-h400/SCENIC+ROUTE.jpg" width="398" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Linking to</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://blog.dare2bartzy.com/tag/challenge/" target="_blank">Dare 2B Artzy Challenges</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Dragonfly Dreams</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Addicted to Stamps and More</a>, Make Your Mark</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Crafts Galore Encore</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafting Happiness</a>, Outdoors or Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/" target="_blank">Retro Rubber</a>, Anything Goes (Butterfly OLD)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2021/03/use-stencil-or-two.html" target="_blank">Try it on Tuesday,</a> Use a Stencil or Two</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://dayofthemonthcardclub.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Day of the Month Card Club</a>, Learn About Butterflies Day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Allsorts</a>, Anything Goes/Optional Monochromatic</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sweet Stamping</a>, For a Special Woman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So lovely to have you visit me today - thank you.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll be back soon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stay safe!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cath(erine)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-56992200214940190822021-03-03T15:36:00.007+00:002021-03-25T15:59:11.693+00:00Tag Challenge<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"> I set a tag challenge for my FB group yesterday, so in order to open the album, I made a couple of quick tags, using what was on my (very, VERY messy) desk and in my stash 😊</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">I'd already die cut this one and used it to mop up some colour, so I smooshed a little more, stamped the Paperartsy text, added some filler stamps and doodling, then the stamped and die cut flowers from my stash - which is where the Janet Klein words came from. Edged in Delicata Gold Shimmer. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik063Y3bx0Jxj6rkPwf9SgBi-x-HgS8rPOAXo1thj003MfhZZ5sAB2itz-nOgmMM1bxwS6wC7mDWyyN4a1EEeDTtkyqkzjPf1h21Wb6VlTO0cZqPhSS9gQpK1xs7fptyA7QTsdpZ77mTvP/s1785/TAG+FLEURS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1785" data-original-width="930" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik063Y3bx0Jxj6rkPwf9SgBi-x-HgS8rPOAXo1thj003MfhZZ5sAB2itz-nOgmMM1bxwS6wC7mDWyyN4a1EEeDTtkyqkzjPf1h21Wb6VlTO0cZqPhSS9gQpK1xs7fptyA7QTsdpZ77mTvP/w209-h400/TAG+FLEURS.jpg" width="209" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">I stamped, coloured and cut out this lovely lady yesterday, so I found another tall piece of card I'd stamped her on, smooshed some colour, added some stamping, some Inktense pencil shading and some doodling, then stuck my image over the top, colouring the stars with Oxides. I then went a bit mad with </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvYu7-4xU3usrwqPZ7jXYNy6achEzYfVEMSd8B2Hirc8FCqdsx0h40Vd3PAyyovaW1h_kAIz4pIJJgb7EjqwEMtqtdj8h6g1-VyVgJvjU1v0IwNX7aMqmf6rpnQGenXvELBRecZ-qE8X19/s2378/TAG+STAR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2378" data-original-width="1063" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvYu7-4xU3usrwqPZ7jXYNy6achEzYfVEMSd8B2Hirc8FCqdsx0h40Vd3PAyyovaW1h_kAIz4pIJJgb7EjqwEMtqtdj8h6g1-VyVgJvjU1v0IwNX7aMqmf6rpnQGenXvELBRecZ-qE8X19/w179-h400/TAG+STAR.jpg" width="179" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Linking to </div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shopping our Stash</a>, Oh, the places we'll go</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Addicted to Stamps and More</a>, Die cuts and/or stencils</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.simplyellibelle.com/" target="_blank">Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge</a>, Spring Colours</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><a href="https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Love to Craft</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Thank you for calling in today</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Stay safe!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-17089055971277692762021-02-28T14:28:00.005+00:002021-02-28T14:45:10.429+00:00Another book...this was my first of this year!<p><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"> This was the first book I made this year, in my quest to explore different ways of adding pages or bindings. I've made 4 since then...😊 but this is my favourite so far.</span><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;"> I played with gluing pages back to back, using my favourite mixed media cardstock, which is quite thick. It worked beautifully, until I decided to add a little 'spine' to the cover, so that they'd fit better... it was very slightly too wide, so the back page and the cover split the pages a little on the fold. I still love the book, so I haven't attempted to fix it, although I did cover the spine with washi tape, inked to blend with the background. It's a slimline format, which I love, and a nice change from the square/rectangular ones I've been making. Can you see the cracks? Such a shame because the thicker card works so much better.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5BbruSPOoT-qxyagpDP875nrw409hMfwZCc6zkFeBtTJZ9T0rja1Yp_MtDvo0ZQkejMXCHQWtEWMLyNqJ7kfqIaxOpv4VSM_7gI5UT0y80N6YdmlAT2oguRfICVGd5TG9sPwAS0rlc02l/s1978/MB1B2B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1978" data-original-width="1282" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5BbruSPOoT-qxyagpDP875nrw409hMfwZCc6zkFeBtTJZ9T0rja1Yp_MtDvo0ZQkejMXCHQWtEWMLyNqJ7kfqIaxOpv4VSM_7gI5UT0y80N6YdmlAT2oguRfICVGd5TG9sPwAS0rlc02l/w259-h400/MB1B2B.jpg" width="259" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm_hb-VSya9Se6g3d3WA1YEXK8Tjf9Km31TkjXRjwsc6pZry3frFIRPPyPxAzJGG2a4zDQn7x2fwM_kwL0cPQ7aWRR9kEYmccBV7Asx0QkVjvJONMezYoICPkVu1NZNrn0Z55KBynqahXS/s2048/MB1B2B+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="2048" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm_hb-VSya9Se6g3d3WA1YEXK8Tjf9Km31TkjXRjwsc6pZry3frFIRPPyPxAzJGG2a4zDQn7x2fwM_kwL0cPQ7aWRR9kEYmccBV7Asx0QkVjvJONMezYoICPkVu1NZNrn0Z55KBynqahXS/w400-h324/MB1B2B+1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV0seyWOiUcnu_RjBl8cCgIDbYiuWKQc4XgYq43Scc6N4ePw2FgTItjNB7xeXkOW8kpE6FrNl64XVT7C2Gvx30FDtkInRbKBJmEoKwoumKqX5hnT0wsE3Z7CwYC5yQ0u_azHfGUGjMWW07/s2048/MB1B2B+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1649" data-original-width="2048" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV0seyWOiUcnu_RjBl8cCgIDbYiuWKQc4XgYq43Scc6N4ePw2FgTItjNB7xeXkOW8kpE6FrNl64XVT7C2Gvx30FDtkInRbKBJmEoKwoumKqX5hnT0wsE3Z7CwYC5yQ0u_azHfGUGjMWW07/w400-h323/MB1B2B+2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQuHgv12g90ee6hZc5Q5SWMA4aLXDJBe4AZ4w3aB5hkzA49gw7jMluMtHBQupWNe48E_wItnkO0p4oeGhhWKhSVjsdqlRpMawcQnjy7kVULun6XtusXIp5GXbOUKSNqZt2oVkVu0zLL9Zv/s2048/MB1B2B+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1677" data-original-width="2048" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQuHgv12g90ee6hZc5Q5SWMA4aLXDJBe4AZ4w3aB5hkzA49gw7jMluMtHBQupWNe48E_wItnkO0p4oeGhhWKhSVjsdqlRpMawcQnjy7kVULun6XtusXIp5GXbOUKSNqZt2oVkVu0zLL9Zv/w400-h328/MB1B2B+3.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">I can't find the back cover - maybe I deleted it by accident 😕 I'll get a photo and upload it. You'll notice my fave colour combo in the above last two pages, as on the journal cover I just uploaded in the previous post. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">I love this slimline format and always enjoy using this card, despite it being thicker and not as easy to fold, despite scoring multiple times!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Linking to</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Mondays</a>, Anything but a card</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Wednesdays</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://paperbabestamps.blogspot.com/2021/02/paperbabe-stamps-challenge-138-anything.html" target="_blank">Paperbabe Challenges</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Always Fun Challenges</a>, Slimline cards (several, made into a book 😉)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Allsorts Challenge</a>, Anything Feminine Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://welove2create.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">We Love 2 Create</a>, Anything Mixed Media Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://moremixedmediachallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">More Mixed Media</a>, ATG - optional Red</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Thanks for calling in today - especially if you visited both of today's posts!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Stay safe! Almost there...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-20951198127141933652021-02-28T13:57:00.004+00:002021-02-28T14:29:27.043+00:00Bit of a Mishmash today<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"> Hello bloggers! Happy Sunday! and wow! We have more sunshine 😁It may still be cold, especially if not in the sun, but it feels so bright and spring like - it's so uplifting. There are flowers everywhere - what a joy! I finished off a couple of things I was doing this week and decided to make two into journal pages for my 'planner journal'. I love these dies because I can die cut the binding side but make the page any size I like - plus I already had some great planner page dies and they all work really well together.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Aren't these stamps (Art by Marlene) fun? Everything Marlene does is BRIGHT, so I had to follow suit. Her t-shirt is actually lime green and white but it scanned as aqua for some reason...??? It's an A5 page.