A Midnight (Madness)Panda.

Aw, yesterdays bear was so cute I just had to do another one! That's the beauty of downloads, you can do trillions and trillions of them, and bore everyone to tears!! Sorry about the bad pictures. It's been raining here all day and it's really dull indoors as we have those energy light bulbs that turn everything yellow and are quite honestly, rubbish! Back to the card...

This bear is a panda, (sez me, stating the 'bleedin' obvious!) Although he's brown and white not black and white! The other download in this set from The Tinker Shop has both bears together (I'll do that one next week, so we don't have too much of a good thing!) The background was printed straight on to  (Links not longer apply)

'Double sided Gloss/Matt A5 Greeting card 210 gram'
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Thank you Mr Voice Over man, you may go home now..(he'll want paying next.) Personally I think these cards are perfect for printing a special picture on, or a designed pattern or a Christmas photo you want to send to family. Adding another bit of paper on top, well, you really don't want to do that, because obviously you want to see the gloss shine of the card, but saying that, if I hadn't told you, you'd think this was just an ordinary card that I'd printed on, inside and out, wouldn't you?! Yes. (Talk to yourself Lyn, they're all watching telly.)

I made this card especially for the Midnight Madness bunch over on Midnight Madness...MMSC#17. There's a sketch to follow ~ and some Candy up for grabs and joining in with the challenges gets you extra points! I printed on both sides of my paper so that when I curled the edges you'd see patten rather than white paper. I decoupaged the Panda and fixed him on with 3D foam pads. The insert was done thus...Pictures speak so much louder than words..(Except when the Voice Over Man talks...but then of course, he's just in my head.) Oh alright, so I 'spoes I'd better tell you! What happened was...(I sounded like Jeffro then!) I mean, what I did was...I punched out a scalloped circle, stuck it onto the paper, printed the paper, peeled off the circle to leave a scalloped white bit so I can write in it later, 'best wishes love Lyn'. Clever huh? And saved a wee bit o' time sticking in squares and flowers.
Now it's time to say hello ((wave)) to our new follower, all the way from Italy! Hello Rosa, or Sorrisodiluna, who's blog is called Kreattiva. Pop over and have a look, loads of blog candy over there and my Blog Candy Banner! That's been to more places in the World than I have! Now, I'm off to watch New Tricks! Ah! Friday tomorrow! Fantastic! Don't forget to scroll down to see all this weeks cards.
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Paws For Thought Shaker

Don't you think he's cute!?! He was a download from The Tinker and Co Shop. In the set there's twelve papers, three sets of bears and a page of 'ribbons'. So I decided to make another one of my favourite shaker cards. (Nooo! We'd never guess!) This time I've used not only beads but tiny stars, tiny hearts and splinters of gold (not real gold!) inside the shaker window. I've printed the bear and all the background papers on the satin brochure paper I've mentioned once or twice, (five times) before! (Links no longer apply)

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The insert I printed on ordinary paper and made the bear a lot smaller! The bear on the front has been decoupaged (using the brochure paper) I kept changing my mind about what I was going to put next to him. First it was a sentiment, then I changed it to a flower. I dabbed a dollop of PVA glue in the centre of the flower then pured on the same gold beads. The acetate was cut from the box lid of a Forever Friends decoupage set (I throw nothing away!) The 'lace' is self adhesive paper lace. Now then, there's a challenge, which I hope I'm not too late for~over on Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog This week you have to use acetate on your card, so I hope this counts!!
This last picture was taken before the flower was put on...who can spot was else is missing?
I'd just like to say "Hi" to a New Follower PinkLilacs who at the moment has some yummy blog candy! (It's on my side bar!) pop over and have a look! Right, I'm off, back to watching the end of Harry Potter. I've had the DVD on, got fed up with the adverts on the telly, so there's about half an hour to go on the T.V. I still find myself moaning about all the bits they miss out or change! Dobby was meant to give Harry the Gillyweed!! And weren't they supposed to meet up with Lockhart again in the hospital? Moody also had an invisibility cloak in the book. Credit must go to the maze. I think that was better in the film, everything in the book was missed out. It must be really hard making a film. I'd never know what bits to miss out! I'd probably make it go on and on and on.......and on....and on...night night!
Later I added, Happy Birthday Dad and inside, lots of bear hugs from me and him
What else was missing? A little bird in the top left hand corner.

My First Waterfall Card!

