Workshop cards...

Good morning, Blogger buddies! I know...it's a bit of a shock to see me here between challenges these days, especially with my crafty motivation being at an all time low, but I thought I would pop in and share the cards that we made at workshop on Saturday...

We started with a nice, simple wedding/anniversary card, using pastel papers and embossing for texture...and then we got all inky!...

...I love the way these turned out and thoroughly enjoyed starting with a blank piece of white card and adding layers of inking and stencilling to create a unique background...don't know why I don't do it more often?!
I'd like to enter my butterfly cards into the following challenges :

Alphabet Challenge

Y for Your Choice closes tomorrow

Crafty Catz

Layer it Up closes tomorrow

The Paper Shelter

Hot or Cold colours (I have one of each!) closes 20th

(If my card doesn't qualify because I haven't used an image, please feel free to leave me out of the draw!)

Everybody Art Challenge

Anything Goes closes 26th

Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday, whatever you're doing...and maybe even find the time to get a little bit crafty!
Hugs,

Back in Wales...

Good afternoon, dear Blogger friends!  Firstly I must say a massive HELLO and THANK YOU to everyone who came along to Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh on Saturday and for all the lovely comments that I received for my samples!  It was so nice to meet you all and I hope you are all having fun with your new crafty stash!  There were quite a few stalls for people to browse with products including dies, stamps, card and paper, fabric kits, wooden decorations, glitter, powders and pastes and much more, so I hope that everyone went away with some new ideas and inspiration!

Talking of inspiration, I thought I would share with you a card that I made in the final hours before travelling up to Scotland.  It was 10 o'clock at night when I decided to make this after getting inspiration from a number of criss cross cards that I have seen recently, despite telling myself that I had enough samples already!...

...I began with two pink 6x6 card blanks and cut the fronts diagonally to create triangular fronts on each one.  Print off the stripe and flower paper from the May Wedding bells design set of A Year in Cards CD.  Cut the stripe to 14cm square, ink the edges (I used Victorian Velvet) and attach to the square panel of the card base. From the flower paper, cut 2 pieces 13.5cm square then cut them diagonally to create triangles (you should have 4 triangles).  Choose the two triangular pieces that correspond to the front flaps with the pattern the right way up, ink the edges (I used Weathered Wood) and attach them to the triangular card fronts.  I then adhered the fronts to create the pocket by placing a line of DST along the bottom of each of the trangular flaps and adhered to the card base...

I attached some organza and grey satin ribbon around the centre of the card, adhering to the reverse with DST and used the silver wedding bells topper, cut with SB Labels Eleven and matted onto silver mirror card.  I embellished with handmade flowers made from an XCut daisy and flower punch and Cheery Lynn Leaf Strip border leaves...

For the sentiment panel, I printed the Two Hearts sentiment by using the Snapshot Tool to select it, then printed onto A5 paper, cut to 13.5cm wide x 13cm high and inked the edges with Victorian Velvet.  I matted this onto a blue panel 14 x 13.5cm and cut 2 tags from the excess stripe paper using an XCut tag die.  I drew around the die to create mats from antique silver paper, adhered the stripe tag on top and folded in half over the top of the panel.  I then attached the main card onto a square base which had been cut with Martha Stewart Eyelet Lace punch around the page punches.  I finished with some pearls, glitter and pink heart beads to decorate.
Hope you like my criss cross card and take inspiration in some way!  I'll be back in the morning with a new DT card for this week's challenge at Passion for Promarkers, so until then, have a great day!
Hugs,

I'd like to enter my card into the folllowing challenges :

Moving Along with the Times 

Recipe - 1 image, 2 papers, 3 colours (pink, blue, grey)

closes 1st October

Cute Card Thursday

Dies and punches closes 1st October

Divas by Design

Pretty in Glitter closes tomorrow

I'm not the best at getting bling to show on photos, but I have glitter on the bells, glitter organza and pink sparkly heart beads - hope this is glittery enough!

Creative Moments

Anything Goes/Use 3 Layers closes 5th October

September's here!...

