oh la la

Think I may have blogged about this card already but I haven't crossed it off my list so here it is again....... lady from a Gecko Galz design sheet.

Va Va Vroom

I was given quite a lot of Decoupage sheets last year, and this image was one of them, although I only used the base image on this card.

Background card in red to match the car, square of an old map and a blank page from a novel, 3 candi and peel off sentiment used.

Does remind me of Bergerac's car though.

Really need to tidy my 'tags' up... too many to go through when blogging.

purple or purple?

Not very often I dip into my Debbi Moore drawer, but decided too for the monthly swap over at Card Exhange UK on yahoo groups, knowing the recipient liked sewing & reusing things, this made an ideal theme.

 

All of the bits used came from Shabby Chic compendium.

Well, I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year. Ours was lovely if a bit different as dad & step-mum didn't come over for Christmas dinner as usual, due to dad still not being 100%, still waiting for Hospital to find out why he lost 4 pints of blood.... & where from. Just has to be a medical mystery case my dad.
Didn't work over Christmas which was nice for a change.

My last post early in Dec, had me doing reduced hrs and lots of crafting..... which didn't exactly go to plan. I ended up doing more hours again and less crafting, though I managed a few more Christmas cards.

Now I'm on a weeks hols, yes I know I don't want work  *lol*

So back to crafting!!

A digital Christmas card

Back to working 13hrs - just two days at work, sudden drop from working 28/34 hrs for last 2 months or so.....eek! The first few days at home are fine but then I start to miss going out to work and then that's when my moods start to nosedive and I get really low. Trying to stay positive though - plenty of cards to make between now and next Thursday.....

Here's a 100% digital Christmas card I did this morning.

Using a Gecko Galz image, I resized it and then using the colour pipette, I matched the 'backing paper' to the background of the image, slightly altering its transparency to fit better. The smoky border came from a digi kit I have, again just played around till it looked like the edges were smudged with age. I bevelled the edges of the newly created topper and then made another 'backing paper' of the same colour to put the the topper on, so you can see the beveled edge more clearly. Drew 2 little circles and colour matched the red from the image, agin using the bevel tool - which made then look like shiny gems. Last but not least I found a bow from another kit and matched the red, adding a deep shadow to it. This sounds quite quick too do but it wasn't as I kept changing my mind on colours, placement.....

entering in:  digitally sweet = a digital christmas card

feeling blue

A blue butterfly card today, I made this ages ago and forgot to upload a photo.... image from a Gecko Galz butterfly design sheet. The pack of doilies is still going strong *lol*