A smile sentiment

Good morning folks

Yeah its Saturday once again and its also my sister in laws birthday and here is the card I made for her -

I have tried to switch the focus of the card to the sentiment on this card. It is a fantastic saying and is from LOTV Quotables - Friendship (set 62).

I cut it out using Spellbinders Butterflies circles and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. I removed it from the die and then ink the other edge of the die cut with tumbled glass distress ink. The papers are from LOTV and Raspberry Road Beach bliss paper pad. I matted and layered a 6inch square card blank as shown and wrapped some lace from the Ribbon Girl around the card. I then added the sentiment topper. The lovely little cat is again from LOTV and is called Thomas - flower (ST027). I have coloured it with the following Promarkers - 

• Thomas - cinnamon, henna and cocktail pink
• flowers - cool aqua, duck egg, turquoise, saffron, blush, grass and emerald green
• sky - pastel blue
• shadow - cool grey 1

I cut Thomas out and added him to the card with Pinflair for added dimension. I then cut several flowers and a flourish from the papers using Spellbinder's Floral doily accents, Anemone flower topper and Venetian motifs.

I added the flowers to the card base and to finish added pearls to the centre of the flowers.

Happy Birthday Caroline.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Vegetable patch

Hello

Today is my dad's birthday and here is the card I made for him -

The image I have used is from LOTV and is called Vegetable patch (ST417) and I have coloured it with the following Spectrum Noirs -

• carrots - OR1, OR3, DG3 and DG4
• robin - GB5, DR4, EB5 and EB6
• spade - EB7, EB8, GG2 and GG3
• skin - FS2, FS4 and FS6
• hat and boots - TB1, TB3 and TB5
• trousers - GB7, GB9 and GB11
• shirt - TB4
• pots - TN5 and TN7
• hair - EB7
• soil - EB4 and EB6
• sky - IB1
• seed packets - EB1, DG2 and OR3

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's label 29 and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. I then cut a faux nestie from Kraft card and matted the image onto it. I matted a piece of paper from LOTV Petal fresh paper pad onto another piece of Kraft card. I cut a Lala land heart fence from Kraft card and added it to the card base as shown. I then added the image using foam pads to the card base. I then stamped some seed packets using a stamp from Docrafts Home to nest range and coloured the image with the following Spectrum Noirs -

• EB1, JG2, JG3, DG3, DR3 and DR6

I cut the image out and added it to the card base as shown. I also cut some clouds, a spider, some pots and some gardening tools from scraps of cardstock using Memory Box dies. These were added to the card as shown.

To finish I stamped a sentiment using Docrafts Nostalgia past times stamp set, cut with labels 29, inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink and matted onto a faux nestie of Kraft card. I then added this to the centre of the card as shown.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - how does your garden grow

Happy Birthday to my Dad

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

One for the boys

Good evening everyone

The Magnolia challenge at the Ribbon Girl is "One for the boys" so here is my creation -

The image is called Game on Edwin and has been coloured with the following Promarkers -

• hair - henna
• skin - ivory, blush and satin
• jumper - poppy red and berry red
• trousers - aegan, french navy and sunflower
• hat and boots - sunflower, gold, berry red, ice grey 3 and ice grey 4
• gloves - ice grey 1

I cut the image out with scissors and matted it onto a piece of red card. I then matted a piece of spotty paper from Papermania Capsule spots and stripes collection onto red card and then cut various sizes of other papers from the same collection and matted them again onto red card. I arranged these onto the card base as shown. I cut some stars using a Xcut die and some yellow card and attached them onto the card base.

I then attached the image with foam pads to add dimension. To finish I stamped a sentiment using black and red ink and a LOTV Mixed circular sentiments (set 9) which I then cut using a circular nestie. I then matted it onto a scalloped circle nestie.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/magnolia-only-challenge-one-for-boys.html

Thank you for stopping by

Lesley

Sunflowers

Good evening everyone

A very late and quick post tonight. The challenge at Crafty Little fairies this week is Autumn colours and here is my entry -

The ingredients are -

• stamp - LOTV Sunflowers (ST430)
• Promarkers - sunflower, gold,walnut, lush green, pine, icicle, april showers, cool grey 1 and pastel blue
• papers - gold core'dinations and LOTV Country Gent
• EK success punch, Spellbinder's Floral oval and Spellbinder's Anemone flower topper dies.
• pearls coloured with walnut Promarker

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk - Autumn colours

Thanks for stopping by

Lesley

The last wedding anniversary card

Hi folks

Yes as the title of this post says it is the last one for a while and it is very simple this time - 

I cut a piece of ivory centura pearl to the required size and cut an aperture using Spellbinder's die delights Vines of passion (love that name - real Mills and Boon don't you think?) in the centre. I stamped and heat embossed in gold embossing powder using a Papermania sentiment and I then matted it onto a piece of gold mirriboard. I made a card base from another piece of ivory mirriboard and embossed one side using Spellbinder's hearts embossing folder. And that was it - very simple but I rather like it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lesley

Punk birthday celebrations

Hello everyone.

Happy Saturday to you all. Today will be the usual round of children's sports watching but also a celebration of my friends 50th birthday and here is the card I made for him - 

He is a big fan of the punk band Stiff Little Fingers hence the image which I downloaded from the internet and cut out using a Spellbinder's circle nestie. I inked the image lightly with black soot distress ink whilst still in the die and then used the same ink to edge the circle once I had removed it from the die. The background paper is from Boofle Christmas paper pack and I scrunched it up and sanded over the creases to distress it, then I ran a pair of scissors around the edge to distress the edges and then inked the edges with black soot distress ink.I then matted this onto a piece of black card at an angle.

To create the 50 border I cut a strip of black card and stamped the number 50 randomly using a Clarity number stamp and versamark ink. I then heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I added this to the card base at a random angle. To make the ribbon border I pushed silver brads through a piece of black ribbon and then fixed it to the card diagonally. I added a length of silver chain across the lower part of the card and pushed a brad through the card at either end of the chain. 

Then I added two skull charms to the chain. I distressed a piece of union jack ribbon with scissors and black soot distress ink and added it to to the card base as shown.

I then fixed the topper onto the card base with foam pads. To finish I attached the base to an 8 by 8 inch card.

Tonight we are off to a punk themed party - one way to embarrass the kids!!

Thank you for stopping by.

Lesley

Simply Christmas

Hello

Today I have decided to let the die do all the work (and I'm rather Christmas'd out) - 

The die in question is Spellbinder's 2012 Holiday tree and I have cut it from gold mirriboard. I matted onto a piece of ivory centura pearl and stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from LOTV handwritten Christmas sentiments.

I then matted it onto a piece of gold mirriboard. I made the card base from ivory centura pearl and embossed it using a Crafter's Companion snowflake embossalicious embossing folder.

 
I then added the topper and some gold gems to finish.

 

Thanks for stopping by.


Lesley