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl87T_S57cJfovBOr3V0PKyMWERlG-jbvBFtANkWAC5WP8VZotQFslG_GwUp4uUCWpJvpRm96eZlsZh0B0azkKIoLRx8kTbtLNhookKghtNuLuAdcf_zsFc31RljVn9YnqljE7G69vAskp/s2048/WHAMBAM1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1517" data-original-width="2048" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl87T_S57cJfovBOr3V0PKyMWERlG-jbvBFtANkWAC5WP8VZotQFslG_GwUp4uUCWpJvpRm96eZlsZh0B0azkKIoLRx8kTbtLNhookKghtNuLuAdcf_zsFc31RljVn9YnqljE7G69vAskp/w400-h296/WHAMBAM1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">This one's been lying in my pile of unfinished stuff for ages, so I decided to attach it to a page. It was originally intended to be used as a cover - maybe it still will 😊 I cut the page with my Gemini but - as you can see - it has a habit of stretching card and warping it a bit, so they're now being cut with my Big Shot+. This is possibly my all time favourite colour combo, though I do usually add a touch of Salty Ocean. It's Peacock Feather and Wilted Violet. It's my current favourite cardstock for smooshing and inking - the inks move beautifully on it and produce some great effects, but they also seem to look much brighter on it. It's also pretty thick, which is good and bad - it doesn't score well, but is great for single pages.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Eqdio4HoIH_xPpGvQjcarzJ6uCPCe9vzSuP0rg-zZDyVQ87npNUc6WWR-5GTluFcQ1jSY3oMca2aXKXDFLlDROR8SmB66-_qtOpQIwiUukfFzKPnJ1_GPUTsxJ_TZD1D47FqJ3Q35pMy/s2048/BLOOM+WITH+GRACE+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1389" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Eqdio4HoIH_xPpGvQjcarzJ6uCPCe9vzSuP0rg-zZDyVQ87npNUc6WWR-5GTluFcQ1jSY3oMca2aXKXDFLlDROR8SmB66-_qtOpQIwiUukfFzKPnJ1_GPUTsxJ_TZD1D47FqJ3Q35pMy/w271-h400/BLOOM+WITH+GRACE+1.jpg" width="271" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Another very simple card finished off, using an old Time to Stamp image, which used to be one of my faves, though I did use her for vintage style stamping at the time. One of the things that frustrates me about Prismas is that they tend to cover the image lines - my bad colouring 😉 I often redraw them with a black gel pen (one of my favourite tools these days) but I have a habit of smudging them and producing black eye looks 😣 or smudged skin... the outside is usually covered when I edge the image in black permanent ink before attaching, but this image was already stamped and embossed - and the text is part of it, so I wasn't able to do that. I stencilled over a lemon background, though I don't really like the way it turned out... just trying to clear my piles of half done stuff...</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTSXY80ApYhAplnEmZdPt4z4Jn0DlkZKUU72kI3comySy111AXIjpTtHiWfrrxl2CfnfsSw3Rj1_90Gf6LfcANFCmr9ubO1_LylvWd1uEu0WCMNmUpkQpGTK4e3hqwEAHxayAcjsb_z-j/s1812/BE+YOURSELF+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1812" data-original-width="1790" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTSXY80ApYhAplnEmZdPt4z4Jn0DlkZKUU72kI3comySy111AXIjpTtHiWfrrxl2CfnfsSw3Rj1_90Gf6LfcANFCmr9ubO1_LylvWd1uEu0WCMNmUpkQpGTK4e3hqwEAHxayAcjsb_z-j/w395-h400/BE+YOURSELF+1.jpg" width="395" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">This is another one I began last year and finished off this week... I've used it before, but this time I'd cut around the top edge so that I could add it to any b/g - don't know why I ended up putting it back on white!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZP37YxR1fe8kGUHoBIT8jIVonSeuBzVxJdID-3UGernXjpBkJ32A0uivkd77-DrEZzWlmJlLR2pRKrjM_sZiu70rC3BUKbm44Pf9iakLE5yTf8Tz94fgejkvY7fjFwOBUYInGheiFwuS/s1773/GOOD+DAY+TO+BE+HAPPY+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1741" data-original-width="1773" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZP37YxR1fe8kGUHoBIT8jIVonSeuBzVxJdID-3UGernXjpBkJ32A0uivkd77-DrEZzWlmJlLR2pRKrjM_sZiu70rC3BUKbm44Pf9iakLE5yTf8Tz94fgejkvY7fjFwOBUYInGheiFwuS/w400-h393/GOOD+DAY+TO+BE+HAPPY+1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">And a very simple one...The image is stamped and clear embossed, then I added colour in the darker parts of the flower and drew them out with water, hoping to create paler colour, but there's so little card remaining after embossing that it doesn't really show up. Nice, bold image, though. </span><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: large;">This is a 6" x 6" card.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2F4hCZ6pzrkIA2YyTkcKRjz-awheWA5v3AOcGIdUBAbNaSiU5dM5D_bEbY4VMLWQK-vBXTzCPN9f9d8Qk3Ayxs7z3kWe7a_U3dtCT-Wrm2UjDrey3oyuPBUwkC-8Eb1fnyJW0ALq3846o/s1735/BEAUTY1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1717" data-original-width="1735" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2F4hCZ6pzrkIA2YyTkcKRjz-awheWA5v3AOcGIdUBAbNaSiU5dM5D_bEbY4VMLWQK-vBXTzCPN9f9d8Qk3Ayxs7z3kWe7a_U3dtCT-Wrm2UjDrey3oyuPBUwkC-8Eb1fnyJW0ALq3846o/w400-h396/BEAUTY1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I've just finished and photographed another book, so I thought I'd better post the first one I made after Christmas, when I hadn't been able to stamp for a month or so... but I'll put it in a separate post. </div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Linking to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://paperbabestamps.blogspot.com/2021/02/paperbabe-stamps-challenge-138-anything.html" target="_blank">Paperbabes Challenge</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Mondays</a>, Anything but a card</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Wednesdays</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Allsorts</a>, Anything Feminine Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://welove2create.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">We Love 2 Create</a>, Anything Mixed Media Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Creatalicious</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://moremixedmediachallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">More Mixed Media</a>, Anything Goes, with Optional Red</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Thank you for calling in today</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Stay safe!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Schoolbell; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-33689227224905563742021-02-17T18:56:00.005+00:002021-02-17T19:45:17.423+00:00Another Minibook<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hello!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I finished another little minibook yesterday, with a different way of adding pages. I noticed this method when watching a video of Marlene's new products, which included a little book die. It's very nice and makes it easy to make a book, but it's also very simple, so I thought I'd try it on standard pages. This way you can make it any size, too 😁 so it's more versatile doing your own.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's the book cover, with the closure in place, and without it. The one on the left is a scan, the other a photo to show that the inks are lighter than they appear in the scans. I just stencilled the backgrounds with Brilliance White inks, for speed.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hyphenhyphenbBITIDTsOAKobWfRGsVNveDlOpgBt0FsEJn2KbVbroO7klND5laAcXRXDTAZ00_VVtG8gkjCJ9FWtTh8n_UweolZ72KnlkpwTSJAD8J4AusoEkIpIo3Hp1TMdTIcUkgTrcWn_-b2pF/s1673/MB4+COVER+B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1673" data-original-width="1348" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hyphenhyphenbBITIDTsOAKobWfRGsVNveDlOpgBt0FsEJn2KbVbroO7klND5laAcXRXDTAZ00_VVtG8gkjCJ9FWtTh8n_UweolZ72KnlkpwTSJAD8J4AusoEkIpIo3Hp1TMdTIcUkgTrcWn_-b2pF/w258-h320/MB4+COVER+B.jpg" width="258" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GcZClrrwGkFCEvpEJiZ_EMoSjU6pKu1CsGNgj8lzphhGhKehQp84Fpu6yeKDgIjWHnbtptd4whLgRk1LEF05NLipcP5fbJGIuYWhsjNSz_6uDYmC6KBChBfVqt14Lm259hxhKYv6odaB/s1681/MB4+COVERC+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1681" data-original-width="1358" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GcZClrrwGkFCEvpEJiZ_EMoSjU6pKu1CsGNgj8lzphhGhKehQp84Fpu6yeKDgIjWHnbtptd4whLgRk1LEF05NLipcP5fbJGIuYWhsjNSz_6uDYmC6KBChBfVqt14Lm259hxhKYv6odaB/s320/MB4+COVERC+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Inside cover and back cover</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguuM9F1SASq-Bw8cYCL03BXwtU0f4FbBRcLQXn3LncIGy82LlbZkInaYewVrfgBCz2NWdAkb2n-ez8C1TfN4PovUIRt758bIgg1Klpjnb7mTnslWvfoTKa2RVLWlHygKJjWcMQ-Fdt4WJY/s1811/MB4+INSIDE+COVER+C.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="1811" data-original-width="1627" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguuM9F1SASq-Bw8cYCL03BXwtU0f4FbBRcLQXn3LncIGy82LlbZkInaYewVrfgBCz2NWdAkb2n-ez8C1TfN4PovUIRt758bIgg1Klpjnb7mTnslWvfoTKa2RVLWlHygKJjWcMQ-Fdt4WJY/s320/MB4+INSIDE+COVER+C.jpg" /></span></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZr2Ty1rJDxzO11PXkHA6E8umB9gb3K3Zaj64CpTqmr7UItGV04o77JowFRuDTONaeLs4pr5tYNNiLNX9G5ikJutGpFC-0bNFZUiTjcAnI3nAswOZSztsrkf_AGajDS5xVf8m11d88lT5/s1585/MB4+BACK.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1585" data-original-width="1378" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZr2Ty1rJDxzO11PXkHA6E8umB9gb3K3Zaj64CpTqmr7UItGV04o77JowFRuDTONaeLs4pr5tYNNiLNX9G5ikJutGpFC-0bNFZUiTjcAnI3nAswOZSztsrkf_AGajDS5xVf8m11d88lT5/s320/MB4+BACK.jpg" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Centre pages</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeVN30QosmM32DhstSkhSPpOHE1kzT4L6Do2McxJ9ezazQZneNtowqSlP4oob_WCwy-xQ6gFCK8RiIyi9JdQh0WfS7X91NqCz6SQIeb6q77bOgSBOxv72GHAoYfmI8I4Z27WGser7FwLFe/s1443/MB4+CENTRE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1443" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeVN30QosmM32DhstSkhSPpOHE1kzT4L6Do2McxJ9ezazQZneNtowqSlP4oob_WCwy-xQ6gFCK8RiIyi9JdQh0WfS7X91NqCz6SQIeb6q77bOgSBOxv72GHAoYfmI8I4Z27WGser7FwLFe/w400-h297/MB4+CENTRE.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Somehow, I managed to delete half my page - duh! Sorry.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's not very clear from the photos - I need to take a photo of notching the pages.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used a corner rounder on the centre folds of the pages and the covers when folded. This creates a notch for the binding elastic and works beautifully.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then simply tie a long piece of elastic cord around the book, knotting on the outside of the cover's spine, making sure you leave enough to wrap around the closed book.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, simply add beads, charms, or whatever you prefer to it to make it unique.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I really like this way of binding and it's so simple. It's also really easy to add more pages as and when you like, because you just slide them under the elastic cord. