Easter basket close ups

Hi everyone, here are the close ups of the Easter Basket we made in our last class. There were lots of elements to this and we were hard pushed for time but I think everyone was pleased with the results:


Here's the butterfly on top of the handle. It was cut using the Beautiful Wings die, as were all the butterflies:



The side and handle attachement are shown below. The flowers were cut using the Blossom Party die, the label is from the Framelits Labels Collection. The Easter Greeting is from a retired stamp set.



Here are some close ups of the garden scene which is revealed when you lift the lid:

 

 

If you want to have a go at making this yourself, the tutorial can be bought from a very talented Australian demonstrator, Tanya Bell. You can find the details here. If you need any of the details, let me know as I'll be placing an order at the begining of April. Hope you have a lovely Easter. x

Reason to Smile

Hi everyone. Well I'm finally back and had a chance to do some crafting. As promised, I've used the gorgeous Reason to Smile stampset which you can get FREE during August, if you spend £60 or you can just buy it - BUT it's available only during August. Here's the first card:

I used Perfect Plum and Rose Red for this card. I stamped the flower heads twice, cut them out and stuck them on using 3D pads. Here's a close up: 

You can see in the photo above that the stamp set is a 2 step stamp set. That means that you stamp something twice. In this case you stamp a solid flower and then the outline of individual petals on top. The butterflies were cut using the Beautiful Wings embosslit and the Big Shot. A few rhinestones finished them off.

The border was punched using the Lace Ribbon border punch and again finished off with some rhinestones.

The background paper is from the Subtles Designer Paper Stack and it's Perfect Plum.

I hope you like this card. I'll be back soon with another example. x

Thank you card

Good morning, today's offering is a Thank You card made with Outlined Occassions, another FREE Sale-A-Bration stamp set. I wasn't too sure about this set initially but now that I've had a play, I love it. The colours I used are are Calypso Coral for the card base, Pretty in Pink and Melon Mambo for the flower. I'm telling you that now, because the colours look completely different in the close up pictures. This is because I always take my pictures in the dark - it's either early morning or late at night, so I have to take them without natural light. I can't wait for spring and summer so I can take pictures in natural light again - or, thinking about it, I should just take all my photos at the weekend. Anyway, here you are:

Here is the flower cut with the Flower Diasies no.2 die and the Big Shot. The brad in the middle is one of the in-colour brads, so it matches the base card perfectly.

Here is a close up of the greeting. I stamped it in Versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder. I then coloured the letters in with the Calypso Coral marker pen.

 

Here are some more cards I made as thank you cards for ladies who placed an order last week. These are slightly smaller so there wasn't really room for a flower, so I used the Beautiful Wings embosslits instead:



The colours for these are Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Melon Mambo Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush. Here are a couple of close ups. Hope you like them. x

Thinking of You

Good morning everyone. Today I'm sharing a card which I made for a friend who lost someone close to her family. I didn't want to do a traditional Sympathy card, so did this instead. I must apologise for the poor quality of my photos lately. I constantly end up taking these photos either early in the morning or in the evening and it's always dark outside!

The colours on this card are actually Concorde Crush and Basic Gray. You can see it better in the last couple of photos. The Basic Gray panel is from a discontinued designer paper but plain Basic Gray would work just as well.

I used my favourite Creative Elements stamp set for the background swirl, stamped in Concorde Crush ink and I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die and Big Shot, to cut the butterflies. I added a few pearls - you can see them better in the close up below:

As before, I stamped the inside with the butterfly from the Creative Elements stamp set and, in this photo you can finally see that the card is actually the deep purple of Concorde Crush. I used my trusty Curly Cute stamp set to stamp the sentiments and the Scallop Trim border punch to create the edging.

I was really pleased with how this card turned out. Just such a shame that it was for a sad occassion. See you soon.