Autumnal thank you

Hi there,

I have a bunch of thank you cards to make at the momment and so I decided to use the latest Mojo Monday sketch to make my first. Here's the sketch for this week (gone).

I started by rifling through my DSP for Fall Flowers as I knew that had some lovely autumn colour in it (Autumn has just offically started down here in Aus, may'be thats why I had it on my mind - and in Canberra it begins early). I pulled out a stamp that said Autumn to me, from A Little Bit of Happiness, and then got down to some fiddly but fun work. Using my stamp-ma-jig, I always forget to mention this but honestly I couldn't work without it, I selected various elements of the horizontal stamp and inked up the bit I wanted with Stazon, stamped it and then repeated the process. After getting the central panel stamped I then paper tolled out selected bits of leaves from the two main DSP sheets - again fiddly but fun. A few final points to note are that the thank you panel and oak leaf down the bottom are lifted up on dimensionals, the oak leaf, main thank you and all the little "brads" (1/8" punched out circles) are coated with crystal effects. I was pretty happy with the end result - although I did wonder whether I should have sponged around the edges. Anyway here is the end result...

And here's a profile showing a glimpse of the inside as well as how various layers are up on dimensionals. Thats Mr 1 crawling around tin the background too.

Recipe:
Stamps: A Little Bit of Happiness
Card Stock: Really Rust, Soft Sky, Confetti White
Ink: Black Stazon
Accessories: Stamp-ma-jig, Fall Flowers DSP, Groovy Guava striped grosgrain ribbon, 1/8" circle punch, Dimensionals, Crystal effects, sanding block, Scallop edge punch

Valentine Mojo Monday 72

Hi there,

well inspiration seized me again, and I found myself refining ideas to go with the new sketch last Tuesday. Given all that mental input I figured I had better put some time into actually DOING the card that evening once both munchkins were in bed. So they went to bed out came my boxes. My aim was a Valentines card for my hubby, so I wanted something that was masculine, elegant and rich but subtle and I had to figure out an alternative to the scallops. Took me an overnight sleep on it to think of the little ribbon tags but I think they work well with the card sketch as alternative. Speaking of the card sketch, here it is (oh and I turned this one on its side too):


There's a couple of firsts for the card - my first spotlight card - I do like the effect and my first time using River Rock - I used the Ginger Blossom DSP as the colour inspiration and I think it works great. Well enough of babble, here's the card...


And a close up of the crystal effects on the little spotlighted hearts (I did CE on the "with love heart" too).


Finally the inside was finished off with a River Rock panel, rolled with the Swirly J. wheel and stamped once with "With Love" .


Recipe:
Stamps: A Little Bit of Happiness, Yummy, Swirly J. wheel
Card stock: Ruby Red, River Rock, Watercolour Paper
Ink: Ruby Red, River Rock
Accessories: Aquapainter, Dimensionals, 1 3/8", 1 1/4", 1" , 1/2" and 1/4" circle punches, Pewter brads, mat pack and piercing tool, River rock double stitched ribbon, Ginger Blossom DSP, Crystal Effects, Sponges