Birthday Cake

 Morning everyone.

Today im sharing a card that i made for a good friends birthday, she actually sent me the lovely stamp as a gift so this is my first outing for the lovely lady.  Ive used papers all from the same pad and added in chocolate mirri card and gold glitter card. 

7x7 scalloped cardbase.  I rounded the corners on a piece of pink floral paper and attached to chocolate brown mirri card and then the cardbase.  I stamped my image onto white card and some of the patterned papers which i then used to paper piece on the base image.  I doodled in some ground with a black fine liner and then die cut into an oval and mounted onto chocolate mirri card. 

I then die cut foliage from gold glitter card and the chocolate mirri card and arranged with some pink ready made flowers.  Stamped greeting, glitter glue and pink enamel drops to finish. 

Close up on my little lady, i used alcohol markers on her hair and skin.  A very different image from my usual style and pink - most definately not a colour i use often😄 but i really enjoyed making this card. 

Items Used:

Stamping Bella stamp

LOTV sentiment stamp

Kasiercraft paper pad 'Chanteuse Collection'

Gold Glitter card

Chocolate Mirror card

Paper flowers

I hope you all have a good week. More family time this week, on the last leg of 3 weeks of half terms.  Hopefully next week can get back into routine.  Thank you for stopping by. Emmax

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Floral birthday card

Good Morning all, i hope you are having a good week, especially for those of you amid half term. 

So today I am sharing the second card i made for my Sister in law, this one is for my parents to give her.   Luckily my SIL enjoys colour as much as i do so i dug out one of my favourite My Minds Eye paper pads. 

7x7 white card blank. Turquoise, olive & magenta cardstock to match the colours in the paper.  After matting the paper onto turquoise and gluing to the blank i die cut a frame, topper and birthday sentiment.  Die cutting lots and lots of cornflowers i then built up the flowers, very time consuming, but worth it.  A little butterfly and turquoise pearls to finish. 

Close up of the flowers, each flower has at least 6 layers, but the big one 10 layers with all the 'petals' teased apart to add the frill that real cornflowers have.   I find it therapeutic to sit and make up flowers of an evening in front of the tv.  

A second card I made for the box. 

Items used:

My Minds Eye - Kate & Co 'Cambridge Court' papers

Sue Wilson - cornflower die set

Sizzix Butterflies - 659971

Mama Elephant - union square die set

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Thank you for stopping by and all your comments on my vintage card.  Wishing you a wonderful day. Emma 

Make My Monday #46 - sugar & spice

Good Morning everyone and welcome to a new week. 

Its the start of a new challenge over at Make My Monday

The theme this fortnight is SUGAR & SPICE, picked by me this time, so if you fancy joining in just pop over and create something that comes to your mind when you think of sugar and spice, could be sweet and cute, hot and spicy, a mix of both or how about going down the sugar and spice and all things nice, that's what little girls are made of route and a card for a little or not so little girl? 

When i picked the theme i didn't have any ideas of what i would make but on looking through my stash i found a paper pad with the perfect hot warm spicy colours, but broken up with pastel pink and blue which said sugar to me.  So i started with a lovely backing paper which has a brown spicy background and bright flowers. 

5.5x6" card blank, corners rounded. Covered with paper leaving a small border.  Using papers i made up 3 flowers, die cut Sue wilson dies in white linen and a pastel pink paper from the pad and layered together on foam pads with a stamped sentiment. Foliage die cut from a green card that matches the background and the pink paper.  I found these little buttons in my stash that look like sweeties to me so the perfect finishing touch as they picked up on the pink used too. 

Close up to show the flowers better

Items used:

All papers are from - Echo Park 'Simple Life' by Deena Rutter

Sue Wilson -  French Collection 'provence' die set

Memory box 'Massa Leaf' die

Memory box ' Small Olive branch' die

Stampin up 'Sassy Salutations' sentiment

So if you fancy joining in and seeing what the rest of the design team came up with please do pop over to Make My Monday

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Sue Wilson French Provence dies

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Thank you for stopping by and for all your comments last week.  I hope you are all well and have a good week ahead. Emma 

Make My Monday #45 - May flowers

Good Morning everyone, welcome to May. 

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. 

Today is the start of a new challenge over at Make My Monday

The theme for this fortnight is MAY FLOWERS, so if you fancy joining in and to see the rest of the design teams work do pop over.  

As the bluebells are in full flower here at the moment i decided to go with them as my May Flowers.  As well as bluebells i also have white and pink bells in flower at the moment.

To start with i coloured A4 watercolour card with brushos, one with blues, another with greens and the background panel with a very pale blue sky and grass.  I then die cut lots of stems and flowers and shaped them using a ball tool and foam mat.  I then die cut my fairy from white, green and blue brusho card and paper pieced her so that she matches the colours of the flowers.  

Then using spellbinders grand decorative and plain label's 1, I  die cut the card blank and frames from white and blue cardstock.  I mounted the inner white frame die cut on 2 layers of foam so that i had a nice recess to sit the bluebells into.  Computer printed sentiment die cut into shape, silver eyelets added and ribbons and twine added.  Glitter glue highlights to finish.  8x8" in size. 

