Circles galore

Good Morning everyone

A birthday card today using lots of die cut circles. This actually started out as i had little offcuts left over and a few white circles so i cut the rest into circles and hey presto!  I luckily found a paper pad in my stash that went perfectly with my marbled card and green mirror card.  Some of circles weren't whole as I didn't have enough card scraps but that wasn't a problem as i have hidden that edge behind others or off the edge of the edge of the card so no one knows any different😀 

Approx 6x6"  I first die cut lots of different size circles from a marbled background, gold mirror card coloured with green alcohol inks, white card and forest green pearl card.  I found this fab paper pad in my stash that fitted the colours perfectly, i covered my cardfront with a green spotty paper and then die cut the edge with a curved edge die, the off cut/waste i glued to the inside back card so that when the card is closed they join up (see photo below) I then cut another piece of paper with the same curved edge top and bottom to fit across the middle of the card on foam tape.

 I cut lots of circles from white card, forest green pearl card,  green/purple marbled card, and gold mirror card inked with green alcohol inks - so its all very green just broken up with a splash of purple.  I die cut the sentiment from the forest green card and mounted on a white frame. Butterfly die cut from a piece of paper from the same pad. Touches of glitter glue to finish. 

Showing it closed and how my curve lines up

and showing it side on how it stands up easily with the curved front.  I made my marbled card using the shaving foam technique - very messy but great fun. See here if you would like more details.

Items Used:

Circle dies

MFT birthday circle die

MFT curved scalloped edge die

Sizzix butterfly die

Bobunny 'enchanted garden' paper pad

Tim Holtz alcohol inks - greens

'My' hedgehogs this year 

These 3 guys always arrive together so i think they must be siblings

These 3 also always arrive together, baby, medium & large

I also have at least 2 others another baby and a very big one thats been coming for years. Although in my garden revamp ive just put another couple of hedgehog houses in these guys don't all live in my garden....they just found the go-cat and seem to far prefer it to slugs and snails and to the hedgehog foods ive tried over the years😁   The other day on my walk i found a very young hedgehog in a bad way in that awful heat at midday, managed to wrap my cardigan around and bring it home...several phone calls later found a place for it to go to for more expert care than i can give. I always make sure pots of water around my garden for all the wildlife to drink from, especially in that awful hot weather.... anyway hopefully the little mite makes it 

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you have a good rest of the week and weekend.  Stay safe. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2020/09/use-your-scraps.html

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http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2020/09/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge-387.html

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http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2020/09/september-challenge-spots-dots-or-inky.html

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Flower Power

Morning everyone, i hope you enjoyed the weekend.

Today is 3 cards made using the same flower die and a pink/purple mirror card I made with alcohol inks - what a nightmare getting decent photos with all the mirror card! I used plum, slate, twilight & denim TH alcohol inks on gold mirror card.

4.5x5.5" card - I die cut the floral die from navy card, my plum mirror card and a teal paper.  I attached the frame to a piece of white card which was slightly bigger and then inlayed the flowers and leaves.  I die cut the happy birthday from my plum mirror card, attached to a white frame, added a butterfly to the centre - adding a little glitter glue to the butterfly to finish.

Version 2 used a plum mirror card frame, gold mirror card flowers and the teal paper leaves on a white card.

Version 3 used a gold frame, the plum mirror card flowers and a light teal for the leaves.  This frame is great as you can use it any way up.  The photos really don't do my plum mirror card justice, even using my photo light box taking photos of mirror card is a nightmare!  

Items Used:

Pink Fresh die 'ornate floral'

MFT birthday circle die

Sizzix butterfly die

Spellbinders circle dies

Tim Holtz alcohol inks - plum, twilight, denim, slate

Gold mirror card

Patterned paper

CraftUK ltd white linen card

Payper box navy card

Stickles glitter glue.

