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I'm baaaack! Sorry about the break in posts, I had to upgrade my hosting package as it seems that I have been exceeding my bandwidth but there shouldn't be any problems now and usual service will be resumed :)

So, where was I? I was in a stained glass window phase so here is another one for you this time with a butterfly. I picked some prisma colours which I thought went well together and let that dictate the colours of the card stock etc. I embossed my card stock with a dots Fiskars texture plate and added some twill ribbon coloured with Promarkers.


butterfly stained glass card

 

clicky on the digi ;)

butterfly stained glass


My views on bargain hunting are that there are some high quality crafting items that it is definately worth investing in but on some occasions I am happy to look around for alternatives to save some cash or get much, much more for my money. The sellers aren't connected to me in any way, I'm just sharing some of my purchaces :)

I have noticed that a few card companies are including some twill ribbon in their ranges, some are plain and some are printed with patterns or sentiments but they have been pretty pricey. One company is selling just over 1 meter (patterned) for £2 and another is selling approx 2.5 meters (sentiments) for £4.50.

I bought this roll of 50 meters for £1.99!  I found several auctions on ebay for it sold as bunting tape or apron strings, this is the link for the one I went for although I'm sure there are many others of a similar price. I got one in black too as there was a discount on postage but the white can be coloured any colour I fancy to match my projects with markers (see photo).


twill


I wanted to see how well twill takes ink to see if it can be stamped on and I found that dye inks bleed a bit too much but Stazon works fantastically well and chalk ink works quite well too, the black and brown printing in the photo is Stazon and the other colours are Colorbox chalk ink.

Printed Twill

 

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I just wanted to let you know that I am still alive, lol, I'm just having a little problem with my website at the moment. For some unknown reason I can't upload pictures but I am trying to sort this out asap and get back with some digis and projects real soon.

- Bird :)

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I only have time for a quick post today but I'll be back with a card in the next post I'm sure. I enjoyed colouring  yesterdays stained glass digi and realised that this rose was only one step away from being one so that's what I've done. I think it finishes it off, here you are:


stained glass rose (click to expand before saving)

 

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I'd like to start today by thanking everyone for the lovely comments that you have left over the last few days, they mean alot to me. There have been times where it's been quiet around here and during those times it is difficult to tell if I am on the right track or not so it really helps to give me an indication of what you like and would like to see more of :)

I have gone for a stained glass window effect with todays digi, I am quite pleased with how it turned out and no doubt I will be making a few more stained glass digis in the near future. I printed my image onto card stock and coloured with pencils and OMS but I'm tempted to see how I can make them work with acetate and vellum now ;)


Stained Glass Violas Card


clicky on the digi!

Stained Glass Violas

 

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I put the names for this stamp into a hat (ok, it was a bowl) today from the comments left on Sundays blog post and from emails I received and the name that my other half pulled out was Brook! If you can email me your postal address please Brook, I will pop it in the post for you :)

Todays digi is a vase of Tulips, I coloured mine a pink-y purple but you could easily colour yours yellow for an especially springtime feel. I used Prismacolor and Derwent Pencils and Sansodor and chose another colour from my small checks paper pack as my backing paper. I threaded some wide ribbon through slots formed with the large Tonic ribbon weave punch and border system and used the Spellbinder Lattice Border behind the ribbon.


Vase of Tulips Card


clicky on the digi :)

Vase of Tulips Digital Stamp


Stuff & Things: Spellbinders small Labels, small Rectangle & Lattice Border, White & Lilac Cardstock, Birds small checks paper pack, Tonic Scissors, Border System, large Ribbon Weave Punch & Paper Trimmer, Prismacolor Pencils, Derwent Pencils, Sansodor, 1 inch Ribbon, tear tape, 3D Foam Pads, Big Shot.

 

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