The Owl and The Pussycat

These are the cards I designed and taught at the Cardinal Colours Autum crop.

 

 My Minds Eye – Miss Caroline, Howdy Doody 6x6" paper.

 

Woodware stamps - owl set and fat cat, plus various punches and dies were used and

accented with pearls. diamante and googly eyes.

All cards are 6x6" square from Craftwork Cards - available from Cardinal Colours.

 

 

Thanks for looking

xxx

 Here are some of the completed class cards.

Michelle with her completed set.

 

Lynn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of a Kind - Cardinal Colours Autumn Crop

This is the page I created for my class at this weekends Cardinal Colours crop.

 

The papers are My Minds Eye, The Sweetest Thing - Bluebell collection.

I took the Bright Blossom paper and gutted 2” from outside edge. I used a Martha Stewart deep edge punch-around-the-page to create a border around a sheet of Cream Puff Bazzill and fixed to the dotty side of Bright Blossom. Everyday Variety was cut to 9” square, distressed and inked then fixed in centre.   I cut the Smile paper to
7” x 8 ½ “ keeping the pattern in the bottom left hand corner, distressed and inked the edges and created a tear.  I trimmed around the inside of the patterned area to create a “pocket” for my photograph to slide under on mat 6 ½ x 4 ½ from the Bright Blossom. A few blooms from the reverse of this paper  were cut out and inserted behind the tear, I used 3d foam for height too. DMC thread was used to “stitch” across the tear.

3 medium & 2 small retro daisies were punched and inked, I added detail with a Micron pen. The edges were curled and placed onto the page and decorated with punched centres and fronds. Crystals were placed in the small flower centres and also those on the page.

I punched 2 large butterflies, layered with black shadows and placed them on the page.

I used left over paper and cut elongated triangles, rolled up and glued, to become the bodies. Smaller butterflies were punched and layered as before with a dot of gold stickles in the centres for bodies this time. A Micron pen was used to create antennae.

I chose words from the matching sticker sheet and mounted them onto left over paper.
The yellow edge was outlined and they were added with 3d foam.

Thanks for looking and if you came to the crop, I hope you had a lovely time :)
xxx

 This is a gallery of completed pages, thanks ladies for sharing...
and a few photos taken in class.

and the lovely Lynn

Sue

Wendy

Lynn

Sandra

 Anita

Tina

Croc Girl

Another Papermaze crop kit, this is the latest one - September 2012- with papers from MME.

 

I used a photograph of me holding a baby croc at Crocodiles of the World, Witney, last August 2011.

It really made my day as I just love these creatures - mad I know - but they completely fascinate me.

 

As I wasn't there I had to use different punches etc to finish the page.

Lynn embossed the honeycomb and cut the tag for me - Thanks :)

 

 

The title is a new set of stamps I got from Craftwork cards, I love the way they came out.

The little circle fit onto candi too!

 

 

Such a lot of detail goes into their pages, it's always a delight to follow.

 

 

Here is Lynn's version and her blog post.

 

 

And this is the original and post.

 

 

I think I may have another somewhere? Am off to look!

 

Thanks for looking :)

xxx



My Little Ballerina

Although she is tap dancing here!

 

This is my take on a class taught at Cardinal Colours by the wonderful Anita, click here to see more.

 

 

The papers are by My Minds Eye. Lost and Found Two along with some bazzill bling.

I found some old photographs of Lianne taken at the end of year class at Sylvera School of Dance, Crayford. I have cropped and enlarged them.

 

Scalloped scissors were used to trim the base page down which was then mounted onto the bling.

We cut the garlands out and added them on along with loads of pearls. 

  

 

A circle of tuile was included which we folded and eased into a cut across the tailors dummy.

 Paper Roses and pearls hid the seam.

  

 

A die was used (Memory Box I think) to create the swirls, one of which was cut into two.

We had loads of lovely square pink bling on strips which were used to frame the pictures.

 

Thanks Anita for sharing yet another lovely class page, another to follow!

 

Thanks for looking.

xxx

Scrapology September Challenge - H is for Hexagons

This month we are featuring Katherine Sutton (Sutty) and our kit is MME,
Follow your Heart - Be Amazing
Details can be found on the Scrapology Blog here.

This is my page.

I masked a piece of 12x12 Kraft using the width of the tape as a border, then dry brushed with Vanilla Bean Acrylic paint.

 

Then painted a piece of bubble wrap with Lettuce Adirondak paint and pressed onto the paper.

  

My photo (6x4") is mounted onto another piece of Kraft. I cut random hexagons from the 12x12 sheet and placed them around the top left of the photo. Elements were cut from a few 6x6 sheets from a pad from the same range which were also placed around the edges.

The bunting is made from strips (from the 6x6 pad) of 2x1" which I snipped into.

The top edge was folded over two pieces of bakers twine and glued into place, the ends I have coiled and stapled.

Some of the Hexagons are on 3d foam for detail.

In my selection of smaller papers I had the above shape of hexagons so I cut it out to include the bird and swirl. I also ran a line of black fine-liner around the painted edge.

This is the 12x12 paper in the kit along with 2 sheets of Kraft.

There are also 4 random sheets from the pack below.

The kit is completed with some Vanilla Bean Acrylic paint and 2m of Bakers Twine.

A limited amount are available for sale via Cardinal Colours, please contact us if you would like more details.

Thanks for looking

xxx

Who's that cool dude?

I recently shared a page I made with one of Anita's class kits.

There was lots of hexagons left over from the sheet so I decided to make another.

I've had to cover the child face - sorry :(

I used a sheet of white bazzill for the base and cut and inked lots of hexagons.

I arranged them onto the page and raised some on foam pads.

The bunting was made in the same way as before and attached with leftover string.

The photo was mounted onto a piece of natural bazzill which I scrunched, torn and inked.

A close up of the raised hexagons.

TFL

XXX