Angie's card designs: Hello my crafty friends
It's that time of the mont...: Hello my crafty friends It's that time of the month when we run a new challenge over at http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.uk/ and...
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Angie's card designs: Hello my crafty friendsIt's that time of the mont...
Angie's card designs: Hello my crafty friends
It's that time of the mont...: Hello my crafty friends It's that time of the month when we run a new challenge over at http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.uk/ and...
leave any comments here
It's that time of the mont...: Hello my crafty friends It's that time of the month when we run a new challenge over at http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.uk/ and...
leave any comments here
Hello my crafty friends
It's that time of the month when we run a new challenge over at http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.uk/ and I have done this card as my design team card. The challenge this month is spots and stripes and I hope we will see you all entering this month and give us a chance to see your creations. I hope the fabulous cards the DT have come up with will inspire you.
I started this card by choosing my favourite Kanban stamp,it is from a set of three dresses and I just love this one. Then I had a look to see what backing papers I had that went along with the theme of spots and chose two other contrasting coloured papers. Then I stamped the image on both of the contrasting papers and cut them out. I used the darker colour for the frill and the insert piece and the lighter for the main dress. I wanted to give it texture so that it appeared more like material so I ran it through a embossing folder. I then stamped another image on white card and coloured the manikin in with pro markers, ivory and blush. Then I chose a frame die to fit the image and cut and embossed it then shaded the edges while it was still in the die with a distress ink pad and then embossed another frame in the lighter of the two contrasting papers and cut it out using scissors and laid it underneath so that the colour would show through. I then punched holes in the bodice and laced through them with a contrasting yarn and then layered the lighter one on top of the dark layer and added some sparkly jewels to the top of the dress (well who doesn't like a bit of bling). then I made a bow with some satin ribbon I had and added a flower in the same colour to the center of the bow. Finally I embellished it with some white swirls and added some contrasting buttons,pearls and two hat pins which I threaded on some pearls and added a sentiment. I hope you like the finished card and it inspires you.
Happy crafting my friends and have a good day xx
It's that time of the month when we run a new challenge over at http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.uk/ and I have done this card as my design team card. The challenge this month is spots and stripes and I hope we will see you all entering this month and give us a chance to see your creations. I hope the fabulous cards the DT have come up with will inspire you.
I started this card by choosing my favourite Kanban stamp,it is from a set of three dresses and I just love this one. Then I had a look to see what backing papers I had that went along with the theme of spots and chose two other contrasting coloured papers. Then I stamped the image on both of the contrasting papers and cut them out. I used the darker colour for the frill and the insert piece and the lighter for the main dress. I wanted to give it texture so that it appeared more like material so I ran it through a embossing folder. I then stamped another image on white card and coloured the manikin in with pro markers, ivory and blush. Then I chose a frame die to fit the image and cut and embossed it then shaded the edges while it was still in the die with a distress ink pad and then embossed another frame in the lighter of the two contrasting papers and cut it out using scissors and laid it underneath so that the colour would show through. I then punched holes in the bodice and laced through them with a contrasting yarn and then layered the lighter one on top of the dark layer and added some sparkly jewels to the top of the dress (well who doesn't like a bit of bling). then I made a bow with some satin ribbon I had and added a flower in the same colour to the center of the bow. Finally I embellished it with some white swirls and added some contrasting buttons,pearls and two hat pins which I threaded on some pearls and added a sentiment. I hope you like the finished card and it inspires you.
Happy crafting my friends and have a good day xx
Monday, 10 March 2014
Hello crafters, I am sorry but I forgot to put a DT card on here that I did for this months challenge over at Aly's crafty challenge. I'm putting it down to not having been well,it seems to have addled my brain lol.
Anyway the challenge this month is butterflies,most people like butterflies so I am sure it will have a good response. Anyway this is the card I made,I hope you like it,I must admit because I had to get out of my sick bed to do it, it was a quickly made card by my standards,which is normally two days.
