Lovely Layers Thank You

A quickie post before I head off to bed - some little 4.25" x 4.24" thank you cards using the Lovely Layers stamps and dies.

It's fun to mess around with different colour combinations!

A very busy crafty weekend but a good one!

First Hexagons

Before all the Stamp a Faire festivities I broke out the Happy Hexagons and the cover plate die.   I think this is the most fiddly card I have ever made and it took ages - but I like it now it's finished and when I have a few spare hours I will make another!

I used plum pudding, winter wisteria, hibisbus burst, autumn rose and simply chartreause inks and the sentiment is from another new set to me called We Go Togther.  Thank goodness for Nichole Heady's placement guidelines - it did take the guess work out of where to put each patten!

The latest challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey this fortnight is anything goes - so here goes!

MIM #69 meets a Jubilee Challenge

Just popping in quickly today to show my entry for this week's Make it Monday which is to use of the sketches that Nicole has on her blog using inspiration design.  I chose the folding card as I felt like a play at something that was new to me.

As I was sitting crafting and watching all the wonderful Jubilee celebrations it was an ideal time to make a red, white and blue card to go into the challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey. 

I used the canvas side of the impression plate to give the white card some texture and coloured the In Bloom flowers in pure poppy combo copics.  The little sentiment is from Trendy Tree Tops - love that set!

Lovely to have you stop by!

Father's Day

It's Father's Day soon and as we will be away on our road trip in the USA I thought I would get ahead for once.  It was so bright and sunny here early this morning and the dogs were making a racket I had to get up and do something!

Over at A Passion for Papertrey the latest challenge is to use circles so I broke out my Background Basics:Medallions for the first time and had a play with Blueberry Sky and Spring Rain inks and took it from there!  It reminds me of Dad's RAF uniform that he wore for 40 years - hope he likes it!

As Betty noted this also goes well with a blog that is new to me - Dynamic Duos - their challenge this week is to make a monochromatic card in two colours of blue.  This is a first for me - one card in two places! 

Colour Pop Challenge

The challenge this fortnight over at A Passion for Papertrey is to use black and white with a pop of colour.

I got my Papertrey anniversary set two weeks ago but only had chance to break it out last week.  I stamped off a few images to colour with copic markers - the card above is coloured with the Melon Berry combo.  The leaves are darn awkward to line up but I got there in the end without cutting them up!  Practice makes perfect :)

Make it Monday meets A Passion for Papertrey

Whilst I was in background stamping mode I had a go at the challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey this fortnight - to create with the colours below....

I used melon berry, spring moss and chocolate with Turning a New Leaf and Flower Fusion number 9 - the focal is from the 2011 Holiday Tags set and it's mounted on some melon berry felt - I know I'm in the minority but I love melon berry!

I needed a few tags so knocked up a few with the same colour scheme using the tag die and the flower fusion no. 9 die.

Here is a close up of the new formula ink in spring moss - it stamps beautifully - much better than the last spongy formula but I now have 3 spring moss ink pads!

Many thanks for stopping by this weekend - hopefully yours has been as relaxing as mine!

Simple Silhouette

At A Passion for Papertrey this week the challenge is to include sillhoutettes and as I have hardly used my Iconic Images I pulled it out for this card as a last minute entry.

I used veracolour inks to stamp the background and tried to match the Autumn Rose cardstock.  I just love this colour and the ribbon is so pretty!

I hope you had a great weekend - I went off into town today to the Degas exhibition at the Royal Academy - it was just fantastic and a real treat to see so many fabulous paintings and now I "need" to have a bronze ballerina!

A Recipe Card

The challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey this week is a recipe -

A dollop of colour (3 colours - plus neutrals if required, e.g black/white)

A sprinkling of buttons (2 buttons)

A pinch of ribbon (1 Ribbon)

and here is my take on the recipe - summer sunrise, harvest gold and spring moss with a couple of sunrise buttons and  the same in ribbon!  Just what I need on this wet and chilly weekend.

I die cut the doily from bitty dots paper - I wasn't too sure at first but it's grown on me.  Thanks  for stopping by this weekend!

A Song Challenge

This weeks challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey is to make a card inspired by music or a song.  I was thinking of what I could make with two new stamp sets that I was given last week by a very special lady I met in London ;) when the word celebrate on the Hello, Friend stamp made me think of this song by Kool & The Gang!  An oldie but goodie.

I stamped some antique cream cardtock with the background basics: sheet music in Chai ink, the leaves are stamped in versamark and the celebrate flower in berry sorbet.  The felt and the cardstock are melon berry!

There is still time to join in the challenge so do go have a peek at what everyone has done too!

Buckets of Love

I thought that I would try out some There She Goes stamps after seeing the lovely cards that Julie Lacy who is on their DT makes. I was really impressed how quickly they came over - less than a week - with very reasonable postage charges too which is always a big bonus. They are clear stamps and this set comes with lots of interchangable sentiments.

I thought I would have a try at sketch challenge 91 on the TSG blog and use the new stamps. I have had the Spellbinders die for ever but have hardly used it so I challenged myself this weekend to give it a go!

The base and frame are in pure poppy from Papertrey as is the ribbon and punched slip both in hibiscus. The hearts go well with the cookies over at a Passion for Papertrey challenge so I'll throw my hat in the ring for that one too!

