Saturday, 3 January 2015
Hello my friends,I hope you have all had a good Christmas and new year. I have unusually had to take to my bed all over Christmas and new year with a very nasty cold which felt more like flu and still hasn't given up the ghost yet. I can honestly say I have never felt so ill. I have had no appetite so did not have a Christmas dinner but will push the boat out as soon as my taste buds return. I hope you all fared better over the festivities.
Anyway, after losing all track of my days and spending the whole day believing it to be Friday today,I logged into facebook and saw a post which said it was the start of the new challenge over at Gruffies and Guests and it was then I realised I had missed posting my design team card first thing this morning,and not as I thought first thing tomorrow ha ha. Well not funny really as I always seem to be late for one reason or another these days. I for one will be so glad 2014 is over and we have started a new year,as my health was terrible last year and I hope it will improve this year,well lets face it,it can't really get any worse (can it) .
So my new years resolution is to sort out my craft room and to try and be more organised,the first I am sure I can manage,the second....... well watch this space.
So without further ado here is my first card of the year. I was so inspired by this beautiful image that the designing of this card came unusually easy to me. Using the colours from the image I cut a pink piece of card 5mm smaller than the 8x8" card blank and one oiece of yellow card 5mm smaller than the pink to give a nice pink boarder around the edge of the card. I then used this heart shaped die from Tonic,the name of which escapes me but it shouldn't be hard to find,and placed it closer to the top of the card than the bottom as I wanted to leave more room at the bottom for the bow to go. I used the largest inner die that just cuts out the boarder and the smaller outside edge die so that it would cut the appeture out while giving it a pretty boarder. Then I had to line up the yellow card over the pink to give a even boarder around the edge and placed the smaller outside edge die to line up with the one cut from the yellow card so that when layered up the pink card would show through the boarder of the heart. Then I put the yellow layer through a heartfelt creations embossing folder (one with hearts on it). Then with my new Sue Wilson Delicate Daisys dies i made the flowers by cutting them from the same pink card and inking the edges of the petals to give them dimension,layered two of the same size petals together and used these sparkly yellow pompoms I bought in the pound shope as the center of the flowers to make them look like the flower in the image. I then added the pink bow and added a yellow button and pink button layered up with some yellow twine to tie them together. I 3D decoupaged the image to bring it to life and added the happy birthday tag.
I hope you like it and it will inspire you all to have a go and maybe enter the challenge over at http://gruffiesandguests.blogspot.co.uk/ which is to use buttons,bows or both and you will be in with a chance to win a £10 voucher from this months sponsor http://www.scribbleandscrap.co.uk/index.html
Anyway, after losing all track of my days and spending the whole day believing it to be Friday today,I logged into facebook and saw a post which said it was the start of the new challenge over at Gruffies and Guests and it was then I realised I had missed posting my design team card first thing this morning,and not as I thought first thing tomorrow ha ha. Well not funny really as I always seem to be late for one reason or another these days. I for one will be so glad 2014 is over and we have started a new year,as my health was terrible last year and I hope it will improve this year,well lets face it,it can't really get any worse (can it) .
So my new years resolution is to sort out my craft room and to try and be more organised,the first I am sure I can manage,the second....... well watch this space.
So without further ado here is my first card of the year. I was so inspired by this beautiful image that the designing of this card came unusually easy to me. Using the colours from the image I cut a pink piece of card 5mm smaller than the 8x8" card blank and one oiece of yellow card 5mm smaller than the pink to give a nice pink boarder around the edge of the card. I then used this heart shaped die from Tonic,the name of which escapes me but it shouldn't be hard to find,and placed it closer to the top of the card than the bottom as I wanted to leave more room at the bottom for the bow to go. I used the largest inner die that just cuts out the boarder and the smaller outside edge die so that it would cut the appeture out while giving it a pretty boarder. Then I had to line up the yellow card over the pink to give a even boarder around the edge and placed the smaller outside edge die to line up with the one cut from the yellow card so that when layered up the pink card would show through the boarder of the heart. Then I put the yellow layer through a heartfelt creations embossing folder (one with hearts on it). Then with my new Sue Wilson Delicate Daisys dies i made the flowers by cutting them from the same pink card and inking the edges of the petals to give them dimension,layered two of the same size petals together and used these sparkly yellow pompoms I bought in the pound shope as the center of the flowers to make them look like the flower in the image. I then added the pink bow and added a yellow button and pink button layered up with some yellow twine to tie them together. I 3D decoupaged the image to bring it to life and added the happy birthday tag.
