Poinsettias

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

Today is a couple of cards i made with this lovely Tim Holtz poinsettia die which i was given for my birthday, Ive teamed it up with some of my handmade backgrounds.

5.5x5.5 Kraft card base.  I die cut the poinsettia from a piece of kraft card and stamped my greeting in black.  I added foam tape to this panel and mounted onto a slightly larger piece of mirror card attached to my base.  I die cut a frame and attached over the top.  My mirror card is a piece of silver mirri coloured with pink and purple tim holtz alcohol inks. Lime green glitter dots added to the poinsettia centre

You can really see the colour here

 

White version with silver mirror card coloured with shades of blue alcohol inks.  Pink glitter glue highlights

Red and orange brushos with pixie powder background.

Items Used:

Tim Holtz die 'poinsettia peices' Sizzix 664212

Mama elephant frame die

Sentiment stamp

Tim Holtz alcohol inks - shades of blue, purple & pink

Brushos & Pixie powders

CraftUK ltd Kraft & white cardstock

Stickles glitter glue - gold, lime & fruit punch

Thank you all for stopping by once again, only a week to go now until the big day.  Stay safe.  Hugs Emmaxxx

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New Baby Girl

Good Morning everyone.

Last week my 5th niece was born - Charlotte Rose.  So im sharing the 2 cards i made for her, as usual for family occasions i make 2 as one is for my parents so i always try and make them completely different.

7x7" White scalloped cardblank.  I mounted pink patterened paper onto grey pearl card and then the base card.  I die cut my elephant from the soft grey pearl card and the pink paper and layered together.  I die cut a white frame and added it to the card front with foam tape, i added my elephant and my die cut sentiment - the baby is one word and i made up the 'girl' using individual alpha dies. . 

Close up on my little elephant.  I added a darker eye to help it stand out a little bit more as in retrospect think the paper might be too busy.  In order to cut the pink paper elephant i first cut the grey card elephant and left the die cut in the die and then cut the paper, this means it just cut around the outside of the elephant and not the lacy inside. 

For card 2 i used neutrals and a little lion, approx 5.5x5.5".  I first die cut my lion from beige dotty card and champagne glitter card, i then cut off the main and tail and glued onto the dotty lion.  I added a piece of brown card to the back of his head for the ears/eyes.  I die cut a octogen from ivory card and stamped my greeting in chocolate brown, i mounted this onto a champagne glitter octogen. 

Using my crealies octogen patchword die set i die cut the beige dotty card into patchwork peices and mounted them onto a large octogen from ivory cardstock.  I then added the lion topper panel with foam tape.  I used a dark brown fine liner pen to add in stitch details.

A close up on my lion, sadly the photo doesn't do the glitter card justice as it really sparkles. 

Items Used:

Crealies octogen  patchwork dies

Memory box stitched octogen dies

Lion die

Filagree elephant die

Mama elephant frame die set

sentiment & alphabet dies

Kanban pink patten paper

Anne-Marie taupe dotty cardstock

Grey pearl & Ivory leather effect card - payper box

CraftUK ltd white card

Champagne glitter cardstock

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good week, i can't beleive its time for the children to go back to school.  Emmax

Bugs

Good Morning everyone, well autumn is slowly arriving down here in Cornwall, trees are starting to turn and summer flowers going over.  So time to see those beautiful garden spiders creating amazing webs.  So a warning that spiders are ahead for those who aren't keen on them. 

Its time for a new challenge over at Cardz4guyz and the theme is:

BUGS

We the design team had a long discussion on this subject as the meaning of bugs is different here in the UK to the meaning in USA, so as the DT members are international we decided to go for any form of insect life/creepy crawlies this includes butterflies, bees etc so more scope for ideas for your projects.

After having a think and look through my stash i decided to use my spider web and spider dies for a change.  

6x6 white card blank.  In my graphics programme Serif Craft Artist i printed out an autumny background scene, with toadstools in greens and browns.  Also added a couple of white muted moths to the background, Added the sentiment in white.  I sized it so that it would be just larger than my die cut frame.  I die cut my background into a stitched square and mounted onto dark brown card and then the base.

I die cut my spiders web and spider from white card.  I painted the web with silver paint, to give the effect you get of dew on a spiders web, i added this to the back of my white inverted die cut frame, then added foam tape to the back of the frame and added to the base.  Doing it this way meant the actual web isn't stuck directly to the image.  

I added my white spider and drew on a string for him dangling from the web with a silver pen. 

Just a close up of my friendly spider.  

Items Used:

Spider & web die

Daisytrail digikit - 'water garden' (sadly discountinued)

Mama Elephant inverted scallop frame die

Silver acylic paint.

So do pop over and see what bugs everyone comes up with at cardz4guyz

I hope you all have a good week.  Emma

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