Thank you all for stopping by, i hope you all have a good week. Stay safe. Emmaxx

Id love to enter the following:

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/challenge-193.html

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http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2020/09/seize-birthday-199-die-cuts.html

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http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/09/happy-birthday-traci.html

 

Robot Birthday

Good Morning everyone, i hope you had a good weekend.

Today im sharing a card i made for one of my brother's birthdays, being an engineer he is more into machines than animals so i went with this robot theme, dug out some rusty metal effect papers and my hexagon dies picking up on the shape of 'nuts' as in 'nuts & bolts'😁

Card size approx 7x7".  I first die cut my 'nuts' from a paper pack that has lots of different rusted metal effects, i used a hexagon on the outside and small circle die on the inside.  I embossed a piece of silver holographic mirror card with a cog embossing folder.  I arranged my nuts on this, matted onto a strip of black card and then across the middle of a white die cut hexagon. I mounted this onto black card then a white card blank, cutting to the hexagon shape.

I die cut my robot from white cardstock, doodled around thes edge with black pen and coloured him with grey alcohol markers.  I added more of the silver holographic behind him to shine through his eyes and holes in his body😀.  I die cut a white circle, silver circle and blue paper circle, attached my black die cut sentiment circle and added the robot in the middle.

Die cut screw heads from scraps of the metal effect paper added in the corners to finish.

A close up on the robot. 

Items Used:

Robot die

MFT birthday sentiment circle die

Spellbinders circle dies

Stitched hexagon dies

Spellbinders nuts and bolts die

Metal effect papers (lost the front page with brand name)

Papermania cog embossing folder

Silver rainbow holographic card

Black cardstock - payper box

White linen cardstock - craftUk ltd

Blue grey alcohol markers

Thank you for all stopping by once again.  I hope you have a good week. Emma

Id love to enter the following:

https://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.com/2020/01/challenge-125-anything-goes.html

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http://diesruschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/01/dru-challenge-137-birthdays.html

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http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2020/01/hls-january-anything-goes-with-dies.html

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https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/01/challenge-24.html

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Star Fold Cards

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing Star Fold cards i made for my mum and brother's birthdays.  First time id tried this fold, but with the help of pinterest and a trial run it was actually easier than i expected.  Of course i had to go with a floral theme for mum.  I have added a simple step by step at the end of the post. 

This post is very photo heavy so you may like to get a cup of tea or coffee and couple of biscuits😀

Please ignore my finger holding it flat for photos😄

After making the base fold (see bottom of post) from cream pearl cardstock, i cut and folded 2 pieces of 12x12 patterned paper the same way, i then cut it slightly smaller on each side so the panels would fit each piece with a small border.  I used the floral paper for the top and the pink paper for the bottom, so once folded into the star you get this two tone effect. 

I die cut my flower from co-ordinating papers and added a large glitter gem to the centre. Gems also added to the 3 pink panels as shown.  The papers were from B&M.

In the centre of the card once opened i added a die cut sentiment circle from the same card as the base card.  

Showing it mostly opened out and also showing how each point folds up

Showing it fully open.  

This shows it fully open on the underside.  I kept this paper quite plain so that I could write my greeting on it clearly.  Birthday sentiment stamped.  

Showing the underneath once all folded up. 

Being my first attempt i was very pleased with it, but they aren't so easy to display as mum found out, in the end she found something to sit the bottom point into so it would sit upright. 

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and onto the male version i made for my brother. 

For this one i used A4 papers so needed to cut 2 up for the top and 2 for underneath.  I used a very old steampunk set of toppers and papers by Kanban.  I added the foiled wings to the back of the circle topper.

For this one i turned it more into a kind of easel, so i added 3 screw top brads which hold the topper up so you can see it on display.  When you glue on your topper only glue it to one star point.

Showing it opened out. 

And the underneath, i added a die cut circle to the middle to write my greeting on. 

Showing the underneath when its all folded up into a star. 

