Tuesday Trigger – Poolside Inspiration

The Tuesday trigger at Moxie Fab World was not so inspiring for me, as we head into the winter months in NZ.

However, as I am home from work with a bad cold and no voice, I sat down with my supplies and came up with this card.

I used my new “Angel” from Bombshell Stamps, water colour pencils, digital patterned paper and a rub-on, mounted on a gold card base.  The dive mask, snorkel and the Hibiscus in her hair are part of a Silhouette America cutting file (C0021), resized to fit. The elements are all edged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Art Pieces ATC Challenge – Water

This week the theme at Art Pieces was WATER and my idea came to me late Sunday evening after a weekend full of a bad cold.  Perhaps I am getting over it?

I have wanted to try this stamping technique for a while now and I am pleased with the way it turned out, using Vintage Photo Distress Ink from the Tim Holtz line.  I used water colour pencils for the eyes, lips and the faint reflective surface.

Art Pieces - Numbers

The ATC challenge this week at Art Pieces is all about Numbers.

My ATC looks like this:

I wanted to give it some extra dimension but was worried I would ruin it.  I actually like it the way it is.

I cheated really.  This is a cutting file from Silhouette America that I re-sized to 2.5 x 3.5 inches.  I then “filled” the design with graduated colours and cut ii using the Print and Cut technique for my machine and backed it with textured black cardstock.

Tuesday Trigger - Retro

What an awesome trigger this week at Moxie Fab World.

I’m not sure if the trigger was using Napkins or the Retro take that I picked up on.

Whatever it was supposed to be – this is what I did and I really rather like it, lol

The dancer and letter stickers were done on my Silhouette.  The gold border is peelcraft and the pp is a digital one from my many downloaded free files.  The gold glittered card base was hiding in my stash.

Bombshell Stamps

I came across some awesome stamps while blog-hopping.  Needless to say, I have ordered some and am patiently (not) waiting for them to arrive.

Check them out here

Lace Up Feet

In February this year, while in Blenheim for the weekend, my mother made Liam a Ronald McDonald costume – much to Dad’s disgust!

Following that weekend Liam sent a txt to Nana asking for a “Red Ronald Afro”.  This Mum dutifully made and posted to Liam.

Next thing we know, he has txt Nana again asking this time for “Huge Ronald Feet”

This was proving a dilemma. How was Nana going to come up with the goods this time?

“It’s easy”, came the next text. “You start with some white shoes, paint them red, put in yellow laces!” Duh! Of course! “Oh, and the soles need to be black”.

Mum came over for the second week of the holidays to be with Liam while Dad and I were at work. I came home on the Monday to this:

When Dad came home, I was not sure how he would react to the full costume, not being so thrilled at the idea in the first place.

Liam came rushing in from greeting Dad at the door and said

“Dad was so pleased to see me in Lace-Up-Feet!”.  Ah, Bless Him!

Art Pieces ATC – Pearls

After a break for Easter, the challenges are back to running weekly at Art Pieces.

This week the theme was PEARLS

It was nice to make shaped ATC for a change.  This one was based on some swap pins I made for Scrapfest back in January.