29 th August  2014.

A Pink Shabby chic Card.

Hello everyone, thank you for stopping by to have a peek at my Shabby Chic card.  I made this card a couple of weeks ago , but with it being the school holidays I have had no time to keep up with things.

                  Who said that when you retire that you have less time  ?  Well it is so true.!

                                                             So here is my card.....

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I used Maja Design papers for the background with a little glittered embossing paste, white lace from my stash  and a  perfume bottle printed post card .

The flowers were all hand made with some white paste added to them to help create the Shabby Chic look.

Here is a picture of the flowers.

                             I decorated the inside of the card to match, but put the lace across.

The white embossed paste in the corner has been glittered , but the photo dose not show it up.  Must ask my grand daughter for some photograph tips, as she is studying this subject at school.

Hope that you have enjoyed looking at this card as much as I enjoyed making it.  Thank you for stopping by and taking a peek.  Have a lovely weekend,.

18th August, 2014

Lots of pretty pearls,

Good morning to all the lovely people that are up bright and early this morning.  One of my daughters is away for a few days so I have been entrusted with looking after her two pretty Cavalier doggies, who are up early  !!  hence me also !  So I thought that I would take this opportunity of  showing you this pretty Shabby Chic Card that I have made, which if you are interested is for sale on ebay.

I enjoy making my own flowers, so this card is no exception as all the flowers have been made by myself.

I would like to show you a closer look at the flowers which have dried white gypsophilia among them

I added some white seam binding ribbon and champagne coloured embroidered lace.

The pretty frame was made using Martha Stewart air drying clay with a little gold enamel pen touching the edges here and there.

I put some  Glossy Accent glue inside then the white pearl beads and a little crystal glass glitter, which is really sparkly which unfortunately the photo dose not  capture.

The die cut butterfly is from Joy Craft from a set of three, which is just the right size to sit on the edge of the pearly  frame.

I hope you like my Shabby Chic card, thank you so much for popping by and taking a peek, hope you all have a lovely day.

14th August, 2014

Pretty roses, shabby chic style card.

Hi !  and good morning to  everyone.    At last the sun is shining here in South Yorkshire, no more torrential downpours we hope.   I have just returned form a  boating holiday on the Calder & Hebble  canal system in West Yorkshire.  I have developed muscles that I  was not aware that I had.  The locks are the old traditional style, oh boy are they hard to work with a windlass. Some have to be used with a  large wooden stick called a hand spike !  not for the faint-hearted  !!  Although it would help if they were  greased up a bit more .


So for my card today, I have posted  a pretty ' shabby chic ' style . I really enjoy making flowers, so all the roses on this card have been hand made and coloured by Moi !   The leaves have been die cut, squashed and creased after I have embossed with a dark green and gold embossing powder and edged with a gold leaf  pen

I used Anna Griffin paper for the background and vintage seam binding ribbon in a lovely rusty colour that was wet and scrunched up for the ' shabby chic ' look.  Dried cream gypsophila was added among roses 

I decorated the inside of the card to match, but swapped around the Anna Griffin paper, top to bottom and again used a little of the rusty coloured ribbon..

I hope that you like my card, thank you so much for taking a look and hope that you have a lovely day.

A Lilli of the Valley Wedding card

31st  July, 2014  A Lili of the Valley Wedding Card..

Good morning fellow crafters  !  Are you all up bright and early like myself.  I find that I am not sleeping as well as normal due to the heat  so am taking advantage getting up earlier than normal, getting a few jobs done around the house and showing you this pretty wedding card.

The stamp that I have used is from  Lili of the Valley that I have coloured with Copic pens, my favourite form of colouring.  I have used a Spellbinders, Lovely View die and  Tim Holtz  Film Strip. 

The flowers are all hand made using white coffee filter paper and white water colour paper.  For a softer look to the flowers, I added some white dried gypsophilia.

The pink butterflies have lots of clear crystal glitter on the tips of their wings .