Good afternoon, dear crafty friends!  Where has this year gone to?  I can't quite believe that it is September already - it was Little Man's birthday on Monday and he was 10...so never mind where this year has gone, what happened to the last 10?!  Today saw the boys back to school and the house is rather quiet without them, though it's nice to get back into some sort of routine!  Jase is now in his last year of secondary school, with his GCSEs next year and Josh is now in year 5! (He just misses the school term as his birthday is at the beginning of September, so he is the oldest in his class!)

It was our village Gardening Show on the weekend and it was the first time that I could enter anything as it is usually on the Bank Hoilday weekend when we are away.  I entered a couple of the garden produce classes, 2 of the floral art categories and of course a couple of the crafts, plus my little man entered the children's photography competition.  We did very well, really and the show was said to be one of the best for a long time, with a fantastic number of entries!  In total, I came home with 3 firsts and 2 thirds and Josh got first with his photo, so not bad for a first attempt!
We are still none the wiser as to when our house works are supposed to start (it's getting a bit tedious now!) but I have managed to get a bit of crafty time in this morning to complete a card commission for a wedding.  I don't normally post commission cards, as they are personal to the recipients, but thought I would share this one with you and just remove the names...

...I kept the colours quite soft with a white on cream colour combo, inking the  edges with Antique Linen and Walnut Stain DI.  I used a selection of flowers that I found in my stash (which is really getting low these days!), pink organza ribbon, heart charm, Cheery Lynn butterfly and a pretty MS clay frame.  I highlighted the image with a hint of Promarker colour and added some Glamourdust for a touch of sparkle.  The edge of the card base is made using the Spellbinders Parisian Accents border and corner - just love these dies!
So, that's it from me for today and I hope to be back again soon!  Thanks for dropping by to see me, it really does mean a lot, especially as my blogging is so hit and miss at the minute!  Hope you're enjoying some early Spetember sunshine, take care and crafty hugs,
Lisa x

I'd like to enter my card into the following challeneges :

Papertake Weekly

Anything Goes

ABC Challenge

U- for Unlimited (Anything Goes)

Natalie and Amy 

Embossing

Silver Bells...

...That was quick, wasn't it?!  I did colour and assemble the image for this card last night, so was ahead of myself!

I am in love with the Spellbinders Parisian Accents border die at the moment, after using it on the Halloween frame card a few posts ago and decided to create a card using it as a border frame for the card base...

...I started with a 14.5cm square piece of white card and attached 4 border die cuts, cut down so that they were 5 designs in length, then used the corner die with a bit removed (see below) to join the corner pieces...

...I used the snapshot tool to highlight the sentiment on the May wedding sheet from A Year in Cards and printed it on A5 cardstock with the Page Scaling set to None, so that it wasn't resized.  This printed the sentiment in the middle of the card, allowing me to position my Go Kreate Frilly Frame #2 die over the top  so that the text was on the left hand side.  I embossed the top and bottom of the die cut with my Lovely Flourish Texturz plate and inked the edges with Antique Linen DI...

...I printed the wedding bells digistamp from the jpeg and png folder using Windows Picture Viewer, 4 to a page and printed using the Draft settings to get a light outline.  I used 3 images, coloured with my Promarkers and paper piece decoupaged them to give a bit more dimension, then highlighted with glitter and diamantes.  The Promarker colours I used were :

Bells : Blender, Cool Grey 1, 3, 4 & 5 (I've lost my no.2!)

Ribbon : Pale Blossom, Pale Pink, Cocktal Pink, Dusky Rose

Leaves : Lime Zest. Lime, Pear & Olive Green

Flowers : Blue Pearl

I punched out the small blue flowers and attached over the top of the image ones, then added a Marianne swirl to the top left and bottom of the bells...

...I finished off with some wide lace (which has been in my stash for donkeys ages!), cream satin ribbon and bow, and of course, a few pearls.  I love the elegance of this card and am really happy with the way it turned out!  As always, thanks for dropping by, Lisa X

 I'm entering this card into the following challenges :

Oldie but a Goodie

Inspired by a Song

Silver Bells by Bing Crosby

(Oldie is my lace which I must have had in my stash for 3 years at least, scandalous I know!)

