Floral Explosion

This is the card class I designed and taught at the Cardinal Colours Spring Crop recently.

This first one is painted using Sheena Douglass paint fusion Daisy stamps and Pebeo Paints.

The image was stamped onto mountboard and masked then overstamped with text.
Once the flower were painted, I drew in thin stems and stamped the word in the bottom.
Once the edged were inked it was placed centrally on a scalloped edge card with a matt of Basig Grey paper. A gold ribbon and some pearls were added to finish.

Card two is also Paint Fusion using the Hellebore (Christmas Rose) stamp set.
This time I painted them onto card then cut them out.
The mountboard was prepared with black paint, crackle glaze and ecru paint which was back with gold mirri card and some more Basic Grey paper.

A stamped and punched message and some diamante finished this one.

Card Three uses paper from MME - The Sweetest Thing range.
The base card was punched with a Martha Stewart deep edge then covered with paper, the remainder of which was placed on the inside edge.
The then cut a fancy shape on text paper with a spellbinder die.
The flower is made with layers of two different patterned papers and my Tim Holtz Tattered Floral die - all scrunched up.

A few remaining petals were added inside with a butterfly as below.

I punched random butterflies for the front and added jewels.

A ribbon tie was added to finish.

Card Four uses the same range of papers.
The base is a 6x12 piece of cream puff bazzill folder into a gate-fold card.
Squares were cut in the mint paper and smaller squares of cream puff which were embossed with a swiss dot folder. My favourite retro daisy was used to punch the flowers which have small circle for their centres.
The centres were covered with glossy accents or stickles.
A variety of leaves were punched and added behind.

The message was stamped and punch with an SU circle and scallop punch.
Gold stickles were added around the edge.
I also decorated the inside of this one with the same papers.

If you were at the crop and took my class, please send photos of your cards along and I'll add them below - it would be good to see them :)

TFL

xxx  

Top Acts

Pleased to say I was in the February top acts in the Merly Impressions challenge with this layout :)
Thanks Chrissy & Emilie

Love Forever

This is the page I taught at Cardinal Colours crop at the weekend.

Lovely papers from Kaisercrafts Pickled Pear collection.

We had fun with Tim Holtz distress stains creating splats on the page.

Paper rolls were created and added for dimension along with a fan of cards from one of the papers.

Elements from another sheet were added and 3d'd onto the page with some die-cut clock faces made with a Marianne die.

I used white acryllic to dry brush the photo edges.

And a dose of glossy accents too!

The hand of the clock face was used as a body on the butterfly with a jewel.

If you came along and took part, do e-mail me your creation so I can add them below!

Supplies from Cardinal Colours and Merly Impressions.

TFL

X

Health & Wealth - Scrapology March Card Challenge

Our challenge this month came from our own Jill of Cardinal Colours

It's her birthday and her granddaughters on St Patrick's day so the challenge is to create a card with that as the theme.

I downloaded this cheeky chap from Whimsy stamps who have a great selection.

He was coloured with my favourite Copic markers and placed onto a die cut from Marianne designs.

I coloured the edges with chalk inks and ran them over the embossed frame too.

The message (gleaned from the internet) means Health and Wealth - at least I hope it does and I haven't just insulted someone's mother!

The paper is from the Authentique Christmas range which I used for January's tag layout and I added a tied piece of green raffia and some blooms from my collection.

Here's a little close-up of the little lad with a rainbow created with Martha Stewart glitter - these are the ones that come in tubes like stickles.

Follow this link for details of the challenge and to see what other ideas our DT came up with.

Thanks for looking x

More Mothers Day cards

Here are two more cards I made for people at work.
Scraps of my MME papers were used along with kraft card and bakers twine.

More Chocolate

All the chocolate bars sold and I was asked to make more :)

Forgot to take the photos before they were packaged :(

Belated Birthday to Chloe

I can finally share the following card as Chloe now has it! A bit late mind!

Lianne asked me to make it and we designed it together using some stickers and rub-ons from my drawer and a photostrip of pictures from our Disney trip.

Sure you had a great day Chloe! :)