Monday 25 October 2010

.....and relax

What a great weekend I've had...after a very stressful week I have ignored the housework and indulged in some crafting which has left me very relaxed.  My creative session resulted in some entries for challenges of course. I started off yesterday by having a go at the quilting challenge over at Gingersnaps Creations. Not a technique I've used before I made a design for the front of a sketch book I've had hanging around for a while. I use the book for my scrapbook LO sketches and thought the linking squares where sort of representative of the many LO's inside - I have these notions occasionally!
I used the gorgeous colour palette set over at The Play Date Cafe who are celebrating their one year anniversary!  I was tempted to jazz up the book cover itself before applying my design but decided I liked the plain black border. I created four pieces of patterned paper by applying Distress Inks, then stamping and embossing with clear EP. I cut each piece into the required shapes and 'quilted' them onto card stock.  Obviously this is going into TPDC challenge and  Gingersnaps Creations - Quilting, but also Simon Says Stamp and Show - 'anything but a card' and Allsorts - 'spots and stripes'.I enjoyed myself so much with this technique I decided to stick with it and made this Christmas card using another pattern (there's a link to the patterns, which are from McCalls on the Gingersnaps blog).
 
This time I created the patterend paper pieces with alcohol inks before using versamark ink to stamp the snowflakes and embossed with silver and pearl EP. The BP is alcohol ink spritzed with Cosmic Shimmer though it's not very shimmery on the pic! I stamped and embossed the snowflake swirl and then added some gems which are not very clear on the pic either (unless you click to enlarge). This card is my entry into -
And finally I made this vintage style card - I love this style and as I'm trying to get together some Christmas cards to sell went with this lovely stamp from  Stampington & Company which I had last year but didn't get round to using. I created the BP by using an assortment of stamps, distress inks and a gold ink. I then layered up with some printed vellum, DP, lace and the Stamped image which I had layered a couple of times to create contrasting borders. It looks quite red on the pic but is much softer in real Life! I made this using the sketch from the Friday Sketchers challenge and it also fits with Charisma Cardz - 'vintage' and The Artistic Stamper - 'Layers'.

Wow...thanks for sticking with me if you got this far, maybe should of split that into two posts!! Hope you've all enjoyed the weekend too.....Esther xx 



18 comments:

  1. You have been a busy girl and they are all lovely craftings. Have a great week, Annette x

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  2. Wonderful work - everything is gorgeous. Your journal cover is beautiful - love those colors from the Play Date Cafe challenge this week. I have been wanting to make some journal covers myself - maybe now that you have inspired me I will get moving on one! Terrific twist on the "anything but a card" challenge! So happy you could join in the fun with us this week at Simon Says Stamp and Show!

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  3. Beautiful quilt patterns and lovely vintage inspired card! Thanks for playing at the PDCC.

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  4. Beautiful geometric designs! Wonderful use of our colors on your journal cover! Thanks for playing along with our special 1 year anniversary celebration at the Play Date Cafe!

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  5. Lovely cards. The patchwork pattern is lovely! Glad you joined us at the PDCC this week.

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  6. Very pretty cards, Thanks so much for joining us at The Beary Sweet Challenges. Good Luck.
    ~Patricia
    TBS DT

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  7. Love the beautiful book cover and the cards are wonderful as well, you really need to wind down after a hard week, sounds like you managed that very well. Sausages to the house work:0) xx

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  8. Your paper piecing is amazing! Beautiful cards! Thanks for joining in our Misting challenge at The Beary Scrap!

    Jamie from The Beary Scrap DT

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  9. lovely creations Esther! Thanks for joining in with the challenge this week at Charisma Cardz! Gemma :)

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  10. Beautiful cards! I love all the gorgeous details in your creations!

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  11. You have been busy. Love your bling card. Thanks for sharing it with us at TG this week.

    Kat x

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  12. I've been meaning to get here all week, and finally made it. I'm sorry but my back has been such that I simply can't sit for any length of time. However, I wanted to stop by and tell you how sweet you were to check in on me last week. Your friendship means a lot.

    I really must learn this technique, because that card and journal cover blew me away. And of course, you should teach people how to emboss, because you do it better than anyone I know!!

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  13. You've done a lovely job with all of these. Love all the detail. Thanks for joining in our anniversary celebrations over at the PDCC!

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  14. all gorgeous cards, the papers on the notebook are lovely they really match very well

    thanks for joining in with the Allsorts challenge this week

    lotsalove

    Amanda xx

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  15. WOW! Great creations--and that album cover is FAB! Love the quilt look! Thanks so much for joining in the fun and playing along with our one year anniversary celebration over at the PDCC:)

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  16. What fabulous designs ... Thanks for celebrating Goth-tober with us at Gingersnap Creations.

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  17. Your quilt notebook and card are totally awesome! Thanks for playing the quilt challenge!!

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  18. Love your quilting cards especially the blue snowflake one. Well done.

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