Five Favourites

Well I didn't expect to be back so soon but decided to participate in Debby's blog candy challenge.  I am in awe of the cards that Debby produces and the 3-D effects on her cards.  She must have had a very hard job selecting her favourites.

 Here are my five favourites...

 

All of my card posts can be found here.

Thank you for looking.

Until tomorrow (this time)....

Dianne

Big Picture

Hi All.  I have been thinking about it for a while and today I have done it - signed up for Nic Howard's Big Picture Colour or is it Colour class.  It's not too late to join in.  I am not sure if I will have time to keep up but it is a 'forever access' class so the information will always be there. 

Today I share a mini book card made for a friend's birthday last week.  I made it from a Teresa Collins Notations memory album kit which had a ringbinder so the pages were punched.  As I didn't want to use ring binders I made my own bindings with folded strips of card (some with punched edges) and sewed them together with a binding technique Kathryn had shared with us as a make and take at an Embellish It crop a while ago.  I then attached the pages inside the bindings and decorated them - six double sided pages in all.

A little Dusty Attic and Tattered Angels chippie  added on the cover.

 The theme was the good times we shared over the past 12 months with little mementoes.  I have just included a couple of pages in this post.

Well that is all for today.  Off to the scrap room to try and create although rather weary tonight.  It's hard to believe we are half way though the year already.

Thanks for visiting.  Until next time....
Dianne

Something Different

Well last weekend DH hosted some fellow pigeon fanciers for whom he had nurtured and trained their birds from babies. Their 'Young Bird Flying Season' culminated in the Young Bird Classic. For those unfamiliar with pigeon flying the birds were hampered up on Thursday and transported to Blenheim where they were liberated on the Saturday of Queens Birthday Weekend. The first birds were home in 5 hours 18 minutes. For this race 3-bird teams were entered and there were prizes for various individual birds, lofts and teams home.

It was a perfect day for pigeon flying (considering the weather that followed for the rest of the weekend) and DH was lucky enough to get the first 3-bird team home. Individuals in his loft came 4th, 7th and 9th overall and the 9th placed recipient was a visitor from down south who received a scraper for his bird's achievement. He seemed a tad disappointed with his trophy (lol) so a bit of scheming saw the prize left behind and a bit of art work at the engravers followed by some creativity in the scrap room and this is the result. Hope he likes it better now!!
I covered an 8 x 10 canvas with Gesso and tissue and let it dry thoroughly over night. I then played around with distress and chalk inks then decorated in corrigated card sprayed with tattered leather Glimmermist, a Dusty Attic bird netting inked with silver, Prima packaging, Hamley print transparency and Kaiser scrolls inked then finished with Antique Bronze Kindy Glitz and finished with a little vine and leaves.

Dusty Attic laser cuts are available at Embellish It Ltd.

I will leave you with a card made for a friend's birthday a couple of weeks ago.
Take Care and have a good week.

Dianne