Card in a box (almost!)

I haven't made a card for ages but the other week my neighbour asked if I would make a card for her mother's birthday.

She wanted a card with dimension on it, so that meant that it wouldn't fit in to an envelope without being squashed. I used Prima paper and flowers, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Craftwork cards greeting, coloured with distress inks, and American Crafts thickers.

 I made a box base, but I didn't feel like making a lid, so I decided to experiment with a piece of co-ordinating cardstock instead, and this is the result:

I will experiment with making the ribbon a bit tidier, and hope that it's ok for my neighbour.
Thanks for looking. X

Play Date Cafe Challenge No 23

I'm a bit late this week, but thought that I would still have a play with this week's challenge over at the Playdate Cafe.

Image is by Crafty Individuals, sentiment and oval punches are SU, I put the background card through
my Cuttlebug, the flowers are Prima and the flower stamp is by MME. A Martha Stewart border punch crept in there too.
Sorry it's a rushed post - bit hectic at the moment - can you tell? LOL!

Tuesday Taggers - Alter Something.

This week's Tuesday Taggers Challenge is right up my street, I love altering things, so I started with a tin:

I used stamps from Paperartsy and Crafty Individuals for the front of the tin, and gave it a metal roof painted with Lumiere paints and a chimney using a Tim Holtz label stamp:

For the inside I used Prima Flights of Fancy paper for the background and Martha Stewart butterfly punches.  I stamped flowers and foliage in the background using stamps from Clarity and Elusive Images, and did a bit of extra colour with Copic pens:

I did colour the outside and inside of the tin with alcohol inks aswell, but this doesn't show on the photos.
The tiny alphabet is by My Little Shoebox.

What a whopper!

Yesterday I went to the Great Northern Papercraft Show in Harrogate and had a lovely time shopping and meeting up with friends.  One of the sets of stamps I bought was the large butterfly from Graphicus.  Glenda had some beautiful examples on display on her stand and I couldn't wait to have a go when I got home.

I coloured the background with distress inks (bundled sage and forest moss) and I coloured the butterfly in with distress inks and Nick Bantock inks and added a little gold glamour dust and some black stickles to the body.
The swirls (from the same plate) are stamped with forest moss again.
I'm going to have a go using metallic paints next, but not today - feel a bit yukky .
Thanks for looking X

Play Date Cafe Challenge 21

Here are the colours for this week at the Play Date Cafe - spring is in the air!!!!!!

I used Flights of Fancy papers by Prima for the pink and for the butterfly.  I think the yellow paper is Crate Paper. The flowers are also by Prima and the leaves were stamped using Nick Bantock ink and a Studio 490 stamp.

The sun is shining this morning and (dare I say it?) the air doesn't feel quite as chilly.

Let's hope it continues and Spring is finally on it's way.

Thanks for looking X

Artsycrafts Weekend

Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to Artsycrafts in Warrington, organised by Lin from L B Crafts and Leandra from Paperartsy.  The organisation was great and I met some lovely people and generally had a fabulous, messy time. This is what we started with:

This is what mine turned out like by the end of the weekend:

The photo has made the stamping look a bit wonky, but it's not QUITE as distorted as that in real life! :-)

We also played with terra and ferro paints on a mail slider:

I think I'm going to add some more metal and stamping to this later.

Finally we decorated a small tray with metal, paint, glimmer mists and tiles:

We learned loads of techniques and the whole weekend just flew by.

Quick Journal page.

 

Just been having a play with Fired Brick and Dusty Concorde distress inks, then oversprayed with red and periwinkle glimmer mists.  Background is various Tim Holtz and PaperArtsy stamps, then I had a bit of a doodle with a sharpie pen.