Papertake Weekly

Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Crafts and Me Challenge

My Sentiments Exactly (2nd entry)

Simon Says Stamp

Glimmer and Sparkle

(Diamantes and glitter on the bells)

Paperplay Challenges

Shine On

(Glitter, diamantes & pearls)

P.S. I'm going to be at Ross Papercrafts show at KC Stadium, Hull on the 28th October - check out their website for more details.

Wedding carriage...

Hey guys, back again!  As promised, here's a card I made using the wedding carriage freebie below...

...it's a C5 card (what no square?!), with gold mirri and vintage cream embossed paper...

...The carriage is coloured with Promarkers : Cinnamon, Tan and Light Fawn FM for the wheels, Sandstone, Vanilla and Ivory for the carriage, Dusky Rose, Pale Pink and Pale Blossom for the interior, and Cool Grey 5,4,3 and 1 for the horses.  The image was actually quite easy to colour, despite the detail!

...I used the second smallest Floral Ovals Nestabilities for the sentiment and printed the wording out using PS...

...to embellish, I used a pretty heart shaped doily, maribu feather, pearl string, a mixture of paper and silk flowers and the Memory Box Madera corner die cut up.  I wasn't sure about the image at first, thinking that it would be a bit fiddly to colour, but now it's completed I'm lovin' it!  Hope you like it too and find use for it!  Lisa x

I'm entering this card into the following challenges :

One Stop Craft

Celebrations

CRAFT Challenge

Celebration

Crafty Ribbons Challenge

Flowers

DYSU Challenge

Use a Flower

Digi Doodle Shop

Bingo

I've gone with middle across, A bit of sparkle, Something New (my digistamp) & Pearls

A quick freebie...

Hi guys, Just thought I'd drop in with a quick freebie for you all.  Don't know if it will be of any use, but you're welcome to download it from 4shared here

...or you can click on the image to view, then right click and 'save image as'.  Will have a go at a card with it later to give you some inspiration.  Happy crafting!  Lisa x

Monochromatic

Just a quick Hi to all the girls who went along to Dianne's Plush Pals Workshop on Saturday, at Crafts4U2Do - hope you had a wonderful day and liked the cards you went away with (though I'm sure you did!) I just wish I lived a bit nearer and I could have come along too!!

So, what's new today? I've been quite productive in my craft room this weekend, and decided to make a card for the Mami Doodles Challenge this week, which is a monochromatic card. I'm really quite pleased with the way this one has turned out, it's a real 'me' card - pink and girly! I love the colour pink, although don't have any pink rooms in my house, no pink car, and not very many pink clothes, but if you asked what my favourite colour was, I think it would have to be pink?!!


The wedding cake is yet another way to use up all those strips of white card left over from cutting A4 sheets, to make square cards, and the strings of pearls between each layer have been hanging around my ribbon bits tin for possibly years! It's amazing what you find when you're just 'playing'. I seem to be going through a phase of using up all the bits and bobs that have been forgotten about and gathering dust on the numerous shelves of stuff, that I'm sure we all hoard! My next venture is to find some co-ordinating papers in my patterned paper drawer and use them, though I have to admit that it's something I'm still learning at yet - I can spend hours shuffling bits of patterned paper around a card blank and still end up with a blank card staring back at me at the end of it!! I'll post back and let you know how I get on!?!

Lovebirds

I was asked to make a 'funny' engagement card...quite a challenge...then I found this lovely lovebirds digi stamp which was a freebie on pollycraftdesigns.co.uk

The wording says - "It's obvious you two will be deliriously happy...", then inside, "...you're already half way there!"

I coloured 2 of the image with watercolour pencils, so I could add some decoupage, and embossed the background with one of the Sissix textures plates. Love the red and white polka dot ribbon, heck, I love all polka dot ribbon!!