Green and Orange!!

Recently I got asked to make a card for someone where the brief was green and orange and flowers!!

 

Having completely thrown me at first I then got slightly carried away and did 3 for her to choose from!!

 

The first one was using some of my stash from Kanban, where the colours were just right and the image is so pretty.  A gatefold card seemed the obvious use of these images

 

The next one was from Creative Crafting World's cd rom 'A walk in the countryside'.  It started out as a tunnel card but progressed into what you see below.  This time the colours were more subtle but still fitted the brief

 

The final card was a real blow out!!  I seemed to throw everything at it!!  I used the Tonic Petal Pair punches to create the flowers, the hougie board came out for the rosette and I embossed the backing paper with a free gift from a craft magazine.  I also created a complimenting box for it to.

 

 

 

Imagine my delight when my friend decided to have all three cards.  The last one for the original order but the other two for friends she had birthdays coming up for.

 

Thank you for reading and I'll try to be back soon

xx

New Projects

I have been a busy little bee, unfortunately, not all of it crafting, but I guess that's life

 

A good friend of mine has moved away so I made her a couple of gifts to take with her to personalise her new room

 

The first was using my trusty Cameo with only some bling added

The second one was using Craft Artist 2, which is a programme I adore and can't praise highly enough.  I printed the end result out onto canvas paper and it looks amazing :-)

I also got commissioned to make a card for a friend's daughter's birthday.  Again I turned to Serif, because he wanted a photo he'd taken to be used.  However I created a topper with it and then made an easel card for her with a matching box. 

I have some more photos to share with you, but I need to do a bit of sorting out first!!  Hopefully, blog soon :-)

I am SO sorry!!

When I set this up I really meant to post at least once a week.  However, my laptop had other ideas and promptly died!!  However I am now back in the 21st century and up and running.

I thought I would share a couple of cards made for my other half's birthday.  He is an engineer and works a lot on vintage machinery and vehicles.

The first one, from me, was cut with my Silhouette Cameo, which I must confess I adore :-)  The cogs didn't look realistic enough so I coated them with nail varnish and then applied a crackle nail varnish on top which made them look suitably metallic.

The next card, from his mum and dad, is a photo of our Scammell Pioneer taken into Craft Artist 2 and cut out and placed on top of a more sympathetic background and then embellished with colours to match.  The sentiment used as a stopper was cut on the Cameo in miri board and again slightly larger in black.

I was pretty pleased with both of these, and he loved them, which was the most important thing!!

Hopefully there will be no more disasters to prevent me posting again soon!!

Thank you for looking xx

Hello and welcome to my Blog

I plan to use this space as my online diary of my crafty life with bits and bobs from the 'real' world popping in from time to time.

I am just a standard crafter hoping that one day something I create will be spotted by the powers that be.

I love my crafting and make cards and scrapbooks using any technique I can think of the time!!

I also dabble in water colours, acrylics, glass painting, paper mache and jewellery. 

In fact if there were enough hours in the day I would probably have a go at anything!

This is my latest creation using my Silhouette Cameo.

Thank you for taking the time to read my waffle and I'll be back soon