November VSN Pictures

Finally as promised, here are pictures of the cards I made - hopefully they will all fit in the same post!! LOL

First off, one of my favorites... The challenge was to make a masculine card using at least 2 feminine elements... I chose to make a Fat Chef card using some girly colours and some glitter glue... i love the serving tray... look at the next image to see what is hiding...Some Cheese for Cobi!!! LOL, one of the gals I stamped with during VSN just adores cheese... i thought of her when i made this card... LOL

Ok, next we have the corset challenge... I really think this card is pretty and it was easy to make too...

This next challenge was to use an Album cover as inspiration... I found an albulm on Google Image search and it looks soooo much like this card... Another easy card to make! The link to the album cover... http://www.magicketchup.com/blog_pic/lp_softhard.jpg

This next card is not one of my favorites... the challenge was to make a Cameo image (take a look at a really pretty Cameo pendant... http://www.berezka.com/shopping/ProductImages/11/NM115ERBL.jpg)

This next card was something I'd never done before... its a paper folding technique called the Dahlia fold and it just uses circles. such a stunning flower!!

Another neat challenge, the Thumping Technique... basically you can do it two ways, one is that you use markers and tap onto the rubber stamp then you breathe on it and stamp onto paper (I used that on the stripes), the other way is to colour with markers or ink with a stamp pad in the lightest colour and then take a darker marker and tap it all over the stamp, then you breathe on it (it gives it back some moisture) and you stamp it on paper (I used that on the flowers). this was a new technique that I had meant to try before... I really like how it looks.

This next card was for a challenge that you had to have some sort of hidden element to your card.

The cupcake top pulls up to reveal HAPPY BIRTHDAY... neat eh?

This next card was so much fun to make, the challenge was to make something with falling snow but we couldn't use glitter... So I used my Cricut machine (love this machine!!) to cut out the pieces of the snowglobe... Check out the second picture to see the inside...

This card was so hard to make - so finicky and fussy... but its really cool and its something I've never tried to do before... its a shaker card... the hippo's head actually wiggles when you move the card... I wish I could figure out how to take a video with my camera...

Oooooh I loved making this card, and even though I measured it all wrong, i like how I made it come off of the card front. This is a shaker card, there are beads inside the frame (held into place with foam tape and a sheet of acetate.

This card's challenge was to use pink blossoms... I took my inspiration for this card from one of the birthday cards that was given to my sister.

this card challenge was to use the spotlighting technique - basically highlighting something in the image you're using... a neat simple technique that really adds pizazz...

And last but not least... my favourite 15 minute card. The challenge for this card was to take an image or feeling from the movie Moulin rouge and make a card to represent it. Mine was this image (http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/img/daily/595/moulin_l.jpg)