Cinema Saturday #17

This weeks Cinema Saturday challenge is the fab movie The Princess Bride. I must admit that I did not see this movie until a couple of years ago, though I had a fair idea I'd love it from other people's comments about it. It was great to have an excuse to dig it out and pop it on again.


For my card I decided to take inspiration from Dread Pirate Roberts... ok, so I can't pass up an opportunity to use this set! I left the sails white so the card wasn't too dark, though I dare say the Revenge had all black sails. I've paper-pieced the hull of the ship, stamping it on a piece of Ginger Blossom paper (I wanted to include some of this red for a dress Buttercup wears), trimmed and then stuck it on over the hull as stamped on the White. The Soft Sky background is inspired by another of Buttercup's dresses (you just can't get me away from the costumes... speaking of which I rediscovered The Costumer's Guide To Movie Costumes, great for checking out the costumes without having to pause the dvd, and there are often additional shots though we probably don't need that much detail for cardmaking...), the silver flower represents Buttercups wedding crown, she's got pearls on a number of her dresses, and the sentiment should be self-explanitory :)

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Basic Black, Soft Sky, Whisper White, brushed silver
Stamp Sets: Ahoy Matey, Brocade Basics, So Many Sayings
Inks: StazOn Jet Black; Ruby Red, Soft Sky, Bashful Blue for watercolouring
Accessories: Ginger Blossom DSP, aquapainter, Basic Black marker, Spring Bouquet punch, Word Window punch, Pretties Kit, mini glue dots, dimensionals
Show watched while creating: The Princess Bride, ODI cricket

Ahoy! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Some of you may recall this card I made a little while back. At the time I was having so much fun with Matey and those colours that I decided to make a few more cards, and since this is International Talk Like a Pirate Day I thought I'd share them with you now!

Can you even tell there is "flowery" paper on this^ card?
Here^ I used my "three rhinestone brads" idea for Matey's sunken treasure.
"Flowery" paper strikes again, and Matey's parrot seems to be trapped.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky, Confetti White, Blue Bayou, River Rock
Stamp Sets: Ahoy Matey, Matey's Map
Inks: StazOn Jet Black, VersaMark; inkpads used for watercolouring: Blue Bayou, Blush Blossom, Chocolate Chip, River Rock, Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi
Accessories: Aged Copper hodgepodge, Ice Square & Circle Rhinestone brads, hemp twine, Earth Elements brads, Crystal Effects, aquapainter, Cutter Kit, Spring Showers DSP

And now for my pirate smiley fest...

Sassy Matey?

The second challenge that Dani set for us in the Inklings cyberstamp was a card inspired by the words "sweet", "sassy" and "masculine". I could think of guys who had all that, but tossing it all on a card??? My mind went wandering, as it often does but I'll spare you the details, and I decided Matey would have to do. I then decided to combine Dani's challenge with Taylor's TECC21, though as is often the case I didn't keep very strictly with the sketch. I stamped Matey on Confetti White and watercoloured him with my aquapainter and inkpads, then applied Crystal Effects over the sword. The map has River Rock and Soft Sky sponged in appropriate places (eg the blue-ish sofy Sky sponged over water areas of the map), it's not obvious, it's barely visible in the photo, but it does make that background a little more interesting. The twill was brayered with River Rock then I stamped the anchor in Chocolate Chip.

As I was sticking the layers together I decided to change my idea for three rhinestone brads on the left to the "x marks the spot" stamp, as I thought the Wasabi piece looked like land at the edge of a sea. So now Matey has to go retrieve his sunken treasure (yeah ok, I stayed up till 2am watching the Olympics opening ceremony, so I am just a tad sleep deprived and that usually makes me go a bit silly!).

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Blue Bayou, Confetti White
Stamp Sets: Ahoy Matey, Matey's Map
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky, River Rock, Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou
Accessories: Aged Copper Hodgepodge, Square Ice Rhinestone brads, Twill, Cutter Kit, brayer, aquapainter, Crystal Effects, dauber, horizontal slot punch, Chocolate Chip marker

Aaaar me hearties, it be another birthday card

One set I was very happy to see make it into the new Australia SU catalogue was "Ahoy Matey". Matey made sure he was part of my first order from the new catty, however I have only just gotten around to inking him up!

In case you hadn't noticed, if I have a theme, I run with it. The card is for my nephew and his who gift and presentation was centered around Matey! If it weren't for the stamp set I have no idea what we would have given him! After Matey arrived the next piece of the gift that was gathered was the wrapping paper, which helped determine a few things about the card. Then I had to track down something piratey to put inside the wrapping paper (a Pirateology book with a pirate ship you could build as part of the book). To make the card I stamped Matey with his chest beside him on some Whisper White cardstock using StazOn black. I made masks for Matey and his chest the did a bit of a wash with Barely Banana and stamped a speckled stamp from Itty Bitty Backgrounds in Sahara Sand (it didn't seem right NOT using Sahara Sand for the sand!). I then coloured Matey, his chest and parrot in with waterclour crayons using a blender pen. For the blue background I used an aqua painter to apply Tempting Turqoise for a portion above the sand to an imagined horizon, the filled the sky in with Cool Caribbean. I'm not entirely happy with the sky, water and sand but didn't want to keep touching them up in case I completely stuffed it - I really should have done them first before I spent all that time colouring Matey in! I mounted Matey on Basic Black then mounted him onto the large piece of Whisper White. I stamped "Ahoy Matey" with StazOn black on Whispher White, trimmed it to size, stuck it behind a pewter Hodge Podge frame, then mounted the lot onto the Real Red card base.