I hope you like it and it will inspire you all to have a go and maybe enter the challenge over at http://gruffiesandguests.blogspot.co.uk/ which is to use buttons,bows or both and you will be in with a chance to win a £10 voucher from this months sponsor http://www.scribbleandscrap.co.uk/index.html
Happy crafting everyone
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Saturday, 20 December 2014
Angie's card designs: Good morning my crafty friends. I am sorry it has ...
Angie's card designs: Good morning my crafty friends. I am sorry it has ...: Good morning my crafty friends. I am sorry it has been so long since my last post but ill health had taken it's toll. I have bad arthrit...
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Good morning my crafty friends. I am sorry it has been so long since my last post but ill health had taken it's toll. I have bad arthritis in my hands and also have carpal tunnel in both hands and a trigger finger on my left hand which has kept me from crafting. I have got a few cards to put on that I had done but for now I am posting my DT card for Gruffies and Guests challenge blog. The theme for this month is blue and silver or anything goes as usual. I was lucky enough to have a early birthday present from my Hubby which was some new dies from the couture creations dies which included this beautiful die (winter flourishes collection) I just had to use it as it makes a beautiful frame for any image you want to use. I cut a piece of silver miriboard 1/2 cm smaller than my 8x8" white card blank so that a little white was showing around the edge of the card,then I placed the inner snowflake die where I wanted it and cut it out. Then I chose this lovely snowflake backing paper and cut it another 1/2cm smaller than the silver piece to give a silver frame and then cut the outside frame die to match up with the silver cutout to create this lovely frame. I then decoupaged my chosen house mouse picture from the triple cd and placed it underneath to show through the aperture. I added some white diamond sparkles glitter to make the snow shimmer and added this lovely silver snowflake patterned bow and a sentiment. I hope you like it,it's a bit late to be a inspiration to you as I am sure you already have all your cards made for Christmas but it is the halfway reminder for this months challenge so perhaps you could pop over and enter for a chance to win this months prize over at http://gruffiesandguests.blogspot.co.uk/
Saturday, 1 November 2014
Good morning my friends,I hope it's a nice day where you are. Well I am still busy making my Christmas cards and here is one I have made for the design team for http://gruffiesandguests.blogspot.co.uk/ The theme if you haven't guessed is Anything goes/Christmas. The sponsors this month are http://www.scribbleandscrap.co.uk/index.html and they are giving a £10 voucher to the winner.
I still haven't been able to use scissors well enough to do a 3D decoupage so I have tried to make it more special by adding the poinsettia flowers by Sue Wilson. I added white glitter to the 1st and top layer,which is hard to see in the photo but it makes them glisten and look pretty. The holly leaves I put in amongst them I can't remember where I got them,I think they were on a magazine last year but I'm not sure. The aperture is also Sue Wilson,Californian collection,decorative frames B,I do like the shape of this one as it give a good size for the picture in the center which is from the House Mouse triple CD. I layered it all on red miri card,which I embossed with the crafters companion A4 dotty folder and used the Sue Wilson snowflake lattice A4 folder for the white layer.
I hope you like it and it inspires you
I still haven't been able to use scissors well enough to do a 3D decoupage so I have tried to make it more special by adding the poinsettia flowers by Sue Wilson. I added white glitter to the 1st and top layer,which is hard to see in the photo but it makes them glisten and look pretty. The holly leaves I put in amongst them I can't remember where I got them,I think they were on a magazine last year but I'm not sure. The aperture is also Sue Wilson,Californian collection,decorative frames B,I do like the shape of this one as it give a good size for the picture in the center which is from the House Mouse triple CD. I layered it all on red miri card,which I embossed with the crafters companion A4 dotty folder and used the Sue Wilson snowflake lattice A4 folder for the white layer.
I hope you like it and it inspires you
Saturday, 25 October 2014
Angie's card designs: Hey folks,me again,it's like buses lol, you wait f...
