Lawn Fawn - Happy Wedding

Hello!

I'm definitely having a TGIF (thank God it's Friday) day today are you?

Luckily I still have plenty of cards tucked away in my draft folder,  still not quite sure how lol!

Anyhooo.......the card I have to share today is a Wedding Card. I love making wedding cards and this time I did something a little different. I used the super sweet Happy Wedding stamp set from Lawn Fawn, this set is so cute with lots of small images perfect for weddings, anniversaries and engagements and made a little wedding shaker card.

I used my Zigs to colour the images, and kept it simple as the images were very small, with pastel pink and blue colour scheme suitable for most weddings.

I used a few MFT dies to make the layout and shaker element of the card and the sequins are a mix of Coconut Ice and Cool Breeze from Lucy.

I've added a list of things I used but no links today as I've so little time and am not under sponsorship.

Smooth White Cardstock from Papermill Direct

Lawn Fawn Happy Wedding Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn Happy Wedding Dies
MFT Blueprints 20

MFT Pierced Frames Die-namics

MFT Stitched Sentiment Strips

MFT Mini Scallop Rectangles STAX

MFT Calm and Cozy 6 x 6 Pad

Mix of sequins from Little Things by Lucy

That's all from me today, I'll catch up with you at the weekend.
Have a great Friday and thanks for visiting!

Togetherness

Hello!

It's another wedding card from me today and I was going to go live with this in the morning, but I got involved in sorting out stuff ready for my big guest room/craft room makeover, and well time just whizzed by.

This is another no image card made with those gorgeous  Galeria papers. I have put the links below for you to find easily.

This was quite a simple card to make (no honestly!), a little diecutting, inking and distressing the edges of my papers and some gold ink on those lovely chipboard pieces from my stash was about all it took apart from the normal cutting and gluing.

I added a sprinkling of sequins to finish off.

Galeria - As if in a Dream Retro Pad

Cheesecloth

Ivory White Magnolia Flowers

Hip Rosebuds

10mm Ivory Open Roses

Beaded Berries Ivory/Cream

23 mm Ivory Organza Ribbon

That's all from me today, but I'll try and drop by again tomorrow with a quick share.

Technique Tuesday #9 Vellum Shaker

Hello!

I hope you all had a good weekend and started your week well. I'm back to work this week sadly, but I did put in a fair bit of crafting time when I was off, so I have a few projects in my draft folder now.

As it's Valentine's Day, for my card today I've made quite a modern looking wedding card, quite a departure from my normal vintage, shabby chic wedding makes, but I made up for it by using a few techniques to make it something a bit special.

So first of all I took a 4 x 5.25 piece of vellum and stamped a pattern in Versamark Ink with the Doodle Circle background stamp from Simon says Stamp. 

I then used my gold embossing powder to heat emboss this. I need some new gold embossing powder, because I've had this a while and there's not a lot left and also it's starting to 'clump' a little which is starting to affect my results, making them not quite as crisp as I like.

I set my piece of vellum aside to cool and took a chipboard sentiment and covered that with versamark and gold embossing powder and then heated until it was melted and shiny.

I then cut out a medium circle and a frame in white cardstock. I adhered the vellum to the back side of the frame and put foam tape all around the edges. Then I filled my 'window' with a mix of gold, silver, white and clear sequins and adhered some plain white card to the back.

I glued my chipboard sentiment to my card circle and the shaker window to the top folding card base. Then I glued the circle to the centre of the vellum and added a few sequins for a little bling.

I think this looks quite classy in white and gold and it really has a retro feel about it, what do you 

think?

Items Used

Plain white cardstock from Papermill Direct

Simon Says Stamp Circle Doodle Background Stamp

Vellum

Versamark Ink

Gold Embossing Powder

Chipboard Sentiment

Glue and Foam Tape

MFT Pierced Rectangles Frame Die

Thanks for popping by!

