Tilda with egg basket

Finally, I did it again, ...another Magnolia card. I don't get much crafty time lately and this one has been lying around for a while waiting to be finished.
I love my new stamp from Magnolia, it matches with other stamps I have from the collection. It has a rural feel to it and matches with my other Tildas holding baskets and flowers.

Lovely Webster's Pages papers used on the front of the card. The red and white dot and green gingham papers are from Lidl. Green silk Petaloo flowers used as leaves and Prima flowers sprayed and painted with Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Glaze. Sunflower and red roses from John Lewis.

Adorable little Tilda is coloured with Faber Castel pencils. These are very easy to use and are very blendable.

I used a sentiment from the paper collection and cut it out with a Magnolia tag die.

Another view of the completed card.

Bridal shower favour boxes

I made 16 favour boxes for the bridal shower using Tag, Bags, Boxes and more. The DCWV paperstack Mariposa was my go to paper selection again. I hope they never discontinue this range, it has the prettiest papers with glitter and gold foil.

Heart shaped closure on the top of the boxes.

I saved the cut out umbrellas from the invitations and glued them on the boxes with a thank you sticker.

A simple design, but very pretty because of the papers. Each box had little gifts e.g. lip gloss, soap, bath roses, etc.

Thanks for visiting, hope you like my little craft projects.

Bride to be

Big congrats to bride to be Loretta. Hope you had a lovely time.

If you want to know how I made these pompoms then have a look at this video: Giant Flower Pompoms

I made 7 pompoms with 10 layers each; 2 cream, 2 yellow, 2 soft pink and 1 in fuchsia.

Bridal shower wreath

Now we have finally had the bridal shower done, I can finally show you what I made for the party.
This is the wreath I made to decorate the table.

Gold glitter cardstock leaves cut with Spellbinders dies. Gold ribbon tied around a styro foam ring.

Punched glitter cardstock centres.

Papertrey button centres and gemstone flower centres. White crepe flowers with Stickles Gold edging.

The completed wreath with double bow as seen on a Becca bits video by Becca Feeken. A hot glue      

gun is essential to get it all assembled and secured.

Gentle baby card

My colleague had her second baby, a little boy Aaron at the end of April.
I made this little card for her. It is not completely my own idea, I saw it in a book and changed it slightly.
It is easy to make if you have the Cricut and the Plantin Schoolbook and Graphically Speaking cartridges.

The background paper is from K&Co Wedding papers, blue and cream cardstock from American Crafts.

Stardust glitter is used to cover the little stars with a Melissa Francis pearl in the middle.

Cream satin ribbon from Paperchase, tied in a pretty bow. The inside is also covered with designer paper and has a stamped sentiment by Papertrey that reads; welcome baby.

Table centre piece preview

Just a quick preview on another item I am making for the bridal shower.
It's a table centre piece.

The flowers are made from tissue paper, but I am also using crepe paper. I will decorate a styro foam circle. More details to follow in a later post. I used a punch and Spellbinders dies to cut different types of circles for the flowers.

Bridal shower invitation

I have been busy, busy, busy lately. I am making preparations for a bridal shower.
The party is going to take place next Sunday the 6th, so I can finally post the pictures of the invitations.

Made with the Sweethearts cartridge and my Cricut.

 The cardstock is from DCWV Mariposa collection.

Simple but effective as I have kept the umbrella cut out to make different items for the shower.

Thank you card

Enjoying my Sunday afternoon at home, recharging the batteries ready for another busy week.

I have made a Magnolia card combined with some Cricut cuts. The colours are very much spring time with light blue and yellow.

I recycled an old Cricut card that I had made when I just received my Cricut. I had used the Storybook cartridge.

A lovely little Tilda holding flowers.

Magnolia Doohickey dies for the branch and flowers, sprayed with Glimmer Mist.

Some Stickles to add sparkle to this pencil coloured image.

The inside of the card is covered with patterned paper from Melody Ross by GCD studios. 

Oh Happy Day

A happy weekend to you,
Hope you have time to enjoy the day. It is raining so that is a good excuse to stay indoors and craft. I have another spring theme card to share with you today.