Angie's card designs: Hey folks,me again,it's like buses lol, you wait f...: Hey folks,me again,it's like buses lol, you wait forever for one then two come along at once lol. Well here is another one I made today....
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Hey folks,me again,it's like buses lol, you wait forever for one then two come along at once lol. Well here is another one I made today.
I used all Creative expressions Sue Wilson die's and embossing folder on this one,I love all her designs,they really fit my style.
I used the snowflake latice embossing folder, the festive collection pine bough,the sentimental bauble,and for the apeture I used the Californian collection decorative frames B.
I used some green mirriboard then a layer of white card which I 1st cut out the apeture and then the larger outer layer to make a frame. Then I placed a backing paper behind to show through the apeture. Then I embossed embossed the white card and put a dot of cosmic shimmer glitter glue in the centre of each of the snowflakes. Then I die cut 6 of the pine boughs in a olive green and also cut 2 of the baubles out,one just with the outer edge in white glitter card and the other with white shinny card and cut the outer and inner and layered it over the top of the glitter one so it would show through. Then I cut the bauble label from the same olive green card I used for the pine boughs and also the bauble hanging top. I used a white satin ribbon and decorated it with a white button and in the centre I put some cosmic shimmer liquid pearls in the centre to match the green on the rest of the card. I attached the bauble with foam tape to raise it up.
I hope you like it and it inspires you,happy crafting everyone x
I used all Creative expressions Sue Wilson die's and embossing folder on this one,I love all her designs,they really fit my style.
I used the snowflake latice embossing folder, the festive collection pine bough,the sentimental bauble,and for the apeture I used the Californian collection decorative frames B.
I used some green mirriboard then a layer of white card which I 1st cut out the apeture and then the larger outer layer to make a frame. Then I placed a backing paper behind to show through the apeture. Then I embossed embossed the white card and put a dot of cosmic shimmer glitter glue in the centre of each of the snowflakes. Then I die cut 6 of the pine boughs in a olive green and also cut 2 of the baubles out,one just with the outer edge in white glitter card and the other with white shinny card and cut the outer and inner and layered it over the top of the glitter one so it would show through. Then I cut the bauble label from the same olive green card I used for the pine boughs and also the bauble hanging top. I used a white satin ribbon and decorated it with a white button and in the centre I put some cosmic shimmer liquid pearls in the centre to match the green on the rest of the card. I attached the bauble with foam tape to raise it up.
I hope you like it and it inspires you,happy crafting everyone x
Angie's card designs: Good morning everyone,what a beautiful morning it ...
Angie's card designs: Good morning everyone,what a beautiful morning it ...: Good morning everyone,what a beautiful morning it is to. I haven't been able to craft for a while as I have had shingles which gave me b...
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Good morning everyone,what a beautiful morning it is to. I haven't been able to craft for a while as I have had shingles which gave me blisters on my right hand which meant I couldn't use it. They are still there but are drying up but it means I can't use scissors still so can't do my usual 3D decoupage type cards. However I have managed to be able to use my die's. So I have done my 1st Christmas card and tried something a bit different. I used the Sue Wilson filigree poinsettia die's and the plain poinsettia die's to create this one,I also used the crafters companion dottie A4 embossing folder and the Sue Wilson holly die and one of my favourite ribbons for the bow. I hope you like it and it inspires you
Saturday, 4 October 2014
Good morning all you lovely crafters,I hope the weather is not to bad where you are. I am a bit late posting this ,this morning as I have just become a Grandmother for the 2nd time and events have kind of taken over this week,so I hope you will forgive the lateness.
This is my DT card for http://gruffiesandguests.blogspot.co.uk/ challenge and this month it is Halloween/Halloween colours. Our sponsor this month is http://www.disdigistamps.com/ and they are giving a £10 voucher to the winner. So pop over and enter,we would love to see you're creations.
This is my DT card for http://gruffiesandguests.blogspot.co.uk/ challenge and this month it is Halloween/Halloween colours. Our sponsor this month is http://www.disdigistamps.com/ and they are giving a £10 voucher to the winner. So pop over and enter,we would love to see you're creations.
I have enjoyed making this one although had a few problems with cutting out the spiders webs on my Brother scan n cut but got there eventually. I will update this blog later with how I made it as I have to go out now,sorry. Hope this inspires
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