The Seasons

This is my entry for this months Challenge which is called 'The Seasons'

I created the backing card using a Clarity leaf stencil and laying down different colours with stencil brushes. On this I matted my main image using the boy and bird stamp but I only stamped the boy, I then drew in the lines and added the cut out coloured maple leafs to give the impression that he has been caught on the breeze. I toyed with the idea of adding the 'Autumn the year's last, loveliest smile' but decided less is more on this occasion.

Thanks for taking the time to look, I hope you like it and any feedback would be much appreciated. 

Hope to see you again soon. 

Crafty hugs xx

Lavinia Stamps Challenge 10 - 'Autumn Colours'

Well there's another month nearly gone. When I entered the last challenge I said 'Autumn will be upon us before we know it' and here it is. My favourite season of the year. 

Well it's been a good week for crafting, started off by a fab workshop run by a Pauline Butcher, the first of many for her, she is sure tone a great success.

I started this card at the workshop, it was supposed to be a Christmas snow scene but I kind of went off at a tangent resulting in an Autumn Sunset.  I then stamped  the Harietta silhouette as the focal point, added some land and foliage and finished it off today with a bit of bling. 

Finally it was matted and layered onto black card and placed on a white base card. 

Why not visit Lavinia Stamps website and have a go at this fabulous challenge yourself, you never know you may be a winner. For more details follow the link:

http://laviniastamps.com/blog/lavinia-stamps-challenge-10-autumn-colours/

Feminine

This is my entry for this months Challenge which is called Feminine.

Ingredients 

7x7 Pearlescent base card

6x6 feminine grey backing paper 

Small scrap of die cut shaving foam coloured card 

Clarity NDC Love You stamp

Versafine black onyx ink

Tim Holtz tattered poinsettia die cut parchment flower

Festive Berries DI

Spellbinder die cut feathers

Victoria Velvet DI

I matted and layered the backing paper onto the card and added the die cut sentiment to the middle, I really like this wording it is excellent for wedding cards and anniversaries. Next I added the tattered poinsettia flower, this was coloured with Festive Berries DI and spattered with a little bit of water for contrast and secured together with a lilac gem brad. The fathers were given a little hint of colour using Victorian Velvet DI and added to the card and the final touch was to add a couple of pink gems to the sentiment. 

I enjoyed making this card and find it easier to do 'pretty' than 'grungy' so it came quite easy for me. Thanks for taking the time to look, I hope you like it and any feedback would be much appreciated. 

Hope to see you again soon. 

Crafty hugs xx

Lavinia Stamps - Challenge 8 - 'Add Some Glitter'

Lavinia Stamps - Challenge 8 - 'Add Some Glitter'

Yet another month has nearly passed us by, Autumn will be upon us before we know it. 

Well I've not really had the time to craft lately and haven't done the challenge for a few months but I have managed it this month as I'm off work for a week. Not done as much crafting as I would have liked during the week because Dave and I have been doing a major make over on the garden and when the sun shines..........

This month I started off using a Sweet Poppy stencil 'Wishing Tree' designed by Tracey of Lavinia and used it as a basic template, put in the branches using brusho's and then added some 'candi' coloured with Brusho's and some black Enamel Accent dots.

Next I stamped in the Fleur Silhouette fairy and grounded her using Black Soot Distress Inks. The final touch was to stamp some stars and then different coloured glitter to the stars, wings and droplets.

Finally it was matted and layered several times using white card and card coloured with Distress Inks Festive Berries and Salty Ocean and placed on a cream scalloped base card. 

Why not visit Lavinia Stamps website and have a go at this fabulous challenge yourself, you never know you may be a winner. For more details follow the link:  

 

http://laviniastamps.com/blog/lavinia-stamps-challenge-8-add-some-glitter/

Metal Flowers

Hi Everyone

Welcome to blog land again. 

Well I'm nearly at the end of my week off work and it's nice to say that I have managed to do some crafting. I can't believe the time has gone so fast. 

This is just a quick post to show what you can do with an empty beer/lager can. Once emptied (with the help of my husband) the cans were cut up using a sharp pair of scissors (don't use your best ones though). The cans were then embossed using Sizzix embossing folders and die cut with Tim Holtz Tattered Florals. 

The next step is to colour the pieces, I used alcohol inks and a little bit of Inka Gold for definition. Then it's a case of shaping and sticking together, I used a glue gun for this purpose and it works really well. The main thing to remember is to handle with care because the cans are very sharpe.

Once I had shaped the flowers I started to put the picture together, the background paper is a collage of pieces covered in Distress Paint 'Picket Fence' which has a nice translucent quality and then covered with some grunge paste through a rose stencil.

The tag was made using an Indigo Blu sentiment "Live Every Moment Laugh Every Day Love Beyond Words" which came with a recent Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine and layered on top of some white netting for dimension. Finally, a few butterflies and a dragonfly were buffed with Inka Gold and added to finish it off. 

I hope you like it, any thoughts or comments would be most welcome and don't forget if you try this watch your pinkies.

Thanks for taking the time to visit. 

Crafty hugs. xx

Sweet Lilac Flowers "Anything Goes"

I have looked on the Sweet Lilac website a few times but couldn't decide what flowers to get first because they are all so beautiful.  Imagine how thrilled I was last week to find out that I was the winner of a hamper of lovely flowers fom Jo Rice's Fussy & Fancy Blog Hop Candy. 

So here is my first make using these wonderful flowers. 

The background was made using the shaving foam technique and alcohol inks, I then stamped the Clarity stamps sentiment and Tim Hotz butterflies, added a bit of picked raspberry around the edge before matting and layering onto white and a cream base card. 

Finally, I added the beautiful Sweet Lilac flowers and I have to say I think the end result is stunning, the photo really doesn't do it justice. 

I am going to make this my first entry for the Sweet Lilac Blog Candi/Challenge (May/June), why not have a look at the blog and maybe enter yourself:

http://sweetlilacflowers.blogspot.co.uk/p/blogcandi-challenges.html

I hope you like it, thanks for taking the time to pop by and any feedback would be much appreciated. 

Hope to see you again soon. 

Crafty hugs xx

Lavinia Stamps - Challenge 5 - 'Birthday Girl'

Lavinia Stamps - Challenge 5 - 'Birthday Girl'

Nearly the end of another month and again I've not had a great deal of time for crafting but I do like to try and find time to enter this fabulous challenge.  This is my entry for the Lavinia Stamps Challenge 5 - Birthday Girl. 

I decided to use the stamps that came free with the Papercraft Essentials Magazine and stamped the main image using Potting Shed Archival Ink, once this was dry I grounded the fairy again using Archival Ink Potting Shed, Fern Green and Red Geranium.

I then put in the background using a piece of curved acetate to form hills with Distress Inks Peeled Paint, Frayed Burlap, Antique Linen, Shaded Lilac and Stormy Sky. Next I put in a moon mask and started to build up the sky applying the Distress Inks with a make up sponge using Victorian Velvet, Seedless Preserve, Picked Raspberry, Dusty Concord and Wild Honey. The moon was coloured once the mask was removed to make sure it wasn't too stark a contrast. To finish the background off I stencilled in some leaves with Dusty Concord. 

The card was trimmed and matted onto a white Linen Card then to finish it off I stamped some fairy dust and added glitter to this and the fairies wings and added a 'Happy Birthday' peel off.

Why not visit Lavinia Stamps website and have a go at the challenge yourself, you never know you may be a winner. For more details follow the link:  

http://laviniastamps.com/blog/lavinia-stamps-challenge-5-birthday-girl/