Season's - Spring

My card today has been made for the CD Sunday Challenge which this week is Season's. I've chosen to go with Spring and nothing says it more that baby lambs in the fields and new leaves budding on the trees and bushes. I've used Creative Crafting World's A Walk In The Countryside for my card and teamed my chosen picture with some yellow and green card stock. The flowers are from a tonic punch and I added some card candy too.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

My First Christmas Cards Of 2016

I've batch made these Christmas cards for the Rudolf Days Challenge and also to get a head start on my cards for December 2016. I'm lucky to have a foiling machine, which I really don't use enough, so with this in mind I thought why not make some Christmas cards with it. The images that I printed where from NSR Snowflakes and Sparkles by MCS printed onto some white smooth card. Four images to a sheet and two sheets. Then I popped both through the foiler, one with Silver and one with Gold. After they had finished and cut to size I used a blending tool and various colours of distress inks on the backgrounds. I mounted the gold onto gold mirri card and the silver onto silver mirri card, then onto an A6 white card blank. Now I have eight cards ready and waiting for the end of the year.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Charisma Roses

I've spent a lovely peaceful afternoon on my own crafting and playing with some new dies and new CD that I bought a couple of weeks ago from Create and Craft. It was from the Charisma Range from Tattered Lace, which was released last year, when I managed to resist buying them. However just after Christmas I caved in and bought some. Now pink is not a colour that I would normally go for but I loved the colour of the these roses. So after a rummage through my stash I found some pink card and pink glitter paper too. I teamed them up with some silver mirri card, the corners and the sentiment came out of some off cuts I had in a scraps box. I used dies from Marianne for the corners and Sue Wilson for the Happy Birthday. The roses were printed onto some matt photo paper and then cut out with the Tattered lace die. I used glue gel for the layers after giving them a bit of a shape with a ball tool.

Tomorrow I'm off to my first Craft Show of the year. It's just a small one at Newbury Racecourse, but I know I'll bump into some crafty friends there too.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Wedding Invitations

I bet you thought that I had gone quiet again? But I'm still here, I've been busy make Wedding Invitations, 30 to exact and looking after my gorgeous Grandson while his Mummy and Daddy had a weekend away. I must admit to sharing this duty with his other Grandmother and I had forgotten how much hard work baby's can be. Anyway on to the invitations. The wedding is at the beginning of June and the happy couple have only just decided on a theme and a design for their cards, so I had to get a move on and make them. The base and the topper were made with a pearlised ivory card which was put through a Tattered lace embossing folder on the corner. The topper was place on a mat of navy blue card and navy blue ribbon was added across the top on the embossing. The small bows with the pearl are some that I've had in my stash for a long time but they matched so well so I added them to the ribbon. The butterfly is from Rob Addams All Occasion Dies (it's from a set of three) and finally rather than the traditional Wedding Invitation they've gone for From This Day Forward, which is from a set of stamps I have from Fiskars.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Rainbow Bunting With Chocolate Baroque

Every year on the Chocolate Baroque group there is a swap organised, this is the fourth year that I have taken part. The first year was Quintiles (4x4 squares worked around a theme), the second was Technique Tags (each month a different technique to try), last year was Postcard Potpourri (Each month there was a different flower to use or if you had no stamps with the flower you could use a that months colour instead). This year we are making Rainbow Bunting, one each of the shaped flag working around a set colour for each month, this can either be the colour of the flag or the colour you used for your stamps. I decided to go for the colour of my flags being red. After cutting them out of white card I took some red tissue paper and crumpled it, used some glue and seal and stuck to the white card. When this was dry I lightly rubbed some gold gilding wax over the top. Finally I dug into my vast stamp stash and found these two stamps that are from a set that was released back in 2006 when Chocolate Baroque was Graphicus. They were coloured with distress markers and I added some stickles to the flowers and a couple of gems too. I then cut them out and mounted them onto the flags. Now all I need to do is send them in and in a couple of weeks I will get two (one of each shape) back from someone else. It really is fun and everyone has different ideas and it's lovely to see all the finished results. At the end of the year I should have 24 (12 of each shape) flags.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Happy Birthday Mum

