Vintage Friday...

Happy Friday,

Sorry I missed vintage fro day last week but I wanted to keep the Papercuts giveaway going!  Therefore today I was determined to go back as I want to make as many of the Friday posts as I can using older dies from my Sue Wilson collection of dies.  Today's is using the Austrian collection ( I have to admit along with Scandinavian one of my personal faves but I have a soft spot for ovals!)

I stared this time by choosing the colour combination and this mix of Blue Dusk, Black and Slate Grey really sang to me when I was selecting it.  I cut the Austrian collection background 4 times in slate grey foundation card I added 2 back to back on a pice of duck egg card.  I mounted this over a larger piece and added the other 2 borders at each side to highlight the design.

Next I cut the Vienna die in slate and shadowed this with a black die cut.  I then cut the oval die form the Salzburg die and added this around the centre.  I then stamped the sentiment on a pice ion pearl icicle card and cut this with the centre of the Austrian collection background die.

I cut the detail die from the classic rose die in duck egg and backed this with the slate grey.  I added black fern trio die cuts behind these and arranged these around the central element.

enjoy...

Time to Enjoy...

Happy Monday,

One from the vaults today from the show samples I made for the last pick of the day shows upon Create and Craft earlier this year.  As I am sure you know I sign off my blog posts with the word Enjoy and I was over the moon when sue designed an Enjoy die!  This is the first one I cut form the Expressions range and made this card with the resultant piece!

To make the card I die cut the oval from the Austrian collection salzburg die in periwinkle blue and then cut a smaller aperture using the oval from the Vienna die in coconut white.  I mounted these above each other and cut the white piece with a slightly larger border.

next I cut 4 of the ornamental corners (the set contains 2 dies which are designed as opposites of each other) in cobalt card and mounted them as a frame around the blue card.  I then simply added the Enjoy die cut in white and then added a few layers of the periwinkle, cobalt and coconut white card to make this 5x7" card.

To add some interest to the front I made a spray of camels using both the complete and open petals in what.  I added these to a messy bow in white seam binding with a couple of pearl stick pins.

To pick out the detail on the corner pieces I added some dots of cosmic pearl PVA and finished.  Hopefully a card you can send for any occasion and one that's worth having for those moments when we need to send one quickly!

Ingredients:

Creative Expressions Craft dies by Sue Wilson
Enjoy expressions die
Ornamental Corner
Salzburg & Vienna die sets
Camila open & Closed petals
Cobalt, Periwinkle & coconut white foundation card
Cosmic Pearl PVA

as always, Enjoy...

Day 4...

Happy Sunday,

Hopefully It will be a sunny Sunday wherever you are 'crus I'm hoping it is where I am!  Another Holiday Quickie, I feel I should explain as my posts are not scheduled very far in advance and with the sheer quantity of work I have on when I am away I haven't a bank of posts ready to schedule so I put together quick posts really hope my lovely blog family don't mind!

Today's card is another demo card from C&C America made very simply using the dandelion meadow stamp to die for along with the Salzburg die form Sue Wilson.  I sometimes feel that the simple and clean cards are more difficult to do!

Enjoy...