Happy Birthday

Hello, for my card today I inked up the background with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and using The CraftersWorkshop mini Chicken wire template sponged over some Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.

The bird cage is a Marianne Design Die.

The roses I made with the 32mm Vinca punch.

Leaves are Spellbinders Foliage and Marianne Creatable dies.

The sentiment is from Lily of the Valley.

Thank you for taking the time to visit today.

Hugs

Baby it's Cold Outside

I received a new window die from Kaaren, its from Cheery Lynn and I had to have a play right away.

I started by stamping the view, Tutorial here from the amazing Theresa Momber I love her work.

The image is from a Joanna Sheen CD Daisy and  Friends I coloured her with Prisma Pencils.

The plant in the pot is a Marianne Creatable die Anja's Leaves 4 and the pot is Carl Punch.

The corners are Cheery Lynn Lace Corners B Die.

I think I might need a new camera my old Kodak just isn't giving me any pic. I'm happy with.

For You

Hello, I'm here today with another card I made for FATCATS Card Corner.

I started by inking up one side of the Sizzix Bricked embossing folder then running it through my Cuttlebug,

Then did a second one and cut it to size for my raised garden bed which I popped up with two layers of dimensional tape.

Then just cut a couple of strips of card for the roof line and the top of the garden bed.

I then filled the garden with the Marianne Creatables leaves 4 LR0229 Die and some punched Martha Stewart leaves and some tiny flowers to which I added liquid pearls to the center.

I added a piece of Peel off waste to the cats neck for a collar and the lamp post has acetate behind the lamp for glass.

The butterflies are also a Martha Stewart punch.

The background paper is from Kaisercrafts Chanteuse Collection.

Thank you for visiting today I really appreciate you taking the time.

80th Birthday Bookatrix

John's (husband) Uncle John is turning 80 tomorrow so I made him a bookatrix card.

I kept it pretty simple by just cutting the numbers with a Fiskars template and the stars with a Fiskars squeeze punch some peel offs for the star trails and Star Dust stickles around the edge of the white book page.

I had to use glossy accents to get the white layer to stick to the Glitter card stock.

Thank you for taking the time to visit its very much appreciated.

Pontura and Liquid Pearls

Hello................

Nellie Snellen has a new product out, Pontura paints, stencils and card packs.

I have made two cards using the Baby Carriage PONK019 card set.

One for a girl using the Baby pink Pontura paint, some pink diamantes and Crafts Concepts Victorian Rectangles for the computer generated sentiment layer.

And one for a boy using Royal Blue Liquid pearls, blue diamantes, Marianne Creatables Happy Birthday,Congrats Dies.

The border punch is a Fiskars one called Threading Water.

For this one I used the Marianne Designable Frame cut and emboss folder, cut out the center and glued some tulle between two of the frames layers I then used lavender and Lace and Hot cocoa Liquid pearls to the holes in the tulle.

The flowers were made with the Cheery Lynn large Rose Die (looks like Kaaren is out of stock on those) and the stamens are a Nellie Snellen Floral Punch.

Thank you for taking the time to visit.

My first patchwork quilt

I have just finished making my very first patchwork quilt and I have to say I am quite pleased with it.

Most of the fabrics came from op shops and I used thicker wadding instead of batting which meant a bit of puckering/ bubbling with the very thin backing fabric when doing the quilting but with just a bit of unpicking it turned out okay.

The quilt block I used came from Ashley at FITF thank you Ashley I couldn't wait to try it out as soon as I saw it.

Here's hubby holding it out in the autumn sunshine for me.