More Hobby House

Good morning

Today I would like to share with you another card made using the fabby Hobby House die cut sheets.

This card ws made using a Pink 6x6" card blank.

Some swirly organza ribbon arounf the spine of the card.

Some white peel offs in the corners.

The image was die cut in a circle and then matted onto a scalloped circle of the pink card.

As you can see from this next shot, as the card opens, the die cut swings in the apeture! 

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Another Man Card

Good Morning 

Today I would like to share with you another card I made for those troublesome men in our lives :)

This is an A6 card. 

The backing card is the same colour as the card but has been embossed with a 'honeycomb' folder.

A strip of stripy paper was matted onto blue paper.

The some plain blue paper was stuck horizontally accross the card.

The 3D Peel off was then put onto some paptterned paper. 

The stamped sentiment was on a piece of paper which had been cut like a banner. 

Some accent peel offs finish the card off.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Fathers Day

Good morning

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. My grandad died two weeks ago and things have been all over the place.

Anyway, on with todays card. This is one I made for Fathers day for my dad.

Again I am leaning towards 6x6" square cards. 

The blue background was embossed with 'Heavy Duty' embossing folder. 

The blue panel was die cut using nesties Labels 18 and then embossed using a herringbone folder. 

The banners were simply cut from a blue and green patterned paper.

The card was assembled with a brad throught the ribbon and a peel off on the panel.

Not sure if they show up to well on the photo but I then usaed some small circle peel offs to accent the card.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Patterned Paper

Good Morning

Today I would like to share with you a couple of cards I made at a recent workshop at The Stamp Pad, in Saddleworth. I don;t know about you but I seem to have far to much patterned paper. You know how you buy a set and you love 80% of the papers and use them then you are left with the other 20% which you are not that keen on, or they are the wrong shade, just not quite right!

On this first card we used some patterned paper for the background and then stamped the mannequin image onto cream cardstock. We then stamped the image onto patterned cardstock a further three times. From these images we then cut out the dress and stuck it onto the cream cardstock. The we cut out just the skirt down to the bottom ruffle ad then again to the top ruffle. This then allowed ut to layer the dress up and give it dimension. The same patterned paper from the background was cut for a border and a flourish stamp added to it.

For this second card, we used shade of the same colour and then inked all the edges to bring the card together. Here we used a couple of nesties and die cut flourishes. The panel across the middle was cream carkstock which had been embossed with an embossing folder and then inked with the same green distress ink to tie the whole card together.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Good Morning

Good Morning

Well today i was planning on sharing with you some of the gorgeousness which I had made over the weekend on my Crafty Retreat organised by Gwen at The Stamp Pad. Unfortunately the snow monsters conspired against us and covered the road with so much snow the retreat had to be called off :(

 This is the view from one of the windows!  

 Hmmm anyone fancy eating outside ! If you look carefully you can see the table just in front of the window.

Yep, there is road under there somewhere!

The Retreat was due to finish at about 4pm yesterday, At the moment the Hotel is still snowed in with no way in or out. So everything has been postponed until later in the year. I guess it gives me something to look forward to :)

So today I would like to share with you a card I have made for my parents Wedding Anniversary. This stamp 'Close Your Eyes' is a fabby one which is great for anniversarys etc.

This is a 6x6" card blank.

The image is 'Close Your Eyes' by Lili of the Valley.

Coloured in with Promarkers.

The patterned Papers are from Country Lady Paper Pad from Lili of the Valley.

The image was die cut with Nesties Marvelous Squares.

As was the backing card.

The flowers are by Prima 'Got Flowers'.

Flourish die is by Memory Box.

 Happy Anniversary Peel Off from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

A Christening Card

Good Morning

Today I would like to share with you a card I have made for a Baby Girls Christening. Again I have used a Lili of the Valley Stamped image. I do think I have an addiction to these stamps :) But they are so cute and lovely who could resist? (Not me thats for sure! )

This time I have used a 7x5" card blank.

The image is Baby's Christening from Lili of the Valley

Coloured in with Promarkers.

Die cut with Nesties Ovals and Scalloped Ovals.

The paper are from the Bear Necessities paper pad. The glitter card from DCWV.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid and my stash.