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This card was made for a friend's birthday - she's received it now, so I can post it. I loved this background when I'd made it - should've taken a photo! It's Abandoned Coral, Squeezed Lemon and a touch of Dried Marigold (Oxides). Background stamps are a mixture, but mainly Studio Light. It's a digistamp, so the ink isn't as black as usual.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2szD4RaDOoeDGKNLOKRg5fmWxvjKq1IVvKi_YjDQfZzYPeOe886oVPMjzntooyFYu_oo4qJO5xzD1T7l12sd9AfcU9axbZ3ZjvFc8Z5l2cBoS5Q440lrOKW_rMdjf9LNTTigeIf4uONA/s1833/JKFIERCE+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1815" data-original-width="1833" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2szD4RaDOoeDGKNLOKRg5fmWxvjKq1IVvKi_YjDQfZzYPeOe886oVPMjzntooyFYu_oo4qJO5xzD1T7l12sd9AfcU9axbZ3ZjvFc8Z5l2cBoS5Q440lrOKW_rMdjf9LNTTigeIf4uONA/w400-h396/JKFIERCE+1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a card I started before Christmas and finally got around to completing. I love the focus on doing things together. It's always easier to tackle something when you have friends to help, or even just to be there with you while you're doing whatever you need to do! I think my favourite memories are the ones made with groups of like minded people all gathering to do something together. I also thought it would be perfect for Stamping Sensations' 'Colour My World' theme. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLZqzxxCR46iYauwmvDlUzJXT9g_ctDVUXdkwnlgJ7IxlWAgzQY694A8blhKDPvPcd1G5pnzn3xHIkJ535rI5pAhwP3klHARuRHAoE7PLQK9fe7MElJQ_CTSpE6SoUq2T734Or3WBzngPN/s1798/MANY+HANDS1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1774" data-original-width="1798" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLZqzxxCR46iYauwmvDlUzJXT9g_ctDVUXdkwnlgJ7IxlWAgzQY694A8blhKDPvPcd1G5pnzn3xHIkJ535rI5pAhwP3klHARuRHAoE7PLQK9fe7MElJQ_CTSpE6SoUq2T734Or3WBzngPN/w400-h395/MANY+HANDS1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Linking to</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://2sistersontheblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">2 Sisters on the Blog</a>, Birds</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Addicted to Stamps 'n' More</a>, Any Occasion - birthday</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Country View Crafts Challenges</a>, First Signs of Spring (birds)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Simon Says Stamp Wednesdays</a>, Favourite Technique (Inky backgrounds)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://daranddiane.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Double D Challenge</a>, Anything with a Heart (hearts added to book)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a>, Colour My World</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Simply Create Too</a>, Use Hearts</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daring Cardmakers</a>, Share the Love</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you for calling in today</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stay safe wherever you are!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-10832034283466921052021-02-14T10:36:00.008+00:002021-02-14T10:49:56.562+00:00Minibook Mania<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> I've been making minibooks again, playing around with different ways of adding pages, with mixed results. These are two 'empty' books, made to add pages to. I used this Aall and Create stamp on the smooshed die cut cover, stamping and cutting out the bottles and the flower heads twice, to make them stand out. The one on the right is the back cover. Sometimes it's just a shame to add anything to a smooshed Oxide background because the ink effects are so beautiful 😊 </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-KU2_rTZp6cNTxFsO2gtcm-smSrkuZFclZqaYJkW9jCtgRKPDTWBeqfsirEeNMN3vxRq8yGXVIzEX0bOeYWPD_tn935o4CsRLme-7iJ3S_aoAQIHCjCbs1baWhcNXDrD0DlE6wsOX9yvo/s2048/MB+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1589" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-KU2_rTZp6cNTxFsO2gtcm-smSrkuZFclZqaYJkW9jCtgRKPDTWBeqfsirEeNMN3vxRq8yGXVIzEX0bOeYWPD_tn935o4CsRLme-7iJ3S_aoAQIHCjCbs1baWhcNXDrD0DlE6wsOX9yvo/w291-h375/MB+2.jpg" width="291" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitA86Gf27V9b3R6mckk5snZ6Q1vWqFI1_jKKpE2siNpqCHIrbP8sj_dIDFIfIkpdeQVOQI56X0EcR4v_LAwhngOwx3bYSY8tlCuHXnDKmpaj8_rNFZu0EJMrAUzr538aWhNIw9Yu0nezbn/s1485/MB2+BACK+B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1485" data-original-width="1103" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitA86Gf27V9b3R6mckk5snZ6Q1vWqFI1_jKKpE2siNpqCHIrbP8sj_dIDFIfIkpdeQVOQI56X0EcR4v_LAwhngOwx3bYSY8tlCuHXnDKmpaj8_rNFZu0EJMrAUzr538aWhNIw9Yu0nezbn/w275-h369/MB2+BACK+B.jpg" width="275" /></a><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Inside cover - smooshed and stencilled piece added to the inside. I rounded the page corners to match the cover, but I think they need to be rounded on all sides for it to work perfectly as a concertina - or cut slightly smaller 😉 </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj912-gy6btDSsfgL4TvOQxZ4gTq1qF2zlgXE-otnHBWjYtYN_wSpf9xIWmi66oRKur8c4uGeT0P2rzBxv3f7X4ID7u0tFlJUU4EnzcbDHSpW-713Km8BUxRO8dj_FMF2HXkh1Nd3g3LJM0/s2048/MB+2+INSIDE+COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="2048" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj912-gy6btDSsfgL4TvOQxZ4gTq1qF2zlgXE-otnHBWjYtYN_wSpf9xIWmi66oRKur8c4uGeT0P2rzBxv3f7X4ID7u0tFlJUU4EnzcbDHSpW-713Km8BUxRO8dj_FMF2HXkh1Nd3g3LJM0/w400-h263/MB+2+INSIDE+COVER.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">For this one, I glued all the pages back to back, so it opens out into a long concertina. The above first page will be glued to the cover before I use it. The inside back cover is more or less the same. That one will be left visible. Lots of pages to go at here - 20 if I use both sides - and it will end up thicker when they're added, so even though the spine is quite deep, I decided not to add more pages in order to leave space for the layers, because it's already quite deep when folded. When I started this, I was making it as a gift, but I'm so messy, I got PVA on a couple of the pages, so I wouldn't dream of giving it to anyone 😂 I'll just have to keep it and use it myself.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5_OTPf9sMsqrwBbfos9ESI2NyuC_rIRTuPshP3X7jGMbFO2lD775wKWt5hZrLij-71Da3EqPtXn8Ctyn0E4EiuSHvrXzaGblXS4tsokNgG_8xoXmenhMmDLOagfzDza2OjlYI748_g3qm/s3111/MB2+PAGES.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="3111" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5_OTPf9sMsqrwBbfos9ESI2NyuC_rIRTuPshP3X7jGMbFO2lD775wKWt5hZrLij-71Da3EqPtXn8Ctyn0E4EiuSHvrXzaGblXS4tsokNgG_8xoXmenhMmDLOagfzDza2OjlYI748_g3qm/w400-h110/MB2+PAGES.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I used Aall and Create stamps on this one, too. I thought it was a die cut cover, but now realise it wasn't. It's just a folded piece of card.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsjUfXU99FpYKe4t0xv1xhBbXbovHhZvPmO6AO226fvot0Kjhlzuwn_feLcJXT5VjI76YBJEYLg83sG0oLyYz8CW8ZhaUuVZcedrVJ4FtZDcvZ-vXR7P843QQliH8XeR8MifYQKLUUD1k5/s2048/MB3+COVER+B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1467" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsjUfXU99FpYKe4t0xv1xhBbXbovHhZvPmO6AO226fvot0Kjhlzuwn_feLcJXT5VjI76YBJEYLg83sG0oLyYz8CW8ZhaUuVZcedrVJ4FtZDcvZ-vXR7P843QQliH8XeR8MifYQKLUUD1k5/w286-h400/MB3+COVER+B.jpg" width="286" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Inside cover - yes, the inks on my attached inner cover were still damp when I clamped it shut to make sure the glue dried properly - duh! I used the reverse of hammer card for the cover, so I had to cover it up with another piece.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9B5NtCJ4nxgA1bLWeequDjesYVAFxEHdOzKnhYR5HJFCV1s6rXFa5hfO2BUCgHVNVLdk29sh7VAkw3gRrUQ7j_I1bxEKZaS_9wQXOKHhD8V_Qo418gTmmgMsi49LoVX9MoeSwDXi3ahoT/s2048/MB3+INSIDE+COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1577" data-original-width="2048" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9B5NtCJ4nxgA1bLWeequDjesYVAFxEHdOzKnhYR5HJFCV1s6rXFa5hfO2BUCgHVNVLdk29sh7VAkw3gRrUQ7j_I1bxEKZaS_9wQXOKHhD8V_Qo418gTmmgMsi49LoVX9MoeSwDXi3ahoT/w400-h308/MB3+INSIDE+COVER.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I stitched this one, so I only added 6 signatures. I think it would've been better with paper, but it's okay. I used waxed thread, which is a bit thicker than normal threads. Simple to make, though.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIaid-IyA9Ol_myMc2d4ROg7CnoYoCD1uUojP4wGCjOFl8-WJJsZC7rc5nivfA6H-wtuOyzPnQtF5R9Bw1jJIlCmpTcMK3UadAe1nAf9ujwh0wWPsqRdhCWvy78WIXLNXREM2tx1_S67K1/s2048/MB3+INSIDE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="2048" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIaid-IyA9Ol_myMc2d4ROg7CnoYoCD1uUojP4wGCjOFl8-WJJsZC7rc5nivfA6H-wtuOyzPnQtF5R9Bw1jJIlCmpTcMK3UadAe1nAf9ujwh0wWPsqRdhCWvy78WIXLNXREM2tx1_S67K1/w400-h305/MB3+INSIDE.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I like the idea of having smaller canvasses to work with for a change. I think I'll enjoy working on page inserts.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Linking to</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamps & Fun = Creativity</a> - Everything, just no hearts</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Mix-it-Up</a> - Anything Goes, Fancy Folds</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Alphabet Challenge</a> - W is for Woodland Flora or Fauna</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Thanks for visiting today</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Stay safe and well!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-77193259640200996362021-02-12T19:08:00.003+00:002021-02-12T21:17:30.219+00:00Laptop clearout!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> I got a new laptop at Christmas - notebook to be precise - so I've just been transferring some of my files across. This is the start of the clearout of what's left from last year! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I KNOW I'm doing a lot of JK stuff lately but I love them! This one's just a journal page, unfinished - or is it? I haven't yet decided which of my journals it will go into, which is why I haven't trimmed it - though it may fit into the one I just made, which I'll show you another day. These are digital images.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59N8R9Eya-Gul8A23ZGX_2BscG5OBIZJ2aUOSpsVnYKS75Kl6NFnl68xlrGHUD5xUw0igB5MY222MyRhsb82iNTjspSKk3fw36Dj02V4vVVPl5Lh1rLaL2G4xKspP-zWMBlVNdbw_sX54/s2048/COUNTING+CRAYONs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1735" data-original-width="2048" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59N8R9Eya-Gul8A23ZGX_2BscG5OBIZJ2aUOSpsVnYKS75Kl6NFnl68xlrGHUD5xUw0igB5MY222MyRhsb82iNTjspSKk3fw36Dj02V4vVVPl5Lh1rLaL2G4xKspP-zWMBlVNdbw_sX54/w400-h339/COUNTING+CRAYONs.