I used another card from the Wild Card cartridge. I used American Crafts Tropical cardstock. The image is from Lili of the Valley, I like the funny bunny on his pogo stick. The flowers are from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge, cut with their shadow image and layered. I used Making Memories brads to affix them to the card.

The paper is from the Lemonade collection by Basic Grey and the stickers too. I used a Martha Stewart border punch to create the scalloped edge.

Serenity

Hello,
I have an unusual card to share, that is for myself I mean.
I saw this video from Becca Feeken where she makes these frugal embellishment flowers with buttons. I have tried them before, but never really used them. So I thought it was time to get out my hot glue gun and make a button flower. I used Papertrey buttons that I won a while ago from Andrea.

Simple, but beautiful in its own right with just a stamped sentiment from TCP Studio. All other items are made with Spellbinder dies.

The inside of the card is covered with the same paper from making Memories.

Sweet Easter Greetings

Hi,

A Blessed Easter to everyone.
I have 2 cards to show you today with images from Lili of the Valley.

I have cut the card basis with the Cricut. Unfortunately my Gypsy died and I had no way to adjust the settings like I normally do. I am very disappointed with the lifespan of the Gypsy. 2 years is all I got out of it and it doesn't look good based on the comments left on the Cricut community. The leaf is from the same cartridge Wild Card.

The inside is also decorated with the same paper from the Lemonade collection by Basic Grey. The white area for writing a sentiment is made using a Spellbinders die.

The flower is made with circle dies from Spellbinders and some cotton fabric assembled with a Doodlebug brad. I love these brads, they are so soft. the sentiment stickers are also from Basic Grey.

All the images were coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. I just love them, they are so nice to work with, very easy to blend.

For a healthy heart

...exercise your faith. This lovely sentiment is by TCP Studio.
A sweet little Tilda card to share with you today.

Designer paper is from Basic Grey June Bug collection. The image is coloured with pencils and then cut out. The background is sprayed with Glimmer Mist Cross My Heart using a template that I cut with the Cricut from the Storybook cartridge.

The picture quality is not ideal, but I would like to show you how I coloured her skirt, trying to mimic the paper.

The sentiment is a stamp from TCP studio, stamped in red and then raised with Glossy Accents. The branch and the flowers are from Magnolia, the corner die is from Spellbinders.

Just a quick view of the inside of the card.

Happy Mother's Day

A happy day to all mothers, but especially my very own dearest and darling mother.

The designer paper is from Basic Grey June Bug. The card is embossed and left largely blank so there was room to add a handmade paper tissue flower. The flower is sprayed with Glimmer Mist Bubblegum. The leaf is from Spellbinders.

The image is from Lili of the Valley and coloured with polychromos. Unfortunately the paper got a dent in it and it looks as if she has a dirty cheek now :). The sentiment is from Woodware.
Enjoy your very special day everyone. Hugs.

Get well

After having disappeared off the globe...
Not really, I was still around, but free time has been reduced to nothing. Where I used to be able to enjoy the odd day off and fill it with crafting and homework, now I have hardly any free time.
Work has become an ugly beast and demands all my time. At work, there have been big changes as the clinic manager has left and I have resumed the acting role; not easy doing the work of two.
Hopefully in the near future, things will change for the better and I can get back to regular crafting. I am still fortunate to call myself fairly young :) and have luckily enough energy to share.
Some exciting occasions on the horizon: a baby shower, my friend's bridal shower and a wedding,... meaning enough crafting opportunities and ideas coming in floods...
I have made some cards and this one today is a get well card.

The designer paper is from Melissa Frances Kitchy Kitchen.

The stamp is from Motivet and coloured with Faber Castell polychromos pencils. I am still very disappointed that Motivet has left the UK market. I am not even sure if they are still trading. They used to have such delightful images. I am glad I bought them when I did.

I did an effort to decorate the inside of the card as well. I think since 2012, I have been treating every card this way. The sentiment on the front and inside are from Crafty Secrets Feeling Yucky collection.
Hope to be back with a post soon, thanks for all the visits even when I was not posting. Hope to hear from you soon.

Blooming with sweetness

Happy Valentine to all, but specially to my one and only beloved one.

Websters Pages papers are most delightful and so soft in their make-up, they really suit the Magnolia stamp.

Colouring with colour pencils.

The flower is handmade from old magazine papers.