Birthday and Mother's Day Cards Completed

Good afternoon blogland, followers old and new, crafty friends and family.  After a bad two weeks I have at last found my mojo and have managed to make a few cards, inspired by this week's offer at Papermill Direct which is plain white card in 2 weights.

A  Box of luxury plain white A4 330gsm for just £5.00  (approximately 70 sheets)

This lovely thick card is also available in a Megabox at just £35 for 600 sheets. That's under 6p per sheet!

A  Box of plain white A4 240gsm For £5.00 (approximately 80 sheets)

A MIXED mega box of the two grammages for £35.00 for 600 sheets!

I  made a Valentines/birthday card for my OH (for his birthday which is today) using Papermill's white linen card, a Mother's day card using the 330gm plain white offer card and a note card with the 330gm scrapling left over from making my square card blank.

I have some lovely Mother's Day sentiments from Pink Petticoat and used one of these for my Mother's Day card, the sentiment was printed onto the 240gm plain white card, die cut with a spellbinder die and coloured round the edges with blue distress ink.  I layer patterned paper onto the 330gm card blank, attached a doily. the die cut sentiment and and a few Prima flowers with Sizzix die cut leaves.

My scrapling note card was coloured with worn lipstick distress ink, and then inked again through a Tim Holtz burlap stencil.  The springtime image was stamped in brown and clear embossed and edged with squeezed lemonade distress ink.  This was layered onto pale blue card then white embossed card, attached to the scrapling card and finished with string and a pale blue button.  

The 330gm card is ideal for card blanks, bookmarks, tags etc and works wonderfully with the Sizzix big dies, not tried it with thin dies yet as it is very thick.

Lots of catching up to do, posts to write and projects to finish, hope to be back soon with some Tim's Tags 13/14.

Silence and Dazzle for The Craft Barn Q&L Challenge

Hi everyone, hope you are all warm and dry and not stuck in the terrible floods, it's dry here today but more rain is forecast.  Today I have my postcards for The Craft Barn Q&L Challenge, the words for this fortnight are Silence and Dazzle.  Working on 60's music I picked "Silence is Golden" sung by Frankie Valley  and the Four Seasons (1964), and "That Old Devil Moon" sung by Ella Fitzgerald (1969).

Silence is Golden

Music/Lyrics Bob Crewe/Bob Gaudio

Original 1963 Frankey Valley and The Four Seasons

Released 1967 by The Tremeloes who reached No1 in the UK charts

Silent movies came to mind for this postcard, I used Stampers Anonymous and Marriane stamps, downloaded a photo of Laurel and Hardy and splashed lemon juice onto my background and heated it to give the effect of the old celluloid film when it overheated and started to burn.

That Old Devil Moon

Music/Lyrics Burton Lane/E Y Harburg

From the 1947 musical Finion's Rainbow

Released 1969 by Ella Fitzgerald on the album "Sunshine of Your Love"

I used DI's for my background on this card, splattered white paint over it and dotted with glamour dust for the dazzle. The Sizzix movers and shapers moon was coverd with frosted crystal embossing powder and fixed with sticky fixers.

Really enjoying this challenge, will be over to see what evryone else has been up to over at The Craft Barn Challenge  later this week.

Valentine's Day Competition and a few Cards

Hello everyone, I must tell you about the new challenge at Papermill Direct.  Enter their Valentine's Day Card Challenge and WIN a YEARS subscription to Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine! - That's 12 issues each with a free cover gift! 

***Please share this with your friends!***

Details of how to enter the challenge can be found  here - http://papermilldirect.co.uk/community/valentines-day-challenge-win-a-subscription-to-simply-cards-papercraft-magazine

Papermill also have an offer at the moment on great quality envelopes so pop over and stock up while you can, why not register for the Papernmill Newsletter HERE so you will never miss out on special offers.

Here are some Valentine cards I made this week using Papermill card and paper.

  

I will try blog my Tim's tags later,  hopefully relax a little and finish making my Q and L postcards.  Three nights of not much sleep looking after a dog in great pain is taking its toll!