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Spooky Colour Challenge
Gosh it’s been a busy time over at the Michael Strong group — yet another challenge. There aren’t usually two in one month but the pink challenge was for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this Spooky Colour Challenge was to remind us to just have fun. So, we had to use just 4 colours:...
I don’t ‘do’ pink but..
…as it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month I took up the challenge to make a pink card. There was also a sketch if we’d rather do that so I decided to do both. We could use one other colour if desired – as you can see, I chose black. On the main pink card base I stamped the small coffee...
Michael Strong Sept Challenge
The September challenge was another sketch – there’s an image of that shown below. I had just received my prize stamps from Michael – they came here from California via my son, David (they’d been delivered to his home but we left before they arrived in May ). The sketch looks like...
Michael Strong August Challenge
This was such a cute sketch to work with, my entry used the Large Cloisonné Vase with parts of it trimmed off for a different shape. I mounted it onto a die-cut scalloped oval with some sparkly thread wrapped around it. The background is card run through my Wizard in an inked embossing folder to give...
Telescoping Samples
I shall be demonstrating this technique at Stamp Club next week so have been preparing a few samples. We’ll be using squares at first as they’re easier to cut out – we don’t have die-cutting machines available – but I’ve cut out sets of circles too for a second attempt once...
Alphabet Cards, part 2
I’m still enjoying this club challenge – here are the next six finished cards for the alphabet set. As I said in the earlier post: The project at Stamp Club this year has been to make a card to depict each letter of the alphabet. I’m still bursting with too many ideas for each letter...
Red, Black & Gold
The current challenge at the “Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps” Yahoo Group is to make a card using the colours of the German flag. The use of one of his stamps is not mandatory this time but the colours red, black and gold just shouted ‘oriental’ to me and so I decided to use the...
Alphabet Cards 2011 Project
The project at Stamp Club this year has been to make a card to depict each letter of the alphabet. I admit that I have been a bit too preoccupied with … life and have only just started working on it. I also must admit that I am loving the challenge! The hardest thing is choosing what to do...
Telescoping Card
I recently found this idea for a card design and love the idea of it. I came across it at Donna’s Designs with a link to Hetty’s blog where there’s a video tutorial. This is actually Barb‘s video so that’s the place you should go to see the tutorial. The card shown is...
Colly’s Cat
Colly’s Cat It was a friend’s birthday last week, she loves ginger cats so this image hopefully suited I don’t do a lot of decoupage but really quite enjoyed it for a change. I ran the brown card through my Grand Calibur with a frame design embossing folder and mounted the main...
Gloria’s birthday card
Gloria is our ‘teacher’ at the monthly stamp club I attend and she has just celebrated a ‘special’ birthday. She took a whole load of hand-made cards on holiday to France to open on the day and this is the one I’d sent along with her. I used my Michael Strong Kimono stamp...
A couple more cards
I recently treated myself to the Michael Strong Kimono stamp with its matching die – they are lovely and the die cuts beautifully in my GC. I tried some Iris Folding with decorative papers and really like the way it turned out. The flowers in the corner are cut with a Martha Stewart Punch and there...