New Home

Good Morning everyone

 A little new home card today using paper snippets to die cut some pretty floral houses

5x5" Kraft card base.  I first die cut as many houses as possible from the paper scraps and kraft card.  From the back of the kraft card ones i taped in the windows and doors so that they didn't fall out, I then cut the roofs off the paper houses and glued onto the kraft ones.  After looking at them for a while i decided to help the windows stand out from the busy papers by drawing around them with a blue fineliner pen.

I took a piece of blue paper slightly smaller than my card front and die cut the memory box circle burst towards the top, i added soft gold glitter card behind to act as my sunshine, i added a greeny paper to the bottom to act as grass and stamped the sentiment with dark blue ink and adhered to the card front. 

I then arranged the houses and adhered with pinflair glue gel.  I also added a little die cut hot air balloon to finish. 

I managed to make 2 cards with my little floral houses, one for a friend who is settling into her new home and one for my box. 

This is the pile of scraps i had left from making my batch of exploding insert cards which i decided to make an effort and use before moving on.  For these 2 new home cards I just took the papers with pink & purple flowers.

Items Used :

Memory box circle burst die

Memory box balloon die

House dies

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

Crafters companion gold glitter card

Make&create paper pad from the works 'vintage floral'

Kraft card

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good end to the week and weekend. Hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the following:

https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-445-show-us-your-snippets.html

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http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-284-new-beginnings.html

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http://2sistersontheblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-70.html

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http://craftyfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-163-for-january.html

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In the birdhouse

Good Morning everyone

Today is a little mdf project as a new home gift using those fab katzelkraft owl stamps again

Approx size 7x5"    I first added texture paste through a brick stencil to the front and added it with a pallet knife to the roof keeping it rough to give a nice bark like texture.  Once completely dry i covered it all in black gesso. I then dry brushed on acrylic paints picking up the colours in the owls.

The owls were stamped and coloured with inktense pencils and cut out.  

I die cut foliage from scraps of cardstock and got arranging.  Computer printed sentiment.

A close up on the owls - of course i had to add glossy accents to their eyes.  The owl peeking out the hole is glued on from behind

and below is the back which ive decorated as the inside of the bird house

I used a wood effect pattered paper and covered the back, dry brushing on some acrylic to give it an more lived in look. Then just added my foliage, owls and computer printed sentiment.

A close up.

Items Used:

Katzelkraft stamps - les super chouettes

Foliage dies

Mdf house

acrylic paint

Imagination crafts starlight paint 'rich gold'

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you have a good end of the week and weekend, stay safe. Hugs Emmax

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http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2021/01/anything-goes-challenge-week-beginning.html

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http://blog.dare2bartzy.com/january-challenge-anything-goes/

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A Mixed Medley

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing a mix of cards i made last year and didn't get around to sharing.

6x6 Ivory card base.   I used papers from kaisercraft , all matted onto a dark green cardstock.  I stamped the greeting onto a die cut oval from the same preembossed ivory card i used for the base. Flower die cut from a chocolate paper from the pad. Green pearls to finish.  I followed a sketch by a friend.

Papers are: Kasiercraft 'Botanica'

A close up on the flower.

This one uses the same flower die as the one above.  I die cut a tag from white linen card and then die cut the spellbinders die in it, i them die cut the same die from black card, added it over the top of the white version and inlaid it back into the tag.  I mounted this onto gold mirror card coloured with red alcohol inks.  Then onto black card and a white card base cut to a tag shape.

Flower die cut from the gold mirror card coloured with red alcohol inks. Black gem for the centre.  Stamped greeting die cut into a small oval to finish. 

This photo shows the mirror card up better, adding a couple of different colours of alcohol inks to the the mirror card you get a nice marbled effect. 

6x6 black cardbase.  Using a floral stencil i used blue glitter texture paste multiple times onto black cardstock.  Once dry - best left over night die cut into a hexagon.  Mounted onto orange card and black base card.

from the orange gemstones core-dinations card i die cut butterflies the green circle and white banner were also cut from the gemstones card - it has a subtle shimmer.  Stamped greeting and gems added to finish. I think the stencil is imagination crafts.

This shows the colour of the texture paste better, it really is very glittery in the light. 

A New HOme card, using papers all from the same paper pad, mounted onto a dark green cardstock, i followed a sketch by a friend.  The little houses on the main panel i cut out from a spare piece and decoupaged on top to add a little depth. 

Papers are American Craft - Amy tangerine 'Yes Please'

Another one following a friends sketch.  last year my craft resolution was to try and do different layouts, i did start off well before falling back on my old tried and tested layouts, i shall again this year try and do different layouts again.  This one uses papers all from the same pad.  All mounted on navy blue cardstock.  Die cut birthday sentiment and little flower from white linen card.  Twine and gems to finish. 

