Tuesday 15 February 2011

Printing and "Puns"

I am getting serious withdrawal symptoms from my beloved stamping. As LESS IS MORE's CHALLENGE, is.. one layer cards with a "Flower or tree" theme, I thought I would struggle, as my budget cards rely very much on "sticking things" on etc.....undeterred I decided to go back to basics......finger painting or in this case printing.
My daughter is a huge Edward Monkton fan,true to form she bought oneof his cards for her boyfriend on Valentines Day. So I made my own homage to Monkton with some little bird (sitting in a tree!!) cards complete with corny pun's ...thought this would be suitable for ALLSORTS CHALLENGE which is "all about the sentiment"

The sentiment on the front then leads inside.....


Totally daft I know (I gave the card to Katie and James on Valentines and I think they were quite amused ?!?).

Then I saw that CREATIVE CRAFT CHALLENGE is "Cards for a teens"...always tricky particularly as we have quite a few in the family!! So I thought I would adapt the design for my niece (17).
Again going for a very cheesy pun..


and I will finish the song inside!!! at least she'll be spared me singing it!




The cards are so easy to make and I even managed to resist using an ink pad...inking my finger with a waterbased brush marker.......you would think waterbased would wash off.....



WRONG!!!!!!



17 comments:

Chrissie said...

Hi there Inkyfingers!
This card looks great... those two little birds look fab sitting on the branch.I'm really glad you like our challenge and I hope you'll make our blog a permanent fixture in your stamping week!
Chrissie
"Less is More"

Suze Bain said...

What a fun card, very 'tweet'!

Jane said...

I just love this card x

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

Oh! I love this or these cards, such fun

Lynne said...

What a fabulously fun card. Love it.
Lynne xxx

Bea said...

really cute - great card

KatheD said...

these are great cards - worth getting inky for

Aileen said...

Brill idea. Love the story of your inky fingers too.

Zuzana Obert said...

Such a clever idea to use your inky finger. So cute so simple and beautiful!

Zuzana x x

Simply Angelic Crafts said...

Fab cards thanks for playing along at CCC, love Aly xxx

Deborah Frings said...

Brilliant idea!! LOve these cards, so simple, such fun!! I can see me using this idea over the holidays with my daughter!

Sue B said...

Wow! great cards. Fantastic idea with the thumb ink. It looks so simple to do and yet so effective. It looks very classy too and I love the pun!

Hugs Sue xx

Anonymous said...

Cute, fun cards and love the idea with the inky finger!

Susan said...

I haven't done a fingerprint card in a LONG time...I'd forgotten how adorable they are!! Great cards!!

Suze Bain said...

Diane, I'm loving your work. Pop on over to my blog, there's a little something for you ..
http://cant-stop-crafting.blogspot.com/2011/02/another-lovely-blog-award.html

salamanda said...

These cards are fab, such a clever idea

dragonllew said...

Great card hope your finger is back to it's normal colour now thanks for joining us at Creative Craft Challenge.
Jenny x

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