A Spring Birthday

I watched a Shenna Douglas show on create and craft some time back and she made a card that really impressed me...simple and stunning, well I dont have the shenna stamps but I had an Artemio set that I thoght would be okay so I had a go....

so I stamped the flowers and leaves onto patterned paper a basic grey pad ...lemonade that I have had for ages....a button some bakers twine.. the sentiment is a Sheena Douglas one...only words through the rain set...matted and layed with green and lemon..
Hope you are having a lovely crafty weekend.

CHNC Challenge 121...red and green must be seen

loving the challenge Hazel.......

I made this using the Paintbox Poppets CD from Crafters Companion using the decoupage section, and the backing papers..added some glitter, diamond glaze and a bit of ribbon...

I am entering this into into the CHNC challenge

Christmas card club challenge Lizzie's choice....Vintage

what do I think of when I think vintage....when I was a child the christmas cards always had lots of glitter on them...so here is my interpretation of vintage...

the stamp is" snowy postcard " from stampendous...inked with walnut stain distress ink and glittered with Stampendous treasures glitter...multi crystal mix..the photo doesn't do it justice it is soooo sparklee....matting onto milk card cut out with 5x7 elegant labels 4...distressed with antique linen ...matted onto soft gold and chocolate brown card...embossed milk card using m bossibilities dots..., gold and brown matts on a white base card.Poinsettia's  cut out of milk pearlised card and distressed and glittered, and the holly swirls are marianne design....
Hope you are all having a good weekend and I will be popping by everyones blogs later this evening to see your lovely vintage creations.....

polka doodles challenge...a new home card and use a tree.......

I decided to make an easel card for this weeks challenge...do go over to the challenge blog to see all the lovely inspirational cards the DT have created and have a go there are some wonderful prizes to be won ......my card

I used a combination of CD....sugar plum daisy for the image which I printed 3 times and decoupaged up....the same cd to print the papers for the bunting....all around & everywhere cd for the trees and spellbinders for the shaped card and banner greeting.....

A "chap" card.....

I seem to be in a brown mood.....

this is a lovely personal impressions stamp of York minster ...just inked up with walnut stain distress ink, stamped and then the edges blended with the same colour, matted on to dark brown card....then I used the justrite  harlequin script background stamp again using the same colour distressed ink and blended the edges...I also distressed it with the Tim Holtz distressing blade and curled up one edge...embossed a piece of Kraft card with the embossalicious embossing folder and highlighted the pattern a bit with distressed stain, mounted on black card, wrapped some brown and cream bakers twine round before sticking down onto an 8x8 Kraft card and stuck on a matching coloured button....
hope you like it.

Playing with new dies.....

Just testing out some new tonic dies ....

a new dienamics ribbon die and the new tonic butterfly boutique set...no idea which one as I chucked away all the packaging.....thought the colours were fairly good for a man card....

CHRISTMAS CARD CLUB CHALLENGE...SILVER AND ONE OTHER COLOUR

its the lovely Sylvies choise this time and sorry but I thought white was a colour so mine is a silver and white card......

I have used spellbinders dies for the baubles....the greeting is Katy Sue designs....a cuttlebug embossing folder for the background and edged with Tim Holtz brushed pewter distress stain....poinsettia are spellbinder dies cut out of silver parchment paper, a couple of dazzlers and a bit of white and silver ribbon,....PVA silver pearls ......hope you like it.
Been having a few days away in Hay on Wye in the glorious sunshine ....glistening on the snow!

I am entering this into Craftyhazelnuts challenge....use the word Christmas.