It's been a while since I last blogged, but hopefully we are now straighter (after all of the alterations and decorating), I should be getting back to normal. Well that is until we start looking after our gorgeous Grandson two days a week from February, when my daughter returns to work. I also had a small operation on my back last week, which I'm glad to say has healed very well. Anyway onto my card today which is for my Mum's birthday today. I've used The Janet Kruskamp Collection CD from Joanna Sheen for the 8x8 decoupage card, using gold mirror card for the matting. The die cut doily is from tonic, the happy birthday from Sue Wilson, the fern from Tattered Lace and the flowers are from a die that I have had so long that I can't remember who's it was. I would like to enter this into the CD Sunday challenge this week which is Wild Flowers.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Merry Christmas

What a bad blogger I've been recently, but I hope to rectify that now and show you two Canvas's that I started back in the summer, in the shed, while I was unable to craft indoors. They were never quite finished, until yesterday when I decided not to bury them till next year and get on and finish them. They were made using a mixture of spray inks, glimmer mists, stencils and grunge paste, silver and gold gilding waxes and plenty of die cuts. Some where layered to make chip board (let it snow and deck the halls), the rest then arranged on the canvas's.

 I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of my followers for your wonderful comments and support over the last year. It's been great having you visit and I've enjoyed coming and visiting you as well. I wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you in 2016.

Sue

Thomas Kinkade For Special Friends

Every year a friend asks me to make a card for friends of his family in Ireland and this year was just the same. As the people to receive the card are huge Thomas Kinkade fans (as I am) each year I try to make a different card. This is my effort for this years card, a beautiful church nestled in the valley, with a footpath winding through the snow. The topper has been decoupaged and mounted onto some textured silver card, before being mounted onto the backing paper. The die is a Sue Wilson die which I cut in card and then sprayed with stick and spray and covered in glitter.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Rudolph Days and Getting Back To Normal

Well I know that it's been a while since I last posted. Thank you to those who expressed concern but it was just life (and decorating) getting in the way. I'm glad to say that after 4 months of not having a Craft Room, I moved back in this week. Below are the first results of makes in the new improved room. Because everything had to be moved out and then moved back again it gave me a chance to explore some stamps from Chocolate Baroque that have not been for an outing for a few years. They were stamped onto white card and then coloured with pencils before getting the distress ink treatment. Then mounted onto some matching card and backing papers from Artylicious Seasons Greeting CD. I made these with the Rudolph Days Challenge over at Scrappy Mo's. This is the last challenge this year but I will continue to join in next year, it's a great way to get a head start on the Christmas cards.

I hope to have some more cards to share over the weekend, but next week I'm taking a short break with some crafting friends from the UKSN at the Manor House Hotel in Devon. Lots of different crafting things to try, so I'm looking forward to this.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Lavinia - Glitter and Gems

Wow, it seems like ages since I was last here. We have been so busy trying to decorate after having the builders in. We have at last finished our bedroom and have manages to paint some of the ceilings, there are still some to do and a lot more decorating too. But we are going to have a rest for a while as we are off on a cruise tomorrow, we're going to the Caribbean and will be gone for 24 days. A nice length of time to recharge the batteries before starting again when we get home. While the builders were here and I cowered in my shed I got the brushos out that I bought last year and had a play with them. I love the results I got with them they are very random. So when I saw the challenge on Lavinia's blog this month I had a go at over stamping them. I'm very pleased with how they turned out.

The challenge is to add Glitter and Gems. The glitter is on the wings and I've added the gems to the corners of my cards.

I hope to be back later or first thing tomorrow with another card I've made for another challenge,  but I'll have to see how time goes.

Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue