Papercrafters Corner Magazine Cover Challenge...

Hey,

Hope you are all having a nice weekend.

I am at a playdate today with my little girl gang - yay!!

Due to holidays, visitors and work I haven't had time to play along with one of my fave challenges - Papercrafter's Corner Monday Magazine Cover challenge.

Here's this week's cover -

I chose the blue of the truck as my main colour and stamped my sentiment in blue and coloured my wagon in blue.

I don't have a truck, so wagon it is!! I also though that the orange I can see poking out of the baskets had to be Pumpkins LOL, having Newton the Cat was an added bonus :)

I figured that as the Farmer's Wife was transporting her pumpkins during the Second World War, she would probably be feeling blessed for what she had, hence my sentiment choice.

I'm super happy with my card, it will now make a nice Thanksgiving card.

The stamps are by Simon Says Stamp and Newton's Nook. The awesome rounded stitched die is by MFT and I coloured the whole thing using Zig Clean Color brush pens. The sentiment was stamped with Kaleidacolor ink.

Cx

Housework can't kill you...

Hey,

Hope you are having a fun weekend so far.

I am off to a birthday dinner this evening - looking forward to that, as it is in Hoboken and I don't go there often.

I recently discovered that I had won my second Papercrafters Corner Magazine Cover Challenge #153) - how fun is that!! AND it was the 2nd one in a row - yay!

I love this week's cover and there is just enough time for me to squeeze in an entry to this weeks challenge -

For this make I am using one of my new watercolour postcard blanks.

The pink tones really inspired me, so I used those to create my background. I decided that the retro stencil kind of reminded me of the records on the cover..tenuous?

I love the 'Elks' bold font and colour, so used that as the inspiration for my sentiment. This was my first attempt at hand lettering, it's not perfect, but practice is good..

The 'housewife' stamp was a freebie from Creative Stamping magazine last year, I coloured her as close as I could to the lady on the magazine cover using promarkers.

Final touch is to spray the postcard with fixative, so it doesn't get ruined in the post!

I am very pleased with it, it's cracking me up and winging it's way to Momma.

Cx

Papercrafter's Corner...Magazine Cover Challenge #153..

Hey,

Happy Weekend to you.

So I am playing along with the Magazine Cover Challenge again - over at Papercrafters Corner.

Last week was my first time playing along and I won!! How awesome is that.

This week's magazine cover made me smile -

The little girl is so cheeky!

I remembered that I had an ancient digital stamp by Birdie Brown that kind of reminded me of the girl and the puppy.

I printed two versions of the stamp, one plain and one with the girl's coat in Blue Check..to match the cover ;)

I fussy cut the coat out and paper pieced it over the blank version and then coloured and stickled the rest of the image.

As you can see I used red accents for the girl and her puppy, just like the Magazine cover.

I used a cream card blank, to replicate the background and I chose a sentiment that was big and bold, just like the Magazine title.

It's a very cute card that is going into my very mini Christmas card stash (I really need to start making Christmas cards..)

Another fun Magazine Cover Challenge..I will probably miss the next two - boo! As I am heading to London late next week..

Cx

Papercrafters Corner..Magazine Challenge #152...

Hey,

Recently whilst I was bumbling around blogs I stumbled across Papercrafters Corner - a great resource and they have an awesome challenge.

They give you a magazine cover as inspiration, you can pull out any of the elements for your project.

Here is the magazine cover for the current challenge #152 -

I love it and immediately thought it would make an awesome art journal spread.

So many of the elements inspired my spread..some are obvious, vintage lady, car, birds, map. I also used the colours from the background and the car to inspire my colour backdrop.

The grid in the car inspired me to stencil a grid here and there.

The map was the basis for my 16 scalloped rectangles, which if you look closely are the US states ;)

Just below the lady in the inspiration image there is a small piece of text, so I added some random text to my spread, you can also see subtle references to 1921 throughout my spread.

Finally I used the signpost as the main inspiration for my spread, I used the New York reference throughout and interpreted the signpost as arrows - all over.

This was such a fun spread to create, I can't wait for next week's inspiration cover.

Cx