'Out with the old' - Design Team card...

Hello everybobs !  This card is my Design Team card for stampin for the weekends challnge which this time is themed 'out with the Old' - to use and old image or stamp from your stash. I decided on one of my old favourites from Mo's digital images teamed with these lushious papers from first edition called 'Dreamcatcher' which matched up beatuifully with the flowers and butterflies on the image.

if you would like to join in with the challenge please find us here...

http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-24-out-with-old.html

Thank you to my wonderful Bud Loops xx

Hello everybobs xx today i had a most lovely day... all thank you to my wonderful and reletively new friend Lee who i affectionately call Loops (because shes the only one i know who is as loopy as I am!).

In thanks for me setting up a blog for her and getting her on the first rung of the ladder of blogginess she sent me the most wonderful gift of the Tim Holtz 'tattered flowers' die....  she knew i had a hankering for it and had so enjoyed the gift of some samples of it from her....  

the gift of giving is a wonderful thing... if it be a gift of knowledge or an act of kindness but is so much nicer when the gift is one you know the person will love... so Lee i thank you for being so thoughtful and kind xx

if you would like to check out Lee's very new but already wonderful blog and the most superb flower making tutorials then just click here..........

http://craftyloops.blogspot.com/

Hand made Flowers.......

Hello everybobs xx  this week i turned my hand to giving handmade flowers a go...and i dont think i did TOO bad lol. The large pink one was made using Tim Holtz tattereed flowers die. I used aged mahogany distress ink to touch up the edges then scrunched the petals before gluing into place.  The White/green flower was made using die cut flower shaped from Uk £1 shops that were being sold last year. I used forest moss distress ink to stamp over the shapes first beore shaping the leaves and sticking together - i finished off with a bit of diamond stickles.

the small flowers were made using papermania flower punches. the lotus one was made after following a tutorial from my good friend Lee http://craftyloops.blogspot.com/2011/06/flower-tutorial-teeny-tiny-lotus-flower.html  I can see making plenty of these !!!

Oriental girl...........

entered into crafty catz weekly challenge at http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/

For this card ive gone all oriental!!... this is to give to my lovely Mum from my kids for mothers day!

My mum loves all things oriental - shes been to Hong Kong a couple of times and is in constant touch with a lovely family she met there.. needless to say she has a house full the orient and i know this card will be well recieved xxx

The image is one ive had floating round in my file of digi images and im not sure of its origin but its very pretty xx Backing paper is from the papermania 'oriental treasure' range. the pearls and large blue flower were from lovely stash i won from Pink gems blog candy!!!! (thank you) as the paper was already quite 'busy' i decided to keep the emellishments less so as not to over crowd it.



the image was coloured using my promarkers of course!!

hair 'warm grey' no.s 1-5

skin 'sunkissed pink', 'blush', 'vanilla' blended over with ivory

clothing 'ivory', 'pastel beige', 'khaki',

             'midnight blue','china blue' blended with 'cornflower blue', 

thanks for looking xxxxxxx

the lovely 'Joy' again....

I think this is my favourite image at the moment.. and how different you can make it look with a change of hair colour and clothing..
this one has been made for MY mum to give to my nanna... she dosent know its nearly the same as the card she will be recieving!! the papers i have used are 'Rose garden' by papermania - the lovely duck egg blue is one of my favourite colours. The image has been coloured with promarkers using....

HAIR - cinnamon, caramel, sandstone and satin.
FACE - soft peach, blush, vanilla, ivory
CLOTHES - buttercup, primrose, dugg egg, cool aqua and tea green

the flowers i get in bunches from Boyes haberdashery dept and are foam rubber.

flutterby butterflyyyyyyyy...

Today was asked if i could make a card using lilacs or purples for a mother-in-law's birthday ... After having a root through my stash i came across these pretty Papermania Henbury Lane papers... ideal for the job!!
then i spent a good half an hour trying to get a decent cut from my Marriane butterfly die...gosh they are hard work!! if the die dosnt cut right through your card youve had it lol.... i coloured my butterfly using my purple shades of promarkers blending from a pink shade to darker purple then out again through to Lavendar. i added a touch of sparkle (which i always thinks looks nice on these butterflies) using light purple glitz it glitter glue. the flowers i arranged onto a piece of foam tape and again glitzed up with glitter glue to match xx

lets hope they like it !!!

and i did another with a slight variation to the theme to add to my box of cards xx

all my Tilda cards xxx

thought it would be good to stick all my Tilda card efforts together.... im only still learning the art of Tilderitis but im getting there slowly.... i gleam inspiration from the experts online especially my own lil' bud on Docrafts 'craftingallday' lovingly known as tilderesa to me...
sooo heres my efforts so far including the 'natalies card' ive already uploaded....

made for christmas 2010.. i love this little cook!!!

a touch of the oriental... thought the willow pattern plate went great with this x

lovely ballerina tilda x those of you who saw kayla on youtube will recognise this one......

wedding tilda... when i was 4 i was a bridesmaid in a canary yellow dress.. so this is a tribute to that memory lol of nearly 40 years ago hehe..

posh tilda hehe xx this one ended up altered to be a 50th birthday card and was well recieved x

cherry tilda - made for a ribbon hoop challenge and was sent to buddy marleen for her birthday

get well soon - just sat waiting for someone to be ill isnt that nice lol

another made for natalies birthday... so noooo peeking nat or else!!!!

ohhhhhhhh yum cake!!!! - this one was altered and given as a 21st card

my most recent one.,... hopefully im improving..again for natalies birthday x

i seem to have made more than i remember hehe.. im sure there will be more like them to follow

natalies birthday!!

making cards for young girls is such a blast! you can do just about anything cant you? for Natalies cards i decided to go all out with some tildas.. this way i get to make the cards - give the cards - but still keep the cards lol! after all they are tooo nice to give away...
for the one from me i used circus tilda on her horse (nat loves horses). all coloured with promarkers using burgundy, crimson and red for the dress. the trim and shoes were later touched with glitterglue to give it some bling! for the background i actually used christmas paper as it was the right shade of burgundy and gold. i punched matching cardstock using the xcut leafy lace punch for the outer layers. the flowers i love and have a boxfull of them - they are form the haberdashery dept in a department shop called Boyes and were £2 a bunch for about 10 heads. i have a few different colours and 2 sizes and they stick down great a they are made of foam rubber!! - gorgeous...