Monday, 5 November 2012

A Gorguss use for an old CD

Afternoon lovely crafters. It's been a beautiful day here in Yorkshire after a very frosty start. It was white over this morning. Does this mean Winter has finally arrived?? I know some of you had an unexpected fall of snow yesterday!!!!

We are all back to normal today after half term but on a wet afternoon last week DD and I made some hangers from old CD's. I saw a demo doing this on C&C and had just had a clear out of loads of CD's that come free with the Sunday paper so had a big pile to play with.

I borrowed this Gorguss Girl stamp from DD, she collects them. I just love this one with the little foxes. Her stripped hat is great.


The CD was covered back and front with some lovely glittery paper from First Edition and I made the roses from another sheet from the same pack. The Gorguss girl was coloured with promarkers. I'm not too happy with her face, my flesh coloured pen needs replacing. I have tried to improve it but without much success so don't look too closely.    

Right, I'm off to find a responsible adult to light my sparklers so I'll wish you a safe and happy Bonfire Night.

Thanks for stopping by.

13 comments:

Lisa-Jane said...

Gorjuss! What a lovely idea. Are those roses a die?

Mrs.B said...

Hi Lisa, just been having a catch up, Love these hangers, haven't seen this before! Need to get my H2Os out after reading your background tutorial, results look fabulous.
Avril xx

Jill said...

Hi Lisa. It was a lovely day here too, spent the day in Just Tracys helping out and doing some quilting. Love the hangers, really sweet. Jill x

Sally H said...

What a great idea for old CDs. Hope you are not too cold. No snow this time for us, but I was scraping my car this morning, and the door took some effort to open!

...the yorkshire fox... said...

...this is adorable Lisa, great use of a CD too, I have this stamp myself and it's still in the packet from 6months ago, I really must get to grips with colouring in!!...a gorgeous cute make...Mel :)

Di said...

Hi Lisa, I'm a huge Gorjuss Girls fan too so I adore this card!! great idea to use up old CDs too - and I obeyed your request and didn't enlarge the photo - she looks perfect to me.

Di xx

Beryl said...

What a good idea to make these hanging decorations from unwanted CD's. I can see it catching on for Christmas decorations. I didn't see the C & C demo so I'm glad you've shared the idea with us on here. It's gorgeous (or should I say gorguss).
Beryl xx

brenda said...

Very effective use of the old CD Lisa, a little bit different for you but very pretty indeed.

B x

JoZart Designs said...

That is so lovely and would make a lovely birthday keepsake/gift/greeting combined. Your colouring is perfect. All she needs is a tiny smile.... I have an aversion to faceless images but these are so much nicer than Tilda.
Hope you had lots of firework fun. Ours could be heard in Slovenia!!! Really! I was skyping with Cardarian!
Jo x

Hettie said...

Gorguss CD there Lisa. The images and the background is lovely. I don't mind these foxes though...
I am glad Di got to see this as she is a Gorguss Girl fan too! I know as I MADE her spend money a few weeks ago on ebay! Hee Hee! Like I was holding a gun to her head! LOL!
xx

Emma Williams said...

This is Gorjuss, Lisa...I absolutely LOVE it and your DD has very good taste, I love these images too! If I ever get the time to self indulge, would you mind if I borrow this idea for a make? Of course, I'd give you full credit if I did!! :)

Thank you so much for both of your lovely comments on my blog and give your DD a big hug from me and say thank you for her lovely comment about my card!

As for the MS punches you asked me about, I love them. I think they're a bit like Marmite, lol and some people do find them difficult to use but I've never had a problem!

Hope you and your lovely family are well...
Love and hugs to you all, Emma xxx

sandra de said...

Now that is a really sweet way of using old CD's.
Sandra

craftimamma said...

What a lovely idea Lisa. I have loads of those freebie cds I saved .... just in case, lol! Thanks for the inspiration.

Hugs
Lesley Xx