Starting School

I'd like to remind everyone about the "Back to School" challenge over at Emma's Cards. It finishes at the end of the month and has a fabulous prize of two stamps from IndigoBlu. As I'm on the DT I'm not eligible to enter, but, I have made a card for my young Grandson, who started school last week, that I would like to show you.

I started with an 8"x8" blank and matted and layered grey and red Papermania textured card. I then wrote in white pen over the red layer to decorate it. I used an image from the Paintbox Poppets CD from Crafter's Companion and matted and layered that with red and pale blue card.

 The other panel is from a Papermania capsule collection, also matted and layered. I created the row of books in MCS with an image from Polkadoodles Pretty Tuff CD. The blackboard is from The Wine Buffs CD with the text added in MCS. I finished off with some coloured Candi and tabs made from leftover card.

Don't forget to come and join in the fun, it doesn't have to be a card, just something crafty that matches the theme.

Easter Poppet

Seeing as it's Easter Sunday I thought I'd show an  8"x8" Easter card I made for a fellow crafter. This one is an image from Crafter's Companion CD Paintbox Poppets featuring the beautiful artwork of Christine Haworth. Perfect for a non-religious Easter card.

Both the image and the pink backer are from the CD and I matted and layered them onto a blue Kanban textured card. I printed the image a few times and decoupaged it up to give a bit of depth. The tags were edited in MCS and the flowers and ribbons were coloured with Promarkers. A couple of Memory Box scrolls plus Marianne leaves and butterflies finish off the embellishments. Happy Easter everyone.