Shabby Vintage

I'm going to be honest. I have never made a vintage card before. This is for two reasons 1. I don't fully get what vintage is other than old looking and 2. I'm scared of it..... mainly all of the patterns I have seen used. Every time I buy a paper pack I get at least one page that I never use because it looks vintage. Well I think I have finally gotten to grips with my phobia and this is what happened.

Simon Says challenged us to make something vintage and to add flowers. At first I wasn't going to try, but I thought, "If you don't try you can't learn". I bought a papermania paper pack a while ago as part of a goody bag. I have to say that I don't know what to do with half of the papers, but they have inspired a lot of the orange cards that I have done lately. The paper I used on this card was one of the scarier ones in the pack. I edged the pieces I was using with fire brick and then I got a little too happy with the candle. I learned that adding distress ink and then setting light to the paper just makes it burn for longer (wont be doing that again).

Dotties world asked us to do some distressing which is where I got the idea for the pyromania.

I die cut some card and embossed it using a Fiskars texture plate. I coloured it with Aged mahogany and Fired Brick then sanded it in places until the white core showed through.

The flowers all started off cream. I have coloured them with three different distress inks and added gems to the centers. I have added a heart charm on chain to the main part of the card along with some ribbon and gems to the base for a bit of sparkle, which brings me on to the challenge at CRAFT challenge who wanted us to use ribbon and sparkle.

If anyone can give me some tips on vintage card making, I would be most grateful. Please feel free to tell me what I could have done better with this card as I learn from your comments.

Pink on Pink

Friday Sketchers gave us a cute sketch to work with this week, but I couldn't decide which papers to use. In the end I went with the pink theme from this weeks challenge over at One stop craft Challenge. The idea to use ribbons and buttone on this card came from this weeks challenge over at Stamp something

With the exception on the dotty paper, I have had everything I used on this card in my stash for quite a while. I am trying to stick to one of the resolutions that I made this year - "Use up old stash before buying more". I do still buy the odd new piece of stash (well you can never have too much) but I am doing well with using up what I already have.

Distressed Flame

Yes I know...... another orange one. I couldn't help it..... the colours were crying out to me.
On Tuesday A Spoonful of Sugar challenged us to use distress ink (did a little dance), pearls and glitter. So I pulled on a pair of latex gloves (having learned from blue dyed fingers last week) and started playing.

I wanted warm colours so I started with a sheet of orange and yellow paisley paper and the rest grew from there. I made an easel card using two yellow card blanks. I did this by cutting one of them in half to make the "front" of the card and folded the front of the second card blank in half. The left over half of the card blank was used to make the yellow strip across the middle and the two die cuts which I coloured with distress inks.

Enough techy stuff. I have used Spiced marmalade, Fired brick, Aged mahogany and Antique linen distress inks. The stamp is by Penny black and I have edged the image with clear glitter for some sparkle.


My eldest son said that it made him think of fire.... hence the name. The design is from the sketchat Papertake weekly, Everybody Art asked for an easel card and Kaboodles asked for fancy folds so I will be entering this card for those challenges too.

Dotty bout orange

This card came together quite easily. I saw the challenge over at Totally papercrafts "lots of spots" and knew exactly which papers and ribbon to reach for. Then I saw the challenge sketch at The Pink Elephant and thought "that's the one".

Everything was going really well until I realised that I had stuck everything onto my card upside down. I had a bit of a pout and then worked out how to fix it and my design error turned into a design feature lol. I simply folded the back of the card blank in half, added some of the textured card I had been matting with and some peel offs. This is the end result.

Mint n Lilac

My time to craft challenged us to make a project using the colour green and one other colour, so of course I went for lilac. It made sense since I already had the papers and embellies from my last project out on the table hehe.







The little lady that I used came from Charmed cards and crafts and is from the Holly and Madison range. I like to economise so I will also be entering this card for the challenges over at A spoonful of Sugar and Stamp something, who both asked for something to do with spring. I think that the colours that I used are very spring like.

Lilac Bear

Just cute bears asked us to use lilac this week. I love purple. It's definitely my favourite colour, so asking me to use it on a card makes me smile.

Everything that I have used on this card has been in my stash for quite a while. The paper that I covered the card blank with is from some HOTP papers that I bought more than five years ago. Papertake weekly asked us to use checks in our design and that is what got me searching through my stash in the first place.

I bought the bear die cut a year or so ago and have coloured it with my whispers markers. The Corrosive challenge asked us to make something with wings on, so I cut a die cut butterfly in half and covered it with white glitter before attaching it to the bear.

The design that I have used is a variation on a Christmas card that I made last year. And of course I have added my trusty peel offs.

I'm off to play some more. See you later.

Naomi

Mama Rabbit

Mothers day is fast approaching so this weeks challenge at Moving Along with the Times was perfect. We were given a great sketch to work with and the theme "MUM".

I was a bit worried about my colour scheme this week. Creative inspirations challenged us to use sepia colours and this is not a colour pallet that I have deliberately used before. I hope I pulled it off. I like the way that the colours came together :0). The little Mum tag at the bottom makes this card eligible for the challenge over at Allsorts. I get stuck when asked for tags on a card, but it's not to hard to work one in once you think about it. I coloured this one with my bronze Krylon pen and added peel off letters.

I'm loving the challenges. I'm learning new techniques every month and I'm not just dipping my toe out of my comfort zone any more...... I'm jumping right in.