The sentiment is from Circa Designs.

I would like to enter this card into this weeks Wild Orchid Crafts Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Free papers from Magazine

Good Morning

I hope you are all well and not too cold today. Today I would like to share with you a couple of Christmas Cards I have made using the free Forever Friends decoupage and paper stack with came with this months Papercraft Essentials. Now I have to confess when I get free papers , toppers and things with magazines I tend to put them aside 'for later'. How many of you do the same?
But with this pack I just had to have a go at making the toppers up and then making actual cards with them! The stack gives you 10 patterned papers and 2 designs each of four decoupage designs.

This first card is a 6x6" card blank. the decoupaged topper was placed onto white pearlesent card and then onto red card stock. The corners were then trimmed with a corner punch. I  then used the green swirly paper down the left hand side and the cream holly paper on the rest of the card. This was the matted onto red card stock, but if like me you cut the papers a bit too short, I wrapped a piece of green satin ribbon around the bottom ! The holly spray was cut with a Marrianne Die and then I added red holly berries with Xmas Red Stickles. Three red gems top left and bottom right of the card.

For the second card I again used the green swirly paper. This time I cut a square of the red checked paper and edged it with Festive Berries Distress ink. The decoupage topper was then put on white card and then onto red card. I rounded the corners with my small corner rounder punch.  A small snowflake peel off in each corner  added a bit of bling to the card.

I hope you enjoy using your freebie goodies as much as I have.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my cards.

Gill

A Birthday Card

Good morning

Today I would like to share with you a girly birthday card I was asked to make for a friend's daughters birthday.

This was a larger scalloped 6x8" card. The background paper is from a First Edition paper pad called Summer Breeze. The Tatty Ted image is decoupaged and matted onto brown pearl paper and then white card, which have been die cut using Nesties Labels 10. The tag is also a nesties which has been inked with spun sugar distress inks. The ribbon through this is not actually ribbon as I had none to match, so I cut a narrow strip of the brown paper and threaded this through instead! A Birthday Girl peel off and there you go.

Hope you like this card

End of School Year - Part 2

Hi There

Some of you may remember the daughter of a friend of mine requested an autograph book for when she left Primary School to go to Senior School.
Well this is my finished article. I had to try and not go over the top as her big sister didn't want me to make it better then hers!

This is the front of her book. It was 6x4" greyboard, covered with red Inka-Gold. The 2 large flowers were from a set by Bobunny. The square in the middle is a tag by Making Memories, with 3 rub ons by Kaisercraft. The swirls are peel offs. The book was bound together using my Bind it All and ribbons and fibres ties around the wires.

The inside Cover was stamped using Distress inks in Victorian Velvet and spun sugar. The stamps are by Inkadinkadoo,  Artistic Flourish and Gem Stone Flourish.

The inside pages were all stamped onto, leaving enough room for all the messages from her friends.

This is the finished book, she was delighted with it when I saw her at the weekend. A lasting reminder of friends she was at Primary School with. Better than them signing her shirt! 

Happy Crafting

End of School year

Hi There

I just wanted to show you something I made a couple of years ago, I was reminded of it as the reciepient has recently asked for me to make on for her sister.
It is a small book made from when my friends daughter was leaving Primary school. Because the school she was changing too, was some distance away, there were not many from her class in primary going to the same senior school. It is along the lines of an autograph book, with pages so that friends could just sign it or write a message if they so wished.

This is the front of the book, it was made from chipboard and is slightly larger that A6 in size. The covers wer painted with a Gold Acrylic paint.The flowers are Prima Hydrangea with different colours layered together. The Friends Sticker in the middle was an epoxy sticker from an old sheet that I had waiting for the 'right project'. The Silver swirls were peel off stickers that I had, had for quite some time.  

 The inside pages were decorated with stamped swirl images throughout. The title page had a decorative border punched along the edge.

It was bound together with a Bind-It-All and had ribbons and fibers tied onto the BIA rings.

