Skipping Stones Design sketch 141 - Just fluttering by.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
The weather has been nice today, almost too hot and yes, we complain when it's cold and we complain when it's too hot. Can't win really but it definitely makes you feel happier I think.
Using the Skipping Stones Design sketch 141, this week, I decided to make a simple card to say Hi.
I wanted to make a landscape card rather than the portrait sketch and decided to add a label for the sentiment, which I created using a template.
I love the embossing folder that I used on the background, although you can't see it very well here, it's quite trendy at the moment, hence the name, trendy circles!
I found the little wooden flower at The Range a few weeks ago. That shop has a lot of lovely craft items as well kitchen things and home decor. Nice shop to have a browse around. It isn't really that close to me but maybe that is a good thing, I would be there all the time!
Paper - American Crafts | Stamps - Skipping Stones Design Dandelion Dreams | Pearls - Mei Flower | Wooden flower - Kars | Embossing folder - Cart Us Trendy circles | Label - template.
Hope you are all having a good weekend.
Mojo Monday Sketch 253 - Wishing you a magical day
Saturday, August 11, 2012
When I saw the latest sketch 253 from Mojo Monday, I thought that I would make a card for a girl.
I decided to use an image from the Dovecrafts Garden Friends stamps as I hadn't used the stamps for a while.
I attempted to paper pieced the butterfly which worked out ok and then just added some glossy accents to make it shiny.
The perfectionist in me wishes I had done the sewing straighter though but hey it's homemade and that's what it's all about, right?
Anyway, I love how the pink, orange and blue stand out against the kraft card, cute.
Paper - Echo Park Summer Days and Dovecraft | Stamps - Forever Friends Black and Gold Dovecraft Garden Friends | Ribbon - Dovecraft | Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic circle and Lacey circle.
Hope you all are having a good weekend.
Mojo Monday Sketch 252.
Thursday, August 02, 2012
Today's card is for one of our nephews, who will be 15 on Friday. I decided to use the Mojo Monday Sketch 252 to create the card.
I needed to keep this card pretty flat as I needed to mail it so I decided not to use any ribbon, twine or buttons and keep everything flat but just put the stars on some dimensionals. As there was lots of colours and patterns, it didn't really miss the ribbon etc.
On the background, I used an embossing folder. I got it all straight to go in the Cuttlebug machine but when I went to put it on the card, it wasn't straight. Typical. Never mind.
Paper - My Minds Eye Lime Twist Fly a kite and Dovecraft coloured paper | Stamps - Amy R It's your birthday and Banana Frog Super Star | Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles | Border punch - Fiskars Upper Crest | Embossing folder - Tri boss chequered | Sakura white gelly roll pen | Versamagic and Colorbox chalk ink.
Hope you are having a good week.
Mojo Monday Sketch 250 - Big Birthday Wishes
Saturday, July 21, 2012
So the kids have finished school for the summer and the weather is supposed to be getting better too, let's hope it stays nice for a lot of the next 6 weeks so we can enjoy it.
Hollie is definitely a child that loves to be outside and would spend all the time she could outside at nursery. When she goes into reception in September, she obviously won't be able to spend as much time outside, so she needs to make the most of it. She also likes helping me with the gardening so I'm sure we will be able to do some of that too.
For the card today, I used the Mojo Monday Sketch 250. I broke out the lovely bright Echo Park Summer Days papers and the great Amy R stamps. I love these stamps as they have some great large sentiments.
Paper - Echo Park Summer Days and Dovecraft | Stamps - Amy R stamps It's your birthday | Ribbon - Hobbycraft | Flower - The Ribbon Reel | Pin- Ebay | Buttons - Sew Sweet | Circles - Spellbinders Nestabilties.
Have a great weekend.
Mojo monday sketch 249 - For you card
Sunday, July 15, 2012
There is only one week left at nursery for Hollie and then 8 weeks (in Hollies case) of driving me around the bend. Really hope we get some better weather than what we have had recently.
For this card I used the Mojo Monday Sketch 249 and I liked how it had 4 pieces to make up the background.
As there was a big space in the centre of the card for an image, I chose this image from the Forever Friends black and gold set as I don't have many image stamps and this was the right size to fit and was cute too.
I did some more hand stitching on this card and I find it quite therapeutic. I haven't managed to grasp using my sewing machine on cards as the stitching never seems right. I will have to figure it out and give it another go.
Paper - Dovecraft Tea Party | Stamps - Forever Friends Black and Gold & Amy R It's your birthday | Ribbon - Papermania | Border punch - Martha Stewart doily | Gems - Papermania | Gem heart - Mei Flower | Thread - Sew Easy.
Hope you have a nice Sunday and a good week ahead.
Retrosketches #19 - Heartfelt wishes
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Today I went to Hollies Teddy bear picnic at her nursery. She chose to take her purple teddy that she got when she had to go into hospital and it has been her favourite ever since.
It was absolute chaos with so many kids and all the parents too but it was good fun and it calmed down when the kids got to eat ice cream.
The card today I made using the Retrosketch #19 sketch. I decided to go with the Basic Grey Kioshi papers as I wanted to use a green layer under the paper.
As the card wasn't too bright, I decided to use a sentiment that was more thinking of you type than just a birthday or thank you sentiment and can be put in my card stash for when I need card of this type.
This is the sketch. It was quite a simple design so I didn't want to add too much more to the card, so just added a border under the purple card and a flower embellishment.
Paper - Basic Grey Kioshi | Stamp - Hero Arts All Occasions | Twine - The Ribbon Reel | Label - Spellbinders Nestabilities Label four | Buttons - Papermania and Sew Sweet | Button Twine - The Ribbon Girl | Brad and Flower - Papermania | Border Punch - Fiskars.
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