Bell Mask

Hi All

How is everyone are you ready for Christmas? 
Here is another Christmas card to share with you today.

 Using a bell mask I brushed various shades of green  oxide inks through the aperture. I stamped one of Phill Martin's verses in the centre of it. Then cut one of Sue Wilson dies and added Phill's paper pad behind it. 

I complete it by using green PVA as pearl with glitter sprinkled over them while still wet to add a bit of sparkle.

Its my daughters birthday today I cannot believe she is 27. We all went for a lovely Chinese on Saturday to celebrate, and she has gone to be pampered at a spa today. 

If I do not blog again before Christmas have a wonderful Christmas and peaceful New Year. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
alphabet challenge- S for season greeting
the holly and ivy #42 ATG
crafty hazelnuts christmas challenge 416 - ATG

Christmas Greetings

Morning All

 I was really pleased with the way this card turned out (even my husband likes it!!)
I started by spreading silver glitter paste from Glitzcraft  through a snowflake mask on to acetate.
I left it overnight to dry and then mounted it on to some Foundation Sky Blue card from CE. I stamped Phil Martins Scribble Snowflake around the corners ( its in his verses set) and embossed with Silver Shine powder. I used SW double pierced square dies to frame it.
On the opposite corners I cut SW bold Snowflake in Coconut white and Sky blue card

The sentiment is from TL which I cut twice and glued one on top of the other then heat embossed with clear ink to give it a lovely shine.






I have entered this card in the following challenges
Allsorts challenge. Let's make a start on Christmas
crafty hazelnuts Christmas challenge 305
pink gem challenge 181 snowflakes

Winter wonderland frosty-or-well-wrapped-up

For my Daughter

Hi all

 I made this card for my daughters birthday, which was last Friday.

I can't believe she was 27 - where does the time go....
I started with the caught in crystal technique using alcohol inks on to acetate and adding Glamour dust to give it some sparkle. I'm not sure how well this comes through in the pictures.
I created a frame for this using SW oval frames from her festive collection ( the let it snow and the lattice snowflake die)

 

 I mounted this on to some white card stock which I had embossed with a mask and ink through to make it pop a little more.
I then added layers of teal and white card cut from SW double pierced square dies.
The sentiment is computer generated. I then added SW complete Camellia flowers to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by.
Enjoy your week.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:
sparkle n sprinkle ~ oct challenge
BSCB ~ challenge 221 -anything goes
crafty friends challenge 43 ~ anything goes

Pink Mini

Hi all

Here is todays offering

This card was first started with the background. I coloured a piece of white card with Spun Sugar Distress ink and then placed a mask (I cannot remember the name) but it is from Ali Reeves That Special Touch of ..
and inked through the mask with a slightly darker pink - again I cannot remember which ones. I was on a roll and created a number of backgrounds at the same time (lol)
 I then stamped the mini from the Stamps Away Pilkington Transport set.
I die cut the white card with the Majestic Labels 25 from Spellbinders  to create a frame for the mini.
I then matted and layered it up as shown,
I really like the way it turned out.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:
BSCB-192 - anything goes
lil patch of crafty friends - CHALLENGE #31: ANYTHING GOES
addicted to stamps-Challenge #187 - Make Your Mark
glitter n sparkle - challenge #182 Use A Punch/Die
house of cards add-script-and or-color inspiration

Shop till you Drop

Hi fellow crafters

Here is the card I made for my youngest daughters birthday in December.

Like most girls both of mine love shopping..

I've used a Creative Expressions stamp and coloured it with Promarkers and cut it out with one of  the Spellbinders Majestic Labels 25 diee.
For the background I used a mask and inked through it with my Versamark ink pad and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.
I finished the card by adding the pearl PVA dots round the border, along with the bow.

