THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY - ONE STOP CRAFT CHALLENGE

Dear Reader

Here's the card that I posted the other evening. One minute is was there on the blog and the next 'puff' it was gone! Where to I don't know - it'll be up there in the ether somewhere I'm bound, along with all my other missing emails, reports and stuff. Not to be deterred I've posted it again! Well I like the card. I'm entering it for the One Stop Craft Challenge. Can't claim the design as I got the idea to decoupage the small bunch of flowers from a card I saw at Doncaster. It's funny how some cards just appeal to you and stay in your head. Being a lover of small tags - no smiles thank you I'm keeping this blog clean - I thought the flowers would be the perfect excuse to use one, along with a ribbon to tie them together. I've gone for a monochrome look as a change from pink and green (hurrah! they all shout) although I've sparingly used some green glitter to decorate the middle of the flowers. I love black and white with just a hint of one colour. It's a device I've often seen in films. Probably a funny thing to do or maybe it was an extremely long traffic tail back but one trip away when the girls were just getting into cinema we all sat and thought of films which were mainly black and white but used colour for effect. The one that always stands out in my mind was "Schindler's List" or was it "Schindler's Ark" (always get the book and the film muddled) with the little girl in the red coat walking through the ghetto. The author had her in a red coat in the book but using it as a device in the film was absolutely mind-blowing - edge of your seat stuff. I think another one was "Dead Men always wear Plaid" but I may be wrong . I'm sure Alice will put me right, as all that talk of films has given her a love of them and she now works at the cinema in Leeds and still adores watching them in between selling popcorn. Not quite sure how I've got from a missing photo to my daughter working in a Leeds cinema but thanks for looking in.

Pearls, Swirls and Sausages

Dear Reader

Here is a card I've made for the One Stop Craft Challenge brought to my attention by the lovely Janet of PlanetLadyJanet.blogspot.com
who is one of their guest DT's. The challenge is "Pearls and Swirls" so a perfect opportunity to use my Prima heart swirl! I've used a Whiff of Joy stamp and painted it with distress inks. The background paper is Magnolia. I've used acetate over it and the image and stamped in the corners with stayzon white (thanks for the inspiration Jane of Jane's Lovely Cards). I've used a Martha Stewart double loop punch to make a flap of some co-ordinating Magnolia paper to hide the acetate under. I made the sentiment card and decorated with the same loop punch, the Prima swirl and heart and a Woodware tiny sentiment stamped in grey ink. Finally I stickled the bride's veil and tiara to highlight. Thanks for looking!

It's been an interesting evening. I've just got in from judging the e-Factor "It Could Be You" competition. It was a Dragon's Den type situation and the entrants had to stand before the panel and tell us about their business ideas and how they wanted to progress them. We got an opportunity for questions before deciding on an overall winner and two runners-up. I take my hat off to all the entrants as it really took some nerve to do that, especially as people's friends and families were there in the audience and the event was being filmed by Channel 7. I won't give away their business ideas but I really enjoyed the evening and wish them every success for the fuure!

And when I got in Maurice had cooked the most lovely sausage and mash dinner (Birketts sausages - the best!) which went down a treat - I was starving as by this time it was 8.30 pm and I'd eaten my sandwich lunch at 11.30 am lol. A lovely surprise. I think Maurice should have entered the competition with a plan to set up a restaurant judging by that meal !!! xxxx