Well, best intentions and all that, I meant to blog at least once a week but don't know where the last month or so has gone. I'll try a new resolution to blog more often and see how we go :-)
I have been busy mostly with Card making and Jewellery using semi precious gemstones. I've decided these to use whenever possible becuase I love the feel and the 'naturalness' if there is such a word, of them.
Right... cards, I treated myself to some new Tim Holtz inks and stamps, and have been having an experimental time. These are a few of the cards I came up with using mostly Ranger products, and no, I'm not on comission but don't mind saying if I find a product is good!
These were the first ones I did with the new 'stuff'. I love vintage and these came close to what I was trying to achieve. The pictures I already had on some old sheets, and the backing papers, which I stamped over a bit and used distress inks on the edges. I cut out all the shapes on the trusty Cricut and again used distess inks and Perfect Pearls on both to highlight. the photo's don't show it but using the Pearls on the acual picture gave a really nice aged look.
These are the two I did yesterday:
I love the Vintage travel theme, I think I was born in the wrong era, I would loved to have got all dressed up and set off with my entourage for Egypt or somewhere exotic. Knowing me I'd have been carrying the cases though! Again, on these I used distress inks, Tim Holtz stamps and Perfect Pearls to get the effects I wanted. they may be a bit 'too busy' for some but sometimes I don't know when to stop. Anyway I was happy with the final effect but will enjoy continuing to experiment!
I also made a few sets of gift tags just because the fancy took me. I used some older stamps I have this time, as well as some of the fancy stamps from Tim Holtz Christmas set (last years), again I used distress inks and lots of Perfect pearls to get some shimmer, loving the shimmer! I also used Glossy Accents for texture and alcohol inks to highlight.
The actual tags again I cut out on the Cricut, I also used the paper distresser to rough up the edges a little. Thanks for dropping in - I'd love to hear your comments if you have time to leave one, even if it's just to say hi! Will be back again soon, I won't be leaving it so long next time! x
Hi all and thank you to Amanda at Once Designer Jewellery for your enquiry about the handbag cards, I've now put them in my Folksy shop at £1.75 for anyone who's interested, Folksy can be reached by the badge on the left ;-).A busy day today rushing around but managed to get a couple of cards made, these were for special order but are ones I can easily re-produce and personalise if required.The first one features Louis's puppy photo again, this time in turquoise, my favourite colour, it's too sweet a photo to only make one card with! I was then fiddling about with bits and bobs as you do, and came up with the flower card, made using Jiminey Cricut for the flower, this one looks better in real life as it's quite textured with the ribbon and the flower.
Hey ho - hope you like and call back again - I registered on Craftjuice today and am trying to work out what goes on - when I can work out how I'll post the link here and you can see for yourselves. Have a lovely evening, see you soon :-)
Morning all, hope you've all had fab weekend's - I had a fantastic day out at Cruft's yesterday meeting up with a friend and spending far too much money. Back to crafting today and a few special order cards to make so a good excuse to practice some more with the Cricut! Anyway I put a new card in the Folksy shop on Saturday - an Inspirational promise card, one of the first of what I hope will be lovely range. I received some beautiful cards last year, and I know how much a card coming in the post can brighten up the day. I want this range to look more natural but still be pretty so on this first one I used shades of peach and cream to highlight this lovely message. A few hearts made with the trust Cricut, and some plaited ribbon (now that was a fiddly diddly job!) just finish it off nicely I think. Anyhoo - here it is, hope you like, will try and be a bit more disciplined
and post
more regularly
Evening all, hope you've all had a good day. Apologies again to those of you who have tried to sign up on here but have been unable to ... darn new fangled computer thingummies!
Anyway, for those who haven't fallen asleep yet, I've been busy today making a lot of cards for a friend who is leaving her job and wanted personalised cards for each of her colleagues featuring whatever their hobbies were. One of them loved pigs so found a fab photo of 3 little piglets who were definitely posing for the camera, well they are vey intelligent so I understand.I went on to make a 'Friend' card with my new best friend Jiminey Cricut, this is the result:
It
is really pretty again, as most of my cards tend to be, I try to do something plainer and more minimalist but always end up with one of my 'Lovelies' as I've begun calling them. You've got to worry about someone who gives their cards names now haven't you?!
I didn't get around to my photo shoot with Big Ted so will have to get on to that tomorrow, I thought I'd put some links on here to some of my favourite crafting sites too for anyone that's interested, also found You Tube to be an absolute mine of information for tutorials...who ever knew?! Take care all and catch you soon. P.S. Thank you so much to those of you who have kindly signed on as fans on Facebook, as I said autographed photo's will be available shortly...hee hee.
