Sending Love

Morning!

It's time for a new challenge over at The Ribbon Girls' blog, and as I missed my own team's 'Any Image' challenge in March (I won't be sorry to see the back of March, it's been exhausting!), I thought I'd join in with a DT make for this month's Card Challenge also.

So this is my make. 

I made a 5.75'' by 5.75'' ivory card base and used some lovely papers from the Lemoncraft House of Roses pad, which I inked with Walnut Stain DI and distressed.

I painted the chipboard frame with some liquid pearls to give it a lovely shimmer and shine, though you can't really see it well in the photographs. I see that Mary is now stocking this in a gold colour too, so I will have to try that.

I stamped out 2 butterflies and a sentiment from the Whimsy Stamps - Flight of the Butterflies clear stamp set with Versamark ink on some vellum, and heat embossed them in gold.

I fussy cut the butterflies and cut out the sentiment with a fishtail banner die.

I cut out a circle from the base paper and popped that up on the doily with some craft foam and adhered to the centre of my card.

After positioning my sentiment, I hid the glue beneath the vellum with some flowers and a little bling. I've listed my embellishments below with links to the store.

 Lemoncraft House of Roses Paper Pad

Chipboard Frame - Round Doily Lace

Liquid Pearls Platinum

Ivory Magnolia Flowers

Small Blossom Baby Pink

Beaded Berries Pink/Pale Pink

Small Blossom Pink

10 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

20 mm Ivory Open Rose

Leaves Pale Green 2 Tone

3 - 6 mm Ivory S/A Pearls

16 mm Pink Ruffle Edge Sheer Ribbon

15 mm Gold Diamante Flat Back

I do hope you can join in with our challenge, there are lovely prizes to be won, and don't forget to go and drool over the rest of the lovely makes.

Thanks for dropping by!

Braided Sweetie

Morning!

I'm ever so slightly late with this post, for some reason I had it in my little head that I was due to make my card for the 

Anything Goes with an Image challenge at The Ribbon Girl

next Sunday....oooops!

I'm not normally so confused but last week was fairly stressful, including an interview for the job that I've been doing for the last year! I'm pleased to say that I was successful, so that's one less worry lol!

Sooooo there was a lot of blue air and a very busy me yesterday getting everything ready in time. I got my card made, photographed and blogged in good time yesterday, but forgot to hit publish after I scheduled here, so I'm a couple of hours later than normal.

Anyhooo....on to the part you're here for, the card.

I used one of the new releases from Whimsy Stamps called Braided Sweetie, from our new artist 

Kirsten Winkelbauer isn't she pretty?

Not my best colouring unfortunately as I was in a mega rush, but I do like the finished card.

I used the following distress ink markers:

Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Bundled Sage, Mowed Lawn, Black Soot.

I've listed all my products used below, with links for most.

From The Ribbon Girl

Lemoncraft Heart Painted 6 x 6 Pad

Cheesecloth

Clementine Lace

4 mm Ivory Pearl Trim

Rose Leaves

Pale Green 2 Tone Leaves

30 mm Ivory Wild Roses

Medium Pale Pink Rose Buds

10 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

Small Pale Pink Lilies

White Miniature Blossom Flowers

Siam Pink Seam Binding

3-6 mm Ivory S/A Pearls

Other Items Used

Smooth White Cardstock

Langton Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper

Versafine Ink Onyx Black

Whimsy Stamps - Braided Sweetie

Whimsy Stamps - Braided Sweetie (UK)

I so hope you can join in with our challenge, there are some lovely prizes to be won

First prize:  £10 voucher for LOTV

Second prize:  £10 voucher for The Ribbon Girl

Third prize:  A mystery prize from Marianne Designs

I do hope you can join us, don't forget to check out the rest of the team's lovely makes also!

Thanks for dropping by!

Whimsy Stamps January Release Day 3 - Poppy

Oh my goodness I'm running late. I've really felt like I was playing catch up this week as although all my cards were already made, photographed, uploaded and edited, work has been a bit mental and I forgot to schedule this one.

Still better late than never right? 

So it's day 3 of Whimsy Stamps new release and for my final card I'm sharing a little something made with Poppy from Wee Stamps. 

Isn't she gorgeous, just love that toadstool. 

