Summer of Colour - Week 3

Now we are into week 3 and have these fabulous colours to play with ...

I searched and searched on Google for inspiration and then found these paintings .... sorry but I didn't keep the name of the artist.  

Then life took over and the whole Summer of Colour was missed!  But I didn't forget ..... I kept the colours and the inspiration and when I had time started back in there .... Think it was about Week 5 ......

I managed to get enough pages from my magazine to make up the flowers.  I cut all the petals freehand, I wish that I had photographed the pages first .... the lavender flower is taken from an advert for the Follies and has a stunning costumed lady.... I punched some tiny flowers in matching colours for the centre and then had to REALLY search the magazine for the sentiment!!  But I found it?!  

So how did I actually make the card?  

I spread Gesso over the card and left it to dry, then tapped a couple of matching inkpads sparingly over the card.  Once this was dry  I added the flowers and then spritzed the whole area with gold.  Adding the centres to the flowers and the sentiment in the top lefthand corner completed the card.

WOYWW #265 Celebration ATC .... from Ike!!!

I love this swap with Ike .... she has such a weird sense of humour and she makes me laugh soooo much......

Last year she sent me a 'different' card and I loved it so this year she came on board again ....

Sorry, I am laughing as I type ....
be serious!

These are the contents of my envelope which I received from her .... peel off snowflakes, vellum butterflies, black and white paper, tiny cards .... and my ATC!!!

Ike you have outdone yourself!




Just look at it ... it is terrifying!!!

and then you read the words .....

ho! ho! ha! ha! he! he!







Ike I am in tears!   ROFL
the image is on some sort of stiff webbing ...
ho! ho! ha! ha! he! he!

It's very cleverly done, so tidy cutting and sticking ....
ho! ho! ha! ha! he! he!
       ho! ho! ha! ha! he! he!
                        ho! ho! ha! ha! he! he!
                                          ho! ho! ha! ha! he! he!
Did I say thank you?  
THANK YOU IKE, WONDERFUL!

UK ATC July Swap

I made these cards for the Wicked Wednesday Challenge and entered it by Mr Linky back in June.  I used the third card which was a winner ....  Now I am sending these out as my swap cards for July.  I have used almost the same text but have added the swap cards that were returned to me.


 With a strip of blue/gold ribbon down the side I added a vellum 'FAMILY' so that the ducks could be seen in the state of disarray.  The other three sides were swiped through an inkpad to edge the card in the relevant colours.

I think those nephews are getting mighty sick of Donald reading .... the words say it all!  I made this card in the same way but 'touched' the ink pads over the sentiment before attaching it to the card.

I love this card!  Not just because I recycled the sentiment but because it is soooo appropriate ..... I can just hear me ....
Once again I made the card in the same way, sometimes cards just 'fall' together and these three were just like that.

UPDATED:
These are the cards I received ....

I like this as it is simple and one layer - very stylish and apt for me!  lol

This butterfly is decoupaged with a gold peel offs.

This is really pretty, highlighted with tiny peel offs by the look of it.

Thank you Margaret.

CWS June - Favourite City

Very late postings on this blog as life caught up with me and took over!  Hopefully I can catch up over the next few weeks - hopefully!!
Back to the ATCs .......

There can only be one favourite City for me ....... Paris!
I stamped up some backgrounds using nearly every stamp that depicted something Paris in blues and oranges and reds and purples on a previously created master sheet.  I used some of my Tour d'Effel diecuts and some pages from my magazines.

I gesso'd half way up this card and added a few more stamps.  The wine glass was coloured with a watercolour pencil using my waterbrush.  I then embossed the diecut  as though it had the lights up for Christmas.

I added a piece of street map using gesso and added a voucher along the lower half of the card.  When it was all dry I stamped a few more images and then added the diecut, plain and naked as when I cut it out!

I added a piece of the street map and a voucher to this card but, as I was adding a bicycle diecut, this time landscape.  I stamped as before and added a corner flourish to bring the voucher and Arc de Triomphe stamping together.  I then adhered the bicycle from Robyn's giveaway stash. 