Evening everyone! It's not been too bad today, has it? No one got abducted by Aliens or fell down a well? Apart from a Rook flying off with one of me coconuts all's been quiet here too. We were going to pop out and see the local carnival but then thought, is it worth it for two floats, a dancing band and a juggling dog? Is it just down here in Southern England or is it happening throughout the whole Country? Carnival's 'ain't wot they used to be!' Something to do with Health and Safety so I'm told. Not allowed to do hardly anything anymore, no custard pie throwing and definitely no water fights, 'case someone gets... wet! And talking of water...(which I wasn't) here is the waterfall card I promised yesterday! And why is it called a Waterfall Card?? I haven't a clue! Maybe because it 'flows'!
It's printed on the same paper as Ben 10 (scroll down all those of you who didn't blog in yesterday) so it has a nice soft satin finish to it...Hang on, I'll just get out my megaphone (The movie guy's gone home) Stand back all those of you with a weak disposition...the paper is called...

"Instant Dry Photo Satin Double Sided Paper 120gsm Brochure Paper."

...which was sent to me by PhotoPaper (Links no longer apply) .I have some magnet card and a few Double Sided Gloss/Matt Greeting cards too...more about them on another post.
This is my very first Water Card. I'm quite pleased with it. The little thinkgy pulls up and down to reveal a cute little teddy playing in his train! I've left enough room to fix a name on later and the little number tag comes off so I can change the age if I need to! Pretty sure there was a pink one too! Where? Oh...I don't think I'll tell you, I'm feeling mean!! Oh all right then...Free download for the waterfall card is on my sidebar (been there for ages) but for all those who don't read any of this you can click here  Links may no longer work.
Now there's something else on my side bar that wasn't there yesterday...a new blinkie. I wonder if anyone's spotted it? I'll blow my own horn about that later, right that's it...
Ah no! Come back! I haven't finished yet!! Welcome to new Follower 113!!! Big (((wave))) to Annelies (does she?) no..Annelies, all the way from Belgium and is into Scrapbooking! Loads of Blog Candy links on Annelies blog.
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Ben 10 Printed on Photo Satin Paper.

What paper do you use for your card making? Do you print straight on to card? Do you buy that really thin stuff that sucks up all your ink but still doesn't give you a nice crisp image? I had an email last week, luckily my spammer didn't chew it up and eat it! It was from a paper company. PhotoPaper Direct (sorry links now closed)

(Ohoo) I've had emails before, asking, 'would I like to advertise our Chinese laundry, or would I advertise their adventure holidays in Baghdad and another one from a travel agent in Singapore... Most don't get through but the ones that do I usually ponder over for a few seconds, let the little grey brain cells spin for a minute or two and then press the red button and the email vanishes for ever. But Paper? Card? That's like the carrot to the donkey, the peanut to the monkey~ the cheese to the mouse!! The sugar frosting on the cherry on the chocolate cake!!! If you could see the state of my Craft room right now, you'd say I had a serious paper addiction! So, this lovely paper company sent me some lovely samples. Right thought me. Let's put this paper to the test! I've made a couple of Ben 10's. My very first waterfall card and another shaker card. This is Ben 10. (Link to him on my sidebar) And he has been printed on this super smooth (hang on a mo, just get the guy who advertises the movies to say it in his very deep voice..)

"Instant Dry Photo Satin Double Sided Paper 120gsm Brochure paper.." (show off!) So it's brilliant for anything you want to print. I have tried buying this before. I've asked the puzzled assistant (as he's backed away from the counter) that I don't want the paper I want the paper the paper is wrapped in. So I've printed out Ben 10 on this Satin Paper, love it! (How'd you like my screw-like brads, huh?) And you can print on both sides with no fear of the darker colour coming through and... see the Ben 10 sign in the corner? That was white. I coloured it using my green ProMaker Pen and there was no bleed through and, I've even decoupaged Ben to make him stand out a bit more. So where is this Paper Company? Timbuktu? No! And, at the moment they have a BIG sale on and not just on paper. They do all sorts, apart from Photo Paper, Fine Art Paper, and Inks, there's Transfer paper, for printing onto Tshirts and other clothing. Magnetic paper. I've got some of that! Plug in Digital Memory storage thingamajigs, and with my small brain, I could definitely do with some of that! I also have some smooth pre-folded card and when I've finished playing, I'll let you see what I've done.
Right, tomorrow I'll either put on the Waterfall Card or another Ben 10 or a Tinker 'Paws for Thought' which I downloaded from the Tinker Shop. They've all been printed on this Satin paper! You choose...here's a peek...


Ben 10. For the Kids! Free black and white drawings to downloads and colour in.