SWG Design by Linda Levoir

Friday, 1 May 2015

Happy Hour for a Fab Fortieth

Happy Friday folks! Hope you're all looking forward to the weekend as much as me. I would like to say a huge thank you to the people who stop by an leave a little love with comments. I'm sorry I don't get to leave you all comments as much as I would like. I do visit your lovely blogs, but often it's on my phone during my lunch break at work, so I don't get to leave a comment.

It's a work pal's 40th soon and for once I had the time to think about making a specific card. I thought that Time for Tea's Cocktail Dress would be just perfect for this, who wouldn't enjoy cocktails on their 40th birthday.....well maybe some people wouldn't, but that's certainly not me, though my 40th is definitely behind me lol!

Anyhoooo enough waffle and on with the sharing! I just have the one photo today as I've had a really busy week and dashed off this photo after coming home from a trip to the cinema to see Avengers: Age of Ultron, which I highly recommend you to see if you haven't already.

I matched the stamp with some beautiful Authentique papers called Elegant and I'm ashamed to say that I did not check the website first and sadly Tracy no longer has this pad available. She has such a wide range of beautiful papers though, you're sure to find something that you like.

I coloured her with my Distress Ink and Aquatint markers....I really must start using my Copics and pencils again, I just really love colouring my images with a brush, but pencils would be soooooo useful to take on journeys with me to colour images, I just never seem to have the hours in the day to practice lately. Oh well one for the 'to do' list.

I used another of the Make a Card die sets from CC designs, I used the 2 larger rectangle shapes to mount my fussy cut image, plus the long narrow one for my sentiment.

I just love these little polymer frames from Scrapberry, they are perfect as an accent and I used it here to frame the number 40. I'm sure she will just love me reminding her how old she is lol!

You can find a full list of items available from the shop below:

Cocktail Dress

Make a Card #4

MFT On the Line Sentiment Stamp Set

Memory Box Classic Numbers

Polymer Frame

Die-namics Ribbon Scallop Border

The ribbon, button and twine are all from the Ribbon Girl.

That's all from me today, have a lovely Friday and if you're in the UK I hope you enjoy the long weekend :) xx

Sunday, 26 April 2015

Wendy's Kisses & Daisy Wishes at Little Darlings Rubber Stamps

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend.

I'm here with my 2nd post for Little Darlings Rubber Stamps and I have a super cute share for you today. I've actually had this card scheduled for weeks now, because I made it for a special friend's birthday at the end of March, get me being so far ahead!

I used Wendy's Kisses and Daisy Wishes, isn't she sweet?!

I went for blue and white, (unusual for me), because I chose this Pion paper which I thought worked so well with the daisies. So much so that I also paper pieced her dress. Behind the flowers you can see the Lovely View die peeking out and I also used a sentiment from the Vintage Affections - Friends sentiment set. I've popped a list of the items used from my favourite stores at the end of my post.

I coloured Wendy with my Distress Ink and Aquatint markers.

Colours used

Skin: Vintage Photo

Hair Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs

Dress: Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire, Slate (AQT)

A few little close ups.

I kept the inside quite simple.

Items used :

Wendy's Kisses and Daisy Wishes
Pion Design - Siri's Kitchen Blueberries
Spellbinder's Stately Circles
Die-namics Pinking Edge Circle STAX
La-La Land Stitched Sun and Clouds
La-La Land Stitched Nested Circles

45 mm White Jessica Lace

Limoges Blue Vintage Seam Binding
White Vintage Seam Binding

Cheesecloth Fabric

40 mm Daisy White

Cherry Blossom Antique Blue Two Tone

Pretty Blossom Blue

Chrysanth White K & G

8 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

I'm entering the following challenges:

Live & Love Crafts - Signs of Spring
Challenge up your Life - Watercolour
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Add a sentiment.

That's all from me today, I do hope you're having a lovely weekend and I'll see you soon! :) xx

Friday, 24 April 2015

Emma - Rockin' at Dies to Die for

Happy Friday everyone! Well yet again I'm glad to get to the end of another manic week, so much going on at work lately, it's hard even to find the time to take a lunch bread, which is a shame because that's sometimes when I get to do a bit of colouring or some stitching on a card.

Anyway as it's Friday that means it's time for my regular Dies to Die for inspiration post. It's not often that I get some time to try something different, but I've seen a couple of my friends make rocker cards recently and I thought I'd like to have a try.

Honestly they are very simple, my only problem was that I don't have a large circle die, so I had to go with an oval, which works fine, you just have less space to embellish and it's more difficult to get it stable when displaying it (the rocking part works just fine lol). I will have to try making one of these again once I invest in some large circle dies. [I know a Sillouhette or similar would cut them, but I honestly don't have the space for one in my little craft corner]

Anyway this is how it ended up looking

I kept my design fairly simple as there wasn't tons of space. The strip of paper from the bottom of the paper sheet made a pretty border edged by some pearl trim and under that some lovely lace. A beautiful bow, one of my favourite embellishments. I managed to fit a few flowers in on the other side and underneath that I added one of the lovely new polymer frames that Tracy has in stock from Scrapberry's. These come in a set of 4 and are very inexpensive. They come in plain white but I fancied mine up with a little frantage, doesn't it look wonderful?