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Wednesday 24 April 2013

Wishing you peace

Hi there, thank you for stopping by my blog today. I hope you are all having a good week. I have been trying to organize some of my craft bits but I'm getting nowhere he he!

I wanted to use these butterfly stamps and decided to make a sympathy card with them. I have made this card for a few challenges:

shabby tea room week #163 spring bliss
word art wednesday challenge #77



At the tea room we had this gorgeous picture to inspire us:



And here is my card:


 










 

As usual I have made the flowers :) using Marianne rolled flower die English rose. I was very surprised that I used a lot of green as I rarely use so much on one card. I used a yellow polkadot paper and hand stitched around the edges in a green thread. I then coloured a plain doily in green and used this as a layer, before adding a white doily (Nellie snellen doily),  I also hand stitched the circle topper using a brown thread.

I coloured in my stamps with pro markers, and I also coloured a few flowers adding some polka dots to the big flower

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog, if you have any questions please ask :)

Have a wonderful day,

Vic .

Tuesday 16 April 2013

Girly robot card


Hello, thank you for stopping by my blog today. I have been having a stressful week so what better way to relax than craft. I find it so relaxing and therapeutic, I am sure lots of people feel the same way.

So I have made this card for a couple of challenges:
the shabby tea room challenge #162
marianne design divas
word art wednesday challenge #76
creative card crew
lady annes challenges

At the shabby tea room its challenge 162 'pretty shabby' and we had this lovely photo for inspiration:




And over at Marianne design divas its something girly, so here is my card:










 
I thought this robot would look cute made girly, and I also added some doilies, flowers and buttons to girly this card up even more. The shabby tea room also wanted us to use something that was recycled so I used this mesh as ribbon. It was actually off a gift box and its fun recycling things for your cards, so I thought that was a great idea. I also hand stitched the card front and the circle topper just to add a bit more fun.
 
Here is a list of my products:
 
Cream card
notebook paper from cosmocricket girlfriend paper pack
Blue thread
 Marianne rolled flower die English rose
Nellie snellen doily
Brown card from papermania
pink thread
robot cut with silhouette cameo
tags die from sizzix
heart die from sizzix
twine
buttons
greeting found in stash
diamond glaze
googly eyes from hobbycraft
mesh ribbon used from gift box
 
 
Thank you for taking time out of your day and stopping by, if you have any questions please ask and I will be more than happy to answer. Hope you all have a great day!
 
See you soon,
 
Vic
 
 
 

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Flower birthday girl

Hi thank you for stopping by my blog, I love having people visit :)

Well I have been busy making more cards and we have a nice sunny day again here in the UK, what could be better? I really need to tidy up my craft space it's so messy again.... I would love to be more organized with my products.

I have made this card for a couple of challenges:
marianne design challenge blog
shabby tea room challenge #161
The ribbon girl

This card took forever to make as I hand stitched the base and image, and my thread kept getting twisted up but in the end I got there. I used watercolour pencils to colour the image.















 
So here is a list of products I used to make this card:
 
White square card (papermania)
Cosmo cricket girlfriend paper
Marianne rolled flower die English rose
Martha Stewart double scallop edge punch
Cream doily
Craft wire
Pink and bright pink sewing thread
Image from papercrafts inspirations
Derwent inktense colour pencils
Die cut tag sizzix
Versa mark ink
Personal impressions birthday stamp
Twine
Vellum butterfly
Blue crystals
Kraft cardstock-papermania
Purple card stock-papermania
Pink cardstock-papermania
Lavender cardstock-bazzil
Glossy accents
 
Thank you so much for stopping by, if you have any questions about my card or the products used please ask :)
 
Have a fantastic day,
 
 
Vic
 

Saturday 6 April 2013

Marianne challenge 'at the bottom of the garden'

Hi there, thank you for stopping by my blog, I hope your all having a wonderful weekend, over here in the UK we have some sunshine at last yay! So what better way to celebrate than to make a card :) (any excuse hey)

I am entering this card into the Marianne Diva challenge, if you would like to have look at their amazing cards and products head on over here

As you know I am obsessed with rolled flowers and have to stick them onto nearly every card I make I just love them, and honestly I feel lost if I don't use them on a card he he! Okay I admit I really do have a problem with them :)


I would also like to enter this to the ribbon girl challenge and docrafts if you would like to take part head on over at:http://ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
http://docraftsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/xcut-border-punch-to-be-won.html?m=1

They have some gorgeous cards from their design team, and you will be inspired :)



Thursday 4 April 2013

Enjoy your travels card; Shabby Tea room week #160 'beautiful blues'

Hello there! How have you been, its been so cold here in the U.K again, we did actually have a few days where the sun was out woohoo! But today its been snowing! I can't keep up with spring this year, I really hope we get lots more sunshine :)

On a much brighter note this weeks challenge at the shabby tea room was to make a card using the colours Blue,Cream or white and Kraft. We had this gorgeous photo foe inspiration. If you want to take part head on here. There are so many lovely cards from their gorgeous design team you are bound to find something to drool over.

 
 
I would also like to enter this into wordart Wednesday challenge #74-anything goes. They are a lovely bunch over there and always so kind and friendly. If you want to take part head on over here.


So here is my take on this weeks challenge. I decided to use a travel theme as I don't think I have ever made a travel card! I really enjoyed taking part and found myself making more travel cards.
 

 
 








 
So here is a list of products I used:
 
White card blank
Echo park for the record 2 paper (blue polka dot)
Cosmo cricket girlfriends paper
Papermania all aboard collection
Paper smooches greeting stamp
Versamark ink
Blue letter stickers Splendid Fiins
Banner, aeroplane and heart ticket cut from silhouette machine
Foam Pads
Twine
Die cut tag sizzix
Die cut heart Sizzix
 
 
 
Thank you for stopping by my blog, I love reading your comments. I hope you all have a wonderful week! See you soon,
 
hugs,
 
vic