30th April 2016, My Lovely Shabby Chic.

Hello and good morning. Woke up today to beautiful sunshine, cold but lovely blue skies.  Today is my youngest grand daughters birthday party, so must get a move on as I have some baking to do .

Today my card is a pretty Shabby Chic style which as you know I love doing, so here it is  !
I used a Spellbinder nesting die, so very pretty and added one large hand made pink flower, the rest were from my stash.  The dried gypsophila always adds to the Shabby chic look, plus it fills in any little gaps.

                                                Here's a close up of the pretty flowers.

 

Hope you like todays card, thank you for stopping by xx

25th April, 2016 Lovely Lilac

Hello again,  two postings in one day  !!  Getting the hang of the photograph side....hmmm !  after all this time !   If someone just explained it in simple terms, result !

So here is my lovely second card that I have just finished in lovely lilacs, one of my favourite colours.  A simple card to make, didn't take me long to do but I do like the end result.

I tried to match up the lovely roses on the background paper. I used white roses and added a touch of pink here and there to the petals.  A few small lilac flowers and dried gypsophila.  I distressed the edges of the paper and rubbed a touch of white paste around the edges to add to the shabby chic look.

 

Thank you for stopping by, have a lovely crafting day, xxx

 

26th April, 2016

A Pretty Vintage Style card topper.

This is a pretty vintage style photograph that I purchased from a craft store that was in sheet format with others, so I will be getting a lot of use from these photo's.  I have added a pretty filigree bow, a Sue Wilson die to the top of the topper.  The flowers have been hand made, white card stock for this flower die with the edges of the petals touched with Tim Holtz distress ink, Victorian Velvet just to give that hint of pink that I wanted.   I did my usual spray and scrunch technique. Works for me most times.

 

Here's a closer peep at the flowers. I added a little pearl bead in the middle.

 

 

 

Hope that you like this card topper, thank you for taking a look, always appreciated, xx

 

 

6th April 2016, A Lilli of the Valley Card

 

 

Hi, good afternoon, today I have a pretty Lilli of the Valley card to show you that I have done for a friend, she has a granddaughter who will soon be 4 years old and loves bunnies, so this stamp from Lilli of the Valley has to be perfect.

I coloured the bunnies in with Copics and added a little Glossy Accents to the paws and the little hearts. The larger flowers were hand made with my usual style, spray and scrunch.

The pretty die cut leaves are a fairly new die from Sue Wilson's collection.

 

Here's a closer peep at the flowers. Hope you like my card, take care, love and hugs xx

 

29th March 2016

A Girly Card,  ' All  Dressed Up  '

Hi !  Good morning, today my card is one that I really enjoyed making, a proper pink girly card.  The stamp is  by Little Darlings, just love it !!  Reminds me of so many young people in my family so could get used quite a lot.  I actually used distress ink to colour her in, getting a bit better. I did go out and buy some really good brushes which I think helped enormously .

The large flowers are hand made from white mulberry paper, coloured with a quick pink spray and a little distress ink. The doily die in the background is Marianne. The card stock that I used was a freebie down load, two different pinks ones , flowery and striped.

 

I don't design or work for any craft company, everything is my own inspiration and my lovely hobby, thank you for stopping by, take care and have a lovely day xxx

24th March 2016

A Religious Card, for Easter

Good evening to everyone. Today I have done a religious card with Easter in mind  So much has been happening for me that the Easter holiday has crept up on me rather quickly. So for all my granddaughters it was a quick trip to buy the lovely chocolate eggs for them as well as a little gift.

I used white linen cardstock for this card and pretty roses. The larger one has been hand made.  The cross was done in silver so that it would stand out against the white background.  Martha Stewart punch provided the little green foliage in two different greens.

19th March 2016 Here we go again with my Teddy Bo card !!

Here at last is my card that once again disappeared into outer space, so hopefully this time round it will be ok.  Must get the young lady in to see what I am doing wrong , so little time  !   Anyway, this was a digital image download, as you can imagine caused me lots of problems, as was lost in my computer until son in law found it !  Teddy Bo was coloured by using Copics.  The white doily is a Marianne Anja frame.  I made the flowers from a Spellbinder die and coloured them in a deep yellow to match the sunflower that Teddy Bo is holding.

Here's a close up of the flowers.   I added black micro beads in the middle and ivory dried gypsophila to hide any little gaps between the leaves.  Hope you like my card, thank you for stopping by, have a wonderful weekend  xx