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Wednesday 7 March 2012

And now for something completely different.........

Hello everyone, hope you're having a good Wednesday, the weekend isn't too far away now........I've had a great day in my craft room just getting messy!  Been trying out some new stamps I brought home from Melbourne last Autumn.......Melbourne is a very trendy, expensive city to live in......We were there for 2 months, Alan for work, and me for a holiday and I've got to say I bought some really, really nice crafty things!   A few ladies that I'd met on various internet groups arranged days out for me, with them and their crafty friends. Everyone was so friendly and I appreciated the time they took out of their own busy lives to take me around lots of crafting outlets, the main one being KAISERCRAFT.......Oh when I walked in to this huge warehouse type of building, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!  Needless to say we had to pay a 'little' excess luggage cost on our return flight, but Alan managed to put that in with expenses, heehee.  The gold edging on this first card is from a set of leafy stamps,  one of the few inexpensive things I bought.......not from Kaiercraft but from a bargain basement shop called, of all things, 'Arthur Daley's Emporium'.......New stock was added every couple of days, so I had quite a few shopping expeditions to this particular store!

Anyway, I have just used a couple of Tim Holtz distress inks for the background, the leafy stamp which I heat embossed, and a German Shepherd stamp which I bought from a 'Sell or Swap' group on Facebook.  (We are huge GSD fans and have our own massive bundle of fluff and muck, called Finn, all 35 kg's of him!)  The previous GSD card I had in stock sold very quickly at my weekend craft fair, so I needed a replacement. I love the background colours, think it must be the 'Leo' starsign in me.   Well, I'll be back later with a couple more cards, so until then, ..........

16 comments:

  1. Great silhouette image! Awesome card.

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    1. Thanks, I wanted it to look like a silhouette, as opposed to a black GSD, hopefully I've achieved it x

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  2. loving the background x the colours are so vibrant!

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  3. wow Barbara, this card is very different from anything else I have seen made by you & it is fantastic. You certainly seem to have the 'knack' of distress inked background. I am still struggling that technique. Absolutely love the gold embossing against the colour & of coarse the GSD image is perfect :) x

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  4. Beautiful card, absolutley love it x

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  5. Barbara this is amazing! Love the colours and the stamp is gorgeous. Love the addeed touch of the embossed leaves.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  6. This is Fabulous I love it. Chris xx

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  7. love this the colour is really stunning. louise xx

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  8. Hi Barbara. love this and the story behind it. Love the colours and the gold Our own 'mucky pup' is also called Finn, a spaniel/alpha male, who believes he is the King of all he surveys :)

    Love the card
    Ax

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  9. Another beautiful card Barbara. Love the main image and the embossing looks fab
    kerry x

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  10. Lovely blending ,stamping and embossing .Great card.
    Hugs Elaine

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  11. Beautiful card, lovely effect Jo xxx

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  12. Beautiful card, love the silhuette effect xx

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  13. It's always good to have a change of style sometimes and do something different. I just love this... the colours are great and are beautifully blended. Super card, gorgeous image. That crafty warehouse sounds like a 'dream'! E x

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  14. This is great, I could use a few of these to sell to my dog training clients. x

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