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Floral Get Well Wishes

The new challenge at Ally’s Angels has started, and I am a little late in posting – I hope Becca and the team will forgive me……the theme is always ‘anything goes‘. Here is my card:

I started by creating the florals and leaves from a Spellbinders die set – Fresh Picked Daisies – adding some ink blending to the centre of the flowers – though it is hard to see – and ink blended a darker green onto the leaves.

The background is a white panel and run through with a Spellbinders embossing folder, and adding a Pinkfresh Studio frame onto the centre.

The flowers and leaves were added by tucking behind the frame and using 3D foam and glue.

The black sentiment strip with silver foiling added, and then some black enamel dots spread around.

I hope you can join us with our ‘anything goes’ challenge – you can enter up to five times. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Inkspirational – word prompt – garden

Allsorts – embossing – heat or dry

Triple B – birds and/or butterflies and/or blooms

Beautiful Blossoms – anything goes with florals

A Quartet of Penguins

Hello there. A new challenge has started at ABC Christmas Challenge. We have reached the letters P, Q & R, and we want to see your Christmas creations featuring the following themes:

P is for Penguins and/or Q is for Quartet and/or R is for rectangles

Here is my card following the Penguin and Quartet themes:

For the four penguins, I chose to use the Tim Holtz/Sizzix die set called ‘Winter Critters’. Die cut and layered as needed.

I die cut them all in white woodgrain card stock, then used Copics to colour what I wanted – the dark grey for black, red, and orange.

The four squares are die cut from a gold foiled panel, using Spellbinders ‘Dazzling Diamonds‘ hot foil plate.

The background is a red panel, run through with a Spellbinders embossing folder ‘Nordic Noel’, then some gold wax run gently over the top to bring out the details.

The sentiment is gold foiled and die cut, layered a couple more times for dimension.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations featuring one, two, or even three of our themes, and you can enter up to five times. The challenge finishes on Sunday 5th September.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Christmas (or not) Bingo – column B – Christmas/red/free

Critter Crazy Challenge – anything goes with a critter

Daisy Chain Challenge – animals

A Pheasant Hello

Hi there. I have been playing with a couple more of my new Gummiapan dies to create this card:

I first die cut the Gummiapan Midsummer Wreath and the Pheasant die in Tim Holtz water-colour card, leaving the die cuts in place in the larger piece of card as it makes the colouring easier on smaller fiddly die cuts, then used my Zigs to colour them in. I like to use Zigs on die cuts like this as they have a very fine tip to be able to restrict where the colours go.

I set these aside to dry, then hunted for a sentiment, and used this from Pinkfresh Studio, previously foiled.

Onto a 110lbs Neenah white card base, I glued down the sentiment, then attached the wreath with little pieces of 3D foam behind some of the larger flowers and leaves, then die cut the pheasant couple more times, stacked him together, then glued him down.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Cut It Up – die cuts & critters

Cupcake Inspirations – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – anything goes with florals/flowers

Critter Crazy – anything goes with a critter

Simply Clean & Simple – CAS – option of birthday not taken

Wishing You A Beautiful Day

Hello again. I have a card created to share with you:

I wanted to use a layering stencil set from Waffle Flower. This background is the ‘Postage Collage Spring Breeze’ and has five layers to it. I chose the colours from Pinkfresh Studio inks and set to it.

Once the background was finished, I added it direct to a card base.

I then used the ‘Butterfly Focal’ die and cut it in white, then cut it in vellum, layering the two together, adding an extra body to the top so I was able to secure the vellum easily.

The sentiment is in blue foil, and from a Pinkfresh Studio product suite ‘Butterflies in a Cloche’, previously created when I had a foiling session. This was die cut with the matching dies, and a couple more layers added for stability.

I also added some irridescent gems for extra interest.

Hubby and I are out tonight with some friends to celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary – time sure does fly….

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Stencil Fun – stencils, option of butterflies taken

Addicted To Stamps & More – die cuts and/or stencils

Critter Crazy – anything goes with a critter

Yellow Birthday Roses

Hello once again. Craft time has produced the following card:

Following the current colours at Color Hues, I used Waffle Flower products.

I first die cut the collage panel out of white, then used the layering stencils for the roses. I inked the florals themselves in a lighter yellow, then used a darker yellow in smaller areas to create some dimension.

The leaves were ink blended with a light grey. The sentiment is white foiling.

This panel was adhered to a black panel, then adhered to a card base.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Color Hues – yellow and black – certain neutrals allowed

Make My Monday – use a stencil

Allsorts – anything goes or bees/blooms/butterflies

Addicted to Stamps & More – die cuts and/or stencils

D is for Double

Hello there. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘D’, and Melanie has chosen the theme of:

D is for Double – include 2 of the same thing

Here is my card, which has two flowers on it:

These flowers are from an Altenew die set called ‘Butterfly Ranunculus‘. I used a blue card stock to cut the petals, and added some darker blue ink blending to the middle of each layer. These were easy to put together due to the #keyhole system’ which Altenew uses. The stems were die cut, and placed to one side whilst I decided what I wanted to put on the background to show case these gorgeous flowers.

I decided to go with a cream textured card stock, placing one layer as the back panel on a card base, then die cut the stitched oval in the same card stock.

The oval was glued to the back panel, and the flowers arranged to my liking, added with 3D foam.

The silver foiled sentiment added, then some small black gems for added interest, and to bring in the black of the sentiment strip.

