Not Old!

Some funky wallpaper and a few 50s atomic icons and this old telly (Tim Holtz) is right at home!  The sentiment was computer generated and sits under a die cut acetate screen for extra authenticity!

I actually made this a few weeks ago and never got around to blogging it but when I saw this month's movie title at Die Traumfabrik Challenge #106 my memory was jogged.

I can't remember how long this set has been in my possession and it's the first time I've used it so I'm also sharing at NBUS Challenge #40.

I'd also like to enter the Krafty Chicks Challenge #622 - All Occasions!

Finally I'd like to enter the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge for July!

I'm thrilled you stopped by and hope you enjoyed your visit.  If you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you and maybe we can get better acquainted!  

Kate

Wine Time

This is a 60th birthday card for a wine aficionado living in Spain.  To set the scene, I used two embossing folders - one for the brick wall and one for the white table cloth and a Honeycuts Slimline die (Slimline Sentiments Blanket) on a piece of gingham card stock for the checked tablecloth.

I used a Marianne D die set to cut the bottle and glasses.  Here's a closer look at the bottle taken just after the application of glossy accents.   Still can't quite make out those details on the label?  Here's what it looked like in Word on my Mac!  

Ok some of those details were pretty small and hardly legible on the finished card, but the important stuff was!  After I printed the label I used the same bottle die to cut the label.  The die has a window to make it easy to line up with the text and which also leaves a raised edge which I used as a cutting guide.    

The sentiment (from Pinterest) and also computer generated, was continued on the inside!

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I'm entering the following challenges

Can You Handle the Pressure

Anything Goes with an optional twist of Summer - sitting in a Spanish cafe enjoying a bottle (or two) of wine does sound like a splendid way to spend a Summer evening don't you think! 

Dragonfly Dreams July Challenge  - Indoor Hobbies

Is drinking wine an indoor hobby?  I think so!

Four Season Challenge - Anything Summer Goes

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies July Challenge

613 Avenue Create July Challenge - Anything Goes (not twisting black and white)

I'm thrilled you stopped by and hope you enjoyed your visit.  If you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you and perhaps we can get better acquainted!

Kate

Flowers in Her Hair

We are very blessed to have had several Ukrainian women join our choir over the last few months.  We are particularly blessed to have been joined by one of their finest sopranos and yesterday it was her birthday!  She is so far from home right now and I wanted to make her a special card!  She sang a solo at a concert in March and cut such a brave figure wearing a traditional Ukrainian dress.  Looking for inspiration, I googled 'national dress of Ukraine' and found this inspiration photo.  

I knew I wanted to use this large treble clef die (my go-to die lately for anything musically related), but the headdress in the above photo inspired me to create a "headdress" of flowers for it.   

The headdress was easier than I anticipated thanks to a new die set I found a few weeks ago which included a base die (I cut four in green) and another die for the flowers to lay on top (I cut one each from snippets of red, yellow, cornflower and orange). I also cut loads of coloured crotchets, quavers and semi-quavers using an old Memorybox Musical Motif set.   

I printed "Happy Birthday" in Ukrainian (thank you Google translate) on an A4 sheet of paper, folded it and cut it with a stitched square die, laying the edge of the die just beyond the folded edge so I'd have a double insert and enough space for all the choir to sign!

Challenges

NBUS Challenge #40

Snippets Playground Challenge #431

Papercraft Challenges #83 For the Girls

Use Your Stuff Challenge #451 Plants / Flowers

Allsorts Week 683 Flora and/or Fauna

I'm thrilled you stopped by and hope you enjoyed your visit.  If you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you and perhaps we can get better acquainted!  

Kate