Hats Essential!!

Welcome - it is sooo hot here at the moment, one dare not go outside without a hat!!

I enjoyed 'playing' with this set by Layers of Color stamp set Beautiful Lace, designed by Nina B.

Love this wide border and when stamped in dye inks the detail is amazing!!

This hat is also part of the set - I painted it with twinkling H2O's and fussy cut it and mounted it on foam dots.

The background doily was cut from pale blue card and the edges sponged before adhering just the centre of the doily to the base, which meant the edges lifted a wee bit giving, the impression of more dimension.

The sentiment was embossed on vellum, cut and embossed with a labels 10 die  and mounted over an identically shaped piece of blue card.

The final detail was the rhinestones and silver cord.

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Fashionable Stamping Challenge #11 - travelling Around the world - a hat for summer in the southern hemisphere

Kenny K's Krafty Girlz Challenge #74 - Anything Goes

Penny Black december Challenge - Happy Birthday

Pile It On Challenge #49 - Bling it Up

Sparkles first Birthday Challenge - Anything But a Christmas Card

That Craft Place Challenge #2 - Sweet treats in Pastels

The Crafty Pad Challenge #152 - Anything But a Christmas Card
Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #8 - Celebrate
Crafty Boots Challenge - Celebrations

Thank you so much for visiting - may your day be blessed

Christmas Card 2011

Thank you for visiting, and may I take this opportunity to wish you Christmas greetings. 

Just a short post today to display my Christmas card for this year, as I know folk I posted to have now received them. 

I kept them very CAS this year and was pleased with the result.

The images are from Layers of Color, from two of their new Christmas sets

Christmas Verses and Glad Tidings.

The dove was stamped and gold embossed, the holly painted with twinkling H2O's and some Kindy glitz added. 

I cut a spellbinders classic oval die out of some scrap card, stamped the image on another scrap, then cut it out and adhered it inside the edges of the cut oval, this was used as a stencil so I could sponge the edges of the oval.  After sponging I ran a blue glitter pen around the inside edge of the die.

The sentiments were both stamped in red.

My apologies to the overseas recipients that they did not get the glitter on their cards - that inspiration did not strike until later .

I am linking this to:

Stamping Sisters In Christ - Challenge 120 - Christmas Card showing the Christmas message

Crafting for all Seasons Challenge #16 - Christmas

Crafts and Me Challenge #66 - Christmas

Little Darlings Challenge #13 - Christmas

Sisterhood of Crafters - Christmas

May your Christmas be blessed.

recipe:

Card: white

Ink: memento Red Rooster and Danube Blue, Clear Embossing ink.

Accessories: Blue glitter pen, spellbinders classic oval dies, kindyglitz.

Birthday for a Young Man

Welcome - as promised, another card.

 I will let the pictures speak for themselves and keep the words to a minimum.

I started out with a totally different idea, but it just did not work, so I changed tack, and this is the result.

The main image was stamped in a deep red on kraft card stock.

The scripture was gold embossed and sponged before I mounted it on foam dots.

The sentiment was also gold embossed and the edges sponged, before being mounted over raffia ribbon on foam dots.

The contrast between the red on green really made this card come to life.


I am linking this to:
Crafty Pad Designs Challenge #152 - Anything But Christmas
Sparkles forum Challenge - 1st Birthday - Anything But a Christmas Card
Penny Black Allsorts December Challenge - Happy Birthday
Paper Sundaes Challenge #100 - Celebrate
One Stitch at a Time challenge #93 - Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge #139 - Anything but Christmas
Paper Creations challenge #15 - something old (stamp set) something new (ink)

Thank you for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Keep My Lamp Burning

            hero Arts Little Happy birthday

Inks: Clear embossing, Pearlescent Poppy

Accessories: Gold ep, raffia

A Girl And Her Pearls

Welcome - I am so pleased to have you visit. 

I have had lots of fun in the studio these past few days - with lots of productive time, and hopefully, lots of blogging, depending on visitors and 

grand children :-).

I had great fun with this dress form image, and I also played with my

 Opalite interference inks.

I used the same technique on the sentiment panel.

The dress form was mounted on some dp from the Fairy Flora stack that I had embossed using the retro circles folder.

The final touch were the pearls!!  No self respecting girl would go out without her pearls.

I am linking this to:

Card Crafters Circle Challenge #1 - Celebration

Clearly Inspired Challenge #42 - Birthday

Glitter Geeks Challenge #28 - Anything Goes

Stemmelsonne Challenge #52 - Anything Goes

Just Tracy's Craft December Challenge - Celebrations

Thanks for calling by - may your day be blessed.

Recipe:

Stamps: Layers of Colors Beautiful Lace, Hero Arts Happy Birrthday

Inks: Opalite Interference - Glacier Blue, Nordic Ice, Winter Rust, Clear Embossing

Card Stock: Blue, dp - bugaboo paper, Prima Fairy Flora 6x6 stack

Accessories: retro circles embossing folder, pearls, silver embossing powder.

Lace and Layers

A warm welcome to you all - thank you for visiting.  

I had time to 'play' with my new Layers of Color stamps the other day and this is the result.

I started by creating the background using the 'ink, spray, smash' technique. The instructions are on the Layers of Color blog.  

I then stamped over this using the border stamp from the Lovely Lace set of stamps, and gold embossed it.

