Making stripey paper on th PC.

I love spotty and striped papers, but I always have difficulty finding it in the colour I need when I need it. So I decided to make some myself using my PC.

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 I was surprised how easy it was to achieve. 

 I used Microsoft publisher to create the paper here.  I went into shapes, chose the rectangle shape and stretched the rectangle from the top to the bottom of the page, keeping the width of the rectangle to about 1/4 inch.

   I then copied the  stripe and pasted it 1/4 inch away from the first stripe. I did this a couple more times, then copied all 4 stripes and pasted them again and again until I had covered the page. Then I started playing with colours and adding a line around the rectangle and changing the colour of the line. (see the floral and footballer card)  You will notice a fine black line either side of the blue.

 I outlined the rectangle  in black to give a different look. I haven't  yet  tried creating multicoloured stripy paper ….That's on my to do list.

Birthday Blooms.

I am always using mirri card to mount my die cut images, but I tend to use the positive rather than the negative.

This time I decided to use the negative. Well... it survived going through my big shot  with it's very cut up and warped cutting plates, so I decided to use it as the background for the birthday blooms stamp.

I mounted the image onto black card stock.
I decided to hold off on adding a sentiment for now.  As I don't know what occasion this car will be used for.
The stamp set is called birthday blooms, but you can use it for pretty much any occasion and it's still available from S.U.
I coloured the image with copic markers.