Saturday, July 27, 2013

Hand Bag Card

Hi everyone,

Hope you are enjoying the weather be it hot or our winter cold, my family in the UK are melting with the heat, I think it was the hottest summer since 1979 - OMGoodness doesn't that sound such a long time ago LOL..

I have a lovely card that I made from a design that came with my new Crafters Companion Ultimate Pro board, I loved the design as soon as I saw it - very "Girly" and I bet I will be using this a lot for family and friends birthdays coming up soon.

It is the Quilt & Craft Fair in Melbourne this weekend and I know that Debbie Pamment is going to be there, she has recently celebrated a birthday and as we haven't meet before but emailed lots, I thought I would make her a card, we both live around the Melbourne area (different suburbs) I thought it was too good an opportunity to miss.

Mini Tilda with Two Rosettes

I love Fairies, Butterflies and anything Pinky/Mauve.
I've used purple card stock from Paper2, the Handbag design was quite easy to make. 
For the embellishment I placed a paper doily under a Spellbinders circle die cut with a white paper daisy flower (Paper2) coloured with Copic markers.


Close up of embellishment of Mini Tilda with Two Rosettes coloured with Copic markers.
 Memory Box Chloe butterfly (large) is edged with Kaisercraft Aubergine ink, the smaller butterfly Marianne design #CR1205 again coloured with aubergine ink, finally the flourish is Joy crafts Vintage Borders 6002/0163.
 A gem on the daisy and Ranger Star Dust stickles to add a little sparkle. 

I think Tilda sits just perfectly on the butterflies.


Inside the card I have used vellum with a Birthday greeting stamp from my stash.
Whoops, I forgot the little scrap of ribbon for the handle -  


I hope you like this little effort and thanks for stopping by.

I would like to enter this in to the following challenges:

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Magnolia-licious & Wee Stamps Tuesday Challenge - Anything Goes


A Creative Romance - No Designer Paper's


Friday, July 19, 2013

New Baby Card

Hi again,

Wow, this must look like am a very fast putting up another post so quickly, no I actually made the card on earlier this week for a friend of mine.

I have used a lovely digi stamp from Whimsey Stamps its a Carnival Carousel Horse.  I used pastel colours as we don't know if it is a boy or girl, so I thought I would play safe. and yes, silly me I placed it on pink to take the photo - oh well the baby won't know that ha, ha..




Materials:

AC card stock
Copic markers
Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics
Paper Doily
Magnolia Doo Hickeys Dragon Fly die
Spellbinders dies
Prima flowers
Lace - Paper 2
Versa Color "Baby Blue"
Flat backed Pearls
Ranger Star Dust Stickles


I would like to enter this card in the following Challenge



Sorry this has been a bit of a rush job as I so wanted to enter this challenge.

Until next time,



Buttons and Bows



Hi everyone,

The last 2 weeks have been really busy, with the school holidays, as well I've had 2 unwell little  granddaughter's, who are now better and back at creche. We took our grandson and his Mum to Melbourne, we went on the Tourist Trams as Jamie loves any sort of transport, cars, trucks & racing cars.   Jamie's Wish with the Starlight Foundation at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne was to meet Michael Schumacher! His wish was fulfilled and Jamie with his parents were very lucky to meet Michael a few years ago when he came over for the Melbourne Grand Prix the year before he retired from Formula 1 racing, it was such a thrill for Jamie.


Anyway enough of my family (I love them all to bits) lol.. 
Here is a card that I am going to enter into Midweek Magnolias Challenge, this has my favourite Tilda on it,



"Tilda with Hawaii Flower"

I have made flowers for this card with cheese cloth which was cut with Spellbinders Rose Creations dies, I put Gesso on the cheese cloth, left it to dry while I cut out more of the rose shapes in Pink sparkling net, layered them together with some mini heart brads then I had the fun of scrunching them up into a flower shape - it was fun, I haven't done that before, its a first!
I think they look quite nice on the card..


Close up of flowers.

Materials used:

Magnolia "Tilda with Hawaii Flower" stamp (Butterfly Wishes)
Magnolia DP
American Card stock
Die-namics Mini film Strip die
Copic markers
XCut Rectangle die
Martha Stewart punch
Spellbinders dies
Organza ribbon, buttons from my button box (lots of odd ones)
Star Dust Ranger Stickles

I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges:

Midweek Magnolias Buttons and Bows:

A Creative Romance - Ribbon or Twine:

Magnolia-licious Some Like it Hot: 

MDUC Tic Tac Toe:


I am happy, as tomorrow (Saturday) we are going down to see our granddaughters yippee and hopefully our grandson too it should be fun!

Until next time,




Monday, July 1, 2013

Forget me not Card

Hi everyone,

I have a lovely new card featuring Tilda with Love, I have used Pion Design 'Vintage garden' so I decided to be a little bit more adventurous, I have cut out some of the elements from the sheet to make a few statement tags, 


"Tilda with Love"

I really love "Forget Me Not" flowers (takes me back to my Grandmothers garden) and I decided to try to make some of those little flowers as a highlight on the card rather than roses.
I found in my flower stash these cute little ones which I coloured with Versa Magic inks and a dash of Ranger Star Dust stickles, I threaded them on to a rose bud stem with some leaves behind and a few stamens to look like "forget me not" buds, I am really pleased with how they have turned out, I hope you like it too..


A close up of the little "Forget me not" flowers.

Materials used:
Magnolia stamp "Tilda with Love"
Pion Designs "Vintage Garden"
Watercolour card stock
Copic markers
Versa Magic inks
Spellbinders dies
Glitz French Kiss stamps, Kaisercraft Postmarks stamp
Flowers, Paper2
Doily, flat back Pearls, Lace, ribbon from stash

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I would like to enter this card in the following Challenges:












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