I have entered my card into the following challenges
simply papercrafts - challenge 23 - anything goes
Reasonable ribbon - challenge #134 - Anything Goes with Ribbon or Trim Theme
Brown sugar challenge - Challenge #185 - Favorite Color Combo
Crafting-with-friends- CHALLENGE 14
Alphabet challenge - Y for You Choose
 my sheri crafts challenge #175- bold colour

Mothers Day

Hi all

Sorry I have not posted for a while life has been hectic...

I have being making some Mother's day cards as it will soon be here.




I have use one of my favourite colours peach.

For the background I inked through a mask on white card with peach ink and mounted it on the peach card.
I used the dies from Paper Artist called 'love and 5 hearts', a wonderful set of dies that I cannot seem to put down at the minute.
I stamped my sentiment with Versamark ink  and used Phil Martins Graceful peach lustre embossing powder.
I coloured some white satin ribbon with the peach ink so it created a tone on tone with the rest of the card.I finished it off by adding a dazzler that I made to the bow.

I hope you like it.


Thanks for popping by
I have entered this card in the challenges below:

crafting with friends challenge 13

allsorts challenge - clean and simple

brown sugar challenge - valentine/love

creative corner challenge - valentines day/love

Peach and Mica

Hi all

A Happy New Year to you all.

 A card made from my ever growing box of left over pieces.
I am sure we all have one of these boxes because as crafters we just cannot bear to throw anything away lol..

 The background is made from a piece of white card that I covered with  an adhesive sheet. I peeled the backing off and placed my mask over the top. I dusted a selection of mica powders through the mask. I then gently peeled the mask off and added glitter the rest of the exposed adhesive.
I made a frame to go over the background and used a flourish stamp on the opposite corners of the frame with a peach ink.
The sentiment is one I printed from my computer and the dies where ones I had already cut. I think they are a combination of Tattered Lace and Sue Wilson.

A peach bow, flowers and pearls finish the card.

I hope you like it.

I have entered this card in the following challenges;

happy little stampers
inspiration destination challenge NO-67
seize the birthday- anything goes
as you like it anything-goes
crafty time challenge

Two fer one

Morning Bloggers

What a  beautiful cold crisp winter morning.
Only a few more weeks until Christmas so I thought I would show you two more Christmas cards.
The are very similar just different colours

 I inked through a holly mask and added Sue Wilson New York collection dies behind the main focal element the stamp is from my stash (it could be DoCrafts) The ribbon is from my stash and I finished the cards by adding CS twinkles ( I think it was the aruora ) around the edge of the card.

Thanks for popping by.
If you have time please let me know which one you prefer ...


I have entered these cards on the following challenges:
Crating with Dragon Flies #48 christmas/add ribbon
BSCB-173
Creative fingers challenge #98
simplypapercraftsforalloccassions anything goes
crafting with friends challenge 11

Winter Wishes

Morning Bloggers

Thank you for popping by I have a Christmas card  for today's post.

I have used  CE Aqua and white cardstock.
I used put some CS Polar White sparkle texture paste on my craft mat and mixed a little of peacock feathers ink, to give it just a hint of blue/aqua.
Then I spread this over a snowflake mask onto a piece of acetate.
The aqua frame was then popped over the acetate and then foam mounted  over a piece of white card to give a floating look to it. I  pierced all the way around with a piercing ruler, which was then matted on to another piece of white card. I hope you can see the snowflakes !!
This was then matted on to another piece of aqua card and finally on to my white card 7x7

 I used the Heartfelt Creations poinsettia stamp and embossed in white on to white velum which I then cut out with the matching die and finished off with an aqua pearl in the centre of each flower..

 The sentiment is from Tattered Lace which I cut twice once in the aqua and then in the white and dropped shadowed it.
Thank you for popping by I hope you like it.,

I am entering this card in  the following challenges:
MAWTT my favourite things
crafting-with-dragonflies - let it snow
BSCB-172 No Patterned Paper
Creative fingers - anything goes
simplypapercraftsforalloccassions - anything goes
crafting-with-friends.challenge 10 anything goes

Beautiful Birthday

Morning Bloggers.

