21st October 2017 Back to A little Shabby Chic again/

Hello. I have been doing a little bit more Shabby Chic style again, just love making the flowers. Anyone that has not tried making them using Foamiran, do have a go, follow instructions on YouTube there are some great tutorials out there. Once you have tried making them, be warned you will get hooked !  The card I have to show you has three pink Foamiran flowers on it, I used a roll your roses die from Spellbinders which I have had for ever.

I used Pion design paper for the background.

A closer peep at the flowers. Crafters have different ways of colouring the Foamiran, I find the best that sits me, is white Foamiran and a water soluble crayon , pink in this case, the edges of the petals touched back and front before heating and rolling.

When making a card I always prefer to do the inside to match the front.

Hope you like my card, thank you for taking a peep, take care xx

6th October 2017

Hi everyone, Autumn is well and truly on it's way. The trees are loosing their leaves among a riot of crimson, copper moss greens and golds, absolutely beautiful. It is one of my favourite times of the year. On a plus side....you know what to wear when you go out, something a little warm and snuggly, but not too heavy, leave that for the Winter.

Today I have some more card toppers to show you, the first is from an image by Pion Design.

I made the Foamiran flowers and popped a little rose in each centre, my lovely ivory dried gypsophilia adds that Shabby chic look to it.

 Next is a LOTV topper , bridesmaids from their latest range. Coloured with Copics.

I added the pretty stamp and die cut wedding bells which are from Heartfelt Creations.

I really love those die cut frames, Pearl Pin dot by Tattered Lace and have circles, squares and rectangles, which I use such a lot.

Thank you for taking a peep at my work, always appreciated, have a lovely day xx

24th September, 2017 A Pretty Bithday Step Card.

Hi, good morning, in fact a very early good morning, as it is just gone 2 a.m. One of those night when for some silly reason you just cannot get off to sleep. I thought that I may as well do something useful with my time , so would like to show you a birthday card that I finished making yesterday.  It is using the stamp called Wonky Tonk Girls, which I have used a few times and really love it.

The daisies are made from mulberry paper that were spritzed very lightly with pink, screwed up just a little and a tiny rose popped in the middle. I stamped the image, coloured her using Copics, then re-stamped her body onto Maja Design card and layered  3D style. I put a few very tiny pink crystals on her hair.

      A closer peep at the daisies. The leaves are from Heartfelt Creations stamp and die set

Just a few more embellishments and a pretty butterfly to finish off.

Thank you for taking a peep, have a lovely day xx

15th September, 2017 LOTV Christmas

Hi, good morning. I have some pretty LOTV Christmas toppers to show you today using their very latest launch. They are so very cute, could not resist them !

                                The lovely die cut back ground is a Tonic studio set, lots and lots of
                                                          different way to lay the dies.

                         

I seem to be in love with reds at the moment, but very traditional. Again a lovely LOTV image, which I have had for a few years.

Thank you for taking a peep at my work, have a lovely day xx

6th September, 2017 And now for something different.

Hi everyone and welcome.  All our family and close friends birthdays seem to run from the end of August through to January. I am not allowed to buy a bought card for anyone, so a busy time for me at the moment as I have five family birthdays this month, and ooops  ! forgot one , so had to make a quick one, plus a niece that is not very well and in hospital.

I used a Heartfelt Creations Classic Rose stamp, coloured it with Copics and put onto a black background card stock  that I had embossed and gilded in golds.  I added a  pretty organza ribbon with a gem in the middle with a few white faux flat backed pearls...done !  quite pleased !

This one was using Spellbinders dies layered onto a white linen card. I made the pink Foamiran flowers plus a few bought  pink mulberry roses and a little touch of dried gypsophilia

    Hope you enjoy looking at my cards, thank you for taking a peep and have a lovely day.

31st August, 2017. Magnolia for a change.

Hello and good morning.  It seems such a long time since I coloured a cute Tilda image, and felt inspired after having a peep at all the lovely cards on Pinterest. I have a fair amount of Tilda stamps so decided to put at least one to use.

Isn't the scalloped garland banner pretty ?  Bought from Noor Design, a Little Darlings Die.

Lots of pretties used on this card topper.

I made the pretty blue cornflowers by using a Martha Stewart punch, quite impressed with how they turned out. I used mulberry paper, sprayed it a pale blue.

Hope you like my tilde topper, thank you for stopping to take a peep, have a lovely day. xx

18th August, 2017. One LOTV image, two different toppers.

Hi, good morning, today I would like to show you two different toppers that I have done ,using the same down loaded image.  I am quite liking these down load pre-coloured images, so very handy when you are wanting a pretty image, already coloured and you want it now !   not waiting for the post to arrive in a few days time, but now ! As all crafters know, once you get an idea in your head you need to get on with it...... so one down loaded pre-coloured image and this is what I have done.

It is from LOTV and called Hugs. I kept true to the colours and did the topper is pretty shades of browns and cream. The flower was one found in my stash, so tied in quite well with my colour scheme.

I really loved this image, but did not want to do browns again

so I got out my Copics and touched it up with pinks, makes it look totally different.

Thank s for taking a peep, hugs xx