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kimmikat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:13:31 +0000

I have been holed up today crafting, making cards and ATcs. Two of the cards were for family, and all the ATCs are for swaps. The first set is flower themed. The swap was for one flower ATC, but I always do an extra, and then, thinking I had finished, I checked for my partners address and realised that I had not read her profile. Reading her profile meant that I learned that she particularly likes violets, so I made another ATC with violets and then a card to accompany the swap package. I quite like these. People always seem to add text, but I think it's often nicer just to let the images do the talking. Anyway, here are the ATCs.

Having finished these, I then turned to a card for my neice who celebrates her first birthday shortly. I decided to stick with easy images, ladybird and butterfiles, and some toadstools and leaves, and made them brightly coloured. I used my cuttlebug for all the images except the butterflies. I hope it is stimulating enough,or at least colourful enough to capture her interest.

Next was a card for my daughter. I am sending her the bag I crocheted for her (previous post) and made the card to accompany it, and explain the surprise. This card is in colours I wouldn't normally use. I love my purples and pinks, blues and greens...but yellows, oranges, peachy pink?!! Well I quite like the colour combination in this and I think it's refreshingly different for me.

And lastly, I made some ATc's for a swap called 'The colour Purple'. Self explanatory really. Of course, being this colour, I was in my element. I had the drawer of flowers out after making the flower ATC's so I ended up using more flowers. I did try to vary the theme a bit in one of them...the stripy ribbon one, but even then the desire to add a flower got the better of me. My favourite is the one with the crochet diamond. I really like these, and make no apologies for lushness or overcrowding. They are sumptuous and purple. Brilliant! Gosh...I really hope my swap partners love purple as much as I do, and flowers! :)

Quite a day for crafting, and at least three cards to make tomorrow!.

Best get some sleep!

Today's cards

kimmikat — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:23:52 +0000

This morning's cards turned out well. Three little notecards to accompany prizes or swaps and a congratulations card. This made use of a quilted leaf, which I couldn't resist using. I was sent a pack from Ebay this morning, three different colours and I intend using them to make a mobile, but I pinched a couple for this card, and for an ATC.

Pear No.2

kimmikat — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:52:26 +0000

I had another go at using my new pear rubber stamp. After several more attempts and a flat surface, I managed what I thought was a better print. I have made it (well two versions of the pear..to make it 3D) into a copy of yesterday's card. This is the result, though I am not sure that it is much better. I think I need some more practice.

I then decided to do a challenge , set by Daring Cardmakers, to make a card incorporating a teabag. This was my effort...

and I finished off with another stamp, this time of flowers (Hero Arts), in my favourite colour - purple :)

I will start writing soon!

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Random cards

Today's cards

Pear No.2