All posts tagged with "Michael Strong"
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...
Shades of Green
Last month Michael Strong set us the challenge to use at least three shades of green on a card. There were some beautiful entries submitted for this – I always find it fascinating how people interpret a challenge so differently – and I’ve just found out that Mike has chosen my entry to be...
H.O.M.E.
I bought a plain white set of letters with the intention of making a cute decoration for my sister’s kitchen and the following photos show you the results. I firstly painted the shapes with some acrylic paint – just mixed brown/white/yellow until I got the colour I hope I remember rightly...
Winner of the Card Sketch Challenge
I am delighted to announce that my card was chosen by my peers to be the winner of the Saturday Sketch Challenge for February. It means my card will be on the home page of the Yahoo group for the next month for all to see there – but it means more to me as it was voted on by all the members of the...
February Cards
I was lucky enough to win a set of stamps from Michael Strong – the Lily Set – and I find I’m using it constantly. For this card I stamped the large Lily onto white card and then coloured it with ProMarkers before cutting it out and 3D mounting it on top of several layers. The two cream panels...
Hooray for Hollywood
The February Challenge set by Michael Strong was chosen because he loves the Oscars and his family have an Oscar Night Party – with awards! For my entry I made a ‘red carpet‘ from some red velvet ribbon laid along a pavement containing some stars from the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. I used...
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...
Kimono Swing Card
Day Three of my Card Captaincy and this card took quite a bit of time to construct! The Swing Card instructions were found at Splitcoast Stampers – Beate does a great video tutorial for these but I’m not sure I can post a direct link or if you need to be subscribed there, sorry. The base card...
Wedding Card
Some very dear friends of ours got married in December and this is the card that I made for them. We had recently learned this technique at our Stamp Club so I felt it was a nice style to use for this occasion. I used lots of Spellbinders stuff – as usual – but what I didn’t do was photograph...
Twisted Easel
This is my week to be Card Captain* for the Michael Strong Group and so I’ve made my five cards and here is where I’ll give more details on how they’re made. *[a card is posted on the MS Yahoo group each day for 5 days by a volunteer – hopefully as inspiration to the other members...
Michael Strong Sat Sketch
I hope I can manage to enter all the challenges throughout the year on the Michael Strong group – it’s only two per month at most so it should be do-able. The main image was made using the large Cloisonné Flower which I stamped randomly over some glossy card stock using a Versamark pad. I...