26th July 2015

Shabby Chic with roses.

Hi !  I'm back.....had a lovely restful time. Caught up on some stamping and colouring for future cards.  This is a card that I did before I went away. Did this one go to Denmark ? Not sure, oh my , times passes by so quickly.

I used a lovely Spellbinders floral corner die, cut it out twice to give it a bit more oomph , distressed it and added some gold gilding wax and a touch of gold pen around the edges.  The roses were hand made using white coffee filter papers, misted with pink and white paste added to the edges of their petals and a tad touch of glitter.  The background paper that I used was from Lemoncraft ( love their designs )  Please take a peek at their design papers you will soooo love them !

 

 A side ways view of the card.

 

 

A closer look at the roses and my hand made stick pin.

 

 

Oh so Shabby Chic those roses, just love them  !!

 

  

The inside of the card using the stunning Lemoncraft Design papers.

 

  Thank you for looking at my todays card, hugs  xx 

10th July, 2015

Shabby Chic again  !!!!


Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by, so it's Shabby Chic again, just love this style of card. Love lace, love pearls, yes I'm a real girly girl.  Would love to have my bedroom all white, lace and flowers, keep sneaking a bit in hoping hubby wont notice !!

This card was done after I found the white paper threaded stuff....hmm ! what can I do with that, so here is the result.  I used bought flowers as I often make most of my own. I purchase a lot from China, Singapore and Thailand. Postage can sometimes take a while, but to be honest I have never experienced any problems, so if you are unsure, they are so much cheaper and lovely flowers.

I used a new Spellbinder die from the Blooming Collection, No 4, very useful as you would be able to slot ribbon through the open side bits if wanted. Again lovely ivory dried gypsophila , always looks good on Shabby Chic cards to give that romantic look.  The other die used is Madera Corner by Memory Box, another favourite, I added a few flat backed pearls to the ends of the spray leaves.

White Organza ribbon tied in a double bow and secured by using my hot glue gun. Not very good with a glue gun, so I  use it very sparingly !

 

Here is a side view of the card.

 

 

This is a closer look at the pretty roses with the gypsophila.

 

 

I always try to show the inside of my cards as it is just as important for it to look pretty when you write your message. The circle die is part of the Spellbinder Blooming collection No 4

7th July 2015

A Filigree Card.


Hello everyone, today I have a filigree card to show you , which to be honest I did struggle with.  I looked at quite a few different ways of doing this card on You Tube, but found the way of folding the card down at the top about half an inch too difficult.  No matter how I tried the card stock was too thick to cut through with the die.  It would cut one part ok, but not the middle.  So I found one way of doing it by using Spellbinders Labels 8.  You use the Labels 8 as the card, then add the filigree die cut part onto the top.....taa dahh !  There are other ways I'm sure so need to do a bit more research.

So I used Spellbinders Labels 8 for the card, a Spellbinders Nestabilities for the filigree part then a Sue Wilson die, Caribbean Island die for the centre of the card.  I made the large pink flower using white coffee filter papers an popped a ditsy rose in the middle.

 

Here's a closer peep at the flowers and the die cuts that I used.  I added the word LOVE in silver.

 

 

 

This is the inside of the card, where you can perhaps work out how I used the Labels 8 die

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by, until my next posting, take care xx

 

4th July 2015

A Cascading Shabby Chic Card

Oh my....What a thunderstorm we had last night, not seen lightning like that for ages, so kept me awake a lot. Fortunately I like storms, especially when it cools the air as we have had it so unusually hot.

My card to show you, beautiful crafting friends, is a cascading card done in my favourite shabby chic style.  The template was bought from Paula of Which Craft in Doncaster. So this template takes all the hard work out, no measuring, it's all done for you.  Easy Peasy....or so I thought, but Paula has done a video to help. I am the kind of person that no matter how good the instructions are ( and they are good ) I prefer to be shown, so thank you Paula, you made it really easy for me to understand.

 

 

I used Maja Design papers for the cardstock and the filigree bow is a Sue Wilson Die.

 

I popped a ditsy rose in the middle. The large flower was made from white coffee filter papers, dyed with a ever so slight spray of pink, scrunched, dried and teased out.

There is a sparkly gem in the middle.

To help with  the Shabby look I  added some ivory dried gypsophila among the die cut leaves.

 

 

 

Here is a ide ways view of the card where you can see the lay out of the cascading style a little clearer. 

 

 

The Sue Wilson Filigree bow fits just right.

28th June 2015

A White Butterfly Card.


Ah Well, all set to go out for the day, and it has rained !!  Not much fun doing canal locks in the rain, so will give it a miss and perhaps go later in the week. 

So decided to show you this pretty butterfly card, that was lovely to do and I think very elegant and can be used for so may occasions.

Firstly I embossed the background card with a Spellbinders M-Bossabilities folder.  ( ES -016), a pretty rose design, always useful. I always give the cardstock a very light spritz of water before embossing as it gives a deeper finish.

I matted and layered onto white card, die cut a pretty doily shape for the middle and added the three butterflies, glittered of course !!  I finished off putting white flat backed pearls down the middle of the butterflies.

 

A side ways view of the card

 

 

A closer peep at the glittery butterflies

 

 

 

The inside of the card

25th June 2015

A Mimosa Card

23rd June 2015

A Pretty Rose Fan Card.

Still having trouble with the well known computer company over my new computer, bought last December, so please forgive the lay out of my blog as using one with old software and unable to load all the pretties etc.,  Every time I use it, my new one that is, screen turns a lovely shade of pink....well I like pink, but not that much.  My Bank took up my case, they had 60 days to reply and would loose the case by default if they didn't ......guess what...they replied on the 58th day  !  So on it goes.........
Pretty bad when you consider I also purchases virus protection, words office and never used it !

So as soon as things get sorted out I will get in the lovely young lady from Twinkle Tec to do wonderful  things to by blog !

So here is a pretty fan card that I have made.  I have had this die from Marianne for quite some time, used it, but got forgotten about. Whilst searching for a lost die I came across it and was inspired to make this card.

Easy to make, just die cut and emboss the individual parts of the fan, glue together, overlapping slightly to make your fan shape.  I added a tad of distress ink to the edges of each part of the fan.

 

 Next was to glue the pretty roses into the centre of each fan part, add your pretty die cut leaves. I have put some dried gypsophila among the roses.