Here is my offering for today.

 I started by inking my polka dot mask with perfect medium which I layed on a piece of white card and ran it through my embossing machine.
I then peeled the mask off the card a sprinkled with pink mica powder on top of the perfect medium which I heat embossed.
I then matted this onto a piece of pink card.
I made a white frame and stamped randomly on it with some butterfly stamps from Kanban in pink and the leaves are from Justrite stamps. I then matted this onto the mica embossed background.
I then cut 4 of the Eltham corners from tattered lace out of pearlised white card and placed them in each corner.

 I stamped the sentiment from Justrite  Enjoy the Day set and cut it out with the matching Vintage labels 4 die. This I mounted on to a piece of pink card which was stamped and  embossed in white from the same stamp set.
I then added butterflies from Spellbinders and added pearls to the body.
The flowers are from Heartfelt Creations sun kissed fleur stamp and die set. I stamp them in pink on white card which I heat embossed and finished with CS Iced Candy twinkles  which I used for the dots all around the card.

Thank you for popping by.

Christmas Bauble

Morning all

Just a quick post today as I need to catch up on the house work (boo-hoo).
A simple Christmas card in white and blue.

 I used the CS Polar White texture paste through a polka dot mask  - I hope you can see the sparkle from the texture paste in the close up pics.
I then used the Spellbinders 2013 Heirloom Ornament die and cut the largest one in blue card and the next size down from a spare piece of acetate that I had used the caught in crystal technique on.

The stamp is one from Do Crafts which I then embossed with some glittery embossing powder.
I hung the ornament with some silver sparkle twine from my craft stash

Have a great week xx

I am entering this card in the below challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C310
Allsort Challenge - Week 335 - Christmas
52 Christmas Card Throwdown
CHNC challenge 253: it's time to sing

Christmas Greetings

Hi  Bloggers

Today's offering is a Christmas card made with Sue Wilson's Ornate Pierced Rectangles from her Noble die collection.
I started by using a polka dot mask over some Ruby Red foundation card and spreading  some red glitter frosting paste through the mask and leaving it to dry over night.
I used Sue largest dies from this set and then the fourth one down to create a frame out of coconut white card.
Then I wanted just a thin black matt to go behind this frame, so I  used the largest die again, but just embossed  a piece of black card. Then I used my poky tool to score a line around the outside of this die and then cut it out with scissors. This provided me with the matt that also had the pierced edging all the way around.
I stamped the Heartfelt Creations Christmas Poinsettia stamp onto red card  and embossed this in black and used the coordinating die set to cut them out and create the flowers. I added a black pearl from my stash to the centre of each Poinsettia and added some black organza ribbon behind some of the flowers.
For the sentiment I used a Tattered lace die and I added a white pearl to the 'dot' of the I.
I then matted all this on to an embossed white background using a  Spellbinders folder and then added matts of red and black to frame the card.
I am also entering my offering on the  challenge blogs below:

 Winter Wonderland - Christmas Flowers
Allsorts Challenge - No design papers

I hope you like it xx

Motorbikes

Morning all

Welcome to the first day of a new month.
I hope you are having a good week so far.
The autumn sunshine has been beautiful so I have been making the most of it by going for a walk at lunchtime, as my job is desk based its nice to get out and stretch the old legs.

I was asked to make two motorbike cards for a work colleague and these are what I created.
I do struggle with men's cards, but I was quite please with these two.



A black and red card. I use That Special Touch wavy mask to add texture and on the black card I embossed it with clear embossing powder.
The rest of the card was made from my crafty stash.

This card was made simply by matting a layering in blue and white with a stamped sentiment going all away around the card.

I hope to blog every Thursday and Sunday.

Thank you for visiting and if you have the time please leave a comment as they are very much appreciated.