28th February, 2015 A Pretty Heart Tag.

 

 

Good Afternoon to everyone, hope you are all having a lovely weekend.  February is almost over and Spring is most definitely in the air.  My tortoise has woken up  !  He was making scratting sounds with his little legs and making his presence known.  He is now in my kitchen, laid on a blanket to gradually thaw out a lot more. As soon as he has a drink of water, which will not be for a good few days, then we will know that he's fine. He will be allowed to have the run of the kitchen until the weather is really nice then he will be moved to his little house in the garden. What a spoilt tortoise  !

 

Here at last is my pretty tag style card, a heart one, done in pinks and brown.

 

The die that I used was from the Cheery Lyn dies. The cardstock was a tad too thin so I die cut the white base out twice and layered.

 

The second heart, done in light brown is also from the same die set by Cheery Lynn.

 

 

 

 

I added some white seam binding ribbon to the top of the heart, tied in with some white lace style knitting wool  ! not wool like at all, more material in feel, made by Sirdar , called Fire Fox.  It is from a cardigan I was making many years ago, never completed, still in the drawer, and about five balls of ' wool ' never used, so I have out it to good use in my card making. I think it is quite pretty and a tad different. A large white pearl popped in the middle.

 

 

The butterfly has been die cut twice, layered,  embossed and glittered and a few white flat backed pearls down the centre.

 

19th February, 2015 A Wild Rose Studio Card

Hello and good morning, here I am up all bright and early and feeling very well.  I returned from hospital yesterday having an operation and it is so good to be back home. What a gem we have in our National Health Hospitals. I was looked after so good that I have nothing else but praise for all the staff.

Anyway, enough of all that, here is my latest card that I would like to show you, which of course was finished before my op.  It is a new stamp that I recently bought by Wild Rose Studios, and have been itching to use it.  So here is what I did.....

The paper bow is a Magnolia Doohicky die, Bridal Bow, with a little paper rose popped into the middle and the doily behind it, done in white is a half doily from the Tattered lace collection of dies. I like to use this one quite a lot as it is so very delicate.

The flower was made from white coffee filter papers, a Magnolia Doohickey Doily flower die, sprayed with a touch of very pale pink, scrunched up, dried with my heat gun, teased out and the layers put together, again a little rose popped into the centre.

The butterfly is a metal one, bought from goodness knows where, which  I added embossing powder to and a large flat backed white pearl in the middle. The lace is from my stash, which would have been bought from my local market. We have an amazing haberdashery stall in Doncaster open market, you name it...we can get it....  Of course the stamp was coloured using my very favourite pens...Copics  !

This is a side view of the card  with a peek of the inside which I did in the same matching card stock, lots of space to write your message and the Tattered Lace die under the message space to add just that little bit more interest..   Hope that you like this card, thank you for stopping by, have a wonderful day, xx 

10th February, 2015, A Lili of the Valley Cards, Bunnies in the Bath.

 

 

 

Hello to all the card crafting people, hope you are all having a wonderful day.

 

Well, here was me being quite smug, doing large photographs....now they keep disappearing !

I have finally learnt how to do a space between the photographs, using a jump break ! wondered what they were for, but as said before, if you are not a typist or work with computers, it's a strange thing to grasp or understand the terminology, but I'm  getting there !

 

So here is my small photo of the very lovely Bunnies in the Bath from Lili of the Valley Stamps.

I used this stamp for a New Home card, so there they are celebrating with a glass of bubbly after a hard day moving furniture with a lovely hot bath !

 

I meant to put a touch of Stickles silver glitter coming out of the champagne glasses for the bubbles, but forgot !

I just used card stock that was in my stash, and  kept the card quite clean and simple

 

 

 

Here's a photo of the side view of the card

 

The flower was made using a Spellbinder flower die from pink dyed mulberry paper, then I added a Tattered Lace Daisy die in white over the top. I little bit of ivory dried gypsophila and a few more little roses to finish with.

 

I love my white paste, so could not resist some around the edges of the card.  No matter how I have tried different ways to add the paste, I still use Peter Pointer  !  Those with grand children will know exactly what I mean  !

 

 

 

Here's the inside of the card. 

Thank you for taking the time to look at my cards, have a lovely day, take care xx

 

8th February, 2015 A Sarah Kay card

 

Good Morning,  It's Sunday again......where has the week gone ?

Thank you so much for stopping by to take a peek at my Sarah Kay card. Isn't she pretty ?

 

I coloured her using my favourite Copic pens and added a touch of  Frantage to the back ground.

 

 

 

The flower I made using Maja Design paper and popped a little rose in the centre, just love those lace like leaves. It's a Marianne die that I have had for ages and use it all the time, in fact I have two as I thought I had accidently  thrown it away, searched every where to no avail , purchased another only to find the original some days later  !

 

 

This is a view of the card from the standing up position with just a peep of the inside.

