Sunday 27 January 2013

LIM: week 104 - Sketch and cogs

For Christmas I had my craft room stocked, many thanks to my other half. Some dies and a superb large pack of Core'dinations Sugar and Spice - for those of you who've not seen this, it is card which you can sand to reveal a different colour core.

On Friday it was my nephew's birthday - Happy Birthday Wil. I have been playing with embossing on Core'dinations card, sanding it and spraying it with Radiant Shimmer (to give the slightly metallic grunge effect), in order to make a suitable card for him. This is something I made with the left overs (because offcuts of card, can never go to waste, can they?) which is made to loosely fit with the LIM Sketch.




The cogs are the X-cut cogs, and are fun - I've cut them out in two coordinating colours and swapped the centres.  I've had real trouble extracting the card from them when using card, but they work a treat with this funky foam - which I bought years ago in a multitude of different colours when I was a Brownie Guider and my daughters were small enough to enjoy cutting and sticking.

9 comments:

  1. Great card for a guy too!

    Kathyk

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  2. Fab guy card...love all the different shaped cogs!

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  3. Great use of offcuts, especially the foam! You should also link up at the Playground where we all use up our scraps every week. http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/pixies-crafty-snippets-week-57.html

    Hugs
    Brenda

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  4. Cool cogs and gears! Nice, nice card.

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  5. Brilliant card, love the colours you've used.

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  6. great idea anna... would have look great at the bottom of the card too!!

    Thanks for Joining us this week
    Jen xx
    "Less Is More"

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  7. This is a super card for a chap...the band should have been a little lower to comply with the terms of this week's challenge, but it does look good where it is too.
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  8. Great "guy" card - love it!
    Happy LIMing,
    Rosey x

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