Shabby Chic card

I made this card for my daughter's birthday last week.  She is planning to buy some Annie Sloan paint very soon to uplift some lovely old bedroom furniture.. I am loving the Shabby look too! 

I used my new Anna Griffin embossing borders folders on the 'drawers' and on the top , I rubbed some copper gilding paste over the embossed areas.  The beautiful perfume bottles are rubber stamped.

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Joanna Sheen VINTAGE FLORAL STAMPS

Here are the sample cards I made for Joanna Sheen to go with the new stamps I designed for her called:  Vintage Floral - Thinking of you and Forget me not.

Inked roses spritzing stamp and paper

before stamping down for watercoloured

effect. When dry overstamped with black momento ink and coloured rose with

promarkers using white gel pen to add highlights. Stamped roses on back panel

with pumice stone ink.

  Flowers stamped with coloured ink –

coloured in with a mixture of water

colouring and promarker pens.

Vases are punched circles inked.

Stitching was glue pen and foil.

  Prima firefly paper. Tulip stamped with

TH distress ink-frayed burlip. Promarkers

to colour. Used while gel pen to highlight areas of Tulip. Lightly inked and embossed around edges to match sentiment.

Step card with 3 equal parts.

Used ink on acrylic block to create

background.Stamped with momento, 

coloured with promarkers and pencils, Used white gel pen to

highlight parts of flowers

 

Cut 6x6 card down to shape. Cut 2 pieces

for pop ups. Decorated with die cut ovals.

Inked all edges with TH Peacock feathers distress ink. Tassels , image,, sentiment, lace heart and verse on front - gold embossed. Puched small flowers with MS punch.

Stamped roses on front panel, then

embossed through machine with script

folder then lightly inked up. Stamped back

panel with pink ink.

Roses stamped twice and layered up.

 

 Stamped pansies 3 times for layering with

Dusty concord distress ink.

Glazed 3 flowers on top layer with glossy accents. Sentiment stamped and heat embossed with clear powder.

Stitched organza pansies from

ribbon coloured with promarkers to

match image

  Made base easle card from 6x6” card.

Used my templates for teapot and cups.

Stamped roses on them – then masking to ink with antique linen for colour.

 Here is the template I drew to create the teapot and cups
please feel free to download and use - click on for larger image.
It will fill an A4 sheet. 

 

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Hearts for Mother's Day....

I think I am having a mild addiction to honeycomb paper Lol...  Here are my latest projects.  I've made each heart shape using mount board.  I only have a few colours of honeycombe paper but I still enjoyed finding papers etc to look nice with them.  I made my own template for the hearts but used a die to cut the honeycombe hearts.. each one uses only half a heart so the paper goes a long way.  I made my own template for the stands too although you can get some really fancy dies, maybe one day I will invest in one...

 

 This is anaglypta wallpaper that I have inked up with Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade ink.. I used pressed Honesty seed heads with some small yellow daisies and the blue petals are Nigella. I put acetate over the heart before I stuck the honeycombe heart on. The little fairy I've had for years so it was really lovely to find her somewhere to live..Lol  .... with the honeycomb heart open below

 This is papermania card, I love the yellow roses.  I inked the edges and added a few punched out buterflies.

 ..and here's the honeycomb heart opened up

 .. More Papermania card is on this one I love the bright yellow with it..

 ..and opened up

 No honeycomb paper on this one Lol... I had to do one with Anna Griffin roses.. the vase is part of a teapot card...I love the fresh spring colours.

 This heart is covered with some gorgeous wallpaper.. the black is velvet flock! I added gems all around the outside and a few acetate butterflies with foil on the backs.

 ..and here it is opened

Thank you for visiting today.. I hope I've inspired some of you to play with some honeycomb paper..

See you soon..

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Honeycombe Hearts

I admit to becoming a little bit addicted to honeycombe paper!! Lol !

Here are some Valentine's Day cards I have made using some gold and some red papers.

... yes, I also got carried away with the heart shaped doilies I have Lol...

Thankyou for visiting today.. see you again soon
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Wallpaper cards

I have to confess that I have been quite addicted to collecting wallpaper samples over the years.  I can not come out of the DIY shop without a few more samples... 

I just love these wallpapers because of the texture.. the animal print looks like real fur!

 I used a heart die cutout as a stencil to draw white lines for the bottom heart...

This wallpaper is absolutely gorgeous!.. it is glittered!.. I thought it was just crying out for some sequins and beads.  The black is also wallpaper.. it really feels like real velvet!

So... if you haven't investigated your local wallpaper shop... get along there today.. I know you will find something gorgeous to play with..!!

Thanks for visiting today

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Add sparkle to Anna Griffin Rose

I got the beautiful 18th century stamp set by Anna Griffin some months ago.  I love the Rose stamps included in this huge kit.  I can't stop playing with them LOL..  I wanted to do the technique that Ali Reeve shows on the TV.. where she inks the stamp in the colours she wants.. spritz it with water, stamps onto damp spritzed paper letting the ink run, creating the coloured base for the stamp.. then drying it off with a heat gun to then over-stamp in black or what ever colour you choose.  I couldn't stop doing them with this lovely stamp he he... so now I have a big pile of ready to use roses!!

I fancied adding glitter but instead of adding actual glitter for a bit of sparkle,so becasue this stamp is a clear one  I re-stamped and embossed with holographic embossing powder.!..I have to say - I love the results!!

Here's a quick card I made using one of them..

.... here, the light catches the embossing...

.... this is the embossing powder I used.. it adds a lovely glitter holographic sparkle.

Thank you for popping by today... I have been busy but will be back with more of these Roses soon.. 

Hugs

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Honeycombe cards

I love this honeycombe paper.  I've had it a while but never really thought of a way to use it... until my daughter came home with a card that inspired me. It had a  red honeycombe paper star shape that had to be opened out.. using velcro dots to hold it open... it's fabulous!..  so naturally I had to have a go myself Lol..

  

I used a bigz bauble die for the shapes.  They are great fun to do.

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Happy Christmas!

Thomas Kinkade windows

I love with the Madison Window die by Poppy Stamps, I treated myself to it a few months back.  Here I've used it with some printouts from Joanna Sheens Thomas Kinkade CD Rom.

I used the beautiful Christmas cd from this set - I chose which part of each image looked good 'through the window' and cut to size adding some beautiful stampendous vintage glitter to each scene for some sparkle.  I used a score board to add the embossed lines.

I really like how simple and clean they look. 

For these cards I  embossed the front of the card with a brick effect folder, cutting out the window part first.  I cut two madison window dies for each card - one for the front and one for inside the card to look neat.  The 'stained glass effects' are cut outs from a fabulous book I have had for years and years called:  

Ready to use DOLLHOUSE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS for hand colouring.

I coloured these with promarkers so they didn't warp the vellum.  I think they look simple but nice.

Thank you for visiting today.
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