Lots of hexagons

 Good Morning everyone, what gorgeous weather we are having, i hope you are keeping cool ok.  The cats and i are arguing over the fan😊

Today i am sharing 2 cards i made with my new hexagons dies, idea came by accident really.  When the dies first arrived to check they cut ok i cut them all at once and just put the 'frames' on the desk, when i looked later some had overlapped others and i came up with this idea.  Rotating every other frame and gluing together, gives this rather cool looking shape.  I then stamped it using floral stamps and oxide inks. 

Finished size is just over 7x7.   I first die cut the largest hexagons from white linen cardstock, then glued together as mentioned by rotating every other one, i then dug out some flowers stamps and distress oxide inks to stamp a pattern onto it.  I then mounted it with foam tape onto co-ordinating cardstock - teal and then mounted onto white card base cut to shape.  Stamped sentiment glued back in the middle aperture.  I then stamped extra flowers using the same stamps and ink and cut them out. 

Close up, i also added glitter glue accents. 

and onto version two

Same method as the first one, only this time different stamps and colours, matted onto purple pearl cardstock. 

I coloured the flowers and added a pink glitter glue after fussy cutting them out. 

Just showing the insert.

and the i did a version of the old triple stamping technique.

First die cut 3 hexagons of descending sizes, add a touch of removeble glue to the top centre of the largest 2 and stick together in a stack, one on top of each other and then stamp the design with oxide inks the flowers and the sentiment, then remove the removeable tape so you have the 3 seperate layers,

Die cut purple mat layers and add one on top of each other with foam tape.  Mount onto white card base cut to shape.

I stamped a single flower and cut out and added glitter glue.  Approx size 5.5x5.5"

This one shows the layers before i attached them together.

The same as above just a different colourway and using bigger hexagons.  Approx 6.5x6.5"

Items Used:

Large Stitched Hexagon dies

Stampin up 'fabulous florets' stamps (2nd card)

Sadly Ive lost the label of the first stamp set - its years old too - maybe hero arts

Justrite sentiment stamps

Distress Oxides - twisted citroen, candied apple, peacock feathers, picked raspberry, wilted violet.

Stickles glitter glue, sprinkled sugar, fruit punch

Thank you for stopping by and all your recent visits and comments.  Keep cool. Emma

Ice Cream - hobby house image

Good Morning everyone.

Time for a new challenge over at Make My Monday, the theme this fortnight picked by me is very apt for the weather i think and is:

ICE CREAM

Use either ice cream images or just Ice cream colours

Think - mint chocolate chip, raspberry ripple, peach melba, banana split etc,

I went with Ice cream colours of Peach Melba, so peach and raspberry combo.  

6x6 white scalloped card blank. I found this lovely pre coloured hobby house image in my stash, the perfect colours of peach and raspberry.  I matted it onto a maroon fancy circle die cut. I matted a pink pattern paper onto maroon and onto the card base.  Then a panel of peach paper, again matted onto maroon and i added it over hanging the cardbase to add interest. 

Die cut sentiment from white and maroon, which i offset for a shadow and added on the topper, i added clear glitter to the sentiment and the topper, looks like a sugar frosting.  Ready made paper flowers, peach beads on wire to embellish. 

A close up of the floral arrangement. 

Items Used:

Kasiercraft paper pad 'cherry blossom'

Hobby House Topper

Ready made paper flowers

Beads on wires

Spellbinders large circle die

So please do hop over to Make my monday to join in and just see what everyone comes up with.   

I hope you all have a good week, looks like its going to be a hot one here. Emma

G is for Great Outdoors

Good Morning all, time for a new challenge over at alphabetchallengeblog  the theme this fortnight is:

GREAT OUTDOORS

This theme - 'the great outdoors' - keeps making me think of Yogi Bear and Jellystone (Yellowstone) park - so had to think what the great outdoors means here in the UK, to me it means the countryside, wildlife and nature so one of my favourite places to be.

After digging through my stash and thinking, came across this fox stamp and had the idea of looking through a hole in a fence, or through a gap in a shed to see a fox curled up in the corner of a field. 

6x6 white cardblank.  I cut a piece of white card smaller than the cardfront and die cut an aperture - i used a basic leaf shape.  I then stamped the woodgrain stamp and added touches of ink here and there to give it a more aged look.  I cut a piece of white card to fit behind the aperture.

I stamped the fox in red/brown ink and added blue sky and green grass with inks.  I placed this behind the woodpanel on foam tape.  I stamped and fuzzy cut the fox a second time and decoupaged on top of the first one. I then layered onto red/brown cardstock to pick up on the fox colour and adhered to the card front.