 I don't think these cards need any sentiment ... they are busy and have a focal point to illustrate Paris.
Four more months and I'll be there ..... not that I am counting ...

UPDATED:
I received these beautiful cards back.

Thank you Melody for three super cards.

ATCs For All - Decades 1920s

I thought that a pack of ephemera from this era had been included in my order from the Memorabilia Company but I can't find it so .......
My Mother was a milliner, as I have probably mentioned many times, and this meant that she was quite a fashionable young lady of the time.  She made most of her clothes and hats, her best friend May alongside her, and I have some wonderful photos of these two ladies.  
I also have lots of souvenirs from different places, among them a booklet from  The Great Exhibition of 1924. Then there was the Autograph Album ......  Enough memorabilia to make some ATCs methinks!!

No original photos etc. were used only photocopies.
I used a page from the souvenir booklet as a background then attached a length of the old ribbon I bought from the market in Paris diagonally across the card.  I took a photo of my mother on the ferry to the Isle of Wight, cut it down and rounded the corners, then attached it to the lower right of the card.  This left room for me to attach a gold embossed word - Imagine.


I used the cover of the souvenir booklet as the background to this card.  The ribbon made a neat border so that, when I attached some photos taken at the Expo, the souvenir title could still be seen.  The sentiment - put on your wings - is what Mam did in 1932 when she married my Father and sailed to the other side of the world - Malaya.


I think that this drawing is beautiful. 
I did nothing to this card except add the picture.  
My Uncle Vincent, no first name, was an artist of some renown and had his own sign-writing business.  I can imagine him coming round to my grandparents house, along with a few other relations, and all these young people spending time drawing, playing the piano, singing and dancing, going on picnics ....... all the things that folks did back then ...... this is from that time ......

I have enjoyed making these cards ...... a good way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon.

UK ATC July Colour - Lilac and Green

Great colour choice!
I spritzed three cards with red and blue to make up my lilac background and, when they were dry, I set to work.

I used one to the decoupages from the Crop, donated by Shazsilverwolf (Thank you again Shaz).  When I had completed the decoupage, I attached it on the left side of the card and glittered some of the outside edges of the petals.
I cut down one of the vellum quotes, from the Crop again, and attached it by one side along the edge of the decoupage - Happiness dwells in the soul.

I attached a purple die cut to the background and sorted some floral pieces made from mulberry paper.  

I inked up the green leaves, attached them to the centre of the card, inked two sizes of flowers around the edges and attached them on top of the leaves.  A small punched flower, also inked, was placed in the centre of the large flower and small sequins placed in the centres of the flowers.  This card needs no sentiment! 

While sorting through my diecuts for the flourish, I found a Tour d'Eiffel and some branches.
I stamped an Arc de Triomphe slightly to the left side of the card and placed a branch, cut from the inside of an envelope, in an upright position to imitate a tree.  My little Tower went on top after I had used my metallic markers to highlight the tip.  
Small punched flowers, inked with purple, were placed in the corner of the card, adding small diamantes, inked to match, in the centres.



I received the following:

Love this padded heart and little note book.
Thank you JanS.

Love the neat diecutting.

Thank you Margaret.

A good mix of textures on this one.

Thank you JudithAnn.

 

Summer of Colour - Week Two

It's week 2 of the Summer of Colour 4 Challenge on TwinkleTwinkleLikeaStar and this week I've really struggled to find the colours in my magazine.

So I cheated .........



I managed to find the colour Coral in my magazine but could not find the right shade of blue for Teal, so I printed out the colours as defined by Kristin on her Blog.
I cut out this rather flashy lady who just happened to be wearing the right colour PVC outfit.  
I cut out the Teal from the colour strip above and placed it to the left of my card, and a quote from my stash along the right side.  I placed the model off centre so that I could add some flower punchouts from the Coral side of the colour strip.

Now I am wondering why my photo has a blue background when it is clearly Teal in the strip above? 
 Weird!