Wedding Congratulations

I'm sure 3D paper crafting is familiar and popular everywhere and it's something I've always enjoyed. Here's my wedding congrats keepsake for a couple who are in same congregation where I am and I was privileged to design and make all wedding stationary. (Hmm... I should have pics somewhere!)

A Very Proud Grandma Presents

Long time since last blogging. Well, here I am now and happy. Happy because I am a GRANDMOTHER. It was quite certainly one of the happiest days in my life when son told me the news that they are expecting. I was laughing and crying same time, heart was singing tunes and I felt so proud and happy for my son and daughter-in-law.

Here's the one I sent after birth.

Colouring by Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Flowers coloured using Distress Inks

Embossing board is Keepsake Glitter Girls Board #50

Die cuts Marianne Design

Cardstock Crafter's Companion

Challenge for this:

Passion for Promarkers - Week 385 It's a boy

Through The Craft Room Door - March 7 - 13

Joyful July

Morning! Or afternoon or evening depending where you are, but Good Morning this is and I hope you are, too. I have delightful news and long blog post with lots of photos. 

Couple of months ago with big hopes I applied a DT post when I saw DT call at Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. Today I can proudly present my first DT creation for this funny and warm challenge blog.

Crafts Galore Encore rules are easy: Our Challenges are for crafters of any medium, as long as it fits the theme! July theme is "Use Stamp or Digi in Your Project". We all love cards and this is something we can say that sky's a limit. Use anything you like, let your imagination fly and join us!

Our wonderful sponsor in July is Fred She Said, and this is just a short note from FSS: Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi's, Pre-coloured images, Papers, Sets, Fred's Flower Kits, and even digital cutting files. Have some fun with Fred!

Very generously Fred She Said is giving a Gift Card for $15 to spend on FSS goodies in the shop!

Here is my card (box card), and I used Fred She Said digital stamps Emma and Rosie and also a freebie from year 2010 called Flower Pot,because flower pots were like made for this bench where Emma and Rosie are sitting, don't you thing?

This project was fun and dead easy. First I coloured the stamp, then measured how big the box should be, then I took a piece of card and made the box and drawer. Glued all together, all roses made by me. This is suppose to be very girly and I think it is.

Materials:

Digital stamp - Fred She Said

Colourine - Spectrum Noir Pencils

Die cuts - Sizzix

Roses punches - Tonic Studios

Lace, ribbon, pearls - all stash

Challenges I would like to join:

Crafting From The Heart - Challenge 25 - Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant - Challenge 257 - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - July Challenge - Let's Go Digital
Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - 1st-7th July - Anything Goes
Inky Impressions - Challenge 165 - Anything Goes
Ruby's Rainbow - Challenge 82 - Stamping
Simon Says - Anything Goes
The Stamping Chef - Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Challenge 237 - Anything Goes
Crafting At The Weekend - Challenge 3 - Anything Goes
Scribble And Scrap - Challenge 21 - Always Anything Goes
Suzy Bee's - Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
Digi Makeover Challenge - Butterflies
Sparkle n' Sprinkle - Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking
Stamps & Fun - Flowers and Pearls

Now it's your turn. Welcome and have fun!

Time Flies When You Have Fun

Time the most certainly flies when having fun! 

Here we are, today it is the 30th May, and this is my last Guest DT post for

Crafty Catz. 

I was lucky to have 5 Fridays and this week's theme is... wait for it...

ANYTHING GOES! 

Generous sponsor this week is

Bunny Zoe's Crafts

and the lucky  winner of this week's challenge will get

£10.00 Gift Certificate to Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

I should warn you for long blogging and lots of pictures. Here we go.

edit: WARNING, I WENT TOTALLY OVER THE TOP WITH FLOWERS :D

Because this is my last week, I decided to make something special. It will remind me of Crafty Catz team and I feel I need some tissues now ;)

This tissue box covers last four weeks:

1. Bugaboo

+ pearls and lots of home made flowers. Die cut Go Kreate

2. Delicious Doodles

+ pearls and flowers by yours truly ;) Die cut Spellbinders

3. KennyK

+ gems and flowers (yeah yeah, homemade) 

 4. Fitztown

+ pearls and these famous flowers by me. Swirls stash

How was this done? Ok, box was done by measuring a box of tissues and adding few millimetres, then cut some cardstock and measured and scored using Hougie board. Box isn't square or cube, but it's dead easy to make. 

Extra layer of card to make the bottom stronger and hide the folding.

I like to fold edges inside to have smooth(er) finish and cover the bottom foldings under extra layer this side too.

Butterfly and butterfly cutting Tonic Studios. Swirl is Joy Crafts. Question is "who made the flowers?" Confession time: It was me. I like making flowers, can't help it :D

Lining there as well.

Recap:

3 x A4 sheets of Papermill Direct Leather Embossed Card

Die cuts - Spellbinders, Go Kreate, Tonic Studios, Joy Crafts

Digistamps - Bugaboo, Delicious Doodles, Fitztown, KennyK

Colouring - Letraset Flexmarkers, Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Pearls, gems, ribbon - stash

Flowers - Annemaritta

That's it. Piece of cake. :)

I want to say Crafty Catz thank you for having me and you won't get rid of me this easily. Check it out, from next week I will join your challenges again!