Anyway the challenge this month is butterflies,most people like butterflies so I am sure it will have a good response. Anyway this is the card I made,I hope you like it,I must admit because I had to get out of my sick bed to do it, it was a quickly made card by my standards,which is normally two days.
Friday, 7 March 2014
Angela O 'Donoghue
Ok folks,People have asked me how I made the flowers on my latest card so I thought I would do a video. I must add that it is video only as I hate my voice so I don't speak,maybe in the future I will build up the courage to talk but for now it's just pictures but I hope it helps you get an idea of how to make them
I used the Sellbinders Heartfelt Creations dies for these flowers
Vintage Floret HCD 727
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I used the Sellbinders Heartfelt Creations dies for these flowers
Vintage Floret HCD 727
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Hello my crafty friends,
As you know if you read my blog I haven't been well now for a while and haven't felt up to doing much crafting. On Wednesday I felt a little better and thought it was about time I tried to play with my new Brother scan and cut machine as I have had it for a couple of weeks now.
I managed to find a free download of some backgrounds on birdcards.com and thought i would try scanning one in to try. I had success with this one so I thought I would make a card with it. I hope you like the finished card
As you know if you read my blog I haven't been well now for a while and haven't felt up to doing much crafting. On Wednesday I felt a little better and thought it was about time I tried to play with my new Brother scan and cut machine as I have had it for a couple of weeks now.
I managed to find a free download of some backgrounds on birdcards.com and thought i would try scanning one in to try. I had success with this one so I thought I would make a card with it. I hope you like the finished card
Saturday, 1 March 2014
Hello crafty friends
It is that time of the month again when I make my DT card for the wonderful Gruffies And Guests challenge blog. This months theme is Fit for Mum or special female. I really enjoyed making this card and as I no longer have a mum I have made the sentiment simple so it will be suitable for a special female for any occasion. I hope you like this card,I love the image and was very pleased with how it turned out.
I hope you will pop over to the blog and enter your creations,this months sponsor is Scribble and Scrap
and they are giving a £15 voucher to spend online with them to the winner. The Gruffies and Guests blog link is on the sidebar,so go on you have nothing to lose,I look forward to seeing your crafty creations
I have entered this in the following challenge
http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.co.uk
Friday, 14 February 2014
Good morning everyone
I would like to apologise for not having blogged in a while but I have not been well. In fact I had to force myself out of my bed as I had to make this DT card by today. It was a struggle to start with as I have lost my mojo somewhere and can't seem to find it anywhere lol. Not a good time to lose it as I have my new Brother scan 'n' cut which arrived earlier in the week and I haven't had a play yet. I don't know if any of you ever feel it but I am having a crisis of confidence at the mo,it's probably just because I haven't been able to do much crafting but I see so many lovely cards on blogger and face book that I start to doubt my ability to produce anything as good that I just lose my creative flow. That's why it is good to be on some design teams as it forces you to get back on that horse. I always start by making a random card to get me in that mind set and then once the juices are flowing I start work on the card I need to make,and before I know it my mojo is back.
This card is a DT card for the new challenge over at Creative craft cottage (the link is on the side bar) and the theme is Vintage, which I chose this month so I had to try and come up with something to hopefully inspire crafters to try one themselves and enter our challenge. I am so looking forward to seeing all the creations as I do love vintage cards. So here it is and I hope it does inspire you to make one and enter it into the challenge
I would like to apologise for not having blogged in a while but I have not been well. In fact I had to force myself out of my bed as I had to make this DT card by today. It was a struggle to start with as I have lost my mojo somewhere and can't seem to find it anywhere lol. Not a good time to lose it as I have my new Brother scan 'n' cut which arrived earlier in the week and I haven't had a play yet. I don't know if any of you ever feel it but I am having a crisis of confidence at the mo,it's probably just because I haven't been able to do much crafting but I see so many lovely cards on blogger and face book that I start to doubt my ability to produce anything as good that I just lose my creative flow. That's why it is good to be on some design teams as it forces you to get back on that horse. I always start by making a random card to get me in that mind set and then once the juices are flowing I start work on the card I need to make,and before I know it my mojo is back.
