Scrap Wedding Lay out......

Morning and welcome to another one of my lay outs of my daughters wedding, I have been playing about with this one for the past couple of weeks on and off. The flowers I stamped and embossed in Wow fine gold, the stamps are from Heartfelt Creations. I then painted the flowers with Twinkling H20s before cutting them out with the matching dies, and you definitely need the dies to make it easier as each flower has at least 4 layers. I have used various Kaisercrafts stamps for the rest of the embossing around the edges of the page and the butterflies and trellis. The papers are from Papermania.

The background paper is from DCWV and is from the wedding stack, I used PaperArtsy Snowflake Fresco paint around the edges and then embossed in gold on top of that I then used Treasure Gold White Fire around the edge, I also added paint splatters over the rest of the paper.

Flower stamp and matching dies are from Heartfelt Creations

Tattered Blossoms HCPC 3468.

Challenges

Top Tip Tuesday .....use a stamp 

Through the craftroom door......anything goes

Crafting Cafe......fave technique (mixed media and embossing)

Papertake......Bing (Ribbon, Free Blooms)

Deep Ocean......love is all around

Craft Hoarders......How I love you

Craft Your Passion.......anything goes

Scrapology.......sketch Layout (squares)

Stamping Sensations.....anything goes

Fab n Funky.....ribbon and lace

Frillie and Funky......make your own flowers

Simon Wednesday......add a little texture

Happy Valentines Day.......

Morning fellow bloggers Happy Valentines Day, phew it sure was busy at work yesterday with all those people buying their loved ones choccies, have to say it was mostly guys in the afternoon making a last minuet dash.
I've had a go at making some cards using the same techniques as I did for my book box, this one uses the cupid die cut from Tim Holtz as well as The Tattered Flower die which I cut down, I then used Bronze and Magenta Viva Maya Gold paint .

Have a great weekend

hugs n smiles 

Challenges

Inspirational Journal......Love is in the air

Crazy 4 Challenges.....valentines

Allsorts......any occasion other than Birthday

Thats crafty.....Be my Valentine

Sister Act Card Challenge.....anything goes

Simply Create too.....anything goes

Creative Fingers.......anything goes

Chocolate Coffee and cards.....Happy Valentines Day

Brown Sugar.....use a bow and a die cut

In the Pink....love is in the air

Memas Crafts.....cupid is smiling

4 Crafty Chicks.....Valentines

Crafty Creations.....Hearts and love

PaperArtsy launch....

Thought I would share with you my other two samples that I made using the Elizabeth Borer stamps, this time I made a master board using lots of different Fresco paints, Purple Rain, Pansy, Lavender, Wisteria, Vintage Lace, Nougat, Haystack and Vanilla, I dabbed all these colours over a piece of Smoothy card (available from PaperArtsy) with a baby wipe and then finished off with Pumpkin Soup translucent paint.......it's amazing how an orange colour can bring the rest of colours to life. After the paint had dried I spritzed the card with Glimmer mist iridescent gold.  After that I cut the card up for the different backgrounds. For these two cards I used  the stamp set below, a lovely collection of Art Nouveau inspired designs.

I coloured in the image with Polychromous pencils, and layered up the top 3 flowers, I aslo added glossy accents to the hair embellishment. The lace I coloured in with Wisteria and the brushed with White Fire treasure gold

The waterfall card is simply 4 images coloured in with different colour ways for the flowers.

Thanks for taking a peek

hugs n smiles

Valentine.....

Morning to all my fellow crafty bloggers, it's starting to get a smidge busier at work with Valentines this Saturday, I have made a couple of cards for the occasion, for this one I have used the stamp set from Chocolate Baroque called Harlequin Rose, I have embossed the heart with gold and then used twinkling H20s paints, the rose script stamp I coloured in with Polychromus pencils and edged the image with treasure Gold White Fire. The papers are from First Edition

