Windows.....

There is another new challenge blog out in blogland that celebrates all things Hero Arts.... it's called "A Blog Named Hero".  Their latest challenge is " Cards with a View".

  I LOVE Hero Arts products and have quite a few of their stamps and love the quality.  So I just had to create a card for this challenge.



I started my window panel by stamping my sentiment ( from Stamp-It) and then cutting out the window.  I then embossed the panel with Swiss Dots.  I then stamped on the cut out piece.   I started with Silhouette Grass inked up with Shabby Shutters and Rusty Hinge.  Over this I stamped one of the flowers from Real Garden Flowers inked up with Mustard Seed and a dark green Tombow marker.  The little red butterflies are from Antique Engravings set.   The window panel is raised on pop dots for some dimension.

I am also entering this into Die Cut Diva's monthly challenge ~ Embossing
and Lily Pad Cards ~ Flower Challenge

Glad that first week back at work is over.  It's been LOOONG.  Hoping to get some time in the craft room over the weekend.  I want to redo some of the tags  I made for Tim's Creative Chemistry classes now I have his Tag Die ~ it makes nice big tags and I only used little tags.

Hope your weekend is full of fun.

Dawn

Projects from Sunday

Here are the photos of the 2nd day of stamp camp 2009. The purse shaped one is a little box that is made to hold 5 small gift cards ( still to be made) > The one with the wood flower stamp - we made 3 - the first being a basic black and white one, 2nd added the colouring to the stems and a dragon fly brad, layered the circle onto black then white scallop ( I added the ribbon as I felt it was too plain) In the third one we added some colour with a yellow flower added over the one on the stamped image plus a strip of yellow card.... just to get the idea of how you can jazz up a card. Had great fun with the shoe card. I'd not done a pop up card like this before - so was very pleased with the results. Love the shoes.... so changed my mind about what card to give my daughter for her birthday.
The 3 fold card uses acetate and cut out apertures. I haven't finished it yet. Ran out of time on the day. I have a sentiment and some embellishments to add at some stage. It is really just a sample card so I can get the idea. The drinks card was fun to do. The cup is made from vellum with micro beads on the top and real sand on the bottom. The final one is a calendar we did (again I still have to finish this off) It is flips over so one side is the first 6 months and the other six months is on the reverse side. Still have to do some stamping and embellishing of the inside. It goes from June 09 to May 10 - so have a few weeks to get it finished.
So you can see it was a full on two days.... but came away with heaps of ideas and inspiration - not to mention a much lighter wallet and lots more stamps and other stuff.

well this is a long post for tonight - so thanks for visiting and looking at projects.

two challenges

It's been a busy few days. Friday morning I took my SIL to have a pedicure. A very relaxing hour sitting in massage chairs having our feet and legs massages and our toes painted. In the afternoon more family arrived. John (BIL) his wife Mary, their daughter Nicola and her son Nathan. MIL was really pleased to see them all, especially her great grandson. Nathan is 8 months old and an adorable little thing. Then it was off to Emma's place for pre-dinner drinks and then down to Devonport to Graham ( yet another BIL) and Denise's place for dinner. Needless to say by 9.00 June was shattered.

Saturday morning was a bit of a sleep in then off to watch Kieran (son) played rugby. Talk about "the silly season" - standing on the sideline watching rugby in shorts and jandels. One lot of friends were off to watch their other son play cricket... Peter took the inlaws off to the airport to head back down the island while I caught up on the house work.

Haven't felt too creative this week, but this afternoon decided to do a card that would do for two challenges. One being HA windows and one KWernerdeigns Colour Inspiration
As I don't have any Stampin Up card or inks I had to use what I had that matched. I used some Berger paint samples for my tango and shaffron colours- layering them and then cutting out the window with nestibilites. I cut a nestie square out of the white card for the window. Stamp is HA F5132 Black and white flowers - stamped in a Fawn colour Impress ink ( darkest brown colour I had) Sentiment inside from Inkadinkadoo 96614 Expressions stamped inside the card together with an portion of the flowers stamp.

Also here is the card I made for Di to give my daughter. Just a little one using my favourite HA 4 dolls stamp.
Well that's all for today. Go check out the HA Flickr group for all the wonderful window cards