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">This one was just to use up some of the images lying around. I'd had the colours in my head for a couple of days when I made it. I like the way they work together.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwGRnBYVEU-17fUGvGBpdNvMvM3LV_GqzrBtdtgF0EUcOM7381V03P0ZAjbr_EBkrfL4eUceN213jCaTYf48Z692mysDePA7gMJJ2BwXDvKvkKevRpltM4RDFg-PJbQDkj2_7vT0vn1lzP/s1832/EXPAND.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="1832" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwGRnBYVEU-17fUGvGBpdNvMvM3LV_GqzrBtdtgF0EUcOM7381V03P0ZAjbr_EBkrfL4eUceN213jCaTYf48Z692mysDePA7gMJJ2BwXDvKvkKevRpltM4RDFg-PJbQDkj2_7vT0vn1lzP/w400-h396/EXPAND.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I had planned to use this as a tag, then decided to mount it onto a larger die cut. I like these dies and have enough cut to make a mini book with them. I'm looking forward to making that. This one was an experiment in swiping rough stripes of colour across the card (Oxides) then spritzing with water to see how it ended up. I clearly added more water later, which is a shame because it turned out really well. I think you can still see the stripes a little. It should work well with most colour families.</div></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgLbuS9TliCVoBROpnysnuiT3bOzX9mohK-OfkRm4tu2v3PufiVYsT5ZiJCiAixEnvgicAPUBSutbXrnkMj66yEMmQA-shHrcIXLP6-KXLpWMQ3VPVXlD_duM2Oqy1YnZdJInny5eRgbX/s2048/HARD+TIMES+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1422" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgLbuS9TliCVoBROpnysnuiT3bOzX9mohK-OfkRm4tu2v3PufiVYsT5ZiJCiAixEnvgicAPUBSutbXrnkMj66yEMmQA-shHrcIXLP6-KXLpWMQ3VPVXlD_duM2Oqy1YnZdJInny5eRgbX/w278-h400/HARD+TIMES+1.jpg" width="278" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">This one - shock horror! - isn't made with JK images 😊</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">They're Katzelcraft images and always make me smile. I love the furniture stamps but don't use them so often, which is a shame... I did use Seedless Preserves again, though.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWftcsUz5T1hafytS9CxL1DaJYkgh1ofRl6RoKO8dScZX0WxbEz64EVn8ObK3U_t76LIu_3Vquaocnato48rm_ic0Lma4srlTvqdI7sa6euK7iSPmsHwcSkRRcMjCpK8Ni7LPMggAaTjzS/s2048/WITH+FRIENDS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2039" data-original-width="2048" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWftcsUz5T1hafytS9CxL1DaJYkgh1ofRl6RoKO8dScZX0WxbEz64EVn8ObK3U_t76LIu_3Vquaocnato48rm_ic0Lma4srlTvqdI7sa6euK7iSPmsHwcSkRRcMjCpK8Ni7LPMggAaTjzS/w400-h399/WITH+FRIENDS.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I stamped lots of these sentiments to use as and when I needed them, so I used more than one here.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I'm struggling with a connection speed of less than 5mb at the moment 😞 so I hope this uploads!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Linking to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Creative Moments</a>, ATG</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">A Perfect Time to Craft</a>, ATG</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mix it Up</a>, ATG</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Thank you for calling in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Stay safe!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-31508602223145937872021-02-08T10:35:00.000+00:002021-02-08T10:35:04.020+00:00Monday Smiles<div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"> Just sharing a couple of cards I made last week... just messing around.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">The sentiment of this card is NOT that of its creator, but the stamps made me giggle when I saw them 😁 I bake simply because I enjoy it! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0v_yoq3USNmCLlX1r91LVdfmxkB_CySjFLNyauexlAvY93wZ73BDS7eZ1w2F-9nKjmWZXwsxlQ9dOXzCPL98G85t-FkRhmnH5d9eTbVJgnEvg5mt8vpUykop5X2bh-4ymsOi8j1Ar3geb/s1764/BAKING.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1764" data-original-width="1755" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0v_yoq3USNmCLlX1r91LVdfmxkB_CySjFLNyauexlAvY93wZ73BDS7eZ1w2F-9nKjmWZXwsxlQ9dOXzCPL98G85t-FkRhmnH5d9eTbVJgnEvg5mt8vpUykop5X2bh-4ymsOi8j1Ar3geb/s320/BAKING.jpg" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">This was a first try with the huge background stamp. I decided to try a spritzed rainbow effect but wasn't so keen on the result. I thought I'd use it to make a card anyway, but it's big - 8". It will be great for sunshine effects. That little sheepie may change its coat - I don't like this colour. I used Appliqué on his ears but it's so old it didn't fluff up the way it used to.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hQryCSIkfzb1ZJPsm6Cm6rYL6bjEtScDQ0fAq5Cw8XstF8H07cQ0QGhFF2ItxAvYixT4CuCjDdSr9VTNoaW3EEq2X4vD6l5SAZNpnwfsFP_PAaOdCINNE9IttxINsqCN6yrTROm0U3B4/s2622/JOY1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="2622" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hQryCSIkfzb1ZJPsm6Cm6rYL6bjEtScDQ0fAq5Cw8XstF8H07cQ0QGhFF2ItxAvYixT4CuCjDdSr9VTNoaW3EEq2X4vD6l5SAZNpnwfsFP_PAaOdCINNE9IttxINsqCN6yrTROm0U3B4/w400-h183/JOY1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: left;">One of my favourite Dylusions sayings... I used Versafine Clair for the duckies on the side, but when I was outlining the inking with black ink, I missed and the ink went all over my duckie image on the left. I did my best to cover it with paint pens, but it didn't work too well. The pink is Kitsch Flamingo. To me it looks like a deeper Spun Sugar - a Candy Floss pink. Love these ducks...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCbps_3zOSCFCjtHku9K4dNAlLuFspnM4tJ9pY7NoGHVfZ_05FV1zmh0FyNhthCFYraxIgbUspyV1ayW1DxTWK3HIy4qA2HTqiMbqlbqKP6w6FBM7KBmEglRUYZvLI4Gl3H871-uW3Agu/s1815/NORMAL1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1813" data-original-width="1815" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCbps_3zOSCFCjtHku9K4dNAlLuFspnM4tJ9pY7NoGHVfZ_05FV1zmh0FyNhthCFYraxIgbUspyV1ayW1DxTWK3HIy4qA2HTqiMbqlbqKP6w6FBM7KBmEglRUYZvLI4Gl3H871-uW3Agu/s320/NORMAL1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Linking to these challenges</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">2 Crafty Critter Challenges</a> - ATG with a critter</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://animalfriendschallenge.blogspot.de/" target="_blank">Animal Friends Challenge</a> - Sheep</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://craftyfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafty Friends Challenge</a> - Animals/birds</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sweetstamperschallenge.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Sweet Stampers</a> - Latest dies/stamps (ducks and baking lady)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a> - Colour My World</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Thanks for calling in and thank you to all those of you who commented. Your comments really did bring tears to my eyes - in a very nice way. Bless you!</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Stay well and stay safe!</span></div><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Back soon</div></span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Cath</div></span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">xxx</div></span></span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-67285772635583734042021-02-06T14:16:00.004+00:002021-02-06T15:25:45.199+00:00Monochrome Madness!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Happy New Year!!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">How ridiculous is it to be wishing you all a happy new year on 6 February - but it's my first post since 2020, so I really do want to start this year's blogging in the right way. Hope you haven't forgotten or given up on me!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I'm sorry I haven't been around until now - in all honesty, I wasn't able to sit at my table for long enough to do much after Christmas, so I did an odd bit of watercolouring as and when I was able - and coloured some stamped images now and again. Then, after a course of antibiotics for a very painful kidney infection, I'm chuffed that I can now sit for longer - yay! I can play 😁</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I set the monthly Mingle theme for KCUK on 1st and chose MONOCHROME...whose idea was that? I was actually wanting to do Black and White, because I always find that it kickstarts my creativity when it's decided to go on holiday 😉 but I opened it up to include any colour - along with black and white, of course. I also decided to challenge the girls to make a minibook. I've really enjoyed making them lately and know a lot of them love to make them, too. So, I decided to combine the two and make a very simple book - a concertina - but to make it in monochrome. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Disaster #1</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I decided on greens - because there are so many to choose from in the Distress range - and because it's a fresh, lifegiving colour. That led to me choosing one of my favourite stamping themes - leaves 😁 (It's also a way of pulling me away from my current Janet Klein and Tracy Easson obsessions!) I pulled out my SU leaves for a change, with Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover and Pine Needles Distress Oxides and set to work sponging and stamping. I loved the result. But the whole project was a catalogue of disasters 😖 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I folded an A4 sheet of card into 3, leaving a small edge, which I thought I may use as a closure, so I left it. But I inked the reverse of the concertina on one panel, thinking I would use it as a 'cover'. When I came to use it, I'd stamped it upside down 😟 - it didn't matter until I added the words, but I forgot to check. So, I decided to add another panel to the small edge 'tab', but when I did, I didn't attach it very well, and left a sliver of very sticky adhesive from the d/s tape that I couldn't get rid of. I had the bright idea of adding green washi tape, so I did, inking it up to blend it in more. The next mistake was not using enough water with my white paint when I splattered, creating very unsightly thick BLOBS of white paint - yeuck! I tried to brush some into the background, but it was very fast drying and just wouldn't blend at all...but the water from my brush oxidised the ink a little bit TOO much - along with the heavy water splatters that had already done that. Wetting the inks inside the stamped images had also oxidised the inks, but that added more tone to them and was intentional. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So here's the result...Front and 4th panels</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOKrYI9mWsE2Z7xIZ8vwHsSxWsdvstDx3o8q2LB87B6l0jNtbqr3Lbvy_g-s-o_mlEpkm7mNBY9V96yYOO8X-oHx99kaZ3wq7sphZpcJlffpbFb3UgDU0vmGyfKzksof7GMeFS7lx-O5HN/s2048/CONCERTINA+1AND4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1735" data-original-width="2048" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOKrYI9mWsE2Z7xIZ8vwHsSxWsdvstDx3o8q2LB87B6l0jNtbqr3Lbvy_g-s-o_mlEpkm7mNBY9V96yYOO8X-oHx99kaZ3wq7sphZpcJlffpbFb3UgDU0vmGyfKzksof7GMeFS7lx-O5HN/w400-h339/CONCERTINA+1AND4.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">All four inside panels</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6fx2Kw8lgkdm4QTOWvfcl_bewFqyLMBZITkUbHKVzngQO8af4oZc9oKj8Gut1j8F1SBEAn4YHiIedoAqnOfYVu9PccsXXO36MxO-kC_B1fh1u2xVghMSPODWOE9r663icorolBMwilTM/s2048/CONCERTINA+234B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="2048" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6fx2Kw8lgkdm4QTOWvfcl_bewFqyLMBZITkUbHKVzngQO8af4oZc9oKj8Gut1j8F1SBEAn4YHiIedoAqnOfYVu9PccsXXO36MxO-kC_B1fh1u2xVghMSPODWOE9r663icorolBMwilTM/w400-h228/CONCERTINA+234B.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Just to show you how I had planned it, this shows it 'upside down'.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It was dark by the time I'd finished it, but this does show the oxidisation a bit better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrdRMiNLbjBJITPgJFbnX7MzkFhDPLnQyi0-VwcQbEpRSO48zRgsAi8rC6fhYBlqyK0MBoqlg3VPP0RTB85yZvTCQLUlsBDVfq6OKBgP4hulxoj8XdA-dkuTdoujPHuNAfPCFnfDH4cagT/s2048/CONCERTINA+UPSIDE+DOWN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1520" data-original-width="2048" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrdRMiNLbjBJITPgJFbnX7MzkFhDPLnQyi0-VwcQbEpRSO48zRgsAi8rC6fhYBlqyK0MBoqlg3VPP0RTB85yZvTCQLUlsBDVfq6OKBgP4hulxoj8XdA-dkuTdoujPHuNAfPCFnfDH4cagT/w400-h297/CONCERTINA+UPSIDE+DOWN.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If this had been a card, I would've binned it 😂 but I did make a few cards from it afterwards....and it served its purpose as a sample for KCUK! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here's one of the cards...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzYKYFLdQ23c1TnAsOPv1cDFy1rSuigD_5wfbnnfe-AKiPndLXyLZNFZCg-X7UqgWP96zgdr3vr7rh59-eD9P9AF8WxRFRTkGYhBc8QCJRWZ2MSD95ncDsFCAzNIQYcP_Bq69xslcU-QcH/s2048/MONO3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzYKYFLdQ23c1TnAsOPv1cDFy1rSuigD_5wfbnnfe-AKiPndLXyLZNFZCg-X7UqgWP96zgdr3vr7rh59-eD9P9AF8WxRFRTkGYhBc8QCJRWZ2MSD95ncDsFCAzNIQYcP_Bq69xslcU-QcH/s320/MONO3.jpg" /></span></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Disaster #2</span></b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I was so determined to do something in monochrome that WORKED, that I carried on. I changed colour to purples - one of my favourite, favourite colours - again working with two main colours; this time Milled Lavender and Dusty Concord. I inked up the background with Milled Lavender (very pale), then sprayed water through my stencil to lift off colour... I didn't realise there was ink from another project on the stencil...I got a (not so) lovely yellow/green colour on my paled b/g.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZAcNrdLWuB9uMbqSGS4_To37m-huspeZpuivhJGX0HH6nXcyF8eUodABVc8mPwXI_qIxC5iLFaL_sPIRGnlVrkOTU3WNQjRnEVfTekTUon17RuTB711htGocDcwxnD9sBpcllFAqroool/s2048/MONO+5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZAcNrdLWuB9uMbqSGS4_To37m-huspeZpuivhJGX0HH6nXcyF8eUodABVc8mPwXI_qIxC5iLFaL_sPIRGnlVrkOTU3WNQjRnEVfTekTUon17RuTB711htGocDcwxnD9sBpcllFAqroool/s320/MONO+5.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I don't really mind it but it's no longer monochrome 😒 </div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Disaster #3</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You'd think I would've learned, but I honestly thought the stencil was stained... it wasn't. I <b>love</b> the result, but this time I got some lovely Salty Ocean on my b/g.... so I shifted gear and made a simple card with one of my already coloured JK images.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOChSLP_nh-kdRxrmGcN7CoSZAip_H4H1YTPzjg9xB-m5R9hRIp14IS_Px7bwK4VksAH-D3sGjx2hHcoCxqaj8dZA5hdllP044J9IkLEH53NlXbULELJuSZVAKXKkwg-OSsrA6CaekCYmW/s1813/MONO+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1813" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOChSLP_nh-kdRxrmGcN7CoSZAip_H4H1YTPzjg9xB-m5R9hRIp14IS_Px7bwK4VksAH-D3sGjx2hHcoCxqaj8dZA5hdllP044J9IkLEH53NlXbULELJuSZVAKXKkwg-OSsrA6CaekCYmW/s320/MONO+4.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">I then washed all the stencils I use a lot in VERY HOT water, trying to soak off the staining and excess ink. Then I made this one - which actually IS monochrome, but I don't really like it... I used paint pens and Gel pens to colour.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzYJ6Wle9D78OJPk6T71tm9NhDIIS__Zz7IpqS7gBfE9D5HQlJrltkDQq8Mubb0CwzyXJKMQ3xa_-lphv7ZMi7WeGEt0DGjKbwWgnq0CBcuiBDzgJHNkWp3iPFyIierf1hKCrndXYvyCk/s2472/MONO+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2472" data-original-width="1218" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzYJ6Wle9D78OJPk6T71tm9NhDIIS__Zz7IpqS7gBfE9D5HQlJrltkDQq8Mubb0CwzyXJKMQ3xa_-lphv7ZMi7WeGEt0DGjKbwWgnq0CBcuiBDzgJHNkWp3iPFyIierf1hKCrndXYvyCk/s320/MONO+1.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">At this point, the nice Mr Postie arrived with my new Distress ink colour, so it would've been RUDE not to play, don't you think? I quite like the Kitsch Flamingo but I wasn't sure which colour to use with it, so I opted for Picked Raspberry and a little Spun Sugar. I grabbed a tall stamp (as above) and used it. The stamped cheesecloth b/g is an old one from Stamporium - anyone remember them? I also added a little Hickory Smoke because the KF looks really good with grey! A kitsch giraffe instead of a kitsch flamingo...😁</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ8aGuLp4zqVUyoKwfUgZ2OHR39MNS0Hr96wozhvA7spOwpYiSF0OCv9YYl-nufnyMctwkJUycdwSH9Vx9-mK_86ghRsL84O9NAyVqvx_ICXhyphenhyphenD0SzX1jXJ3KhFqLHR5tq1dtM-ILY4zT/s2048/MONO+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1148" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ8aGuLp4zqVUyoKwfUgZ2OHR39MNS0Hr96wozhvA7spOwpYiSF0OCv9YYl-nufnyMctwkJUycdwSH9Vx9-mK_86ghRsL84O9NAyVqvx_ICXhyphenhyphenD0SzX1jXJ3KhFqLHR5tq1dtM-ILY4zT/s320/MONO+2.jpg" /></a></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I also made a little book last week and have other things to show you but I think this post is already way too long, so they can wait until another day.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Challenges</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mix it Up</a> - Fancy Folds (Hope the concertina fits that description)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://colourcrazychallenge.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Colour Crazy Challenge</a> - Anything Colouring</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Creative Moments - Anything Goes</span></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sisterhood of Crafters</a> - Create your own Background</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://creationsinpink.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Creations in (Mainly) Pink</a> - Anything Goes in mainly pink</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Papercraft Challenge</a> - Dry or Heat Embossing (most stamping heat embossed)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Thanks for calling in and for remembering who I am 😁</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Stay safe and well</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div></div></div></div></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-27282387711285714852020-11-19T15:41:00.007+00:002020-11-19T17:24:29.913+00:00GIRL GUIDES AND FEATHERS<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Today's offerings are very mixed... this one I made a couple of weeks ago. I love this little 'booth' - even if it's a direct copy of a Snoopy one I even have on a stamp! I know I could easily have drawn it, but I wanted to stamp because of the aged bits and so that I could cut it out. I do like my images embossed 😊 It's a simple Oxide background, with a bit of Colour lift stencilling and some stamping. I also changed the last word...the original says 'The heart that gives garthers', but I prefer to say is blessed... Hope you like my little cat, who's going nuts because of the chick, chick, chick, chick chickens.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGj_VUnWH2tlZbz6YdI2M9zXiDrmSdflbJG-C4zXN_xu8ziAd49fK6vxbkzOA80t4ej0_tn-00p3pSleIsa171K870e7rCgJI50KwL8j1tNKZHdZ79dfdPDVOMkLFjbOhipqRJcmg3j1pO/s1802/BLESSED+HEART.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1802" data-original-width="1796" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGj_VUnWH2tlZbz6YdI2M9zXiDrmSdflbJG-C4zXN_xu8ziAd49fK6vxbkzOA80t4ej0_tn-00p3pSleIsa171K870e7rCgJI50KwL8j1tNKZHdZ79dfdPDVOMkLFjbOhipqRJcmg3j1pO/w399-h400/BLESSED+HEART.jpg" width="399" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This one is very simple because I used a collage stamp over on of the backgrounds I loved, adding just a little extra stamping.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6D8P2UaptnqxTPX8Tat-MzDGi-CU2FOxfLvijhcz0idl3ayL7ACoVKsX0ngdAjokJxaLAcpBCu_4Cto2QG4QKCiO8tQmLUjHIDrZsALXByKDYpPYkCzSijmH1-znRnarO2ZXr5oRlcXQw/s2455/FEATHER+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2455" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6D8P2UaptnqxTPX8Tat-MzDGi-CU2FOxfLvijhcz0idl3ayL7ACoVKsX0ngdAjokJxaLAcpBCu_4Cto2QG4QKCiO8tQmLUjHIDrZsALXByKDYpPYkCzSijmH1-znRnarO2ZXr5oRlcXQw/w312-h640/FEATHER+1.jpg" width="312" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I decided it was a little lacking in colour, so I added some more coloured pencil and a little irridiescent ink from one of my reinkers - plus touches of silver and silver embossing powder. It doesn't show very well, though.