Sheena Douglass Anemone Card

Another quick card!

 This card measures 5"x5" and all the components were previously made from my 'experimenting'.
The background is distress ink brushed through a hexagon stencil and cut slightly smaller than my card front.
The flowers are Sheena Douglass Anemone die and stamps, I LOVE these stamps, utterly gorgeous!
I stamped them onto white card, die cut them out and inked them using distress ink and a water brush. Once dry, I shaped them using my flower tool and mat and a small pearl embellishment was added for the centre. I then added stickles with my fingers over the tops of the petals and leaves to add a little sparkle.
Originally the flowers and leaves were adhered to the card using silicone, but it just was not sticking, so I scraped it all off and used foam pads instead!
The greeting was die cut from white Papermill card and gently inked with distress ink.

Sheena Douglass Anemeone

My mum told me about these lovely stamps and dies that could be used to make wonderful flowers. I investigated and discovered they were the Sheena Douglass Anemone stamp and die sets.
I managed to get hold of the set and came up with this!

The background is made from black card and a fabric weave stencil, through which I added gilding wax. I used 3 colours, Gold, Bronze and Silver.

The flowers were made by die cutting the anemone then embossing them back through the die. I rubbed gilding wax gently onto the flowers and leaves then buffed them to a shine. After this I shaped the petals and leaves using my flower shaping tools and mat and adhered them to the card front using silicone glue.
The 3 'brads' to the right of the card I made by rubbing some bronze gilding wax onto a scrap bit of black card and punching out the dots with my Crop a dile. Using a ball tool, I shaped them into tiny domes and used a tiny dot of silicone glue to stick them on.

Cuttlebug Embossed Happy Birthday card

This card was quite simple to make.

The card blank was inked with Tsukineko Brilliance 3 colour Aurora ink pad (a real bargain for £1 in WHSmith!) and I embossed matt silver card using the Cuttlebug Birthday embossing folder.
I sanded the top to reveal the white core and rubbed the Brilliance 3 colour ink pad over.
The die cut topper is a Nestibilities labels 10 and an oval topper created by Myself in Inkscape.
The paper flower was a from a random pack I picked up cheap at a craft fair. The were a cream with green and pink blobs on them. I rubbed the Brilliance Aurora ink pad over them. The ink pad has a lovely subtle sparkle to it and worked well on the flowers!

Teacher Gift

Sorry I havnt posted much recently. I've been busy with my Boys making gifts for their Teachers:

They look amazing, the photo really does not show the lovely colours.
We made them based on this idea from Making Mermories.

Every Flower on each glass is different and amazingly I had a pack of Making Memories Slice vinyl in my stash that I bought in TKMaxx in sale for £2 some time ago! The flowers and flourish stems were all cut from the Basic Shapes 2 design card.
We made 7 gifts in total, but had to give one early before I had chance to photograph them all together.

Once finished, we sealed them in A5 size card cello bags and scrunched it a little and the gifts looked posh and expensive!  (sorry, just realised I didnt photograph them in their bags! I did intend to)
For the name tags, we used rub-ons which I won recently, and all 3 of my eldest sons teachers asked him how he did the writing! (He's currently learning how to write joined up)

I will certainly make these again, Not only are they fab teacher gifts, they are also great for Summer Fetes, Craft fairs, Christmas and Birthday gifts!

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.

Quick Flower and Ribbon Birthday Card

A quick card made using papers from my Dovecraft paper stack and Martha stewart and EK success border punches. The Greeting was stamped using Kanban greeeting stamps.

Feminine Flower Card

A Simple Card using some free papers and border punches. 

A Martha Stewart punch and an EK Success punch were used for the borders, and the flowers were made using the Marianne Creatables flower Dies as in my video.

Simple Butterfly Card

I used a Dovecraft Kate Knight paper stack for the mat, added gems to the flowers and a thin ribbon.
The butterfly embellishment is from a pack of 12 from The Works for 99p.

This card was actually made from an upcycled Christmas card! The base card was left over from christmas, but was a good quality card and envelope and felt such a waste to put into the recycling bin.

Easter Theme Tag

I dont usually do Easter themes, I never send Easter Cards, but this Tag was actually made for a Tag challenge, but it appeared I was too late. The site was playing up, then I went away and with no internet connection, by the time I got back it was too late. So instead it makes a nice Cheery blog post!

Yellow is not a colour I use very often. I dont have much yellow in my stash. Any Yellow flowers etc usually get altered to another colour. But I really like this tag, it has come out better than I imagined it would. Once I got started, the inspiration just kept flowing.

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!)