Sending Congratulations

Hello!
Oh my goodness, I have been so busy crafting recently that I really haven't had a ton of time to blog stuff or share it on Facebook/Instagram etc. You know when you just get a big run on your mojo and are full of creativity? Well this has been me for the last couple of weeks, which is weird because I haven't had a whole lot of time on my hands, but somehow it worked. Well truth to tell I've been kind of scared to stop to do a lot of blogging or Facebooking, because of course the minute I start doing that my mojo normally takes a dive. However since I now have 25 items......yes you heard it right...25! in my draft folder, I thought I'd be safe to start sharing some lol.
I actually made this card quite a while back now, remember when I posted the Diamond Wedding anniversary card last year I mentioned that I'd made another card with the same papers? Well this is it.
I made it non specific but rather romantic and it could be used for a wedding or anniversary card or an engagement or special birthday card, but in fact I used it recently for a work colleague's wedding.

I distressed my edges but didn't ink them as I wanted to keep the look very light and clean. I stitched the top layer and added some cheesecloth between my layers to add to the softness.
The card base is made with pearlised card as are the die cut leaves and frame from Memory Box and the stamens which are from an older monthly kit  by La-La Land.

I used some modelling paste through a heart stencil. I don't know why but every time I use a stencil I always seem to use it in the corners where I end up putting my flowers, so I really do need to get better with that.

I used a little heart trellis chipboard behind my frame and dotted that with some very small pearls.

A few ivory flowers, some satin ribbon and a few more pearl embellishments finish the card ready for the sentiment, which is stamped and embossed on vellum with gold embossing powder.

The cheesecloth, ribbon, and self adhesive pearls are all from The Ribbon Girl, just click to follow the links to the store.

I rather like how this one turned out, what do you think?

Shabby Chic Diamond Wedding

Hello there!

I'm just popping in with a little inspiration for The Ribbon Girl. A while back I got asked by my boss if I would make a card for her parents upcoming anniversay. I had a few delays on it due to recent life occurrences, but I managed to finish it this week so I thought that I would share it with you.

I used a die to cut the leaves from pearlerised card stock which I also used to make the base of the card.
The papers are neutral ones from a couple of Maja Design collections. I added a little stenciling with some modelling paste.

The centre piece is a chipboard piece from Scrapinec which I mounted on some oval shapes cut with MFT dies. I added some little rhinestones to the chipboard to fancy it up a bit and help it match the theme. I cut the numbers with a memory box die.

I added a little chipboard scrap to the corner.
The sentiment is computer generated and printed onto smooth ivory card. I finished the whole thing with a few extra gems for more sparkle!

I've listed the rest of the embellishments used  below which are all available from The Ribbon Girl:

French Veil Ivory
Cream Top Stitch Thread
Ivory White Magnolia Flowers
Ivory 10 mm Open Rose
Beaded Berries Ivory/Cream

15 mm Cream Satin Ribbon
Ivory Cream Lace
Flat Back Rhinstones 5 mm
Flat Back Rhinestones 2mm

I made another card with the same papers at the same time as this one, so I will share that one with you later.

Have a great Friday!

Mr & Mrs

Helloooooooo!

It's me again...well I guess that's obvious as it's my blog, duh!

I have another wedding card to share with you today. Goodness I seem to have made a lot of Wedding  cards so far this year.

Originally I was going to make an oval shaker card with this, but I couldn't quite get it to look how I imagined it in my head, so I changed my mind at the last minute lol!

 I used this delightful stamp from the Art by MiRan collection, called Wedding Day.

I coloured it up with my distress ink markers to match some lovely vintage style papers and added a chipboard sentiment which I darkened with a little Walnut Stain distress ink.

The top layer is two strips of design paper individually stitched, but I'm thinking I may as well have saved time and gone with one square piece as you can barely even see the gap with everything on top.

Papers and embellishments from The Ribbon Girl are listed below.

Lemoncraft House of Roses Paper
48 mm Madeleine Lace
Cheesecloth

Chipboard 'Mr & Mrs'
16 mm Sheer Ruffle Edge Ribbon
Cream Top Stitch Thread
Ivory Rolled Roses
Pink Two Tone Rosebuds
6 mm S/A Pearl Hearts Ivory

This card is for sale in my Etsy store, just click on the icon below

Well that's all from me today, but I'll be back soon with more inspiration.

