Tuesday 30 April 2013

21st Birthday with KennyK and Spellbinders

21st Birthday with KennyK's Queens Cutie Digi and Spellbinders

Just a very quick posting today as I'm so busy, busy, busy - so many things seem to be happening now and I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with all the cards I've been asked to make. I have loads of others to put up and I'll get there eventually :)

This one is for the girlfriend of a lovely guy in work and I wanted it to look young and springy and romantic. I'm just loving these little bitty blossom dies, it's great being able to make your own flowers in any colour.
Oh and she's driving a black mini car, hence the little mini embellishment - I did put her name and age on the number plate but it's quite hard to see.

I won this little digi stamp Queens Cutie from kennykdownloads in a kennykkraftykrew challenge - isn't she lovely. ( http://kennykdownloads.contentshelf.com/product?product=I1301140000006F5 )




Products used -

Digi Stamp - Queens Cutie - Kennykdownloads.com
Dies - Spellbinders Grand Big Scalloped Circles - Bitty Blossoms - Foliage
Lacy circles
Crafts too - circle die
Marianne LR0157 Fern Flowers
Heart Punch
Tiny roses from Wild Orchid Crafts
Backing Paper - Digi from Katarina Art
Coloured with a mix of Letraset Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs
Ribbon and Gems from stash


Challenges - #141 tic-tac-toe, 3 down --- Embellies, Ribbon, Image & Pink 

and


WINNER - this card won the "KennyKKraftyKrew Challenge 141" -
look at what I won - Marianne Design goodies

and

It made the TOP 5 in the "Love to Create Challenge" :D


Friday 5 April 2013

Happy 18th Birthday with Lili Of The Valley Stamp - Emma Shoes and Spellbinders

Happy 18th Birthday with Lili Of The Valley Stamp - Emma Shoes and Spellbinders

Just love this little stamp from LOTV and as I needed a card for Emma's 18th who also loves shoes, fashion ad shopping it seemed very appropriate for my job.

I've been digitally messing around with the backing papers again although there's so much on this card that it's quite difficult to see them. I wanted this card to have lovely spring colours as those are my favourite at the moment, I think thats because it's been so cold of late and this last few days the beautiful sunshine is making me hope we've got to the end of the winter at last. Mind you I'm not sure the forecasters would agree with me.



Products used -

Dies - Spellbinders - Grand Big Scallop Circles, Floral Ovals, Lacey Circles
          Crafts Too - Circles and Marianne LR0157

Backing Card - Centura Pearl from Crafters Companion
                        Green and Pink from Papermilldirect

Backing Paper - Digitally manipulated
Stamp - Emma Shoes from LOTV
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Coloured with Promarkers and Sakura Glaze
Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Lace, Ribbon, Gems, Pearls and Pearl Centered Button from Stash

Challenges entered -

    162 - What's Your Favourite Colour

http://wildorchidchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-73buttons-and-bows.html


Here is another one but I left out the Sakura this time and just used Promarkers on the shoes
which is definately looks better in the photograph.
I think the mix of colours is a bit better on this one too -

Happy 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary with Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four

Happy 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary with Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four

Back again, it's been a while now since I posted but I've been busy, busy, busy - I though this might happen when I started blogging but at last I've got some projects to share.

This is a new Spellbinders die, it's very pretty and this is my first card with it. It's sized to go with a C5 card sort of, but I wanted it a bit bigger. This card measures approx 19 cm square.

I've been a bit naughty here with my backing paper as the original was a peachy colour, I really loved it but I wanted it to be pink for this card, and there's not much point having a computer and printer if you can't put it to good use occasionaly so with a bit of digital manipulation I got the colour I wanted.



Products used -

Backing Card - 300gsm Centura Pearl (my favourite) from Crafters Companion
                        Silver Holographic (Ribbons of Light I think) bought online from Ebay
Backing Paper - Graphic 45 (Secret Garden) digitally manipulated
Dies - Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four, Floral Ovals and Fancy Tags Two
Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Ribbon and Gems from stash