Boy's Communion card

Well today the weather has been gorgeous, it's like summer HAS finally arrived and it feels soooo good!  Popping in with another card make, this time with one of the many First Holy Communion cards made over the last few weeks.

For this one I used a Mo Manning image, coloured again with Faber Castell Polychromos pencil crayons.

Also invested in some new cross shaped dies so have been using these too.

Another version of the little boy for a similar card, but the image coloured in blue.

April Workshop cards

Popping in to share some workshop makes with everyone. To all crafters I met this month, old and new, it was fantastic to meet up and share ideas once again :).

We made two boxed cards this month, the first one was a wedding one using pretty papers, die cuts and embossing.  You can find the paper set here at Nitwit Collections - note I have permission from the digi company to use the papers in my workshop.

Truly Madly Deeply from Nitwit Collections

Doves are from Dee's Distinctively dies (left and right doves and yes the same ones I used on the confirmation card this year - very well designed dies and a great shape suitable for all occasions)

Old Papermania embossing folder

Magnolia Doo Hickey Leaf dies

Posy Patch Spellbinder dies

Next up I used a Mo Manning release available as a rubber stamp or in digi format. The one I used was in rubber from Stamping Bella.

Also used a Cheery Lynn fence die, pretty papers from Bearly Mine (details to follow of where you can source them) and Martha Stewart punched butterflies

The inside of the centre step card:

coloured with Polychromos pencil crayons

and the outside of the box was decorated a little...

Next up was a nautical card (love making these!) using stamps from Flourishes, called a Guiding Light. I notice now that these have been discontinued, sadly, but you can use any nautical stamp and text stamp to achieve the effect below.

Spellbinders fancy framed tags used for the sentiment.

These are the Christening cards made with a memory box pram die (long overdue as I had neglected to use that die for some time!!), embossed patchwork (old Boofle embossing folder but try Crafters companion for the newer patchwork design embossing folders), and die cuts.

Last but not least is this little guy from Melissa at Meljen's designs. I used two digi's combined to create this card (use the PNG file in your purchase instead of the JPEG file when combining images):

Happy Birthday

Little Puddle Duck

During the class I did a demo on how to make shaped card blanks using dies to partially cut a shape from the blank - how this is achieved when positioning cutting dies and cutting plates in a certain place using the big shot.

Here is a view of the shape which pops out from the diagonal scoring position.

I will pop up a tutorial on this soon :)

I am entering this card into the current Meljen's Challenge - Anything Goes

Pop along and take part, as this is a good theme and the images are so easy to use!

Thanks to everyone who came this month and hope to see you all again soon. 

Take care and happy crafting.

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.

Mo's Digital Pencil - Mother to be

Popping in to share a recent card for a colleague at work - love this image from Mo's Digital pencil which you can find here on Mo's Digital Pencil website. Am thrilled to say a baby boy joined our world around a week after Val received this card for her work colleagues - congrats Val and Mick on your new arrival :), am delighted for you both!

Here is the front of the card - coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils, and the oval image was inked with scattered straw distress ink while still inside the spellbinder die.

The papers are from Pink Petticoat, and are available in digi - these are the very first digi papers I bought over 4 years ago, wow I can't believe where the time has gone?! You can find them HERE - they are called Spring Wishes.

Finished with ecru coloured Berisford DF satin ribbon and a pearlescent green leaf die cut.

This is the inside - minimal decoration as the papers are so beautiful that it just wouldn't be good to cover them too much!

I have some photos to tidy up, and post and there are a few, so if you pop back over next few days, there will be lots to see :). 

Have neglected the blog for a little while but my favourite season, Christmas, isn't far away so I am getting excited at the prospect of making Christmas cards again and you might see me posting a bit more over the coming weeks!

April workshop cards

Hi everyone, as promised here are the June workshop cards I am only getting around to post now. thanks again to all those who came and thanks for being so understanding with my having to change dates etc.

I don't have much time to blog for the foreseeable future, so I will show mainly photos, but if you want to know any more about products used on any cards, email me or leave a blog comment and I can reply.

A large boxed wedding card, measures around 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches

 We made our own flowers for this one using Spellbinders' bitty blossom dies

A5 black and white masculine card

The punch used for the border is a Martha Stewart flourish one.

A simple card made with the versatile crafts too Happy birthday folder and any of your little stamps, quick and easy to colour and the same image used inside

Stamping techniques including masking and  and introduction to '3D stamping' using one layer. I will do another project using this technique in a future workshop with more layers, I think its fantastic - decoupage for stampers or stamping for decoupage fans?!

... and last but not least some men's gardening cards with the season that's in it! the images are from Lili of the Valley (the little boy) and from Mo Manning (some of the Mo Manning are in rubber and I am thrilled about that!)

Loved making the faux carrots on these, MS branch punch, orange card, green thick paper and a wood grain embossing folder and hey presto!

  

Have some more to show but that's loads of photos for one post for now :)