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.