At last a little peek of Amber’s Memory Album….
Amber is huge into Owls, had to put an owl somewhere on her album.
A Keepsake For Amber
Little Bit Of Spring
Happy Sunday to everyone and wow the last two days have been glorious, wall to wall sunshine so my card this week for Sentimental Sundays has a spring feel to it. It’s all about the sentiment this week. Please check out the girls creations for a little bit of inspiration, there is always a lovely surprise to be found when you go blog hopping … read on further to see what I mean.
Only used two colours with my white card and being in the spring mood it had to be lemon and green.
My choice for colouring was chalks because I wanted a soft and whimsical feel for her, netting was placed over the image when completed, which totally gave it the floaty feel. Used yet another one of my fave techniques for this card … masking … just love it because you can achieve such wonderful results.
What am I like for playing … Andrew hates it because he’s the one who usually has to sort out the mess when it all goes horribly wrong … all he hears is this high pitched shriek followed by Andrewwwww … yippee not this time hun … it worked and not only have I made a lovely background but also learnt how to place her separately.
I adore my cardmaking and playing with paper … nothing can beat it … but I also love the computer side since I started my blog, it gives me so much pleasure to display my cards and projects in such a pretty way.
Had a quick mooch around … as you do … to see what challenges she would fit and came across the Make It Colourful Challenge saw Barbara’s card … just another quick hop to check it out … or so I thought … and hey presto my inspiration for trying this new technique came within seconds of seeing her absolutely beautiful blog, with all the extra little images dotted around … just had to try it for myself and so totally delighted with the results … thank you Barbara for such a pretty blog Forgotten Scraps.
Entering for: Make It Colourful – Blend Yellow and Green together
The Creative Cottage – Spring Has Sprung
Creatalicious Challenges – Two Tone/Colours
Sir Stampalot Challenge – Fresh green/yellow and or blossom pinks
My Fave (at the moment)
Had an inking bonanza day with Patricia and Margaret last weekend, I so enjoyed it because it was my first stamping, inking and just playing for ages, so at this moment in time it is my fave tag … ask me again next week which is my fave and I will have changed my mind.
Made the background by stamping onto acetate, turned it over to wrong side and spritzed with Making Memories Mists, covered with diamond glaze, placed a piece of copy paper over the top, and waited to dry. I took a nestie shape, found a piece I wanted to cut out, then layered it onto my tag. The tag is resting on the rest of the collage acetate … it’s also hiding the hole which was left by the cut out piece. Made our own flowers and brads.
Just have to tell you this girls, Patricia also made a tag … not telling tales out of school … but she has not got the best eye for anything straight … watch out for her new blog which is coming soon …seriously though she is a brill crafter, adores anything vintage. We made the tags ourselves and who would have thought anyone could have laughed so much at someone trying to get the comers of the tag even, she nearly ended up with no tag left.
The stamps used are Patricia’s, the new TH ones from QVC, I never bought them … wish I had … but we all borrowed them, that’s what crafting with friends is all about sharing, playing and having the best laugh ever … no wonder we all love crafting.
Entering for – Truly Scrumptious – Tag It
Papertake Weekly Challenge – Triple Tastic – 3 of something … My 3 are the brads (the flower has a button in the middle)
Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight – Make you own DP Paper
Flag Card
Hi Suzanne haven’t done a flag book before but I made this card about 5 years ago.
It works on the same principle as the book, never knew what to call it … now I do … eh Flag Card!!!
Ummmm I feel my third tutorial might be this card.
(Click on image to see larger view)
It works on the same principal as the book, also the left hand topper on the card is the same as the larger image in the middle.
Entering for Shannon’s Sentiments – Unusual Folds.
Another Tag To Share
One really happy bunny, posting another tag to share with you today with stamping onto acetate, spray inks, sewing, sticking, glueing, oh just about everything that gives us crafters a buzzzzzz. Have had a huge flare up with my RA and things like the above really take it’s toll on my hands but medication has kicked in again and life nearly back to normal. I love making cutesy, cutesy cards with flowers, ribbons and D papers … which doesn’t put to much pressure on my hands … but my first love is stamping, inking and getting totally messy. Photo rubbish, so much glare from acetate and bling baubles on the card, tried to sharpen but that made it worse, doesn’t help that the sun is splitting the sky today … not complaining after our winter … but it’s creating shadows everywhere.
Have to give Andrew a huge kiss because he puts up with a lot at times like this … never complains ever, just supports me … but he is going in for a minor op with an overnight stay, in two weeks and I know he is a bit apprehensive … (never been in hospital before) … so just want to say babe my turn to be there for you and luv ya hun.
Made a full A4 sheet with lots of different stamped images so that when you need a quick image to put onto a card or tag you just select the piece you want and cut out.
The piece I selected for this tag was stamped with a Hero Arts stamp called Misty Garden Pattern, stamped it … and several other images … onto acetate, turned over to wrong side and spray misted with Memories Mist …. love these … covered with diamond glaze then put copy paper over and left to dry. Used the lovely freebie butterfly from Stamping Up Magazine and the stem of the flower is a tiny bit of chiffon material I had left over from making a flower isn’t it gorge. Hope you enjoy, I certainly did and there will be another tag to share with you tomorrow … what a busy bee I’ve been, really making up for lost time ha ha.
