About Me

Hello, as you may gather from the title I am Antonia and I craft in my attic bedroom. I started crafting when I retired and love making cards for family, friends and charity

Monday, 29 August 2011

Sunday supplement






Well the saying every cloud has a silver lining was certainly true yesterday, the weather here was horrible so I took myself up to the craft attic and managed to do these cards

Number one is another of the "cars" stamps this time the Model T Ford and I backed it onto some bronze mirri embossed with Sir Tims "steampunk" folder and onto his "ideoligy" craft paper
Number 2 is my very first attempt at a twisted easle card and I am quite impressed with the idea ( I googled and found a you tube" how to") The digi image has been on my computer for at least a year and I printed it off for the first time yesterday, as you can tell I still love my nesties Parisienne Accents I think and the flower is spellbinders Rose creation.
Number 3 I used the same image again and added lattice rectangle to the mix of nesties
Number 4 should really have been number 1 as I started with this image as I wanted to try out my ultrafine promarker nibs and I was so pleased with the results they are definatly a great asset when colouring in small details.
So who cares if it rains... well ok.. I do .. but I still had a fun day.
Thanks for looking and please leave me comment if you can  :)

Saturday, 27 August 2011

MSE challenge "something moving"

My entry for this challenge, I have been struggling badly with blogger for the last few weeks and I do hope this one takes as the closing date is nigh
The car is from a set of stamps I bought at my local craft shop and I threw out the packaging and can't remember the maker stamped onto kraft card I made the wee flags myself (!!!) from ribbon and cocktail sticks.

Thanks for looking

I should like to enter the "Boys and their toys" challenge at the 2 Sister Challenge  here

Thursday, 4 August 2011

MSE challenge " Animals"


Sadie over on MSE chose the challenge this time and  its "Animals", cue Jayne Netly Mayhew CD from Joanna Sheen it took me sooo long to decide which image to use then I noticed the paper on my desk, part of a birthday gift (thanks Marg) and it looked jungley and the colours fitted with this stunning Tiger.    One of the great things about the JS cd's is the choice of printing a whole sheet of different sized images so I used 2 of the largest and decoupaged the tiger. I feathered the furry edges of the top image. I added some wooden buttons striped with PM's and one of the smaller images as an accent. My OH was not impressed with the wobbly edge of the main image but thats how Ms Mayhew drew it so I ain't changeing it:)   I have not put on a sentiment as yet but I think it may be a birthday card or maybe a good luck as in "go get 'em Tiger"
Thanks for looking and please leave a comment as I love to read your views