Sunday 13 December 2015

Wisteria Birthday

Morning all


For today's card I have used the Heraldic Die from Sue Wilson again.
For the background I cut four of the smallest decorative die and mounted them on to coconut white card. 
I cut the largest die and inked through with CE colour cloud ink in frosty heather.
I sprayed another of the decorative dies with glue and sprinkled CS diamond sprinkles over the top and mounted it on to the larger die.




The sentiment is from Justrite stamps and die cut with Sue Wilson pierced flags and inked through with the same colour.
The flower I made from Sue's camellia complete petals from white card which I inked  with the frosty Heather. 
I cut two of the laurel leaves out of wisteria card to pop behind the flower.
The frame I made from Sue's ornate pierced square dies and added a thin wisteria mat before placing all of this on to my 6x6 card.
 I finished  it off by adding some pearls to each of the corners. 





Sunday 6 December 2015

A Gold Christmas

Hello all

A quick post today as its been a hectic week.



A gold and cream card for today offering.
 I put some Sand glitter paste from Glitz Craft through the snowflake mask onto soft shimmering gold card.
I created a frame from Sue Wilson's noble collection.
I popped the cream poinsettia ribbon flower in the corner and topped this with a homemade 'dazzler'.
I did this by using my glue gun and creating a dot ( you can make this any size you want) and then while it was still hot I poured some mica flakes - Tarnished bronze over the top.
It only take a minute or so  to cool down. I usually make a few of these you can use glitter as an alternative.



Thanks for popping by....
I have entered this card in the following challenges:
BSCB- 175
A Gem Of a Challenge #159 CAS-ual Chic
Come and Get it Challenge- anything goes
Polkadoodle - Traditional Christmas

Sunday 29 November 2015

Heraldic Square

Good Morning Bloggers

I hope you are all keeping well.


Today's offering is using one of my favourite dies of the moment from Sue Wilson - the Heraldic Square die.
I just love the versatility of this die
I have stamped the Regal Blossom outer frame that matches the die in silver embossing powder and cut it out with Sue's New York collection of dies.
I coloured it in using a selection of the Sakura stardust pens, to give a hint of sparkle.




I used only the inner die with the outer cutting edge from this die set and popped a purple flower from my stash into the centre.

Many thanks for popping by.




Sunday 22 November 2015

Two fer one

Morning Bloggers

What a  beautiful cold crisp winter morning.
Only a few more weeks until Christmas so I thought I would show you two more Christmas cards.
The are very similar just different colours


 I inked through a holly mask and added Sue Wilson New York collection dies behind the main focal element the stamp is from my stash (it could be DoCrafts) The ribbon is from my stash and I finished the cards by adding CS twinkles ( I think it was the aruora ) around the edge of the card.

Thanks for popping by.
If you have time please let me know which one you prefer ...


I have entered these cards on the following challenges:
Crating with Dragon Flies #48 christmas/add ribbon
BSCB-173
Creative fingers challenge #98
simplypapercraftsforalloccassions anything goes
crafting with friends challenge 11

Sunday 15 November 2015

Winter Wishes

Morning Bloggers

Thank you for popping by I have a Christmas card  for today's post.

I have used  CE Aqua and white cardstock.
I used put some CS Polar White sparkle texture paste on my craft mat and mixed a little of peacock feathers ink, to give it just a hint of blue/aqua.
Then I spread this over a snowflake mask onto a piece of acetate.
The aqua frame was then popped over the acetate and then foam mounted  over a piece of white card to give a floating look to it. I  pierced all the way around with a piercing ruler, which was then matted on to another piece of white card. I hope you can see the snowflakes !!
This was then matted on to another piece of aqua card and finally on to my white card 7x7
 I used the Heartfelt Creations poinsettia stamp and embossed in white on to white velum which I then cut out with the matching die and finished off with an aqua pearl in the centre of each flower..

 The sentiment is from Tattered Lace which I cut twice once in the aqua and then in the white and dropped shadowed it.
Thank you for popping by I hope you like it.,



I am entering this card in  the following challenges:
MAWTT my favourite things
crafting-with-dragonflies - let it snow
BSCB-172 No Patterned Paper
Creative fingers - anything goes
simplypapercraftsforalloccassions - anything goes
crafting-with-friends.challenge 10 anything goes

Sunday 8 November 2015

Beautiful Birthday

Morning Bloggers.

Here is my offering for today.


 I started by inking my polka dot mask with perfect medium which I layed on a piece of white card and ran it through my embossing machine.
I then peeled the mask off the card a sprinkled with pink mica powder on top of the perfect medium which I heat embossed.
I then matted this onto a piece of pink card.
I made a white frame and stamped randomly on it with some butterfly stamps from Kanban in pink and the leaves are from Justrite stamps. I then matted this onto the mica embossed background.
I then cut 4 of the Eltham corners from tattered lace out of pearlised white card and placed them in each corner.

 I stamped the sentiment from Justrite  Enjoy the Day set and cut it out with the matching Vintage labels 4 die. This I mounted on to a piece of pink card which was stamped and  embossed in white from the same stamp set.
I then added butterflies from Spellbinders and added pearls to the body.
The flowers are from Heartfelt Creations sun kissed fleur stamp and die set. I stamp them in pink on white card which I heat embossed and finished with CS Iced Candy twinkles  which I used for the dots all around the card.



Thank you for popping by.

