More samples

Where have I been?. I can't believe that time is going so quickly. I have designed more rubber stamp designs for Joanna Sheen and I have been busy making sample cards for Joanna's TV shows, so I haven't had much chance to pop on here to finish sharing the Wedding show samples with pressed flowers. I'll pop them here today and also post the Jane Shasky sample cards in the next post that were on the TV last weekend.
Card making is a kind of therepy for me. I enjoy creating cards and enjoy the challenge of using new stamp designs. The new stamp designs that I have done for Joanna will be on TV this month.

Here are the rest of the Wedding day Pressed flower samples....

I used a fabric glue to stick the tulle netting on top of the lovely die cut frame.. the netting is enough to protect the pressed Roses and it looks really pretty too.

I used a piece from wedding favour tulle round, then embossed some card and die cut a window to go over the top, it matches the pattern on the tulle. I glued tiny rhinestones at every cross over in the pattern to add sparkle.

This was fun to do... I puzzled how to stick the skeleton leaf onto the card without seeing any glue.. .. It's a pity that my xyron machine broke years ago..so I decided to use some PVA , so I applied the glue to the leaf and blotted very well after placing it on the card.. most of the excess comes off and leaves the leaf very well stuck down.. it worked for me anyway.. but if you do have a xyron ... it really would be so much less messy Lol..

The petals where lightly glued onto a pre cut heart then mounted onto pretty pearly paper then I stuck a clear acetate heart over the top using strong clear glue in tiny dots around the edge.

For this invite I added a punched circle after I glued on the background paper... then arranged the rose buds then added a piece of acetate to cover the whole front of the invite using a thin piece of DST.. the ribbon across the top not only compliments the colour of the roses but also covers any DST that would show otherwise.

For this card I sandwiched the Roses between acetate and netting using dots of glue to hold the netting, also adding pretty bridal sequins over the dots to hide them. When I stick it to the card I added a real doily first. The Rose petals with the words looks like confettii and the handle of the bouquet is simple ribbon wrapped around a triangle shape.

Thanks for looking and once again I hope that I have inspired someone somewhere with these designs.. they are fun to make and can take some time but they are really worth it in the end.

See you next time..
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Pressed Flower Wedding sample - Day 6

For this wedding invitation I used two single blue Daisy flowers. It is very simple to do

. I cut a piece of textured card to size. Using a circle punch I punched a hole roughly in the middle of the right hand side . I layed this over the card as a guide to stick my flower then glued a piece of acetate to the back of the appeture. Before sticking the panel down I stamped 'Wedding Invitation' in blue and run some lace across the top of the panel holding it down with DST on the back. Once stuck down I added a few pearls.

For the inside of the invitation I did the same for the panel above on the flap - making sure to add a piece of ribbon to hold the RSVP in place under the flap - the ends are hidden under the panel.
.. adding die cut letters from the same textured card gives a different look.

Thank you for visiting my blog today. I hope I have inspired someone in blogland to have a go at using Pressed flowers.. they are beautiful to use on so many projects.

See you soon
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Pressed Flower Wedding Sample No. 5

The panel on the left side was stuck on. First I crumpled a piece of ivory paper then ran it through my laminator with some lovely pearl foil over it. I love doing this as each time it is different. I mounted the panel onto card - arranged the flowers stuck with clear gel and then covered the whole panel with tulle netting, folding and sticking it down on the back with DST. and then stuck it on the card. I decided to add some pearls for decoration. The punched border was from a Martha Stewart large punch -lightly inked with Tim Holtz spun sugar. I embossed the 'Wedding Invitation' in white embossing powder and then lightly inked the corner with the same ink.

You can see that I added another panel done the same way inside the invitation. Here is a better photo of the lovely sheen from the pearly crumpled paper...

Thank you for visiting today. I hope I've inspired someone to play with pressed flowers and maybe even inspired one of you to make your own Wedding Invites.
See you tomorrow...
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Pressed Flower wedding sample day 4

For this invitaion wallet I used one of Joanna Sheens lovely Lace stamps here - on all the various parts inside and on the flap.

I made a little A6 (4" x 6") RSVP card with a heart window adding one of the beautiful Roses from Joanna Sheens Pressed Flowers covering it with acetate. The little window on the inside pocket also has a rose with acetate protecting it. To make this you will need a piece of card measuring roughly 16" x 6 like the one on sample day 2 post..again I scored 2" from each side and one for a fold in the middle creating 2 areas that will be 6" x 6" approx with a flap at the top and a piece at the bottom to score and fold in and stick to create the pocket for the RSVP and envelope.

Before sticking the invitation panel I punched 2 little holes to thread the ribbon, hiding it under the panel making it easier and neater when tieing the bow. To keep the invite extra secure I did add a small piece of Velcro on the flap as well.

Thank you for visiting today.. I hope this inspires someone to have a go at making their own wedding invitations.

Pressed flower wedding sample day 3

I sort of had in mind what I wanted to do but wasn't sure what to use for this invite so it grew as I made it. The patterned paper border is one of the lovely wallpaper backing papers from the Thomas Kinkade CD by Joanna Sheen but I printed it out onto cream paper and with black and white settings.. I like to try different ways to print out papers and this was perfect for this invite. The grey panel was cut to size and I added 3 Pressed Daisies from Joanna Sheens Pink pressed flower packs and covered the whole panel with tulle, taping it to the back with DST, I added a black ribbon strip with a buckle and then positioned onto the front of the card. I stamped the words onto cream card onto black card and added it to the front.

