Butterflies on Lace, and Quilting

 Welcome

I was going through a dollar bag of 'bits' that I picked up at a craft display and sales day some months ago, and came across this snippet of (machine made) lace. I trimmed and tidied it up and made it the center piece of this card.

The purple card was embossed with a We R Memory Keepers geometric folder.

The butterflies were cut with a M/B Pippi Die from snippets of pink glitter card

The card was finished with a fish-tail banner with the greeting heat embossed on it, 

and a piece of pink ribbon under it. 

I am linking this to:

C.R.F.T. Challenge #448 0 Anything Goes

That's Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Pixie's Snippets Playground weeks #313 & 314 - Anything Goes using snippets

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #57 - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #155 - Anything Goes

Creative knockouts Challenge #226 - Anything Goes

Little Miss Muffet Challenge #179 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge - Weeks #314 - 315 - Anything Goes

Star Christmas

Welcome

As this is my last post before Christmas, I am taking this time to wish all those who follow my blog a very happy and blessed Christmas and all the best for 2018.

This is the Christmas card I mass produced this year, using this sweet Nativity stamp from Kiwistamping, it is an old stamp, one of my original Christmas ones!

It was stamped on the inside of the card, behind the star shaped aperture, and painted with Twinkling H2O's

The Double Stitched Star die is from Our Daily Bread Designs, and I sponged the edges with Memento  Delicata Golden Glitz ink .  Now I have a pile of stitched star die cuts waiting to be used!!

The greeting was stamped in Memento Lady Bug red using one of the stamps from the Our Daily Bread Designs set  Christmas Flourished Verses.

I am linking this to:

Creative Fingers Challenge #141 - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Challenge Week #51 - Anything Goes

CAS on Friday Challenge #123 - Christmas

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - :Last Minute Christmas/CAS

Scrap and Craft Inspiration Challenge #10 - Anything Christmas Goes

Imagine That December Creative Link-up - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge #365 - Anything Christmas Goes, Twist, use the word Christmas

Crafty Calendar December Challenge - It's Christmas

A Gem of a Challenge #209 - Anything Christmas Goes

Word Art Wednesday Weeks #314-315 - Anything Goes

Santa's Got The Blues

Welcome

This card was a commissioned  for a youngster "who loves blue!"

The image was compliments of Mr G**gle .  After printing, I painted the tree blue using iridescent medium and blue acrylic paint, and the ornaments, Rudolph and santa using a mix of sparkle pens and sparkling H2O's

I fun flocked Santa's beard and white trim

The Sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs, gold embossed, as were the edges of the feature panel

I also used some blue punch waste behind the feature panel to add to the shimmer and shine

I had hoped to show several other  Christmas cards I have made, which I have been 'holding off' on until delivered, but now my computer is not playing fair (or I'm not getting it right), and I can't seem to move them out of the file they downloaded into  ... I hate to admit, but I suspect it is the latter!!

I am linking this to:

Creative Knockouts Challenge #225 - 'Tis The Season

Crimbo-Crackers Challenge #148 - Anything (Christmas) Goes

D L Art Thankful Thursday Challenge #218 - Christmas

Little Miss Muffet Challenge #178 - Anything Goes

Through The Purple Haze Challenge #140 - Anything Goes

Sweet Stamping Christmas December Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

Crafting By Design December Challenge - Anything Goes

moo-mania Challenge - Christmas

The Merry Christmas Challenge #48 - Anything Christmas Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge weeks #314-315 - Anything Goes

The Messiah Trees

 Welcome 

Just a quick post today.

As I had made a card for my grand daughter, I thought I had better be a good grandma and make one each for the boys too - they are in different families, so I could make them almost identical

Again I used a freebie graphic from Carmen at Beyond the Fringe, printed it out to size,

I embossed the edges, and added glitter glue to the centre of the 'closed' letters.

Mounted onto a red card base, I then added some washi across the bottom of the card to 'fill in the blank', and I was done.

I am listening to The Alleluia Chorus at the moment, of which the scripture above is part of the words, hence the title of my post. 

I am linking this to:

Avenue 613 Create Challenge #204 - Anything Goes optional twist, Christmas

Addicted To Stamps Challenge #159 - Seasons Greetings

Come and Get it Challenge - Christmas

International Art and Soul Challenge #23 - Make it Sparkle

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #72 - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge - December - Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #188 - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #202 - Christmas

Dream Valley Challenge #169 - Christmas

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #312 - 313 - Anything Goes

Christmas Smarkle

Welcome

I usually mass produce my Christmas cards, but this year I received an unexpected one from my sweet granddaughter, so I made this one exclusively for her - and I have made two others for my grandsons - as they all live locally, I can't give one a card without giving to the others!

