Creative Artiste August - Lemon Wreath

Good Morning everyone

Time for a new challenge over at Creative Artiste where the theme is always anything mixed media goes - use at least 3 different mediums

Something fun and summery from me today.  Ive made a little lemon wreath to add to the front door.

Approx size 8x8"   I cut my wreath base from cardboard box card and then wrapped with garden twine.

I then stamped all the images and watercoloured with derwent inktense pencils adding touches of shimmer with cosmic shimmer pixie powders which i used as a paint by adding a little water.  Once dry I cut out and sealed with glossy mod podge and then added touches of stickles glitter glue to the flowers and glossy accents to the lemon gals eye.

I arranged the lemons and foliage mostly to the bottom right of the wreath, adhering to the twine with pinflair glue gel.  I decided it needed something to help the girl stand out a bit so I made a kind of rosette from twine which I added behind her which also helps break up all the yellow and add more texture....its a fabulous tactile medium to use too.

To finish I added a twine bow to the top.

For the lemons and foliage it is actually only one stamp which ive cut up and used at different angles to build it up from a stamp set my studio light but it goes perfectly with the lemon girl stamp from aall&create

The start of my wreath, first cut a circular frame from corrugated card - cutting the inside out with craft knift wasn't very neat or even but once i wrapped the garden twine around it and i used the thicker part behind my elements so no one would know and it added a little rustic charm😊

How i made my little rosette behind lemon girl - first wrapped twine around my fingers multiple times and then tied in the middle, i then fanned it out, once i added the girl with pinfliar glue gel that helped hold it in shape.

Items Used:

Aall&create stamps #1021 'lemon'

Studio light stamps #SL-ES-STAMP427 'lemon sqeezy'

Derwent Inktense pencils

Cosmic shimmer pixie powder 'mango'

Ranger Glossy accents

Ranger Stickles 'crystal'

Garden twine

Do hop over to Creative Artiste Mixed Media to see what the rest of the DT have created this month and to join in - any project but with at least 3 different mediums 

Thank you all for stopping by.  This is my first post of 2 today as have a GDT post coming a little bit later this morning....its like buses, i don't post anything for days and now 2 in one day! lol   Im having issues with my eyes so not getting much crafting in, but im on the urgent 6wk list for laser treatment so hopefully my eyes will soon be back to their usual level if not better...better would be great but I will be happy with them being as they were😊   What with that and them still messing about with my MS treatment I think I have a seat reserved at hospital at the moment......at least I have a good distraction over the holidays spending time with my nieces.

 I hope you all have a great weekend.  Happy Crafting Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2025/07/sos553-eat-five-day.html

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https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free.html

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/summer-season-august-2025.html

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https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/07/ellibelles-garden-party-no-5-anything.html

 

Meowy Christmas

Good Morning everyone

Today is time for a fun Christmas card using these fun cat stamps from aall&create, i decided to use an old wreath die set from Tonic studios with them.

7x7" card base.  I first made my background by stamping onto white card with soft tone distress inks and Christmas and winter themed word stamps, using multiple generations of stamping until no ink left on the stamp.  I then embossed this panel with a 'knitted' effect embossing folder - picking up on the idea that the cats are wearing jumpers - hard to make out the embossing in the photo but it is there!

I cut matt gold card slightly smaller than the card front and then from the middle of it die cut the wreath die - this I could then use for the card front and make the gold card go further as i knew it would be hidden behind my background.  I cut the wreath die again from card i had previously inked with green brushos and pixie powders - i off set the gold and green wreaths and adhered to the card front with glue gel. 

I stamped the cats, simply coloured with alcohol markers and cut out. I added glossy accents to their noses, frosted lace glitter onto the hot chocolate cream and diamond stickles onto the fairy lights.  To finish i added stickles to the berries on the wreath - on this version I used 'cosmic' which is a purple base with pink tones in the glitter which matched the colours id used to colour their jumpers.

Version 2 - different colours and i used red stickles on the berries and this one has 2 of the hot cocoa cats rather than the 2 fairy light cats on the first card and on this one i added 2 die cut bows to the top of the wreath.

I really don't fancy putting a jumper on any of my cats - I think serious injury would occur.....to me😀 

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Version 3 -  A5 size -  I used copper satin cardstock for my base card, the wreath base layer and to mat behind the sentiment alpha's.  I die cut individual alphas to spell 'meowy christmas' for a fun pun

You can see the copper satin better here, when the light hits it, it really does shine

and version 4 - more mossy green tones here

Items Used:

aall&create stamps #740 'light it up' & 'Seaons'

Clearly besotted stamps 'seasonal sentiments'

Tonic studios die - the four seasons loving winter

Alpha tile dies

crafters companion 8x8 embossing folder 'purl'

Brushos

Cosmic shimmer Pixie powders

alcohol markers

Ranger Stickles - frosted lace, diamond, cosmic & Christmas red

Gold & Copper satin cardstock

CraftUk ltd smooth white card

Thank you for stopping by once again and all your previous comments which i always appreciate.  I hope you are keeping warm in this cold snap - although down here its just been torrential rain so no snow......until this morning, opened the curtains to white out😁  Big hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the first card in the following:

https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2024/11/challenge-89.html

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2024/11/challenge-92-anything-goes-with.html

https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/11/mlccb-59-anything-christmas-goes-mlccb.html

https://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2024/11/challenge-116-midway-anything-goes.html

https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-lets-warm-it-up.html

https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/11/challenge-261-anything-goes-woptional.html

 

Mini Autumn wreath

Good Morning everyone

Half way through October so time for some more inspiration over at We Love Stamping where the optional theme is Autumn but you can always enter with anything goes as long as some stamping involved. 

