I am an on-the-side and increasingly up front papercrafter who loves nothing more than getting inky and creating pretty things with paper and stamps!
I am also a wife to lovely hubby and mummy to a wonderful 14yr old princess.
I was so close to not doing a card for the first of the month in my self imposed patterned paper challenge but talked myself into doing one this afternoon – so a third blog post from me today!
A second blogpost from me today … so because I am a little mad I am joining in another Christmas challenge – this time it is Martin’s #30daychristmascardmakingchallenge which I try to join in each year – but with zero promises of managing all 30 days! So this month there may be days when I post two projects in one day but also days when I don’t get to make anything … but it will be a fun month I am sure!
Today I am off to a good start with the theme of Merry & Bright Beginnings which I also videoed!
So I decided for this one to go with the Winter birdies stencils and die set from Waffle flower which I’ve had for ages but not got around to using till now!
And making the card is documented over on my YouTube channel.
I chose the lilac colours as I knew I had the perfect sentiment already made with the purple!
I added glitter glue to the branch and then lots of shimmer splatters to the background too!
Aren’t those birds the cutest?
And obviously the sentiment is perfect for the challenge.
In the middle of October I went to the Warrington crop and really had a fabulous time chatting and crafting. I managed four pages in total and so want to share those with you today for #scrappinsaturday
This first one was a page kit designed by the fabulous Sarah and although I did slightly change it up … a bit of stencilling and stamping in the background and also I flipped the photo from one side to the other!
Next up another page kit …
This time I just changed some of the stickers like the title to make them tie in with the photo a little better. Love the torn edge so much!
Then I turned to ‘page kits’ I had put together using really old papers in the stash …
The base of this is a papermania paper and then a bookprint one from Stampin Up. I combined it with the trim from the latest Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit. I also made a little spend at the shop and bought the 49&Market terracotta rub one which I think really helped bring the page together perfectly!
I added the cute wooden bird embellishments and then some other bits and pieces from the embellishments I took with me.
This final one I used the Coredinations card and went to town with ripping and distressing the edges.
I also had the panel of the patterned paper (old SU) sticking out of the edge of that ledger panel I have no idea how long I’ve owned but suffice it to say it will have been years!
Added the acrylic title from the stash and lots of bits and bobs from the stash!
I didn’t get round to journaling on them all before taking the pics so need to do it before they go into albums!
But I loved making these pages – and more importantly had the best day chatting with friends, both those I’ve know for ages and those who are newer creative friends! I love the crops. They are definitely my time to craft just for me!
Todays Festive Friday is one of my design team projects for Kingston Crafts using the fabulous card bases kit- I took the three that had a grey gingham base and did some really simple Christmas cards using some digital stamp images and then die cutting a shape to mount them on from another card base.
It was good to have this project ready to blog about (I actually made it in May as after Christmas in July I needed to not have to think Christmas and create some more cards just yet!).
I then added sentiments that were stamped and die cut, a few gems and then called them done as a perfect example of a quick and easy card.
The line art on these digital stamps are so simple to colour and fussy cut out. Then a die cutting scalloped circle for this one from the fun pastel rainbow tartan pattern card made a lovely base.
I used the same pattern card for the die cutting circle for this one too and this time kept to a monochrome for the gnome in the greens and of course the same with the gems.
For the reindeer I chose a card base that has loads of presents on it and chose a stitched rounded rectangle for the topper element instead.
On all three I used my promarkers and stampin blend alcohol markers to colour. I added some white highlights with a posca pen and then added the waffleflower sentiments.
I love the pop of the gems too on each one.
Simple but perfectly effective Christmas cards.
And obviously this is totally the wrong project for today – Happy Halloween!
Whilst I love this theme I won’t lie I struggled to find the time to make the card until I forced myself to get to it on Sunday. I realised the only specifically Rudolph type stamps I had were the Avery Elle ones … so they became the focal point … and the background elements.
And these are the cards I ended up with!
I used the octagonal dies for the label elements – using red and copper.