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD_gxrvR2OQ9BDM6R755vzIYQoerIqB3Osdrh5ijLMvxvtfviAi-Idpb3hyphenhyphen8GEhzlqoQrYmhtD7cwq13rmQ6mC7iavjIBvkgBC4ooK-JLhVtysoI7X6ijpMRZvDc5WUuerOxovOl1plBiF/s2048/FEATHER+1C.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1530" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD_gxrvR2OQ9BDM6R755vzIYQoerIqB3Osdrh5ijLMvxvtfviAi-Idpb3hyphenhyphen8GEhzlqoQrYmhtD7cwq13rmQ6mC7iavjIBvkgBC4ooK-JLhVtysoI7X6ijpMRZvDc5WUuerOxovOl1plBiF/w478-h640/FEATHER+1C.jpg" width="478" /></a><br />This is a playabout journal page from when I finished the circular book. I loved the colours - my favourites - so didn't want to hide them too much, although I did remove some with a bit of lift off stencilling. The drips were already there, so I just added some splatters from the paint palette. I love these scribble stamps. They're so much fun.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge83kq_5EofGVMp8Rgt2GmUgMHoyoz_BAnP3T34xaVba4C1grmV4VHFGQCa6hED-4Y4CfF2ktufFJtmDA-1wyuZZ4YPALkWEK5bgUk8RV5S0GaVzeGbkP0G25Cpexa1LK-AsQX_lPFGlNR/s2048/PAINT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1231" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge83kq_5EofGVMp8Rgt2GmUgMHoyoz_BAnP3T34xaVba4C1grmV4VHFGQCa6hED-4Y4CfF2ktufFJtmDA-1wyuZZ4YPALkWEK5bgUk8RV5S0GaVzeGbkP0G25Cpexa1LK-AsQX_lPFGlNR/w384-h640/PAINT.jpg" width="384" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Linking to:-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Always Fun Challenges</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Country View Crafts</a>, Anything But a Card</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dayofthemonthcardclub.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">Day of the Month Card Club,</a><span style="font-size: large;"> Use Your Brain and Make Anything You Like</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.ca/" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">Mix-it-Up Challenges</a><span style="font-size: large;">, Anything Goes/Make Your Own Background</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not Ju</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-size: large;">t Card</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, ATG</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've been blog hopping, but my other laptop keyboard isn't functioning again!! So I haven't been able to comment without moving everything around, changing mice, etc, and because it's usually late at night, I just can't face all that messing. Sorry. I'll go to a couple I've just looked at earlier and comment while I'm in this room now. Maybe I'll even remember to take the keyboard and mouse in with me... even IF my forgettery is getting better, as a group I was once a member of used to say...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you so much for calling in today - every comment is appreciated 😉</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll be back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bless you all</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-73373039112566703022020-11-17T14:14:00.000+00:002020-11-17T14:14:14.249+00:00Round and Round and Round...<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> ...and round and round 😊</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm dizzy now, just thinking about it, lol. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEYU6j9a2eMrultulEQZdn1gO7a9iB2LilV9bJ1H9dcjOiNp_vgwIXoZvTdwvz8JRwjhYj_usKuBT4qRxTWJRb_1pnTisa54kH_4Sv6q5IGkjoHdc_NcyUuUWUw6ZYc_OdLQPRjbwthCCX/s2048/CBFRONT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1866" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEYU6j9a2eMrultulEQZdn1gO7a9iB2LilV9bJ1H9dcjOiNp_vgwIXoZvTdwvz8JRwjhYj_usKuBT4qRxTWJRb_1pnTisa54kH_4Sv6q5IGkjoHdc_NcyUuUWUw6ZYc_OdLQPRjbwthCCX/s320/CBFRONT.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm working between two laptops because my scans are on the other one, but the keyboard is misbehaving again. So, I've been working on these pages little by little, while listening to online teachings in my craft room. I had no idea what I was going to do with them, but this is what came into my head. It's not very well planned - but that's normal for me these days. I can now send it to a special friend. The pages aren't in order because I rearranged them, once I attached them to my triple book rings - and I added a back 'signature' </span><span style="font-size: large;">page</span><span style="font-size: large;">, but I've taken a photo of that, so will add it before I publish the post. This size circle - 4" - is a nice size to work with. I've made a hole in my stash of coloured images, but not a huge one, because I coloured some from scratch for this and I still have quite a few uncoloured ones left. Some of them are still on my stamping platform, too, so I might just have to stamp them again before I put them all away 😉</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSU4RWGqQtqXzuw-iwNiL-PEYLKhZWEioUX7tL0V5yYNwlszQh-7VnSSnarzehZr9S8HT0eahky4-jWFvV2QFpMgwYAZQXVrGQ1ljv2VgbQjQoC4KoVwlOhUYteIOpVNT2bK_P3N5PZTLU/s1413/CBFRIEND.jpg" style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1413" data-original-width="1406" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSU4RWGqQtqXzuw-iwNiL-PEYLKhZWEioUX7tL0V5yYNwlszQh-7VnSSnarzehZr9S8HT0eahky4-jWFvV2QFpMgwYAZQXVrGQ1ljv2VgbQjQoC4KoVwlOhUYteIOpVNT2bK_P3N5PZTLU/s320/CBFRIEND.jpg" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_svXt35nKlYmE0nbIeEOZ38rEWx1GojkXGCN2XoIP3Tafv-Ug_K21IcjblfdOi6XSo64CTknrBAXWvuvGgIbwQ249XY67EIMwLYeTlR7SMKab8LsQKlat-MeLdd9vI6d0J2P-4KoOZxk/s1415/CBFILL+YOUR+HEART.jpg" style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1415" data-original-width="1415" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_svXt35nKlYmE0nbIeEOZ38rEWx1GojkXGCN2XoIP3Tafv-Ug_K21IcjblfdOi6XSo64CTknrBAXWvuvGgIbwQ249XY67EIMwLYeTlR7SMKab8LsQKlat-MeLdd9vI6d0J2P-4KoOZxk/s320/CBFILL+YOUR+HEART.jpg" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwL7eC61yykY2afQhalnGwtEYALnJ-bMqVWedgbP0WT5k77CTuAV7MEnpp9iJUdUTqyBmcdFkWmff851EnfmHO9qP4LqhsD7F2arch0UNflq4yx3vwAKXcVIlwNY2aQMAHrphT271d62JI/s1424/CBLEAVE+SPARKLE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1403" data-original-width="1424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwL7eC61yykY2afQhalnGwtEYALnJ-bMqVWedgbP0WT5k77CTuAV7MEnpp9iJUdUTqyBmcdFkWmff851EnfmHO9qP4LqhsD7F2arch0UNflq4yx3vwAKXcVIlwNY2aQMAHrphT271d62JI/s320/CBLEAVE+SPARKLE.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9mu5240suXPA_tOqjp7Rfl1ckp5lfZOnrHvBABCJOJIIhtmInAa7RTLU1PzzPEcbD4rt6sQjtRkJ2ZZ3dLBnmCNYBC8MZFa-Eyhuh_nJhby-5x_Ufw0D-XiOoNa-J_QwQeZENWYLWbBV/s1424/CBFAVE+WEATHER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="1424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9mu5240suXPA_tOqjp7Rfl1ckp5lfZOnrHvBABCJOJIIhtmInAa7RTLU1PzzPEcbD4rt6sQjtRkJ2ZZ3dLBnmCNYBC8MZFa-Eyhuh_nJhby-5x_Ufw0D-XiOoNa-J_QwQeZENWYLWbBV/s320/CBFAVE+WEATHER.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNg-6lr0smrZskODmtiOuGL-DGrVFFS2xHYyJOZ7_aNiQ4Mu2qp7341j-H4VIOSAzFHGpTxrQ0DucfCGJrS4swW9j9bPRU2S6pU3ILREtZhdW5Dtj-aNTs7ef4v-qWAUlX8kOu5ryOEq35/s1414/CBEXPAND+WINGS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1410" data-original-width="1414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNg-6lr0smrZskODmtiOuGL-DGrVFFS2xHYyJOZ7_aNiQ4Mu2qp7341j-H4VIOSAzFHGpTxrQ0DucfCGJrS4swW9j9bPRU2S6pU3ILREtZhdW5Dtj-aNTs7ef4v-qWAUlX8kOu5ryOEq35/s320/CBEXPAND+WINGS.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk9s4jrBIaq724vwvHfaCbwi0B89yFUq-Rmc2EVonPoG6ePicRfreBfbx6bRPvEPAUvohcVxGIHvBP82Bgx6jkv9aYladBTQv62F1FBUG9hOmwWwNdrRDnjktxsywt5GpWiAATlGa5krtZ/s1416/CBBROKEN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="1416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk9s4jrBIaq724vwvHfaCbwi0B89yFUq-Rmc2EVonPoG6ePicRfreBfbx6bRPvEPAUvohcVxGIHvBP82Bgx6jkv9aYladBTQv62F1FBUG9hOmwWwNdrRDnjktxsywt5GpWiAATlGa5krtZ/s320/CBBROKEN.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This one's a digistamp, so the words are a little larger from choice. It's called Pray and Play - or Play and Pray...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-419xS3JwfyInBHhT6TApuNr7mL4Ic3annQVdNzxJKIVNdxmzoHr6l_cx8IdwVN2XMRlKrFuIIIaz7L9UvIuCQkCU1UnfO6ZmRhzplrHkBStjlPINu-p7vzHignXhvY0r7pNqxhjOvCq/s1424/CBPRAYER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1413" data-original-width="1424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-419xS3JwfyInBHhT6TApuNr7mL4Ic3annQVdNzxJKIVNdxmzoHr6l_cx8IdwVN2XMRlKrFuIIIaz7L9UvIuCQkCU1UnfO6ZmRhzplrHkBStjlPINu-p7vzHignXhvY0r7pNqxhjOvCq/s320/CBPRAYER.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH72Iy2W1pNr9VZbP50Juz85fI_Mzi29D954ksij4HhaP1pabt6r_aOiGYoZK9W6XsOx_K4zOMPp4ASv2oY8oRJirxgqDv_3yV_nclcOJzPGBflesqAZkSrE0MkUMD-L7werzx-Wq-uB56/s1932/CB+BACK+PAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1766" data-original-width="1932" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH72Iy2W1pNr9VZbP50Juz85fI_Mzi29D954ksij4HhaP1pabt6r_aOiGYoZK9W6XsOx_K4zOMPp4ASv2oY8oRJirxgqDv_3yV_nclcOJzPGBflesqAZkSrE0MkUMD-L7werzx-Wq-uB56/s320/CB+BACK+PAGE.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Linking to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Always Fun Challenges,</a> ATG</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafting Happiness Challenge</a>s Anything But a Card</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Country View Crafts Challenges,</a> Anything But a Card</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mix it Up Challenges,</a> ATG, with optional Make your own Background</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hope you're all well and happy, despite lockdowns and more stringent measures in most countries right now. Isn't it great news about the vaccines? We may have to wait a little while, but it's brilliant to know that we can soon expect fewer infections and fewer sad deaths. My prayers are with those of you who may have lost lone or more oved ones, or have friends or family currently battling this horrendous virus. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you for calling in today</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-35434160246415550592020-10-28T10:19:00.007+00:002020-10-28T10:25:22.652+00:00Autumn Glory Mingle<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Just a quickie to post my Autumn Glory Mingle for KCUK. It's arrived now, so I can share it 😊</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used to hunt down shrooms to photograph them and had quite a collection. I think they're amazing! Mine are very limited in shape and size, but it was fun to use them. A smooshed and sponged Distress Oxide background on an 8" tall card, with lots of text in the background. The two groups were stamped onto the card, the large one is Jo's Stampotique shroom, which I love. These colours are so comforting to play with.