I decided to make a little autumn wreath with this fab fun stamp set i got for my birthday called 'squeaky friends' from aall&create.  Ive coloured them as our native red squirrels  but i think the shape isn't quite right for them but gone with a bit artistic license! 

I used a 10cm metal hoop and wrapped with natural garden twine and adhered a dried twig from the garden to the bottom.

I stamped the squirrels and acorns and watercoloured with inktense pencils and cut out and got arranging.   I covered the squirrels and leaves with mod podge to seal and protect them, this also makes them a bit stiffer and more robust for a home decor display piece.  The acorns i covered with glossy accents to give them a more realistic finish.

Trying to get a decent photo was impossible, in real life they do stand out more from the background😁

This is the back, as well as adding leaves to the front and added them to the back of the hoop to give a feeling of depth but also hide all the glue and give a neater finish.

I took a 10cm metal ring and covered with garden twine and added a hanging loop with the twine too. I then took a twig and adhered to the bottom with glue gel before i started adding the characters and leaves. 

I have die cut all these leaves over the years from left over scraps which are ideal when i just want a few.  I also have a bag of green leaves for spring/summer projects.  

These are the lovely prizes to be won so do hop over to join in at We Love Stamping

Items Used:

aall&create stamp set #290 'squeaky friends'

Spellbinders little leaves die set

Sizzix & Tim holtz leaf dies

Derwent inktense pencils

Brusho powders

Cosmic shimmer pixie powders

10cm metal hoop

Thank you all for stopping by, I hope you have a good weekend. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-479.html

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https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2024/10/double-triple-die-cut-fun.html - all my leaves are die cut

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https://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.com/2024/10/462.html

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https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/inspiration-station-october-2024.html - inspired by the colours, leaves & nuts

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-2024-anything-goes-fall.html

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Easter Chicks

Good Morning everyone

Today is a fun spring chicken wreath design, i had these left over aall&create chickens and then the idea came to me for an Easter wreath so i went with it.  Digging out another very old paper pad in my stash busting mission.

7x7" white base card.  I used one of the papers from the pad which had splashes of red, blue & yellow in it to pick up on the colours in my chickens and the woodgrain gives the effect of a chicken house.  I inked the edges in walnut stain distress ink.  I added little stripes behind it to look like its one long piece but actually i only had small offcuts left over. 

From one of the yellow papers in the pad i die cut pine leaves to give the effect of straw which the chickens bed on. I die cut a circular frame from a pale paper and glued to the middle of my paper - this was to act as a guide/base for my wreath to keep it round.  I then just got gluing the branches into place, overlapping them as i went. 

I then arranged my chickens - these has previously been stamped on white, watercoloured and cut out.  Glossy accents on the eyes.  I gently added a little shape to the bodies and attached with pinflair glue gel.  I then added some gems in the same colour tones, in groups of 3.....i thought they looked a bit like eggs in a nest

Die cut sentiment to finish.

A close up of my chickens

Items Used:

aall&create stamps 'chicken dance'

paper pad My minds eye - miss caroline 'dilly dally' 

Cheerylynn pine branch & easter joy dies

Watercolour markers

Distress ink - walnut stain

Gems

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

Id love to enter the following:

https://dayofthemonthcardclub.blogspot.com/2022/03/37-poultry-day-3rd-blog-birthday.html

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https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/2022/03/march-challenge.html

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Christmas Wreaths

Good Morning Everyone

Today is a batch of Christmas cards.  These are actually the ones that i made and then had all the off cuts of white pearl card that i used on my previous uploads using scraps!  I got this fab tonic wreath die in a sale on craftstash, its been ideal for using up lots of my backgrounds and fairly quick flat cards as it cut first time 

6x6 cardbase made from white pearl cardstock.  I then die cut the wreath from more white pearl and the mat layer from a background id made using blue alcohol inks of holographic mirror card, after gluing the 2 layers together and also die cutting the sentiment that came from the set.  I cut a panel of white pearl slightly smaller than the front and used a snowfall embossing folder on it, i added to the base card with 2 small snippets of the blue background to add top and bottom edges - a good cheat if not enough to do a full mat layer and use up little offcuts😀   Silver glitter glue added to the berries to finish

Version 2 using the same blue alcohol inks on silver holographic mirror card, you can just make out that the holographic effect still shimmers through.  This time as i used the blue for the wreath i first cut the blue card to do  a mat layer to fit my base card and then die cut the wreath from the middle of it as it would be hidden by the embossed panel so makes the card go further.  

Version 3 is cosmic shimmer pixie powders on black cardstock - it really shimmers when the light hits it

Version 4 is a brusho background

Version 5 is green alcohol inks of gold mirror card - like i say this was a good design for raiding my large drawer of backgrounds ive made over the years. So i managed to make 25 versions

Items Used:
Tonic Studios die - the four seasons loving winter 

8x8 Snow embossing folder

Tim holtz alcohol inks

Cosmic shimmer pixie powders

Brusho's

Ranger stickles

White pearl cardstock

Mirror card

Thank you for popping by once again and waving hello to all my email subscribers.  I hope you enjoy the end of the week and then weekend.  Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter my first card in the following:

https://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.com/2021/11/november-challenge-something-that.html  - W is for Wreath

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http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/11/november-challenge-christmaswinter.html

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http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/11/challenge-71-christmaswinter.html

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