Navy blooms...

 Hey there, crafty friends! Today's make is inspired by the work of the super talented Yana Smakula who often uses bold colours for her backgrounds, especially when using florals...

 This card evolved rather than was made with any plan! I began with the embossed leaf panel, edges inked with black and dark blue base card, and cut out some large leaf dies that belong to my very underused pile! (These were from Paper Discovery's Harvest Leaves die set and the flowers were from Cardmaking Magic Layered Florals set) I cut a gold frame using Sizzix Geo Floral Frames to frame my favourite script sentiments (from Yana Smakula) and added the 'wishes' part with a stamp...

The gold frame is a little 'skew-whiff ', as it's really fiddly to attach, especially as I had multiple layers to try and adhere to, but as my Mam would say, "A man on a galloping horse wouldn't notice!"...I finished with some pearl sprinkles and in the flower centres...

I am determined to use all of my many die sets at least once, so this has put a couple more ticks in the boxes - now to learn NOT to keep buying more in the sales!

Thanks for dropping by today and I hope you're having a lovely weekend, whatever you're doing...

Crafty hugs,

Dies - Paper Discovery Harvest Leaves DIOB1507

Cardmaking Magic Layered Florals DIOB0480

Sizzix Geo Floral Frames 664377

Spellbinders Yana's Layered Script Sentiments 

Tiny flowers - Sizzix Tea Cups 665898

Berry Sprig die

 

Watering Can flowers...

 As promised, I'm back with a new creation to share! This time, I'm back on the floral bandwagon with a Spring inspired card using Spellbinders Sprinkle and Grow die set...

 

I cut the watering can twice from grey pearl cardstock, snipping away the main body from one so that I could ink the edges to give more dimension. I assembled the can and elements, then cut multiples of the flowers and stems before arranging them in the watering can and mounting onto a scalloped rectangle panel with a white centre. I added the teabag label and heart from the Sizzix Tea Cups die set and a couple of tiny butterflies (I can't for the life of me think which brand the set was from)...

I cut the bottom of the card front with a scalloped rectangle die and added some strips of patterned and coloured cardstock in coordinating colours then finished with a stamped sentiment and some enamel dots...just because!

Thanks for popping in to see me and I'll be back again with another floral make tomorrow!

Crafty hugs,

 

Dies - Spellbinders Sprinkle and Grow

Craftstash Stitched Scallop Nesting Rectangles

Sentiment stamp - Cardmaking Magic Layered Florals 

Spellbinders Badges of Honor...

 Hey there, crafty friends! I have been having a play with the new dies that I got in the Spellbinders Spring Clearance (and there's me not spending on craft supplies and trying to use what I've got!...But I can't resist a bargain!)...

 I decided to go with a masculine make and cut out and assembled these cool "Badges of Honor" dies. As it's Father's Day next month, I thought that these would make a great card for the occasion, especially for those Dads that serve either in the forces or Police...although I chose the 'You're my Hero' sentiment thinking that it could be for any Dad who is there child's hero...

Thanks for dropping by today and I'll be back with some more makes soon...honest! ;)

 Crafty hugs,

 

Dies - Spellbinders Badges of Honor

Generic Stitched Square Nesting dies

Sizzix Hand Drawn Alphabet 665182

Star dies 

Floral Heart...

 

 And just like that, I'm back again! This time to share a pretty floral creation which was inspired by the cards I made case-ing Mindy Farmer's creations...

 I started by inking up this pretty Waffle Flower layered stencil using Tattered Rose, Abandoned Coral, Speckled Egg, Iced Spruce and Broken China Distress Oxides. I decided to go with a heart shaped aperture and cut this before attaching the panel using foam tape for dimension. I added a narrow strip of green pinstripe to ground the floral elements, then layered up my flowers and foliage dies in a corsage...

 

 I love the tulip style flowers that are from the Sizzix Tea Cups die set and think I will be turning to these quite a lot. The little flower sprays are a berry sprig with flowers cut from the hydrangea style flower of Tim Holtz Funky Florals #2. I finished with some small enamel dots (my latest obsession thanks to Marianne) and a few pearls...

Hope you like my floral creation and I may even be back with another masculine make tomorrow?!...

Crafty hugs,

 

 

Open Road card...

It's me again! I said that I'd been busy at my crafty table!...

Today's make is a more masculine one using Spellbinders Open Road die set...

 I decided to go with a 6x6 inch square card base for this one and created  a circular aperture in a piece of map paper from First Edition Bon Voyage paper pad and added a hand drawn doodle border. I used a cloud stencil to ink the background layer and a strip of pearl grey card embossed with a chevron folder and mat onto dark navy pearl cardstock.

I made up the car die and added a piece of red card behind to cover the apertures, then added the balloons with some string. A couple of die cut clouds, inked with Broken China and a simple stamped sentiment, mat onto brown card, finished with a few grey pearls...

I'm still a little unsure on this one - I feel that it's missing something, so it will probably sit on my desk and have all sorts of stuff tried on it before I give in and leave it alone...but we'll see! 

Thanks for dropping by to see me and guess what?....there's more to come! I'll be back tomorrow with a pretty floral creation, inspired by the cards that I made casing Mindy Farmer's creations...

Crafty hugs,

 

Masculine and Feminine...

 Good morning, Blogger buddies! I'm back to share a couple of makes using one of my latest and fast becoming favourite die sets - Sizzix Tea Cups by Jennifer Ogborn...

 I started with a 5x7 inch card base and randomly stamped some script text in Tuxedo Black Memento. I then added a book page fishtail flag, mat onto a pale blue paper and a couple of strips of coordinating patterned paper from my scrap stash. I cut out the book template and embossed the top layer with Cuttlebug Script embossing folder and inking the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, before assembling using glue along the centre spine and foam pads behind the pages. I used one of the cup dies and the little tea bag tag, creating a collage group including a glasses die, backed with vellum, small tag die as a bookmark and flower and foliage dies.

I found the sentiment in a set from a magazine which I thought was just perfect for the theme and then added my Yana Smakula Script sentiment die and a stamped 'Happy'...

 I then decided to have a go at making the same card but with a masculine theme...

 ...I don't know if it's just me, but I felt this card turned out a little Harry Potter-esque?! I mean, the pastel one is still my favourite because it's...well, pastel!?! 

And there we have it, two cards, same design, different colour schemes...

I hope I've inspired you to have a go at changing up your colour schemes to completely change the look of your creation...

Crafty hugs,

 

Postal collage card...

Good morning, crafty friends! I'm back to share a pretty postal collage card that I created using Sizzix Snail Mail by Eileen Hull...

I created a stencil for the stamp sections using Mylar (which still need a bit of tweaking!?) and inked with Broken China Distress Ink. I picked out some botanical stamps and stamped through the windows with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with my Spectrum Noir pens, then added a couple of layered elements with the postage stamp images. I stamped some of the franking style stamps across the sections and die cut some small numbers in a dusky pink cardstock...

I started with a 5x7 inch card base and layered up some mats in blue and then pink woodgrain effect, adding a green polka dot strip across the bottom third. I inked the edges of the postage panel with Black and popped it up onto a slightly larger white mat using foam tape, then finished with a touch of glitter and some enamel dots and pearls...

Thanks for popping in to see my simple creation and in the words of Mr Schwarzenegger...I'll be back!

Crafty hugs,