Artfully Asian

I just love Oriental themes so was delighted to see 'Artfully Asian' as the challenge at My Time to Craft this week. First, I added some torn Glenda paper to an orange card and overlayed this with some orange pearlescent paper and some orange sticky ribbondown the edge. I attached a small orange square with fans which was from a QVC kit. I then created the orange background for the stamp using Stardust Stains in a couple of orangey colours then stamped over it in black Stazon the Creative Expressions wonderful Geisha stamp. I added some clear lantern and fan stickers and attached this lovely orange fan, from Lakeland, with a gold brad. I finished off with lots of little orange and gold Stickles glitter dots on the flowers, sleeves and fans. I also used this card for my own Monotone Rainbow challenge this week.

An arch within an arch

Gothic Arches asked for 'Cats' and Lots to do Sunday asked for 'Silhouettes' so I have combined the two with this card. I stamped and coloured the arch with the silhouetted cat from Dimension Fourth, then cut out the windows and mounted onto acetate. I then stamped the outside background with the squirrel and a few blades of grass and a couple of flowers and a bird then sponged the green and blue background areas and the window sill with inks direct to paper. The curtain background was made using Stardust Stains with the scrunch technique and chopped and torn to form the shape. I added the curtain blue tassel with a brad then cut the whole card in the shape of the Gothic Arch.

Dreaming of Espana

Gothic Arches challenge this week was 'Spain' which I found quite difficult as I don't have any Spanish stamps at all. So I had to play with colours instead and used Stardust Stains to spray the background using three different shades of orange and reds. They are lovely and glittery in real life. I stamped various travel icons in brown Stazon then added three Spanish die cuts - oh just remembered, Papertake Weekly asked for 'Die Cuts 'too. The last little touch was the Barcelona sticker.

Heaven is Chocolate

The challenge over at Gothic Arches today is 'Chocolate' so here is mine. I really didn't have any stamps or paper with a chocolate theme so made my own using 'My Craft Studio' again and a photo of a box of chocolates. The image is from the same CD along with the text. The background card was made using Stardust Stains. This was actually made and given to me by Frankie at NEC, for me to use on a card. Thanks Frankie I love it.