25th August, 2016, A Pretty Fan Card.

Hello Good morning,  I am up bright and early today, it is going to be a beautiful day. Today I would like to show you a pretty card that I made .  I have had this die for some time, an Anja Die. I have used it a few times and am always pleased with the results, as it is something different. Hope you like it also.

The white silk tassels must have been bought when I first bought the die, so it was nice to find them in my stash box. I had some little white roses, so I gave them the pink treatment, just a touch.

  The lace leaves are one of my favourite dies, a Marianne Die, and the little green leaves  is a Martha Stewart Punch.  Wishing you all a lovely Bank Holliday weekend, take care, hugs, xx
                                                           

22nd August, 2016. A Pretty Heart.

Hi everyone, good evening  !  I am having a lovely peaceful evening, doing exactly what I want to do.  Wonderful !  Does not happen very often,  so I am taking the opportunity to do just that !  I have a lovely heart topper to show you that I did make a week or so ago, so I hope that you like it also.

I hand made the flower and dyed it so as to give it the Shabby Chic look, the gold die that I have used for the flourishes is from Memory Box, Madera Corners.  I use this die quite a lot.

                                                   Here's a closer peep at the flower.

I crinkled up the organza ribbon by using my heat gun whilst it was tied up in a bow, not too near and not too long, otherwise you will have sizzled ribbon !  Easy to do and quite effective.  And as always my touch of ivory dried gypsophila  (  have I spelt it right ) to give it lovely feminine touch.
                         Thank you for stopping by, always appreciated, take care, hugs  xx

18th August, 2016, A Vintage Style Card.

Hi ! Good evening everyone, thank you for stopping by to take a peek at my cards. Today I have a pretty vintage, shabby chic card to show you, using Pion Design goodies.

There's a lot going on for this card, think I got kind of carried away.  I made the pink fabric flower, a few different layers, dyed pink canvas and dyed organza, using the heat gun method to crinkle and dissolve the organza circle.  Find this way much easier that trying to use a candle  !  Works really well if you have a hot heat gun, a metal something or other to hold it down ( a spoon will do )  watch out though ! the spoon can get quite hot  !  The ivory lace guipure flower with the  bits trailing was purchased from China.  They always do great lace etc.,find a good supplier and you can't go wrong....so much cheaper as well.

I cut out a few little butterflies to add to the card and popped a little diamante in the middle of each one.  The lovely border is a gorgeous die cut by ( I think ) Heartfelt Creations, I know it is called Magnolia Border. I have that many dies it is impossible to keep them in their respected packaging , instead they are in boxes, labelled....leaves....flowers....borders....frames, and on and on...my husband says I have a serious problem, guess he could be right for once !

 So , again, must dash, too much to do, too little time, thank you for taking a peep, take care xx

11th August, 2016 , Saturated Canary Card

Hi, good morning,  I am up bright and early today, hubby is fast asleep. I really enjoy this time of day to myself, it is amazing what things can get done.  Today I have a Saturated Canary card to show you.  It is ages since I did one. It was a digital download, on my old computer and I don't have a clue where it has gone, that's why I don't care much for digi images, much prefer a good old stamp !  Fortunately I did a few of this one so at least I can still reincarnate her.

Again, coloured with Copics, I made the flower using a Spellbinders die, scrunched whilst damp and the edges given a touch of blue.  Small rolled roses with a pearl bead popped in the middle.  There are a lot of dies used on this card. A Honeycomb die, Lovely View die Butterfly border and a new purchase Butterfly banner.  I kept the colours very pastel for this card.

         You can just see in the right hand corner the new three butterflies on a banner, love it.

              Thank you for taking a peep at my cards, always appreciated, enjoy your day xxx

9th August, 2016, A Magnolia Tilda Card

Hello lovely crafters, I hope that you have all had an amazing weekend.  I have just returned from a week away and had a very restful time. Today I have another Magnolia Tilda card to show you that has been done in pinks using the lovely Maja Design card.

The large flower has been hand made and distressed with white Gesso as have the leaves and the butterfly. The lace ribbon has been scrunched up whilst damp and rubbed into a diluted Tim Holtz distress ink, Pickled Raspberry.  I have used Copics to colour Tilda.

                           
                                                        A closer peep at the flower.

                                               Thank you for stopping by, take care, xx

30th July, 2016, A Shabby Chic Card using Pion Design papers

Hi everyone,  What a beautiful day !  I have been so very busy as it has been one of my grand daughters birthday, she has reached the age of 4 and is delightful.  She had a pony party, besides lots of things, they got to paint a real pony.  As you can imagine the pony was covered with lovely hand prints with sparkles.

Today I have a pretty Shabby Chic card to show you made using Pion papers, always a favourite, and as said before I am so lucky to live near a great craft shop that sells these delightful papers and card stock.

I hand made the canvas/burlap flowers, dyed it with Tim Holtz distress inks and layered it up with a bit of lace and a little bit of cheese cloth.  The centre is mulberry paper, dyed green and a pearl bead popped in the middle.  I love the large doily from Cheery Lyn , die cut just one, and cut it up to slide behind the cardstock.           

                            
                                    Here's a closer peep at the flower. Thank you for taking a peep  xxx

26th July 2016, Lovely Butterfly Topper.

Hello everyone, today I have a pretty butterfly card topper to show you.  The butterfly die is an old one from Cheery Lynn, I must admit that it has not been used very much as I thought it too large, however, am quite pleased with how this topper has turned out.

I actually embossed the butterfly, something I have not done for some time, I used a pretty pink embossing powder and added after a touch of iridescent powder on top, has given it a lovely shine.

The little roses were given a touch of pink spray and die cut leaves added.  Have put some real bling on the butterfly !  The card that I have used is from Maja Design.

        A closer peep at the butterfly.  Thank you for stopping by, must dash as am being taken out for afternoon tea and must make myself presentable.  have a lovely afternoon, I know I will  !!