Fairy tales & Castles..

Hi everyone, can you believe how cold it is.... Brrrrrrr it's march hopefully the weather gets warmer soon. Are you all set for St. Patricks Day? It's lovely to see all the green, and the shamrock is
 out and always looks lovely. So here is my entry for the Lavinia Challenge. Hope you like it.

I started off with the leaves and then I stamped the castle. Then I added in the hills under the castle. I used the tree stamp to add some grass tuffets. Then I matted and layered the card onto pink and purple papers. Then I added some candidate and a craftwork card flower. 

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Mother's Day - March 10th

For all the Mum's out there, here are two cards I've made, one for my Mum and one for my hubby's Mum.

for David's Mum

Variation on a theme for both cards! The lily was made using Tonic Studios, Lily Die and Card, really nice to use and so easy to put together but i love the look of these. For my Mums card I used the Brambly Rose Fabric Stamp Set from Rubber Stamp Tapestry on the square mat. Then I used one of Tonic Studios circle dies to make the Mother's day Embellishment. And I finished it off with a torn strip of card and some card candi. On David's Mums card I used a Green square card background and on the circle tonic studio die cut i stamped the brambly rose on to it. And of course i had to add some glitter :-)

for my Mum

Pinch punch 1st of the month... Claritystamps first challenge

Ok so I know it has been a while, but here is my entry for the clarity stamp blog challenge. Anything goes. I started off using the joy to the world stamp... But the card just didn't work out as I had hoped it would so after a while of looking at a blank page I ended up with this.

First of all I started with the message scroll, I stamped this in place and then masked it off. Then, I masked off the frame and stamped the tree in black onxy (versa fine ink) and coloured it in using promarkers.
For the grass & sky i used a brayer to build up some layers. The moon mask was put in after I stamped the tree but before i brayered (is that even a word... but you know what i mean) the sky.

Using the ornate clever corner i stamped to create an ornate frame, stamping in the ink on the splodgemat used for the grass and the sky. I absolutely love using flitterglu from Indigo Blu so used this around the edge and the green background card.

To finish it off I matted and layered on to White card (with a green promarker edged finish) and then onto a Green card which I had added some guilding flakes to. There is also the image of the Large Pear Tree stamped on the green card and covered in Mica powders.

Stamps Used:
Large Pear Tree
Ornate Corner
Artist Set
To the World... (love this message)

First blog...

So blogging.. Here we go. Well I'm 36 and ,I've in Dublin with my hubby and little girl. I work in Lenovo and I love crafting. This started in 2005 when I went to get my boyfriend a Valentines card but didn't like any cards in the shop, so i went into Inspiring Ideas to get some ideas and they where showing how to make cards and as they say the rest is history. I love using Clarity stamps, Lavinia stamps & rubber stamp tapestry peg stamps. I've also started using tonic studio products.

Quick wee post today, I spent Saturday making Craftwork Card flowers, must say I love their wreaths, I did make a wreath card for my sister in laws birthday and I was really happy with how it turned out. I then used the Tonic punches to finish off the edges. I couldn't resist adding some peel off dots and boarders.
This was my first attempt but i have watched some you tube videos since on creating the flowers and Craftwork Cards own videos and found these a great help.

Here are the flowers I created at the weekend.

February ATC - Love

Are any of you part of an ATC group? I joined one last August and I didn't really know what to expect. But I love it. Each month we all make an ATC for a specific Theme. Then you send it to the next person on the list and so on each month. Its great to have a challenge to work to each month, and so lovely to receive an ATC each month. The interpretation of the themes are amazing. So here is the one I did for February.

So i decided to try something different and have  a note over a background style. I used Clarity birdcage stampset for the background and I used a colourbox chalk pink ink to add some colour. On the note I used the Loved you yesterday... sentiment, which I love and the small balloon stamp and tree stamp.

Pan Pastels...

..did my best to resist, but after watching lots of demos at the NEC I caved. I bought a set from amazon and just managed to start using them this evening. I love them. I'm converted they are so nice to work with, extremely easy to blend with, much easier than inks. So you will see attached my first attempt.