CR84FN 35

I am really into Lavender and Green at the moment so this colour swatch from CR84FN was definitely calling my name, although when I had finished my card I had such a job to get a photograph showing the true colours that I almost decided to give up!

 In the close up you can see the background I made with Pumice Stone and Milled Lavender Distress ink, I then distressed the edges before setting it into the frame.

After stamping the Hydrangea I have cut it out and pop dotted it to the card adding some tiny pearls for dimension. 
I am also going to enter this into the Moxie Fab Worlds Fanatical about Botantical Challenge.

Its been so good to be back in my craft room, lucky me as I still have 4 weeks of school holidays left!!



Supplies: Hero Arts Stamps. CG196 Canvas Stripes, CG139 Cling Dots, S5324 Simple Frame, K5376 Hydrangea. S5435 Graph Background.  Distress Inks, Pumice Stone, Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord and Tea Dye.

Lucy's Lovely Lines challenge

If you are looking for the current Cards Pattern Sketch card and the Tiffany Doodles Challenge card please see here.

I made this card for the challenge over at the Lily Pad Blog set by Lucy Abrams but I realize that I am too late , never mind I will post it anyway.  Its a very simple card made using the cuttlebug elephant die cut and lots of pretty pink scraps of paper. I have also added a small border using the Magical Background die from Hero Arts.

I am still recovering from my Holiday in France and have a pile of washing and ironing the size of a small mountain lol.  I can't wait to get creating again, in the meantime here are a few photos I took in sunny Nice.

This is one of the old Art Nouveau hotels on the seafront lit up at night, so pretty!!

This is the beautiful home of Claude Renoir the painter, now a fabulous museum and gallery.

This is Renoirs stunning garden looking over to the medieval hill top town.

Some old houses in Nice, the light was amazing and you can understand why all the old impressionist painters loved to live and paint in the South of France.

Every day in the square next to our apartment they held a farmers market, all the produce was of such a high quality and always beautifully displayed.  This is the local soap stall, the soaps are made from locally grown flowers and the smell from this stall was amazing! My favourite was the lavender!

Hope to make some cards tomorrow.

Card Patterns Sketch 127

This Saturdays Card Patterns Sketch 127 is sponsored by Tiffany Doodles so as part of the design team I was asked to make a card.

Such a great sketch and so easy to work with, I decided to use this digital image by Tiffany called Flower Vase. This is one of my favourites from Tiffany's shop, go check it out as there are so many great designs to choose from and so reasonable too!

I used just the flower section of the image and copied it 6 times in two different sizes, next I reversed three of the flowers for a different look.  They have all been coloured with copics and then highlighted with a white gel pen. After cutting I pop dotted some on position for more depth.

The Card Patterns challenge finishes on Friday, Aug 12th at 11:59pm EST , why don't you give it a try? cant wait to see all your creations.

This card also works for the Kraft Krazy challenge over at the Tiffany Doodles Blog .

Simply create a NEW card using any digital stamp. (check your freebie stash!!)!! You may use any stamp you like for this challenge! You have until the 21st of the August, to play!

Don't forget to add your card to the Tiffany Doodles Flickr Gallery - (only if you use a Tiffany Doodles digi stamp) Tagged with: TD15

Yipee its the end of term!!!!!!!!

At last we have reached the end of a very long and busy term at school,  in the past couple of weeks I have not had any spare time to be creative or visit all of your lovely blogs.  We break up for six weeks tomorrow and then this weekend I am off for two weeks holiday in sunny France I am really looking forward to the break and relaxation time.

When I get back I promise to visit all of your blogs and try to catch up a bit, I also want to get back to creating I really miss it.

Thanks for all your comments I love to read them all.

CAS Friday challenge #10

Another week has flown by and there is another challenge over at the CAS-ual Fridays blog, this time the theme is shaped cards.  I have had this card blank in my stash for ages so this was the perfect opportunity to use it.  The cetral flower is the Hero Arts stamp Large Flower, I have stamped and cut this out and then distressed with Scattered Straw ink.  Then I overstamped with Old Letter Writing.  The sentiment is from the new Congrats set that I have put on my stamping block in a curve to fit the petal shape.

Hope your week has started well.

New images at Tiffany Doodles!

 There are two new releases over at the Tiffany Doodles today 3DHeart and Sweet Butterfly.  I have chosen the Sweet Butterfly image to make two cards. The top one I have made into a butterfly shape mini card or tag, I have coloured the image with copics, added a wire antennae and then white highlight dots with a gel pen.

This second card has been paper pieced and I have added more wire antennae.
Check out the other fabulous cards made by the design team and also guest designer Tiffany Ervin, for one week this image is 10% off so grab it while its cheap!!

Tiffany Doodles July Challenge!

Its the 7th of the month and time for a new challenge over on the Tiffany Doodles blog, this month the challenge is "All creatures Great and Small".  The design team have made some really cute cards with some of the great images Tiffany has for sale, check out the blog for some inspiration!

I have decided to use this pretty butterfly image.  I have re sized the butterfly four times and printed out on some patterned paper then I have added extra highlights with my copics.  The background is made using two stamps from Hero Arts, the Classic Fabric design and the Envelope Pattern and stamping with Wild Honey distress ink.

I have added some pearls for a bit of sparkle. You have until 21st July to add your cards,  Tiffany has a sale on at the moment buy 10 digi's and get 20% off your order!!  I can't wait to see your cards.

Hero Arts July Challenge

 This months theme over at Hero Arts is "Summertime and Parties",  I am always inspired by Suzanne's cards and the way she makes beautiful scenes with alot of detail, so far from the CAS style that I have been trying lately.

Here is my attempt at that style, I decided to dust off a few older Hero Arts stamps and have a play.

I started by stamping and embossing in black the silhouette grass stamp, I then made a mask for the sun and distressed with lots of Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade and Forest Moss ink.  Then I removed the mask and gently applied Scattered straw ink to the sun. 

For the poppies I stamped and embossed in black again on some bright red card, I cut out the poppies and added the seed beads. The butterflies are stamped and embossed on vellum.

A Gift Set!

 I needed a small gift for a friend so decided I would have a go at my first gift card set.  I was really pleased with the effect on this card so decided to use the same stamps, this time though I made a mask for the frame so these are almost one layer cards. I have just added the images to Kraft cards.

First I stamped the Old Letter stamp on the white card and embossed in white, for the five cards I have used five different colourways using various distress inks blended together.  Lastly I added the Hydrangea  and the sentiment.

To finish off the set I have made a Pizza Box using this tutorial, only before sticking together I used the spellbinders label die to cut a hole in the lid and added acetate for a window.

The front of the box is also distressed and stamped with Old letter writing.

Its a beautiful day today and we are off to a family barbeque, hope all my American visitors are having a fun holiday weekend.

Supplies: Various colours of distress inks.  Hero Arts stamps, S4878 Old Letter Writing. CG197 Old Letter.K5378 Hydrangea. CL342 Everyday Sayings. CL272 All Occasion Sayings.

Curly labels!!

Its Friday so release day over at the Tiffany Doodles blog,  when I first saw these Curly Label images I knew it was time I re organised my craft room ( I have been meaning to do it for ages and these images inspired me)

I decided to label my storage jars, these are my special Antique buttons and I re sized and printed the labels, cut them out, then distressed the edges and stamped lightly with the Envelope Pattern stamp from Hero Arts.
As you can see I have also added lace and some new buttons to the lid for decoration.

I was so pleased with the result that I also decorated my ribbon and flower jars!

If you check out the Tiffany Doodles site you will see that Tiffany and Anette have created some amazing cards using these labels, they really are very versatile!!!!