Blue pop-up box with roses

Today's project is another pop-up box (see 25th Aug for instructions), which could be used as a card or would make a lovely ornament.

This first image shows the pop-up box folded down to an A5 size, as it would be presented in a box. 

This image shows the pop-up box as it would be displayed.

I took panels of the Papermania Parisienne Blue Capsule Collection and inked around the edges with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink.  I handmade the roses using the Britannia Small and Medium Rose dies. The leaves were also cut from Britannia dies.

We plough the fields

The card I want to showcase today is one that I made for my nephew
who is studying agriculture and working on a farm.

I started with a 6in square card, some white card and paper and a piece of gold mirri.
The picture consists of two stamps, both by Art Kure, and both stamped in Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  First, I stamped the image of the horses ploughing, masked it off and stamped the tree-line over the top so that the trees appeared to be in the background.  I inked all of the card the picture was on with Tea Dye DI, leaving only the horses white.  I matted this card onto the gold mirri (which unfortunately looks black in the photo).  I used two further mats, inked with the colours already used, and used a cream card as the base.

Mum's birthday card

For Mum's birthday card this year I started with a decoupaged image and a greeting plaque from Papermania's Botanicals Collection to use on an 8x8in card, and went from there.

As the rose in the decoupage had a coral hint to some of the petals, I added a border to match around the base panel to frame it and around the edge of the different layers of the greeting panel.

I use the Tattered Lace embossing folder, Butterfly Garden, as the background and coloured it with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink, to tie in with the butterflies on the  greeting plaque.  I also used the Doily embossing folder from Tattered Lace, but cut around one of the two embossed areas and edged it with the coral pen used earlier.

I die-cut the Demure Butterfly, again by Tattered Lace, coloured it coral and added pearls along the body.  The roses are handmade from the Small and Medium Rose dies by Britannia, and coloured to match the three main colours used.  

Blue Chrysanthemum

Another pretty, but simple, 5x5in card.

I started out with nothing but white card and paper.  I cut the mats using Tonic layering dies, the corner is the Tattered Lace Oriental Chrysanthemum and the greeting is from the All Occasion Sentiments, also by Tattered Lace.  I coloured the bottom mat, the chrysanthemum and the greeting with a single Spectrum Noir Pen (TB3) and put everything together.  I really like this monochromatic look, hope you do, too.

Lace Doily

Today's project is a 6x6in card.

I cut two square mats and a circle, with Tonic layering dies, and the Tattered Lace Doily Flourish.  The pink card was a piece of card left over from a previous project, but I coloured the mauve mat and the doily with Spectrum Noir pens. The flowers and leaves were cut from the Tattered Lace Mini Blooms, coloured with colours from the Spectrum Noir range to match the bottom mat, shaped and layered up.  The greeting was cut from the Tattered Lace All Occasion Sentiments, and again coloured to match.  The fronds were cut from the Britannia Fern Strip.  To finish, I added mini pearls to the centre of each flower.

New Venture

I spent yesterday morning setting up a new venture.  I have leased a shelf in a local shop, Wigglywoo's Craft Emporium, and am hoping to sell some of my crafty makes there.

Hope people will like what I make.

Study in blue and white

I wanted to make a very quick and simple card which looked lovely and would go in the post easily, so I came up with this.

All the dies I used are from Tattered Lace.  I cut the Bloomsbury die and the greeting, using the All Occasions Sentiments dies, from white Centura Pearl Card, and the flowers, Mini Blooms, from white irridescent paper, and coloured them all with a Spectrum Noir pen (TB3).  After shaping and layering up the flowers, I stuck everything onto the card.  I added pearls to the centre of all the flowers, including those on the central panel.

Pink with white daisies

Today's offering is a simple 5x5in card.

Using the Tonic layering dies, I cut a pink mat and attached it to a white 5xin card.  I cut The Tattered Lace Daisy Flourish, made an organza bow and adhered both to the card.  I put a single pink gem into the centre of the daisies and into each corner.  To finish, I added a greeting.

As I said, a simple, but effective, card.  Hope you agree.

Bold and Beautiful

If you've been following my blog you might recognize the design I've used for today's project.

This card was made in the same way as yesterday's, except that I've added an extra mat and used much bolder colours.  I just wanted to show that, even if you do make the same card again and again, the finished item can look completely different depending on the colour combinations that are used.  The Tattered Lace Florentine Large English Rose die was also used on a card that I posted 30 July.  

Florentine Rose

Today's project is a very simple A6 card, using a die-cut that I have utilised many times as it is absolutely beautiful.

I took a piece of dark green card, embossed it with the 'Lattice' embossing folder by Crafts Too and stuck it to the card base.  I cut the 'Florentine Large English Rose', by Tattered Lace, from pink pearlescent card and backed it with a burgandy paper.  The greeting, cut from the pink card, was cut from the Tattered Lace 'Sentiments' dies.

I hope you like the colour combination.

Otter

I just love the image on this project.  I decided that it was so good it didn't really need much to make a beautiful card.

The otter has been painted by Jayne Netley Mayhew and I printed it from one of the CD-Roms of her designs, which has been put together by Joanna Sheen.  

The image already had a frame around it, so all I did was use a large mat of charcoal grey and a small one of dark blue.  I used a small rectangle of the blue to add a peel-off greeting.

Dandelions

This card was once again cut using the Tonic layering dies and creating a frame from the same card.

I cut the Tattered Lace Florentine Edges set 1 and placed it behind the frame, cutting off the excess that hung over the sides.  I cut three of the Tattered Lace Dandelion die and eight if the "Dandelion Clock" pieces that comes with it.  I coloured the stems green and the rest pale pink.  I placed the three dandelions across the card, slightly under the edge die, and glued some mini pearls into the centre of each one.  I put two of the "clock" pieces into each corner and added a pearl.  I finished off by adding a pink bow, which I made on my new toy, the fabulous Bow Maker.

Mauve and lemon lace

Today's card is a variation on the card I made last Friday.  It was made in exactly the same way, apart from the flowers.

The flowers were made from the Britannia Rose dies, small, medium and large.  I used two of the five petal die-cuts from each size.  I glued and pinched the end of each individual petal and built them up, offsetting each layer.  The final step was adding pearls to the centre of each flower.

Birds in a frame

Last month I went to the Great British Craft Festival, which was great.  Hunkydory gave everyone a free gift, which was a kit called "Feathered Friends", and a beautiful kit it was too.  I've taken one of the sheets of card from the kit and used it on a 6x6in MDF frame.

As the main feature, I used the picture of the birds from one corner and cut it down to fit into the central aperture.  From the opposite corner I cut an outer frame, cutting around the flourish so that it overlapped the centre.  I added some pink flowers to the flourish to echo the flowers in the picture, and added some Flower Soft to the middle of each one.  I added some diecut butterflies from the Cheery Lynn Mini Dimensional Butterflies, colouring some pink, to tie in with the flowers, and some brown and orange, to match the butterfly in the picture.

Hope you like it.

Summer Days

Today's offering is a simple, but pretty A6 card.

I coloured the edge of some paper and matted it onto the card base.  I embossed a piece of Centura Pearl card with a Crafts Too embossing folder called Summer Days, and layered it onto the card.  I cut three butterflies from dies by Cheery Lynn, Mini Dimensional Butterflies and Small Exotic Butterflies, coloured their matching angel wings and adhered them to the card.  I made some flowers from the Tattered Lace Mini Blooms dies and placed these, and some leaves, in the empty corners.  I finished by adding some pearls to the centre of the butterflies, some faux pearls, using Cosmic Shimmer glue, to the flowers and a peel-off greeting.