Close up, i also added vellum behind the fairy wings, she looks to me like she is dancing among the flowers

Another close up.  To build up the depth of flowers i glued a few on and then let them dry, adding them at different heights and angles makes them look fuller and also laying some on top of others.   

Just to show that it does stand up.  

Items used:

Spellbinders grand labels 1 decorative and plain, 

Spellbinders Fairy Cierra S2-103

Memory box 'Arched stems 98842' & 'Fairy flower drops 98844'

Sizzix 657556

Brushos, stickles 'stardust' 

So if you fancy finding out more or joining in then please click the link

Make My Monday Challenge

Thank you for stopping by and to all of you who popped by last week with comments.  I hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy your May day bank holiday. Emma 

Floral Birthday Stepper cards

Good Morning everyone

So today i am sharing a set of floral birthday stepper cards, made using LOTV art pad images and hand made flowers. 

Ive used happy birthday printed cardstock on them all from Ann-Marie, I also decoupaged the images and added glossy accents to the vases and touches of glitter glue.

Little primroses to go with the primroses in the little vases, made using yellow cardstock and orange ink pad, yellow gem centres. 

Hellobore made with a simple die cut flower, i rounded the petals on a foam mat and added green stamens, dots using a coloured pen.  

This is using the same flower die i used for the hellobore but ive shaped it slightly differently, white stamens to pick up on the peonie in the image. 

These sweet peas i had left over from making a project last year, knew they would come in handy one day, made using sizzix susans garden sweet pea die set.  Link at the bottom if you would like to see the sweetpea project i made before

And last but not lease butterflies, i also used a chocolate pearl embossed cardstock on this one, which matched the basket in the image well.  

Items used:

Presscut stepper card die

LOTV art pad images

Sizzix butterfly dies 659971

Sizzix flower dies (primrose) 658602

Sizzix susans garden sweetpea die set

Spellbinders romantic vines

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

Make My Monday #42 - white embossing

Good Morning everyone and welcome to another week. 

So today the challenge at Make My Monday this week is WHITE EMBOSSING, if you fancy joining in and seeing what the rest of the design team has come up with please do pop over, using the link above or on my side bar.  Everyone is welcome to join in, we set a new challenge every 2 weeks. 

I decided to go with bright vibrant flowers against a black background.  First i stamped and heat embossed my flowers in white onto black cardstock.  I then to make the colours pop more painted them with white gesso, once dry i used pebeo acrylic paints in hot pink and yellow.  Yellow enamel drop centres.  I shaded around the edge of each flower with a white pencil and white gel pen doodled accents.

I then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on a die cut rectangle and mounted on foam to finish. 5x5" Card size. 

A close up of the flowers

Items used:  Flower stamps - the works

MFT stitched panel dies

Pebeo acylic paints

Stampendous fine white embossing powder

Sakura white gel pen

Inktense white pencil

Viva paper pen

Thank you for popping and i hope you all have a wonderful week. Emma 

In the black

Good Morning all and welcome to a new week. 

Thank you to everyone who popped by to say hello last week, lovely to see you.

So today i am sharing two little thank you cards.  Inspired by a talented craft friend, who's got me addicted to imagination crafts starlight paints, she sent me a jar of the gold for christmas and since then ive added a couple more colours. She also used them on the black and got my ideas going, so thank you friend😊

 The photos don't really do the shimmer justice. 

First i painted the thistle die cut (tattered lace i think, was sent to me by another generous friend), these paints dry super fast so no hanging around waiting for paint to dry.  I stamped the sentiment with the paints too, just to see if it would work, best way to get used to a new product i think is to play, some ideas work, some don't, but you are learning as you go

.  Using black card for the base and layer, edged with gold starlights too.  Size approx 3x6"

Trying to show the light hitting the starlights.  I added a touch of the red paint to the blue to get the purpley thistle colour, the colours blend well together to create new colours.

Version 2, again die cuts sent to me, i think they are memory box, just checked and they are actually simon says stamp, but this would work with any flower die cut

I tipped the blue flowers with the gold to add interest and how the light does hit the petals on flowers. 

So if you've been looking at these starlight paints, id say go for it, they are lovely to work with👍

Items used:  Imagination crafts 'starlights' - 133 red, 134 blue, 135 green, 136 rich gold

Thank you for stopping by and taking a peek.  Wishing you all a good week. Emma 

Floral birthday card

Good Morning all

So today im sharing this birthday card i made for my sister in law, she loves her neutral tones, browns and creams, so i thought this cherry blossom paper was the perfect starting point. 

Stamped greeting in sepia archival ink, cut into circles and attached to the paper with foam pads. Both are matted onto a russet colour cardstock.  Ready made paper flowers, die cut foliage from the same russet card.  Pearl detail to finish.  Cardsize 6x5.5"

Close up detail.

Items used:  Paper flowers from wild orchid crafts

Patterned paper B&M 'Antique Chic'

Stitched circle dies

Foliage die unknown make

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look and all your amazing comments on my mondays upload. Emma x