More spares Pinkness...

Happy Thursday,


Its another spare today I'm afraid!  I always feel I should give a reason why I am using an older creation I have not shown so here goes.  I received this morning the light tent I had treat myself to as I had to leave the one I made back in Spain as it was getting rickety, the cost of making another one (without the wonderful Chinese shops and their prices) would be more expensive than buying one.  I did however make a mistake in the sizing and the tent is a cubic meter just too big to use. lol

I will sort this hopefully for tomorrow and start showing some of the cards I have been making with my beautiful new Sue Wilson dies.


Ingredients:
Cream and Pink PMD Card stock
Spellbinders Gold Circles one
Spellbinders Bauble blossoms one
White Felt

Enjoy...

Green and White LIVE...

Happy Wednesday,

Really quick one today I'm afraid as I thought I had a post scheduled and didn't!  Had a manic day yesterday racing about its all good but somehow I underestimated the scheduling!  I also took delivery of a selection of the new Sue Wilson new release dies so I did spend a little too long playing sorry!

This is a spare card I made a while ago and had ready pictured for an emergency a simple card in forest green and white using embossed panels made with embossing the die used for the aperture.








There is a real cross section of dies and techniques used hopefully the ingredients list will help untangle this card!







Ingredients:
Sue Wilson Spanish Background Die
Spellbinders Radiants Rectangles Die
Spellbinders Floral background Die
Card & Ribbon from stash.


Enjoy...

Lilac Criss Cross...

Happy Tuesday,

As I am sure I have bored you all with by now I do love looking at a die in a different way and making something unusual with a die cut piece.  That is exactly what happened with today's card.  I cut one of the strips from the Sue Wilson Lattice bow die set in white and stuck it down to a piece cut from a lilac card.  I noticed that it was a lovely ribbon and would work with my weaving technique so that's what I did simply cut another 5 and start threading.

I made a simple lilac and White apertures card 9something I have made so many times I am sure you all know the process by now lol.  and mounted the weave behind.


At this point I noticed that the front seemed a little small and plain so I cut 4 more of the lattice strips this time in lilac and stuck them on the front to give a lovely almost embossed pattern that followed the lines of the square aperture.





Finally I mounted the whole piece on a large card I matted in the same colours and making the centre squares smaller, gave a frame for the back of the card.









Ingredients:
Sue Wilson Lattice Bow die
Lilac & White PMD Cardstock
Pearls from (Spanish) stash.


Enjoy...

Its a First...

Happy Monday,

Now it's confession time today's card is the first I have made in the UK since my return.  I had scheduled and made ahead like a beaver before leaving Spain to give me the maximum time available.  However I am now happy to say that the Garage has been converted into a joint Craft studio and office for Mr ND and myself.  There is still work to be done as we want to add some useful panels to the walls and more storage however it is all ready to go.

Today's card is genuinely the first made in the space and is one I was imagining as we crossed France as I knew I would have the Sue Wilson Beveled Glass striplet waiting for me as well as the bow dies and I just saw in my head a version of this card.

AS I am writing this at 6am today (something that I rarely do) there is little in the way of instructions however it is simple.  I cut the striplet die four times from a square cut form Hammered PMD white cardstock butting the next cut up to the edge of the first on each turn.  This makes a perfect square in the centre which I cut out, you all know my love of recessed apertures, using a sizzix square die that fit the bill.

I lightly inked the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink (its nice to have everything in its places I can add the correct products!  This gave some definition before I foam mounted the piece onto soft gold card (a gift from the wonderful Mrs Duck whom I met for lunch a few days ago and had a bag of craft goodness for me, we spent too long just chatting and annoying the waitress as she had to ask 5 times if we were ready to order)

I then made up one of the beautiful paper bows from Sue Wilson in the same shades using the Lattice bow and the straight bow.  This was floated over the aperture before I added a layer of gold and white to the inside back of the card onto which I had stamped my sentiment.

Today's card Is dedicated to Mr ND who whilst driving me mad at times has made me moving back into the U.K. house as easy as he is capable of.

Ingredients:
Sue Wilson Bevelled Glass Striplet
Sue Wilson lattice 3D bow die
Sue Wilson Classic 3D bow die
Vintage Photo Distress ink
Pearls form Spain stash
Waltzing Mouse Sentiment Stamp
White hammered PMD Card & Soft Gold gift card!

Enjoy...

Recycled...

Happy Sunday,

This is a recycled card form one I posted a few weeks ago that split opinion, click HERE if you want to see the original card.  I had to agree with everyone that the pink die cuts on the original card was just too much!  Therefore I pulled it apart and started again with all the pieces and made this one.













The only difference from the original is the addition of the new sentiment.  This I stamped onto acetate using Archival black ink and pinned into the bow to fix it to the card.


The fold is also different on this one as a flap folds over the front holding the central panel and I feel it softens the pink and blue rose paper from First Edition.








Ingredients:
Spellbinders Elegant Ovals
Spellbinders Classic ovals small
First Edition Floral Pavillion paper pad
Indigoblu sentiment stamp


I hope you all like this recycled version I am a lot happier with it!

Enjoy...

Christmas Saturday...

Happy Saturday,

Well it is supposed to be something different Saturday and what can be more different on a hot August day than a traditional Christmas Card?!? I thought you might like to see something a little traditional in rich Burgundy and Gold (yes it does look like I am trying to turn around the fortunes of Mirror card single handed) mirror card.


The card base is simply a matter of layering strips of the different cards along with a strip of the patterned tulle ribbon (another Chino Shop purchase but I'm sure you can find  something similar nearer to Christmas in most shops)  The interesting part of this card is the wreath.  I noticed that the centre die from the Sue Wilson Tuscany set made a beautiful wreath that would be suitable for any season (see the pink card I made from this a couple of weeks ago) however it makes a wonderful Christmas wreath.



This is made by die cutting the circle in the burgundy then in gold.  I embossed the gold die cut which left all the die cut pieces in the die. I then placed the Burgundy die cut back into the die and added a hand cut circle on which I had stuck a sheet of double sided adhesive.  I embossed this piece through the GC which merged the gold into the burgundy and the adhesive made it nice and easy to remove.


This is then mounted with a large bow and decorated, again could be made in any colour.





Ingredients:
Sue Wilson Tuscany Die
Patterned Tulle Ribbon
Gold Mirror Card
PMD Maroon Cardstock
Creative Expressions Mica Gold
Wendys' Hat Pins

I have had to lighten the pictures to make this card visible however I promise that in real life it is rich and not at all dark and brooding!

Enjoy...

Ok Ok Back to fussy(ish)...

Happy Friday,

Sorry guys I had to throw in a complex fussyish one as well didn't I?  Today's card is made using an old spellbinders die which I believe was a Sue Wilson die for them called lace something (I bought it without packaging on EBay an age ago)

I cut the die, which is a kind of lace square with points, out and folded each of the points in after placing a small die cut lace square from the same set, in lavender in the centre.  The points are stuck down with a small foam square and a pearl to keep it stuck down.  I have to admit that quite a few popped open whilst I was making this so it is a little time consuming I'm afraid!




The remainder of the card is quite simple I folded a sheet of hammered cardstock into a tri fold shape and added a piece of the matching lavender and a loop of matching seem binding as an opening.  Next I simply added the shapes I had made in lines.

The sentiment is an old waltzing mouse one stamped onto a hand cut tag into which I die cut a corner die form the same set.

Ingredients:
Spellbinders Lace something Sue Wilson (can anybody give me the name of this one?)
White PMD Hammered card
Lilac Lidl card
Waltzing Mouse sentiment stamp
Lilac seem binding


Enjoy...