Sunday 19 June 2011

Tilda in pink

This is my first card using the lovely Tilda with Hawaiian Flower stamp. I love this stamp and have to say it is my current favourite. I coloured the lovely Tilda with Copics but I'm sorry to say I did not write down the colours used. The papers are from Pink Petticoat and the heart lace trim is a Martha Stewart Border Punch. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the lilac swirl is a Creatables die. I'm not sure where I bought the charm as I have had it quite some time.




Hope you like it!

Here Comes Summer



Hi there


It seems ages since I last posted a card (it is only a week but seems longer). This is the card I have made for my mum's 86th birthday tomorrow. I made it using a decoupage sheet and papers from the Popcorn the Bear Triple CD from Crafters Companion. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the swirl was created on the Cricut. I have also used a createables die for the flower and the decoupage was mounted onto a Nestabilities die cut. The ribbon was coloured to match using ProMarkers.


I am entering this card in the Crafter's Companion Here Comes Summer Challenge.

Sunday 12 June 2011

Almost all white


Good evening




What an awful day today - did it stop raining at all? A good reason to craft all day since I can't feel guilty about not helping out in the garden.



The above card was made using one of my favourite Lily of The Valley Stamps with just a hint of colour. I used several different embossing folders and then cut the embossed papers into sections and placed them on a piece of white card. Next I wrapped ribbon to cover the joins and glued this to an 8 x 8 scalloped card base. I then punched out 24 floral shapes with my EK Success Punch and scrunched them up to distress them, created three flowers and held them together with white brads. A swirl was added that had been cut on the Cricut and one of the Magnolia Doiley Flowers with a bow attached. Glitter was added to finish off.


Entering this card into the following challenges:


Papertake Weekly

Lily of The Valley Anything Goes






Sunday 5 June 2011

Magnolia card








Welcome to my very first post. A good friend persuaded me to have a go at creating a blog and to enter some of the crafting challenges that appear to be extremely popular at the moment, because they are great fun - so here we go. I hope you will enjoy seeing some of my efforts and that you will return regularly to see what I have been up to otherwise I will end up talking to myself!!! Please leave comments if you wish as I would love to know what you think.






I am entering the above card in the Just Magnolia and hAnglar sTanglar Challenge.

I coloured the Magnolia image with Copics in the following colours:

Skin E21, E00, E000 and R20

Hair E53, E51 and E50

Dress B05, B04 and BG01

Trousers BG49, BG15 and BG10

Parcel RV04 and RV02

Then I added lots of glitter.

The solid colour papers are from Pink Petticoat and the patterned one is from My Craft Studio Tattered Lace CD.

The sentiment Stamp is from Lily of The Valley.

I gathered up some old lace I had in my stash and adorned it with flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. Hope you like it!


I am off now to do some blog hopping. See you soon. x