Butterflies and Pretty Etsy papers

Hi everyone, I have two posts to share today, both with a definite spring and pastel feel to them!

First up is a butterfly themed card for a young lady, a special request with a special verse inside, so a pleasure to make.  

For this card I used kraft, rose pink and white card and some quickutz dies for the lettering, some dotty papers and the floral papers are from Etsy.  

The butterfly stamp is from Hero Arts, as is the text stamp.

Gathered Twigs is the distress ink colour I used to stencil the circle with, and toffee crunch memento ink is the ink I used to stamp the text with.

The butterfly was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa.

Flower Power 50th Birthday Celebration

LOVED making this card, because I know the recipient and because it was so fresh and funky and fun to make!

I used a Redonkadoodles digital image which was coloured with polychromos pencil crayons and some digi papers from Etsy again (yep Etsy has some fab stuff... too much maybe!)

I wanted the tag and ribbon on the card to be unusual to my normal style so I made a 'buckle slider' with the sentiment tag.

Those funky flowers are a cuttlebug die.

Close-up of the coloured image. - I spent ages colouring the flared trousers ;)

The inside of the card:

Communion Cards - Di's Digi, Karen's Doodles and Mo Manning images

hi everyone, hope you have all had relaxing Sunday's and if you're lucky enough to have a bank holiday tomorrow too, enjoy and make the most of it! Sharing a few First Holy Communion cards which I did a couple of months ago and just didn't get around to sorting the photos and posting on the blog.

All of the images are available in digital format - the first is from Karen's Doodles and you can find it HERE.

here is a view of the inside..

The next image is from Mo Manning, which you can find HERE. The crosses are old spellbinders dies.

Last but not least is this image from Di's Digi Downloads which you can find HERE.

All of the images are coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos pencil crayons.

Tonic Studios Trellis Die

It's easy to get hooked on all the lovely dies available on the market right now, and there are more and more to choose from every month too, for just about every theme you can think of . This card is a mixture of embossing, Cheery Lynn and Tonic Studios Dies and punched flowers.

The great thing about dies over punches is that they will outlive punches which eventually wear and could break, plus the fact that you can cut thicker materials with dies, like heavy weight card, chipboard, foam and fabric.

The tonic die used is called Pick of the Bunch Trellis Wall Die.

the flowers are from old EK success daisy punches, and if you like the shape, its difficult to source the punches, so go for the spellbinders dies or the woodware punches instead

Woodware punches 

Spellbinder Daisy Dies

My all time favorite technqiue - partial embossing using a recent edition Papermania folder:

A Keepsake Easel Drawer Box with lots of photos

Hi everyone, its a lovely sunny day in my part of the world and hope its shining where you are too..! I think spring has finally arrived but don't want to jinx it, as I am so over the cooler weather!

So, just to alert you, there are lots of photos on this post - its a keepsake easel drawer box thingy which I made for a special birthday request.

Here is a view of the box in the 'closed' position - I want to keep the recipients photo personal, hence I have blurred them,  hop everyone understands that. The papers I used are from the DO CRAFTS V&A Hanoverian range (I am only using them for special stuff as they are so precious!)

The colour scheme I chose and have used before and love is olive green and pale pink, mixed with a touch of mink/ecru kind of colour, finished off with wild orchid roses and pale pink satin ribbon and embellished with pearls from Cottage Crafts' Jeans range.

The front of the box (the sentiment is hidden behind the easel),

 and a view from the top so you can see the layers...

Finally the drawer inside - I made a double walled drawer so it was nice and strong, and pulling the ribbon doesn't bend the front panel.

Lili of the Valley Baby Card in Pink and Muted yellow

Hi everyone, popping in while I have a moment to spare -

 thanks for all the ladies who attended my workshop in Enniscorthy yesterday and it was great to see you all again (a perfect day for crafting as rain came for most of the day so we didnt feel bad about being in doors when it was so wet outside)!

I will post photos of the cards we made soon, but in the meantime I have some other things to get through and other projects to show..

The first is a baby girl card from couple of weeks ago, and with a stamp which I was itching to ink, from this year's Lily of the Valley releases - its called Starry Ted and you can find it HERE

I coloured the image with polychromos pencils, and the blending stumps / sansodor was only used on the background, not on the image itself, giving two different effects.

The stars are cut with quickutz/lifestyle crafts nesting stars (I got this set as the spellbinders doesn't have as many of the smaller sizes as this set) and I love love love using stars, so they are a good buy.

Here is a link to the product which you can find at various retailers.

I also used a Martha Stewart Butterfly punch on this card, the larger of the butterfly punches in that range,

and finished off with Jean's range gold and white pearls from Cottage Crafts which you can find here.

that's all for the moment, I need to head away and colour some images :)

Marianne D Dies - Lord and' Lady Cameo

Hi everyone, here is the lady cameo card using the other Marianne die from the Lord & Lady set:

I used another Marianne leafy die (link below) and spellbinders ovals with Pearls from Cottage Crafts.

The papers on the card are from Bearly Mine Designs's CD Rom Designer Volume II. 

The distress ink used on this card is the Vintage Photo shade. This is a quick post as have to head off and do a couple of other things before time runs away with me (again!!).. Will be back again tomorrow.

    

   

Gillian Roberts Stampavie Teen Girl Card - Texting

Today's post is a card made for a teen - its hard to find suitable images for teens, and I think this one is perfect.

So I was still in the 'brown' mood when I created this one.. it's one of my favourite colours, warm and neutral, and the pearlescent card, a colour called mink from a brand called centura makes it luxurious and lifts the dark brown - I love that cardstock!

The image was coloured with Faber Castell Polychomos pencils and I decided not to blend them on this one, so I stopped at just colouring with the pencil and added no sansador.

The inside was decorated with the same cardstock and papers and a Penny Black sentiment stamp.

Links to the dies and punches for the flowers and leaves can be found below, including those luscious brown pearls from Cottage Crafts.