Making Memories Slice Butterfly Card

I made this card a few weeks ago, but was stuck on how to finish the card.

Then I bought these stamps, and I instantly knew and came back to this card.
I cut the butterfly using my Making Memeories slice and the Vintage Findings design card. I started by cutting the aperture using the shadow function, the cut the same butterfly on normal in pink glitter card.

The swirls are stamped in gold metallic ink using Kanban Stamps and added a few gems.

Swirly Birthday card

This card I made for a Friends Birthday.
I've used a plain black card base, and gold ink to stamp the swirls and sentiment.
The stamps used are all Kanban stamps, to which I have then added some gold diamonte and flower.

Handmade Mini Cushion Pillow

This Mini cushion took me about 2 hours to make.
The flowers are cut from Felt using Marianne D Creatables flower dies and the leaves are cut using PaperArtsy Grunge Flower and leaf Die.

The gem flourish I made by using my Flourish Template here
This is the first cushion I have made and I love it. I really want to keep it but there is just no place for it in my home so I will have to depart with it.

Free Make your own Rhinestone Jewel Template

I love Rhinestone Flourishes but struggle to get them looking right. So I came up with the idea of making a template. Then I googled and soon realised it was not a unique idea! Ah well. still, it was easier, quicker and much much cheaper to make my own template in Inkscape.

You can download my Free Flourish template HERE. (pdf)

The template measures 4" wide X 7.5" high

Feel free to use it but please do not copy it in any way, sell it or alter it to sell without my permission first. You may link to it, but please state that you found it here.

How I used the template was to print it onto cardstock, then using my Crop-a-dile on the 1/8th hole setting, punched all the holes. you can use it like this and either place rhinestones into the holes then remove the template, or draw dots then remove the template and add rhinestones to the dots.

You can also use the template as a guide to place Stickles, Liquid pearls etc..

Enjoy!

Tag Challenge February 2011

Mothers Day Tag Challenge.

This month I've taken part in a Tag Challenge hosted by Helen at A Crafty Kind Of Truffle

This Tag was such fun to make, I really enjoyed it!
To make the Tag I used a Tim Holtz alterations die cut Tag. Dusty concord Distress ink was used on the tag base, and Walnut Stain Distress ink used on the eyelet ring and label.

The Label is a Nestabilities Label #10, and the flourish is a Tim Holtz die cut flourish cut from Chipboard and coloured using Shabby Shutters. (it came out quite dark on the grey chipboard).
The edges of the flowers were distressed with Walnut Stain distress ink again, and a button added using Raffia.

The Book corners are my favourite. These were made using the Martha Stewart Photo corner punch, which fold around the back of the page so caneasily fit onto thick items like chipboard or grungeboard. I embossed the punchies with a cuttlebug embossing folder, and added Walnut Stain distress ink.

Bronze Perfect pearls were rubbed over all raised areas to give a bronze, aged look.

Im going to be adding this tag to the front of a card to give to my Mum for Mothers Day (along with an altered photo frame I made for her, which will be added very soon!)