Sunday Sketch Mice

Whoo Hoo I made a Penny Black card for Saturday and I've just realised how crooked the image is, hope its only me who notices!
I had these mice coloured for a while and the papers were going to be used on another card then I didn't like them so I used it on this card.
The sketch is Sunday Sketch and Stamp but I'm not sure I'll have time to link it will have to use Sis slowest PC in Hampshire maybe I'll get her to try it on her i pad that she got for her Birthday.
The sentiment is from the latest seasonal catalogue from Stampin Up the stamps though are the hostess set. Selection of snowflakes and a bit of ribbon and of course my favourite border die of the moment from MFT.

Here where I cut on the border to help them round the oval obviously I've only marked it so you see where.

And I love the fact you butt the ends together and therefore don't have to worry about covering the join, also here you can see where I line them up along the oval.
It's always worth to try this technique with your border punches and dies, sometime they work and some don't but where they work so well like this border die its a bonus.
Finger crossed Mr Blogger schedule this post, I know he been misbehaving but hopes he loves me a little bit.

Why I love this punch

 So a little tutorial, I will say this wasn't my idea that some-one has already posted how to do this  but this is how I do it with my favourite choice of Martha Stewart border punch. It's a deep edge doily punch, I've used to punch out this border from an A4 piece of card.

 This is way I love it so much, the little oval shape between daisies have pointed ends and I use that as a guide to cut down the middle.

 Again the lowest hole is perfect to snip up to which you do on each one.

 I would recommend a repositional glue especially the first few time while you gain the experience how to do it. I use Herma repositional all round the edge on the back of the card.

 I line the border up using the lowest hole as a starting point. Then I sort of fold over where I snipped  and knowing the lowest hole is the height I need to be. I continue to fold slightly all around the mat.

 You can see the lowest hole being used as my guide line here in this photo.

 Lucky for me this strip has gone completely round the mat but doesn't look quite finished but this is where I will place a flower. So when you stick you image on be sure the join is where you wish to place the flower.
Now if you mat is larger, you will need to use the other strip and I usually overlap one end completely or I will cut the strips so I have two joins and where I will place a flower on each joins.

Here's the card I made using the punch, you may have seen it before, its the one I made for the Simon Says Stamps Challenge.

Wimbledon Penny Black

There's a fabulous sketch on Penny Black challenge from Nat and although I pleased with this card perhaps I haven't done enough justice to Nat's sketch so might use it again maybe not with a PB. As soon as I saw these critters with rackets I knew I had to buy it, my Son is an avid tennis fan having played a lot when he was a teenager in fact he was very good till he's knees played up something he blames me for something to do with genes he tells me.
My first problem was the shuttlecock, I had to mask it out then I couldn't find a tennis ball stamp so I had to make one. Then I wanted to use acetate for the inside of the rackets and thought maybe it would be too fiddly but it wasn't too bad. I had no problem choosing the papers the DCWV Latte pack have the perfect wimbledon colours.
Good Luck to Andy Murray and hope my son takes a hat with him to Wimbledon today. I've already made him he's birthday card so I will give this to my DD to give to him.
This is how I made the photo corner which are really easier to make and you can vary the size to whatever you want. For the pic above the square is 4cm and I measured a cm in from the edge all the way round then, a diagonal line across the middle which I then cut. I cut out the shaded areas too.
It leaves you a pair of these and if like me, you ink the edges then stick onto a piece or c0-dinating card in the corner then use a ruler to measure, make a border.
You then cut out the middle leaving a border. I have to thank Ellie at Mod Scraps who showed me how to do this when I first started Scrapbooking.

Many thanks to Spyder for the fabulous award.
So in January I hit 50 000 hits which was brilliant but I've noticed my hits have nearly reached 100 000 mark another 50 000 in less than six months so it looks like I will be buying some blog candy at Newbury.

How I made them

Just a quick blog to show how I made the bookmarks, this is not my idea but shows I how made them. The size of card is 10cm by 5cm and you simply bring the two corners across to the middle.

I stick one side to the shape I want to use.
I then cut out approx 7cm square and cut diagonally across the middle to make two triangles, I only need one because I then do the same with a 6.5cm square to make layers in the pic. I then stick on the the bookmark triangle.
Decorate how you like, its brilliant for using scraps.