Baptism card and matching candle

Good morning everyone, today I'd like to share a card and candle that I made for a customer order.

First the card, I used a Forever friends bear from a Docrafts Cd, I personalised it and then printed on to card and also the same image onto water decal paper, to use on the candle. Next I cut it out using a Spellbinders label die, and matted on to gold mirri and then pink card.

I layered a scallop edge card with gold mirri, pink then white embossed dots card. A piece of pink satin ribbon was layered across, just off centre and the image topper was attached with 3d foam. Two double bows were added made from the same pink ribbon.

To finish some pearls, a florish and a card candy flower ( remember those I made on Monday?)

 



 

 

Here's the candle I made to match using the water slide decal paper. Sooo cute !!

 

 

I am entering this into

Simon Says stamp challenge -Anything-goes

 

Thanks for looking

Hugs Sue

 

 

 



White Wedding Card

I have been asked to make a wedding card for a friend of mine and this is what I came up with.

 

 

I used Centura pearl card, which is white with a beautiful golden glimmer. I embossed a layer and enhanced it with Distress inks

I printed the sentiment on to white card and to use it as the focal point I die-cut it using a decorative die. 

 

This was added on top of more centura pearl card die cut using Spellbinders Morrocan border die, layered with white chiffon and gold ribbon, then decorated with large pearls. 

I made some rolled flowers added more pearls to the centers and die cut foliage from gold textured card and more centura pearl. Viola!! I am pleased with the finished card and decided to make a decorative candle to go with.

 

 

Hope you like them and thanks for looking.

I am entering this card into

 Joanna Sheen challenge - Totally Sentimental

Simon says Stamp - Anything goes

Tuesday Alchemy - Anything goes

Hugs Sue x

 

Painted rose card

Good morning all, I'd like to share a card with you today.

 Its painted in the Paint Fusion style but the rose heads have been done free hand. I used papers from Sheenas cd.

I embossed the edges with gold and used some paper rosebuds, flowers and ribbon to embellish.

Challenges I would like to enter

Delicious Doodles - #17- Loads of layers

Crafts and Me  - We are going 3d

Cute card Thursday - Spring flowers

Simon says stamp - April showers bring spring flowers

Just a very quick post today as I've got some orders to get ready.

Hugs Sue x

Saturday challenge card

Good afternoon, I hope your having a wonderful Saturday.

Last night I put my paints away and got out my Promarkers and Copics. I stamped lots of House Mouse images and had a few hours colouring in. Love it, so relaxing. I been very busy today, taking the children to and fro their activities, doing the usual house work, washing, etc, etc, but

I've just managed to fit in making a quick card to enter some challenges. Here it is.....

I followed the sketch over at Sketch Saturday, always a good idea if short on time, otherwise I sit swapping and changing the layout for ages.

I used this adorable HM image, coloured last night with Promarkers and Copics.

I layered up on green and pink card and used a backing paper from stash, edging all layers and edges with Forest Moss Distress ink 

I used a Martha Stewart border punch under the image and a sentiment from a House Mouse rubber stamp set. I finished off by layering up some flowers with a metal centre embellishment and some small plastic daisies and popped a gem stone in the centre of each.

Hope you like it.

I am also entering it into these challenges

Sweet Stampin - Use lots of green

Joanna Sheen - Spring is in the air

Stamp, Scrap and Doodles - Green and White

Totally Gorjuss - Spring

Simon says Stamp - a little bit of green

Catch up tomorrow,

Hugs Sue x

Deep red roses

Hi everyone, sorry I've missed a couple of days, I'm such a bad blogger, but I've been getting ready for the next couple of weekend craft fairs.

Anyhoo here's my card for today...

I thought I'd have a try at painting deep red roses, as they are my very favourite colour, my wedding bouquet was made up of loads of these, so many in fact that I found it very difficult to hold for any length of time, I had to keep putting it down for a rest. It was absolutely stunning though!

I used a couple of Spellbinders edgeabilities along the edges of my red mat, unfortunately the corners didn't match up very well, so I cut them away and added a morrocan accent corner instead.

