June Elemental Inspiration

Hello and I hope you are having a fabulous Friday.

 

Well its the beginning of June and that means its elemental inspiration challenge time over at Daring Cardmakers.

 

Such a lovely inspirational picture choice from our host this week, Shabneez.

 

Remember you need to use at least 3 elements from the image on your card.

 

 

For my card the elements that I picked are:

 

cake, ice lolly/pop, colours, sunset and the box layout.

 

To create my background I used a water colour brush pen and just swished some colours over the paper.  I used a selection of ink pads from Stampin Up.  I just pressed the ink into the lid of the pad and picked a little up on my brush.

 

I then used the stitched framelit dies from Stampin Up to create the squares and used the negative space to show my background through.

 

To create the cupcake and ice lolly I used the sets called Die D-Lites Sweet Set Etched Dies and Die D-Lites Chill Etched Die from Spellbinders.

 

A sweet and summery card from me this week as its fast approaching the summer holidays and I cant wait to go away with the kids for a break.

 

Have a great weekend and don't forget to stop by the Design Team Blogs for more lovely inspiration.

 

 

 

 

 

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In A Spin

Hello all,

 

I hope you all had a lovely bank holiday.  Here in France bank holiday was Thursday and Friday so we had a long weekend with the kids and its was Mothers Day here too.  So I was treated to breakfast in bed which I didn't get to eat as my little boy decided he wanted my toast.

 

Its a Spellblogger post from me today.

 

Here is this weeks creation.

 

I have been wanting to make one for these spinning cards for ages.

 

 

For this card I used the Die-D-Lites Flight 2 Etched Die to create the balloon.

 

 I add a few extra clouds to stop the balloon spinning all the way around as I found that it spun around the card very fast. I think if I was in the hot air balloon I would feel a little ill.

 

To create the centre track I used the Nestabilities Celebrations Pierced Circles Etched Die.

 

I then created a cloudy background for inside the track using one of the clouds from the flight 2 set and just inked around it.

 

I also used Shapeabilities Simply Said Phrase 2 Etched Dies for the sentiment and finished with a few sequins.

 

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to stop by next week for another Spellbloggers Project using beautiful Spellbinders Dies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Mothers Day

Hello All,

 

Happy Mothers Day or Fete des Meres to all in France celebrating Mothers Day.

 

I just wanted to share this lovely little project that I made a few weeks ago for the Fiskarettes UK Design Team Facebook Page.

 

 

 

This would make a lovely little gift to give to that special person on mothers day.

 

I made this little flower pot using the house part of the home sweet home set from Stampin Up.  All I did was cut off the roof part.

 

I added some tissue paper to the inside and covered it in a scrap piece of material I had floating around in my craft drawers.

 

I then used the In Bloom squeeze punch to the make the flowers.  I cut out several petals and shaped the petals slightly.  I then added a brad to the centre of each.

 

 

 

I then used a wooden stick to added the just for you sentiment and finished with a little butterfly using the Fiskars squeeze punch.

 

 

Have lovely Day and don't forget to stop by the Fiskarettes UK Facebook page for more lovely inspiration.

 

 

 

 

 

In A Teacup

I hope you all had a lovely week. 

Its Friday so its time for your weekly Daring Cardmakers challenge.

This weeks challenge is hosted my Leo and is called

IN A TEACUP

Leo would like to see a teacup on your card with something in it.  It doesn't have to be a drink so feel free to think outside the box.

For my card I went with flowers in my teacup.  Well 3 teacups with little hand punched daisies in them.  I could spend hours making these little flowers and they look so pretty.  I used two different size daisy punches from Fiskars.

The teacups are from a stamp set from Papersweeties called Coffee, Yes Please.

I stamped the teacups on to 3 different designer papers and added the flowers to,the cups and finished with a sentiment from The Lovely Studio (Pink Petticoat)

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine.

Thanks for stopping by.

xXx

Sunny Straws

 

Hello Crafters.

 

For this weeks Spellblogger post I wanted to do something a little different and not a card.

 

I had recently bought some paper straws and I thought I might use them for crafting at some stage but then a little idea popped into my head.  Why not make the straws fun for the kids to use.

 

This is what I came up with.

 

 

I used the Die D-Lites Flight 2 Set and cut out the hot air ballon from glitter card stock and the bunting from yellow card stock.

 

I then attached them to the straws and that's it, a fun and cute way to dress up drinking straws.

 

I thought they would look great at a party or even at a baby shower if done in pink or blue.

 

You could even just use them to dress up a pot plant.

 

I love a craft product that had other uses not just on a card.

 

Flight 2

 

The Set comes with everything you see above.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today for another Spellblogger post using the fabulous dies from Spellbinders.

 

 

 

 



Twos Company

Hello Friday and hello crafters.

 

As its Friday it means its challenge time over at Daring Cardmakers.

 

Our lovely host this week is Sharon and the challenge this week is to only use two colours on your card and one of the colours has to be your base card and sentiment.

 

What a tough challenge.  This one really got me thinking especially as I only use white or kraft as a base card and I generally use black for my sentiments.

 

So that was my only colour choices.

 

I went with BLACK and KRAFT.

 

I used the embossing folder called Picnic by Tammy Tutterow from Spellbinders and this time I inked up my embossing folder in black before I ran it through my Platinum Machine.  I have never tried this before as I thought I would ruin my folder but it worked great.

 

Next I used the Simply Said Phrase 2 Die from Spellbinders for my sentiment.  Which I cut from plain black card stock, glitter and mirror card.

 

I then mounted this onto mirror card to create a little border.

 

A lovely simple card which I think looks quite masculine.

 

I hope you can stop by the Design Team Blogs for more lovely inspiration.

 

Have a great weekend.

Hooray

 

Hello All,

 

Its time for another Spellbloggers post this time using the fun Die D-lites Chilled Etched die from Spellbinders.

 

As we are all dreaming about the summer holidays now I thought a card featuring some ice cool treats would be fantastic.

 

This cute set comes with the ice lolly and the ice cream sundae, a tiny cherry and a spoon.

 

 

 

I wanted to make the card appeal to everyone so I avoided using pink but still had to use glitter for the ice lollies.

 

I cut out the ice lollies twice once from kraft card then glitter card and just cut the sticks off.

 

I then used an embossing folder called Picnic by Tammy Tutterow and embossed this using plain white card stock.

 

The sentiment is from a set called Simple Said Phrase Set Two which I have cut from black card stock.

 

I then added a few sequins to finish.

 

A fairly quick and easy card from me today and I hope you can stop by next week for more Spellblogger Inspiration from Spellbinders.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by.