Pan Pastels and Lavinia Stamps

Afternoon everyone.  Bit of a shock this morning when I got up and saw the snow, I can't recollect the weather report saying anything about it... Still it's gone now, thank goodness.

I'm posting a card today I've made for a colleagues birthday.  I've been experimenting again with Pan Pastels along with Lavinia Stamps.  I've also used some organza baby blue ribbon and a few gems from stash. The inside is decorated in similar design and colours.  Hope you like it. Have a smashing evening, I'm looking forward to Upstairs Downstairs later.  Hugs Dee xxx



Marianne Creatables Butterfly and Cosmo Cricket Papers

A warm welcome everyone, to a beautiful sunny spring morning.  It started off very wet after heavy rain started saturday afternoon and didn't stop all night.  I have enjoyed a leisurly morning watching Barbara (Clarity Stamps) on tv.  It's her birthday today and she received an overwhelming number of e-mails.  She's a lovely lady I met her last November at the NEC show, I just caught the latter end of a demo using the Noel stamp and I had bought a few bits from her stall she kindly dropped the card she had made into my basket.  I was so chuffed.  She is such a talented lady.  I shall visit her stall again later this month at the NEC.

Anyway, my first posting today is using an A5 card I have made for a colleagues birthday next Friday at work.  I have cut the card diagonally on the front, covered with cosmo cricket papers. I cut an oval using an X cut punch and sprayed with cosmic shimmer copper mist.  I die cut a Marianne Creatable Butterfly and sprayed this the same.  3 flowers also lightly sprayed. A few gems for a bit of glitz.  I punched out small butterflies to flutter around, bronze and lemon ribbon tied down the spine and a happy birthday to finish.

My second posting is an A5 easil card in greys and silvers, also using the Marianne Creatables large butterfly, I do love Marianne dies they seem to make a statement on their own.  I covered the card in Kanban card and papers.  I punched out some small butterflies and sprayed with DB Moonlight shimmer mist.  Added a couple of small silver peel offs, a happy birthday and job done.

I'm in the process of completing another couple of cards for family, one will be for my hubby's birthday on March 26th.  Hope you're all having a great weekend.  toodle hoo for now.  Dee xx

Flowers and Swirls in black and gold

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since I last posted but just seem to have been so busy lately.  Just a quick couple of cards tonight that I've made over the past few days.  The first being a birthday card for a friend's 65th.  Felt like doing something a little different using peel offs, glimmer mists and metal flakes.  I used an  8 x 8 white card, sprayed with bronze cosmic shimmer mist.  Using a stix 2 double sided sheet and a peel off, I covered one side with metal flakes.  I layered this onto gold and black card.  I layered swirl peel offs onto bronze card.  A piece of black ribbon, a ribbon bow,a few black gems, job done..

My second card is an A6 card for a new baby boy.  I ran a piece of blue card through my big shot using the cuttlebug spotty embossing folder and layered a kanban picture onto it.  Made a bow with blue ribbon, a couple of embellishments, a few gems and a teddy peel off in the corner.

Hopefully at the weekend I will post 2 more that I have in the pipeline.  I will also post my cute valentine I made for hubby.....bet you can't wait to see it....... thanks for stopping by and any newcomers who have stopped to look at my blog along the way you're all very welcome.  Dee xx

It's a Dog's life

Hi  Everyone,

Just a quick card I made today for a work colleague's birthday that I forgot. She has a dog just like this, so thought it appropriate.  It's another Kanban topper, layered onto Bazzil card with some pink ribbon, flowers and gems.  Finished off with some peel offs.  Quick and simple.  I'm also in process of completing my card for Eileen's Allhallows Crop card making competition - February challenge, I will post this onto the events page in the next week.  Back to work tomorrow, can't wait for tomorrow evening to do a bit more crafting.....te hee....  Thanks for looking tonight.  Dee xx

Swirly Gems, Shaving foam & shimmer mists

Hi,  I've been busy having a play today.  I've made 2 cards in a similar style but different colours. I got the idea for these from watching Dawn Bibby's last DVD, so can't take the credit for the idea of using shaving foam, although using it in crafting has been around for umpteen years, but I think in this day and age of modern crafting it's been forgotten.  The first card is using black, silver and grey.  Firstly spray some shaving foam onto a paper plate (easy to throw away), Decide on colour choice and spray shimmer mists onto the shaving foam.  Cut a shape using white gloss card and dunk it onto the foam, pressing down lightly to cover.  Buff the foam off with paper towel and you're left with a lovely swirly design.  Leave to dry, matt and layer onto cardstock.  I've embellished using swirly gems & pearls, and paper flowers, misted with shimmer sprays.  Job Done.  Easy cards really, just a bit messy and time consuming, but a nice change.  My 2nd card posted is Pink, but made using the same technique.

If I get a little bit of time Sunday in between housework, I'm going to try some stamping with colours using Lavinia stamps  (before they become moth balled with lack of use)!!  Well hope to see you soon.

Love
Dee xx

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