I covered the card blank with two papers from Sheenas cd and I did add two moroccan borders along the join, but the topper is so large you cant see it  :o(
I finished with a couple of ribbon bows, some red rosebuds, pearl headed pins, a happy birthday sentiment and a red gem in each corner.

I hope you like it.!
I'm going to enter it into
Creative inspirations - Anything goes challenge
and Simon says Stamp - Anything goes

I'll be back tomorrow, enjoy the rest of your day.

Hugs Sue x

2nd post today - SSDS card

Told you I'd be back, (sound like Arnie)

Todays challenge at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday is

Use Old Stash

I've used one of the first Sugar Nellie stamps that I first bought and had totally forgotten about.

I actually stamped  and coloured it ages ago, so I've no idea what I used and you can see there is no shading to speak of. I kept it quite simple, using a couple of old papers from stash and a pre printed sentiment, couple of flowers and some dotty ribbon.

Hope you'll join in with us this week and use up some of your old stash.

Challenges I am entering 

Simon says Stamp - Look what the stork brought 

SSDS DT card - Mothers Day

This weeks challenge over at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday is

Mothers Day

I wanted to make something a bit different for me and I found this shoe template that I've had for years and never used and thought it was perfect for this weeks theme.

I used some papers and card candy from Craftwork Cards and some really delish pink pearlescent card.

You can see the dimension of the shoe in this pic.

Lets see what you come up with.

Challenges I am entering

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

ABC challenge S is for ...

Sparkle

Thats right its Wednesday and that means a new challenge at ABC and our sponsors for this challenge are

 One Stop Card Crafts.

Its a nice easy one so lets see some sparkley creations.

I chose to do something a bit different for me, I stamped and embossed a large butterfly twice and coloured both in using Twinkling H2O's and also used a black Sakura glitter pen around the coloured parts. I stamped around the edge of one with a swirl stamp and embossed with hologram embossing powder, then matted it onto red glitter card.

I cut out the second one and layered it using glue gel to give a dimensional effect and added gold wire antenna.

You can see the dimension better in this photo.

I finished off the card with some gold glitzy ribbon and flowers from stash.

Although the photo doesn't show it well, the whole effect is very sparkly, some may say over the top, but not me, the sparklier the better.

Please come over to the ABC challenge and dazzle me with all your sparkly creations.

I would like to enter it into these challenges

Crafty Purple Frog - Touchy feely -Textural

Simon says stamp - Emboss it

Top tip Tuesday - Open challenge

Flutterby Wednesday - Open challenge

Sophie's birthday



Here's a commissioned card I have just made for a friend of mine's daughter. As you can see she will be 9 next month and her name is Sophie. I hope I'm ok posting it, I dont think she will see it on here.
I followed Debbies sketch over at Cute Card Thursday challenge. As I was asked to include her name and age on the card, I decided to make an easel design.
The papers are from Papermania Summer Bloom pad.

I coloured Willow Dancing using Copics. This was the nearest I could get to blonde, as the little girl who this is for has lovely blonde hair and I wanted to make it look like her.

I used swirl die cuts and flowers to finish the front detail. 

For the base panel I used the same papers, stamped and embossed her name with Mothers Day Pink powder. I finished it with holographic pink peel off borders and pink pearls.

Here's a view from the side to show the Easel design.

I am going to enter this into these challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch by Debbie

Dutch Dare - Celebration

Colour Create - Pastels

Fab n Funky - Do it more than once- Folds!

Crafty Catz - Pearls and Swirls

Delicious Doodles - Floral fantasy

Simon says stamp - Mothers day or Girlie

Crafty Cardmakers - #42 -Special Birthday

SSDS challenge - Not a card but Butterfly coasters

Good morning all, its Saturday that means a new challenge at Stamp, Scrap and Doodles Saturday.

This week we have a

Photo Inspiration

This photo inspired me to create something a bit different, not a card this week.

 I love the colours, the flowers and the butterfly, so whilst I had my paints out I decided to paint a few simple stamped images, and make a couple of gifts

The first is a set of 4 butterfly coasters. I stamped the wild rose flowers and painted them. Then I stamped the pretty butterfly and also painted that. Finally I stamped over the top of the painted butterfly using Versamark and embossed with a glitter embossing powder and also embossed around the edge of the coaster.

