Good morning blog friends....
My absence yesterday was because of the rheumatoid, it's really affecting the whole of my body, especially though, my hands and feet. It's been a battle since last taking rheumatoid medication in December and it'll be towards the end of September when I can restart it again.... 9 months! That's when I finish the TB medication! I sound as if I should be shot lol, but, a 'fighter' I am and I do my best not to let it get the better of me (some days)
Down to business. My two cards today were made so that I could enter the 'Twofer Card Challenge #17' and the theme is bees. You make two different cards using the same theme. Here is the link if you would like to see what the talented DTs have made and a few of the entries:
This first card, point to point, is a 6" square. I used several distress oxides for the background colour and added little splodges of dots using a very small freebie stamp
I then stamped the rose images using another DO ink and coloured with a ProMARKER. I also added NUVO Crystal Drops in 'morning dew' on both rose buds and around the card
A watercolour pencil was used to mark a frame and the sentiment was stamp with a DO ink, die cut and embossed then colour added around the edge. I added mounting foam to the back and placed it onto the card
I have only one bee stamp and that is a little on the large size (you'll see this on the second card) and far too large for the small roses, so I stamped the image onto shrink plastic, coloured it, cut it out and added heat to shrink it
INGREDIENTS:
- broken china/fired brick/fossilized amber/ground coffee/picked raspberry Distress Oxide Inks - Ranger
- bee stamp - unknown
- tulip yellow - ProMARKER
- morning dew NUVO Crystal Drops - Tonic
- african violet watercolour pencil - Tonic
- shrink plastic - www.luckysquirrel.com
For the second card I went for a 'fun theme'. Using a DL size card and my one and only bee stamp I stamped the bees around the card and also did some second generation stamping
The bees were coloured with a ProMARKER and I typed the sentiment, added several zs, distressed the edges with the same ProMARKER as well as curling the yellow tourbillon to hang from the sentiment
I also stamped and coloured a been on the corner of the envelope
INGREDIENTS:
- bee stamp - unknown
- tulip yellow - ProMARKER
- yellow tourbillon - my stash
I would like to enter the following challenge:
Last week's embossing folder wasn't claimed so it is up for grabs again today
The bottom right corner shows you the design
Leave me a comment if you would like your name added to the draw. You have until 6pm Saturday to do this
We use Random.Name Picker to choose a winner therefore it doesn't matter if you have won previously. We also ship internationally at our own expense
Until tomorrow....
June x
