Crafting @ Eighty

  Thank you Ma'am for all year year of service. You will be sadly missed

 Hello again.  Today I have a couple of cards in the "Clean & Simple" style that I made this week, to share with you. I recently joined in the Face Book group "Clean & Simple Cards", so these were for showing on there.  Recently I had had one of my cards declined as falling outside the rules. It was only the second card that I had tried. So I decided to stand back & watch what was being produced by others to help me choose the right style.  It is of course a very much "in the eye of the beholder" style. So, here are 2 cards I made this week. I have uploaded one of them to the group which is now pending, waiting for administrators approval.  If this one is OK I will then post the second one. I stamped the snowflake in Versamark Ink & heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. Then lightly coloured some of the little squares on the arms of the snowflake, in pale blue & pale lilac pencil. The "Merry Christmas" is a peel-off i

Hello everyone - isn't it hard to believe we are now into September?  My! this year is rushing by. Today I have a photo of a card I made last week for a challenge at one of my clubs.  The theme was the "Passing of Summer".  Quite a challenge! To help me when I was thinking of the design, we had a beautiful late summer sunset one evening - so that gave me the colours.  Then I turned to Google, as you do, & searched for images & quotes to do with the ending of summer.  The images gave me an idea of the stamps to use, but I also found a really lovely quote.  So, here is the card; I am not the best at colouring & creating things like sky, but I am quite pleased with this. I used Distress Inks diluted with water & then brushed gently across the card. The trees, which are one stamp,  were basically for an autumn image so had bare branches. The set that they came from also had a cluster of leaves stamp, so I used that in 2 shades of green across the branches.  Th