Make a wish

I made this card from the stamped image I received in the PCJ stamped image swap. It is a Stampabilities House Mouse image (and I may just have to get this one), which I coloured with water colours, cut out with Nestabilities into a scalloped rectangle and mounted it on brown leather effect card. I made a yellow card blank which I cut with a scalloped blade (though I think it would be better to cut it while the card is open as I have a reverse effect).

I added a Cuttlebug die cut slider, with a Nestabilities rectangle threaded with Papermania ribbon. I stamped "Wishing You" from the Stampendous small greetings set. It took ages to decide which words to stamp and I added the dots myself but after I had stamped them I realised they were perfect for the image. As a child we were taught to pick dandelion clocks and blow at the same time making a wish!

So this is a multi purpose card, you could add any greeting to follow the dots!

(Next time I must draw a pencil line before I put the ribbon on, it is a little crooked!)

I added Faux stitching with a white pen and now I can enter it in the House Mouse Monday challenge blog challenge for this week, which is stitching!

I'm Stamping

Well not right now:- right now I am blogging! I have joined a stamp swap on PCJ, and the first one is to stamp any three images and send them off to the organiser with a stamp and each will get three different images back.

You know I have many hundreds of stamps, mostly unused so it has been difficult to choose but I have managed three totally different images that will remain secret until the swap is complete.

Once swapped we have to make cards with the new stamped images.

The really good thing that this is doing is making me use my stamps, as I took several attempts to get the best results and stamped a few extras.

After the initial swap there will be a theme issued, maybe colours or types of image. I have never done anything like this before!

On the Robo front, I got a new licence file from Graphtec today after sending in a couple of numbers they asked for, but as I was warned the new licence file doesn't work and I still got a message asking for a security device to be installed again!

I see Cass is having the same problems, see Tales from a Craft Box! I don't know if it is a coincidence but since installing it Microsoft Office applications are not working any more!

I have some time off now - WAHOO! So I hope to get lots of cards made but plans often don't come to fruition! You will have to wait and see!