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Saturday 15 October 2011

Exhausted.com

The builders will be knocking walls out of the house next week so my craft room has gone from this:

to this in the last couple of days:

My sitting room meanwhile is now doubling as a craft room - not a good look! The kitchen has been decanted to all corners of the house and now I'm exhausted. We're leaving home on Monday for a few days to stay at my Mum's down in North Northumberland as it's half term up here so hopefully we'll miss most of the mess.

I've managed a LIM card this afternoon with a bit of Chrissie's lateral thinking!


I was a bit stumped with this theme of cocktails - I know I have some chipboard and/or gel pieces of cocktail glasses but given all of the above I don't know where they are located. So I was sitting scratching my head when the idea of a peacock tail struck! I took a piece of A6 card and brayered it with a big and juicy ink pad then put it in the printer to overprint with the peacock image from Crafty Ann's and out popped a B&W photo of a peacock duh! I was about to redo it then wondered whether the glossy photo paper would brayer et voila this is what I ended up with.
Matted layers are cut with label one dies, Image has been mounted with pinflair gel and card is finished with a stamped sentiment and a bow.

Challenges entered:
Less is More - cocktails
Craft Your Passion - card for all occasions

Carol x


20 comments:

  1. Well done for making a lovely card in chaos! I don't envy you. Hope you get sorted soon. xx Jan

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  2. Carol, your card is so very stunning! Oh, what a crafty mess ;o) you will have troubles to find all your stash if it can stay on it´s place! Hope you can move into your "new" craftingroom soon. xx Bianca

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  3. Love this Carol,love your take on Cocktails,good luck for next week.xxx

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  4. It's lovely, Carol, beautiful colour too. Hope the building work goes well. Enjoy your break. Hazel x

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  5. Brilliant Carol, inventiveness a-plenty!
    Super card too!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  6. Hola Carol, ooooh dear i think to renovate a house is like a scare movie :C, very stressfull, I wish you courage.

    Very clever idea Carol, so creative, i love this colour, well done.
    A hug from Palma

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  7. Fab card Carol, such a lovely colour. Good luck with the building work, hope you manage to miss the worst of it! Lisa x

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  8. Carol l truly love what you have done with this card its stunning! hope its not too long now before all building work comes to an end:) Sandra H

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  9. Great interpretation of cocktail!!!!! Fab card...

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  10. Super card Carol, lovely colour
    Great thinking outside to box
    thank you
    mandi LIM

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  11. What a wonderful peacock Carol! Good luck with the building work. Vx

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  12. oh hun really do not envy you with all this but it will be worth it in the end just love your card hun its just so so beautiful hugs cherylxxxx

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  13. Love your lateral thinking! Have a good time in Northumberland :)

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  14. Smashing take on the theme - fab card. Best of luck with the alterations too

    Kathyk

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  15. Great card Carol, you reminded me I had Peacock stamps! Best of luck with the building works!
    Sandra

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  16. great card and thanks for the tip ,good luck with the renovations x

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  17. Great card, brilliant idea
    Beryl x

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  18. Good luck with your renovation. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stamps.

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  19. The peacock looks stunning a great take on the "cocktail" theme.
    Sandy

    You can view my card here

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  20. Super creative on your part, Carol! Beautiful card!

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Many thanks for taking the time to comment on my post. Constructive comments are always welcomed and appreciated on my creations. Carol x