Good Luck and my first ever tag

Hi Everyone hope you have all had a good start to the week?

This fortnight's challenge over at Crafty Boots Challenge is Good Luck set by the lovely Sara 

Here is my take on it 

This is the first ever tag I have made and quite different in style to my usual girly cards covered in flowers lol,  but I'm quited please with how it turned out, I also have to say a big thanks to Stephanie-Emma  for cutting the tags out for me so I could try making then.  Thanks hun it was really kind of you :) 

To start with I covered my tag in news paper and then inked over it with my new old paper distress stain and edged the tag with vintage photo distress ink and some faux stitching which doesn't show up so well in the photo , I stamped the image which is from Creative Expressions on to newspaper stuck on card with the same ink and riped the edgeds to give it a distressed feel and again edged with the same ink to finish it off.

The wooden letters came from Cuddly Buddly  which I covered in old paper distress stain and over stamped in vintage photo distress ink, the buttons also came from here.

I hope you can pop across to check out the fab projects by the rest of the design team and also join us in the challenge.

Hope everyone has a fab week :)

Love

Faye x 

Tag using Favorite Tool

Hi all

I have just started to makes tags so though I would share tonight's effort with you.

I covered my base tag with a sheet of First Editions Summer Breeze. I think are my fav papers ever!!  I then inked around the edge with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I have used a Lili of the Valley stamp (Dainty Dancing) and coloured her in with Spectrum Noirs, I am loving these pens and finally feel I am getting the results I want :) I cut her out using nesties on my beloved big shot and again inked around the edges with the same distress ink and matted on to brown card cut again from a nestie.

The sentiment stamp is all so from Lili of the valley stamped in the same ink to match with the rest of the tag and cut out with nesties.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the ribbon from the Ribbon Girl and the pearls and button are from my stash.

I would like to enter this tag into Lili's Little Fairies Challenge  - Favourite Craft Tool

Hope you all have a fab Sunday!

Faye

xx

Sunshine Yellow

Hi All

I have been very naughty and neglected my blog for far to long, but I'm back today with my card for this fortnights Crafty Boots Challenge.

It was my turn to choose the theme for this challenge and I chose the colour yellow.  Hope you can pop across and join in and also check out the fab projects from the rest of the Design Team.

To make my card I cut and folded a 14.5cm square white card blank and used  a Tilda stamp coloured in with Spectrum Noir pens.  The papers I used are some Papermaina pastel ones which I've had in my stash for ages and matted them on to coordinated yellow card stock out of my stash. The sentiment stamp is from Lili of the Valley and the buttons and ribbon is also from my stash.

I would like to enter this card in to the Just Magnolia Buttons and Bows challenge.

Thanks for looking and hope you have a great week.

Faye

x

An Award

Hi All

Hope you are all well?

I was very surprised  but also really pleased on Saturday to have been given the  award from Helen over http://beeskneescrafts.blogspot.com/.  Helen and I have been tweeting for a while now and have become very good friends.  I was also very lucky to meet Helen in person at the NEC.  Helen makes some fab cards so please pop over and visit her blog.  I would like to say a big thank you to Helen for giving me this award.

The idea of the Liebster Blog Award is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs. This helps to spread knowledge and readership.

"Liebster" in German means "dearest", so as part of the Liebster award tradition, I am going to pass this award to 5 blogs that I value, and that have both inspired and motivated me.

To accept the award, you must:

1) Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you.
2) Post the award to your blog.
3) Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.
4) Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know.

Here are the 5 blogs I have chosen

1) Emma over at http://emzycards.blogspot.com/ who makes fabby cards.  Emma's colouring is wonderful and one day I hope to be able to colour as good as her. So please pop over and take a look at her lovely blog.

2) Dee over at http://deescraftroom.blogspot.com/ who also makes lovely cards but I don't think she realises how lovely her cards are.  Please pop over to her blog and say hi!

3) Denise over at http://craftydaffy.blogspot.com/ is another fab card maker so please pop over to her blog and take a look. 

4) Gabrielle over at http://gabrielle-price.blogspot.com/ who makes lots of lovely wall hanging and tags, she also has a fabby crafty studio which I would love to spend the day in. You must pop over to her blog and take a look at all the fab things she makes. 

5) Nessa over at http://wwwcrafty-nessa.blogspot.com/ who is another fab card maker and loves spellbinders as much as me.  Please pop by her blog and say Hello.

I will be back tomorrow with this fortnights Crafty Boots Challenge card as all the pics are on the big puter and not the laptop.

Faye

x



New Beginnings

Hi All

This week over at Crafty Boots the challenge is all about new beginnings.  I was originally going to make a new baby card but when I was looking through my stash I came across some pre coloured Lili of the Valley die cut images and one was of a bride and groom so I decided to do a wedding cards instead. So here it is

I made and easel card using white pearl card, the papers are Die Cuts With a View The Luxury Stack, die cut images from Lili of the Valley and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I also used spun sugar distress ink and silver embossing powder for my greeting and spellbinders to cut out all my matts and layers.

Thanks for looking and hope you can join in with us over at Crafty Boots

Faye

x

Happy New Year

Hi All

I have been a very bad blogger and not posted anything for ages so thought I would take this chance to wish you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2012.

I don't really make resolutions but I have been thinking over the Christmas holidays of crafty things I would like to achieve in 2012 so here goes:

I would like to learn how to brayer properly
I also want to improve my colouring techniques
I'm going to use up some of my stash and scraps instead of buying lots of new things
I'm going to use my alcohol inks
I'm going to try and blog more
And finally I'm going to try and keep my craft room more tidy (not sure this will happen though lol)

I would love to know what your crafty resolutions are for 2012.

And on a none crafty note I'm hoping my OH finally gives in and lets us have another dog to keep Annabelle company but won't hold my breath :)

Happy crafting for 2012

Love
Faye

xx

Crafty Boots Blog Hop

Hi All

I would like to thank everyone who joined in on our blog hop over at Crafty Boots and to say a big thank you for all the lovely comments on my blog.   I also am delighted to be able to announce that the lucky crafter who has been randomly selected to win some crafty goodies is ....

dj1952

Please email Stephanie - Emma at stephanie-emma@craftyboots.co.uk to claim your crafty goodies

  

Congratulations :) I hope you enjoy your prize.

I will be back later with my card for the next challenge so please pop back.

Faye

xx