21st Card for Him

Just sharing another card I made this week for one of Sarah's friends 21st.  I have recently bought a few reverse confetti dies and some from simon says stamp and just love them.  This one features the "Happy Birthday" from Simon Says Stamp.  Papers are from Echo Park.

Sarah's 21st

Finally had a moment to drop by and share some of the creations I made to celebrate my gorgeous daughter Sarah 21st birthday.  Cant believe my baby is 21!

First up here are a few shots of the High Tea decorations I made:

My cuttlebug was working overtime making lolly bags, bunting and banners, menu's etc.  The colour theme was apricot, grey and white.  We also used some of the bunting and design from the lolly bags to make thank you cards afterward.

And here is the card I made for Sarah.  This is the first exploding box card I have made and I just loved creating it.  The top layer of the cake is velcroed on so you can remove it to turn the battery operated tea light on and off.  You can see in some of the pics the tea light is on and some it's off.  All the papers were those we used for the High Tea decorating and from Kaisercraft!

 

 

 

 

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Embossing Paste - With Love

Hi there and thanks for dropping by.  I am back today to share another card created using embossing paste.  I just love using this product as I tallows me to incorporate an added dimension to my cards.

 For this card I used Wendi Vecci White Embossing Paste and an MFT Stencil.

 

The added embellishments on the card was made with a selection of my MFT dies and a few Martha Stewart punches.

 

 

 

The flower was the smallest royal rolled rose and I teamed it up with the bitty tag from their blueprints 6.  I also used two of their delicate doilies (one of my newest purchases which I know I will use over and over again - they are so cute).  The heart, leaves and circle were all made with MS punches and the word love was an MFT die.  I added some buttons, washi tape and a teeny peg.  The word with was from a sticker collection by Authetique.  The papers were from the Authetique Flourish Collection.  I love the 6x6 paper pad from the collection - the colours and patterns are so soft but bold in parts too.  Love the colour scheme of the collection - greys, mustard, pinks and green. 

 

 

Once again thanks for stopping by, would love to hear from you if you would like to add a comment too!

 

 

 

Embossing Paste

Today while the builder and tiler are working hard on our house renovations I have been having some fun in the craft studio playing with embossing/texture paste and I LOVE it!

The product I used was Studio 40 Wendy Vecchi Embossing/Texture Paste - Crackle Finish.

And I drew some sketch inspiration from one of my favourite card makers - Amy ShefferThis was the card she created -

 

You can see the post of her card - here

And this is my card:

 

 

 

I loved Amy's clean design but decided to add my own touch of shabby chic to the card along the way.

 

Initially I used a prima stencil and the paste to create the background and whilst this was drying I set about creating the elements to layer on top. Some of you may have seen the post of this on my facebook page - A Little Bit of Shabby.

 

 

The paste was so easy to spread with a palette knife and dries really quickly.  As it is crackle paste each chevron dries with a series of cracks and lumps through it which I loved!

 

I also added foam tape to some of the layers to add some dimension and allow the layering of the elements to stand out more clearly and spritzed on some Mr Hueys to add a random and subtle shine bit to the card.

 

The other new product I played with today was my new Happy Sentiments die and stamps from Simon Says Stamp.  I just adore the fine die cut word and the accompanying stamps in the set.

 

 

 

 



 

The papers were some of the left over scraps from my previous project.

 

I really loved the effect of the texture past and hope to find some time to play again real soon...........

 

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100th Sketch @ Retro Sketches

The lovely girls over at Retro Sketches are in celebration mode this week as they have published their 100th sketch challenge.  I love playing along with their sketches and this one is extra special as it's such a huge milestone for them.

Speaking of milestones my daughter and most of her friends will be celebrating their 21st birthdays in 2014 so I thought I would use this sketch to begin my collection of 21st cards so they are ready for the parties and events that lay ahead this year,

So here is the amazing and very cool 100th sketch from the girls at Retro Sketches

And this is the card I created from the sketch:

 

I noticed that one of the guest DT cards had taken the main elements of the sketch but shrunk them so I thought I would do something similar and use the elements to create the central part of the card and then mount it a second time before putting it on the card.