I made a card in my usual softly shabby style and chose some more vibrant colours

The papers are from Lemoncraft Neverending Summer collection and I coloured her to match them with distress ink markers.

I used Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Hickory Smoke, Pumice Stone, Black Soot, Candied Apple, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry,  Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Frayed Burlap and Mowed Lawn

I also used the new Butterflies Stencil with some embossing paste

The sweet little Toadstools,  Ribbon, Lace and Rose Leaves are from The Ribbon Girl.

Don't forget that if you're in the UK or Europe you can buy your Whimsy Stamps products at 

Dies to Die for.

That's it from me today, but I'll be back on Sunday with a new make, thanks so much for visiting!

Heart Painted Birthday

Hello and happy Sunday to you all.

I'm here with some Ribbon Girl inspiration for you today.

If you haven't picked up one of the Hearted Painted paper pads  yet you don't know what you're missing. Truly the papers are so beautiful so I didn't use a stamped image as I wanted to let the papers do the talking and just complimented them with some beautiful embellishments.

 I made a softly shabby floral card.

I softly distressed the edges of most of my papers but didn't ink them this time as I wanted a cleaner look with this one. The decorative edges are cut with a Spellbinders border die.
I used the following products from The Ribbon Girl on my card today

Lemoncraft Heart Painted 6 x 6 Paper Pad
Pale Lime Green 15 mm Satin Ribbon
35 mm Medium Pink Trellis Rose
10 mm Pale Pink Open Roses
20 mm Pale Pink Open Roses
Hip Rose Buds
Rose Leaves
6 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls
11 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

The little sentiment is from Mama Elephant as is the little tag die, you can buy both of these at Dies to Die for in the UK.

For the perfect finishing touch to my card I used one of the beautiful butterflies from Kay Fatula's shop.

That's all from me today, enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Cupcake Treat

Hello!

It's no secret that I love Sylvia Zet's sweet images. Honestly if I had the time I would colour every one of her stamps up as soon as they were released, but with work and other commitments sometimes I have to wait till I can get them on a card.

I adore this sweet image called Cupcake Treat, it's totally sweet and lots of fun and perfect for all sorts of cards. If you're in the UK or Europe you can buy this stamp from Dies to Die for.

Today I've made a card in my more usual softly shabby style, and kept the colouring very light along with the papers.

Coloured in my usual distress ink markers, I've mostly stuck to neutrals and pinks, though the pink is fairly bright to give it a little lift.

Frayed Burlap, Esspresso, Gathered Twigs, Antique Linen, Picked Raspberry

I used some Wink of Stella on the wings, which you can just about see in the pic below, but it's so much more sparkly in real life!

The papers I used are from the gorgeous House of Roses collection from Lemoncraft, I've linked them for you below along with some scrummy embellishments from The Ribbon Girl.

House of Roses Paper
Vintage Seam Binding Siam Pink 
Cheesecloth
Pink Trellis Rose
Pale Pink 20 mm Open Rose
Pale Pink 10 mm Open Rose
Rose Leaves
5 mm Mixed Brown Pearls

Thanks for dropping by,

Celebrate

Morning all! I found this card in my draft folder, apparently it was supposed to go live in July, but yours truly must have forgotten to hit 'publish' ...ooops.

Oh well, better late than never. so I'm sharing it today. Quite a simple card I made with some 12 x 12 paper from the Lemoncraft Neverending Summer collection plus seveal elements from the cut aparts sheet.

I simply inked and distressed all the straight edges and layered them up with foam tape and adding in some lace and a chipboard doily, stamping a sentiment with black ink on the little cut out banner..
Then I finished up with a bouquet of paper lilies ad leaves, some spotty organza ribbon and a few gems.

23 mm Pink/White Spotty Organza Ribbon

Small Pale Pink Lilies

Alice White Flower Guipure Lace
Charlotte Elizabeth White Vintage Style Lace
5 mm FB Gems

All in all it was a pretty quick card to make.

Have a great Friday!

Make it Crafty - Fairy Star

It's Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiday!!
Now don't faint, it's another Christmas card from me. I know, very unlike me but honestly last year was such a rush to get them done I need to get my act together and just start ploughing through them. Maybe one day I'll be motivated enough to start making them in January, but normally once Christmas is done I just don't want to see another Christmas card for a while.

