Purple Twilight

Afternoon!

I thought I would steal five minutes to blog, it's officially my enforced sit down between tasks, very frustrating not being able to just crack on and get everything done but such is life.

So, without further waffle and dribble, here is the first of my Clarity samples from Barbara's show this morning, I did see the second hour but not the whole show.

I was quite happy with this but then added the misty bits through the sky, which I now wish I had left alone, I may re-do this when I have time and change the colour too.

Anyway, I used...

Remountable Moorhens and Nuthatches

Woodland animals

Branch

Tree Branch from the Fly Away set

Purple Twilight Adirondack

So that's my sit down over, back to it, soooo much to do its scary.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

 

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Almost White on White

Good Morning.

Something with no stamping today for a change.

 

I combined an A4 embossing script folder, Tonic swirl cutting die, and an old Spellbinder birdcage set.

It's almost white on white but not completely, I sprayed the swirls and birds etc very lightly with silver sparkle so they stood out more.

 

Hope you like it!

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Kites

Happy Sunday...and another scheduled post while at the NEC.

This is a quickie with a little boy in mind, I used an embossing folder from Crafters Companion and one of the word chains from Claritystamp.

No idea why my name is on this in two different places, another fail by my technical officer (moi), I really should take lessons.

Oh I should mention, I made this using a 6x6 folder and A5 card, I'm sure you can see what I did but shout out if you're not sure.

Have a great day whatever your doing!

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Flower Power

Happy Slipper day!

Oh yes, be assured I'm wearing them, I may even spend the morning in my pjs-because I can...

I had the urge to create but unfortunately I can't get at my desk with ease today, so it needed to be a nice quickie that I didn't need workspace for, soooo, I thought I would grab some pretty blooms from Sweet Lilac Flowers.

The current challenge over at the Sweet Lilac Blog is Lace and Buttons, I couldn't reach my lace drawer but I did find these nice Teal buttons from Jones, I thought hey would go nicely in the centre of the mixed daisies without the need to add additional colour, I added some of the pretty sweetheart blossoms in Lemon, little stamped greeting using my happy word set from Clarity. The embossing folder for the background is from Crafters Companion.

 

Hope you like it!

Have a good day and get yer slippers on...

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Frosty

Good evening!

Another Christmas card today..

You may recognise Frosty

I stamped him twice and masked, then stamped the dude in the background..

I coloured with Copics.

The lovely flowers are from Sweet Lilac

The embossing folder is an A4 from Spellbinders.

A few of you asked about the embossing folder that I used on the Moonfairy card..here it is.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Unseen Splodge demo.

Good Morning!

Today's card is one of the demos I had planned for the Splodge Away shows on tv last week, but we ran out of stock for the first show and ran out of time on the second.

 

Usually the unused demos don't see light of day until about 6 months later when they eventually get slung, but I thought I would make this one for a change.

The sentiment is a Claritystamp, the card stock is Centura Pearl from Crafters Companion.

Hope you like it!

Posted with Blogsy and Maria x

Pastel Acetate Birdies

Good Morning, little oversight on my part with this post!  It went live at 6.30am with no text just the pics, oops...

This is an 8x8 card using a Splodge A Mask and Distress inks for the background.

I made a small panel for the topper using the faux silk technique, inked & stamped it.

I stamped & embossed the Crafty Individuals birds onto Heat Resistant Acetate, and made some extra leaves to extend the branches, joined them with the little flowers.

The birdcage is Spellbinders.

The 'Dream a Little Dream' banner was made by stamping and chopping the top line of the background stamp used.

And the question already asked in the comment box, how did I colour the birds?  I used Liquid Pearls with a cocktail stick.

Hope you like it!

This fits some challenges too
 

Charisma Cardz - 3E, C10 - Seeing double
Crafts and Me - #100 add a flower
Inky Impressions - SIO - anything goes

Simon Says Stamp - must use stamp, no digis
Deep Ocean Challenge - 2W - #33 Things With Wings

  Sweet Stamps - 1E, C10, SIO - #81 Acetate

 Crafty Cardmakers - 2W, C15 - (1st week) Winged Things
 Tammy Scrapin Corner  Anything With Wings 

 There's Magic in the Air  Things with Wings

 








A Reject ???

Good Morning all

I thought I would show this Clarity card today, this is the one I decided was not good enough for my Northwest workshop ladies- so I kicked it to the kerb in favour of better designs!

The stamps used are

Corset Montage

Feminine

A Thing of Beauty...

Also used

Papermania 8x8 paper

Expresso Adirondack ink

Clear Powder/Versamark

Donna Salazar Spellbinders

Grand Spellbinders

EK Punch

Vintage Ribbon (dyed with inkpad)

Come back tomorrow to help judge this months Claritystampers Northwest homework....

Could this be the last bad picture from me!!!!

Maybe, maybe not!