 

 

 

I decorated the inside to match the front, the pretty banner of hearts is a die from \La La Land. a touch of white paste and done  !!

 

Hope that you like my card, thank you for stopping by and have a lovely day

 xxxx

 

 

29th January, 2015

A Saturated Canary Card

We have snow again......!  Woke up to it this morning.  I am looking after my daughters two cavalier spaniels whilst she moves house, and they had me up at 6.30 a.m , no snow then. Anyway, me being able to get up any time I want, such a luxury ! I went back to bed, all snuggled up and fell back to sleep, so it was a surprise to see all the snow at 9.0.p.m. ( yes that was the time I got up  !!  ) bliss, pure bliss. There is something to be said about being retired.

So today I have a pretty Saturated Canary card to show you, I think she is called Rose Red and was a down load digital print, which I am not a fan of  as not being very good with computers, she has been lost for some time as I could not remember how to do it.  I,m an old fashioned kind of gal and love my stamps.

I coloured her with Copics and added a dot of white gel paint to her eyes to bring them out , so to speak.
The flowers are Magnolia Doohickey doily flowers that I embossed  and tucked behind the card stock to add a bit of a border.  The flower border on the right of the card is from Marianne, Anja dies which I think is really pretty. Popped a few flat backed pearls in the middle of the flowers to add a bit more interest.

The doily is called Lovely View and has been used a lot of times, which is what I call a good investment, as I have dies in my collection that have hardly been touched, can't bear to part with them ....just in case  !

The pink flower has been hand made using white mulberry paper and adding a ivory embellishment to the centre.





                                                       Heres a peek of the card standing up.

The inside of the card made to compliment the front, I used Bella Rosa card stock, one of my favourites, the quality is really good.

Hope that you like my card, so until my next posting, take care, and if you live not too far way from me, enjoy the snow  !! xxx

26 th January, 2015.

A Magnolia Tilda card,  Hello again and thank you for visiting my blog.  I,m slowly getting there trying my best to understand how you move pictures, align your text correctly, most difficult when the computer terminology is soooo difficult when you have never ever worked with computers.  Everything in my day was done by pen and paper, I sound so ancient, but really it is not that long ago.

Anyway, here is my Magnolia Card that I so enjoyed  doing. Just love the colours of pink and browns together.  This Magnolia stamp was the very first one that I bought, and so love her as she is just really cute.

I used Maja Design paper for my card stock and actually coloured Tilda  with Distress Inks, which is pretty much a first for me, but I was quite pleased with the results so will probably use them a lot more.

The white doily is a new purchase from Spellbinders, part of a set. I have distressed the edges of the Tim Holtz butterfly border with a little brown distress ink and added a few pink flat backed pearls.

I did some pretend stitching around the card with a fine point black pen.  The large pink daisy was too big, so I trimmed down the petals a tad and popped a pretty rose in the middle.

 

 

 

 

The white filigree paper bow is from Spellbinders 

 

 

 

 

A sideways peep of the of the card

 

 

 

This is a closer look at the large daisy that I trimmed down, popped a rolled rose in the middle and a smaller rose in the middle of the rolled one, I though it looked just that bit different.  Added a little white Gesso to complete the look.

 

 

 

Here's a photo of the inside of the card, loads of room to write a message.

Hope you like my card, thank you for looking, always appreciated, take care.

 

 

16th January, 2015

Hello everyone, and welcome to my new card that I am posting today. I have tried unsuccessfully I may add to post this card a number of times to day. What happened to the time today. I was to understand that when you retired you had more time......no !!  I seem to keep bumping into different things, heading off in a new direction, doing lots and lots of  other interesting bits and bobs....and the day is almost gone !

So I am taking this opportunity before I go to bed to show you this pretty Whimsy step card.

The little girl was a freebie from a magazine quite some time ago. I don't buy a lot of crafting magazines, but every now and then you see something that you know you will use, and she has been used quite a few times.

The step card was bought in a pack from my local craft shop Which Craft in Doncaster. Paula has lots and lots of beautiful and different styles of pre-scored cards in stock, so worth a peek.

The little girl was coloured using  Copic pens and a little touch of Prisma pencils. 

The large pink daisy was from my stash, it was too large so I cut the petals down, layered another daisy on top and cut the petals just that tad shorter and popped a little rose in the middle, a dash of white Gesso on the edges to finish off the flower.

The white bow is a Spellbinders, Sue Wilson filigree bow and the turquoise jewel in the middle is hand made.

I die cut and embossed the butterfly, and whilst the embossing powder was still hot, sprinkled a little glitter on. it.  The card stock that I used is from the Tilda range.

Well I did have a photo to show you of a close up of the flower, but it is floating around in cyber space. Must get my 10 year old grand daughter  to show me what  I am doing wrong !!

Hope you like this card, thank you for stopping by and taking a peek.....off to bed now, night night  xx