Spiral Rose Card

Good morning, this is the card we made with the Spiral Flower die:

I used Baked Brown Sugar as the base and Primrose Petals and Raspberry Ripple for the roses. I embossed Very Vanilla cardstock with the Script embossing folder but unfortunately that is no longer current (I didn't realise this until after I'd used it) I find these roses are much easier to make if you spritz them with a little water before rolling them up, and then use a hot glue gun. That way they stick immediately. Here's a close up:

Hope like this. Next time I'll show you a matching box which holds tea lights. x

Spiral Rose Gift Bag

Good morning, here are some more detailed photos of the projects we made in The Spiral Flower Class a while ago. This was the gift bag we made:

We took a plain brown bag and decorated it by cutting 2 banners from the Designer Paper Stacks (I'm still using the old style paper stacks) We then made 2 roses using the Spiral Flower die and a smaller bud by using half a spiral. The leaves were cut using the Little Leaves Sizzlets die. Here are some close up of the roses:

I'll show you the other projects soon. x

Easter card

Hi everyone. This is the Easter card we made in our Easter class. for some reason this photo has turned out very 'blue' so apologies.

There was very little stamping on this card. We used the Petite Petals punch to make the flowers and one of the Itty Bitty Punch Pack flowers to make the centres. The Little Leaves Sizzlets die was used for, guess what, the leaves. The oval was embossed using the one of the Designer Frames embossing folders. Here's a close up:

And a close up of the bow:

All the products can be found in my on-line store here. I'll be back soon to show you the other products we made. x

Diary class, matching card

Good morning everyone, as promised here is the matching card to go with the diary and box we made in card class:



And here's the close up:



And here are all three projects together.

The photos weren't very good, now it gets dark so early, so here's another one:

If you want to buy any of the products needed to make these projects, please contact me. I'll be back soon with more. x

2013 Diary and box class

Hi everyone, this is what we made in card class this week. We altered a diary and made a matching box so you can give it as a present. To complete the set, we also made a matching card. Here are the diary and box:



We used the Twitterpated Designer Series papers and I designed everything else around those papers, choosing to use Indigo Island as a my main colour with a bit of Riding Hood Red. This is the front of the box:



The sentiment stamp has been discontinued but it's one of my all time favourites so I'm not quite ready to let it go yet. The butterfly is from the Creative Elements stamp set and the label outline and number stamps are from the extremely versatile Memorable Moments stamp set. As you can see the stamp matches the Framelits Labels Collection:

Because I use my diary all the time at work and it's in and out of my bag all day long, I wanted to keep everything very flat. That isn't the case for the box so I was able to put the butterflies on 3D pads to give them some depth. The flowers on the diary were punched using the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack and the leaves were cut using the Little Leaves Sizzlets and Big Shot.

Here's another look at the diary:



And the matching box:



I hope you liked these. I'll show you the matching card next time. x

 

Golfing Owl

Hi everyone, I haven't done much blogging lately and I will try and make up for it - promise. Here's a card I made for my father-in-law's birthday, last month:

As per usual it's a pretty bad picture but my husband has a new i-phone and much as I hate to admit it, we can get far better quality photos on that, than we do with our fairly new camera - typical. Unfortunately though, this was taken with the camera. Here's a close up, which is a better picture:

I used Chocolate Chip as a base card, Bashful Blue card for the background and the Owl Punch to create the owl out of scraps of Chocolate Chip; Real Red; Pumpkin Pie cardstock and Springtime Vintage designer paper. The leaves were cut out of Certainly Celery card using the Little Leaves die and the Big Shot. I happened to have a golf club die but you could easily handcut a golf club.

I decorated the inside of the card to make it a little bit more special. The card seemed a bit boring to me but my father-in-law liked it and we all know how difficult cards for men are.

I used the Curly Cute stamp set for the Greeting, and the Scallop Trim border punch for the edging. You can adapt the Owl punch to almost any occasion by 'dressing' the owl and the Owl can be turned into lots of other things which is what we'll be doing in the Owl class on the 20th July.


I still have some places left on the Owl punch class, so have a look at the 'classes' tab at the top of the blog for further details and contact me if you would like some fun and play with the punch yourself. x