Happy Birthday to ewe

Good Morning everyone

I was asked to make a 70th birthday card for a lady which wasn't girly with flowers, she shows prize sheep and likes patchworking so that got my little grey cells whirling!  I dug out my Katzelkraft sheep stamp and crealies patchwork die set.  I knew i wanted to give the sheep fancy jumpers so i found the paper in my stash for that first and then went looking for something to match in colour for the background and found this ideal green paper with small pink flowers which is ideal to give the impression of a summer meadow

Approx size 6x6".  I first stamped the sheep 4 times onto white pearl cardstock and 4 times onto the patterned paper, i cut cut the body part out of the paper and pieced onto the white version.   

I die cut the largest die in the patchwork set from folded white pearl cardstock to form my cardbase and then the patchwork layer dies from the patterned paper and adhered onto the base.  I die cut a large circle from white vellum which i adhered to the bottom left with a dab of glue in the middle which would be hidden by the sheep.

I gently shaped the sheep and added with glue gel for dimension. 

Computer printed sentiments onto more of the white pearl cardstock and die cut into speech bubble and adhered with glue gel.

Im not sure these sheep would win gold cup prizes in shows but they might win a prize for most colourful sheep

and the insert.  I had another sheet of the 6x6" paper i used for their jumpers so die cut to fit inside, added a die cut white pearl and then another sheep. 

Items Used:

Katzelkraft stamp set ' farm animals'

Crealies patchwork die set

Memory box stitched octogen die

Stitched circle die

Speech bubble dies

Patterned paper

Vellum

White pearl cardstock

Thank you all for stopping by.  Emmax

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Have a Merry Christmas

Good Morning everyone

Today is another batch of patchwork style cards.  These paper off cuts were hiding in the bottom of my Christmas box from many years ago so it was definitely time to use them up!  They were only narrow strips so i die cut them into small 1.5" hexagons to start with.

6x6" Kraft card base. After die cutting all the hexagons i inked the edges with vintage photo distress ink and got arranging them onto a die cut a stitched square of kraft card smaller than my base and cut off any over hang of the edges.   I mounted the panel onto the base with foam tape for a bit of dimension - using 1mm foam they will still go as a small postage stamp here in the UK.

I die cut my sentiment from ivory cardstock as it matched the tone in the paper better than white and mounted it onto a die cut kraft card shape and added to the base.  I added a few glitter highlights to finish. 

Version 2, the same but different

I managed to make 8 cards so not bad from scraps😃   Im not sure what brand the paper pad was as last its cover eons ago

Items Used:

Christmas papers

Stitched hexagon dies

Stitched square die

Sizzix framelits die 658204

Tonic sentiment die

Kraft card

Vintage photo distress ink

Diamond stickles glitter glue

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope its a good week for you.  Its definitely turned cooler and much more seasonable. Emmax

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Christmas patchwork

Good Morning everyone

After making my previous batch of exploding insert Christmas cards i had a lot of 1&2" strips of paper left over.  I dug out my old crealies patchwork set and die cut all the paper pieces - my baby blue was ideal for all these small pieces.

6x6 white base card.  After die cutting all the papers with the patchwork layer dies i inked all the edges with vintage photo distress ink.  I cut the largest octogen die from the set from gold satin cardstock and used a purl embossing folder on it, i then added the panel to my 6x6 base card and used my guillotine to cut off the corners to turn it into an octogen. 

I added foam tape to the back of the patchwork pieces and then got arranging them.  I die cut the sentiment circle from white card and a circular frame for it from the gold satin card.  I fussy cut some holly from another paper and added glossy accents to the berries & touches of glitter glue to finish.

I managed to make 12 cards from the offcuts.  The bottom right one in the photo using a tonic sentiment die as i made a mess that needed hiding😁

Items Used:

Crealies octogen patchwork dies (very old set)

MFT circle sentiment die

Tonic winter wishes die

Crafters companion embossing folder 'purl'

The works 12x12 paper pads - classic christmas party, the best time of the year, traditional christmas & woodland christmas 

Gold satin card

6x6" craftUK ltd white card blanks

Ranger glossy accents

Ranger stickles 'diamond'

Thank you all for stopping by.  If you celebrate halloween then i hope you enjoy your day and I hope you all have a good week.  Hugs Emmaxx

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