SC269 - Hedgy Gift !

Good Morning Everyone !!

Well these past two weeks have been filled with Olympics. The television hasn`t been on for so long each day for along time ! Its been fantastic, I have enjoyed every minute. We had a trip downtown and I still can`t get over the number of people down there. The streets are seas of people !!! The atmosphere is something else - fabulous ! Here is the Olympic Cauldron, Downtown, Vancouver.

The Sea of People !!!!

Anyway onto the card. Can you believe it; I receive the sketch challenge one day and the card is completed the next. I haven`t done that for along time ! This seem to come together really quickly, I love it when that happens. I used one of my new stamps I bought the other day from one of my favourite shops at Cloverdale. I now have so many Hedgy stamps its not funny but I just can`t resist them !!

I stamped the image using Memento Tuxedo Black and then, of course, is there anything else to colour them in with apart from Copic markers, I love them ! Its the first time I have coloured the little cuties in brown, I`m not sure which I like the best - brown or grey? The layout is this weeks sketch over at Splitcoast. I can imagine using this more than once.

Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day!

Yvonne

Easel Card

Can you believe it, another post, two days in a row - a record !! I have just discovered the Easel Card !! Of course I have seen them around but they always looked complicated so I never bothered until now. Now I love them !! Its simple to make and all the instructions are over at Splitcoast Stampers- Thank You Splitcoast. The Easel Card is just alittle different from the usual way to open a card. Here I have stamped my image - Penny Black in Versafine Oynx Black ink and clear embossed it so I could colour it in with my Copic Markers. I used a mixture of Labels four and Labels five for the frame. I decided to dry emboss the inner frame with the Textile embossing folder, just to be different! Prima flowers are used in the corner with afew dew drops around. The sentiment (a Amuse stamp) was stamped onto the fancy tags and matted onto the larger fancy tag. Oh and the DP used is Graphic 45, I just love this design and colour. The main card stock is Groovy Guava by SU, unfortunately its been retired now.

Here is a side view of the card so you can see the Easel part.

Thank you for visiting my blog and enjoy the rest of your day.

Yvonne

Christmas in July !!

I hope everybody is enjoying this fabulous summer we are having. The temperature reached 104 degrees F in the car today - WOW !! - so I`m not sure where the inspiration came from to make several Christmas cards !!

Of course there are some Penny Black Hedgehogs in there and a Holly Berry stamp which I have just aquired. Let me share the cuties first;

I thought this card had somewhat of a vintage / traditional style. I didn`t want to colour too much on the hedgies so I left the sheet music white. I used Basic Grey paper and stamped the sheet music block onto it from Cornish Heritage Farm (quite appropriate, I thought !) I sponged around the edges of the image to match the sponging on the sentiment.

My second card is definately a Christmas card - bright greens, red and white.

You can just see the cuttlebugged background on the dark green, it looked too plain without it. The rest I don`t think needs any explanation. On to my elegant, I think so anyway, Holly Berry card.
I think I am going to use this stamp quite alot for Christmas. The possibilities are endless. Here I stamped the image with the gold embossing three times so I could cut some layers. The next picture shows them quite nicely. I wanted to stamp a greeting in the centre but couldn`t find one to fit. The dove turned out okay. It is suspended between layers two and three.

The blue background is velvet paper. That definately gives it the elegant feel.

Hope you liked the cards, thanks for looking. I am off to get some tea ready. Have a great day!

Yvonne

I Went Shopping and Look What I Found !!

Firstly I feel as though I must apologise for the long absence and theres no excuse - time flies what more can I say !!

Anyway enough of that. Today I went to one of my favourite shops - Country Lane. She has a great selection of almost everything. I hunted down the new stamps she had received from Penny Black, I just adore them. I couldn`t wait to get home and ink them up. Heres what I came up with.

I first stamped the image using Versafine Black ink and then embossed it using clear detail embossing powder. I used my copic markers to colour the image in but unfortunately I forgot to make a note of the colours I used before putting them away. I blew the cobwebs off my sewing machine and edged the card to add alittle something. The edge punch is from EK Success - I love it.

Here is the second card.

I fell in love with this stamp as soon as I saw it. A Labour of Love from Penny Black. You can use it like this or split it into three different stamps that I am going to try later. Again I stamped the image using Versafine Black ink and then embossed with clear detail enbossing powder; and again I`m sorry my copics were put away before making a list of the colours used. I think I must have had my "tidy head" on !!

Thanks for visiting my blog, Have a great day!

Yvonne

Minding Shelty !

Happy Tuesday!

I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend as much as we did.

I have managed to sneek afew minutes to post this card which has been waiting quite a time to be posted. As I have said before I adore the Penny Black images. This one is very appropriate to us as we all love horses in this household. (Albeit we don`t have a shetland !!)

As you can see I remembered to take a photograph of the copic markers I used to colour the image!

Receipe: Card Stock; Chocolate Chip, PTI White, DP Ink; Black Memento, chocolate chip, Stamps; Penny Black - Minding Shelty, Accessories; Ribbon, charm, Curvy Rectangles (Nestabilities)

Thank You for looking, I hope you have a nice day.

Yvonne

WSC76 - Buzzin` Around !

I hope you all had an enjoyable Easter. Ours was made even more special this year as my parents have come over from the UK for a visit. We had a lovely long weekend.

Well, I think at last we are coming into spring !! The sun is shining and we have blue skies. (Second day running!!) This is my creation for the weekend sketch challenge. This week the sketch was created by Laurie - Thank You Laurie great sketch. The layout can be found at Laurie`s blog - http://justgivemestamps.typepad.com/

I adore the Penny Black hedgehog stamps. The image here is coloured in by copic markers. I didn`t want to add too much to the card as the DP is really quite busy in itself, so I decided to try my hand again at sewing the edges. Its not quite as neat as I would have liked but I kept reminding myself it is suppose to be a handmade card and alittle hicup in a straight line would be okay ! I layered the stamped image onto two mats made with my Nestabilities. I think the rest of the card is self explanatory.

Receipe: Stamps: Penny Black, Card Stock: Purely Pomegranate, Bliss Blue, Whisper White, Retired SU DP, Ink: Lamp Black, Purely Pomegranate, Accessories: Nestabilities, Copic Markers, Rhinestones, Ribbon, window punch, Sewing Machine.

Thank You for looking.

Yvonne

The Acrobatic Hedgehog !

I do like the Penny Black stamps. I picked this one up the other day and I couldn`t wait to ink him up!! I used the Basic Grey DP Bittersweet for the background and used my copics to colour him in. Finishing off with chocolate satin ribbon and a couple of pink buttons.

Thank you for looking, have a great day!

Yvonne