Pastel Wedding Card

Hello everyone. I'm here with an inspiration post for The Ribbon Girl.

 I had a play with my papers and embellishments recently and made another pretty wedding card. I did this one in pastel colours to match the lovely papers from Craft & You. Love the way this one came out.

I used 2 sheets from the Vintage Time pad (links at the end of my post as usual),  lightly inked the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink and distresed the edges with my Tim Holtz tool.  I added a very little gesso on an almost dry brush to the edges of the papers.

I've hand sewn around the top layer with some lilac top stitch thread and I popped a little purple tulle between the layers and popped the top layer up on some foam tape.

I added some beautiful lace, then I cut a scalloped oval out , popped that up on some foam tape and tucked a little cheesecloth behind.

I coated the 2 corner chipboard pieces with versamark ink and then sprinkled with frantage and heated with my heat gun. I did the same for the sentiment.

I made a small floral arrangement with some mulberry paper flowers and some die cut leaf sprays, and poped a little twine bow behind. The flowers have a very light brushing of gesso too, just to tone down the colour a little.

I finished off with some pearl hearts and some pearl and crystal spray.

Products available from The Ribbon Girl

Craft & You Vintage Time 6 x 6 Pad

Madeleine Embroidered Lace 

Cheesecloth

Chipboard 6 Piece Lace Doily Corner Set

20 mm Pale Pink Open Rose

Hip Rose Bud Lilac 

Purple Twine

Pearl and Crystal Branch

6 mm S/A Ivory Pearl Hearts

This card is for sale in my Etsy store, just click on the icon below

Well that's all from me today, but I'll see you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! 

Art by MiRan Wedding Day - Shaker Card

Hello everyone! I had a play recently with one of Whimsy's May release stamps - Wedding Day - from Art by MiRan., and I decided to make a shaker card. You don't see many wedding shaker cards around so I had a lot of fun designing this. I actually had ideas for 2 different cards, so I'll post the other one later.

For this one I cropped the couple so that they appear to be looking out of the shaker window. 

I some of my new Spellbinder border dies and some more beautiful papers from the Crafts & You, My Wedding pad.

I've coloured the couple with my distress ink markers but I'm afraid my colouring isn't at it's best here, I've had such a busy week and trying to get everything done before I'm away for a few days vising family, so it was rather rushed and not in the best light.

From The Ribbon Girl

Crafts & You - My Wedding 6 x 6 pad

Ivory Wild Rose

20 mm Pale Pink Open Rose

9 mm Colonial Rose Velvet Ribbon

5 mm Flower Pearl Trim

That's all from me, I'll be packing once I'm home from work tonight!

Wedding Day

Hi everyone. I'm just popping in with a DT card for The Ribbon Girl.

Today I used the beautiful Crafts and You pad, My Wedding to make a shabby chic style wedding card.

I've been playing a little with some mixed media here, which was lots of fun.

The Ribbon Girl products used

Crafts & You My Wedding 6 x 6 Pad

Ivory White Magnolia Flowers

Lily Flowers Small Pale Pink

10 mm Pale Pink Open Roses

9 mm Eggshell Velvet Ribbon

Ivory/Gold Glitter Organza Ribbon

3 mm Ivory S/A Pearls

5 mm Self Adhesive Gems

This card is for sale in my Etsy Shop, just click on the icon below to take you there.

That's all from me today, enjoy your Friday!

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?

Wedding Day

Hi everyone, I'm popping in today with a quick share.

My daughter is going to a wedding later in the year and wanted a nice wedding card for the Bride and Groom. Since I enjoyed making the last non stamped wedding card so much, I thought I'd try my hand at another. I used my Whimsy Stitched Border Trio dies to cut the papers, distressed the edges and inked them with walnut stain distress ink. Then I edged them with some rose organza ribbon. I made a little bridal bouquet in the top left corner and balanced that with a large pearl and diamante embellishment on the bottom right. 

A simple stamped sentiment from LotV and a few scattered pearls and gems finished it off.

