More Lili of the Valley

Good Morning

Today I would like to share with you another project I made during my recent day out at Lili of the Valley.

This is a hanging decoration which could be altered to suit any time of the year.

The top section was a 6x6" Kraft card base. 

Covered with Tartan type paper from the Classic Christmas Paper Pad, which was matted onto Red card

A Doily was added to the centre.

Then a Window shape was cut with a Memory Box die.

Behind this was put a piece of red card which had punched along the edge. 

This gives the effect of curtains or blinds.

The bottom of the window was then embellished with Holly leaves and Pine branch die cuts.

The pine cones were made from a rolled flower die in Kraft brown.

Some red Stickles for holly berries, and there you have section 1.

  This was made on a 4x4" Kraft card base.

We then used a LOTV Die cut topper. 

The topper was matted onto red card.

Then onto the Kraft brown base.

I then used a quickie Glue pen and some Glamour Dust to highlight the snowflakes.

Also the snow on the ground.

 The bottom of the Decoration.

Simply a 2x2" piece of Kraft brown card.

Using the same tartan like paper matted onto Red card.

A LOTV Christmas sentiment stamped onto Kraft card. 

Matted onto a red scalloped circle.

 

 To join them together I used red ribbon.

When the ribbon was in place I then stuck same sized kraft brown card over the back.

This is to cover the ends of the ribbon and also makes it a bit more secure.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Lili of the Valley Day Out

Good morning

Today I would like to share with you a couple of items I made on a recent trip out to Lili of the Valley.
My wonderful friend and I went over to do an all day workshop with Dawny P from their design team.

This first project is a decorated paper bag. 

This is ideal for those Christmas presents which are just too awkward a shape to wrap up !

This is a great way to also use up those bits of paper you were keeping. 

You can die cut them to embellish the bag.

This next is an 8x8" card blank.

Now this isn't a size I normally make as I find them a bit big.

But again this was made using up, dare I say, left overs from other cards. 

The Topper from a Lili of the Valley die cut sheet. 

Then strips of paper off cuts with chevrons cut in the bottom.

A sentiment and some bling finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Cute Christmas Cards

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Today I want to share with you some Christmas cards which I started making on my Summer holidays!
Well what I mean we went to Wales for a week and I took some Craftwork Cards topper and my Promarkers with me. So when hubby and my boys were watching a film in the evenings I sat and coloured.

This first one was really easy to colour in. gold for the stars.

Some pale blue for the ice sheet.

Little bits of pale grey for the polar bear and pale pink for his ears and paws.

This was then quite simply matted and layered with foiled paper.

This second card was also coloured in the sun!

I decided to go quite bold and bright with this snowman. 

The snowballs have all been glittered with glamour dust.

Straightforward matting and layering with white card. 

The strip down the left hand side was made using the offcuts of the papers.

A circular sentiment, matted onto a scalloped circular blue paper.

Simple but effective, and great for the kids.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Graphic 45 Tags

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Sorry I haven't posted for a few days I have had a poorly little boy since I got back from the retreat last weekend.

Anyway, today I would like to share with you a project I did at The Stamp Pad  last week. We made 2 tags using the Graphic 45 Nutcracker papers. The first tag was a black Tim Holtz Tag which was covered with the balck paper from the range which had 'Christmas Past ' written all over it. We then die cut the new Mariannce Clock Die in the red paper. The rosette was die cut from the stripy paper using the Tim Holtz rosette die. The father christmas came from the Die cut sheet from the range, and the small stamp was agaiun cut from one of the sheets of paper. A couple of punched snowflakes and some green satin ribbon finished this tag off.

For the second tag we used papers from Graphic 45's 'The Nutcracker ' range of papers. For this one we used a larger kraft tag. This was then backed with a cream paper from the range. We then cut pieces from the othr papers to embellish. The strips top and bottom actually ca,me from the indexing strip at the bottom of the 12 x 12" papers. The Gingerbread man and the Nutcracker were cut from a sheet of paper and then covered with Glossy Accents to give them an enamelled look. A metal corner embellishment was added on the right hand side . Again the small stamp image was cut from one of the 12 x 12" papers. The ribbons at the top of the tag started off as cream seam binding. They were sprayed with water and then inked with distress Inks.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Christmas Cards

Good morning

Today I have blogged another couple of cards made with Forever friends pyramage toppers.

This first card is a 5x7" card blank. The red snowflake paper is from a Papermania A4 pad. The base is a Gold mirri card which has been die cut on my Big shot using nestabilities deckle ovals. The message was matted and layered onto Gold mirri. Three gold nail heads top right and bottom left, the holly motif was die cut from green card using a Marianne Die. I then highlighted the berries with Red Stickles.

 This next card is one of my favourites (well today's anyway :) ) Again a 5x7" card, the paper is an old one from a couple of years ago ( I forget which designer, sorry). The pyramage topper was then matted onto a white card die cut. This was cut using the Marianne die Petra Ovals and then inked with Iced spruce distress ink. The card was finished off with three pearls in the top right and bottom left again.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my cards.

Gill

Christmas Cards !

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Today I would like to share with you a couple of cards I have made recently. For these two cards I have used Tatty Ted die cut decoupage. Although these sheets are die cut I usually go around them with my scissors as sometimes they are not quite cut as close as I like.

 For this first card I used some pale blue glittered paper with snowflakes on. Again this is from paper from my stash, I am making a concious effort to use stash I already have rather than buying more :) The silver mirri mat was die cut using a Marianne Die cut. This is a fabulous die cut and has a large flat circle in the middle which makes it very usable for so many things. The greeting was also matted onto silver mirri card.

For this second card I used some of a sheet of paper by Carol Wilson Fine Art. This time I matted the image onto a scalloped oval silver mirri card, die cut using a nestsability die. The snowflakes on the paper are already glittered and needed no more, again the message was mounted on silver mirri card.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my cards.

Gill

Hello

Hi

Still keeping with the Christmas theme, how many of you buy a pack of Christmas papers and end up with ones you don't know what to do with, or just don't like ? ? ? Well I decided to get some of may papers out from a range by a company called Delish. I had used most of the papers and was just left with a couple in each colourway.

With these cards I used the pale blue with white script background paper. Then the multi word paper (Which I really didn't like:)) I turned the paper over to reveal the dark blue and die cut the Nestabilitie Fleur De Lis Pendant shape. I then went back to the pale blue script and die cut a smaller fleur de lis pendant. Then I used a sheet of 3d bauble stickers to pop in the middle if the design. These style of cards are great if you have a number of card to do fairly quickly.

These cards were made on  a similar theme. This time it was the red  version of the pack. I used the red with darker red script as the backgrounds. The I die cut the nestabilities scalloped square mats from the patterned paper (this was far to busy for me as a stand alone piece of paper). The middle card is a square from the text sheet of paper with the work Christmas highlighted with stickles. The other 2 cards have a small piece of red paper with white script on, and then a 3d sticker added to the card.

Woo hooo not only have a made some more Christmas cards, but I have also used up papers and stickers which have been sat in my stash for far too long. Does this mean I can go and restock? . . . . . . . . .

Hubby says no, I have to use far more stash up first !