Pages

Saturday 31 August 2013

Less is More Watercolouring




The LIM challenge this week is to use a rubber stamp and, a bonus challenge, to add some watercolouring. This is my first attempt at what you could call actual watercolouring, that is on proper paper using water, and now I've tried it I have to say it's not a technique I particularly like! Anyway I tried and this is the result.
I used a combination of Field Flowers (stem and sentiment) and Fabulous Florets stamped in Old Olive and Raspberry Ripple and coloured using an aqua painter. The sentiment was punched using the new Label Bracket Punch (available in the new seasonal catalogue) which was then re-inserted into the punch to make a different, smaller shape.
That's it from me as I have a busy day ahead. Enjoy your weekend and I'll be back tomorrow for Simples Sunday.
Margaret x



Friday 30 August 2013

Class Project

Today I wanted to share with you the lovely 'note' cases made by the ladies who came to my class yesterday. Last month they had seen a similar notecase and a mini album that I had made using the new clear mount cases, available from SU, and combined the ideas from both of those to come up with their own colour scheme and design (and copied ideas off each other - which is what crafting is all about isn't it?) So here they are -

  










I think you'll agree they all did a fabulous job.
I have watermarked each photo with the ladies names but, just in case, they are made by (from top to bottom and the order I took the photos!) Gail, Linda, Carole, Dorothy and Maureen. Thank you for a lovely morning ladies and sorry we didn't get the time to make the other two projects!!
Any comments received will be passed on :0) and, as always, if you have any questions or wish to buy any products please feel free to contact me
Margaret x








Thursday 29 August 2013

Table Gifts


When I have a class I always like to make the ladies a little table gift and this is for two reasons - firstly to give them ideas and secondly because everyone likes to receive a little pressie!!
This is the gift I have made for them today.
I got the idea for this a long time ago and, if my memory serves me right it was from Jenni Pauli but I could be wrong, however the idea I saw was just a flat packet and I made mine with a 'gusset' so it could hold two yummy chocolate & hazelnut sticks.
I made the holders with Very Vanilla cardstock and decorated them with a circle of DSP, a Night of Navy butterfly, from Papillon Potpourri, a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Sentiments and some Bakers Twine.
A really simple project which makes two small bars of chocolate look quite elegant!
Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back soon
Margaret x



Wednesday 28 August 2013

Wedding Card




My daughter asked me to make a wedding card about 4 days before the wedding so I resorted to the old favourite - hearts as the bride and groom!
As you can tell the colour scheme is dark red so I used Cherry Cobbler for the splash of colour. A really easy card with a silver embossed sentiment (retired) and some silver hearts from Build a Cupcake set behind the round aperture with a piece of Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding tied on one side. The bride and groom are made with the large Heart Punch, the bow tie from two hearts from the Owl Builder Punch and the flowers from one of the Itty Bitty Shapes punches. Basic Pearls were added to finish the card.


Tuesday 27 August 2013

Look what I got in the post!

I wanted to share with you the beautiful Tag Card I received last week from the lovely Sue, a friend and also a member of the Card Swap Group. The embellishments are made with the clay now available from SU and the photo really doesn't do it justice, it looks absolutely stunning in real life! This really is a WOW project and must have taken Sue ages to create - thank you Sue it's gorgeous!





Margaret x

 



Monday 26 August 2013

Thomas the Tank Engine



I have a bit of a novelty card to show you today and which, sadly, I can't take a lot of credit for! My youngest Grandson, who will be 2 in a few weeks, absolutely loves Thomas the Tank Engine so I did a quick Google search and got inspiration from two SU demos. I case'd Thomas from Victoria at Blue Jelly Stampin (here) and the idea of the tunnel from an Australian demo Kylie Bertucci (here).

I think I'm fairly safe to show this now as I don't think he'll be looking at my blog anytime soon :0)

Below right is what the card looks like when it's open and on the left is a money wallet made with the Pop'n'Cuts die.





Saturday 24 August 2013

Less is More meets Washi Tape

 

The Less is More challenge today is to create a card using Washi Tape. Now I have to confess that I bought some SU Washi Tape as part of a bundle some time ago and, as yet, have never used it so the challenge was a bit of a kick in the posterior for me to have have a go and, what's more, I've made two cards!! 
I've kept this card really simple using two stamps from Chalk Talk - one image cut with the matching framelit and the other punched with the Extra Large Oval punch. I used grey Washi Tape across the card, Basic Gray ink for the stamping and the new Smoky Slate for matting - and that's about it!
My second card is a bit of a fun card for Halloween, using the grey and orange Washi tape and a 'not yet available' stamp set Tags 4 You and Label Bracket punch (watch out for the new Seasonal catalogue later this month!)