My problem now is she want's me to do a book for her sister, BUT I am not allowed to make it better than hers! ! ! As it is a few years ago, I have learn't new techniques and there is more lovelyness out in the craft shops, Help,

Happy Crafting

Playing / Gilding

Hi there

I have not made any cards or scrapbookpages for a few days, but i have been playing. Over the weekend I decided to get out my Gilding Flakes and have a play.

These are some gears and cogs which I cut on my Big Shot with the Tim Holtz Die. The top ones were cut with grungepaper and I am going to try and emboss these later before inking and generally distressing them. The bottom ones I cut from greyboard ( the sort that comes on the back of notepads or packaging). I started off by cutting the board to slightly bigger than the piece I wanted to cut, then I used double sided sticky and stuck this on one side to the board. Then I ran this through the Big Shot. When I had taken all the excess pieces off I removed the other side of the sticky and applied my gilding flakes, I used a mixture pot of flakes.
At some point I will put these onto a card!

These toppers were made with a double sided peel off. The butterfly on the right is the peel of stuck to white card and then guilded, when cut out will be put onto a card. The one on the left was the waste from the peel off! I had cut around the image I was going to use whilst it was still on the peel off sheet. I then stuck the waste onto white card again. I removed the protective backing paper and guilded the image. When this has been cut out and stuck onto a card, you will have had 2 images for the price of one!

White card, Giliding Flakes and double sided peel offs and sticky sheels all from The Stamp Pad

Happy Crafting

Fathers Day

Hi there

Well as you know Fathers Day is fast approaching. These are some cards I made with men in mind.

The first one was a plain card matted and layered, then we used nesties Labels 1which was then inked using distress inks, pumice and broken china. The topper was made using double sided sticky, backed on card, die cut again with a nestie and then covered with gilding flakes.

The second was a card using map paper a plain tag added which was again distressed. A peel off (yes we all have lots of those!) stuck onto brown card and cut out to give a great effect when stuck on with foam tags. A little bit of embellishment and a simple yet effective card. 

This last one if my favourite. A card blank this tme using a medallion stamp to create the background. Ink it up, stamp once onto scrap paper and then stamp off the edge of the card. This gives a very random look but very effective and a great way of using stamps we all have perhaps gathering dust! The tissue paper was scrunched up before being glued to mirri card to give the aged look. The banners cut with Nesties and peel offs used to spell the word Dad. but you could put what ever you wish in these.

Thanks to Gwen at the Stamp Pad in Greenfield for a fantastic workshop. You know how much we all struggle with men!

Happy Crafting

Hello

Hi There

I have been busy this week, so not had much time for crafting. Although I have made a birthday card for one of my friends at work, for her birthday on Sunday.

I have used a 7x5 card, covered with Basic Grey papers, from the Two Scoops range. I then used the Nesties Labels 10 to die cut my stamoed image and a mat using the Green from BG Two Scoops.
THe flower is made up from a large Prima Flower, with a Prima Got flower and ten a small rose budon a stem. I threaded the stem through the other 2 flowers the hold them steady. I then punched out some small branches from a McGill punch. They were attatched usind Pinflair glue.
All the papers and embellishments used on this card were bought from The Stamp Pad. The only other thing was the Stamp which was from Cafters Companion.

Hope you like this one

Son's Birthday

Hello again

Well I have made this card for my son's 10th birthday, which is on Tuesday. I have sat looking at papers and images on and off for a couple of days. But nothing seemed right for him, anyway I checked out the Waltzing Mouse Sketch challenge yesterday and this is what I came up with.

It is a large 8x8" card. I used BoBunny paper and a Lili of the Valley die cut image of a little boy playing computer games. I then die cut this with my GoKreate die and matted on pearlescent card. I then cut out the scalloped circle with my nesties and inked and then put on a peel off greeting.

I hope you like it, and I hope he likes it too!

Here is the original sketch, not too different from mine I hope!

In the Swing of Autumn

Hi there

Well I have done another Autumn Card !
This time using the more traditional colours of Autumn. Browns, and creams with just a hint of sparkle.
The leaves are Silver peels offs which have been 'altered' using Stazon Inks. I really didn't like them at first, but when they had changed colour they looked great!
The verse is a Clarity Stamp from The Stamp Pad.
A simple yet elegant card, I hope!

 Happy Crafting!