For the inside I added more of the same printed paper as shown. The panel on the right is a printed out invite layered onto grey card, the panel on the left is a grey panel with a tieable ribbon where I added the printed out RSVP and envelope.. the buckel on the ribbon strip was stuck down with foam tape to create a little lip to stop the paper from slipping. For a last touch, from the same grey card I cuttlebugged the letters for the RSVP down the side.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.. I hope you will leave me a comment letting me know what you think of my invites.
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Pressed flower wedding sample day 2

Here is the second sample from Sundays Wedding show.

This measures 6" sq when closed. To make this you will need a piece of card measuring roughly 16" x 6 and scored 2" from each side and one for a fold in the middle. I added a blue colour card to each flap and then a piece of vintage doily - I spread glue gel all over the back very carefully to stick the doily on well to the card and blotting with a piece of kitchen towel to take away the excess glue.. this worked well for this doily but some might go too soggy with the wet glue.. I suppose if you have a xyron machine you could run it through easier. (I used to have one but it broke grr..) Also, you don't have to use a real doily, there are some beautiful doily dies out there that would look just as pretty or even some large doily rubber stamps embossed in white or cream would also work well for this look.

The tiny blue flowers are from Joanna's Pressed flower Blue pack I only needed a few for this invite and I covered them with a piece of organza, wrapping it around the piece of card with the details and then sticking it down. I glued some gems on top.. this not only looks lovely but adds to the protection of the flowers by keeping the organza in one place.

I embossed a panel for the RSVP part using the Tied together embossing folder, slipping the RSVP in to the pocket.

Finally, I added some velcro to keep the flap closed and stuck a silky bow for decoration.

I hope this inspires someone to have a go using some pressed flowers on their wedding invites or even on cards. Leave me a comment if you would like and have the time

Thank You for visiting to day.. see you tomorrow with another sample.

Pressed Flower Wedding Samples

I made some sample Wedding invitations and cards for the Wedding Show that was aired on Sunday with Joanna Sheen. I will be showcasing one per day over the next few days.

Firstly, here is a picture of all of them for an 'at a glance view'.

My first card is the large Wedding verse card.

I printed the verse in grey along with the oval. I am not sure who wrote the verse that was shared with me some years ago.. I really like it so I put it on this card. All the roses are from Joanna Sheens Roses Pressed Flower pack available on her website and I used pva applied with a toothpick to glue them down. You can see a short video on Create and Craft from Sunday's show here

The close up shows little pearly dots on the card.. I used a glue pen and pearl press on foil..but you could also use a pearl pen for the same effect. I covered the whole of the front of the card with acetate - fixed with DST and hidden by the ribbon down the side of the card.

Thanks for looking

see you tomorrow

Countryside Stamp samples

It's been a while since my last post... not since last year!.. so first of all,

A very Happy New Year!

to everyone reading my blog today. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas.

Sadly, my husband lost his Mother 2 days before Christmas day so it was a very sad time for us all but we made the best of it that we could surrounding ourselves with our family... Our Grandchildren kept us smiling, they are all so precious and gorgeous!

There were some new Joanna Sheen rubber stamps launched on TV today called Countryside Stamps Jo Channon did a lovely demo using them. Here are the samples I made for Joanna Sheen that you might get to see on TV next time.
First two are from the Garden of Dreams rubber stamp sheet

.. and these two cards are from the Rainy Days rubber stamp sheet

Thank you for visiting today.. I will have more samples to show next weekend with a Wedding theme in mind..
see you later
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Country house sample cards

..More to come in January. These were launched yesterday on C&C on the Dawn Bibby show. Here are the cards I made in more detail.

This card was shown like this by Dawn

..but it is an easel card.....

..with a drop down draw bridge where I've added a little notebook and greeting

I stamped the brick stamp with purple ink onto velvet paper for the castle adding little glittered rectangles for the windows, I inked with Tim holtz seedless preserves ink for most of the colouring and stamping. The drawbridge wood is an embossing folder.

I used Thomas Kinkade backing paper to stamp the gates and for the background, so the gates blended in. The stone stamps are used to create the border around the card. Inside is one of Joanna Sheens wordy stamps

I stamped the stone doorway first and made a door to fit it, scoring with a scoreboard and adding extra texture freehand with the scoring tool. I stamped the urns and inked them a little bit to add dimension and filled them both with punched flowers and leaves. The brick wall is the brick stamped with distress ink and a water brush to colour lightly.

Stamped and gold embossed flower and coloured with promarker pens and layered. The leaves are from the JS Pressed flower rubber stamps
Thanks for looking

Pressed flower sample cards

I really enjoyed getting stuck into pressed flowers again to make these sample cards for Joanna Sheen.

DIY sample cards

I haven't felt like blogging for quite a while due to family stuff.

I thought I would add some of the sample cards that I made and that were shown on the TV a few weekend's ago by Joanna Sheen.
First here is a Tool shed card

I used a score board to create the wood and used the score tool to add extra texture and then coloured it with distress ink direct to card and rubbed with cut and dry. Inside looks like this:
I stamped the tools twice..embossing one lot with silver powder.. and then snipping them to make one tool each after using promarkers to colour them. I created the peg board look using my Big Bite tool.

Here's the other card I made for the show
I made the tool belt from inked up card.. made the shape up as I went along .. it grew as I made it... Lol! I added the stitiching with a white gel pen.
and here is the pop up tool box inside..I can't take full credit for this pop out idea as I was totally inspired by this lady's blog here
I change mine for what I wanted by adding more drawerfronts etc.

I will be back soon with more sample cards for the groovy baby stamps and the pressed flower cards I made.

Bye for now.