Papers are: My Minds Eye 'collectable - remarkable'

And lastly another one following a sketch - 5x7 in size.  Autumnal papers mounted onto brown cardstock and white linen card.  I die cut the focal point using a thin stitched die 3 times from the same piece of paper and lined them up again on the front so that the pattern in the paper is complete.  Twine embellishment and die cut sentiment to finish.  This one is papers from poundland - 'changing seasons'

Items Used:

Spellbinders - celtic medallion 1

Spellbinders sentiment die

Spellbinders oval dies

Spellbinders circle die

MFT birthday circle die

MFT Stitched rectangles

MFT pierced fishtail banner dies

Cross stitch tag die set

Cross stitch rectangle die set

Stitched oval die set

Wonky stitched circle die

Stitched Hexagon die

Flower die set 

Various Designer paper pads

Thank you all for stopping by and all your comments lately.  I hope you all have a good weekend. Emmax

Take One Paper Pad....

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

Today im showing a batch of cards all made from the same paper pad, after using it for make my mums card for Mothering Sunday i thought it would be a good challenge for me to try and use up all the papers on different cards and in different ways.  I actually enjoyed the challenge.

The paper pad is 6x6" 'On the Bright Side' by My Minds Eye

Its a pad ive had years and loved so used it sparingly as us crafters do. 

This first card i made for mum, 7x7 white cardbase.  I die cut some of the papers with various stitched dies, all matted onto chocolate brown cardstock and layered up.  I die cut the flower from white card so it would stand out against all the busy patterns, i edge it with blue and added blue pearls to the centre.  Die cut mum from white too and then added blue pearls to finish.  

I then made a very similar one for the box just using different papers from the pad and orange pearls.  Im not usually one for adding lots of busy patterns together but found using just bits of them that it wasn't too OTT.

6x6 Chocolate Brown basecard.  New home card.  I die cut various stitched shapes from the papers and layered them up, this first takes a while playing with the shapes and placements until it works for me.  I then stamped the greeting in brown ink onto beige faux leather effect card and mounted onto the card base.   I then die cut my little house from 2 papers and stuck together. 

6x5.5" Brown card base.  I again cut some patterend papers and layered onto chocolate brown cardstock, added onto beige card stamped with the greeting.  I die cut my cat twice, ones from orange and again brown papers and off set so he stands out more. Blue pearls to finish. 

6x6" chocolate brown cardbase.  I had lots of little bits of paper left, not big enough to do much with so cut them into tiny little flowers.  I then die cut green leaves, a stitched rectangle which was left over too made a great flower planter!  All layered onto wood grain paper that also comes from the pads.  Die cut greeting and cat both in the brown.  I added liquid pearls to the flower centres which dried weird with a dent in the middle but after contemplation i think it looks like little seed beads so have left it.

5x7" Brown base.  Lots of papers die cut into various fishtail banners and layered up onto a beige floral pattern paper.  Again it took a while to get an order which worked for me.  Stamped greeting.

4x6" (A6) card, this one used all the left over banners from the first one.  

4x6" (A6) card, i had lots of little strips of paper left so did a little weaving, layered onto woodgrain paper.  Die cut cat as before and stamped greeting. 

And last but not least a gift tag, all the little scraps i die cut into banners, as most weren't long enough for the whole length of the die, I just die cut the tips with the fishtail end.  For the vertical strip i cut them off the front cover of the pad - not waste with any of this paper pad.  Ribbon to finish. 

This last card was made for a colour challenge with friends of using apricot, peach, anthracite and ribbon, the papers fitted perfectly instead of the brown card i used a dark pearl grey, i had matching ribbon in my stash and added loops of them along the top and bottom edges of the middle panel.  Die cut sentiment and flower. 

Items Used:

My Minds Eye 'On the Bright side' paper pad

Chocolate brown cardstock, Beige leather cardstock, grey pearl- payper box

Various Stitched dies, squares, rectangle, circle

Flower dies

Cat dies

House die

Pierced & cross stitch fist tail banner die sets

Clearly besotted fancy sentiment stamps

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all have a lovely weekend. Emma

New Home cards

Good Morning all, Saturday again.  I hope you've all had a good week.  

So today im sharing 2 new home cards i made, turns out my last uploads weren't my last curved border ones - sorry!, turns out they are popular so ive been asked to make a few of them. 

  These are slightly different as ive built a scene on the front, so not clean and simple.  Im also using the schedule function for the first time to see how it works etc, so hopefully these go live at 8am!

3.5x6" cardblanks, curved border die used to cut the front edge, i then covered the back with patterned paper.  I used curved borders for the 'grass' to build my scene, house dies which i paper pieced, sun and cloud dies.  Stamped sentiment to finish. 

Just shows how the front looks when stood up

and this is rebel Jess who decided to help me take the photos!!  Just as well the cards were going to a pet friendly home, so the odd cat hair was ok! Ah the joys of crafting with pets, who knows about that one?! 

Products used: Papers are all 'Yes Please' Amy Tangerine, American Crafts. Memory box cloud die, Clearly besotted sentiment stamp.

Thank you for looking and all your continued support. I have something rather exciting happening next week so i hope you will pop by.   Wishing you all a lovely weekend.  Emma