All White on the Night

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is "white".  I had this white mirror from my local Swedish furniture superstore kicking around in my studio for a couple of years and I sensed that this challenge was the one to finally bring it's waiting to an end! :) We all have white things in our stash, even if it's just plain white card, so why not enter the challenge and you could be the winner of a $50 voucher to shop at Simon Says Stamp.

My frame was roughly 10" square.  I started by cutting an 8" square of cardstock from the Laboratorie card pad, cutting a 4" square out of the middle so that the mirror could be seen, and fixed it to the frame.  I cut strips from the black ruler design in the same pad and used them as a surround for the central mirror, using my Tim Holtz craft knife to mitre the corners.

I used Commute tissue tape as a border to the cardstock panel, again mitring the corners.  As a final step, I went crazy with French Industrial salvage stickers - they are another thing that has been eying me up across my craft room for far too long and I felt their time had finally come :)




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A few of my favourite things

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is "I ought to use this more".  We all have items in our craft stash that we bought with the best of intentions and just never got around to using them as much as we should.  One of those products for me is my Dylusions Art Journal - I absolutely love it but don't seem to have used it as much as I should.  I'm going to rectify that, starting today!  Why not make something using some of your under-used items?  Enter the challenge and you could be the winner of a $50 voucher to shop at Simon Says Stamp.

The page that I made for my art journal is focused around some of my favourite stamps, hence the lyrics from "My Favourite Things" from the Sound of Music.

I started out by cutting a piece of Tim Holtz's Seasonal card stack to the right size.  I stamped 6 of the polaroid stamps, some on white card, some on manilla tags, and cut them out.  Next I stamped some of my favourite images and stamped the polaroid frames again, on top of the images, so that I would know where to cut out the "photo" section.  I cut them out and fixed them to the plain polaroid frames I had cut earlier.

My next step was to arrange the photos on the background and fix them in place.  I didn't want corner bits sticking out of the edge of my journal so I trimmed it to size.  The text was printed from the computer, cut out and fixed in place.  Finally I fixed the whole thing to a page of my journal.

That makes 4 completed pages in my journal, still lots to go but it'll be fun slowly filling them up!

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A real head for figures

More fun with digital crafting today, another 12x12 page.  This was for a challenge on the DaisyTrail forum.  We had to take our inspiration from a piece of fabric which was basically a snooker table, green background with balls, cues and triangles scattered on it.  I gave my page a green background and used spots and circles, along with the colours in the lettering, to represent the balls.  It was so much fun to do and I'm surprised and delighted to say I was chosen as the winner!

I've said it before, but I'm loving this digi-crafting malarkey :)

Soviet Circus

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is "Anything Goes".  This is a real opportunity to let your imagination run wild and create whatever you feel like!  Enter the challenge and you could be the winner of a $50 voucher to shop at Simon Says Stamp.

On a trip to Australia last year I was browsing around a bookshop and stumbled across a collection of Soviet propaganda posters from days gone by and absolutely fell in love with it.  Needless to say, it found it's way into my luggage for the trip home!  This tag is very much inspired by that style, stark, graphically bold with almost a woodcut feel to it.  The new Tim Holtz Big Top stamps are a perfect fit for that style, so that's what I used as the focal point.

I stamped the bottom border, masked it off then stamped the elephant.  I masked him off and stamped the spots, rays and Cirque, then stamped the top border.  I love the two-colour style of it, almost like a hand printed poster from days of yore.  You know, like yesteryear :)

Supplies I used included:

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Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! 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! :)

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