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GQolG-ExDXOwdtuEqqtO3ni9GGuMPxLjGO7bzvH3gEojOGMTPAZ1nwuBW5VFlESWVijKqjqptws243yzBul8q5zXvjAXpGfsy4LjlkJJ_SlLCiVX6-YNY0zOZI2LawXZ7tOL5W21LcGK/s2048/KCUK+OCT20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1025" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GQolG-ExDXOwdtuEqqtO3ni9GGuMPxLjGO7bzvH3gEojOGMTPAZ1nwuBW5VFlESWVijKqjqptws243yzBul8q5zXvjAXpGfsy4LjlkJJ_SlLCiVX6-YNY0zOZI2LawXZ7tOL5W21LcGK/w200-h400/KCUK+OCT20.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Linking to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Use Your Stuff,</a> Autumn, Fall</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://blog.dare2bartzy.com/tag/challenge/" target="_blank">Dare 2B Artzy,</a> Fall</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://sweetstamperschallenge.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Sweet Stampers</a>, Autumn or Halloween</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://livelaughstamp.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday</a>, Fall/Autumn</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">Stamping Sensations</a><span style="font-size: large;">, Autumn Glory</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks for Calling in today</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stay safe!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-13161621464391337212020-10-27T17:44:00.007+00:002020-10-28T09:54:56.436+00:00MINI BOOK<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Nearly two weeks since I last posted...anyone would think I wasn't stamping, but I am 😁 albeit a little more slowly than usual!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm here to post a mini-book I made for a friend a little while ago. I really went off making cards for a while and spent my time making pages to make into books - and will soon be doing more! In what seems like the distant past, I made a lot of small booklet/mini-book type projects for workshops. I suppose they're my first love, if I'm honest. This was the second I made in early August. I had a recipient in mind from the beginning, which isn't always how I create... but I wanted it to be specially for her.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I didn't post earlier because this was when I first used that gorgeous colour combination I used again for my next little book. It evolved as it progressed. I had intended making a tallish concertina book, but because I'm using thicker card, the folds cracked, so it became a sewn signature book. Then I kept changing the cover shape and size, so had to add more pages to cover the folded cover...but I was really happy with the way it turned out and I know it brought a smile to her face, which is what matters most, isn't it?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, using Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feather and Wilted Violet ink, I sponged the front and back of my long piece of card, splashed with water, then added background stamping, using Studio Light and other images. I stencilled a lot on this one, mainly using Moonlight White Brilliance Ink.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Book cover</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioog7VN7QW1NucksPlWaAlfUuBU9GfHvKwtceZdO9x0RnFUGasREEiMgPEDoj5q0a345B-963C2KvHKyvDvYj4THbm2RC3qrA3EVSNnV7L8GguXmeBzj_XD-uSeEwjBzcwMwCy5POAQy-q/s2048/DB+FRONT+C+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1071" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioog7VN7QW1NucksPlWaAlfUuBU9GfHvKwtceZdO9x0RnFUGasREEiMgPEDoj5q0a345B-963C2KvHKyvDvYj4THbm2RC3qrA3EVSNnV7L8GguXmeBzj_XD-uSeEwjBzcwMwCy5POAQy-q/w209-h400/DB+FRONT+C+2.jpg" width="209" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpFGlfAngAXKo6O_H56FD-kgF_3YGrh79D1ek1mD9y1nVEm6WCPSSy9c261SemauDgb_3haaPScnETBrFMz2_qJiwKJwe0us32R4nZ8D2VoIhHtSNdjS4MfnZ5-g5HXy_ezUH2QaanaZH/s2048/DB+FRONT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixxmXFHThw62YKb_FRNL2evJLu77cBIOMwgXM0WwFQZUL1ZT4EqZPiZL5oPEJga-cBWnT59wAvEIU2Kb487mPdB7G-8EeuqEmraL5hcmOKGmhhYbZCRJU6Scn1jXY_SqFV49vg3D2R_l8m/s2048/DB+8.jpg" style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1082" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixxmXFHThw62YKb_FRNL2evJLu77cBIOMwgXM0WwFQZUL1ZT4EqZPiZL5oPEJga-cBWnT59wAvEIU2Kb487mPdB7G-8EeuqEmraL5hcmOKGmhhYbZCRJU6Scn1jXY_SqFV49vg3D2R_l8m/w211-h400/DB+8.jpg" width="211" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3YtJ3E2i8rsk_HZVi9AaCoXZ44h8-gobxQT_4JscaQddCk70awKeN5sv6sfeAPGmyPz1Pr4rLqvwV8EzW4qEXj0bfUH-f_pTAg07rWltAg0u12o364xXsY6xlX8_wEq08OfRFUrDo9CtQ/s2048/DB+BACK+PAGE.jpg" style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1045" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3YtJ3E2i8rsk_HZVi9AaCoXZ44h8-gobxQT_4JscaQddCk70awKeN5sv6sfeAPGmyPz1Pr4rLqvwV8EzW4qEXj0bfUH-f_pTAg07rWltAg0u12o364xXsY6xlX8_wEq08OfRFUrDo9CtQ/w204-h400/DB+BACK+PAGE.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">It was a lovely size to work with, so I may do more like this - I also have slightly different versions and sizes of the covers for another two hanging around in my craft room. I kept changing my mind about what I wanted to do 😁</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next time, I may have a plan in mind when I begin! I'm sure it would help 😉</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Linking to</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://getcreativechallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Get Creative Challenges</a>, Favourite Colour Combo </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://allfunchallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">All Fun Challenges</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dragonfly Dreams</a>, Spooky and/or Cute (def cute!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://welove2create.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">We Love to Create,</a><span> Anything Mixed Media Goes</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://bastel-traum.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bastel-traum</a>, Background</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/miucb-42-anything-goes-distressing.html" target="_blank">Mix it Up Challenge</a><span>, Anything Goes/Optional Distressing</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafting Happiness</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Not Just Cards</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://friendship-challenge.blogspot.com/">Friendship Challenge</a>, Use a Sentiment (or lots?)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/2020/10/46-kreativer-hintergrund.html" target="_blank">Do-Al(l) Creatives</a>, Creative Background</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/" target="_blank">We Love Chocolate Baroque</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you so much for calling in... I've been such a BAD blog visitor lately - sorry!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stay well and safe!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-86461072668815508832020-10-15T15:46:00.007+01:002020-10-15T15:47:44.098+01:00Coffee time!<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Once upon a time, coffee time where I am would have been any time, and even in the middle of the night! But things change and now I allow myself 3 cups of caffeine each morning, followed by decaff for the rest of the day...it used to be decaff ALL the time, until I had to get up just after 5am to get to where I was working, and desperately needed that caffeine kick. Thinking about it now, I'm sure going to bed a little earlier would've been more effective, but I was often working until midnight (the joys of teaching in Adult Ed and having to provide all your own resources) so it didn't even occur to me 😁</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Last night I went into my craft room to look for some images and when I realised just how many I had ready to use, I was really annoyed with myself...enough is enough! AND there are others besides...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs5FnWfcNAS8HpwI_63sXpW9MT35Ia3xEzNdkPmpyGQy6FSHQXxFmvWdMk2rtK0Ix9bXGXdi4qlWnklhMnQkj0C3nMHLMyHXxB7FFxwyb2OKi4W3Ur7eLGcduCaT-II6UHhlUL4kKXBfRF/s2048/JK+IMAGES2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1279" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs5FnWfcNAS8HpwI_63sXpW9MT35Ia3xEzNdkPmpyGQy6FSHQXxFmvWdMk2rtK0Ix9bXGXdi4qlWnklhMnQkj0C3nMHLMyHXxB7FFxwyb2OKi4W3Ur7eLGcduCaT-II6UHhlUL4kKXBfRF/w400-h250/JK+IMAGES2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">So, I picked up a b/g I'd made last week, added stencilling and stamping to it, then added some images...not from my stash, but freshly coloured. I know... but they seemed to go with the b/g 😉</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;">So here's the background...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMKWDN1TBW784kjXf6zYbC2J9Cam63grcwkScsLlsvysg1vjysHqcwkEeh99TWaRsn-eZFKkh7NxQXx1yh_4SGWg8cmQl1r2pYsrjwesN9M-dFSZK4TKkGd7YFOv_4N2v1vkn4bz3M3KIV/s2048/FABG1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2042" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMKWDN1TBW784kjXf6zYbC2J9Cam63grcwkScsLlsvysg1vjysHqcwkEeh99TWaRsn-eZFKkh7NxQXx1yh_4SGWg8cmQl1r2pYsrjwesN9M-dFSZK4TKkGd7YFOv_4N2v1vkn4bz3M3KIV/s320/FABG1.jpg" width="320" /></a> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FKQ-0TQtdTxvD9dMcP-PTqvtxrlkAz3jsNdndZRRAaGrV99zix6-_hMTIhLYGym2_ukQQB-RSUzxTIrcYl-S39q8QCJiVzVpktqSkuazum-YOm2cI9YIaYU_lLeuAQkrEBX7Qfsrn2gJ/s1830/FABG3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1293" data-original-width="1830" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FKQ-0TQtdTxvD9dMcP-PTqvtxrlkAz3jsNdndZRRAaGrV99zix6-_hMTIhLYGym2_ukQQB-RSUzxTIrcYl-S39q8QCJiVzVpktqSkuazum-YOm2cI9YIaYU_lLeuAQkrEBX7Qfsrn2gJ/w200-h141/FABG3.jpg" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSCfip8GaHTUbxLLXSePROTQetlukukmSTo1dvY-NUW9ALeAikhMCMlFwiCjx1s87LaXQnRhoOP7z0aDzY6KqZhwxgs1KQ7q4q652ovpKm2-t3eANniXHMiKio5ELrfCQJ-AdE2_Wkh7Cp/s2048/FABG4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSCfip8GaHTUbxLLXSePROTQetlukukmSTo1dvY-NUW9ALeAikhMCMlFwiCjx1s87LaXQnRhoOP7z0aDzY6KqZhwxgs1KQ7q4q652ovpKm2-t3eANniXHMiKio5ELrfCQJ-AdE2_Wkh7Cp/w200-h150/FABG4.