Happy 9th Birthday, LOTV

This card was made for two reasons, One, for the LOTV 9th Birthday Competition

And two, for my friends birthday as she also happens to love the LOTV images.

I have used the Rosie with Cake Stamp and coloured her in using Promarkers.  The background papers are from a Lucy Cromwell Designstax pad from Papermania. I put a doily behind the main image and cut the image out using a Spellbinders Labels 27 die.

The sentiment is from the LOTV Calendars Stamps set, and was cut out using the Spellbinders star die.  I edged the cut stamps with Tim Holtz Spun Sugar Distress Inks.  The pearls on the background strip are from Kort and Godt.

The flowers are either from my stash or came from Wild Orchid.  The small butterfly die was the Marianne Topirary and Butterfly die set.

I made the candle by tightly rolling a small strip of paper with a small length of black cotton glued to the inside.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

LOTV 9th Birthday Card Competition

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Layer it Up

Drip Drop Tilda

I recently bought this lovely stamp from Creashop Duymelot, it is one of their own special Magnolia Stamps, and she is gorgeous!
I thought I would use a rocker card cut form the largest of the Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Circles die, folded in half, as I felt it somehow added to the watery theme.  I carried the theme on by using the Memory Box Bid Splash border die, Elegent Scrollwork and Chesapeake Scrollwork dies.  The glittered backing paper is from the First Edition Summer Breeze paper pad.

 

I coloured the image using Promarker and Spectrum Noir Pens, highlighting the water drops and giving Tilda a small puddle to stand in, with Anita's 3D Clear Gloss Finish.

The ribbon was a white ribbon I had, coloured with the Spectrum Noir pens.  I attached a small umbrella charm to the bow.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid and I added light green Doodle Drewdrops from Polkadoodles.  The leaves are some I found in a shop on my travels in Vietnam!

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Drip Drop Tilda - duymelot.blogspot.nl

Anything Goes - Magnolia Only Challenge - The Ribbon Girls

'Layer it Up' - Daily Talent Spot, Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog

WOW Christmas Card

That's white on white, not that I thought the card was worth a WOW!!!
I made this card for my Mum and Dad using the Spellbinders Christmas Ornaments die, Memory Box Deer Die, Cuttlebugs snow fall embossing folder and Crafts Too Pine Tree Scene embossing folder.  I also used a tag from Spellbinders and Marianne pine tree branch die.  Although all the papers and card used were white, the finish was sometimes different. ie smooth card, pearlescent etc.
I hope you like it.

 

NEC Birmingham

Bit self indulgent, I know, but I just had to show you one of the display boards that was up at the Joanna Sheen stand at the NEC last weekend.

I was absolutely amazed, delighted and proud to see that it contained seven of my cards!  What an honour!  I thoroughly enjoyed my five minutes of fame!

Doggy Christmas Card

Hi
Just wanted to show you a Christmas card I have just made with a cute dog decoupage which was a bargain at the NEC.  Each sheet of decoupage has about three images on them and they were just £1 - amazing value!

For this card I layered some silver mirri onto an 8x8 white card blank, and layered onto that another square of white card, leaving a thin silver border.  I cut another silver square approx 1/4" smaller and again layered that with more white card.  I repeated this again for the final layer, only using a snowy background paper this time on top. 
On the largest white square layer I used my Teal Sky Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue to form pearls around the edge.  On the middle layer, I pierced a small hole at regular intervals, using the Tim Holtz ruler.
I cut out a bauble shape with a Spellbinders die and embossed it with the Cuttlebug snowy folder and edged it with blue glitter glue.
I decoupaged the little dog and added a Christmas message with peel offs and attached him to the bauble which had been stuck onto the card using silicone glue.
Finally I cut a branch from silver card and attached it to the top.
Thanks for looking and I hope you like it

House Mouse Poppy Pillow

I thought you might like to see a card I made recently with the brilliant decoupage image of a House Mouse asleep in a Poppy flower head.

The decoupage is from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse Project Book, for which I was lucky enough to be included when making the project samples.  This actual card isn't in the book and is one I made after it had been published.

The image was decoupaged and stuck to a flat piece of card which was covered in the backing paper that came with the book.  Another piece of card, slightly wider than the first had an aperture cut out the middle and this was layered with red shiny paper, cut around the edges with a Martha Stewart punch around the page punch and also had an aperture cut slightly larger than the first.  A frame was then made from another piece of white card to fit over the red paper, just leaving a narrow border all around and embossed with the swiss dots embossing folder.

A piece of wide red ribbon was secured around the white frame before attaching it to the card.  The ends of the piece of white card which was slightly wider were folded back and attached both sides behind the decoupaged piece to form a dome shape over the picture.

Two large silk poppies were attached to the front of the card with silicone glue and a bow, tied from the same wide red ribbon was attached over the top of the stalks, where they met the ribbon.

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed the card

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog Daily Talent Spot - 'Layer it Up'
Bearly-Mine - Anything Goes

The First of Many

I have been meaning to set up a blog for more than I can remember.  I spend a lot of time looking at other peoples for ideas and interesting tit bits and have always thought 'I would like to have a go at that', so here goes....

Please bear with me while I get it up and running, tweaking how I would like it to look etc and generally learning what I am meant to be doing!  Hopefully it will all start to take shape slowly.

Just as a bit of an experiment, and to start things off, I thought I would show you a card I made for the Royal Wedding, which was lucky enough to win first prize in the Crafters Companion competition.  I know, the wedding was sooo last year but hey, I've got to start somewhere!

It was made using my trusted Cricut as an easel card.  The instructions for the competition entry was to use an image from Crafters Compantion, so I used the Swalk 'I Do' rubber stamp and made the middle, with the image into a shaker box with small blue heart confetti pieces in the shaker box.  I suddenly hit on the idea to use a large blue gem and surround it with small clear gems to represent Kate's engagement ring.

This is all a bit basic, I know, and I do apologise for my lack of experience in the blog world, but I promise things will improve!  More cards will follow with better write ups, which I hope you will enjoy, but in the meantime, thank you for looking.