Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Time flies...

Ooops, bad blogger! I thought I'd show you this card - I made it a little while back but it's been in an anonymous voting process and I didn't want to blow my cover! The lovely people on the Tanda Stamps forum have a card making competition every month with forum members voting for their favourite card from all the entries. The theme for May was Bugs and Kisses - so anything with butterflies, ladybirds etc etc.

Being a last-minute minnie I had to choose something reasonably quick. I cut the dragonfly from the Crafty Secrets Earthy paper pad and just added a little sparkle to his wings with a clear Spica glitter pen. Edges of the paper (from the Radiant pad) are sponged and then overstamped with the swirls and the sentiment (which I thought went nicely with the fleeting nature of a dragonfly).

Supplies: Beautiful and Time to Stamp sets (both Cornish Heritage Farms), Earthy and Radiant paper pads (Crafty Secrets), Tim Holtz Distress ink (Tea Dye), sewing machine and metallic thread, nail art gems

Big smile - my card won the vote this time so I got to pick out a prize of some new stamps! Thank you very much Tanda, I'll enjoy playing with my vintage transport set just as soon as I get my (work) life under control!

16 comments:

Kaz said...

Beautiful card Joanne, well done to you!

Di said...

Oh wow, another prize....well done you Joanne and what a fabulous card.

Work/life balance, tricky one that..normally more work than life in my case ha ha!

Karen said...

Well done Joanne, not surprised you won..its a beautiful card. Have fun with those lovely stamps X

Sue said...

It's a beautiful card Joanne, the prize was well deserved.
Sue x

Anonymous said...

What an elegant beautiful card Joanne. Now wonder it won a prize. :)


Traceyr x

shaz earl said...

Beautiful card Joanne xx

Lesley said...

Great card, well done for winning! xxx

made by fifi said...

gorgeous card as usual - congrats on your win xx

Andrea said...

this is a brilliant design and a very elegant looking card, love it x well done on your win to x

Anonymous said...

Well done Joanne, a well deserved winner....you have a very definite and beautiful style!
regards
sue law

Keri Lee Sereika said...

Well look at you you lucky duck!!! Congrats it deserved the vote!

Darlene said...

Oh WOW ,... congrats on winning (no surprise there!!!). I checked out the stamp set you won ... awesome!!! Can't wait to see what you come up with using that set!!!

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous card Joanne, love the dragonfly....x

Joy said...

A beautiful card Joanne and I love the stitching, well done on your deserved win xx

Lisa Silver said...

Gorgeous creation, Joanne!!! I can easily see why it won!

Hugs,
lise

Kathy said...

this is sooooo beautiful, The dragonfly is so delicate and the background looks perfect