Floral shutter cards

Good Morning all.  

Sorry I missed Saturdays upload, was down with a major migraine and then we lost electricity so made for a weekend best spent under the covers😞

So today im sharing 3 shutter cards ive made, all flower power as its always one of my favourite to make.   I was sent the shutter card blanks from a good friend and the mats, so the fun was finding stuff in my own stash to go with them. 

Navy card blank, beautiful navy and blue pattern paper from poundland, matted onto kraft card.  I found the peach/salmon paper in my stash which seemed to go well and brighten up the colour.  Die cut with Sue Wilson cornflower dies, i inked the edges, glued together and once dry fluffed up the petals to add dimension.  Tattered lace fern cut in pale blue card. Gem centres to finish.

close up of the flowers

So for this one, grey cardblank and the lovely grey/orange/turquoise check paper came with them, flowers die cut from various matching paper and white card, sizzix dies, little butterflies, grey pearl card used for the foliage.

Close up

Get well shutter.  So for this one the purple card was in the box and i found the pink pattern paper in my stash which matched well and toned in, matted onto white to break up the colour.  Flowers cut in white and inked with blue, blue pearl centres. Butterflies.  Foliage cut in mint green which matches the background of the paper. 

Close up. 

Items used:  Sue Wilson Cornflower die, Tattered lace Fern die, Memory box cross stitch rectangles, Sizzix flowers 658602, spellbinders romantic vines, sizzix butterflies 659971

Thank you for looking and popping by.  I hope you all have a good week. Emma 

Golden Violets

Good Morning all

wow thank you for all your support on monday.

Today im sharing these little violet cards on a gold starlights background.

A friend sent me a pot of imaginations crafts starlight paint, the shimmer is amazing. 

 I stenciled it through a brick stencil.  My violets are coloured with brushos, glitter glue centre.  Distressed embossing folder, stamped sentiment.  Not great photos as its actually mounted on purple paper.  5x5 cardblanks.  

similar but different, used brick embossing folder on this one too

Trying to show the shimmer of the starlights

Items used:  Violet unknown die,

 Imaginations crafts starlight 'rich gold', 

crafters companion distressed and brick embossing folders

Brushos & stickles

Stitched square dies

Crafts away 'brick' mask

Thank you for popping by, i hope that the forecast storm doesn't hit you too bad.  Emma x

Make My Monday Challenge #40 - Love Birds

Good Morning all, and welcome to another week. 

 Today is rather exciting for me as im sharing my first design team creation for

 Make My Monday challenge blog.  

The theme this time is BIRDS so if you fancy joining in pop over click here! for more details and to see the other team member gorgeous projects. 

Ive been itching to use the crazy bird stamps i got for Christmas, so when i saw it was birds i knew what i wanted to do.  I had earlier found these feathers in the back of my craftdrobe so thought they would add the perfect touch.  So my love birds were started.

A5 card size.  First i stamped the birds using blue ink and simply coloured with blue and yellow inks, glossy accents on the eyes.  I then glued on blue and yellow feathers for the tails and wings.  I added the yellow to break up the colour.  For the background, I first die cut a heart to use as a stencil (see below), i then stamped the woodgrain through the heart onto my background using the same blue ink. Gently edged the heart with the yellow ink.  I then stamped the grunge stamps across the panel in blue, just to add interest.  Edged with yellow ink.  Mounted onto navy cardstock to frame and white base card. 

Showing close up detail, the birds are very dimensional and the background completely flat.  The 'love' came from a 'with love' stamp, i just inked up the love part, then die cut into a small heart and covered with glossy accents. 

This is showing the stencil i made and stamped through.  You can easily use any shape you fancy.

Thank you Caz and all at Make My Monday for inviting me to join the team.  I look forward to the 

challenge. 

Products used:  Tim Holtz 'crazy birds' stamps CMS212

Stampin up 'Hardwood' stamp 

Stampin up 'Gorgeous grunge' stamps

Tim Holtz distress inks, tumbled glass, salty ocean, chipped sapphire, dried marigold & squeezed lemonade

Archival ink - colbalt blue

Thank you all for popping by to take a peek.  Wishing you all a lovely week.  Emma 

if you like feathers you might like

cockeral and feathers card

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 

Set of cards

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

So today im sharing a set of cards i was asked to make after they saw one i had made similar.  A set of 12 cards suitable for different occasions.  

set of 12

Yep sorry its those curved border dies again, last batch i promise!  These 2 use memory box hotair balloon die and cloud dies, ive cut one balloon aperture into the card front and then added two balloons to the front cut in the same paper i backed the card with.  Card size is 3.5x6"

Sizzix butterfly die, justrite sentiment stamps

Joy crafts feather die, after cutting the feather aperture into the front i then used that feather and glued it on the back to show when the card is closed.

Leaf die, 

Memory box Icelandic poppy die, glitter glue dots to embellish

xcut umbrella die, i edge the die with glitter glue. 

link to similar design

Thank you for looking.  Enjoy your day. Emma 

Surf's Up Painting

Good Morning all, Monday again and another week.  As its half term im spending the day with my little nieces, so that will be both wonderful and hectic! 

So today im sharing one of my paintings.  

Painted in soft pastels, 16x20" finished size

Thank you for looking

I hope you all have a good week and keep warm. Emma 

HB2U robot boys birthday card

Good Morning all, another week gone, where do they go so fast? A few snow flurries down here, but don't expect we will have much, hopefully you don't either, stay warm.

So today im sharing the second card ive made with my robot dies, its for a young teenage boy, so i used text speech for the happy birthday to you, plus it fitted on the card better! 

5x5 grey pearl cardblank, i then embossed the white card with a cog design.  I built the robot from grey pearl, blue, gold & red mirror card from my bit box.  White & grey circle frames offset, 3 blue eyelets set into the frame. Cogs then cut from the same colours of mirror card.

Close up, the blue mirror on the robot is mottled, not sure why but think it kind of gives a distressed look, after all this is one hard working robot! 😊

Just showing the mirror card better.

While  i was making this and the last robot card i kept thinking i could do with some 'nuts & bolts' dies, often thought that in the past when making male cards too, have you seen any in your crafty travels or do you think you would love to have some nuts and bolts dies?, as a friend asked Robert Addams if he would consider making some, if enough of us ask him then possibly he would.  So if you think you would use them then dropping him a line would be great. Link to his website below

http://www.papercrafts.co.uk/

Thank you for looking and all your comments last week.  I hope you all have a good weekend and keep warm.  Hugs Emma