Wishes

Good Morning, yes it's not noon yet...

The sun is shining again, which makes me happy, and using up painty scraps off my table with my pretty new fairiy wee folk stamps also makes me happy.

I have enough bits on my desk from playing with distress paint to do a batch of these quickly, I have a couple of charities that are due some cards but it's tricky when time is short, so I'm happy to use this sketch.

And I'm especially happy when my card fits the following challenges

Clean and Simple sketch

And

Less is More makes you happy

 

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Budget challenge card 1

 

Good Morning, cold isn't it. I'm glad I did hot water bottles for the bunnies last night, I know they are in a cosy shed cuddled up together but I still worry.

Anyway, here is a card I did for Creative Cardmaking a couple of issues ago, I had to spend no more than a fiver in a charity shop and combine what I bought with my stash to create some cards.

I bought buttons, paperback book, zips, beads, I just used the book pages on this one to create the flowers with my tattered florals sizzix die, combined with tattered leaves, some blossoms and leaves from Sweet Lilac Flowers, (they have a cool offer on, £30 worth of flowers for £17.50 incl postage), Paperartsy Chatsworth paper, May Arts ribbon and Clarity Letterbox sentiments.

 

I will show you another budget card tomorrow if you pop in.

I'm mainly staying at home today where it's warm, I brought a couple of bits from work to do at the dining table.

Have a good day, stay warm.

 

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Floral bunny

Good Morning!

Hope you had a good weekend, I had class in Shrewsbury on Saturday and just did a couple of small jobs around the house yesterday.

My card for today is using...

NEW Clarity floral figures stamp set

The set has a kitty, bunny, grassy border and a big sphere which was great for stamping the flower layers when I diecut them with my Timmy tattered floral die.

Double vine stencil

Marianne swirly cutting die

Little mini Love stamp from a Clarity set

 

This card fits some challenge themes too....

Lil patch of crafty friends anything goes

Stamping sensation dies and punches

That Craft Place monochromatic

Allsorts New and Cute

Sister Act anything goes

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Very little ink for a friend...

Good Morning!

After a couple of wet windy days the sun seems to be back here, hope it's nice for you too.

Today's card is a real quickie, Its for a friends birthday and I had hoped to do something really nice but time didn't permit sadly.

The paper is Tim Holtz resist pad and a couple of random oddments. The Penny Farthing is a Memory Box.

I punched some little flowers from book pages, scrumpled them up and used a Screw Top brad to secure them.

The only bit of ink is around the edges of the paper!

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Fave use it up...

Good morning!

It's been a busy ole time and then I did need to take a couple of quiet days.

Ok, excuses done with, here's a card...

 

This was my fave from the 'use it up' batch from a while ago..

Everything except the card blank was from the bag.

I painted the tailors dummy, inked the edged and stamped my bestest fave Clarity sentiment.

I also daubed some versamark reinker round the edges to hold lots of gold embossing.

Hope you like it.

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Plastered part 1

Good morning!

Hope it's warming up where you are, will be nice to turn the heating down won't it.

Today's card is the first in a series I did for Creative Cardmaking issue 52,it's the one I write my little diary page for, it's on sale now so go grab it...

Anyways, the piece is all about texture with a difference..

 

I started with some Tim Holtz Tissue wrap on a card, added some distress inks and Dylusions sprays.

Then added some plaster through sequin waste and brushed with ink lightly.

The little cylinders are made from plaster bandage....

Not telling you any more, go get the mag lol

Hope you like it.

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Its Sew Clarity

Good Morning!

Today's card is using the little Haberdasher mini set from Claritystamp, together with the large Tailor Dummy and Tape Measure...

 

I used a ghost brayering technique for the background.I used some Papermania paper to paper piece.

The little coat hanger is from Tim Holtz.

Thanks for stopping by.

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Slowly Silently...

Good morning

Today's card is from November, I am still catching up with pictures etc.

I used the moon fairy and walter de la mare text from Claritystamp.

The ink was Stormy Sky distress, I also used my Splodge mat and the Jimbo mask.

The

Poinsettia is a Timmy die, colouring is done with Copics.

Hope you like it.

 

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Easy Pastel Birdcage

Good Morning!
I thought I had better blog as irts been too chaotic for the last few days.

This is an A5 card using some of my fave Crafty Individual stamps.

I diecut a birdcage from copier paper to use the aperture as a mask to ink Tunmbled Glass, Spun Sugar & Milled Lavender through. Then I simply stamped the background in Milled Lavender and the Bird on a Branch in Black.

 I added an organza bow and a big gem, matted up and fixed to a centura pearl card blank.

Hope you like it!

I will see you tomorrow to show you one of the Splodge Away cards I demo'd on Ideal World on Wednesday.



Vintage mixed media

Good evening, I wanted to show this piece I made on Thursday/Friday while I was staying with my mega talented friend Annette Lee.

I actually took several photos so you could see all the different elements/techniques but blogger is acting up again, so I have given up trying and will have to be satisfied with 2 pics.

The wooden frame was from Crafty Individuals.

First I painted randomly with two brown shades of Acrylic paint, then added a few bits of TH Tissue tape.  I rubbed some Inca paste to give a little shimmer then using a mica mask added leaves using some Croco metallic crackle paint in Bronze & Gold.  While I waited for the paint to dry I made the flowers from some lovely Grapic 45 paper we found in Annette's den, they were cut using a TH cutting die then inked with alcohol ink and dipped in UTEE,the little charm centres were also coloured with the alcohol ink.

I added some Mica Flakes to the bottom right corner, stamped some text from one of the new Sam Poole stamp sets and drizzled some UTEE over it.

The Dressmaker tile was made by pouring more UTEE over a Crafty Individuals stamp then I added some pink paint to the back for a gentle tint.

I used yet more UTEE, I poured some over a pile of Mica Flakes on my craft sheet and stamped a butterfly into it, then over the top I added a glazed butterfly for more dimension.

The Dressform was stamped onto glass and embossed Gold and Bronze, I then turned the glass over and coloured the wings with Alcohol ink.

The glass was then backed with some more of the Graphic 45 paper.

A couple of charms and beads added and thats it!

I might add some beaded fringe to the bottom, not decided yet.

Thats it for now, enjoy the rest of the Easter break.