I coloured a sheet of white card with distress inks crushed olive & forest moss, i then die cut several ferns using the tattered lace dies and arranged them on the cardfront.  Stamped greeting to finish. 

Close up of the fox.  There is no colouring involved on this one so ideal for those of you who aren't into colouring in images.  A few different colour ink pads and you're ready to go!

Items Used:

Stampin up  - 'the wilderness awaits'

Stampin up - 'wetlands'

Stampin up - Hardwood

Tattered lace fern die set

Spellbinders Oval die

So if you fancy joining in and seeing what everyone else comes up with for the great outdoors, please do hop over to alphabetchallenge

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all have a good weekend. Emmax

Metallic Madness

Good Morning all, one thing ive really noticed with my design team posts is how fast the weeks fly by! 

Time for a new challenge over at cardz4guyz   the theme this time is

METALLIC MADNESS

So i dug out some mirri card and had a play, ive used 3 colours of mirror card in gold, copper & steel grey, so difficult to take decent photos of it. 

5x7" white linen cardbase.  I have die cut lots of leaves from the mirror cards, layered together on a panel of white linen card, overhanging the edge of the panel (cut off excess), which i then matted onto black card and layered onto the white card front.  

I die cut the happy birthday circle from white card, matted onto a larger black circle and added to the cardfront on foam tape.  I then added a spare gold leaf to the middle of the sentiment. 

This one shows the colour of the mirror card better.  There is 3 leaf outline dies so all 3 are slightly different sizes and shapes.

Items used:

MFT birthday circle die

MFT layered leaf dies

Gold, Copper & Steel grey mirri card

Black & White card

So if you fancy joining in and having fun with metallics or just fancy seeing what everyone comes up with please do hop over to cardz4guyz

Thank you for stopping by.  Enjoy your week. Emma

Boys 18th Birthday

Good Morning everyone.  Thank you for all your comments on my wirework attempts, i do appreciate them all and had fun.  

Today im sharing an 18th birthday card i made for my godson's birthday a couple of weeks ago.  Not sure where the 18 years have gone since his mum and I brought him home from hospital!

6x6" white basecard. I then added a panel of rainbow coloured paper and stamped the greeting in the bottom right corner.  

I then cut a square of white card slightly small again, die cut the scalloped border, then randomly die cut lots of 18's out using number dies, this panel i mounted using foam tape, i then glued the little circles back in the number 8

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I cut a panel of white card and stamped his name in black, mounted onto a strip of the pattern paper and added on top with more foam tape. I then used a blue fine liner pen and doodled on a border. 

I must have taken the photo on a slight angle as both sides of the name band were equal - looks a bit one sided in the photo! 

Items Used:

MFT dienamics scalloped edge die

Memory Box Parker number dies

Kasiercraft grunge alphabet stamps

Stampin up - into the wild set (sentiment)

Poundland paper pad - Happy watercolour

Other funky personal Childrens cards made by me. all making use of an alphabet die set.

This one makes good use of those circle dies and neon card

square dies in action and lots of butterflies

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you are all having a good weekend. Emma

Wirework fun

Good Morning all, i hope the week is going well.

Today i am sharing my first attempts in wirework using craft wire.  This is a very soft aluminum wire with a coloured coating.  Ive often admired wirework and then my mum bought me some wire so decided to just go for it.  No tools other than basic pliers and wire cutters.  Just made it up as i went along - so without patterns.  Taking photos of wire is almost as bad as mirror card - so difficult to get true colour. 

This dragonfly is my 3rd attempt, 1 & 2 are below.

Red & gold craft wire.  Approx 8x8" in size.  I just winged it here, and i know technically dragonflies have 2 sets of wings but i didn't want to hide all the candy twist 'body' as rather liked that.  Its just a case of wrapping the wires, i added a lovely big bead for the head and then a few iridescent beads on the wings to catch the light.  I can't say its a quick craft and takes many metres of wire, but i could sit in the evenings and 'play' 

This photo shows the true colour better and the beads, one of the wings

Showing the body detail and that lovely bead for the head.  I worked in a loop on the back so that it can be hung up, maybe at a window.  Catching the light.

The candy twist tail.  He has already flown to a new home. 

Now onto my first attempt, a stylised rose

Red & Copper wire for the rose and green for the stem, head approx 3x3" in size

For my first attempt i was chuffed with the rose head, not so on the leaves but below shows how i improved on that for my 2nd attempt

my 2nd attempt, this time blue and silver wire for the flower, i also added a lovely blue glass bead to the centre of the flower.  Much happier with the leaves on this 2nd one.  I think like most techniques we learn and hopefully improve for next time.

