Good News

Just a quick post from me today with some good news.

I  have been invited to be part of the new Crafty Boots Design team.  This is really exciting for me as I have never done anything like this before, but I am really looking forward to it even if I am a little nervous.

Stephanie-Emma has chosen a fab team who are all really talented and I feel honored to be apart of it.

Our first challenges launches on the 5th of September so hope you can all join in.

Faye x

Hubby's Birthday Card

It was my Hubby's birthday yesterday so I made this card for him.

I used an 8 x 8 inch white card blank.  Took a smaller peice of card and cut into 4 squares and coloured with Faded Jeans Distress Ink and used a small parcel stamp to create the background.  I stamped the little boy image from Lili of the Valley in stone gray StazOn ink and coloured him in with water colour pencils and cut out using Grand Nesties circle dies and distressed around the edge with the same ink used on the background.  I then cut a white scalloped matt out to put the picture onto.  I cut out some small oval Nesties to added my peel off greetings onto.

More Tent Cards

Really enjoying making this style of card.

These cards were both made from Grand Labels One Nesties die for the cad base.

The Snowman card was made using white card coloured all over with Frayed Burlap Distress ink.  I used some white card and stamped all over it using a snowflake stamp using the same ink and cut out to use as backing paper and cut a frame and inked with the same ink and used gold glitter glue which you can't really see on the picture.  The white ribbon is from my stash.  The Snowman was stamped in Frayed Burlap cut out with oval Nesties and matted on to a scalloped oval die coloured with the same ink.  I cut smaller oval dies to stick my peel off greeting on to.

The red card is made using red textured card from my stash and a red and white paper from Polka Doddles Jingle Jangle CD, the frame was cut using the same textured red card and Cosmic Shimmer pearl PVA used around the edge.  The image is another die cut from Lili of the Valley using square Nesties and matted on to scalloped square Nesties. I used the smaller ovals again for my peel off greeting.  The white ribbon is from my stash

Tent Card

When looking through some blogs I came across a tent style card and thought I would try making one.  This was my first attempt, it took me quite a while to make but I'm glad I preserved as I was quite please with the outcome.

I used white pearlescent card and cut 2 scalloped circles using Grand Nesties and folded a piece of card to use as the tent bottom which is attached to inside of the card.

I cut two circles (again using Grand Nesties) of blue spotted paper from Polka Doodles Jingle Jangles Christmas CD and a piece of blue card from my stash to make the centre frame and added Cosmic Shimmer specialist pearl PVA around the edge.

For the picture I used a Reindeer image from the same CD and matted onto white pearl card cut with a smaller scalloped die. I used white organza ribbon to hang the image in the middle.

Cute Tilda Card

I think this Tilda stamp has to be one of my favorites I use her all the time.

After watching Nikky Hall from Polka Doodles demo a sepia tone picture using ProMarkers it gave me the inspiration to try it myself.

I cut and folded a 6 inch white card blank.  Took a smaller piece of white card and used the Polka Dots That Special Touch mask to make the back ground using Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I then cut and measured three panels, used Craft Concepts Cottage Floral embossing folder and again coloured with Walnut Stain Distress Ink going over it a couple of times to make it slightly darker and matted onto white card.

I stamped and coloured the Tilda stamp (sorry I can't remember what colours I used, will try and remember to make a note for the future) and cut her out using oval Nesties and distressed around the edges using the same ink as before and matted it on to a white scalloped oval again cut from Nesties.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the White Pearls around the edge and corners were created from the Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer specialist pearl PVA.

The white organza ribbon is out of my stash.

Boxes

After making the cards using the Lili of the Valley images, I realised that they wouldn't fit in to envelopes without damaging the flowers so I decided to make boxes for them.

I used white card, the same papers to match from the Cuddly Buddly website, and ribbon from my stash again coloured to match with ProMarkers.

Lili of the Valley cards

 I love the stamps from Lili of the Valley but couldn't decide which ones to buy when I came across the pre coloured die cut images, which gave me the opportunity to have lots of the images.

To make these cards I used white card blanks, downloaded papers from the Cuddly Buddly website and die cut images from Lili of the Valley.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the ribbon is from my stash which I coloured with ProMakers to get the shades I wanted to match the cards.