All posts tagged with "cloisonne"
March Saturday Sketch
This month the sketch at the Michael Strong Group was as shown to the right. Once again there have been loads of different interpretations of this, I chose to turn it on its side as you can see below. The card base is a simple cream card, there’s a layer of red card with simple rounded corners...
Triple Flower
This is my final card for my Card Captain week – and I think I’ve saved the best ’til last (well, it’s my favourite anyway ). I’ve called it Triple Flower for the obvious reason – there are three of the large Cloisonné Flowers on it. I’m not very good at planning...
Ruby Wedding
A couple (obviously!) of very dear friends celebrated their 40th Wedding Anniversary in December so I made them a ‘lovey-dovey‘ card . I’ve only one photo to show here but there’s more information on the following photographs describing the processes involved for ‘Technique...
Michael Strong December Challenge
For the month of December the lovely Michael challenged us to use the template he provided. It is basically a box, there’s a tab to close it so if you wanted to put a small gift in there it could be very useful (thinking chocolates jewellery…..). I’m afraid mine is anything but...
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...
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...
Random Card Making
Here is a random selection of cards I’ve made recently, most don’t need a great deal of explanation but I’ve added a few words which you’ll see when you click a photo. If there is anything you’d like clarification on then please don’t hesitate to contact me. This...
Mardi Gras Card
Over on Michael Strong’s Blog he explained how to make his Mardi Gras card. My sample uses the same basic technique but has ended up very different. I’ll explain what I did in each photo although I must apologise in advance – the silver embossing and stripes made it very reflective so a...
Valentine Challenge
A Valentine card with no red or pink in sight – that was the challenge thrown down by Michael Strong this week. I’m showing my contribution here, just the one scan this time as I didn’t think about photographing each step – it’s all quite simple really. I took a piece of recycled...
Michael Strong Stamps
As a Christmas Gift, Nigel bought me some Michael Strong Stamps taking advantage of the free postage he was offering for a few weeks. I have admired these for a long time so jumped at the chance to get some at last. Most of Michael’s stamps are this Cloisonné style and his site has some great...