30th October 2016, A Lili of the Valley card topper

Hi !  Where has October gone ?  Last day tomorrow.  I have my stack of sweeties in ready for the children, if they don't take it all I can eat the rest !

Today I have a pretty card topper to show you from Lili of the Valley stamps.  I used for the very first time water soluble crayons/pastels for the colouring and was really pleased with the results. So some more are on my Christmas wish list.

Once again I made the flowers from mulberry paper, pale blue and pink with a little rose popped in the middle. The lovely round die is a new one to my never ending collection from Joy Craft dies, love it, and will use it a lot.  Here's a closer peep at my flowers.

The die behind the flowers was a freebie on a Tattered Lace magazine, isn't it pretty !

So that's me for today, dinner cooking, family want feeding, bye for now and take care xx

17th October, 2016, A Christmas Card using a laser Cut Card.

Hi everyone, today is a bit of a cheat card. I had some lovely laser cut unused invitations in my stash from forever a go, so every now and then I come across them and an re-inspired to make a card. It's such a shame not to use them as they are so pretty, and the longer I keep them the more they could get damaged, so here is my Christmas card, using an image from Maja Design.

    The card stock is also Maja Design, love the tartan pattern.  I made a poinsettia flower from a filigree Spellbinder die and popped a large flat pearl in the middle. A few gold holly leaves, done  !

       
Here's the card closed up showing off the beautiful laser cut folds, just love it, must make some more .  Thank you for taking a peep, hope my cards inspire you, have a lovely day, hugs xx

9th October, 2016. My Grand daughters birthday card.

Hello lovely crafters, I hope that you are all safe and well. Here in the UK we are getting all the reports regarding Hurricane Matthew in the States. Although we do get adverse weather from time to time, nothing like this terrible hurricane.

Today I would like to show you a card that I made for my lovely grand daughter, using Pion Design papers.

They are such beautiful papers and love to use them.  The white rose lace was a recent purchase from China, so inexpensive and great delivery.  I added two  double layer butterflies , pretty pink roses a touch more lace and to be honest besides the doily die, I thought it was enough.

                   Hope you like the card, thank you for taking a peep, love and hugs to all xx

1st October 2016. A Buttterfly Easel Card.

Hi, good afternoon !  I hope that you are all having a lovely weekend.  Today I would like to show you a butterfly easel card that I have made.  I had a chipboard butterfly in my stash, meant to make something with it and it got pushed to the back of everything !  So it has come in useful as I have used it to draw around as a template !   So I made an easel card !  Once in white cardstock and they drew around it again in pretty Lemoncraft cardstock.

I die cut a further butterfly and cut out a smaller butterfly and layered them, a few flat backed pearls down the middle.  I made the mulberry pale turquoise flowers, but added some pretty pink bought roses.  A touch of dried gypsophila to give it the soft Shabby chic treatment.

A sideways peep at the card, Pretty pleased at how it has turned out....thanks for stopping by xx