Sunday 1 November 2015

Christmas Bauble

Morning all

Just a quick post today as I need to catch up on the house work (boo-hoo).
A simple Christmas card in white and blue.























 I used the CS Polar White texture paste through a polka dot mask  - I hope you can see the sparkle from the texture paste in the close up pics.
I then used the Spellbinders 2013 Heirloom Ornament die and cut the largest one in blue card and the next size down from a spare piece of acetate that I had used the caught in crystal technique on.

The stamp is one from Do Crafts which I then embossed with some glittery embossing powder.
I hung the ornament with some silver sparkle twine from my craft stash

Have a great week xx

I am entering this card in the below challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C310
Allsort Challenge - Week 335 - Christmas
52 Christmas Card Throwdown
CHNC challenge 253: it's time to sing

Thursday 29 October 2015

Wedding Day

Morning Bloggers.

Today's card is one I made for a friend for her daughters wedding.


I used the lovely Couture Creations Tied Together embossing folder for the background on this shaped card.


All the dies I used on this card are from Spellbinders.
The flowers are from the Daisy Flowers inked through with Spun Sugar distress ink.
 The leaves were made from the Floral Flourishes and the Botanical Swirls and Accents and I popped some CS Aurora sparkles glue on the leaves and in the centre of the flowers for just a hint of sparkle.
The sentiment was  cut with the Lacey Circle die and mounted on to pink card cut with the Classic Scalloped Circle die.
I added a few flat back pearls from my craft stash to complete the card.
Thank you for stopping by.



 
 
I have entered this card into the challenges below
 

Saturday 24 October 2015

A day shopping

Hi Bloggers

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend.
My daughter and her boyfriend arrived back from Dubai on Thursday they had a great time.

This is the card I did for her birthday as she does like a little bit of retail therapy..(lol) and her favourite colour is green.

I used Sue Wilson Ornate Pierced Squares from her noble collection.
The stamps are from Creative Expression set A Day Shopping.
I used promarkers to colour in the  main image and used Bundles Sage distress ink to ink around the image.
I embossed a white card with the second die from the set (I count from the outside die) and added pearls to each corner.
If you have time to leave a comment it would be much appreciated.









I am entering this card in the below anything goes challenges
cute card thursday
brown sugar challenge
crafting-with-friends
creative fingers challenge
simply papercrafts for all occassions

Sunday 18 October 2015

Canadian Background

Morning Bloggers

I hope you are all keeping well.
It will be my eldest daughters birthday on Thursday, although she will be swimming with Dolphins in Dubai  - lucky girl.
I need to make her birthday card, which I hope to do today.
For todays' card I decided  to have a play with Sue Wilson's Canadian background die which I  purchased last month but have not had a chance to use.
This  card was the result.  I hope you like it.




 I used the Foundation coconut white card with some  from Limetree Crafts called Violet Rose which I  just adore.
I added CS PVA glue dots in the pearl and vintage plum as shown. On the edge of the card I used a CS Frosty Heather Colour Cloud Blending ink then added CS glue and dipped each edge into CS Diamond Sprinkles.
I made my own banner and used the sentiment from Britannia dies which I then embossed twice in CS clear detail powder. I inked round the edges with the same blending ink.









Wednesday 14 October 2015

Christmas Greetings

Hi  Bloggers

Today's offering is a Christmas card made with Sue Wilson's Ornate Pierced Rectangles from her Noble die collection.
I started by using a polka dot mask over some Ruby Red foundation card and spreading  some red glitter frosting paste through the mask and leaving it to dry over night.
I used Sue largest dies from this set and then the fourth one down to create a frame out of coconut white card.
Then I wanted just a thin black matt to go behind this frame, so I  used the largest die again, but just embossed  a piece of black card. Then I used my poky tool to score a line around the outside of this die and then cut it out with scissors. This provided me with the matt that also had the pierced edging all the way around.
I stamped the Heartfelt Creations Christmas Poinsettia stamp onto red card  and embossed this in black and used the coordinating die set to cut them out and create the flowers. I added a black pearl from my stash to the centre of each Poinsettia and added some black organza ribbon behind some of the flowers.
For the sentiment I used a Tattered lace die and I added a white pearl to the 'dot' of the I.
I then matted all this on to an embossed white background using a  Spellbinders folder and then added matts of red and black to frame the card.
I am also entering my offering on the  challenge blogs below:

 Winter Wonderland - Christmas Flowers
Allsorts Challenge - No design papers

I hope you like it xx







Sunday 11 October 2015

Daisy Sunday

Good Sunday morning

If you saw my post on Thursday you would have seen I was going to see Michael McIntyre that night. He was great, -  such a funny guy, I never knew his calf muscles were quite that big (you had to be there, lol !!)

Now on to today's card.

This card was stamped with John Lockwood's daisy corner stamp.
This is the only stamp set I own from John but I must say it is gorgeous.



I stamped the main stamp with versamark ink and embossed it with CS silver detail embossing powder.
Next I cut a frame from Spellbinders largest Floral Assortment die which I then mounted on to white card cut from the largest of  Sue Wilson dies from her New York collection, Herald Square and then I cut the purple card from the times Square using the largest die.
This was all matted on to a white card with the  CS silver glue for the pearls. I then used the bluebell pro marker around the edge to give the illusion I have matted the white on to another piece of purple card. I do like this technique as is saves on card stock ... finished dimensions are 6x6.









If you pass by please be kind enough to leave me a comment.
Have a great Sunday. xx