I coloured the image with copic markers and whilst I was colouring I did another image and made it up in sunny yellows below -

It's freezing cold here in London right now - a really good excuse to stay in and play! Have a great weekend....

Out of my comfort zone!

The challenge this fortnight over at A Passion for Papertrey is to make a project out of our comfort zone! I love to look at my Hawaiian Shores cardstock but I rarely make anything with it as I just can't seen to make it work - so I tried hard with this one! I have also had my Star Prints stamp set in the cuboard for ages - I bought the set as I always love what Aimes does with it but so far my efforts have only been bin worthy!


























I clear embossed the flourish and when I stamped off the stars it occured to me that one matched the Dot Spot stamps so I pulled that out to make the white panel. Now its finished I quite like the melon berry and blue mix - but so not me and not a flower in sight!
All supplies are by Papertrey.

Tea for Two Birthday

Tea for Two came across the pond for me recently and I couldn't resist getting the matching dies. For its first outing I made a birthday card for my friend Penny in aqua and chocolate.













I used lots of bits and bobs on this card - Pretty Pastels paper, aqua and chocolate card, aqua ribbon along with pearls and die cuts. I also stamped the woodgrain background stamp onto the mat stack die but it's hard to see in the picture.














I used a Martha Stewart punch for the card edge and made it into a tri-fold card.
As there are a few pearls on this creation I'm putting it in for the lastest challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey which this fortnight is to use pretty pearls!

Four of a Kind

I was a very lucky girl when the lovely Taheerah let me buy one of her Papertrey CHA sets that were exclusive to the show called Four of a Kind. I love how versatile it is with 4 different flowers. I whistled off a few like the one above but forgot to photograph them.


The one above is a one layer card stamped in Chartreuse and Raspberry Fizz. The one below is all in Plum Pudding and Chartreuse again - love the new inks even if they do stamp a bit unevenly!
























I used Plum Pudding DP (Dots and Squares) from Papetrey with a little strip of old Anna Griffin DP. I haven't decided on a sentiment yet - if I use one at all as in life I think this card looks a lot prettier that the photo! The roses are popped up on dimentionals to give it a bit of a lift.

The challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey this week is to make a square card and so I think this fits the bill!

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have had a grand weekend!

Peonies and Roses

I love my Lockheart flower stamps and don't really use them enough. They are lovely to colour and have such detail although they are quite small. Lockheart stamps are hard to get hold of in the UK but I found a lovely online shop in the US which will post them over for under $10 - a bargain! See them here at Susana's Custom Art and Card Design. They arrived super fast too which made me very happy!


The challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey this week is to use polka dots and there is an abundance on these cards!

First off we have peonies (naturally) and they are coloured in melon berry colours - I don't think I have ever come across peachy peonies so forgive me the artistic license.

Next up is the Daisy and Roses stamp - so pretty and fun to colour. I did go around the flowers with a yellow marker to highlight the white of the flowers but it was too bright and Paul (ever helpful!) said it looked cartoon-like so I toned it down a bit with some grey.

I wasn't sure where this next peony one was going but I like the black and pink combination!
















All supplies are by Papertrey and Spellbinders.

It's Bank Holiday tomorrow - what could be better than extra crafty time!

Enjoy The Ride

Goodness - it's a month since I have shown anything - mainly due to my laptop playing silly whatsits with me (Daisy chewing through my charger TWICE and the battery giving up the ghost completely) but I am now sitting with an old model from work and back in business! Bliss!


The challenge at A Passion for Papertrey this fortnight is long and tall so I broke open my new bits and bobs that haven't seen ink yet - A Little Argyle and Enjoy the Ride - stamps and die.


I wanted to make a card for my husband's oldest friend - they have both hit 50 this year and have known eachother since they were in nursery school. This is what I came up with....

















and this is how I changed it after Paul made a few suggestions! He thinks the car is a definate Herbie and so he added the 50 instead of 53 and suggested the car went at a jaunty angle, oh - and don't forget the indicator lights!



















All supplies are by Papertrey and the card is a DL size.

Year of Flowers - Roses

This is my first card with last months new PTI Year of Flowers Rose and it owes more than a few shakes to this gorgeous card of Maile Belle's. As soon as I saw it I had to try it.

I coloured the rose and leaves with copic markers and the sentiment comes from Damask Designs.























Here is a little close up of the rose - I have many roses but this is my favourite so far - it's just so big!
As I used my circle nestabilities to die cut the white circle (love that white space) I'm slipping it in for the latest challenge over at a Passion for Papertrey - please do go check out what the girls have made!

Projects at A Passion for Papertrey

I have another project over at A Passion for Papertrey as my last post as the featured stamper for June (yes I know it's July but we have been a bit busy around here of late)!
























If you would like to see this and the rest of my set of aperture cards please do pop over and have a look.

There is also a Summertime challenge on too for the next two weeks so why not join in and you could win some Papertrey goodies!


Here is my card for the Summer theme:

A Challenge at A Passion for Papertrey

I have set a little challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey - please do go check out my cards which are featured there and if you take part and enter a card you could win a nice stash of 30 sheets of Papertrey designer papers! It doesn't matter where you live in the word on this occasion so please have a go if you have time!

How about this then...........