Little surprises....

I've had a lovely weekend away, relaxing instead of working 😊 

My good friend Julie Clark ran my crafty Saturday with the help of my eldest daughter Robyn....as it all ran nice and smoothly I'll certainly let do it again. 

Today I had to go into work (thought normally closed on Mondays) to pack up some orders. 

The girls had cleaned up, and all was nice and tidy. Robyn had also been playing with my gilding polishes, she liked the new technique we can up with for creating a mixed background....so here's my card I completed using her background. 

 

I really love this set of dies, and you know it's one set I've not taken note of the name....oops

Here's the background and colours used in polish.

   

The sponge used is like a natural sponge, bought for all of 39p from home bargains (£1+ in other shops) and it's just been cut up into small chunks. 

Dip the sponge into your polish but don't add too much, dad your sponge around the page and mix with your chosen colours. (Can be done with paints and ink also) 

I cut out 4 borders & 4 corners with the backgrounds in white, layered them up on my card. 

 

For my center I used the matching background die, cut out the largest one, cut this in half then glued together to create something near a square 😕 

  

I layered up with a pierced square firstly in white, then changed my mind and used it in the coloured card. Added some pretty ribbon and large stamped tag...

 

 Hope you like my card, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me... 

 

My bonny wee card.....

As promised, my card on a Scottish theme...

I was gutted to find the Ross papercraft show at Meadowhall Edinburgh had to be cancelled.

I'd already bought lots of new craft stash I thought out craft Scottish friends would like...I.e embossed thistle & tartan card,  tartan card which is popular for Christmas too...lots of new Sue Wilson dies. 

But your all more than welcome to come visit my wee shop in Darlington for slice of yummy cake & cup of coffee while you have browse through the stock or even a bit of demonstrations on pixie powders & gilding polish....

For now, back to my card. 

 

My friend Julie was working with me yesterday, and was amazed how I worked...

I pick my card theme, browsed through my dies.....decided yes they work together and let it all fall into place as I went along. 

I started off by cutting out the Belgian collection Background die by Sue Wilson (no surprise there eh? 😜) and trimmed to the edge and layered onto my tartan card. 

I then cut out 4 of ravello striplet. 

  

I attached a strip at either side of the tartan card and then cut up 2 of my striplets so to have the centres left over and attached them in between the ends as below.....

  

I trimmed the edges of the centre pieces, and stamped a little verse from Johnathon Lockwood's Autumn wreath stamps...layered it in to my tartan card and the add a piece of the die cut on either side..

 

I layered my full card on to tartan and white card, added a couple of bows in red and a green ribbon. The little pearl gem, I found in the local £1 shop for 8or 10, they are a brad but I bent the legs and snapped them off. I finished the card with pearly gems....

Hope to visit you all in Scotland soon.....xx

Decisions decisions......

Today I made a card with my Scottish friends in mind due to the Ross Papercraft show having to be cancelled. 😪 

Only then, the new releases from Sue Wilson arrived....so I had to make a card with them too....so which should I show today? 

Such decisions are so hard to make 🤔 

As promised, it's not Christmas.....I hope you all like butterflies.

 

I've used the double pierced square frames for my mat and layering, and they fit perfectly around the butterfly frame, the centre and single butterfly are all part of the same set of dies. I've also used the flower cluster die.

My colours white, wisteria and a dark purple ribbon. I stamped with my silver encore ink, using the Johnathon Lockwood's Autumn stamps. 

The pearls I've used, are the creative expressions double row, but I've cut them down the middle to twice the amount. 

 

So tomorrow I'll post my Scottish themed card....and it's a birthday card too 

Autumn rainbow....

I managed to get my card made nice and early in the day, but then the evening has just vanished....

Today's card is made using Johnathon Lockwood's Autumn stamps, it's a beautiful set of stamps with lovely litter verses on.

 

To start my card I cut out a square using the pierced square dues from Sue wilson, the gold is in the largest from set A and white is largest from set B.

I've inked the edge with vintage photo distress ink, and stamped and embossed the corners in gold. 

I'm sorry but never took note of the layered squares in the centre but if you measure the die against your card you'll be able to find the one that suits best. 

On the white i stamped and embossed with the falling leaves background stamp. Again from Johnathon Lockwood range. 

I then sprinkled the mango, peacock green and candy pink pixie powders, I only spritzed lightly to activate the powders, not to soak my card. 

   

To colour my stamped corners, I puffed a bit of powder onto my craft mat and used a water brush to colour were I wanted it. I'm not a huge colouring person but I find working with these powders helps to do more stamping as I'm not worried of the after work. 

I mat and layered my layers....

 

Stamped my chosen little verse, which suited my card perfectly and used the pierced tags, used a teal ribbon and a glass heart to finish the card completely.....I do hope you'll give the powders a try, I'm certain you'll love them just like me 😘