If Friends Were Flowers Single Layer...

I love the saying "If friends were flowers I'd pick you..."

It means you can create so many beautiful flowery cards and give someone that warm fuzzy feeling we all deserve.

Less is More have a single layer challenge using coloured base card this time around so I created the following entry:

I also made one in greens - but used white card :

Materials used: Stampin Up Fifth Avenue Floral stamps, versamark inks then coloured the flowers  Twinkling H20's and finally The Creative Stamp sentiment - cardstock from stash.

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

Purple Dreamcatcher

Well this one was unusual - having never made a dreamcatcher ever I looked up an online site and there were so many variations I thought it looks like whatever you want to create works...

 



I started out with a pale blue card for the background and had been asked for a purple Dreamcatcher so cut a circle of purple card which I then embossed to give it some texture and out came my stash of embroidery floss. I split the 6 stranded floss into 3 and inserted the brads in the circle then started weaving... leaving 3 strands hanging I raided my beads and then raided my stash of snippets to find my feathers and voila!!    Luckily I also had a borrowed sentiment that had the word dreams in it so stamped using violet ink and clear ep. Then the background didnt look interesting enough so I swiped it first with white, then pale blue, green and lastly purple inks using a ink tool. I attached the dreamcatcher with a purple star brad and then found I had to stick bits down with glue to stop everything swinging around so much. I hope the recipient of the card likes it as much as I enjoyed making it. There are a few things I would do differently next time  but not bad for a first go...

 

I am linking this creation up to Our Creative Corner for sharing creations - Anything Goes

 

Materials used: Quickutz nesting circle die, SU ef, brads, feathers, card from stash, SU sentiments stamps, versamark & versamagic inks.

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

 



 

 

Japanese Birthday

Was asked for a birthday card using my Japanese paper so I couldnt go past tried and tested colours - so here it is:

Didnt photo as well as the Japanese Wishes card but the paper is still lovely.

Materials used: Cardstock, paper & sticker from stash, Stampin Up & Memory Box butterfly dies, Sizzix swirl ef.

I am entering into the Flutter By Wednesday's challenge with this creation - you only need to have a fairy or butterfly on your creation to enter
I am also linking up to Make It Monday - a place just for sharing your creations and checking out everyone else's

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

Dragonfly in Flight

Hi - welcome to my blog - all things flighty... butterflies, Dragonflies, Birds - I enjoy using them all in my creations.
I am truly inspired by my sister at CathysCardSpot - she is the butterfly Queen for me... using butterflies and dragonflies in her elegant and CAS creations.
I am also inspired by the number of people using vellum lately or pergamano[?] cards.

 

Take a dark purple base card, cover with vellum sprinkled with silver Dragobflies. Hold that vellum in place with a dragonfly brad in each corner. Stamp white card with the main dragonfly using stazon and glitter embossing pdr,[if you look closely you will see the dragonfly is made up of 3 birds together] then colour with heavenly & sweet thistle H20's. Punch vellum flowers & using a Marianne design die cut 1 stem - colour with guatemalan & playful peony H20's, stick clear crystal bling on the flower centres andon the main dragonfly. Finally use a silver sticker sentiment ...

 

I am entering into the following challenges with this creation:

Crafting with Dragonflies has their very 1st challenge where dragonfly must be the main feature

Simon Says Stamp & Show has an Inspired challenge - mention who or what inspired your creation

Simon Says Stamp has a Things with Wings challenge this week

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

 

 



WOYWW #205 - another week already

Hi Everyone... its 4.20PM on Wednesday 08/05 here and believe it or not I was champing at the bit to have my 2nd turn at WOYWW - not because my desk is all that busy - but because I have met so many wonderful and creative people around the blogosphere... and am getting so much inspiration and creative energy from everyone - so a big THANKYOU to you!!

Here is my workspace at the moment:

 

 

The purple Papercraft bag is now where all my "snippets" and scraps live - if you were around a few days ago you will know that a lot of my pristine cardstock got a brisk wash with a glass of coke - my daughter was very sorry - so now I have a huge stash of not quite good enough for a whole card supply - it will all be put to good use... eventually - of course Di is quite happy for me to frequent the Snippets Playground at Pixies Crafty Workshop for as long as I want - whew - there is always a bright side... :)


I am working on the card in the background for a new blog named "Crafting with Dragonflies" - its their 1st ever challenge so call back later and I will focus on that creation...