I photographed this sitting in a pile of drying, home grown lavender - this is one sure indicator to me that Christmas is imminent, picking and drying the lavender.  The plant(s) I have go right back to before I was born (and that's a few years now....) They are cuttings from one my mother had in her garden, that was 'inherited' from her mother-in-law, and I suspect was already in the garden when they (my grandparents) bought the house.  The house goes back to 1904, or there abouts.!!

The image is a freebie from Carmen's blog,  Beyond The Fringe, which I sized and printed out, coloured with chalk and fussy cut before adhering to the base layer of  glitter card.

The sentiment was from a magazine set of stamps, and was gold embossed, before being cut to a double fishtailed banner

After assembling the card I added clear Kindy Glitz to the wings for even more sparkle.  For a pink, purple and sparkle lover, I am sure this will be acceptable!! 😊💖😊

I am linking this to:

Crafting With Friends Challenge #57 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #141 - Anything Goes

Emerald City Crafts Challenge #6 - Christmas

Fussy and Fancy Challenge #202 - Christmas

Jo's Stamp Shack Fun Day Friday Challenge #219 - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede Challenge #274 - Christmas or Anything Goes

That's Crafty Challenge - 'Tis the Season

Southern Girls Challenge - All That Glitters

CCC Digi Challenge #87 - Happy Christmas

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #312-313 - Anything Goes

The gardens are DONE, the curtains are DONE and I am going to craft for the next few days....

Something Scenic - and Fishy

Welcome

I enjoyed making this card  for a fisherman - not sure if he was a saltwater or freshwater fisher, but he got a trout themed card ...  

The featured stamp is by Hasting Rubber Stamps - a New Zealand company, and it shows several stylized iconic N.Z. items. The ferns, the Manuka (the wee pink flowers) and the way the weed in the foreground is curled is a typical Maori motif.  The mountain portrayed is Mt Cook-Aoraki, New's Zealand's highest peak.

I mounted the pencil coloured feature panel over some torn corrugated card, that I had rubbed copper Inka Gold paste on. The side was left plain to stamp and emboss the sentiment, another stamp by a N.Z. company, Montarga 

The card base is a forest Green, and I layered a deep maroon piece of a thick mulberry paper behind the cardboard.  I was really happy with the outcome of this card.

I am linking this to:

Digi Chooseday Challenge Week #50 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #56 - Anything Goes

Through The Craftroom Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #372 - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #187 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #1750 - Anything Goes

The Paper Nest Challenge #141 - Stamping Fun

The Paper Nest Dolls December Challenge - Anything Goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #71 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #312 - 313 - Anything Goes

It's good to be back again - and I think I may be a bit more active in the bloggy world as the gardens are gradually coming under control, and now I am starting in on curtains etc...  things that did not get done last year are finally getting caught up on.

Wild Roses at Through The Craftroom Door

Welcome

I am honoured to have the Guest Designer position over at Through The Craftroom Door this week.

Their sponsor is Sheepski Designs, and I chose the Wild Rose image to work with.

I printed out two copies of the image, and fully coloured one, and partially coloured the other using Faber-Castell Polychromo pencils.  The background on the fully coloured image was lightly  coloured with a blue pencil using the side of the lead, rather than the tip.

I trimmed out the elements I had coloured on the partially coloured image, shaped them using a ball stylus on a mouse pad, and glued them over the full images, giving just a hint of dimension.

I finished the feature panel by applying several coats of clear Wink of Stella, unfortunately the camera did not pick up the sparkle.

The sentiment, from Kiwistamping, a local (N.Z.) business, was embossed in gold in the bottom right corner of the card base, I then added trimmed down doily (I have had these over 10 years, I think they are meant for a small plate!) and adhered the feature panel over that

A few Kaisercraft flatback pearls were the finishing touch.

I am linking this to:

'Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #71 - Anything Goes

The Fashionable Stamping Challenge #129 - Nature

Glitter 'N' Sparkle Challenge #268 - Anything Goes

The Paper Nest Dolls December Challenge - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #1749 - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #186 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbead Challenge #56 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Week #49 - Anything Goes

Creates and Makes Challenge #17 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

Hopefully I will be able to get around and visit soon - it is so hot here that I am gardening first thing in the mornings, and staying inside the rest of the day!!