Fantastic Florals

 

Good afternoon everyone.  Well I have had a good day, did okay at my slimming class followed by a nice coffee with friends and back home to a lunch cooked by my wonderful husband and then a couple of hours crafting.  Must make the most of it as I am back at work tomorrow.  I have to admit it has been nice having a couple of extra crafting hours this week.

 

 

I don't know about you but I am always stuck for layouts so when all else fails I go to Paper Playful and see what they have for layouts etc.  That is where my layout came from. 

My Shopping List

 Fantastic floral stamps from chocolate barouque
Cosmic shimmer persian sea aurora embossing power
Couture creations encaustic embossing folder
Blue card
White Card
Versamark ink pad
Spellbinders 5x7 matting basics
Martha stewart border punch

Actually it is a very simple card to make, it took me longer to decide which stamps to use that it did to make it.  Isn't that often the way!

Hope you like it and do take care.

Thanks for stopping by.

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge - Sketch 44
Incy Wincy Designs - Birthdays
Love to Create - Anything Goes
Make it Monday - Always Anything Goes
 

Lifes Most Precious Moments

Hi folks, how are you all?  I have been in my element today, no work as I was using some holiday up so what did I do, yes you guessed it, crafting this afternoon.  Heaven.

My card today is using some of the embellishments I made using my melt pot.  Yes folks, I actually unpacked it, put it on and used it.  I just needed some time so on Friday I had a craft day, well I couldn't go anywhere, injections into my foot so I had to rest it.  Brilliant excuse of course to craft.

I have to say I really enjoyed playing, my mate Sheila was also using her melt pot for the first time so we played together on skype. 

I had made loads of paper roses which I glazed to get used to it.  Then I added my first lot of colour and made some embellishments using my silicone moulds.  I have to admit, I am hooked now, and have already ordered some more clear utee in the biggest size I could find.  Hope it arrives by the weekend.  Have added some more moulds to my NEC list and ofcourse some more colours.

The idea for this layout came from issue 2 of the tattered lace magazine and I have used the free die that came with it. 

My Shopping List

Tattered Lace Double Delights Die
Tattered Lace leaves set
Sentiment
Brown card
Cream card
Spellbinders 5x7 matting basics die
Spellbinders |2 curved matting basics
Melt pot, clear utee and tropical pearl utee
Flower silicone moulds

I do hope you like this and I am so pleased with the melt pot embellishments, they are not as heavy as I thought they would be.

Thanks for stopping by and you take care.

Wendy's Birthday

 Hi there crafters and followers, HAPPY SATURDAY.

I have to admit it is quite nice weather here in Birmingham.  Sunny, a little chilly but DRY, well it is at  the moment.  A touch windy but hopefully no rain today, mind you I won't hold my breath!

I am excited to tell you about a super new challenge that will be starting in April.  You can find out all about it at Crafting At The Weekend.  Do pop over and have a look, don't forget to follow so you won't miss any of the super challenges that will be coming.

Now, to my post for today, it was my dear friend, Wendy's, birthday last week and a special card had to be made, besides, she loves my cards so it always has to be extra special.  Mind you she is a friend so she could be biased I suppose - hee hee.

I have used lots of dies, in fact all dies.  Spellbinders, tonic and some signature ones, just to show that you can use all makes of die and they will all compliment each other.  Plus an embossalicious embossing folder.

Hope you like this one, and now I will be off to do some crafting, I love Saturday's as it is one of the few afternoons I get to craft.

See you soon and take care.

In The Kitchen - SDD Challenge

Good morning folks.  How are you all today?  Well I hope and ready for the weekend.

Today I am IN THE KITCHEN over at Stamping with the Dragon Challenge.  My DT sample definitely has a cooking theme me thinks.


My Shopping List

Penny Goes Shopping Digi Stamp
Mustard Seed Paper Pack
Copics - R37|RV04|YG93|YG95|YG97|YG00|Y04|G07|B95|YR10|E0000
White base card
Spellbinders Square Swatches
Doodles Squares Mask
Weathered Wood distress inks
Cooking Stamps

1. I began with a plain white C5 card blank matting a sheet of paper printed out from the Mustard Seed Paper Pack.
2. I die cut a piece of centura pearl card with spellbinders square swatches.  I cut another strip of centura pearl and using the doodles square mask I inked through it using weathered wood distress.
3. I coloured Penny Goes Shopping Digi Stamp with the copics listed above, cut her out, shaped her and secured her with pinflair.
4. I stamped all of the kitchen implements from a set of stamps I received sometime ago as a present using black versafine and clear embossing powder.  The apron and oven gloves I stamped onto a piece of backing paper also from the Mustard Seed Paper Pack. A couple I coloured in and then cut them out, shaped them and secured them also with pinflair.

