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Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Everyday Magic at Dies to Die for.


Good morning everyone! Hope you're off to a good start for your Tuesday. I'm here with my regular inspiration post for Dies to Die for.
I thought I'd get head start on the old Valentine's cards as it's now only a month away.  Warning, this post is very photo heavy.

I have to admit I'm totally in love with this paper pad from MME, all of the designs are just divine, I like every single one, which is quite unusual for a pad, there's normally at least one you're not keen on isn't there?  It's double sided so lots of choice and they all co-ordinate so well with each other the only difficulty is in choosing which ones....well that and actually cutting into them *twitch*.
As usual I've put links to the items in the shop at the end of my post.



I've inked my papers with DI in Antique Linen and hand sewn all my layers with top stitching in various co-coordinating colours.  I like to use top stitch thread from Gutterman, it's really nice to sew with and it's thick too so you don't have to double it up to get it to show up nicely, I find I do have to with ordinary thread.

The stamp I used is by Tiddly Inks, love this image so much,  it's very versatile I think, as you can use it for so many different occasions depending on what paper you use it with and how you colour it.  Isn't she just gorgeous? This stamp set comes with 2 fab sentiments, but for this card I made my own.  I really like these mini ticket stamp sets from Whimsy, you can make pretty much any kind of message with them, they're so much fun.


Love this Tiddly Inks stamp, she's so pretty and elegant, I've coloured her with my usual Copics, colours are listed below
Skin: E11, E00, E000, E0000, R20, R00
Hair: E40, E41, E43. E44
Clothes: R32, R35, R37, R56



I love these enamel dots I used on her wings and elsewhere, they match the colours of the DP exactly and although the pic in the shop doesn't really show it clearly, 3 of the colours (the 3 I've used here) are shimmery with a touch of sparkle, lovely! I covered her wings with Stickles too and used liquid pearls around the frame which is cut using Spellbinders nestibilities. Flowers are a combination of WOC and TRG and the Ribbon is from TRG. 




I really like this little embellishment I made using the smaller heart nesties and scraps of my DP. I finished it off with an enamel dot and some liquid peards and I added some crackle paint to the top one and have even managed to catch the effect on camera for you, yay!



I've decorated the inside of my card as usual to co-ordinate with the front.


This card is for sale in my Etsy shop now.

You may have noticed that I'm only 1 away from having 100 followers now....amazing!  Since it's my birthday in less than 4 weeks now, I'll wait till then and have a bit of a giveaway to celebrate both.


Well that's it from me today, thanks for visiting,  I hope you like it and have a super crafty day

Linda : ) xx

I'm entering the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
BunnyZoe Crafts - Stitching
Copic Marker Europe - Valentine
Crafts & Me - Use a Heart
Divas by Design - Use Ribbon
Fashionista - Anything Goes
Pile it On -  Holidays/Celebrations




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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

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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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