I also have some stuff out for a Pirate card - borrowed some of a friends stash while she moves house - I am so lucky - stamped and embossed the pirate and now am stuck thinking what colours / colouring method to use... lol - he may stay there for quite a while... hope he makes himself comfy!

And another coffee.. mmm coffeeeee  - CYA all later!! Mxx

Purple Birthday Wishes

Sarn over at Stamping for Pleasure did it again... zapped my brain with inspiration around her Pink Daisies card posted on 03/05/2013. Sarn used vellum on the bottom half of her card and my brain went ping... LOL I just had to get a couple of things done and then the card came together:

Materials used: Cardstock, rose printed vellum, and silver paper from my stash - and those ribbons are actually the ones that come in your clothes to hold them on the hangers... Versa mark violet ink, SU Birthday wishes, ek success edger punch & Spellbinders Petite Scallopped Ovals.

 

I am entering two new challenges for me this week:

Annabelle Stamps - Anything Goes

Oldbackporch also has Anything Goes

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx



Mum with a difference

Mmm Coloured up this Mum image and then couldnt find just the right background for it - so went for my old stand by BLACK... lol

Well it may be a bit unusual to have a black mothers day card but I have always been a black sheep... LOL - the colours look a bit washed out in the photo too... My butterfly was stamped on a snippet of vellum and is actually coloured with Twinkling H20's - my photography didnt pick it up and this is attempt #12 to capture it so I gave up

 

Materials Used: Mum stamp [borrowes from sister - cant remember the brand !?!], Kaisercraft Mini clear stamps butterfly, Tombows, Twinkling H20's on butterfly and sparkle black embossing pdr.

 

I am hopping over to the slippery dip at the Snippets Playground in Pixies Crafty Workshop with this one

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

Fabulous Birthday

My 2nd entry into the Addicted to Stamps & More Colour Challenge: Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie & Melon Mambo are the specified colours:

Materials used: Stampin Up Pacific Point ink & card stock, SU Pumpkin Pie ink, Versa mark Camelia ink, borrowed Hero Arts Fabulous Birthday stamp, Spellbinders Classic Ovals, Twinkling H20's Heaven on oval, stazon black ink, Clearstamps Floral Flurries stamps, stickers & white card from stash.

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

Holly Night

Spent the afternoon at a friends house raiding her stash - her house is on the market so my borrowed items have a home til she finds new digs... yippee for me...
So one of my borrowed items is a Universal ef called Holly Night...

Painted with Twinkling H20's cardstock & sticker from stash...

 

I am entering the following challenge with this card:

 

Crimbo Crackers - Anything  Goes as long as it is Christmas or Festive...

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

 

 

 



Heart Rainbow

I have a very small stash of Iron-on embroidery thingies... when I saw that Addicted to CAS has Rainbow as their cue word I went straight for this Rainbow Heart... its way brighter IRL.

I also dragged out a PaperTreyInk sentiment that I hadn't used before - the cardstock is from my stash.

 

I am entering the following challenge with this card

Addicted to CAS - Rainbow challenge

Simon Says Stamp - Happy Mail challenge

Challenges for Everybody - Anything Goes

 

Thanks for stopping by...Mxx

Thinking of You

Had a sheet of Pacific Point cardstock out contemplating another challenge entry when I remembered I was asked to create a "Thinking of You - Best Wishes" card for a colleague who has been away for 6 mths and it looks like he wont be joining us again any time soon... [heart problems].
We all know how hard male cards are at the best of times - but this one had me stumped. I had already done one a few months ago for him using Japanese papers... then I thought just put the words in place and go from there - so out came the stickers - then added a simple stamp using Pacific Point ink so it looks like a watermark... it is amazing what a difference a stamp makes...

 I am entering my stamped creation in to the challenge over at CASology where the code word is CARE...
also over at
Simon Says Stamp the theme is Happy Mail -
show someone you care...

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

1 pretty piece of paper...

Not consciously but it appears to be the norm nowadays - creating more than one card at a time!!
Two of these were in my first WOYWW - not quite finished and the 3rd was just waiting to be put together...

 

Made the decision that the two I thought needed more work - didn't - my daughter loves the cut out card and the other really really simple card was just too pretty to cover up... so all I had left to do was use the bauble on a card...

Materials used: Swirly red handmade paper had in my stash for years, Stampin Up Ornament punch, Cheery Lynn Designs Holly Flourish die, Memory Box bow die, card stock & stickers from stash.

I am entering the bauble card that I did today into the
Crimbo Crackers Challenge #40 - Anything Goes as long as its Christmas or Festive related...