Anyway, this is a card with traditional colours, which again is very unlike me but I'm loving these Lemoncraft papers. Its design is also a little bit out of my normal field as well, as it's stripped down, not quite CAS but nary a flower or bit of ribbon or lace in sight. Not that I didn't try and add them mind, but I just couldn't make them work with this design and well, I liked the design so that was that.

I used another Make it Crafty image, this one is called Fairy Star. I've coloured her in distress inks and if you Copic using folk think red is bad I can assure you that for DIs it's worse. I think next time i do deep red I may switch to pencils lol!

I used some Wink of Stella on her wings and ruffles and I slathered the star on the end of her wand with Glamour Dust. Then when I cut out the small star dies to use as embellishments I realised that the larger one matched the wand almost perfectly, so I stuck it on top. The glitter peeks out between the filigree and I really like the effect. The stars are a die set from La-La Land Crafts.

The large star she is mounted on is from My Favourite Things and I thought it made the perfect background for her. All the layers are popped up an some 2 mm foam tape.
The sentiment is from a lovely set from Mama Elephant I cut it out with a fishtail banner die from Your Next Stamp. All the dies and the sentiment stamp were from Dies to Die from.

I finished off with a few clear gems that I coloured to match with my Copics.

I hope you like her.
That's all from me today, have fun and I'll see you soon!

Forget me Not Wryn

Happy Sunday everyone, I do hope you're all having a great weekend.

It's time for the Ribbon Girl July 'Use any image' challenge -  you can do any type of project, cards, tags, bags, 3-d projects - anything you like, BUT YOU MUST use an image on your project.   This challenge will run until 9pm on Saturday 30th July  2016 

Another Tiddly Inks card from me today, yup I definitely feel a new addiction coming on lol.

This time I coloured up Forget me Not Wryn, and I admit that as soon as I read her name I knew which paper I wanted to use with her. Of course it had to be Lemoncraft's Forget me Not papers.

I'm really rather pleased with the way this turned out, though I'm not 100% satisfied with my colouring. My eyesight struggled a bit with those itty bitty flowers I must say.

Still overall I'm pleased with the result, and I hope you like it too.

I coloured Wryn with my Distress Ink markers
The edges of the paper are inked and distresed and the top layer hand stitched. I fussy cut Wryn out and popped her up with some foam tape, on top of an oval doily frame and tucked a couple of chipboard doily corners underneath, but not before sprinkling them with some frantage and heating.

I added some die cut leaves and some gorgeous flowers

Lemoncraft Forget-me-Not 6 x 6 Paper Pad

40 mm White Daisy

White Cherry Blossom

White Sweetheart Blossom

White Gathered Tulle Trim

10 mm Ivory Pearl FB Flower Trim

Scrapiniec Innocence Rounded Corner Set

I do hope you can join in with our challenge.

There will be 3 winners and we'll share their projects when we announce the winners:

First prize:  £10 voucher for LOTV

Second prize:  £10 voucher for The Ribbon Girl

Third prize:  prize from Marianne Designs

Right that's all from me today, but I'll see you soon!

Neverending Summer

Morning all! Now don't think I've gone mad, the title has nothing to do with the weather here in the UK and our summer not only is not 'neverending' it hasn't even really got started this year.

Just popping in quickly today to share a quick card I made a while ago. I can't believe that I actually have a whole bunch of cards sitting in my draft folder just waiting to be blogged, it's a great feeling.

Anyhooooo, I made a little vintage number with some papers from Lemoncraft's Neverending Summer collection (hence the title).  Love the colours in this. A fairly simple card, just 2 square layers of design paper, inked with shabby shutters distress ink and then distressed. After that I brushed some gesso along the sides, this is done very subtly, with an almost dry brush that has just a hint of paint left on it. You can see a glimpse of it on the tulle also.

I hand stitched the top layer only with green top stitch thread, and slipped a square of tulle between the 2 layers, the top layer is given dimension with some foam tape and all is glued to a simple square base card made of ivory card stock

I popped some bows of Summer Rose seam binding under 2 opposing corners of my top layer.

On top I layered a chipboard frame, some die cut leaves from Creative Expressions and La-La Land Crafts and a small flourish with leaves (can't remember at the mo which one). The filigree leaved are cut from a scrap of green card stock and then brushed with gesso, keeping a very light touch. The ivory leaves are edged with a little Walnut Stain distress ink, but I kept the flourish plain.

