Ephemeron - Who Knew?!?!?

Ephemera is the plural of ephemeron, I had no idea. You probably did, but then you've always been smarter than me! (You're kind-hearted though, and don't bring it up in conversation all the time, for which I'm grateful!)

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week is "Ephemera", and seeing that "tickets" is so clearly mentioned in the dictionary.com definition, my plan of attack for this challenge was clear!

The Lost and Found stack from Tim Holtz and one of his stamp sets provided the tickets, so the ephemeration of this piece was complete! (Ephemeration? Is that right? Perhaps it's ephemerosity or even ephemericiousness? Whatever, you know what I mean!)

The background and tickets were sprayed with Sailboat Blue and Sunset Orange color wash sprays and the clouds were hand drawn. That's probably all the explanation you need, the picture pretty much explains the rest! As ever, click on the pic to see a better view.

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

Striperama!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blog this week is "Stripes". I found a frame lying in a drawer the other day, and decided to make a piece to fit that. The only snag is that when I'd finished this, I'd mislaid the frame again! lol

I mitred strips of paper from Tim Holtz's Retro Grunge card stack for the border, and applied a white paint dabber to "knock back" the colour so that it didn't compete with the main central panel.

I stamped and masked with the stripe and text stamps and then coloured with Promarkers.

The boy was stamped and coloured separately then applied to the panel. I drew the waves by hand and cut them out before colouring them and fixing them over his legs.

That's about it really, apart from a bit of jiggery-pokery with a white pen and the addition of that great coffee cup stain stamp.

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

A Crown of Buttons

"Crowns" is the theme over on the Gingersnap Creations blog this week. I had planned to go a bit wild with the colours on this card, including giving the girl green hair, but it's actually come out sort of blonde - I guess you can't win 'em all! LOL Still, not my usual colour choices, and it was fun to do because of that :)

Pop over to the GC blog to see how the other DT members have interpreted the challenge - go on, you know you want to! :)

Tears of a Clown

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blog this week is "a Tag". For some reason I had the old Smokey Robinson song, Tears of a Clown going round in my head while I was making this, which probably goes a long way towards explaining how it ended up like it did :)

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

Embossed Emotion!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blog this week is "Embossing". This card could easily have qualified for last week's "Love" theme, but as it includes so much Cuttlebug embossing, it fits just as well here!

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

Queen for a Day!

Kings and Queens is the theme over on the Gingersnap Creations blog this week. The crown is one of my designs cut on the Cricut, and this stamp is a favourite of mine, from Paperbag Studios! Colour came courtesy of Letraset Promarkers. I had a lot of fun making this card! :)

Pop over to the GC blog to see how the other DT members have interpreted the challenge - go on, you know you want to! :)