This afternoon I am having a joint birthday 'family get together' for my eldest Grandaughter, who will be 5, and youngest Grandson, who will be 2 shortly after they move back to Suffolk. Luckily I wasn't planning an outdoor party as the weather here today is atrocious. I think maybe the family will have to hire boats to get here if it rains much more :0)
Whatever you're doing this weekend have a good one and I'll be back soon
Margaret x




Friday 23 August 2013

Card Box



Today's project is another one inspired by Sam at Pootles Papercraft and you can see her video here. Sam's box was made for a computer game so, because I wanted to make one that I could fit six 4"x4" cards in, I adapted the size accordingly. You can see the cards below. Now I used so many different products (lots of new ones!) that it would be a never ending list so rather than boring you, if you would like any further details please don't hesitate to contact me (contact details on tab at the top). I will just tell you that the colour combo for all of this project was Baked Brown Sugar and Summer Starfruit.





This is how the box opens
(scroll down to see the cards)









 Back tomorrow
Margaret x








Thursday 22 August 2013

Card Swap Group Birthday



This is the card I made for Ann (a member of the card swap group) whose birthday was last week. Ann likes Pink Pirouette so I used that, along with Early Espresso, for her card.
I cut a circular aperture in a piece of Pink Pirouette cardstock, using one of the Circles Collection Framelits, and did a couple of rows of paper piercing around it. A panel of Pink Pirouette (retired) DSP was placed on a card blank, the pink panel positioned on top and the sentiment, from Perfectly Penned, stamped in Early Espresso. Three flowers from Flower Shop, stamped in Pink Pirouette and punched out with the Pansy Punch, were arranged around the aperture with the addition of a few Crumb Cake leaves, which had been punched form the Bird Builder Punch.
Hope you had a good day Ann.
Margaret x



Wednesday 21 August 2013

Candle Box





















This is one of the projects we made at my Craft Day last week, a little box that holds two votive candles. The box is made in the lovely new In Colour, Crisp Cantaloupe, and decorated with the 'just as lovely' new DSP from the Paper Stack.
The paper bow was made with the Large Oval punch, a small circle punch and a strip of DSP fishtailed at each end. I decorated my candles with cardstock and DSP but I found the cardstock a little too thick to get a nice finish so the ladies just used DSP and they looked much better. The flowers are from the Itty Bitty Shapes punch and finished with Basic Rhinestones.
When I was designing the box I actually made the one shown below first, in Pistachio Pudding  and Chocolate Chip but decided it looked a little bit too 'masculine' for candles so I will save that one for some sweet treats!! I used the Six Sided Sampler stamp set along with the Hexagon punch for this one and tied it using Chocolate Chip Chevron ribbon.

Margaret x

Tuesday 20 August 2013

Simply Sketched


A different style of card from me today but I was playing with a new Hostess set, Simply Sketched. I used one of the Squares Collection Framelits dies to cut an aperture in a piece of copy paper and used this as a mask to sponge Soft Sky and Pear Pizzazz onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock. Using my Old Olive and Early Espresso marker pens I inked up the bird image, stamped this onto the card and then, using a blender pen, I lightly coloured in the bird. The little tufts of grass are a stamp from Dinoroar. A frame was made from Naturals White cardstock using the same square framelit and the slightly larger one, and then glued onto the stamped panel. I stamped off the leafy branch and stamped a couple of times onto a Naturals White card blank before fixing the frame to the card. A sentiment, from the same set, was stamped in Pear Pizzazz and punched with the Large Oval punch.
I'll be back tomorrow with a little candle box which we made at my Craft Day last week.
Margaret x



Monday 19 August 2013

Inspiration!






















Have you ever been inspired to make a card by something really obscure? Well I had one of those moments last week whilst watching the local news on tv. A lady who was being interviewed was wearing a flowery dress and the colours looked very much like Midnight Muse and Crumb Cake! I really liked the combination so hence the card. I cut out three different sized panels of Whisper White and randomly stamped a flower from Flower Shop (yes, that set again!) with the leaf stamp from Summer Silhouettes. These were then matted onto Crumb Cake panels and arranged onto a card blank. The sentiment was stamped onto a strip of Whisper White with one end fishtailed and matted onto Midnight Muse.
Funny how you can be inspired isn't it?
Margaret x

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...