Marianne's cards 'n stuff

Sunday, 6 January 2013

Be kind to yourself

To me, the sentiment of today's card seems a perfect way to sum up all New Year's resolutions. Maybe I should create a larger version and hang it on the wall in my office space.

I'll try to take another picture tomorrow that shows the embossed stitching on the black strip a little better. I can only see it in this picture if I look at my screen from above. ;-(

Here's the sketch I used:

Materials used:

Sentiment - Tlc Creations (freebie)

Hearts image - Floppe Latte Designs (Country Hearts,

comes with a rectangle hearts border around the image)

Colouring medium - my new Promarkers (Berry red and Ruby)

Embossing border - Cuttlebug (Just my type set)

PP - from a very old paper pad of an unknown brand

Banner die - Wplus9

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch 179

Less is More - Black & white plus a splash of colour

Passion for Promarkers - #179 New beginnings (New Year's resolutions)

I Love Promarkers - #149 Monochrome

Allsorts - #168 CAS

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Another quick Christmas card

I'm almost through showing you my 2012 Christmas cards.

It features another of Paulette's digital images. It would have been such a waste not to use it for 2012, since I will be unable to use it for this year, unless Paulette decides to do a 2013 version of course LOL.

The png image came in black and white, but since I intended to use it to make at least 10 cards, I decided to colour the ornaments on the computer (using Paint, which happens to be able to handle png files these days) in red and golden yellow before printing onto Neenah solar white cardstock. After printing, it was merely a matter of cutting my A4 sheets, adding some gold paper strips, adhering everything to my cut and folded cards (also Neenah) and trimming off the excess gold paper strips.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays - #83 Make a CAS holiday card in less than 10 minutes

Catch the Bug - Holiday/seasonal

CHNC - #105 Anything Christmas goes

CHNC Extra - Always Anything Christmas goes

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Season's Tweetings

I thought I might post a few more cards while I'm still enjoying my holiday break.

This is one of the cards I put together on New Year's Eve. I had already coloured this sweet Cuddly Buddly digi some time last year, using Spectrum Noirs, and had already selected the PP I wanted to use with it. The three PP elements all came from one A5 sheet from an old Marianne Design paperpad. I matted everything onto some matching Core'dinations cardstock. The circles were cut with Lifestyle Crafts dies. I finished the card off with a few Kaisercraft pearls and a new snowflake brad from the Eyelet Outlet.

The layout is based on an old Sketch and Stash sketch.