Challenges

Shabby Tearoom.......I heart you

Pink Elephant....be my Valentines

Make my Monday....Valentine

Crafty Cardmakers.....Love

Crafty Calender......anything goes

Craft your Passion.....anything goes

Glitter n sparkle......love is in the air

Crafts for Eternity.....with Love

Live and Love Crafts.....Hearts

Chocolate Coffee and cards......love is in the air

Simply Create......Valentines day

Fussy and Fancy.....Its all about the love

Wow.....Inspired by a team member

Craft Hoarders...How I love thee (stamps and papers)

Papertake.....Hearts and flowers

Crafting Cafe.....Fave technique (embossing and water colouring)

Have a great week

kraftyhands chalenge

Evening and apologies for this late post, I have to confess I forgot to schedule my card for the Kraftyhands challenge today, head like a sieve and this evening I have my two Grandsons for a sleep over so I've managed to get Zachary asleep and in bed so just one to go, mind you Ethan could probably out stay me up tonight so I'm just managing to type this now.
The theme this month at Kraftyhands is ........Hearts and Flowers, perfect for Valentines day, however I have  made an anniversary stepper card from the Garden Floral Cd.

Have a great weekend

hugs n smiles

Art Nouveau.....

Morning and welcome to another post featuring the new Liz Borer Art Nouveau stamp sets, this card is a simple layout layering up painted and stamped backgrounds,love the little bee stamp.The paints I have used are Haystack, Vanilla and Pumpkin Soup, for the base layer and then Wisteria, lavender and Pumpkin Soup for the top layer.

Stamp set used

Hugs n smiles

New PaperArtsy launch......

Welcome to my first post featuring one of the new stamp sets designed by Elizabeth Borer which are launched on the PaperArtsy blog tonight at 7:30pm. I was thrilled to bits to be asked by Leandra to be one of Liz's wingmen, although I have to say I was a smidge daunted by the task as Liz's work is amazing, I love her vintage style and colouring. So here is the first of my projects that I did using stamp set EEB05.......A heart hanging.

The stamp set that I used was

I used Polychromos pencils to colour in the main image and then sprinkled gold embossing powder around the torn edges, The heart base was first coloured in with Nougat Fresco paint and then I dabbed on Wisteria, Vanilla and then used Pumpkin Soup translucent over the top. Love how you get a depth of layers by using the translucent paint on the top. The lace was coloured with Wisteria and then I added White Fire Treasure Gold on to it, the flower was done the same way. I stamped the swirl stamp with egg plant and then stamped and coloured in the single poppy stem before stencilling a diamond using a sparkle paste from Imagination Crafts. I then added Treasure Gold to the edges before attaching the wire and ribbon.

Tomorrow I will be sharing with you a card that I made using the same stamp set

hugs n smiles

Challenges

Imagination Crafts......anything goes

Launch day......

Morning peeps hope you all had a lovely weekend, it sure was a blustery night and day yesterday, mind you the sun is shining so we mustn't grumble. Today sees the launch of Seeds of Love over on the Craft Network Channel, first show is at 11:00am so tune in to see lots of lovely inspirational projects from the guys and the rest of the team. I love the paint effect weathered wood papers on this Cd, and have used one of them to make this stepper card

Hugs n smiles

Seeds of Love......

Morning to all you crafty bloggers out there, brrrr what a cold few days we have had, and yay we finally got a smidge of snow here although it only lasted a few hours, at least I got to wear my snow boots that I brought last year in readiness.
Tomorrow sees the launch of the latest Cd from the guys at Kraftyhands over at The British Craft Network called Seeds of Love , you can catch their show at 1100am, this is another vintage one featuring lovely floral vintage seed packets designs, again lots of lovely papers and details that you can add to your card. The Rose topper has been layered up and I have then added gold frantage to the edges for a smidge of shimmer.

Have a great weekend

hugs n smiles

Is it a book or a box ?

Afternoon fellow crafty bloggers, hope you are all keeping well and not snowed in, noticed the headlines in The Express this morning saying we are expecting killer weather, I had to laugh as this paper only ever has weather headlines and is very rarely right. I have been absent for a week as I have been working on some samples for Kraftyhands and I was also asked by Leandra of PaperArtsy to make some samples for a couple of new stamp sets that Elizabeth Borer is bringing out, so sorry no sneak peeks yet, but the release dates are early February.