I used the following embellishments from
The Ribbon Girl:

Rose Organza Ribbon - White

Ivory White Magnolias

Ivory 30 mm Wild Roses

Ivory 20 mm Open Roses

Hip Rose Buds Cream

Small White Lily

Beaded Berries Ivory/Cream

Pearl and Crystal Branch Ivory
S/A Ivory Pearl Hearts
3 - 6 mm S/A Ivory Pearls
5 mm Clear S/A Gems

I'm entering the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge #153
Jade's Sparkling Butterflies #17
Time Out Challenge #55
Crafty Creations #313


That's all from me today, but it's almost the weekend, so I'll be back with you soon! :) xx

Vintage Wedding Mini Album @ Dies to Die for

Morning everyone, I'm coming at you on a Sunday with my Dies to Die for post, as the heat just wiped me out earlier in the week and so I wasn't quite ready to post this on Friday. Luckily for me I have wonderful teamies, and the super fabulous Faye (have you been following her work? It's amazing, I'm just a fan boy lol), stepped in for me and swapped days, isn't that sweet of her?

Anyhoo, on to my make and as you know I've recently been dabbling in some mini albums.......but now I've moved up into the next leave and so today I'm posting my first 'proper' mini album. (Well if I'm honest it it's actually the 3rd, but it's the 1st one I've shared)

I don't know about you but for me at this time of year it's all about Weddings. I've been asked to make several wedding cards and recently a work friend asked me to make a wedding album for her daughter to take as a gift for a wedding she was attending in Ireland. The bride likes vintage.

Immediately I thought of the Vintage Wedding collection by Pion Design, it fits the Vintage and Wedding theme and it has all these great cut aparts and tags etc. I used a mixture of 6 x 6 and 12 x 12 papers.

This is what I made.

I edged all of my layers (but not the pages themselves) with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I hope I'm not blowing my own trumpet when I say that the pictures do not do it justice, it's so difficult to photograph these well,  and I have also made a video which you can find here,  but it really does look lovely in real life and I'm rather chuffed with it.

I followed a tutorial for the pages from My Sisters Scrapper and you can find it here, (I just changed the page slightly so that the pocket was on the side instead of on the top, and altered the dimensions a bit),  if you wish to have a go at making one of these for yourself. If you want to make side pockets like me, just leave one of the top tabs in place so that you can close the top as well as the bottom, and then trim a sliver off of the side so that it makes a pocket.

Pion Design Vintage Wedding Collection

Here Comes the Bride

Photo Frame

Wedding Bells

Wedding Bells 12 x 12

Wedding Dress

Bridal Bouquet 12 x 12

Always & Forever 12 x 12

Here Comes the Bride 12 x 12

Wedding images 12 x 12

Tags 12 x 12

Wedding Day 12 x 12

White Flowers 12 x 12

Bridal Bouquet

Other Items

Bazzill Basics Kraft

Prima Say it in Pearls Swirl with Lace - Cream

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Church Charm

Lock with Heart Charm
Prima Flowers
Prima Say it in Crystals Border Zephyr

Most of the flowers, the lace, rose organza trim and the heart and butterfly charms are from the Ribbon Girl

I had an immense amount of fun making this and my work friend loves it, so I hope the bride and groom do too!

That's all from me today but I'll be back again next week in my regular Friday spot.

Happy crafting! :) xx

Monochrome at Deep Ocean Challenge

Good evening everyone (unless of course it's morning or afternoon when you read this lol).
Today it's time for a new theme over at Deep Ocean Challenge, and this time it's

Monochrome

So just use shades of the same colour.

I used shades of ivory on my card, from almost white through to a yellowish cream, though I have to admit that with the flowers there is of course a small amount of green on my card too, but it's still basically a monochrome card.

Now I don't know about you, but I have been inundated with requests for wedding and anniversary cards just recently, I guess it's wedding season right?
So I snapped up the opportunity to make a wedding card, this one is for a work friend's daughter who is going to a wedding in July and wanted a special card made. I hope she likes it!

Now you may have noticed recently that I have a shiny new DT badge on my blog, because I was approached by the super sweet Michele Roo to join her very talented design team for Michele R Designs. I was so happy to say yes because her papers are just stunning and totally my style :)

What I also love about Micheles paper collections (apart from the fact that being digital you can print just what you need, a real boon when you are short on space like I am!), is that most of them come with extra element sheets. I love these!

