Calendar - March & April

Good evening, I don't know what the weathers like where you are but I'm FREEEEEEEZING. Autumn's arrived and she means business. Brrrrr, anyway here's the next two installments to my calendar...

March - The little dog images were from Joanna Sheens' Card Makers Year Cd Rom, printed onto Jaquard Inkjet cotton, padded and mounted onto green card stock which was sponged with Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink pad and the edges with Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy. The backing paper was also from the CD Rom and printed onto linen paper and "aged" with Brilliance Galaxy Gold. The sentiments were computer generated, printed onto another backing paper from the CD Rom but I faded the image so as the writing was more visible and printed onto pearlescent white card. They were cut out using my Megabilities and again edged with Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy, and then a couple of ribbon loops 'cos I felt like it!


April - The image is a painting by Jesse Wilcox Smith from Good Housekeeping, April 1919. The image was printed onto Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl Paper, and then mounted on some pink card stock and edged with some gold peel offs. The DP is K&Co "Romanza Wild Roses" and "aged " with I think Versafine Spanish Moss inkpad (I can't remember, but thats what it looks like). The top embellishment is Wizard Die Border Trimming that was cut using gold silk mirri card and aged with Stazon Timber Brown inkpad. Then at the bottom I used a large mulberry daisy (not Prima, just some I got off ebay) and pink organza ribbon from Raspberry Ribbons June pink kit. Waffled on long enough now, so until tommorow...
Take care, keep smiling and stay warm

Calendar - January & February

Oooo, two posts in one day, I must be on a roll! Not really, I started making this calendar about two months ago and decided I needed to get on with it if it is to be finished in time for the New Year :) (told you I was the slowest crafter EVER). So here's January and February...



















January (Black one). The main image comes from Joanna Sheen Fashion Boutique CD, and is printed onto Jaquard Inkjet Silk and padded up. The frame it's mounted onto is made with Cuttlebug decorative corner die and gold silk mirri card. The gold buttons where made with the "waste" from the centre of the corners and put through the cuttlebug in an embossing folder. 2009 was handmade. I printed the numbers onto thick paper cut them out traced round them on to some mount board, cut them out them triple embossed with Heat It Up Gold Tinsel EP. Then all mounted onto some black Tapestry Card.
February - The backing paper is computer generated. It was a picture I'd found on the internet aaages ago (can't remember where from) and it was originally turquoise, but I put it through my graphics program and changed it to green (as you do)and printed it onto pearlescent white paper. The orchid picture and bookmark were made using Joanna Sheen's Floral Fantasy CD, though I did add the sentiment on the bookmark myself which I found on The Quote Garden website. I decoupaged the orchid mounted it and the bookmark sleeve on gold silk mirri card. The bookmard was printed onto plain white card mounted onto emerald green Stardream pearlscent card then covered with matt transparent film. The main sentiment again was from The Quote Garden, printed onto the same design as the main backing paper, but this time it was lightened and printed onto linen paper and put through the cuttlebug with a rectangle nestability.
Phew, I almost got out of breath after all that lot. Maybe tomorrow if I get over the computer writers cramp I'll post March and April. Oh if you're wondering what the white bit is on the right of the calendar pictures is, it's where the calendar bit is going, but that's another story.
Take care and keep smiling

Raspberry Ribbons Sketch 5 (but I missed it!)

Good Morning, well it would be if it wasn't persisting down with rain, not that I'm going anywhere. Anyway, above is the Raspberry Ribbons Challenge Sketch 5, and as you can tell by the title I missed the deadline :/ (I must be the slowest card maker in the world and the most indecisive) but I thought I'd show my effort anyway. So here it is

The backing paper is one I sort of made myself. Sort of being the blue part comes from Artylicious "Seasons Greetings" CD and then through my VERY old graphics program I added the snowflakes using some free snowflake images I found on the web, and then printed it on some white hessian card. The Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder wasn't quite long enough for my A5 size card so I did two taped them together then trimmed them down and mounted them onto silver silk Mirri card, and the ribbon hid the join. The little snowflakes were made using white pearlescent paper and punch I found in Wilkinsons (they have a small craft department). This was a simple looking sketch but I found it quite difficult (still a novice) as the main panel is so long and narrow. BUT I have had another idea so I'll have a go at that some other time and if it's any good I'll post it. Thank you for looking, keep smiling, and stay dry!

Tilda & Co Challenge 38

It's not a very good picture at all, by the time I get home it's dark and I had to use my craft light to light it as the flash was waaaaaaaay to bright. Any hoo, I hand stitched the border and on the roof and window sills I used some crystal glitter to look like icicles. The oval and Tilda are stuck on using foam pads. This was a lovely sketch to work with and one I'll more than likely use again.
Card Ingredients
Stamps - Magnolia
Base Card - Colorplan - 350gsm
Dark Green Linen Card - unknown
DP - HOTP Holly Stripe on Red
Gold Silk Mirri Board
Ribbon - unknown
Gold Thread - Anchor Lame No.300
Colouring - Derwent Coloursoft Pencils, Sansodor and Sakura Gellyroll Glaze (for the Door)
Glitter - Sparkle N Sprinkle Crystal Ice
Thank you for looking

Autumn Owl

Hello, I made this card for my Dads birthday which is next week. The oak leaves where made using my wonderful cuttlebug. I used three different coloured Stardream pearlescent card for the leaves then sponged them with three or four differnt coloured Brilliance ink pads to get the autumn colours. The veins were made using a fine embossing tool. The picture was sent to me by a friend and I printed it on Ink Jet Artist Canvas Sheet, then mounted on some gold Mirri silk card. The little acorns are buttons with the shanks cut off that I got from a seller on ebay, I believe they are Dress It Up buttons. The Sentiment is an Impression Obsession Stamp , which is stamped on a scanned and lightened version of the DP. If you live in the UK Impression Obsession don't sell overseas but you can get any of their stamps from Stamps and Memories. Just send them an email with the catologue number of the stamps you want and they'll special order them in for you. Any way I've waffled on long enough. Thank you for looking.

The Begining and Pretty Pressings Challenge

There are two pictures, one taken with a flash and one without, and I'm not happy with either. The grey lines are actually glitter and are supposed to look like little snow mounds there is also glitter on the snowballs but you can't really see. And there are crystal snowflakes on the die cut snowflakes, again they don't show up up well. I did a bit of cross stitch to match the stitching on Tilda's jumper and gloves. The fir trees are stamped with versafine Olympic Green and then I used Sakura GellyRoll white pen on them to make it look like snow. Hope you like it :)

Card Ingredients

Stamps - Magnolia

DP - Doodlebug -Sweater Stripe and Snowdrift

Base Card and Snowflake die cuts - Stardream Pearlescent White

Die Cuts - Snowflakes - Bosscut

Nestabilities - Classic Circle and Classic Scallop Circle

Embellishments - Dress it Up Tiny Crystal Snowflakes

Sparkle N Sprinkle Crystal Ice Glitter

Rangol Stranded Cotton White

Colouring - Derwent Coloursoft pencils and Sansodor