Tilda Challenge

Here is my latest Tilda Challenge, using the format suggested in the challenge.

Having watched Nicky on IW the other day using her promarkers (how clever is she) I decided to do this one just in browns. All the papers, backgrounds and flowers are made by me.

Brown butterflies.

Yes it's those Tim Holtz butterflies again, using an idea from Craft Stamper. I have lots of birthdays and anniversaries this month and made several of these as men's cards, although my OH doesn't think they are really 'mens' cards, I can't see why not having used the colours I have. Too bad...I've sent them off in the post now ha ha ha.

Same card, different colours.

Was able to have a play over the weekend, after a busy time last week.

I used Tim's distress ink pads to blend the backgrounds and Hobby Art clear stamps to build up the images. I'm not sure which colour way I prefer.

One colour card.

Someone on one of the forums I go on is making 'one colour cards' using just one ink pad, so I thought I MUST try this.
I used a fairly simple stamp and inked it with Tim Holtz Faded Jeans (or Denim, can't remember the name of it and it's upstairs at the moment!!!) I then put some of the ink on a tile and used water and a paint brush to water down the ink and to build up the colour where necessary. I used the paintbrush and ink to go around the edge of the die cut shape, and of course the same inkpad and a stamp to make the background sheet.
Quite nice to try something different.

Here comes Tilda...again

Well it is time for another Tilda Challenge, and unfortunately my mojo seems to have gone walkabout so this has spurred me on to get cracking again. Things just haven't gone right recently, totally uninspired and things have gone into the bin. Ha ha ha. This challenge had to be made in this layout and able to fold up, having worked out how to make it from an A4 sheet of plain card it seemed to go reasonably smoothly.

It's those TH butterflies again

My friend's daughter had a lovely surprise whilst they were all on holiday in Norfolk recently, her boyfriend, out of the blue, and whilst they were on Holkham beach, suddenly proposed to her....what a shock, and it was her birthday too.

Aaah, just soooo romantic.

I wanted to make them an engagement card, and of course, you like to do something different to the shop bought ones don't you, so I masked a heart shape and inked with TH inkpads in two different pinks, and yes, I think I'm hooked on this butterfly and foliage stamps so used those......again ha ha ha

Simliar but not quite the same!!

This card is a take on the one in the Craft Stamper this month, my dragon flies are larger, and less of them as I couldn't fit so many on the card!!!!!!! and the 'splodges' aren't splodges but made with a stamp... still it is near enough to the original, and I feel reasonably happy with it. Makes a change to do something different.

Remembering a dear friend.

A very dear friend died a few years ago, at a young age, leaving a 7 year old daughter. For varying reasons we don't see the husband (remarried and new wife doesn't want contact with the past etc etc etc!!!!!!!). Anyway it would be our friend's birthday on Sunday, and I always try to remember to send a card to her mother, who really has never got over the loss of her youngest daughter. I feel she might quite like this image.

House Mouse Anniversary cards

Two wedding anniversaries to send cards for this month and thought these House Mouse images were perfect for such an occasion. I had a non stop morning with various things, taking the garden rubbish to the tip, stopping off at a shop for a couple of things, filling the car with fuel (expensive or what!!), and a visit to the docs to sort out this deaf ear of mine and get prescription from chemist....home to wash feet (what do I hear you say) well I had to head off to the Podiatrist and after all the running around didn't want to go with smelly feet Ha ha ha, so put the dogs in the car, got the feet sorted, walked the dogs, and went to do my duty and vote. Soooo I thought I deserved a bit of play time and made these cards.

I hope you like them.

Easel card

I've made this card for my niece's birthday at the weekend. It's actually an easel card but as I can't photograph it you will just have to imagine it standing up ha ha ha. I've used Distress inks to 'watercolour' the image