21st November, 2017, Romance and Lace

Hello everyone.  At last I have done and finished with making Christmas cards, as much as I have enjoyed making them there comes a time when you want to concentrate onto something else. Valentines Day is just around the corner and I feel sure that there are lots of lovely couples making wedding plans for next year, so that inspired me to do some romantic style cards, This is what I have come up with and hope you like them.

The first one is a Wedding card topper done with a LOTV stamp and coloured using Copics.

The lace applique was from my stash, bought some time ago from an oddment of bridal material.

The lace set me off on making the heart shaped topper. I made the Foamiran flowers and buds. Using the lace applique in the first one set me off searching for other pieces of lace. This one came from a milliners shop . I must admit I sat and looked at it for some time before cutting into it.

Isn't it beautiful ?  The applique piece has little beads, slightly larger pearl beads and edged in silver thread.   Thank you for taking a peep at my work, always appreciated. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year xx

11th December, 2017 A Stamping Bella Birthday Card.

Hi, from what seems like the only part of the UK that has no snow. I would like to show you a birthday card that I made using a Stamping Bella stamp.  The recipient of this card loves her morning coffee so thought this was so appropriate.  I used Copics to colour the image.

I like the idea of having a matching die for the image as it makes it so much more versatile.

The flowers are hand made using Foamiran.  I still prefer to colour the edges using water soluble crayons after having tried all different kinds of colours.  The pretty gem in the centre was from a bracelet that I found in a cheap store and took it apart. 

Thank you for stopping by, have a lovely evening, xx

3rd December 2017 Make a Wish Card

Hi, good morning . I was asked by my cousin that lives in Florida to make her a card, which at the moment is on it's way across ' The Pond ' 

It is from a stamp , LOTV, that I have had for some time, but never fails, just love it.

I coloured the cute little girls with Copics and of course it  has to be pink. all the flowers are handmade including the pink Foamiran rose made using a Spellbinders rolled rose die.

I always like to decorate the inside of the card to compliment the front.  Hope you like my card, thank you for stopping by, have a lovely day, hugs xx

27th November 2017 Pretty Hearts with Foamiran Flowers

Hi, today I have some pretty die cut hearts to show you embellished with Foamiran flowers.

I added a little ivory dried gypsophilia  which I think gives it that extra special touch.

Very similar , but different. Again a pink Foamiran flower was used , but other embellishments. Hope you like my pretty heart card toppers, thank you for taking the trouble to take a peep, xx

17th November, 2017 For those who like Teddie Bears

Hi, Today I would like to share with you some beautiful papers from Pion Design called Theodore and Bella.  I have used them before but they went to the bottom of my stash to be discovered again. They are so useful and oh so very pretty and could be adapted to any kind of card.

The pretty lace die has been in my collection for some time, again forgotten until I saw a card with this die being used. It is from Spellbinders if I remember correctly.

                                            A closer peep at the lace die and flowers.

                                             Such a pretty picture cut from the papers.

                                        Thank you for stopping by, have a lovely weekend xx

10th November, 2017, A little bit more Christmas

Hi everyone, had a really lovely day with my youngest grandchild, she is just over  two and a half years old and as bright as a button. She was really interested in all the beautiful Christmas window displays and all the shops selling Christmas decorations.  It was so good to see her little face light up at what she was looking at.  It is to  treasure these times as you never get them back.

On the Christmas theme, I have some more of my Christmas work to show you, hope you like them.

This is from Lili of the Valley, one of their latest Christmas launch stamps, coloured with Copics

For this one , again it is Lili of the Valley, but bought last year and is one of their many images to download.  I added a bit of Glossy Accents to the little Robin and a few snowflakes to the background.  The large flower is made using the popular Foamiran with some stamens added to the centre.

                 Thank you for taking a peep, have a lovely evening, take care, xx

28th October 2017 Less is More Card.

Hi everyone, been so busy with such a lot of family and friends birthdays. So have been doing some cards on lovely silk linen cardstock ' Less is More ' style.  Had a good search in my boxes of stamps and found some totally forgotten really nice stamps.  On this card I used a Hero Arts stamp of three seperate roses.

I stamped each rose and coloured with Copics, mounted each one onto some stitched edged rectangle dies, double layered the dies, added a Happy Birthday.....done  !

I kept the inside of the card plain. 

Hope you like my card, thank you for stopping by, have a lovely weekend xx