Then I glued on a huge organza flower that I've had in my stash like forever and never knew what to do with before, it goes fab with these papers though and makes a great focal Point. It had a button in the centre but I didn't like that so much so I removed it and replaced it with a pearl and diamante embellishment from my stash. I've also popped in a couple of small pieces of Pearl and Crystal Spray behind the flower.

I finished off with a few small flat back pearls and clear flat back gems, some of which I coloured with a Copic marker to match the green paper.

A name or small sentiment  could easily be popped in the frame area if you wanted to also.

I quite like it, I hope you do. That's all for today but I'll be back tomorrow with the new challenge at

The Ribbon Girl. I'm off to tidy up my crafty space......I could be at it a while ....sigh.

Enjoy your Saturday!

Whimsy Stamps May Release - Elisabeth Bell - Wedding Joy

Hello lovely crafters! Have you been enjoying the new releases from Whimsy Stamps? I certainly have and the team have really made some fabulous projects with them. Today I'm using Wedding Joy from Elisabeth Bell's Little Cottage Cuties Collection and I have to admit that this stamp is my absolute favourite from this month's release, she looks gorgeous and so sweet and innocent. I think this stamp would be perfect for so many occasions and not just weddings, depending on how you colour her up.

I went for quite bridal colours, but it would also work really well for a confirmation card.

I've coloured her in my usual distress ink markers and I'm afraid it was a busy week and I didn't note the colours.

I covered her dress in Wink of Stella and it has a glorious sparkle in real life but as usual on the camera.....nada... and oops I just realised I forgot to colour in the rose leaf on the little dog lol!

I used the following items on my card

Lemoncraft Forget me Not 6 x 6 Pad

Cheesecloth

Light Blue 16 mm Grosgrain Ribbon

Ophelia Ivory Lace

Ivory Wild Roses

Small White Lily Flowers

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels

Sweetheart Blossom Turquoise

Hip Rose Bud Cream

Beaded Stamen White

5 mm Sea Charm S/A Pearls

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop, just click the icon below to go there.



That's all from me but don't forget to swing by the Whimsy Blog to check out the rest of the team's lovely makes and for the chance to win a prize.

One more time before I go.....I'm going to be here....are you?

Zig Zag Accordion Mini Album

Morning crafters! Hope you're enjoying a lovely weekend.
It's been ages since I made a mini album hasn't it? They are so time consuming......but I found a tutorial for a super sweet little mini album that you can make in an afternoon (less if your album is less embellished)

I'm sure if you follow me you will have realised that from time to time I like to use some of my fellow crafter Kay Fatula's beautiful butterflies. You can find them in her Etsy shop here.
Well Kay is also a fellow blogger and YouTuber and recently I spotted that she had posted a tutorial for a Zig Zag Accordian Mini album on her YouTube channel. I hopped over to take a look and I was blown away by how easy she made it look and I couldn't wait to have a try. I'd also been itching to make something worthy of cutting into my 6 x 6 House of Roses paper pad from Lemoncraft. I am sooooo in love with this paper. The good news? This album takes less than half a pad of your paper for a pad with 24 sheets. Pretty good huh? I still have lots of gorgeous paper to play with.

You can check out her tutorial here if you'd like to have a try yourself. I have changed very little of Kay's original design, apart from the embellishments all I did differently was to shape the edge of the 2 little pockets, change the shape of the tags and add a corner pocket to the inside front cover.

I've posted the link to the video at the end of my post just after the list of what I used. This was soooo hard to photograph well, so I don't have pics of all the pages, but if you watch the video you can see the whole thing.

Lemoncraft House of Roses 6 x 6 Paper Pad

Clementine Lace

Small Flower Pearl Trim

Cheesecloth

12 mm Pink Faux Silk Ribbon

Ivory White Magnolia Flower

20 mm Pink Open Rose

Apple Blossom

Pink Sweetheart Blossom

Hip Rose Buds Cream

Pearl & Crystal Spray
Beaded Berries Ivory/Cream

Pastel Round Head Pins

Large Flower Pearl Trim

Small S/A Pearls

Pearl Hearts
Flower Shape Pearl F/B

You can watch the walk through video here.

This album is for sale in my Etsy Shop, click on the icon below to go there.



That's all from me, I'll see you in the week!