Don't forget to pop over to the shop and check out the beautiful digi stamp at such brilliant prices - just follow the links.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the

Stamping Dragon Store

You may want to check out the following too: -

Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

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Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

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Take care and see you soon and don't forget to enter the challenge, you have to be in it to win it.

See you all soon.

Aurora Wings-Crafting from the Heart

Good morning crafters and followers.  Monday morning again and I do hope that where ever you are the weather is calming down.  I know we say, 'ooo rain, good day to craft' but come on I can craft without rain so could it stop now please!

My post today is my DT sample for the brand new Crafting from the Heart challenge which starts today and the theme is 'Anything Goes/Use Flowers'.

Our Sponsors are

Aurora Wings

prize - $15 Voucher

Meljens

prize - 3 digis
 

My Shopping List
Copic pens = B24; Y28; Y17; Y02; YR61; V04; BV00; BV02;G94; YR02; R85; E23; RV04; BV08
8x8 white base card
Royal blue and yellow card
Tonic square scalloped edge die
Tattered lace die - lacy rose and leaf set
Memory box holly edge die
Digi stamp from Aurora Wings

1. I coloured my image in first using the above listed copics. 
2. I then had to sit and look at it for ages as, to be honest, I  had no idea what I was going to do.  I finally decided to cut a frame using my tonic scalloped edge square die from the royal blue card. 
3. Some matting and layering with more blue card and some white card finished off my basic layout.
4. I then found some pearlised paper in my stash and cut 12 pieces using the tattered lace rose die and made my roses. 
5. I cut two holly edges and a couple of leaves from the yellow and placed all of that onto my card

 If you want to see other samples why not pop over to Crafting from the Heart Blog for some more ideas from the other design team members.  Don't forget to join in the challenge whilst you are over there.  There are some super prizes to be won.

 

Can I also say that we have a Facebook page, where there is other just for fun challenges, so if you are not already a member of the group, I urge you to pop over and join us.

 

The winners and Top 3 from the last challenge can be found here.

 

Love is in the Air with Be My Valentine - SDD Challenge

 



Good morning crafters and followers.  I do hope you are having a brilliant Friday,  the start of the weekend.  YIPPEE.

A day of crafting is for me today I think, unless hubby comes up with something, well I do have to think of him sometime and he is very good about my crafting obsession - LOL

Today LOVE IS IN THE AIR.  I have posted my DT sample for the brand Stamping with the Dragon challenge. 

My Shopping List

Ruperts Valentine Digi Stamp
Copics - YG97|YG93|YG95|RV21|RV69|R37|YG00
White card
Mood for Love Paper Pack
Spellbinders Resplendant Rectangles
Xcut heart die
Signature flourish
Hearts embossing folder.

I began with an 8x8 blank white card, matted with some backing paper from the Mood For Love Paper Pack.
I then die cut a piece of centura pearl card with the spellbinders Resplendant Rectangles and two hearts using the xcut heart die and ran them through my hearts embossing folder.  I also cut a couple of hearts using another piece of backing paper from the Mood for Love Paper Pack.  This paper pack is a super buy because you get so many designs, 10 in all, and you can print it out as many times as you want.
Next I coloured in my image - Ruperts Valentine using the copics listed above and cut it out, shaped it with my fingers and secured it to my card with some pinflair to give it some shape and height.
Also in Rupert's Valentine is the sentiment which I also coloured in, cut down and matted onto some red card.
To finish it all off I die cut some flourishes using a signature flourish die and the red card.

Hope you like it.  Why not pop over to the challenge for check out the DT samples from our other members of the design team.  I am always doing this when my mojo takes a little holiday LOL.

