Autumn Leaves

Good Bank holiday Monday to you.  I hope you enjoy the day if here in the UK, looks like its going to be a sunny one.  

Today is a card made using all the little offcuts and left over die cut leaves from Charlottes birthday card.  I teamed them up with this fab autumn quote stamp which is years old and was a magazine freebie 

'Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the Autumn tree'

There are signs of Autumn about down here, a lot of the trees in the fields just beginning to turn and a different feel in the early morning air

Ive used ivory for the cardbase as white was too stark with the papers.  I die cut the off cuts of paper into panels and layered onto coffee coloured cardstock and added the base card.  I then added a strip across the middle, it wasn't long enough so i cut it in half and the middle is hidden behind my sentiment topper!

Just a close up, ive had these hessian roses for years in my stash so good to finally use them, they are lovely but very bulky.

Items Used
MFT stitched panel dies

Circle dies

Various leaf dies

Poundland paper pad - 'changing seasons'

payper box white woodgrain & brown card 

Sentiment is a magazine freebie from years ago

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you enjoy your week. Hugs Emmaxxx

Thank you

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing 2 thank you cards for the lovely birthday gifts i was given.  Using up left over snippets & die cut leaves after making my brothers 40th birthday card (will show that once he's had his birthday)  All papers from the same pad which i teamed up with dark brown cardstock.

I first made the 6x4.5" cardblank from dark brown card, then matted a cream woodgrain onto a mustard card and then the base.  I inked the edges of the paper strips with brown and played around until happy with the layout of them.  To make some longer i cut in half as knew the middle would be hidden behind my sentiment topper.

I stamped the sentiment onto cream woodgrain card and die cut into a circle, matted onto a dark brown circle. I then arranged some leaves which had inked edges and been shaped, i attached them with glue gel so that they aren't flat on the card. 

You can see the woodgrain background better in this one

Version 2 is 6x5.5" in size

Items Used:

Paper pad - carta bella 'A perfect Autumn'

Thank you stamp - magazine freebie

Tim Holtz funky foliage dies

Foliage dies

Circle dies

Payper Box - Brown, ochre & cream woodgrain cardstock

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you all have a good week.  Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2021/08/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge-410.html   - all my leaves & paper strips are snippets

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https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2021/08/shopping-our-stash-452-wood-you-believe.html  - cream woodgrain paper in the background

 

The Bird House

Good Morning everyone.  I hope you had a good weekend.

Today im sharing a card i made for my dads birthday with those fun crazy birds, i've teamed them with a stepper card and window die to create a bird house idea.

I first die cut my stepper card from black pearl cardstock and folded along the score lines. I then layered on some woodgrain patterned paper.  I took the middle panel of wood paper and die cut the window die into it, i then added acetate behind the aperture.  I added a stripey 'wallpaper' behind the window and attached to the cardbase.  I then die cut the window again from the black pearl cardstock and inlaid that over the acetate. 

I then stamped the birds onto white card and simply watercoloured with distress oxide inks, i picked colours to go with the stripey wallpaper. I then fussy cut out the two birds. I die cut various leaves from left over scraps of patterned paper and inked card.  I arrange the leaves and birds onto the bottom of the stepper.  

Just a close up on the birds.  I used oxide inks in candied apple, fozilised amber, lucky clover & salty ocean.  I added glossy accents to their eyes. 

Just showing the stepper card side on.  

Items Used:

Tim Holtz crazy bird stamps (original size)

Presscut centre stepper card die

Spellbinders window die

Various foliage dies

Bobunny paperpad 'broadwalk'

Black pearl card - payper box

Thank you all for popping by once again.  I hope by bright colourful birds brighten up the day. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2019/11/crafty-catz-484-anything-goesspots-and.html  - stripes used in my papers

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http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2019/11/524-you-say-its-your-birthday.html

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https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/11/wwc248-kaths-masculine-anything-goes.html

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https://addicted-to-stamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2019/11/challenge-179.html

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70th Birthday shutter card

Morning everyone.

Today im sharing a card my mum asked for for her friends 70th birthday, i decided to make a shutter card and teamed a splash of orange flowers with chocolate glitter card and chocolate mirri card, very Autumnal tones......I guess i also have a chocolate orange theme going on😋 

From a piece of A4 white card i die cut the tattered lace shutter card die and folded along the score lines.  I then cut the smaller layers from chocolate brown mirri card and then small again from a pretty floral paper and then glued them all to the base.

I then die cut lots of foliage and flowers from orange  inked card, brown glitter card, gold mirri card and various papers. I then arranged them on the base. Gold tone gems to finish the flowers off. 

Showing from the right side, i computer printed the sentiment and die cut the number 70 from chocolate mirri card and added to the small sections.

Showing it opened out completely

Close up on my flowers. The orange ones were cut from card i inked with Oxide inks in Fozzilised Amber, Candied Apple, Spiced Marmelade

Items Used:

Tattered Lace shutter die set

Sizzix flower dies

Tim Holtz funky flower dies

Crafters companion foliage dies

Memory box number dies

Floral Patterned Paper

Jellybean glitter card

Chocolate & Gold Mirri card

Thank you all for stopping by once again, i can't believe how fast the weeks fly by.  Ive had my head down Christmas card making.  I hope you all have a good week whatever you get upto. Emmax

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Id love to enter the following challenges:

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/11/challenge-409-no-rectangle-or-square.html

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http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-bit-more-time-to-craft-challenge-103.html

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https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/ltccb-40-november-anything-goes.html

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http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.com/2019/11/challenge-161-fall-everything.html

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https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2019/10/colours-of-autumn-at-tiots.html

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Happy Fathers Day

Good Morning everyone, thank you so much for all your amazing comments on my seahorse creation. 

Today Im sharing the card Ive made for my dad for Father's day, I've used the sizzix slider die again and gone with a farming theme.  

This first photo shows the slider panel closed.

6x6 White cardbase.  Ive used beautiful papers in blues & greens from B&M.  I first die cut the sections of the slider mechanism from my chosen papers, these B&M papers are ideal for this as a good weight but also light enough to fold easily.  I stamped my greeting on the panel that is revealed when you pull the slider part back.  I added an eyelet in the hole and added some green paper raffia to make it easier to pull the slider up. 

I cut a panel of the green leaf paper and layered onto a large piece of the blue paper and attached to the card front. I then attached the slider to the card front with foam tape. I attached the bull & cow chipboard after painting it black to the front part of the slider. 

From a scrap of yellowy inked card i die cut some flowers and die cut leaves from the green and blue papers. I then arranged these around my slider panel. I added some pale green enamel drops to the flower centres to finish. 

This photo shows the slider panel open to my (wonky) stamped greeting, i used 2 different sentiment stamps.

This photo shows the card laid down and the slider open so that the cattle are then stood up and sort of looks like they are in a field.  My yellow flowers could be buttercup's, celandine's, or primroses, alot of my dads fields are meadows so full of lots of flora & fauna.

Items Used:

Sizzix tropicool slider die set 662783

Tim Holtz funky foliage 663087

Cow&Bull fence chipboard

B&M Papers 12x12 'Seas the Day' & 'Botanical Bloom'

Justrite & clearly besotted sentiment stamps

Oxide inks twisted citron, lemonade & pistachio

You can see my first card made with the slider set here for more details

Thank you all for stopping by. Emma

Id love to enter the following:

http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/06/challenge-193-youre-man.html

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http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2019/06/ch-424-masculine-or-fathers-day.html

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https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2019/06/its-mans-world-at-tiots.html

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http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/06/challenge-44-for-menboys.html

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http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/06/challenge-114.html

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