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx

Pacific Pumpkin Mambo

Addicted to Stamps & More have an Addicted to Colour Challenge using SU Pacific Point, Melon Mambo & Pumpkin Patch or colours from your stash to match. This called for stretching a few creative muscles..

I started off by checking my snippets and found a orangey coloured offcut where I had die cut a rectangle out of and I punched the edge and then trimmed it up to fit C6... it was perfect and I had a pinky coloured pre embossed piece of card [pre-embossed is where you borrow someone else's ef and make your self some impressions for future use]. Pacific Point cardstock just happened to be in my stash...

I checked my inks and found I had Stampin Up pumpkin patch & pacific point and hadnt used either of them before - I chose a camelia versa colour cube to take place of Melon Mambo and stamped white cardstock with little flowers in each colour using Clear Stamps Floral Flurries. And now am ready to take off.

Card #1 came pretty quickly using the punched die cut a stamped image and white base. Decided to do one of those cards where the front panel is not as wide as the back panel and so the vertical sentiment is actually attached to the back panel and a card was done... and I didnt even touch the PP card stock... oh well might get to make another entry...

Materials Used as described in the text.

 

I will be entering the following challenges with this creation:

 

Addicted to Stamps and More - Addicted to Colour

 

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets Playground

 

While I am blabbing on I just thought I'd share an incident that increased my snippets stash considerably... I store my cardstock pretty much cut to C6 size sorted into colours in an expanding file next to my workdesk/coffee table... well my very very sorry 17 year old daughter spilt a glass of coke all through it... there was enough to make at least 50 cards - mmm thats quite a bit of heartache I can tell you - but it means I now have quite a large supply of snippets which are bigger than the average size!! I'll get to use them all eventually...

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx





 

 

Turtle Luck

Hello there... well if you read my last post re WOYWW you will know I had coloured another Turtle image using green ink instead of black and needed to finish it off on a card.  Well here is the result:

I think I like the green better - its a bit more "natural"

 

Materials used: Lucy's Stamp Turtle; Tombow markers on the turtle and Twinkling H20's on the background; Creative memories wavy cutting ruler, Scotch layering tape, clear emboss pdr and versacolour turquoise ink, cardstock and sticker from stash.

 

I am entering into the following challenges with this card:

 Simon Says Stamp - Happy Mail challenge

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx



WOYWW #204 - First post....

I am jumping in with both feet - WOYWW [What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday] is celebrating 4 years soon and I must say the ladies I have connected with so far are very creative and inspirational. The time I used to spend on FB is dwindling drastically and this blogging thing is taking over my life - entering challenges is very addictive and the number of cards I am churning out is expanding expidentially!!!!

I have a closed group on FB where I have published my creations for over a year for some friends  - but they are not Papercraft Addicts and so I dont get that neccessary feedback to keep me buzzing!! You all know what I am talking about...

Here goes...

 

This is actually the living/lounge room in my home - living on my own I am lucky enough to spread out - previously I was one of those OCD type people who had to put things away between every  project I now only need to make an effort when my daughter drops in or visitors pounce... I mean visit!!

Looking from my kitchen bench where I have stamping & embossing stuff set up down into my dining area where I have my laptop and dry embossing / die cutting set up - then over the top of the sofa into my TV area where I sit and do my actual creating at the coffee table... whew!

Left is my embellishments, ribbons, bling, papers, punches, markers, inks etc etc etc...        and on the right is my stamps storage... started as a single storage box almost 20 odd years ago - so I dont think I've done too badly as far as a stash is

concerned - I am of course refraining from showing you the garage - whats that show on telly - Hoarders - Buried Alive??  LOL... Enough wool for 20 jumpers, embroidery thread and tapestry supplies to cover quite a few canvases as well as a tonne of soil for when I finally get around to sorting out my courtyard... no you don't need to see all that!

 

And finally - What is on "My" Workdesk this Wednesday...

I was going to try and enter my very first Rudolph Day over at Stamping for Pleasure with the red & green cards [Edited: apologies - I had an incorrect link] - but I missed the deadline - they really aren't ready so I'll keep working on them til the next time... and I posted a turtle card recently so coloured another turtle embossed with green ink instead of black - mmm I think it looks better - and I have been browsing the catalogue for the upcoming papercraft convention in June, and I am also re-organising some paper & card stock that is getting out of hand... and the list just goes on and on.. I hope to become a regular visitor at WOYWW -

 

Thanks for stopping by... Mxx