Teddy Presents

I must be feeling better.... I'm keen to get into the craft room and am able to sit for an hour or so at a time....  So blog surfing and made myself a list of challenges to consider....

Really enjoyed the Step card the other day, so decided to have a go at a Side Step card for Simon Says Stamp Challenge.  




I started by cutting the card base.  Found a tutorial page (here)  giving the dimensions.  I then sponged the card with Hero Arts Pool Shadow ink and then overstamped it with the Envelope Pattern in the same ink.  Such a subtle colour.  I then stamped Teddy onto the base and again onto white card.  Coloured with Copics and cut out to pop onto the base.  For the presents I used Gift Boxes stamp by Penny Black.  I embossed them in black and then sponged different colours of distress ink and cut them out. to stick to the steps.

As I used 2 or more stamped images, I'm also entering this into Paper Play's challenge this week. 

Thinking especially of my friends in USA today, your 10th anniversary of 9/11.  Watched an amazing doco last night ~ time seems to have flown by.

Take care and thanks for visiting

Dawn

I love Teddy...

I really love Teddy Bears.... in my past crafting life, I was a teddy bear maker.  I made tiny little jointed teddies of 3 inches through to big 15 inch teddies... now I just stick to stamped teddies... my favourite being Tatty Teddy... I have a number of digital images, but recently found some stamps by Docrafts available here in New Zealand from Paperzone in Hamilton. I ordered a teddy stamp and a sentiment which arrived yesterday.

Of course I had to ink it up right away. 

I used Copics to colour in the image and matted it onto the red card.  I decided to offset the panel for a bit of a focal point.  I finished it off with crocheted flower and one of my handmade polymer clay flowers.   I really like how it turned out.  And I hope my friend at work does too... it's her birthday tomorrow so this will be perfect for her.

Had a fun afternoon today... went 10 pin bowling with our family group.  Only two other ladies and 2 kids and us... but we had a fun time.  I struggled a bit getting the angle right ~ a few gutter balls.  Hubby won both games we played.  He's got a good style.  A fun way to spend an afternoon.

Hope you all have a great weekend

Take care

Dawn

Tatty Teddy and July's CCC

I've been struggling a bit this week with ideas ~ sometimes they just seem to flow.... other times it's hard work.  Yesterday was Stamp Group....8 hours of stamping ( give or take time for lunch and chatting!!!) and I really didn't have much creativity.... I did manage a few cards but wasn't that happy with a couple.... I had a DT one to do.... why is it always harder when you HAVE to make a card in a PARTICULAR theme or genre.... with certain stamps~  oh well... it's finished but I'm not that happy with it.... got a few days till the deadline so might have another go ...

But I digress... this post is about the July CCC..  Most of my readers will know about this... but if not... pop over to Lily Pad Cards blog and have a read.  It's a fun exchange of a card.  Each month there is a theme, colour inspiration or sketch.  This month I looked at the sketch.

Decided to flip it vertically and this is what I came up with...........

The Tatty Teddy stamp came as a Freebie with Docraft's Creativity Magazine At the time I purchased the magazine, I saw the matching inks for the Teddy but didn't buy them.  So I used Memento Black and Copics to colour him.   The background is a Cling stamp by Stampendous ~ called "Dreams" one of the ones I won.   I stamped in in Stormy Sky Distress ink and then sponged it with the same ink.  Sponged round the edge of the scalloped oval as well.

I also got another Docraft Tatty Teddy stamp while I was at the Paperzone stand at SENZ and used it to make a baby card for Rachel and Angus...

I added colour to the star with a gel pen so it is really sparkly for real.  I used the computer to generate the sentiment and cut it out with a Spellbinders Grommet Tag.  The ribbon is thread through the tag and tie in a bow at the side. Tatty Ted is stamped twice.... once on the circle and once on a scrap piece and coloured and cut out and layered with pop dots.  The inside sentiment " A star is born to light up your lives"   And here is what is being sent over for Willem so he knows he's half Kiwi....

I picked them up at a Craft Co-op a couple of months ago.  Couldn't resist....

Well it's been a cold winter's day today after a stormy few days and last night around 3.30am was woken by a HUGE clap of thunder and a few flashes of lightening.  Heard more thunder before but nothing eventuated.  

Hope you are all enjoying your weekends whatever they may hold.

Take care

Dawn