Rainbow Bunting - February - Silver

Well January flew past and we're almost halfway through February already. Last month I told you about the Chocolate Baroque Challenge (Rainbow Bunting), well it time to make some for this month. The colour this month is Silver, so I started with a pearlised silver card as my base and added some texture paste through a stencil with writing on. I decided to leave this just how it was and not try to colour it with anything. Next I found some stamps that had been at the back of my cupboard and not used for a long time, it was from the Lovebirds stamp set. I stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with Silver EP, then rubbed over with some Distress ink in barn door. The flowers are made using a Crealies die and I added some bling to the centres.

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Sue

Another Anniversary Card

I have another Anniversary at the end of the month that I needed to make a card for, and as it was wet and windy here (like the whole of the UK) yesterday I got on and made it. I used some of the die cut shapes that I found whilst my Craft Room was upside down last year and a 6x6 white card blank. I coloured the white base shape with distress inks in Mustard Seed, Wild Honey and Bard Door and blending tools. Then stamped using Tuxedo Black using Stampin Ups World Of Dreams set. Using a matching shape in silver mirri card I mounted my topper, using a smaller matching shape I stamped the sentiment using a Lili Of the Valley stamp and mounted. Using the ink that was left on the blending tools I inked the base card and also the sentiment before popping everything together. This months challenge over on the Stamping Sensations blog is Anything goes, so I shall enter this in to the challenge.

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Sue

18th Birthday

I was asked to make a card for a Boy/Lad who is turning 18 soon, he has in the past appeared on Young Musician of the Year and is going to Music Collage later this year. This is the card that I came up with. I started by embossing some black card in an embossing folder with music on from Crafters Companion and then added some Gold gilding wax to the raised areas and around the edges. The sentiment dies were from Tattered Lace and All occasion dies, the music related dies are from Tonic. All were cut from gold mirri card with the man being filled in with the waste of a die cut in white. I used gold mirri card for the matting on the 8x8 card base.

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Sue

Annivesary Card

As many of my regular followers know I make the family cards for my Father-in-law throughout the year, this one is for the eldest grandson's wedding anniversary next weekend. I know that they don't read this blog so I'm safe posting it on here. It's an 8x8 card, using Debbi Moore's Build A Bunch CD. The sentiment that is printed onto the topper was perfect for them, with the addition of the decoupaged flowers on the bottom. I added some matching pearls to the card to finish it off. I'm going to enter this into the challenge on the Cards For Galz blog which this week is Fantastic Florals, as this has some wonderful roses on I think it should fit in with the theme.

It's been a busy week so far here as this week we started looking after our Grandson Andrew while my daughter returned to work. We are sharing this duty with my son-in-law's mother, so we have him on Monday's and Tuesday's while she has him on Wednesday's and Thursday's. My daughter managed to reduce her days down to four so that she could spend Friday's with Andrew. I must admit the we had forgotten how tiring looking after a baby could be.

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Sue

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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