On to a little step by step, hopefully it makes sense but if you look here at pinterest for more info - star fold card

Take a sheet of 12x12 cardstock. Measure the 6" mark on the top and bottom sides.  Line up these marks with a ruler and lightly draw a line down in pencil a couple of inches long (to be erased later).  Take your ruler and measure 12" from the bottom corners to the pencil line you just made. Cut away the excess. This will give you a triangle with 3 sides 12".  

Mark 6" on all 3 sides

Score a line along these 6" marks on all 3 sides, you end up with a triangle in the middle.

From this score line mark 2" outwards towards the points and score a line.  You can just do this on your score board if easier. 

Fold the score lines. Fold the inside lines mountain fold (so towards the middle), fold the outside lines valley fold (so back outwards).  You are then ready to decorate. 

Items used:

B&M Papers

Kanban papers

12x12 cardstock

MFT birthday circle die

Flower dies

Circle dies

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

Screw top brads

Gems

Stickles diamond glitter glue

Thank you all for stopping by.  Hopefully we are in for a quieter week with the weather.  Happy Crafting. Emmax

Id love the enter the following challenges:

do-allkreatives.#27 -fancy-fold   - entering the first floral star card

simplycreatetoo -ch-147--for-male  - entering my second card for a male

Birthday Bee's

Good Morning everyone.  I hope you all had a good weekend.  I can't believe we are into the last week of January, where has that gone too?

Today is a busy/noisy morning as last week my next door neighbour had a bad fire so builders in today checking the wall that joins us, replacing the melted security lights & BT fixing the melted phone lines, luckily for me we still had phone lines/internet its been the ones on the other side without phone.  Not a great start to the year but at least no one was hurt, other than leaving my cat terrified, we were out in the dark rain of the night trying to find her. She finally turned up about 16hrs later.

Ive also made the decision to give up being on a design team for the moment, what with all the hospital visits and treatments, the deadlines were getting a bit much, although i absolutely loved my time and met some wonderful crafters. So for a while im going to go back to totally crafting for relaxation/therapy as and when i feel like it and hopefully tackle some of those projects going around my head😀

Anyway onto todays project.  Made for a very good friends birthday earlier this month. It got bigger and bigger as it went along.

Well where to start with this.  I used inside/outside stitched hexagon dies. I first picked a pattern paper with hexagons on it, picking up on the colours in the paper i went with gold mirror card, a pale green, lemon card and watercoloured pink paper for the flowers. 

I cut gold mirror card, green card and white card with the hexagon dies to frame the middle, in the middle i placed a piece of pattern paper.  I die cut the birthday sentiment from green & gold card and off set, i took the middle circle from the gold one and dry embossed it with a honeycomb EF.  This i placed into the centre of the card with foam tape. 

Once i had built up all the outside frames i mounted them with foam tape onto a white base card and then cut around the outside edge so that i ended up with a hexagon shaped card approx 8x9" in size - yep pretty big! 

I die cut 3 bees from yellow card and the pale green card, i cut the body off the yellow one and added on top of the green one. I gently gave the body a curved shape before arranging on the cardfront. 

From pattern paper that is a watercolour effect in pinks i die cut and built up the flowers using several die cut layers.  A big gem added to the centre to finish.  Die cut leaves added behind the flowers. 

Close up on the centre

Close up on one of the bees and flowers.  I had also added faux stitching around the outside edges with a pink pen.  I had alot of fun creating this card and going back to my old flower power cards. Im pleased to report the recipient loved it too. 

Items Used:

Docrafts 'neon geometric' paper pad

Poundland 'watercolour' paper pad

MFT birthday circle sentiment die

Flower die

Bee die

Stitched hexagon die set

Memory box foliage die - 'massa'

Honeycomb Embossing folder - sizzix maybe?

CraftUk Ltd white card

Gold Mirror card

Pale green card, Lemon pearl card

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope that you all have a good week and hopefully we don't get too much of the snow forecast. Hugs Emma

Alices 3th Birthday

Good Morning all, i hope you've had a good week. 

Today is my Niece Alice's 3rd Birthday,  She is Unicorn and Flamingo mad so i had to make cards with them on.  Purple is also her favourite colour. So we have purple flamingos which she always calls 'Mingo's' 

I first die cut a dark purple spellbinders labels 1 die cut, approx 6x6" in size and folded it in half.  I then die cut the next size down from white card and the next size down from this fabulous purple pattern paper.  I thought it had a bit of a tropical feel.  

I then die cut a smaller scalloped labels 1 and added it to the front with foam tape.  I die cut 3 'Mingo's' from card coloured with violet oxide ink and purple pixie powder.  I added these to the front.

Computer printed sentiments die cut into circles.  I added touches of glitter glue to the background flowers - what little girl doesn't love glitter.

Showing it stood up.  Only the bottom half of the white panel is glued to the purple base.

A close up of the purple Mingo's, i had also cut 2nd wings for them and shaped before adding to the body.

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and onto the second card i made - yep Unicorns.

The glitter unicorn is actually a sticker i found in a discount store, i used a purple pen on his mane, horn and tail. 

White die cut stepper card, i then die cut a cloudy sky paper and added to the front.  I turned the circle birthday sentiment into a shaker pouch.  I added orange card behind to act as the sun, i filled it with orange micro beads and silver glitter.  I added this to the cardfront and then added the unicorn.

I die cut  'Alice & 3' with alpha dies from silver glitter card and purple card and offset,   The number 3 i mounted onto a white circle and then silver circle.

Lots of tiny butterflies cut from orange card.

Just showing it stood up

Close up on the shaker part.  Hopefully Alice enjoys shaking it.  

Items Used:

Presscut stepper card die

MFT birthday circle die

Flamingo die (magazine freebie)

Spellbinders grand labels 1 & scalloped labels 1

Spellbinders circle dies

Memory box mini butterflies

Crafters Companion Alpha dies

Silver glitter Unicorn sticker

Thank you for stopping by and all your comments, I always appreciate them.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  Emma

Fantasy - Fairy shaker card

Good Morning all, i hope you had a good weekend and are still enjoying the sunshine.  Well the cats and i are still competing over the fan😀,  

So its time for a new challenge over at Make My Monday  the theme this fortnight is:

FANTASY

fairies, dragons, elves, unicorns, mermaids etc

Ive gone with fairies dancing in a flower garden shaker stepper card.  Fantasy is a good theme, you can go cute and twee or dark and mystic so something for everyone.

I first die cut my stepper card from white linen card and folded along the score lines.  I then die cut the matting panels from backing paper id made with orange and green brushos & pixie powders.  

I then die cut the happy birthday twice, once from white card and then black card and offset them, i added a circle of acetate to the back.  As i only had a thin section to add the foam too i die cut 6 circle frames of card and glued together, i then glued that to the back of the happy birthday to create my shaker pocket, added my micro beads and glitter and added a circle of card orangey coloured with brushos to the back.  I then added this shaker element to the top of my card.

I then die cut my fairies from black card, i added vellum behind the wings which i lightly coloured with blue pen.  I die cut a second fairy and just cut out the body section and decoupaged on top of the base layer to add dimension.

I then die cut the floral swirl corner die from red and purple brusho/pixie powder card and arranged around the fairies so it looks like they are dancing among the flowers.  Yellow gems to finish. 

Just showing the card face on

Close up of the shaker, i put orange behind as a kind of 'sun' 

Items used:

Presscut stepper card die

MFT Birthday circle sentiment die

Spellbinders fairy dies - Ariana S2-102 & Cierra S2-103

Spellbinders de-lites - floral corner 2 die S2-151

Brusho powders

Cosmic shimmer pixie powders

Vellum

Micro beads

So if you fancy joining in or seeing what others come up with for fantasty please do hop over to mmmchallengeblog     

I hope you all have a good week and are keeping cool.  Hugs Emma

I wish to enter the following challenges

countryviewchallenges.july-2018-in-summer-garden

daisychainchallenge - challenge-21-summer

simplycreatetoo - no patterned paper