The Birds!

It's still baking in London today...although there is rain forcast for tonight...so I hope that will cool us down! Despite the heat, I've been making more Christmas cards! lol This one uses the Penny Black stamp 'Par Avion'. I used my Cuttlebug 'Snowflakes' folder for the embossing, and the snowflakes were cut using a Cuttlebug die.

Challenges for this card:

• Unscripted Sketches - Sketch
• Charisma Cardz - 'Watch the Birdie'
• Crazy Challenge - 'Up in the Air'
• Double Dutch - 'Movie Madness' (my film is 'The Birds' lol)
• Sweet Stampin' - 'Things with Wings'

Fetching Slippers

I don't use a lot of brown...but seeing as 'Monochromatic Brown' is the theme of this week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge...I thought I'd give it a go. I followed the sketch from Unscripted Sketches...flipping it as it suited my image ('Fetching Slippers' by Penny Black) better. The stripey paper is from the 'Archaic' pad by BasicGrey, and I used my 'Swiss Dots' and 'Stars' Cuttlebug folders on some Kraft coloured card...rubbing over the raised areas with a brown chalk inkpad to add definition. I distressed all of the edges, then added some faux stitching with a white gel pen. I'm also going to enter this card into the Charisma Cardz 'Monochromatic' challenge, and the Allsorts and Sweet Stampin' challenges, which both have the same theme this week of 'In Stitches'.