24th September 2015

A Hannah Lynn Card

Hello and good morning. Today I am showing you a card that I made using a Hannah Lynn stamp. I have a number of these in my stash, but for some reason they get overlooked, and they are so pretty !
Who would just love pink hair ! Well this beautiful lady has now got it !  Pretty Cool !

Of course I coloured her using my favourite Copics, used a white gel pen to add the few white highlights in her hair.  The flower is hand made, a few daisy die cuts, sprayed and scrunched, left to dry and then layered.  I bought two new dies from La La land , Cherry Blossom and the half doily, so just had to use them. These dies cut like a dream , love using them.

 

Here's a closer peep at the flower with a sparkly gem in the middle.

 

 

 

A peep at the inside of the card.

 

 

17th September 2015

At Last I have done a pretty Magnolia Tilda Card  !!

I so enjoyed making this card, using lots of pretty pinks, oh so girly....!  I used the Magnolia Doohickey Peony dies for the flowers and popped a pretty white pearl heart in the middles. The gorgeous butterfly is from La La Land dies and the doily in the background, edged with a touch of pink is from Marianne dies, part of the Anja Series. Get's used quite a lot.

 

 

Here's a closer peep at the pretty peony flowers. I have added two rolled roses with a pearl bead in the middle.  The leaves are a new addition , a Sue Wilson die, I think it's called quilled leaves.

 

 

I always try to show a peep at the inside of the card, so here it is, using the lovely doily die to write your message on. 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by, have a wonderful day, xx

 

10th September 2015

Back to my lovely Shabby Chic again and roses


What a beautiful day it has been today, lots and lots of sunshine and comfortably warm. Today is a very special day for the ladies of Doncaster. Today is Ladies Day at the very famous St Leger races, the oldest flat race in the world.  The ladies always get very dressed up for this event and a hat is an absolute must.  I live near the racecourse so get to see quite a few passing by. I usually go, but not this year......baby sitting !  Ah well ,I will be there next year hopefully. Always have a bet, never know what I am betting on, but the name of the horse sounds good.

So today is a pretty romantic style, Shabby Chic with roses.  I used the always lovely Spellbinder dies to use on this card, Fleur de Elegance. My background card that you can just see peeping through is from Lemoncraft, another of my favourites !

 

I wanted quite a pale pink for the roses, so used white ones and misted just a little bit with a pink spray on some and a very light green and pink on the others. Was really pleased with the result.

I distress the edges of the rose leaves and scrunched them up a bit to give a little more natural look.

 

My lovely dried ivory gypsophila adds to the finishing touch.....romantic !

 

 

28th August 2015

A Laser Cut Card, The lovely spares from my daughters wedding.

Some years ago, when my daughter got married, like all us crafters I made all her stationary for the big day.  I bought quite a few different samples, which were put away in safe place ( like we all do !)
And from that day they were lost !  So having a clear out of a very top cupboard ( have to stand on steps to get into it ) I found a pretty box and these were inside.  Immediately my crafting head went into gear, and this is what I have come up with.

The laser cut part was already there , so just needed to do the insert.  I chose very pale turquoise backing paper, Lemoncraft, and die cut the corner flowers from the scrapbook sheet with a pretty heart die

I used a Doohickey die for the little flowers, edged a tad with a gold pen, popped a pearl in the middle....lovely !  Not too much to over power the beautiful laser cut sides.

 

 

Here's a closer look a the die cut heart with the flowers.  The white leaves have been die cut with my all time favourite die from Marianne.

 

 

 

This is the card part closed, so pretty, so pleased I found them ! 

 

22nd August 2015

A White on White card, always elegant  !

Another white on white card, always love to do one of these. there is just something about them that I think is so classic.  I used a beautiful Cheery Lynn die for the hearts, there are at least 4 hearts in the set, various sizes, so always useful.  I embossed the back ground cardstock , did a dotty one. I then layered the hearts.  I wasn't sure if I should do roses, but decided for a change to do daisies.  Again, die cut and layered. I painted all the petals with opal dust , you can just see a touch of sparkle.
I could not resist popping a little white rose in the middle.

 

Here is a closer look at the pretty sparkly daisies.

 

 

I added some white organza ribbon.

  

 

 

 

Hope you like my white on White card. Thank you for stopping by, take care xx

17th August, 2015

I,ve been making butterfies  !

Every now and then my imagination starts to run a bit crazy, and I want to have a go at doing something a little bit different, so when I was rummaging through my material box I found lots of lace material and net.  I thought perhaps my butterfly dies may go through the materials and they did !  I chose different types of mymaterials, layered them , glued down the middle. Next was what to put down the middle.  Love making stick pins, have loads of beads so stick pins it was.  Pretty pleased how they came out.  Put them on eBay.....sold !

 

So if I can die cut butterflies, then my flower dies should do the same !   

Die cut lilac net, die cut mulberry paper flowers, sprayed and scrunched, dried, put the whole lot together. Must have a touch of glitter !  Job done !

 

13th August 2015

A Magnolia Tilda Cascading Card.

Hi everyone !  Today I am showing you a card that I have made using the larger of the two templates. It is a great way of saving time using a template, as also I am non too good at measuring and getting everything perfectly lined up.  Oh how this takes out all the hard work !  just love it !  thank you Paula at Which Craft, Doncaster.

I used white spotty organza ribbon with a pretty pearl embellishment, and down each side I die cut a Doohickey border, think it's called Lovely Lace. Had it a long time but you are still able to get it.

The pretty little flowers are a set of three dies from La-La-Land. I die cut them out using white card, coloured them gently with pink Copic pens and added a few little black dots along the petals.

Tilda has been coloured using Copic pens and Prisma pencils.

                                                    Here's a side ways view of the card

 

A closer peep at the La La Land die cut flowers

 

 

The little tag, just peeping out is a stamp from Lili of the Valley