I hope you can come and join us with your creations following our theme. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Allsorts – anything goes in the garden

Give A Crafter A Cookie – in the garden

Triple B – birds and/or butterflies and/or blooms

Die Cut Divas – die cuts and/or dry embossing

For Someone Special

Hello everyone. I am pleased to have been asked to be a special Party Guest for the new challenge at Ellibelle’s Corner Garden Party, after being selected in the Top 3 for one of her challenges with this card here.

The theme for the new challenge is – anything in or from the garden. Here is my card:

I must have been in a really fiddly and faffy mood to create this, as the butterfly – from A Pocket Full Of Happiness – takes a lot of die cutting in different colours, and then inlaying each itty bitty piece…….

I started by cutting the base outline, then the butterfly out of white card stock a couple of times, and glued it together.

The next steps was to gather colourful pieces of card for each flower, and the wings of the butterfly and set-to die cutting. Each colour was inlaid back into the butterfly, and then glossy accents applied to create a stained glass effect.

When that was dry, I added a top layer of the die cut butterfly, this time cut out of a blush card stock and laid that on top. This also covered any of the over-flowing glossy accents.

I wasn’t happy with those tiny areas on the edge of the butterfly wing, so I added small pink gems to each and every one of them – I told you I must have been in a fiddly and faffy mood.

I wanted a bold background for the butterfly, so used some Concord & 9th card stock, trimmed it a little smaller than the card base, and used a Spellbinders embossing folder.

The butterfly was glued down, and then the foiled sentiment added.

I hope you can come and join us at Ellibelle’s Corner for her Garden Party. I hope to see you in the gallery. xx

ABC L & M

Hello everyone. We are starting a new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge. Our challenge is all about Christmas, and getting your stash ready for the end of the year, and we always have themes to follow for each of the letters. This time, our themes for the two letters are:

L is for Let It Snow

M is for Mice

Here are my cards:

For my first card, I used a Spellbinders hot foil plate and gold foil onto a dark blue panel. I also went around the edges of the panel after foiling with a lightly darker blue to create a halo effect.

The snowman is from a Simon Hurley/Spellbinders die set, and Concord & 9th card stock. The sentiment is also from the same die set, and backed with a piece of gold. Little black gems were added for the buttons on the snowman.

For my second card, I absolutely had to go with some Lawn Fawn mice and the stamp, die and layering colouring stencils called ‘Mice On Ice‘.

The images were stamped, then the stencils used to ink blend their colouring, then the matching dies to cut them out.

I also used one of their ‘Stitched Den‘ dies to create the opening in the white panel to represent iced lake, and backed that with a piece of light blue card stock which I ink blended slightly with a light blue ink.

The blue panel was adhered to the card base, the white layer added on top, then I played around with the placement of the mice until I was happy, adding them with 3D foam.

The sentiment was stamped and die cut then added as you see.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one of both of our themes. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Snowman card:

Girlz Creative Christmas – anything goes Christmas

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

12 Months of Christmas Link-Up – anything goes Christmas, option of marble background not taken

Mice card:

Critter Crazy Challenge – anything goes with a critter

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

Crafts Galore – anything goes

Peaches & Cream

Hello once again. I have a card to share inspired by the colours at Cupcake Inspirations:

For the cream part of the theme, I used Ivory card stock from Concord & 9th, and stencilled the florals on using a Kristina Werner stamp and stencil set ‘Aubrey Blooms‘. I didn’t use the stamp, just stencilled the florals using two peach tones from Pinkfresh Studio, adding slightly darker blending towards the centre of the flowers.

For the green, I initially used Sage from Pinkfresh, but decided it wasn’t dark enough on the ivory card, so I used the next green up in the family – Eucalyptus.

The panel comes out even larger, and you can get two A2 pieces pout of the blended panel, but I created a 5X7 inch card so I could get as much of the design on there as possible.

I layered a piece of card onto the card base, and to match the green on the design, I ink blended around the edge of a piece of white card, then matted the design onto the top of that.

The foiled sentiment was added, silver foil on black for a little drama, and then added three enamel dots, to include items in the current Festive Friday challenge.

Even though the background card stock is not smooth enough for perfect ink blending, I felt the outcome gave an almost vintage feel.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations – Peaches & Cream

Allsorts – anything goes

Love To Craft – anything goes

Sending A Coneflower Note

Hello. I have another card to share following the list of items from Festive Friday:

Looking at the list of items, I started with the golf foiled background panel. This was created using a hot foil plate from Spellbinders called ‘Dazzling Diamonds’.

The flowers were created using a layering die set from Honey Bee Stamps ‘Lovely Layers: Coneflower‘, with the layers of the flower die cut from Concord & 9th card stock – and including the ‘Marmalade‘ orange card stock which was retired a year or so ago. I have a stash of this colour as it is a gorgeous orange, and was sorry to see it go from their product line.

From darkest to lightest, I used ‘Spiced Cider‘, ‘Marmalade‘, ‘Clementine‘ and then ‘Creamsicle‘. The leaves were die cut from ‘Grasshopper‘. The centre of the flowers were a back layer of black, with a yellow upper layer from my stash of bits.

To include a hexagon, I die cut two of the Pinkfresh Studio ‘Nested hexagons: Double Stitched‘ – you can part of the two hexagons under the flowers.

The gold diamond panel was adhered to a white card base, the two hexagons adhered flat also – there are lots of layers to the flowers, therefore enough dimension.

I applied 3D foam to the flower heads and placed them onto the hexagons, then added two of the leaves for each flower – also with 3D foam.