Pink and white stepper

This is an 8x8in stepper card which could be used for Christmas or even for a winter birthday.

Items used:-  Diesire Create-a-card 'Christmas Present' by Crafter's Companion
                         Tattered Lace 'Winter Wishes' die
                         Couture Collection 'Winter Flurries' trim die
                         Pink and white Centura Pearl card
                         Silver mirri card
                         'Spun Sugar' Distress Ink

Christmas Easel

I've been busy paper crafting items for Christmas.  Here's an easel that I've put on my shelf at www.wigglywoocraftemporium.co.uk.  I like it so much that I really wanted to keep it.

Items used:- Large Pinflair easel
                        Paper from Tattered Lace magazine CD-Rom Vol. 2
                        Britannia Poinsettia dies
                        Britannia Ivy die
                        Tattered Lace Winter Wishes die (cut in gold and overlaid in red)
                        Pearls
                        Organza ribbon (tied using the Bowmaker)

Tiger

Here's a card that I made for my oldest brother.

The background is made from an embossing folder by Sheena Douglass.  I applied Versamark to the embossing folder and used a piece of black card.  When I had embossed the card the Versamark had transfered to the card between the embossed lines.  I covered this with gold embossing powder and heat embossed it. 

 The tiger is a stamp, also by Sheena.  I stamped it with black Staz-On and water-coloured with Spiced Marmalade and Forest Moss Distress Inks. 

I folded a piece of card into a stepper card so that the tiger stands forward from the background.

Autumn

Another beautiful image from a CD-Rom by Jayne Netley Mayhew.

I didn't need to add much to this card as the picture is stunning, and reminds me of this time of year.  All I did was layer the image onto two mats, which drew out the colours in the image, and added a greeting.

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.