The collection that I used on my card today is
Shabby Spring Flowers
and I used the 12 x 12 papers because of the shape of the card I made.
I also used a postcard and tickets from the
Shabby Spring Flowers Elements  Pack 2

I edged everything with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I've also used the following goodies from The Ribbon Girl

Cheesecloth

15 mm Ivory Mermaid Sparkle Ribbon

50 mm Ophelia Ivory Tulle Lace

10 mm Double Row Ivory Pearl Trim

20 mm Cream Open Rose

30 mm Ivory Wild Rose

Hop Rose Bud Cream

I hope you like my card for today, do come and join us over at Deep Ocean Challenge, there's a chance at a lovely prize.

Enjoy the rest of your day wherever you are! :) xx

Vintage Wedding Beer Mat Mini @ Dies to Die for

Happy Friday everyone, it's nearly the weekend...wheeee!
I have something a little different for you today, are you sitting down?
It's not a card....don't faint now lol!

I've been messing about with a mini album using the new Maja collection, that's not quite ready to share yet, BUT while researching different styles of page, binding etc, I came across these really neat mini mini albums made from beer mats or drinks coasters.  Now if you don't have any of these you could just cut them from regular chipboard, but luckily for me I had a whole bunch of promotional ones sitting in a draw just waiting for me to be creative :P

As luck would have it Tracy had just sent me some of the gorgeous Vintage Wedding papers from Pion Design, so I made a sweet little wedding album. 

I've listed all the products used at the end of my post.

I covered the mats with various papers from the collection, they measure around 3.75 inches. I added a little frantage in Aged Ivory to this Scrapberry polymer word, I really like the effect. I've had that key Charm for a while now and it was perfect to use here as it's fairly large. The dangly pearl bits? That's actually an earring I upcycled. The lace is also upcycled as it was taken from a belt that came with a lace dress, I never wore the belt so I thought I would re-use the lace. :) The Prima bling is cut from a much larger piece, it's quite economical to do this as you can sometimes get several projects out of one piece.

I made some tags for journaling and quite a few photo mats including one that looks like a clock.  I also made an accordion fold page.

All the pages have been edged with Walnut Stain distress ink, I didn't add lots and lots of embellishments as I didn't want to over power such a small space.

I made a video to show you all the pages properly, it's my first ever YouTube video, so please be kind and overlook the worst of my waffling please!

Follow this link to my video

List of products used from Dies to Die for:

Pion Design, Vintage Wedding - Photo Frame

Pion Design Vintage Wedding - Rose

Pion Design Vintage Wedding - White Flowers

Pion Colour Palette  - White II

Pion Design Colour Palette - Green II

MFT Die-namics Traditional Tags STAX

Taylored Expressions Skinny Mini Borders

Joy! Crafts Around with Butterflies Die

La-La Land Steampunk Clock Die

La-Land Stitched Nested Circles Die

MFT Jumbo Fishtail Banner STAX

Prima Flowers Innoscence

Dream Key Charm

Prima Say it in Crystals - Clear with Roses

Scrapberry's Polymer Wedding 3

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Ribbon Girl embellishments:

Iced Lime Seam Binding

15 mm Mermaid Ivory Ribbon

15 mm Ivory Organza Ribbon

6 mm Ivory Pearl Hearts

Wooden Heart Button

Natural Hemp Twine

Ivory 30 mm Wild Rose

Hip Rosebuds Cream

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels Pink and Blue

I also used various sentiments from the 

Little Darlings Rubber Stamps Vintage Affections set #4 Love.

I'm really happy with the way this turned out, the photos really don't do it justice. Also it was so much FUN to make, you really should have a go, I already have the cutest baby beer mat mini nearly completed and I'm sure I'll make more because they really are easy and fun to make.

This album will be available to buy in my Etsy shop once I get home from work and can upload it!

Right that's all from me today, sadly I'm stuck at work today, but it's the weekend soon and then I get to play ;)  Happy crafting and I'll see you soon! :) xx