Showing posts with label Friday MashUp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday MashUp. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Good Enough to Eat?

Today I really wanted to use my Lil Inkers Stitched Bow, but it was better at playing hide and seek than I was ;) Inspired by my blackboard Christmas wreath card created here, I though I'd have a go at creating a kraft and teal version and use my Lil Inkers Stitched Circles to create a shaped card to play along with The Paper Players Shaped Card Challenge and Friday Mash Up! Kraft & Gingham Challenge, but I think it ended up looking more like a Christmas doughnut - which is not necessarily a bad thing LOL!

In case you are wondering about the 8 for this weeks CASual Friday Create with 8 Challenge, I repeated Annabelle Stamps Holly Branch 8 times to create the wreath, and when the card is opened flat...



 

Saturday, November 16, 2013

P.S. Holiday Cheer!



 
Inspired by this fabulously festive photo from Paper Smooches (below), I decorated a six-pack of beer and used the Paper Smooches Flag Tags dies cut to create a beer bottle tag.
Paper Smooches Sparks Inspiration Photo
The beer bottle tag was created by cutting a piece of MME pattered paper (cardstock weight) just over two inches wide and just over seven inches long, and scoring and folding it so one side is just over five inches, and the other side is just over two inches long. This paper was placed in the largest Flag Tag die, with the fold just inside the top flat edge of the die, so that when it goes through the die cutter, the folded end remains attached. A one inch hole was then punched in the shorter end of the beer bottle tag and the corners rounded, so this folded flap can be used to hang the tag from the bottleneck. The Paper Smooches Enchanted Elves reindeer was stamped on some old Mambi woodgrain paper, which had been glued to a piece of cardstock for extra strength when fussy cutting. A red Kaisercraft rhinestone was then added for his nose, and a googly eye. The Paper Smooches Christmas Words sentiment was cut from two shades of green papers and the darker green words were set into the negative space left in the lighter green paper, leaving a bit of the background stripes to peek through. The lighter green paper was die cut using the medium sized Flag Tags die, and this was scored and folded and adhered around the beer bottle tag.  The reindeer was then pop dotted onto the beer bottle tag. The beer bottle holder was then decorated using Crate Paper - to make it look like a wooden crate of beer LOL!  Paper Smooches Ponsettia holly die cuts were used to create the holly, which was pop-dotted over the gingham ribbon.

Playing along with Paper Smooches Sparks DT Call

Friday, October 18, 2013

FUSION #20


LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this fortnights FUSION photo inspiration!  Originally my card was going to be based more on the sketch, and incorporate a glass half full of orange juice...  then I took a step back and focussed on the oranges, and everyone knows oranges grow on...  an orange tree LOL!

I went super CAS this week, with this darling cut out tree from Amy Tangerine Yes Please Bits, pop dotted and backed with some coloured paper from the same paper range. This gorgeous sentiment "It takes a long time to grow a true friend" from Mama Elephant is stamped in Hero Arts Soft Pool.

What will you be inspired by this fortnight...The fabulous colours, leaves, themes or textures from this fabulous FUSION photo, or this funky FUSION sketch? Hope to see you at the FUSION Challenge Blog soon, in the meantime, here's some more FABULOUS inspiration from the Design Team...
Playing along with this fortnights Keep It Simple Be Inspired Challenge,

and Friday Mash Up "Tree or Leaves" and "The colour Orange",