Inky Fingers
At last finally got those fingers inky again and made a just for me tag.
Used all those lovely ingredients that make your fingers mucky for days but who cares this was fun.
Stuff used … stamps, inks, crackle paint, glimmer mists, glossy accents, glamour dust, lace, charms, stitching and last but not least made a beautiful rose with fabric.
Quote was found on a great web page you can find it here.
Entering for Our Creative Corner – Fabulous fabric
The ABC Challenge – Q is for Quote
Truly Scrumptious – Tag it
Go Green – Colour/Recycled
Go Green … The Colour/Recycled is the challenge for Sentimental Sunday’s this week, plus a sentiment, so we would dearly love to see all your fabulous creations, be it the Colour green or Recycled, you can even use both if the fancy takes you … wahoooo … today the choice is yours. Me chose the colour green option this week so pop over and collect your freebies, see all the loooovely inspiration from the other teemies and don’t forget, if you win, you get to pick four individual sentiment sets from
The Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamp Collection.
Please, please don’t forget to add your sentiment, we have had some beautiful creations not entered into the prize draw because no sentiment was added.
Now how cute is he, another Penny Black image called … Fly Away … on my project. The tag has the actual original image stamped and coloured on it, then I scanned it and printed off a copy ready to make the card. As you can see the scanned image is much sharper and the colours have changed a little, but still not a bad likeness. I was also able to change the image so that he looked the other way. Guess what I forgot to do … put my signature on the tag … silly billy.
Entering for – Penny Black Saturday Challenge – Green
Delicious Doodles – Use Green For St Patrick’s Day
Purrrrrfect Day For Crafting
Not sure what you have woken up to today but our Saturday is raining, windy, miserable and the only thing to put me in the right mood is paper crafting.
Pat and I had a super retail therapy shop the other day we trawled round three craft shops and bought some goodies …. can’t say too much in case you know who is reading this … no not Voldemort, silly… Andrew
Not going to say what Pat spent … suffice to say no change out of €500 … only kidding Liam
Pat came yesterday so we could play with our goodies and this is what I made, Let’s Ink It Up has inspired me yet again to make another embossed card … still have time to enter your wonderful creations into the challenge girls … take a look at the pretty cat and handbag die on the card … one of my buys … so pretty, the card cried out “emboss me”.
Papermania make these dies … there are four to the set, only bought this one but guess who wants the other three????? They have stamps to match, so after making my card, I had one of my … just because moments … I made a tag, simply because everything was on my desk.
Stamped and embossed the image, chalks were already on the desk so coloured in with these and the edges, masked off the image, stamped and embossed over it with a lovely little Prima stamp … just thought the bird sitting there looked fun.
The die cuts out two cats & handbags so you can mix and match pieces.
Entering for – Really Reasonable Ribbons – They would like to see the colour Green
Tutorial #2 – Embossed Aperture Card
Michele e-mailed and asked if I could give her a few hints and tips on how to make this card so I decided to make my second tutorial.
A big tip for when you are using your embossing folders – put some kind of mark on the front of your embossing folders … I always put my name … because this reminds me which side embosses … especially handy for when I need to de-boss … this lets me know to turn the folder over and have my mark at the back.
The first picture below shows everything used to make the card and the second picture shows how to put the embossing folder over the card, then put through whatever embossing machine you prefer …. aren’t I the lucky one hubby bought me the Big Shot Pro for Christmas and all I can say is wow oh wow, it is the bees knees. The folder used is by Crafts Too called Swirl Frame. Card used is a 6 x 6 Craftwork Cards scalloped and fits perfectly width ways into your cutting machines.
First picture below shows how it should look when you have finished embossing.
Next picture shows the card on the Big Shot plate with the embossing folder, but this time I used the Crafts Too Daisy folder.
Also I wanted to de-boss my card so I made sure my name was at the back when I put onto the card, all will make sense once you have cut out the aperture.
When the card is opened out … the left hand side is debossed and the right embossed.
Second picture shows the front of the card (which is embossed) then you need to cut out the aperture following the inside lines.
I personally always change my mat when I cut out, to a glass one, the difference is tremendous.
The blade just glides over the glass and through the card effortlessly and also the Fiskars finger tool cutter is the best ever.
This is how it should look when you have cut out the aperture.
Last picture shows the inside embossing through the aperture.
Hope all is clear and you enjoy making this card, if there is anything you do not understand please don’t hesitate, just e-mail and hopefully I will try and explain more.
Entering for – Creative Stamp Friends – They want to see Lace
Digi Doodle Shop’s Best – Pearls
Creative Craft Challenges – Lace
Two In One Day Again
As you know once a month Sentimental Sundays challenge falls on the same day as Lets Ink It Up so this month I decided to make two similar cards for the challenges.
This is my card for the SS Challenge which is Pearls & Lace (plus a sentiment … my sentiment is inside this week) please scroll down for the LIIU Challenge.
Our sponsor this week is Deedee Anderson of Deedee’s Digis … the winner will receive a $10 voucher for the store. As you know the lovely Ann V also gives away four individual sentiments from Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection.