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And this is the finished card. I used a stencil from Visible Image, with Crackling Campfire, Aged Mahogany, Rusty Hinge, Walnut Ink and Fossilised Amber Distress Oxides, Delicata gold and Versafine Onyx Black inks. The washi tape is from my stash.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As usual on an Autumn day, it's difficult to get a good image, so I'll show you a scan and a photo 😊</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Scan - accurate figure colours</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpZVFu4_g3ZzrjfKmE_wZIzOIChk748fzs5huJHKpOzrEMtq0ch5_25_kUJGNXbh1X3zuSAZ7jkR4IbcBjXG_kJK1g634a8X2Fr07Eb1M8eHBOsHhsnt7vX9c3Q9JK5mJBtmgpjgoDUvS/s1820/FIX+ANYTHING+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1820" data-original-width="1807" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpZVFu4_g3ZzrjfKmE_wZIzOIChk748fzs5huJHKpOzrEMtq0ch5_25_kUJGNXbh1X3zuSAZ7jkR4IbcBjXG_kJK1g634a8X2Fr07Eb1M8eHBOsHhsnt7vX9c3Q9JK5mJBtmgpjgoDUvS/w398-h400/FIX+ANYTHING+1.jpg" width="398" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Photo - more accurate background colours</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGry33p-RC818SZOIXyyzUOuou5gDzPnqXTbpoSzc1GkE-GtSyAtkY53nzsFB8zhJbyhv3Z8qFpAPewGHhoaEkaUdhr4ih3k2cZOYlknbD-j9l5lTbYJ8SBoLNuYoNTbbnjnYpe490yCTT/s2048/FAB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2029" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGry33p-RC818SZOIXyyzUOuou5gDzPnqXTbpoSzc1GkE-GtSyAtkY53nzsFB8zhJbyhv3Z8qFpAPewGHhoaEkaUdhr4ih3k2cZOYlknbD-j9l5lTbYJ8SBoLNuYoNTbbnjnYpe490yCTT/w396-h400/FAB.jpg" width="396" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have a ridiculous number of both images and backgrounds (in various stages) to go at and still have a minibook to share, but I'll try to get more done this week, or my image stash may just keep on growing...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgatfq66-wpRhFyc3uPW0wZZtqzk4sH2o9sEfQ3w2glVCnvsXtjKjWedPLd_oUaZgxg6BvH_10HRsptvH_t6d_AhtcSE6AM-z5JZlkmbjFOoDJqZV82VFxdRYKLJi6HuPOpd4ZcBIi4sP9f/s2048/BGS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgatfq66-wpRhFyc3uPW0wZZtqzk4sH2o9sEfQ3w2glVCnvsXtjKjWedPLd_oUaZgxg6BvH_10HRsptvH_t6d_AhtcSE6AM-z5JZlkmbjFOoDJqZV82VFxdRYKLJi6HuPOpd4ZcBIi4sP9f/s320/BGS.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Linking to</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://stinkininkers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stinking Inkers</a>, Shades of Fall</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stamps & Fun = Creativity</a>, Anything Goes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">My Time to Craft,</a> Autumnal Colours</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://dayofthemonthcardclub.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Day of the Month Card Club</a>, International Coffee Day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://do-allkreatives.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Do Al(l) Kreatives</a>, Creative Background</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Back soon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks for calling in today</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stay well and safe!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854283720299174832.post-54503424991217439392020-10-11T14:07:00.006+01:002020-10-12T14:58:50.001+01:00Autumn Sunshine<p> Hi all.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope you're enjoying the Autumn sunshine where you are. It's so bright and sunny here, and it can be deceiving, fooling you into thinking it's warm until you get outside and feel that sharp wind...brrr! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My crafting and browsing time have been seriously curtailed of late, due to spinal problems, but I finally managed to finish this little concertina that I've been working on for around 10 days - very unlike me. I only had the cover to finish early in the week, but it's taken me until now to get around it it 😉</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I wasn't going to get embroiled in Autumn colours and images, but how can you resist? Especially when I've just set this month's Mingle, or challenge on KCUK and chosen Autumn Glory! This isn't what I'm using, because the additional challenge is to make tall cards or tags and this certainly isn't that...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used Crackling Campfire, Toasted Marmalade, Fossilised Amber, Aged Mahogany and Walnut Ink Oxides, smooshed for the most part, but sponged on the cover, and Versafine inks for stamping the images. I did take lots of photos, but I've just checked them and the colours are very washed out, so I'm showing you the scans.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's the cover...using Aall and Create stamps, Prisma pencils and gel pens. It's just over 3.75" square.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTW_6S57L0PN47lMl7eI1J54-FY2Pc5J-lvtu5hJWRs6gCbwKPZrp1aDnBdlm4XyYAQ_nLS0f3Vcdqc63PVdvfDhxtrKweAhtLwiA2D8mQUK3vA7w62six2uOOecyTotmQvXq-U_fjyDuD/s1141/ABCOVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1141" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTW_6S57L0PN47lMl7eI1J54-FY2Pc5J-lvtu5hJWRs6gCbwKPZrp1aDnBdlm4XyYAQ_nLS0f3Vcdqc63PVdvfDhxtrKweAhtLwiA2D8mQUK3vA7w62six2uOOecyTotmQvXq-U_fjyDuD/w400-h399/ABCOVER.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a photo of the inside before I decided to cut it up and use a black concertina for the backdrop.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2MlAUkPKf5dB44hnCQQ-vot7ITpoT9NBRuGYuH1O71mID27wVhxBii3RFhpyW2STD2fhpl1V-DUfeOgGnHTF0Vw9saV2tvDozJlqKhrqsqdkqhmDOSTgJdf6Q9iFiXz2Sr3ieB70fQ_R/s3396/ABCONCERTINA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="3396" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2MlAUkPKf5dB44hnCQQ-vot7ITpoT9NBRuGYuH1O71mID27wVhxBii3RFhpyW2STD2fhpl1V-DUfeOgGnHTF0Vw9saV2tvDozJlqKhrqsqdkqhmDOSTgJdf6Q9iFiXz2Sr3ieB70fQ_R/w400-h105/ABCONCERTINA.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's also before I added some of the detail and more stencilling/shading.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages 1&2</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9kUXfUUYuebUBx1k_82wufs8br71Nesb2PsHn5rHplXBla3Ue34QAc4kOPNniwib7lnteMMUBY-7dXRmF_fyuQbU77uy_7TgZq7r80ERk8hapqOi3N14bJIArH0u6paVZDSCrgVvS257O/s2272/AB1AA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="2272" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9kUXfUUYuebUBx1k_82wufs8br71Nesb2PsHn5rHplXBla3Ue34QAc4kOPNniwib7lnteMMUBY-7dXRmF_fyuQbU77uy_7TgZq7r80ERk8hapqOi3N14bJIArH0u6paVZDSCrgVvS257O/w400-h200/AB1AA.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages 3 & 4</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4qzshRkdmwercEh418iu04i2HO6dvW9LFd5TDFeOPcZvMxH9ynCZALoQC377Oyl8F1XRQqEsgZ6SuXJYt41eofmh4crox5B_VTT7N7l9sP2-kPtxGDW-CN5lHObp2W-RL3MXwSQIICGSd/s2259/AB2AA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="2259" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4qzshRkdmwercEh418iu04i2HO6dvW9LFd5TDFeOPcZvMxH9ynCZALoQC377Oyl8F1XRQqEsgZ6SuXJYt41eofmh4crox5B_VTT7N7l9sP2-kPtxGDW-CN5lHObp2W-RL3MXwSQIICGSd/w400-h200/AB2AA.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some of the wording is handwritten and not as well done as I'd have liked. I stamped, coloured and cut out the dragonfly and the flutterby, edging with black ink as usual, then glued over the top of the previously stamped and embossed images. The tree is from Visible Image. I enjoyed really mixing up the colours and adding more on top to change what was underneath. I had hoped to use a real nib for the flutterby, but the image is way too big for the nibs I have in my stash.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is one I made a while ago, using Brushos over a white embossed floral background. It's on watercolour paper, so I went back in with a little pencil shading. An easy, quick card to make.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BZmv3dx0O5FLLa51TPwea6MB79fkB2T3IEBshLWvZFuKtKUvQPmG9yaOIyk_ZZ1_zOXE-A4NDSWMT90F83kHUXtjqp137YUoegJ9TQtU30M7aNzFSW9Jh9lbwMGvEuE2OtJopwM0YgjB/s2048/SHINE+BRUSHOS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2031" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BZmv3dx0O5FLLa51TPwea6MB79fkB2T3IEBshLWvZFuKtKUvQPmG9yaOIyk_ZZ1_zOXE-A4NDSWMT90F83kHUXtjqp137YUoegJ9TQtU30M7aNzFSW9Jh9lbwMGvEuE2OtJopwM0YgjB/s320/SHINE+BRUSHOS.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_HPENszf40brCVtqR-kCMdBwPH5aFmNARFRWPAhlsLe6U7y0jYG814dyLHP-RXrbfmeWrNJYe1bi7ffn22QR1jVVyzEUyhTNXYvHZ3IuNx9pfkwQmrLEeRv2sdX_zM_6t0njDdbBIlNx/s1855/SHINE+FLOWERS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1838" data-original-width="1855" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_HPENszf40brCVtqR-kCMdBwPH5aFmNARFRWPAhlsLe6U7y0jYG814dyLHP-RXrbfmeWrNJYe1bi7ffn22QR1jVVyzEUyhTNXYvHZ3IuNx9pfkwQmrLEeRv2sdX_zM_6t0njDdbBIlNx/s320/SHINE+FLOWERS.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Linking to </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://stinkininkers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stinking Inkers</a>, Shades of Fall</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crafty Gals Corner</a>, Fall Colours</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://livelaughstamp.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday,</a> Autumn/Fall</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://sweetstamperschallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sweet Stampers</a><span>, Autumn or Halloween</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://blog.dare2bartzy.com/tag/challenge/" target="_blank">Dare 2B Artzy Challenges</a>, Fall</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/" target="_blank">Chocolate Baroque Challenge</a><span>, Anything Goes</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Try it on Tuesday</a>, Autumn Colours</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Do-Al(l) Kreatives</a>, Creative Backgrounds</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll be back soon. I still have other things to share and I'm hoping to get into my craft room again this week, all being well.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks for calling in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stay safe and well</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">xxx</span></div>Cath Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693663036314974892noreply@blogger.com18