Thursday 10 minute card challenge Oct 15

Is it Thursday already!!!!

Time flies when you are having fun.

This is what I've been doing since last Thursday

.........and then some.

By the way I do not get up at 3am like

Carole'Anne Sluchinski

who by the way is on holiday in Greece, lucky lady!!

............that clock is showing 3.30pm

can you see the sunlight streaming in the window!!!

I can't show you the front of the cards yet

because it's my next Thursdays 10 min card

and it is also a swap that I am swapping

on Sunday 18th, so I don't want to give

the design away.

I also have to make my Thursday cards

in advance because my In Laws are arriving

from Michigan US of A on 19th Oct

so I'll be playing tourist with them for the whole week

and it would be rude of me to go and craft huh!!!!

....ahem....cough.....cough...I can hear DH in the

other room disagreeing with me, he knows

I never give up my craft unless I have only

one arm which will happen on Nov 12

when I go in for shoulder surgery to repair

a rotator cuff...I'm trying not to think about it.

So this is my Thursday 10 minute card challenge

by Sandi MacIver and Carole'Anne Sluchinski

Ingredients: Ribbon, crystal effects, Horizontal Slot punch

tweezers, dauber.

Ink: Old olive

Stamp: Inspired by Nature

Cardstock: Chocolate chip, Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Cut out your slots

Stamp up your reeds in Old Olive ink

Use your tweezers to hold the horizontal punch piece

I could not do it with my fingers

I found I needed to use another implement to

help me hold down the slot in place

Use your dauber and daub the side of the card

I do this to give it some body and depth

but not all cards need this

Which ribbon to use...that was a hard choice

5/8" Chocolate chip grosgrain

1/4"chocolate chip grosgrain

Taffeta chocolate chip

........what about a bow............I love bows but they

do have their place

I love cutting the base card lengthwise

this allows the card to stand up

but this shape has its place as well

and doesn't suit all card styles

Voila all done

IRL this was the best looking ribbon

1/4"chocolate chip grosgrain

I also did one in Baja Breeze, Not quite Navy

and stepped it up with the sentiment

Click on a picture to see a larger version

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Thursday 10 minute card challenge

I've been following Sandi MacIver and Carole'Anne Sluchinski

blogs and they are doing a 10 minute challenge very Thursday.

Well today is Thursday in Australia and a day ahead of

both of them and they didn't start the challenge publicly yet

or invite me but I thought I'd do it anyway hee hee

I decided to take an old favourite and time how long

it took me to make, I am also making this for a swap

so why not use my time wisely and kill 2 birds with one

stamp

hee hee

My ingredients are:

Stamps: Embrace Life, En francais

(see Carole' Anne I picked a French one just for you tee hee)

Gel Pen, Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon, crimper, Stamp a majig

Cardstock: Rose Red, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink

Inkpad: Rose Red

Ink up En Francais with Rose Red ink

Sorry about the dirty sheet behind

Run through crimper

Line up acetate sheet that has Embrace Life

stamped on it

Line up second image with acetate sheet

Colour flower with gel pen and ...........

............daub edge of all three card stock

Voila my 10 minute card

Here's another one I had made earlier using the

Pretties kit embellishments

Card done in 10 minutes

I even had time to make a cup of tea, well making

this card was on the spur of the moment as you

can see from my desk, I had no time to clean up

and had forgotten I put the kettle on to boil

so halfway through all this the kettle was boiling

like mad and I had to jump over to the kitchen

and brew the tea.

I did not believe that these ladies could

make a card and photo graph it in 10 mins,

well had I not done it myself I now believe its possible.

Here's another titbit

its taken me less than an hour to

make the card

photograph them, even outside,

PSP my watermark on every photo

upload and write this segment up

WOOOHOO

It's so good to not be under stress, I am taking this time before

my surgery to just play and I've created a

storm of cards,

I'll upload more cards I've made soon

Thanks Sandi and Carole'Anne