Don't forget to pop over to the shop and check out the beautiful digi stamp and paper pack at such brilliant prices - just follow the links.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the

Stamping Dragon Store

You may want to check out the following too: -

Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427447597324391/

Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

Stamping Dragon Designs Links

"Like" Us on Facebook
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Join our Facebook group for daily inspiration!
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Follow us on Pinterest!
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Visit the Store
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See us on CraftsUPrint
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Etsy Shop- Instant downloads!
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Take care and see you soon and don't forget to enter the challenge, you have to be in it to win it.

See you all soon.

I have also entered this card into the following challenge:

Brown Sugar Challenge - 80- Valentine.
CraftyCatzWeeklyChallenge-217 Love in in the air

Crafting From the Heart-Anything Goes/Use Red Challenge

Good morning fellow crafters.  Monday has arrived again and that means work.  Still if I don't work I don't get paid and then I can't by crafting goodies - there has to be some ups to Monday. 

Of course there is a super new challenge over at Crafting from the Heart.  The challenge is 'Anything Goes/Use Red. 

 

Our sponsors are Dilly Beans Stamps and StampArt Design by Kathryn.

 

     

 

 

Here is my very first DT sample as I was lucky enough to be accepted onto the design team. 

 

More good news - from 3rd March the challenge goes to a Weekly challenge - so I hope that has cheered up your Monday.

My Shopping List

Dilly Beans Digi Stamp - Pinky's Skull Bow
Copics - E0000|E000|E02|E11|B93|R32|R35|R37|YR24|C3|C5|C7
White card base | red card | white centura with a hint of silver/gold
Xcut heart die
Tonic petal pairs punches
Signature swirl
Fired Brick distress ink
Rocket Red Brilliance Ink
Clear embossing powder
Cosmic Shimmer Berry Red PVA
Heart Embossing Folder

1. I started with a C5 plain white card. 
2. I then cut down a piece of red card, stamped it with a swirl stamp and versamark before clear embossing it.
3. I die cut two hearts using my Xcut heart dies and ran them both through my heart embossing folder.
4. I coloured Pinky's Skull Bow digi stamp using the copics listed above and cut her out.
5. I secure the hearts with wet glue and Pinky with pinflair to add some height.
6. I die cut some flourishes using a signature flourish die, white card and black card and secured them to my card using cosmic shimmer dries clear glue.
7. My little flowers were punched using tonic petal pair set 2.  I cut 4 for each flower, shaped them with a ball tool and secured them with hot glue.  I brushed them with fired brick distress ink and finally in the centre I used a 'blob' of cosmic shimmer berry red pva.

 

I hope you like my first sample, if you want to see others why not pop over to Crafting from the Heart Blog for some more ideas from the other design team members.  Don't forget to join in the challenge whilst you are over there.  There are some super prizes to be won.

 

Can I also say that we have a Facebook page, where there is other just for fun challenges, so if you are not already a member of the group, I urge you to pop over and join us.

 

The winners and Top 3 from the last challenge can be found here.

 

            





Tattered Lace-Florentine Bells

Hi everyone, how are you all today?  Gosh I wish this rain would stop, although it has been a little sunny here in Birmingham this morning it's raining again now.

Well I have been playing today with my new tattered lace dies.  I bought their first magazine which arrived last week and it came with a free die, yes the one I have used on today's card.

It is a beautiful die and I have to admit the magazine is the best mag I have bought in a long time.  Admittedly it is devoted to tattered lace dies but then I expected that.  I only have a few of their dies but it was worth it for me so if you have lots it is a 'must have'.  It is packed full of information, hints, tips and samples.  No advertising which was lovely there was even a tutorial on making ribbon bows with one's fingers.  Something I will be looking at as I am useless at tying bows, even with a bow maker they look awful.  I am looking forward to the next magazine they release and I think they will be monthly.

My card today, as I said it using the Tattered lace Florentine bells and  the Spellinders d-lites corner sprigs. I have used some centura pearl, silver pearlescent and silver mirri, although I will admit the mirri doesn't look silver but gold so my apologies for my photography, david bailey I am not!

It is a really simple card, just some matting and layering, which has been done with the spellbinders 5x7 matting basics A & B sets plus the tattered lace dies and corner sprigs but those dies make it look more difficult that it was to the non crafter.

I never ceases to amaze me what can be done with a bit of card and how relaxing our craft can be.

Hope you like today's card.

See you all soon and do take care.