I also used the same method to create the door hanger.

You can see the glittery embossing a little better on this close up of the butterfly.

I hope you like these and that the photo gives you lots of inspiration. I cant wait to see what you create.

I am going to enter them into these challenges:

Stamp with fun - Spring

Papertake Weekly - Something for mum or girlie

Simon says stamp - Mothers day or girlie

Creative Inspirations - No square card allowed

ABC challenge P is for Pearls

Good morning all, its Wednesday, that means its time for another ABC challenge. Last week team A challenged you all with P is for Pink and what a lot of fantastic pink cards and creations you all made. Brilliant!

This week its team B's turn and our challenge for P is Pearls. Our sponsors this week are Whiff of Joy, so lets see all those beautiful pearls on your cards.

Here's my card to give some inspiration

As soon as I heard that Whiff of Joy were sponsoring this challenge I knew straight away which stamp I was going to use. This is Dancing Willow, isnt she wonderful, so beautiful.

I layered up patterned papers with pink card and distressed the edges with pink brilliance and a little distress ink.

I used a Marianne Design Creatables Doily die cut and 2 magnolia doohickey swirls and added some pearls to the ends.

I coloured her with Copics and gave her a proper pearl necklace and droplet on her bracelet.

I finished with flowers from Wild Orchid and if you look closely you can see I snuck in a few more pearls.

Hope you like it! and I'm looking forward to seeing what you make.

I would like to enter it into this weeks Simon says Stamp challenge - Anything Goes

A Micey Nice Birthday

Good evening all, hope you've all had a restful weekend. I've actually managed to get in my craft room this afternoon. Its not been the same since my hubby put his computer in here, I can't get a look in, he's always in, sat at the computer and as much as I love him, I like to craft alone, with the door closed and listen to music, not the sounds of him playing action games. Oh well rant over, I have made a card today.

I followed the sketch from Friday Sketchers #143 by Claudia. The papers are from a Papermania pad in shades of brown, cream and a little pink. I stamped some swirls on brown card using Versamark to get a watermark effect, for the first layer.

I used this adorable House Mouse stamp from the Ice Cream set and coloured with Promarkers.

I also stamped and coloured this cutie off the Dip set and cut him out to layer onto card. He's part of a larger image, but I used him as I thought he looked like he'd just fell in the tub of ice cream.

I made an easel style card and carried the sketch all through.

I decided to keep the embellishing to a minimum as I think there is quite enough going on, so I used a couple of strips of ribbon across the card and finished with a little ribbon bow.

These are the challenges that inspired this card;

Simon says Stamp - Coffee and cream

House Mouse - Favourite stamp

Cupcake - Cake and Ice cream

Spoon ful of Sugar - #140 Birthday wishes

Secret Crafters Saturday challenge - Sweet treats

Stamp Scrap and Doodle - Easel card

Ribbon girl - #5 Cream, pink and brown

Thanks for looking, I'm off to get things ready for school tomorrow. Bye x

Getting messy with powders and inks

I've been playing with embossing powders, Mica powders and Distress inks. Thought I'd make a few flowers from pattern paper, then I got carried away, adding glaze and antique gold mica powder.

I also had a go at embossing on to patterned paper and decided to put them together to make a card. This distressed, grungy look is totally out of my comfort zone, but I do like playing around.

These roses are made using punched patterned paper shapes, sprayed with mica spray, then cut down into various size bits ,embossed and glued together. The little ones were very fiddly. I then added glaze and dipped them in gold mica powder. They look so much nicer in real life, like they've been dipped in molten gold, the photo makes them just look dirty.

Many of you probably already know how to make these, but if not, let me know if you want detailed instructions and I'll do a tutorial.

This stamp is Agapanthus Cluster from Stampendous, stamped on to pattern paper, K and Co, and embossed in white. The background is the same stamp not embossed.

Everything was distressed and inked to within an inch of its life, I always go a bit over board once I get started.

I am going to enter this card into these challenges;

Stamp with fun - sketch by Emmi41 - I flipped it though, hope you dont mind.

The ABC challenge - Team A - O is for Old fashioned

Simon says stamp - Make your own embellishments

Paperplay - Add shine

Secret crafter - A Stamped flower