I hope that you like this card ....thank you so much for visiting my blog, have a lovely day 

28th July, 2014

My lovely grand daughter's  birthday card.

Today it is one of my beautiful grand daughter's birthday, she is  two years old, and a real little poppet !
We had a lovely party for her yesterday, all her friends came around, the sun was shining, what a really special day.

She has reached the age where she knows what a birthday party is, and sooo enjoyed blowing out her two candles whilst everyone sang  , " Happy Birthday to You "

So here is the card that I made especially for her.  I used a Mo Manning Digital stamp, called Little Eden.

I used Copic pens to do the colouring and added some shabby chic embossing around the coloured image.

The large roses I made my self using a Spellbinders Spiral Blossom die.

I added two Magnolia Doohickey ' So Wrapped Swirleys '  , one with a matching rose and the other one with ' two today '    The card stock that I used was pretty pink gingham check that was in my stash and LOTV paper from their Shabby Shack paper stack.

At the top of the card I used a Tim Holtz On the Edge Butterfly border,  wound it through my crinkling machine and added a little pink distress ink.  The other butterflies are from Joy Craft , die cut from Maja Design card and a pretty pink rose popped in the centre.

To complete the card, I die cut a Magnolia Doohickey Dream Tag , another rose and a pretty pink and white spotty tied ribbon.

I hope that you like this card, thank you so much for taking a peek, 

27th July 2014 A Brief Encounter.

Hello  again,  

This card was made for a very special lady that we met whilst away on our boat going through the South Yorkshire canal system.

We crafter always take away bits and bobs to do, so her husband spotted me doing some craft work and was interested to find out what I was doing.  When I told him that I made cards, and it was his wife's birthday coming up so he asked me to do her a secret birthday card.

They live on a beautiful wide beam barge and during the lovely months they travel the river and canal system around  England, then moor up for Winter  What an fantastic way to live, and what a lovely couple they were. So, without his wife's knowledge I had to have this secret meeting, to hand over this card.

She loves dogs and they had one quite similar to this grey one, and she also loves music, so I hope that I  was able to incorporate all that she enjoys.

Anyway,  the doggies were down loaded and printed off, then matted and layered.  I chose a pink card background which is from Maja Design and matched it all up with pretty pink flowers, all which were hand made.  Dried gypsophilia  was added to the flowers and die cut leaves.

Because of her love of music I die cut a music bar, which is a Memory Box die . The heart is a Spellbinders die, Heartfelt Creations. Lace and butterflies complete the look that I was after.

I hope that you like this card, and to the lady on the beautiful barge, if you see this posting, Happy Birthday, hope you had a wonderful day and trust that one day we will see you both again.

Thank you for looking, enjoy your day.

23rd July, 2014 A Shabby Chic Tag style card

Hi everyone,

Today has been another glorious day.  I took the grandchildren to the seaside, and was quite pleased that it was cooler and overcast  as it is so easy to get their young skin burnt with the sea air.

Today I am listing a Shabby Chic tag style card.  I always like to do different types of cards as I easily get bored . I sometimes only have to look at some pretty card stock in my stash and my imagination is fired up.

So....this was some Tim Holtz grey card that I found whilst doing a bit of a tidy up...mmmmm grey ? well pink is always good with grey.

I distressed the edges of the tag and then added a little white paste here and there.

The die that I used for the frame is from Joy Craft which has some pearly pink and white heavy embossing enamel on it to help give it a bit of dimension.

I have always enjoyed making my own flowers, these were made using a Magnolia  Doohickey peony  die . I die cut several layers of white coffee filter papers, wet them, and added some pink distress ink.

Whilst still wet,  I scrunched them up a little, joined several layers together with a brad, then dried with a heat gun.  You can see the layers start to separate and curl a little around the edges.

To finish the tag off  I scrunched up whilst damp some white seam binding ribbon, misted with a little pink dye, added some pretty white lace ribbon ( which is really meant for knitting with !  )  and tied it to the top of the tag.  I really enjoyed making this tag, and  hope that you like it too.

Thank you for taking a peek.