Twine Around

Monday, 23 January 2017

CASology Challenge #232

Hi there everybody!! I'm popping in with a quick and naughty card for the current CASology challenge!

I haven't entered for a while and when I saw the Cue word I kept thinking of the same phrase over and over again. So after lots of searching thru my stamps, I managed to find the perfect image:

This is a 'hope you find this funny and it doesn't offend anyone' card!! Have you ever heard of the phrase 'who cut the cheese??' Well, this poor little bunny was caught in the act and looks incredibly embarrassed.

I stamped the bunny on some white CS, as well as the cheese wedge x3. A quick colour with my pencils and I fussy cut them out. The cloud and sentiment were stamped on the card front and I used a grey pencil to create a surface for the bunny to stand on. The bunny was put on foam tape and after 'cutting the cheese' images, I glued them in the cloud. I didn't have any tiny cloud images so just drew some with a fine black pen. How embarrassing!!

The bunny and cloud is from My Favourite Things 'Somebunny', the cheese wedge is from WPlus9 'Get Well Gang' and the sentiment from Create A Smile 'Bad Day'.

Now I just need to work out who to send this too......????

Take care
Shona

Friday, 20 January 2017

Just Add Ink - January 2017 Challenge - Blog Hop

Hi there everyone and welcome to the first Just Add Ink challenge of 2017!! And since its our first, we decided to do a blog hop to celebrate!

You should have arrived here from Jan's blog Jans Creative Corner where I'm sure she wowed you with her gorgeous project. If you've lost your place in the hop, pop over to the Just Add Ink blog to find the full blog hop list!!

As you can see our theme this week is 'Pop-Up and Interactive'. I've only made one once before for Halloween (where I had the head of a girl spinning like 'The Exorcist') but it wasn't hidden in the card itself. I really wanted to make a 'pop-up' card but it was a total disaster. So I watched a video by Jennifer McGuire here, so I have Jennifer to thank for the design:

You would never think there was a surprise hiding inside this card:

Here is a short video to show you how the 'spinning' in the middle of the card works:

This was pretty simple to put together (I haven't seen any of my JAI team mates cards, so I know mine is going to be boring in comparison) but it would be so much fun to make with kids!!

I started by popping a hole in the front and back panel of my card (I actually did this twice as I realised the first hole was too high.....), threaded my cotton thru it and adhered in place. I then die-cut the rectangle from water colour CS and white CS, adhering the white one to the back of the card to cover up the cotton.

I used a large round brush and my Gansai Tambi paints in different shades of blue, to create cold, winter-scene, and dried with my heat gun. I was then able to stamp and heat emboss the sentiment and footprints in white.

On a piece of white CS I stamped the tree's, coloured them with pencils and fussy cut them out. The tree's were then glued to the rectangle panel and then the panel to the front of the card (with a piece of fun foam underneath), along with some blue and clear sequins.

The yeti was a little harder to do. I had to mirror stamp him, which I've only done once before and this time didn't work so well. I stamped him on to a clear stamp block and then pressed the block on to some white CS but it didn't transfer well. Luckily I was able to draw over the faint lines with a black pen. Once they were both coloured in, I fussy cut them out, added double-sided tape to the back of one and pressed them back to back on either side of the cotton. I twisted him around, closed the card and opened again and he spun around like crazy....yipee, it worked!!

All of the stamp images are from My Favourite Things 'Beast Friends' and the rectangle-stitched die and sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh.

I have four challenges I would like to enter:

NBUS Challenge #8 (new stamp set and new spinner card technique)

Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge (Chill Out)

Simon Says Stamp - Work It Wednesday - December 2016 (Something New)

Which is the MFT stamp set I haven't used before.

Curtain Call Challenge

Whew, sorry this is such a long post!! You have until next Wednesday 25th January to link your projects to the Just Add Ink challenge. Your next stop on the hop is the amazing Kim, just press the 'Next ' button and it will take you straight to her stunning project!!

Take care
Shona

Thursday, 19 January 2017

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps - Girl Friday Post - January

Hi there everyone and welcome to my first CAS-ual Fridays Stamps 'Girl Friday' post for 2017!!

I'm still in 'Christmas card mode', especially since I ran out of Christmas cards last year. So I need to make more of them during the year and this is the perfect time to use my favourite snowflake dies:

I've been watching a lot of craft videos lately, especially ones by Kristina Werner. She is so good with her water colouring and I've picked up lots of tips with regards to blending and adding lots of colour. So thank you Kristina for inspiring this card design!!

I die-cut the larger tag from the Scallop Tag Fri-Dies from water colour cardstock and also from white card stock. Using a large round brush and my Gansai Tambi water colour paints, I created the blended colours. I then die-cut the Funky Flakes Fri-Dies from the label and also from some silver glitter paper, making sure to keep all the little pieces.

I glued the white label on to the back of the die-cut label, creating a place to inlay the glitter snowflakes, adding back all the little pieces. This was then popped up on a piece of white fun foam. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment (from Snowflake Splendor) in silver on a strip of vellum and added thin strips of double-sided tape behind the words to adhere it over the label.

For embellishment I realised I had lots of tiny glitter circles left over from one of the snowflake dies, so glued them on instead of sequins.