Close up shows the bead too, approx 4x4" rose head

I really enjoyed this so definitely think i will be doing some more, hopefully improving each time and just learning how the wire works and handles.  I used mostly 2mm & 1mm here, the 1mm is definitely more malleable.  And the good thing about this craft is i don't need lots more stash - well other than a few beads - just as well as think that would drive the family potty going by the size of my papercraft stash😀

Thank you for stopping by and all your visits and comments last week.  Enjoy your weekend.  Hugs Emmax

Emboss resist - under the sea

Good Morning, i hope you all had a good weekend, we had some lovely weather. 

Its time for a new challenge over at Make My Monday  The theme this fortnight is

EMBOSS RESIST

My first thought was to dig out my flower stamps but on having a look in my stamp stash found my set of sea themed stamps by chocolate baroque, so went with a sea/water background. 

I first stamped the shells and heat embossed with clear embossing powder, i then die cut into a hexagon and coloured with distress inks in blues and greens.  I added some water drops,dabbed with tissue to remove some of the ink to add 'bubbles'  

I then added to a white card base cut into a hexagon.  I then die cut a hexagon frame, stamped the greeting and added with foam tape.  I die cut 3 seahorses & 'seaweed' from scraps of card coloured with brusho's & pixie powders.

I stamped the anchor and heat embossed with a black glitter embossing powder and cut out.  I stamped the starfish 3 times onto orange card and cut out.  I then arranged them all.

Close up, i added glossy accents to the bubbles on the background, enamel drops & touches of glitter glue to finish. 

The background before i added everything else, you can clearly see the water drops here. 

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque stamps - seashell collage

Craft stamper magazine stamp - starfish

Cheerylynn seahorse dies

Spellbinders foliage die (seaweed)

Stitched hexagon dies

Tim Holtz distress inks - twisted citron, cracked pistachio,  peacock feathers, salty ocean

We look forward to seeing what you come up with at Make my Monday

I hope you all have a good week. Emma

I'd like to enter this:

Craft Stamper- june take it make it

Golden Wedding Anniversary

Good Morning everyone,  I hope you are having a good week.  

Today im sharing a Golden Wedding Anniversary card.  

6x5.5 gold white pearl base card.  I then cut a panel of champagne gold glitter card and smaller panel of gold white pearl card and embossed with that old favourite embossing folder called 'tied together'  Computer printed sentiment die cut into an oval and layered onto a bigger glitter card oval.  I die cut 2 champagne glasses and foliage from the glitter card and added a yellow flower.  Gold gems to finish. 

Close up trying to show the sparkle of the glitter card.  Its from jellybean and totally smooth so lovely for die cutting.   This is a fairly simple design that you could easily adapt for any celebration. 

Items Used:

Creation expressions tied together embossing folder

Champagne glitter card - jellybean

Glass die - magazine freebie

Gold sheen white pearl cardstock - crafters companion

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you are having a good week.  Emmax

Father's Day - farm animals

Good Morning all, i hope you all enjoyed some weekend sunshine.  I can't believe how fast the fortnights go, its time for a new challenge over at cardz4guyz with the theme this time being:

FATHER'S DAY

So i thought it was the ideal theme for my dad using my new Katzelkraft farm animal stamps.  These really are quirky. 

First I stamped the cow, sheep, pig, duck & cockeral and coloured them in with inktense pencils and cut them out.  I then cut a panel of white card, stamped the cow, sheep & pig, it doesn't matter that they overlapped as i only needed the legs as i laid the cut out versions on top.  I inked a simple sky and grass background.  

Using my new stitched hexagon dies i die cut a white frame and stamped my greeting on the bottom.  I then mounted this over my topper with foam tape, layered onto black cardstock and then white base card cut to the hexagon shape.  I then added my animals with glue gel, adding a bit of shape first.  I added glossy accents to their eyes.  Finished size approx 7x7"

Close up on the animals, the colours i went with are loosely based on the colour of animals he owns - Normandy cow, tamworth pig, shetland duck, suffolk sheep.  The cockeral is cheekily photo bombing the scene as he is cheeky like that. 

and the insert, that cheeky cockeral is about again😀

Items used:

Katzelkraft stamps - KTZ208 'La Ferme des Animaux'

Derwent inktense pencils

Stitched hexagon die set

Glossy accents

Please do hop over to cardz4guyz to join in and see what everyone comes up with for Father's day - it will soon be upon us. 

I hope you all have a good week and thank you for stopping by and waving hello to all of you that are following by email👋.  Emma