SWG Design by Linda Levoir

Friday, 4 September 2015

The Beauty of Memory

Sympathy cards.....

I find them very difficult to make, for several reasons. Apart from the obvious of not really being a pleasurable thing to make, generally they don't really gel with my normal style. I really don't think they suit being frilly, highly layered and embellished etc. So this week when I'd been strugglig to come up with a design for a card that really should already have been sent to a friend, I turned to Pinterest for some inspiration.

I found the answer, and it only cost me 3 hours of my life lol! Pinterest and I have a love/hate relationship, I love that it's so full of ideas, I hate that it's so full of ideas that it sucks me in and gets me looking at stuff I never even intended to when I stuck my head in there!

Anyway I found this card, and while it's a stunning beautiful and simple elegant card, it wasn't quite me, and I didn't have the right dies and stamps for it. But I used it as my inspiration for the card below. While I was there I also spotted the sentiment I used as I have NO stamps with suitable sentiments on (something I must address), and I used the word processing facility on Open Office to type it out and re-size it just right to fit on my card. That sentiment made me think to use the Crea Diem paper from Maja with the clocks, and then I was off and running. The result is below.

I inked all my edges with Black Soot Distress Ink and sewed around my patterned paper with Grey Top Stitch thread.

The beautiful sentiment is printed and the banner is cut by hand.

The border strip if cut with a Martha Stewart punk and an Impression Obsessions die. The ribbon and twine are from my stash.

Maja Design - Crea Diem - The Irreplaceable Time
Bazill Smoothies - Blackberry Swirl
La-La Land Steampunk Clock
Impression Obsession Border Duo 2
Prima Say it in Crystals - Songbird 2 (yellow gems coloured over with a W9 Copic Marker##
Flower Sparkly Acrylic Button

The stunning butterflies are from Karla's Kreative Korner and are called Black and White Elegance....they really fit their name.

That's all from me today, but I'll see you again soon :) xx

Thursday, 3 September 2015

2nd Blogversary Giveaway - Winner

Good evening all. Apologies I am a little late posting the winner of my giveaway (and even later posting the other giveaways, but I haven't forgotten, I even have them sorted, just been lacking in time to get them filmed and posted, but I will get to them soon I promise).

So without further ado, the winner is.....

vinita jain

Congratulations Vinita, please send me an email to linda.levoir@gmail.com with your mailing address, and I will get your prize packed up and posted out to you.

Then you to everyone who entered, I will hopefully post another giveaway this weekend, time permitting.

Hugs to all :) xx

Monday, 31 August 2015

Can I Ski Too?

Hello everyone. I'm happily crafting away at home, because today is a Bank holiday in the UK, so no work until tomorrow yay!

Well it finally happened, don't faint but I made my first Christmas card of the year, I know.....just a LITTLE later than I'd planned back at the beginning of 2015 lol.

Anyway this little image is just so cute I couldn't resist. This is I can ski too from the Candibean collection at Little Darlings Rubber stamps. She's coloured with distress ink markers and paired with some of the Vintage Frost Basics papers from Maja Design. I've put links to the products I've used at the end of my post.