Tuesday 20 April 2010
Lots of New Flowers Have Arrived
Thursday 15 April 2010
Back at Last
- Colour the hydrangea stamp with the Art and Graphic Pens from Kuretake and stamp it twice, colouring up between stamping. Use the H2O water brush to move the paint a little and added some extra colour where the shadows should be.I cut the images out and then got on with the rest of the card.
- Cut a base card 10.5cm x 28cm. Score this at the 14cm point to make a card 10.5cm x 14cm when folded.
- Cut a piece of pink card and scored it and then cut it to fit over the join in the base card.
- Stamp the message, which is from the Inspirational sayings plate, on a piece of card and cut it out to leavea a small border. Mounted this on to a piece of pink card. This was then stuck to the base card.
- Stick the hydrangea images slightly overlapping on to the card with a mixture of adhesive and foam pade. The adhesive was for the bottom hydrangea and the foam pads for the upper image.
- Decorated the lower part of the card with a broken line of green, use one of the greens that used on the stamp for colour continuity.
Tuesday 16 March 2010
New Header
I'd love to hear what you have to say about her so leave your comments for me to read.
Thursday 11 March 2010
A Corsage from Paper Flowers
Now twist the stems together.
Repeat the same steps with flowers and leaves for the other side. Lay them on the table and cross over at the centre point.
Put the large rose in the centre and then twist the wires together at the back of the corsage so that they lie flat. At this point, this is what you'll end up with.
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Challenge 82 - Kids Kardz!
This card was made for
Challenge 82 - Kids Kardz!
on My Time to Craft.This fab boy stamp is from the set of Sketch kids stamps from The Merry Stamper.
I also used some of our highly desired dinosaur ribbon.
Some Kuretake Art and Graphic, double ended pens for the colouring and a waterbrush for the shading.
Tuesday 16 February 2010
Sunday 14 February 2010
Fennel Seed Head Card
I am often asked for cards for men and it is always difficult to come up with anything for them. So much of the stuff in the shops is covered with beer mugs that I decided to go for something refreshing and natural. Flowers are out for most men but seeds and weeds seem to be fine. This is what you get in this card.
What you will need:
Fennel Seed Head from Stampinback
Pieces of waste card from when you've been learning to use a brayer
or some nice paper
Stazon in Stone Grey
Sentiment stamp from I Brake for Stamps
Light duck egg blue ribbon from Craft Fairy
Toning background paper for the base of the card
Happy crafting
Saturday 6 February 2010
Ribbon Flower Tutorial 2
So above, is the finished flower and now I'm sure that you all want to see how I made it.
First you will need to assemble your ingredients:
On my table I had:
4 strips of hot pink satin swiss dot ribbon each measuring 15 cm.
A few buttons. I hadn't yet decided which ones to use. You will need one bigger than the other though.
Cotton
A needle. Use a sharp one.
Start your flower by putting some glue on one end of the ribbon:
Fold it to the centre add glue to the other end and fold that to the centre too. Your ribbon should overlap and form a loop that the glue holds together in the centre.
Once you've done this you can layer up the pieces as seen in the picture below and now you're almost ready to sew them together.
I played around with the buttons that I had on the table and I finally chose a pink and a green button as I liked the way that they looked.
You need to be aware that you are sewing a lot of layers of ribbon together so that's why you will need a sharp needle. I started by sewing just two pieces together to get the position right.
Now layer up the pieces and sew together. Add your buttons and sew together and your flower is ready to go...
Monday 1 February 2010
A necklace for a change
I bought some beads for Sandra's Accessories and she had a similar necklace on show and I decided that it looked easy enough to make. It was and here is the evidence.
It's not the best photograph as it's a scan but the light wasn't good enough to tahe a photograph.
Sunday 31 January 2010
Watercolour flowers with Kuretake Calligraphy pens
First of all you'll need at least two calligraphy pens in toning colours. I've used a light and a dark one from the Heart pouch set.
What I then did was touch the side of the lightest pen with the dark pen.
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Pull Treat for Valentine's Day
This pretty pink package is made with:
a heart die cut
pink calligraphy pens
9mm pink saddle stitch ribbon
3mm saddle stitch ribbon
a sheet of heavy paper
1 sheet of medium weight card
1 flat gift
The tutorial for making this gift wrap is to be found on splitcoast stampers resource page. The flower making and pen blending technique can be seen here.
Thursday 21 January 2010
Ribbon Flower Tutorial
Gingham Ribbon flower:
- You will need a 10 inch length of ribbon. I used this black and white gingham. You will need at least 23 mm ribbon for this to work. Ribbon available from Craft Fairy.
- Thread in your chosen colour. I used white but red would be quite nice if you have red on your card or page.
- Two buttons, one slightly bigger than the other.
Now comes the fun part:
Thread your needle and with small stitches, stich along one edge of the ribbon.
When you get to the end of the ribbon, pull the thread to make the ribbon into the sort of cartwheel shape that you can see in the picckie.
Sew the ribbon together at the back... No one wants to see tacking stitches.
There we are, ready to be used.
Monday 18 January 2010
Fairy, but with a twist
Saturday 16 January 2010
Stained Glass window card
I wanted to be the first to enter. I really get a kick out of that. So silly, I know but indulge me.
Now, don't be fooled into thinking that I've put on any stitching. It's dots made with the pen. Quick and simple. Makes up for the age that I took to colour in the stamped image.
I know that you are going to want to buy it immediately so go to Craft Fairy now to get it. It's the beautiful Stained Glass Flower stamp.
Tuesday 12 January 2010
And now for a gift bag
The beautiful hot pink gingham ribbon is just in and just £1.50 for 3 metres.
Saturday 9 January 2010
Baking fairy cooks up a happy birthday.
Friday 8 January 2010
Gardening Fairy
The ribbon is from Craft Fairy naturally. It's a beautiful 9mm baby blue gingham.
The digital images are almost ready to go on the web site. Only a couple of glitches to iron out and they will be for sale.
Tuesday 5 January 2010
A Spoonful of Sugar Challenge 85 Hearts
This card shows you that love is not for the exclusive use of the young and I think that it is so sweet.
Favourite colour combo
Wednesday 30 December 2009
Blog Hopping
Come on sisters.... I advise a good hour of blog hopping and leave comments other wise they don't know that you've visited.
Monday 21 December 2009
Colour Challenge
Saturday 19 December 2009
In the Glossies
have both been featured by the lovely Alice who came to visit Craft Fairy on the stand at the NEC.
Wednesday 16 December 2009
Taffy Crafty Creations
This is the stamp that you'll see used so really really well. To buy the stamp, click on the image.
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Anything Goes
The card is made using:
Mouse with sign stamp
Basic Grey paper that I had in my stash
the border is punched with a Fiskars border punch and the
circle is cut with a nestabilities die.
Happy crafting.