Tuesday 25 October 2011

Top Tip Tuesday #57....


Good Top Tip Tuesday Morning


It's Tipper Weeeeeeeeeek!!!





This week our Challenge for you is....



Trick or Treat!


Our sponsors this week are....




celebrate handmade

who is offering our featured tipper an amazing book:


A bit about Stash BooksStash Books is an imprint of C&T Publishing located in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you’re craving beautiful authenticity in a time of mass-production…Stash Books is for you. Stash Books is a new line of how-to books celebrating fabric arts for a handmade lifestyle. Backed by C&T Publishing’s solid reputation for quality, Stash Books will inspire you with contemporary designs, clear and simple instructions, and engaging photography.








1 prize of 5 digi stamps of your choice


Please snag either blinkie
I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people. I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.
This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue.









My Trick or Treat card for this week....



Here's my Top Tip to go with my card...

....Shaker cards don't have to be complicated...here I printed directly onto the card blank, coloured the sweet little fella, cut my desired 'frame' with Nesties, used DST to fix acetate to reverse of frame, cut foam pads into thin strips and stuck around edge of frame (making sure they tightly butted up to each other), put a little pile of glitter strands onto the ghost and stuck the frame over.



I've used a gorgeous image from one of our sponsors this week


Pop over to Top Tip Tuesday to see the rest of the DT's fantastic 'Trick or Treat' cards and of course their amazing Top Tips :)


Some Challenges I'd like to enter my card into.....


ABC Challenge - B is for 'Boo!'


Pollycraft Monday - Spooky Goings On!


Divas By Design - Something Spooky!


Truly Scrumptious - Shaker card/box


CAS-ual Fridays - Colour your image


Stamping For The Weekend - Spooky!


Allsorts - Halloween


Cupcake Inspirations - Photo Inspiration


Simon Says Stamp - Nursery Rhyme Inspiration ...'Because It's Halloween' (to the tune of Wheels on the Bus)


Because It’s Halloween


The ghost in the attic says “Boo, boo, boo”
“Boo, boo, boo”
“Boo, boo, boo”
The ghost in the attic says “Boo, boo, boo”
Because it’s Halloween

The witches with a big pot stir, stir, stir
Stir, stir, stir
Stir, stir, stir
The witches with a big pot stir, stir, stir
Because it’s Halloween

The bats in the sky fly zig zag zig
Zig, zag, zig,
Zig, zag, zig
The bats in the sky fly zig, zag, zig
Because it’s Halloween

The pumpkins on the porch all have big grins
Have big grins
Have big grins
The pumpkins on the porch all have big grins
Because it’s Halloween

The children of the town eat lots of treats
Yum, yum, yum
Yum, yum, yum
The children of the town eat lots of treats
Because it’s Halloween



19 comments:

  1. You are such a cleve ol' bean you know! I'm even tempted to try making a shaker card now. Gorgeous little Boo and the sentiment is perfect. Brilliant. Hugs Sxx

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  2. Just love this. What a brilliant take on the trick or treat theme;) And what an awsome way to do a shaker card in black and white. Gotta love that. Hugs Bettina

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  3. oh brilliant card carol.i love the cute spook and fab shaler design and verse :D

    xx coops xx

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  4. How cool is this! A fabulous card AND a nursery rhyme. Does it get any better than this? I think not!
    Hugs
    Lisa xx

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  5. I love love love your Boooooo card he is soooo cute! and I love him in these colours too! such a clever shaker card!! way to go you! :0)

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  6. A gorgeous shaker card. Thank you so much for entering my Halloween challenge at ALLSORTS this week, and also Truly Scrumptious. good luck & hope you’ll join us again!
    Hugz Fleur xXx

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  7. Aww Carol this is sooooo cute, fab design, I've still not got round to making a shaker card yet, thanks for the inspiration :)
    Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp
    hugs Mandy xx

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  8. Very cute!! Great CAS design and great tip for the shaker card. Thank you!

    Hugs, Dawn

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  9. Oh my goodness how CUTE!!!!
    Thank you so much for joining us at Cupcake Inspirations this week! Good luck!
    Rene :D

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  10. Oh now how CUTE, CUTE, CUTE is that little ghost - love this so much; fabby shaker card!

    Thank you for joining us at Cupcake Inspirations!

    Hugs,
    Michele

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  11. Gorgeous shaker card Carol, love the cute image and the trick or treat wording running across the top! Great top tip by the way!
    Thanks for entering our Halloween challenge over at Allsorts this week and good luck!
    Love Nicola xxx

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  12. Super sweet card! The subtle color of purple really shine through! Thanks so much for playing with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  13. LOVE this!!
    Thanks for playing at CAS-ual Fridays!
    Laura

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  14. Oh dang...
    This is SO sweet!
    I love, love that image
    and the fact that its a shaker
    makes it just all that much
    better!
    So very glad you shared at
    ABC Challenges!

    Happy Happy Halloween! ~Leah

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  15. This is soo cute Carol & I love the design :)
    Thank you so much for joining us at SFTW & Good Luck!
    Hugs
    Tracey
    x

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  16. All the sentiments just like the fab collection !!But i especially love your designs :):):)
    membership card
    Pvc cards

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  17. Aww this is so sweet! Such a fun card and I love the CAS style! Thanks for joining in with the Truly Scrumptious Challenge!

    Love Beth xx

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  18. This is just gorgeous Carol! I love your how you have made a shaker card a CAS design!

    Thanks for joining us for the Spooky Goings On challenge at Pollycraft!

    Arabella

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