DCM - Simple and Straightforward Thankyou Card

I have to admit with this one that I already had it made, but this meant that I was able to load it to the DCM blog before our Christmas holidays. The Thankyou message is a stamp but could just as easily be printed from Microsoft Word or similar on the computer.

DCM Happy New Year Card

Here's my attempt at a new year card using the recipe of two patterned papers, 3 brads/eyelets and one punchie/diecut. You can't really see but the paper under the ribbon does indeed have a pattern. I stamped the wine glass on vellum and embossed it with aubergine EP to match the card stock then attached it to the paper underneath with eyelets.

Look at the Grain on this One!!!!

This Rollerball has been turned from Cocobolo, the latest addition to Dave's timber collection. Isn't the grain just fantastic, a lot like a tiger.

To see some of Daves's offerings go to his Trade me listings.

DCM Little Extra - tag for my man

This tag was made for my DH Dave who has a passion for woodturning and woodworking. Merry Christmas Dave.

Black and White with a Splash of Colour

Dare No. 9 from Daring Cardmakers is the first of three dares launched collectively by the Design Team in the hopes of making things a little easier for both us and our contributors over the busy Christmas season.

For the non Kiwis out there my card features the 'Pohutukawa Tree' known as the New Zealand Christmas tree. The stamp I've used is from Kiwi Impressions. You can see their web site here.

Daring CardMakers Little Extra - Tags

This weeks little extra was to create three Christmas Tags taking inspiration from the words, holly, ribbon, silver, gift, snowflake and tree. I guess I cheated a little bit by making all three of my tags the same only in different colours. Here they are:

Daring CardMakers - Stamp with a Twist

This week it's my turn to propose the dare. What do you think, did this one scare you enough?

I wanted people to stamp but not using commercially produced stamps. The inspiration I had for this dare was from a magazine where they published cards stamped using fruit and vegetables. I tried that. It didn't work out the way I wanted it to so I had a minor panic and carried on. This is what I came up with:-



For this one I used dominoes and dice and black and red pigment ink to stamp the images. I attached the dominoes to an acrylic stamp mount but the dominoes where deep enough to hold on their own.



To get the background for the flowers I cut a square from a textured polystyrene meat tray, attached it to an acrylic stamp mount and stamped using a kaleidocolour pad.

Please join in by looking at the cards of the Design Team on the 'Daring CardMakers' site and then follow the instructions to show us your cards.

Dare 7 - Lachlan's Singing

Here's Lachlan's card creation for Dare 7 - Sing:-




Why don't you join in with the Daring CardMakers too? Lachlan Dares You!

Dave's Latest Turnings

The first one is turned from an Australian Eucalypt Burl, the second is from Western Rosewood and the third is turned from Yew. All are able to be either fountain pen or rollerball depending on the nibs and cartridges used inside the tubes.

To check out more of Daves creations see his Trade Me listings: - Daves_Turnings

Dare 7 - Sing

The Daring CardMakers dare for this week was propsed by Kel who dared us to make a card using the lyrics of a song and it couldn't be Happy Birthday or Congratulations.



I've chosen to use a background stamp with the words and lyrics from a 'Flower of Scotland'. Flower of Scotland was written by Roy Williamson of the folk group The Corries in 1966. I sprayed the floral stamp, which I'm hoping looks a bit like heather, with water and wiped most of it off again then inked the stamp with green pigment ink and lavender coloured chalk ink to give the slightly water colour look and stamped directly over the background. To finish I smudged the edge of the light grey card with the green ink and layered onto green card.