I did manage to get to a workshop at Daisy Jewels with Lindsay Mason the Saturday before last so here are pics of my finished box, which when I saw the sneak peek of the project I thought it was a book. We got to use some of the lush Viva products and the sheen of these metallics paints called Maya Gold are gorgeous. I did use Precious metals by Viva a few years back but these new ones are so much more better.

Lots of lovely layers, including a crumpled  paper background, stencils and embossing after we had layered up all the embellishments and die cuts etc. the painting started, first a base layer of black and then we added the metallics which blended lovely.  I added a final touch of Viva Inka gold in lilac to lift the the blue and bronze lustre of the Maya gold paint. As these paints are water based they can be easily mixed to create new colours and once they are dry they are permanent........guess that's what I shall be buying next.

Challenges

Sweet Stamps......stencils and embossing paste

The Crafting Cafe.....lots of layers

Through the Craftroom door....anything goes

Top Tip.....something new (paints)

Craft Your passion....anything goes

The Pink Elephant....anything goes

Creative Fingers.....anything goes

CRAFT....recycling (packaging used for die cutting)

Hugs n smiles

It's a womans world

Afternoon to you all, no snow here today and I  pay my rates the same as everyone else but for some reason it misses where we live, oh well at least the sun is shining and there is a lovely blue sky, well there is at the moment no doubt that will all change soon. I thought I would share with you another card, this time I have used the new tag stamp CI 427 It's a Womans world from Crafty Individuals. Another great stamp that you can cut up the individual tags for embellishments, or use it as a whole stamp like I have on this card. I stamped and embossed onto velum using one of the Lace doily stamps CI 426 designed by Gio for the background paper and used Flower heads CI 206 painted in Twinkling H20s for extra shimmer.

Challenges

Craft Stamper......take a stamp

Papertake.....It's all new (stamp)

Through the Craftroom door......anything goes

Simon Monday......Inky Background

Glitter and sparkle.....include some pink

Inspirational journal......anything goes

4 Crafty Chicks....flowers

In The Pink......anything goes

Fab n Funky.....something new (stamp)

have a great week

hugs n smiles

It's a mans world.......

Morning and welcome to a new post featuring one of the new stamp sets from Crafty Individuals CI 428 It's a mans world. This stamp plate is so versatile, I love the idea of cutting up the mini tags to add as embellishments to other projects but for this card I have just simple stamped  onto a distressed card using Broken China and chipped Sapphire distress inks. Then I just stamped three of them again to layer up for extra depth. I have kept this card very simple by just adding an embossed silver gear and some card candi.

Challenges

Creative Inspirations.....finished with a bow

Crafty Creations.......Brrrr Blues

Top Tip.....keep it simple

Papertake.....anything goes

Party Time....anything goes

Through the craft room.....anything goes

Crafty Calender.....whats new (stamp)

613 Avenue Create.....anything goes

addicted to stamps.....use a tag on your card

That's Crafty ......blue is the colour

Allsorts.....cold and frosty colours

Crazy 4 challenges.....Clean and simple

Thanks for taking a peek

hugs n smiles

Winter Blues.......

Morning to all my fellow crafty bloggers, I'm up early to do my post for the new challenge at Kraftyhands. The theme this month is Winter Blues, which is very appropriate as January is such a depressing month......or so the media would have us think they obviously don't craft do they.
I have used the Beautiful Baroque Cd for my card, a nice simple layered up image, I did added silver glitter to the lines on the design to make the image stand out more. I also added diamantés to the wrap as well.

The guys are bringing out another new Cd real soon which I'm looking forward to getting my hands on as it's another vintage one this time featuring seed packets, called Seeds of love

You can pre order it here 

have a fun filled week

hugs n smiles

Christmas 2014......

Evening peeps and welcome to my very late post for a challenge over at Scrapology. I'm trying to do more scrap lay outs this year, this one is of my Christmas tree which doesn't show up that well from the photos, I have added embossing with Frantage to some of the photos as well as the snowflakes. I have used Forever Friends paper that are not Christmas but I loved the stars and the pink......cos you know I lurvvvvve pink.

have a lovely evening

hugs n smiles