Challenges, I would like to join:

A and T Emerald Faeries -  #55 Flowers Ribbon / Lace 

Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations - Digi / Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge -  H for Handmade Embellishments 

Challenges 4 Everybody - May – Anything Goes

All Crafts Challenge - Anything but a Card 

Southern Girls - Sparkle and shine with a bit of bling

MilkCoffee Challenge - Anything but a Card

4 Krafty Girlz - # 19 Anything Goes

I love Promarkers - Must use Letraset - #221  Flowers

Inky Impressions - #161  Anything Goes

Baby Girl

Very nice young gentleman, who was in our congregation, and his beautiful young wife are now happy and proud parents of  baby girl. This was my "card" to congratulate them.

 

It took 16 x A4 sheets of card

3 x A4 sheets of acetate

embellishments: brads, flowers, craft candies

glue, double side tape

and

PATIENCE

This is for
The Sisterhood of Crafters - All About Babies
Craft for the Craic - Something For The Baby
Digitally Sweet - No. 89 - Babies 
All Crafts Challenge - Anything but a Card 
Brown Sugar – No. 95 - Anything Goes
Craftitude - No. 65 - Anything Goes/Use a Die (inside the box)
4 Krafty Girlz - # 18 Anything Goes 
4 Crafty Chicks - #195 No Stamping zone 
Divas by Design - Anything goes 

Challenges 4 Everybody - May – Anything Goes

Lacy Sunshine - #33 Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes 
My Craft Creations -  Always Anything Goes

 

Leather Embossed Card

Morning! I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain, what a glorious day... Yep, raining heavily in Yorkshire and here is my Crafty Catz GDT post for this week. (My Week 4/5.)

Challenge 232 - EMBOSSING 
Crafty Catz is a weekly challenge blog with fab bunch of talented crafters and they also have monthly GDT post and I'm Miss May so to speak :D Theme is embossing, and it could be wet embossing, heat embossing, dry embossing... You name it.

Sponsor for this week is Fitztown. Fitztown is a group of talented artists and crafters. we make a variety of products including fine art, sculpting, woodcrafts, papercraft, cardmaking and many more.

Fitztown Store

PRIZE.....3 digis of winner's choice. 

We can't wait for your creations! Join us this week (and weeks to come) at Crafty Catz. Remember to follow the theme "embossing".

I had a chance to get really beautiful leather embossed card from Papermills Direct and I used it for this creation. Image is from Fitztown. Maybe I've watched too much of The Game of Thrones? Wanted to name wolves as Ghost and Grey Wind, but chose Pearl and Diamond instead. ;)

Image is called "wild 8" and because one wolf seemed too lonely, I added mirror image to keep one company, printed it and coloured.

Wolf is a beautiful animal, one of the most beautiful I know. (At least when they are featured on the photos, pictures and framed)

Frame is handmade with old fashion ruler, scoring board, scissors and couple of test runs. And 12x12 cardstock and glue and metallic embellishments. By the way, beveled frame is NOT as difficult to make as you might think. You just need to get it sorted in your head. Well, I took my time. :D 

Eyes are highlighted with Glossy Accent to make them glow and it looks good.

Background is shaded only with a bit of metallic rub wax(?) or maybe it is chalk, no idea! Bottom part with bronze and natural white and upper part with two shades of blue. Sort of earth and sky.

Picture:

Digistamp - Fitztown "wild 8"

Cardstock - Papermills Direct Leather Embossed card 

Colours - Letraset Flexmarkers

Glossy Accent

Metallic Rub-on chalk or wax

Peel offs for naming the wolves

Frame:

12x12 sheet 

Metallic corners 

Challenges :)

Ruby's Rainbow - #79 Animals

Doodle Pantry - #46 Any Digi Goes

Lia Stampz Challenge - #64 Anything but a Card

The Crafting Cafe -  Creatures

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - One for the Guys

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes

All Crafts Challenge - Anything but a Card

Melonheadz Friends Challenge - All about Animals

I Love Promarkers - #220 Anything Goes

Country View Challenges - Nature's Glories

Thank you!

Paper Roses and More

Paper flower from scraps, that's my kind of thinking :)

1. White pearlized card, some stems and touch of distress ink.

2. Thin paper, almost as thin as tissue paper, flatback pearls

3. White pearlized card, some stems and touch of distress ink.

4. Pearlised paper (120gsm-160gsm).

 5. Pearlised paper (120gsm-160gsm).

6.  Pearlised paper (120gsm-160gsm).

7. Approx 100gsm paper with just a hint of glitter.

8. High quality insert paper 100gsm and light touch of distress ink.

I have made all these and more (need to find pics). Inspirations and boost from

Jak Heath and her tutorials
and
Create a Beautiful Flower with Petal Pairs Punches
and
Lucinda Lucker's Petal Lu

The biggest impact was to see Lucinda's extremely beautiful flowers, never seen as beautiful as her made.

Thanks for visiting :)

3D - White Baby Cot

Another one.
I LOVE 3D projects. Didn't guess? ;)

1 A4
scoring board
glue
cutter

pieces

Thanks for visiting :)