CD Sunday Challenge - Tag You're It

My card this week is from the wonderful Feathered Friends CD from Peerless Designs.  We have a pair of spotted woodpeckers that visit our garden each year and it is lovely to welcome them back.  I have made this card for them!

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Postcard Travels with Roland Poland - Week 4 - China

Having succumbed to a bite on the backside by a piranha, whilst swimming in the Amazon last week, our young hero has been taken under the wing of fellow canoe passenger, Xong Xui.  Mr Xui is on a Chinese trade mission to Brazil and was enjoying a weekend's break up country when he became totally captivated by Roland's outgoing personality and enthusiasm for life.  Unable to contemplate being parted from Roland, he smuggled him into China in his diplomatic bag.  So his latest adventure begins ...

Roland Poland's postcard to Malcolm, his half brother in Carlisle, is of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. It is coloured with Distress Inks and Copic markers.

He writes:

Hi Malcolm,

The food is great and better than The Golden Chopstick in Lancaster.  And get this! - they cook it in the STREETS! - Great for a grab and RUN.

Just like the old days

Cheers

RP

Here is the page I made in Roland Poland's travel book

I have used chalk pastels,  for the first time, to colour in the Great Wall.  The characters represent Happiness and Harmony - attributes Roland Poland might find useful to keep together!

DragonsDream TIO #108 - The Beach

I am having a walk down memory lane here!  My maternal granddad was a magician and member of the Magic Circle and during the summer months was a Punch and Judy man, having shows in Tenby, Margate and Southend.  I was the youngest grandchild and his career was coming to an end by the time I was old enough to appreciate his skill.
My tag uses the very first stamps I ever bought - from Rubadubadoo.  I have stamped them onto cardboard that has been gessoed white.  The sand and the sea are embossed with sand effect and sea mist embossing powders from Joanna Sheen and give the tag a lovely tactile quality.  The pennants are from a Tim Holtz On the Edge die and coloured with Copic markers. The children are stamped and cut out and added with dimensionals.
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CD Sunday Challenge - Zodiac

My simple card this week uses one of the lovely starry sky backing papers from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted CD.  The main image is a download in the public domain from the internet.  I coloured it with Derwent Inktense pencils and then clear embossed it before layering it onto some matt silver card.  Apologies for the dark, shadowy picture but daylight is hard to come by up here in the frozen north.

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Alphabet Tag - B for Beetroot

This tag is stamped using a much loved vegetable set from A Stamp In The Hand.  I have used coloured markers to ink up the stamp using the 'Thumping' method.  I have first stamped the cream tag with a texture roller stamp from Stampin Up in Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink. I have then inked up the beetroot stamp using Ruby and Pine Marvy Markers - scribbling on the colours and allowing overlap.  This gives you a quite realistic colour portrayal, i.e. red in the green leaves.  The lovely little seed packet is a freebie from Go Make Something a wonderful source of all things miniature and printable.

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Alphabet Tags - A for Allium

I noticed that this year there are quite a few alphabet tag swaps on the go.  I thought I would make a set for myself and use it as an opportunity to use as many techniques as I could so that they could be used as a kind of reference for days when my mojo has disappeared completely or when I was having a senior moment and had totally forgotten everything!

This tag is cut from glossy black card using the Tim Holtz die and has been stamped using a Stampendous stamp 'Allium' using Perfect Medium and then dusting with Interference Mica Powders.  It is one of my favourite techniques and I love the iridescent colours.  You have to be careful to dust everything with an embossing buddy (anti static pad) before you start otherwise the powder goes everywhere!  I finished it off with a key chain and a name tag in black shrink plastic.

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Rainbow Lady's Challenge #188 - The Year of the Dragon

I love making oriental style cards, so had to have a go this week!  My embossed squares are from a Judikins Clay Squisher texture plate and have been embossed in gold onto paper coloured with ink pads (direct to paper).  The dragon from Stampin USA is similarly embossed in gold onto black.

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