Then added the waxed thread and some gold die cut sprigs.
Aren’t they just so cute?
Added the sentiments from ones already die cut and ready to go … and I was lucky that the focal points were also ready to use as coloured on a previous occasion and already fussy cut out!
Inside I added another stamped reindeer and the sentiment too.
So here we are finally got to this months themed cards … now do I get ahead on the theme for next month? Or also leave that until the last minute!
This months Make it Masculine cards were inspired by the ‘tidy and clean’ up of the craft room I’ve been doing and found this fab book of vintage ephemera bits so decided to use them and some of the metal elements I never think to use!
Created a pair of ‘patchwork ’ panels inking the edges of each piece with some layered elements and some waxed thread to add some texture – and of course those metal elements.
I added a little stamping too using the Paperatsy stamps for both the sentiment and some texture elements.
I added the panels with foam adhesive to black card blanks and then added a panel to the inside with a few off cuts to decorate those too.
Really happy with these different cards! And so pleased I found that pack of vintage bits!
I went back to the #KCC20 I’ve been doing over the past few weeks as my #festivefriday and made card 8 – but had to change it as my paper had a design that needed to be a particular direction and so couldn’t be as the sketch directed … but that’s ok … I just put one panel inside the card instead of on the front and rotated the sketch!
So this is my card! I love the colours in this kit and the circle acetate piece worked brilliantly in my die cut circle piece for the focal point!
I added gems to finish off and kept this so simple letting the papers speak for themselves!
A fun card! And another in the Christmas box – almost at the point of passing the box to my parents to take their pick of the cards in there – because yes folks we are nearly there – just one more month of getting through the prep before the December chaos begins!
I did video the process of this so you can check out the short video on my YouTube.
I made this card for a friend of mine who moved house recently but never got around to blogging until now!
I kept it super simple – an embossed background I added a bit of inking to where the die cut house was going to sit to give it some depth.
Then the little die cut house is an Altenew die set I’ve had for ages but never got around to using till now. Isn’t it just the cutest house?
I added that with foam adhesive to add dimension and then the sentiment is another Altenew one which I again added foam behind one side to give the dimension.
So a simple but cute card for their new adventure!
Hello! I bought a layered stencil from hobbycraft a good few months ago and this was my first play with it making a lovely background straight onto my card blank.
I chose the perfect colours for an autumnal card which I actually sent to the lovely Martin with my latest batch of samples – so it was good to make something seasonal! Also those of you who follow Martin or I on instagram may well have seen this earlier this week as he kindly shared my card on his stories – thanks Martin x
A mix of orange, green and brown! After the ink blending I decided to grab a gold pica pen and also add some gold to a few elements.
I decided to keep the card quite simple – two banners, a bit of bakers twine and one card Candi – and of course that die cut word.
But then I also wanted a bit more shine – so took some die cut sprig leaf elements which I had cut out of the waste from the autumn garland I made and added those.
And then because Martin, like me, loves a bit of splatter I got out my copper acrylic ink which I haven’t used for ages – and went splatter happy!
Went back to one of those page kit pouches I had put together to play scrapbooking and managed to do a fairly masculine page (no flowers!) for these pics of my hubby on the boat trip when we were in Devon. I know there have been quite a few DT projects for Scrappin Saturdays recently so it was nice to play with other older stash this time!
I decided to cut the wood paper into strips (I wanted it to look more like a board walk type of background) and after distressing them stuck them straight onto the Secret Sea two tone cardstock on the darker side – I then used two papers which were old SU ones which were very vanilla and black for the other patterned papers – just the one strip of the bird paper and the text paper for mounting the pictures.
I did video the process and you can check this out on my YouTube.
I then went delving into the embellishments box and found loads of random things to add including die cut frames, a sewn envelope piece a tag and the words for the title.
Adding the ruffled seam binding helped to soften the page a little and I loved adding those little seagulls too.
I decided to add the journalling with a white gel pen direct onto the dark background and I think that worked well.
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