The super cool new camera arrived, so all I need now is an SD card and to work out 

A, where the SD card goes

B, how to switch it on

C, how to take photos

D, how to load them onto my laptop

and if you think thats easy, please remember its ME we are talking about, Queen of technology never to be!!

Today though I have another impressive example of how not to photograph a card.

This is one of the cards I made for the JustRite shows I did yesterday

Its an 8x8 card, the background is done using an A4 Mica Mask at the bottom and some lilac patterned paper at the top.

Centre piece is using the same mask to emboss a Lilac Grand blossom circle cut to size and edged with a Grand edgy die (my fave biggy). Next layer is a Label 20 embossed with Basket Weave mask, couple of screw top brads in Silver. Then top layer is one of the Ribbon tags stamped with the Forever Friends JustRite set. Some lovely Violet Vintage ribbon, a zipper rose, a couple of accents and some pearly dots to finish.

All goodies are available from Creative Expressions of course.

Why not come back tomorrow and see if that new camera is in action yet....

Posy patch flowers in Faded Jeans.

Good afternoon, this should have gone live this morning but I was too busy with storm damage to press the button, Im sending a hug to all my friends in Scotland because I know they are having a horrific time with the stormy weather, I hope everybody stays safe.

This is an 8x8 card using Heartfelt Creations Stamps & Cutting Dies, Creative Expressions embossing folder and some Spellbinders, A4 Mica Mask & Centura Pearl card.

I also used some embellies from Creative Expressions, Faded Jeans Distress ink to colour the ribbon and the stamped flowers.

I adore the Heartfelt Creations goodies, I am still using them a lot!  Another real fave is the A4 Mica Mask from Stamps Away, I love being able to emboss larger pieces of card as well as small pieces.

Thats it for today, dont forget I have a giveaway in my previous post-no fussy rules involved so go have a look.

See you soon!

Heartfelt Creations card & instructions.

Afternoon gang! I was going to be like a little whirlwind today and get tons done....erm, well me and the kids had a late brekky in bed and the pace has been a tinsy bit little slow so far.

But, I must show you another card from my Create & Craft shows at the weekend, and I thought I would give you a few measurements for it too.

Ok, start with a 21cm square card blank covered in Black.

Cut 2 white panels 8cm x 16cm, emboss using Fauna embossing folder from Creative Expressions, matt onto silver mirri to leave a small border, attach to the card blank.

Die cut a Grand label 4 from Black card, or similar shape, attach to the card.

Die cut a Heartfelt Creations Window Scene and attach to the card.

Stamp and emboss the Oval Iris Frame stamp 4 times to create decoupaged topper, attach to the die-cut window.

Finish with some die-cut Posy Patch flowers, vintage ribbon bow, decorative pins and some pearly glue dots.

oh and stamp/emboss the sentiment onto one of the flowers.

I bent the decoupage to give a lovely curvy shape, the centura Pearl card is great for this.

The ribbon was coloured with Aged Mahogany Distress ink and a little Red Lava Cosmic Shimmer watercolour paint.

Thats all for today except to say 'Welcome' to my new followers, im glad to have you!

See you tomorrow for more ideas, I also still have some Clarity cards to show you this week.

Happy Monday, baby!

Yep its come around again, like a flash!

I did actually manage to get some Christmas shopping done at the weekend though, and Santa knows whats what, so thats good.

I have been busy with samples for the Claritystamp tv shows next weekend.

Also I have been doing samples for my Create & Craft shows which have now been re-scheduled, so I have a little longer to prepare for those.

So with all that happening (and more) secret stuff, I dont have a lot that I can show you yet, so I used another of my image stash to put a quick card together to show you.

The FF image was coloured with Copics when I first got them- thats my excuse for the dodgy shading, think I prefer my PM's.

I used Centura pearl card with an A4 mask from Stamps Away/Clevercut, I have lots of Ali's masks on my wish list.

I have used my treasured Scrabble set from Claritystamp for my lettering.

The spellbinders need no introduction.

The Cosmic Shimmer Black and white pearl glue is from Creative Expressions

A bit of ribbon and some Candi to finish.

Dont forget 3 more followers and I will organise some blog candy.

See you soon!

A special one, for a special one!

Good morning, well sort of- im writing this on Wednesday night before i go to bed, but your used to me doing that sometimes right?

I wanted to show you the card for my Mumsy's birthday, she loves floral/butterfly type cards with pretty borders and stuff, so this went down well.  I nearly forgot to photograph it, remembered at her house and had to snatch it back for 5 minutes.

The floral card has been floating around for a loooooong time, I also used White centura pearl card from Crafters Companion-love it!

The birds eye view

I used Magenta Pan Pastel to colour the sides of the butterflies, I have to say I really love how easy they are to blend, the result is flawless with no effort at all-Thank you Bernie for sending me these!

The stamp is from Claritystamp. The circle is a large Marianne die, I cut a nesty circle into it and then with the dies still in place run it through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder.

Hopefully I will have Amber's bunting on the wall and photographed to show you tomorrow.

Have a good Thursday.