Simple christmas card

Good evening Lovelies, hope you've all had a lovely weekend, boy they sure come and go quickly! I made this card last night for the daily challenge over on craftymess group! The theme was Christmas!

This was very simple, took no longer than 10 minutes! 5x5 card base, matted with white linen texture card, I made 4 score lines creating a square and masked, I stamped the centre with versamark using the Large Snowflake stamp from Visible Image then, swiped over with violet tint, magenta tint and blue tint Pan pastels, sealed with cheapo hairspray, then highlighted with a quickie glue pen and irredecent glitter, the sentiment was from a freebie set that came with a mag and Voila! Thank you for spending some time visiting my blog, it's much appreciated xxx 

Never tried this before!

Good evening Lovelies, well been a bit AWOL for couple of days as I've been away to a lovely wedding in Tonbridge Wells! Had a cracking time.

I made this card a couple of nights ago, I made it for our daily challenge over on craftymess group, the theme was: try something new, either technique or something in stash never used! So I thought I'd have a go at T-bag folding, not really my sort of thing but hey ho! Always keen to play, I have a mag that featured T-bag folding in so basically found an easy fold and copied it! I think it's turned out ok? But still not my thing! 

So papers are all from stash that's been hanging around for ages not being used! The tulips were created by cutting 3, 5x5 cm squares and 3, 4x4 cm squares, folding and layering on top of each other, the stems are spellbinders and the sentiment are from a stamp set I got free from Ally Pally! Voila! Thank you visiting always love to hear what you think xxx 

Pink gingham!

Good afternoon Lovelies! 

Well it's a nice day today, bit chilly but the sun is shining, hope it lasts over the weekend? I'm off to Royal Tonbridge Wells tomorrow to a posh wedding, we're staying over night!

My Mum asked me to make a card for a friend, her 50th party was a western theme, but she's quite girlie, so thought "Gingham" and that's  where the western theme ends for me lol!

8x8 white scalloped edge card base, I matted with white card I'd pierced around the edges, then I cut and divided more white paper into 1/3 and 2/3 I stamped in pink a stamp from Dandelion wishes from CEx which is a favourite of mine, the other piece I stamped using the Gingham background from Visible Image and then embossed using hounds tooth EF although you can't really tell in picture! The rest speaks for itself! of course I used spellbinders! All from a new batch I bought tut tut! Thank you for visiting today xxx 

Masculine crimbo card

Good morning Lovelies! Another wet and cold day! :(

I hope everyone ok and free from floods etc?

I made this card a couple of nights ago, using Visible image stamps, DI and Frantage embossing enamels, just loving that stuff at the moment! Gives a great effect to grungy and Vintagey things. The backing paper is from a 6x6 pad I got last year, sorry I can't remember who it's by but it's very Vintagey, the backing paper I inked with vintage photo DI and stamped the grunge flourish with mahogany DI, added some splats with DS and blobed on some versamark in two of the corners and heated some Frantage from underneath, I stamped craft card with harlequin background stamp using tarnished brass Distress stain, the next layer I used the mahogany DI and the plaid background stamp and lightly inked with mahogany, the image is the wonderful vintage Santa, again stamped with mahogany DI I blobed on some versamark here and there over his beard and then added shabby white Frantage and heated from underneath to create this lovely textured beard! Thank you for taking the time to visit, I know this card won't be to everyone's taste? But I do love to experiment ;) xxx I'm entering this card into the lovely Linda Simpsons challenge! http://lindasimpsoncraftypieceofheaven.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/christmas-challenge-sponsored-by-my.html

Playing with Frantage!

Good evening lovelies! 

So after my fab day yesterday at Ally Pally, I thought I'd have a little play! Like ya do ;)

So here's what I did for today's Daily Challenge with craftymess group, the theme was hearts!

I inked some white card with Tattered rose DI then stamped using harlequin background and grunge polka dots background, both by Visible Image also in tattered rose DI and inked the edges with black soot DI, the heart is by Indogoblu, I stamped in black then once dry went over it with versamark and sprinkled shabby pink and shabby white Frantage embossing enamel's and heated from underneath, the base card is 6x6 scalloped edge white, I lightly inked with tattered rose DI then stamped using the grunge flourish (visible image) in TRDI and lightly inked very edges in black soot! 

I've also included a picture of my crafty goodies I bought at ally pally and the very bottom picture is the freebies I got! Thank you for visiting xxx 

Yes you guessed?

Good evening Lovelies! Well what an awful wet day! But I don't care! :D why you ask? I've been to Ally Pally today to the Big stamp and scrapbook show! Yippee! Been wanting to go for years, and now I have, was fab, few bargains with a couple of little freebies thrown in! I met some lovely people and lots of celeb crafters from tv! I know I sound a bit sad as they're not really celebs lol, but it meant a lot to me! So although I have some fabulous new crafty bits to play with, I'm just too tired and cold, so I thought I'd treat you to some more of my Altered art dictionary pages lol! 

The first stamp is actually Water droplets! From http://designsbyryn.com/ But I've done it as Shower! I used pan pastels to colour the page first then sprayed with some spray n sparkle (silver) then stamped in black. 

The second is "fantasy" my favourite so far! Pan pastels with Lavinia stamps and spray n sparkle.

The third is "Poppy"

Thank you so much for spending the time to look xxx 

More Altered Art Dictionary pages

Good evening Lovelies, well I've had an early night, no crafting for me tonight, I've had a bad back today and running around after a 2 year old is no fun when back is sore, so I'm very tired, so I thought I'd blog a few more pages. Thank you so much for your lovely comments, it means so much to me xxx

The first one is "Outfit" the other 2 speak for themselves.