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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Sneaky Tilda at Marvelous Magnolia

A big hello to my lovely followers old and new :) Talking of new...have you seen that I have almost 100 followers now? I'm soooo excited!  I think I will probably say thank you with a little Candy when that happens.   Also I will have some big news for you next weekend but I can't say anything for now so you'll have to wait till the 18th/19th.  Also I've been asked by several people to do a tutorial for the book card I posted this week.  As I work full time at a teaching hospital during the week and have a 90 minute journey both to and from work, I find it hard to fit in the time to craft even some weeks, so I haven't had time to do any tutorials this far, but I have a week off work on the 10th February, so i do plan on making one then.  It will be nothing fancy, just a step by step with photos, I'm not quite brave enough for video yet! lol

Anyhoo....enough waffling. The reason I'm here today is to share my card for Marvelous Magnolia's new challenge.  It's a very easy one, lovely lace, and from this challenge onwards we're changing to a 2 week challenge, so you will have 2 weeks to enter, so there, you have no excuse now! Hehe.

This is what I made, as usual I ended up covering a lot of my lace with other embellishments, but you can see there is a lovely purple lace and a crocheted lace with a velvet trim. So if you're like me, do make sure that we can see your lace so you qualify for the theme : )


I used the beautiful Maja Design papers, Fika collection.


This is Sneaky Tilda, one of my stamps I got for Christmas. I loved the papers so much I decided to paper piece her outfit to match! A little glamour dust for sparkle and a touch of Aged Wine frantage to frame her.


See I did still leave some lace exposed! lol 


I decorated the inside to match too.  Most of my embellishments on this card are from one of our sponsors this week.
They're offering a £10 voucher to our winner.



Welcome to the Ribbon Girl - to help your craft budget go further we always sell our buttons, flowers, diamantes, pearls, flatbacks, crystal stems, charms and embellishments in small quantities so you can mix and match with more choice! Seam binding is sold in 5 metre bundles. Divine Bakers Twine and button twine in 10 metre bundles. All of our beautiful ribbon and lace is sold by the metre and when you need more than one, we supply in a continuous length whenever possible.

We also have another 2 sponsors!


and 



So that's 3 fab prizes for you to win!


Do pop over to our blog and give the other girls in the DT some love, they've made some wonderful creations to inspire you, and why not join in with us, it's an easy challenge and you have 2 weeks to get your entries in! 

Enjoy the rest of your day : ) xx

I'm entering the following challenges:


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Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Treasured Book Card at Dies to Die For

Happy Tuesday crafters! I'm here to share my latest make with you.  I was totally adventurous this weekend and had a go at something I'd never tried before and made a book card.  It was actually a lot easier than I'd thought it would be. I think I will make more variations on this in future because it was so much fun, and I may even pop a tutorial on my blog in a few weeks when I have a bit of spare time and that will be another first for me!

Anyway on with the project!  I made something that you could give a small gift in and that afterwards could be used for storing small 'treasures' or mementos.  As usual there are links to products used at the end of the post.



Aren't these Maja Vintage Autumn Basics papers gorgeous?  This project changed as I was working on it.  To start with I was going to have a stamped image mounted on the front, but as I made it more and more book like I decided to stick with mostly die cuts. These are all by Spellbinders apart from the bookplate one which is Whimsy to match the stamp.  


This is what it looks like when you open it up.  There's quite a bit of room inside. I just popped a few small roses in the corner to pretty it up as I wanted to keep the room for putting stuff in.


I used a Spellbinders die for the label on the spine.


The garnet coloured ribbon is recycled from some Christmas crackers! I used some frantage in Aged Rose to give the 'hinges' a corners a metallic feel. The sentiment and spine label are embossed with WoW embossing powder in old gold.



And a view from the 'page' side, with a ribbon fastening to keep it closed. 
These would work great for wedding & christening gifts too if themed correctly, and then would be great for keeping memories of the day, don't you think?

Well that's all from me today, I hope you liked it,  I really enjoyed trying something different, why don't you have a go at something new too, it's lots of fun!  :) xx

I've entered the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge Blog - X for Extraordinary
Totally Papercrafts - New Beginings (new technique)





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Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Saturated Canary Nevaeh at Dies to Die for

Good morning to all my lovely followers old and new, I seem to have gained a few more over the Christmas hols and it gives me such a lovely warm feeling knowing my work is appreciated, so big hugs to all of you : )

Rightyho then, on to my share for today, which is scheduled since I'm back at work this week ...BOO!...but have the day off tomorrow for New Years Day...YAY!.

I'm here with my Inspiration post for Dies to Die for and originally when I started this it was going to be a Thank You card, as I'm sure that lots of us have some of those to send out to say thank you for lovely Christmas gifts, but it ended up looking so spring like I thought I'd make it non specific as it could as easily be used as a Mother's Day or Easter card as a Thank You card.

I really love the way this one turned out so I do hope you like it, I've added links to items used at the end of the post.

These papers by Maja Design are just so gorgeous I had a hard time using them lol


I've used my absolute favourite Saturated Canary stamp, isn't she pretty? I've coloured her in Copics as usual.

Skin: E11, 00, 000, 0000, R20
Dress, tights and shoes: RV95, 93, 91, G85, 82, 00, BV00, 02, 04
Hair: E50, 53, 37, 35, 21


Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.


The narrow white lace is from The Ribbon Girl.


The inside is decorated with the same papers to complement the front, with plenty of space to write a message.

I do hope that you have a lovely New Years Eve, I'm hoping that next year will be a little kinder to me and mine than this one has been as 2013 has been a little hard on us for some things, particularly my Dad's health so hopefully it's onwards and upwards for this year coming.
Take care and I'll see you all in 2014  : ) xx







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