This card is a DT card for the new challenge over at Creative craft cottage (the link is on the side bar) and the theme is Vintage, which I chose this month so I had to try and come up with something to hopefully inspire crafters to try one themselves and enter our challenge. I am so looking forward to seeing all the creations as I do love vintage cards. So here it is and I hope it does inspire you to make one and enter it into the challenge
I started by choosing a vintage style paper and then chose paper for the dress that complimented and used my favourite dress stamp from Kanban and stamped it several times so that I could decoupage it. I used a co ordinating pink paper for the little laced bit in the centre. I then cut them out and layered them up to accentuate the ruffles in the dress. Then I cut two of these lovely sizzix thinlits dies - frame garden lattice and joined them together by splicing them. For those of you who don't know how to do this, "and I only know because my husband is a woodworker" I overlapped them until they were the size I wanted and the laid a ruler across and carefully cut through both layers so they would match up. Then out of crafters companion pearl ivory card I used a spellbinders Majestic elements nestablities Opulent Ovals die to cut out the centre background and inked around it with a red ink as it appears pink on the pearlesant card stock.
By this time my decoupaged dress was dry and I started to put the card together. I started with a 8x8" white card and cut a piece of sage green card to fit and stuck it on ( I always use double sided tape as in the past when I used glue I found that after a while the glue would dry out and the bits would start falling off the card) I am not saying with more modern glues this would happen,I just got into this habit and am scared to try glue just in case. I guess I should just have a experiment to see how modern glues hold up but for now I will stick to what I am used to doing. Then I cut the pretty backing paper 1/4" smaller and stuck it to the card to leave a border all the way round.Then as the garden lattice die cuts had a centre to them I put double sided tape just on the back of these and carefully lined them up in the centre of the card and stuck them down. Then I stuck the spellbinder frame on top in the centre and added the decoupaged dress. I had these little silk ribbon flowers,I don't remember where I got them from,but they were white which I thought was too stark for this card so again I used the red ink pad to just colour them and they appeared pink again,I then using the rule of odds put three in two opposite corners and added a bow to compliment and topped it off with two buttons,one on top of the other. Then I used cosmic shimmer pearl glue to add some pearls around the frame where the lattice shapes met. I didn't put a sentiment on it as I didn't think it needed one and it leaves it open to be used for lots of different occasions. I hope this has explained the processes I went through to achieve this but if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask in the comments and I will get back to you. I would also love to hear what you think about it if you have the time to leave a comment.
Happy crafting everyone!!!!
Monday, 3 February 2014
Good morning all, I hope you all had a very good weekend and maybe got some crafting in?
This is my latest card which I have done as my design team card over at Christmas Fun challenge blog. The theme for this fortnight is "Cute Character" it would be lovely to see all your creations so why not pop over and enter at http://laineycraftyspace-christmasfun.blogspot.co.uk
I wanted to try a new technique that I saw a few months ago and was inspired to try myself, after all that's why us crafter's share our creations, to give others ideas and inspire others to try things out, how else would we progress.
I hope you like it and are inspired as I was to give it a go!
This is my latest card which I have done as my design team card over at Christmas Fun challenge blog. The theme for this fortnight is "Cute Character" it would be lovely to see all your creations so why not pop over and enter at http://laineycraftyspace-christmasfun.blogspot.co.uk
I wanted to try a new technique that I saw a few months ago and was inspired to try myself, after all that's why us crafter's share our creations, to give others ideas and inspire others to try things out, how else would we progress.
I hope you like it and are inspired as I was to give it a go!
materials I used
Blue paper 8x8
Pink card 7.75" x7.75"
Image from the Me to you Cd
white card
snowflake punch
cosmic shimmer pearl PVA
White ribbon
Peal off 1st Christmas in silver
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