 

 

My banner strips are sitting underneath a little pocket created with my new MFT die namics pocket treat die. This was topped off with a velum die cut butterfly once again from MFT die namics.  The butterfly is a Mona Pendleton design and I just love the effect you get creating with vellum.  I cut the base butterfly once and the patterned wing overlay twice.  I have added some of me new Japanese twine firstly by tying the bow through the button then by scrunching some and putting it under the button.

 

 

Inside the pocket was the tag I created by cutting the pocket die again and trimming it down.

 

The little tag was finished off with a 21 cut from the MFT by the number die namics die, some pearls, punched heart, paper and a BBP rub on.  The peg was from Typo and the colour just worked so well.

 

Papers were from Echo Parks Beautiful Life and Simple Stories.

 

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DS136 - A Little More Procraftinating!

Another hot day and the gardening and housework will just have to wait - I'm procraftinating again!!!

A friend sent me the definition

and yes it's me ALL OVER!!!

I am still so in love with my new Maja Design  Vintage Summer Collection paper pad that I have used it again for this card.  Playing along with another challenge too made it all that much more fun.

The lovely Jen at The Deconstructed Sketch challenge has put this challenge up

I decided to flip the sketch this week and here is the flipped sketch and the card I created:

The flower component of the sketch was replaced by one of my favourite double bows with a button and I added a pin to the bow as well. 

It's a little hard to see in the pics but I have also used some of my new Japanese glittered twine.  Its so fine, delicate and provides a hint of glitz. 

I also added some double punched and layered butterflies and some pearls.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Retro Sketch #98 - Shout Out

Thanks again to the girsl over a Retro Sketches for the shout our for my card I uploaded to the #98 challenge.  Just love playing along with the challenges!

Heres the announcement - click here.

Here is my original post - click here

This is the card I made!

Maja Design Round Card

In my previous post I mentioned I was also making a 90th birthday card so I just popped back to share it with you.

The papers were from Maja Designs Vintage Summer Collection - just love the soft delicate colour palette and the floral papers in this collection.

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Colour Q Challenge - Anniversary Card

Been playing with some new papers and some of my favourite dies today making a card for a 50th Wedding Anniversary and a 90th Birthday.

I always love to play along with the Retro Girls and I have discovered that Ariel from the Retro Team also heads up and designs for Colour Q - a fabulous colour focused challenge blog.  So I decided to paly along with them for my anniversary card.

It just so happened that their challenge this week was focused on valentine/love and some gorgeous pink, kraft and white inspiration - perfect for a wedding anniversary card.

So here is their inspiration:

And this is the card I created:

I love the bold colours in the Colour Q challenge and think they give you a vibrant modern palette to create with.  However, when creating my card I decided to use the most softest of hints of each of the Colour Q colours as I wanted my card to have a shabby chic feel so I picked out a paper selection that contained hints of kraft, pink and white and teamed it up with ivory cardstock and embellishments.  I also inked parts of the card with TH distress ink to bring our more of the kraft colour.  I also added some stitching in ivory thread around the edge of the main circle element and the horizontal banner.

AlsoI have had to change my photography booth around during our house renovations soapologies if my photography and the colouring of the images is a little off. 

The papers were from Maja Designs Vintage Summer Basics - I just love this collection!

The embellished sections were created with some MFT die-namics, kaisercraft flowers, MS frond punch, pearls and some tiny stickers which I trimmed down to size. To highlight the 50 I got out my Gel Roll glitter pen and coloured them in.

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Retro Sketch 99 - You are my Sunshine

Just dropping by to share a card I made for this weeks Retro Sketch No 99 Challenge.

So firstly here is the sketch from the Retro Girls -

And this is the card I created:

For my card I have made a few changes to the sketch - I have created a regular 4"x 6" card rather than the square, moved the sentiment and added a tab.

I used one of my new favourite paper pads for this project - Kaisercraft Confetti and my latest absolute favourite die from MFT - their Feathers and Arrows die. 

Most of the embellished pieces were made from the paper pad embellishments or from trimming something down from the patterned paper in the pad.  The button was tied with two strands of thread to provide a different look too.  There is a little edge distressing and foam mounting on some elements to add some texture and dimension.

 

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