The dress form was stamped on a scrap of paper from the Fairy Flora pad. This was mounted on some novelty 'ribbon' I had on hand.

The scripture stamp in the set was stamped and gold embossed.

The doily from the set was stamped in versamark ink to give a watermark effect.

The card was assembled with a gold ribbon ribbon and some rhinestones to finish.

I am linking this to:

Crazy Amigo Challenge - Embossing

Thanks for calling by - may your day be blessed.

Recipe:

Stamps: Layers of Color Lovely Lace

Inks: Clear embossing and Versamark

Paper: glossy white, orange, Prima Fairy Flora 6x6 stack

Accessories: Gold ribbon, rhinestones, fancy ribbon

I Will Sing

Welcome - it is lovely to have you visit again.

This is a new release from McMahon Five Design.com and is called 

I will sing

I printed the image and verse directly onto the design paper - from the Prima, Fairy Flora 6x6 stack. 

 The image comes with the Treble Cleft either open or solid black - a lovely variation.  The open one was printed and coloured with  gold pigment ink. 

The corners are provo-craft vintage corners, and were cut from some card stock that matched the blue in the paper, and I added the 'bliss'  half pearls from Kaisercraft

The butterflies were punched from a subtle gold paper with a Carl Craft punch, and the 'bodies' of gold dimensional paint added.

I am linking this to:

Divas By Design Challenge #16 - Anything Goes

Flutterby Wednesday #183 - Must have butterfly, Fairy or Angel

Tanda Teaser #186 - Gold and Green

Whimsy stamps Challenge #18 - Patterns and Pearls
Digi Doodles Challenge #86 - Nature - flowers and butterflies
Dutch Dare Card Challenge #142 - Winged Things

Thank you for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Recipe:

Card Stock: crimson, pale blue

Dp: Prima Fairy Flora

Stamp: I will Sing by  McMahon Digital

Accessories: Pearls by kaiser craft, Vintage Corner die by Provo Craft

Dare taken!!

Welcome to my craft area - this is a one-off post written in response to a friend 'daring' me to share my work area, which she does on a weekly basis!

This is my desk, with equipment stored at either end and underneath.

This is the main work station with what I use most, closest to hand.

To the left

and to the right...........

Shelving behind me

and stuff on the floor 'coming to get me' as my DH says!

I do have a wonderfully light area and I love working in this space.

Thanks for calling in - may your day be blessed.

CAS and Wood Themed

Welcome to my little spot of blogland.

I had to make a birthday card recently which was done in a hurry, and was the second one I had had to make for this person. This was the result.

The creative process was started with the tree stamp - one I had received earlier in the week in a blog candy/RAK from Kary over at Papercrafting and Travels as part of her birthday give-aways.

Next step was when this tag fell out from a tray as I was getting out some scrap paper for my desk - it was an old one which I promptly turned over and re-purposed.

I applied two inks to the tree stamp fairly randomly, not in a true rock and roll technique, but the idea came from that.

The edges of both the main tag and the white image panel were distressed and sponged, and the sentiment was stamped using the same ink.

The ribbon was originally white, but I ran it over the darker inkpad to colour it.  Although it looks as though a thread on the edges has not taken the die, it did eventually spread right through the ribbon.

The dp was from an "el-cheapo" pack I bought from the Warehouse when I first started to consider using layers - very early in my paper crafting days!! It had a very pale striped pattern on it, which did not quite 'fit', so I ran it through a woodgrain embossing folder, and then swiped it with an ink pad.

The base card is a dark hunter green, and the whole was finished with some bronze bling.

Total time from sitting down to completion - 25 minutes!!  Pretty quick considering I really didn't have anything in mind when I started.

I am linking this to:

Card Making Mamas Challenge #34 - Sentiments

The Culture Shock - DIY (for a DIY guy, who works with wood!)

Our Craft Lounge Challenge #94 - Tag you're it

Stempelsonnen Challenge #51 - Fir trees

Thanks for calling by. May your day be blessed.

Recipe:

Stamps - sentiment Kiwistamping, tree from Peace, Joy, Love set by Unity Stamps

Inks      - Memento Cottage Ivy, Bamboo Leaves, Desert Sand

Paper    - Warehouse pack,

Card      - hunter and lime green

Accessories - Rhinestones by Kaisercraft

Silent Night

Welcome once again - today I am sharing a new release image from McMahon Vintage Digitals called Silent Night

I printed both the image and the sentiment onto vellum gold embossed them, and cut them with a Nestabilitie classic oval.  

The scene was coloured on the back of the vellum with water colour pens, and some blue card was cut to the shape of the sky line and adhered to form the sky.  The image was them mounted over a scalloped oval of Cryogen paper, although the sparkle did not show through the vellum.

The sentiment was also layered over the cryogen card.

The background layer was a dark blue card sprayed with Shimmerz spray.

The ribbon was layered over the blue, and a wee bow folded held with silver flower spit pin.

Pleae feel free to visit the other team members (they are linked from my side bar) to see the other releases this week.

Thanks for visiting - may your day be blessed

Recipe:

Image: Silent Night digital from McMahon Five Design.com

Accessories: Gold embossing powder, water colour pens,

                  silver ribbon, silver split pin,Shimmers Spray

                  Cryogen paper.