Shabby

 I love shabby chic style and I guess I'm not alone as my most popular board on Pinterest is my Shabby Chic Papercrafts one.  This is my effort at it. I've used Pink Petticoat papers and sentiment, the doily you can see peeking is by SVG Cuts, various leaf dies and a flower made by me. On the whole I'm quite pleased with this card, hope you like it too.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - White on White

When I saw that the Simon Says Stamp challenge was for white on white I decided to play along because I love white on white. I've used this week's Do Crafts sketch as the basis for the card and the sentiment is from Verve Stamps. I think it a nice adult baptism or confirmation card. TFL

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At the moment I'm obsessed with creating flower sprays. I've used dies from Spellbinders, Marianne Design, Crealies and Joy Craft for the leaves which are cut from Pink Petticoat printed papers and inked with Distress inks. The rolled roses were cut on my Silhouette and coloured with Versacolor inkpads. The little doily is from SVG Cuts. I'm quite pleased with how these turned out. 

Recent Makes

Hi All, it's been a while but my papercrafting mojo has returned. Still not got much time though so you probably won't see me here that often. Any way here's a couple of cards I made recently. First one is me playing with inking up my embossing folders. The colour is very subtle but I think it's pretty. The second card came about because I wanted to use up some yellow paper I had. I don't really like yellow so I'm not that keen on the card, wish I had made it in white.tfl

Verve Stamps

These cards are very much inspired by Julee Tilman, owner of Verve Stamps, I do like her style. The sentiments are by Verve and the poinsettia stamps are by Heartfelt Creations. They go with the Spellbinders poinsettia dies but as you can see I haven't quite mastered the art of cutting them out accurately, probably because I stamped white on white paper. It's all inked with Antique Linen distress ink and the papers are by Zoe Pearne at The Sweet Shoppe. That's all folks thanks for looking.

Some Christmas Cards

It's been a while since I last posted because I've been finding it hard to find the time or motivation to do any papercrafting. Still I've managed to make a few Christmas cards. Hope you like them. The papers are from a kit called Deck the Halls - Classic by Kristin Cronin-Barrow at The Sweet Shoppe, the motifs and sentiments are from Doodlicious Christmas by Pink Petticoat.

90th Birthday Card

 The oldest member of the church that I attend was 90 this weekend and I'm showing the card I made her. I guess it's pretty similar to other age cards I've made in the past but somehow there was no space for flowers on this one, I think it's because I added the doily. I used gold mirri card and cut the numbers and her name using Curlz font.  The happy birthday was a download from the Silhouette store. Hopefully she'll like it. TFL.

A Wedding and a Baby Blessing

 Happy Weekend every one. A couple of cards to show you this evening.

 First up a wedding card using a pink petticoat image.  As you can see I'm still very much in white on white mode but there is a little colouring on this one.  I haven't coloured an image for ages and was wondering if I still knew how. I'm entering this card into the Shabby Tea Room challenge (something else I haven't done for ages)!

 My second card was made for a baby blessing. The lacey scallops were cut on my Silhouette and they are layered to a Do Crafts scalloped die. I suppose this card might work for a wedding too. Thanks for looking.

Everyday Vintage Whites

I've been playing around with some of my newer embossing folders and Spellbinders' label dies and used some everyday sentiments to create this set of cards. I can't remember who makes the sentiment stamp set.

Thanks for visiting I hope those of you in the UK are enjoying the extended break even if we haven't quite got last weekends' weather.

Card Caravan No 20 - Use Pink

I'm hosting my final challenge at The Hybrid Chick today and I've chosen an easy one. We just want pink to be the main colour on your creation. For my DT piece I've made a reading journal. I got the idea and the pdfs I used for the inside pages from Ella Publishing. The papers I used are Bohemian Rhapsody by Quirky Twerp at The Digichick. I'm really happy with the bracket shape but if I were making it again I wouldn't have the pointy bits at the spine.

Any how please do join us on the Card Caravan, I look forward to seeing whatever you create.