May all your dreams come true

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

Sharing a birthday card today. I just felt like using a bright colour and I'm sure there's a peony out there in this warm colour!

I didn't want the central oval to be bare so before stamping the sentiment, I used a Tonic Quatrefoil panel die as a stencil and inked through with Dried Marigold and Ripe Persimmon DIs. 

 I stamped, coloured the peonies (with Promarkers) and die cut them twice so I had one framing each side of the oval.

Items used:

Cr. Comp. Nature's Garden Peony corner stamp and die set

Carnation Crafts Elongated Frame die

Tonic Classic Quatrefoil die

Woodware sentiment stamp

Challenges:

Aud. Sentiments Ch. #243 AG

Crafty Catz #490 AG + flower power

Creative Fingers #178 AG

Dragonfly Dreams AG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends AG

Incy Wincy Designs AG

Thanks for dropping by

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx

Hugs n Kisses

Hello crafters.  Hope all is well.

Onto today's card.  I had great fun colouring in this stamp and following the sketch for my layout.

Items used:

Bugaboo digi stamp coloured with Promarkers

LOTV papers

SW and  Lisa Horton stitched dies

Cr. Comp flower dies

Woodware leaf punch

Marion Emberson sentiment stamp

pearls

Challenges:

Mod  Squad - animals

TTCRD AG

Crafty Catz #490 AG + flower power

I love Promarkers AG #402 2nd entry

Krafty Chicks  #491  all occasions

Sweet Sketch Wednesday  2

Thanks for dropping by.

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx

Especially for You

Hello crafters.  Hope all is well.

A bit (well more than a bit!) of sparkle for today's card.   I brought out the WOW glitter embossing powders and also glitter card. 

I stamped and heat embossed the flowers and leaves on vellum, layering up the flowers.  So glad the matching die lets you cut out several flowers together. I then tucked in a few extra leaves die cut from navy glitter card. A sparkly gem for the flower centre, a stamped sentiment and the card was done.

Items used: 

Heartfelt Creations Arianna Bloom flower and  Classic Leaf stamps and dies

Tonic pinhole die

Dawn Bibby and MC Boutique leaf dies

DP : PM Simply Floral 

Sentiment stamp magazine freebie

WOW glitter embossing powders (Appletini and Pretty in Pink)

Craft Buddy gem

Challenges:

Color Throwdown #577

Craft Creations AG

Creative Moments AG

Arty Divas #13 AG

Lemon Shortbread #111 AG

Thank you for visiting.

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx

With Thanks

Hello crafters.  Hope all is well.


Sharing today's card...

Items used:

Time for Tea designs stamps coloured  with Promarkers and cut with matching dies.

PM Tilly Daydream papers

Lisa Horton stitched tag dies

MS leaf border punch

Gemini EF

Marion Emberson sent stamp

ribbon from stash

Challenges:

Colour Crazy Ch.  AG

I love Promarkers #402 AG + embossing

Passion for Promarkers #526 include a tag

Love to craft #42 AG

Love to scrap #129 AG

Crafty Cardmakers #248 AG

Thanks for popping by.

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx

Forever and Always

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.


Sharing a sweet romantic card today.

I've used a Di's Digi stamp and coloured it with Promarkers.  It's the first time I've used this stamp and I enjoyed colouring it in.

Other items I've used include Hunkydory flower dies, Sara Signature leaves, Tonic Squares, TL hearts and the sentiment is from a Forever Friends stamp set. I've finished with pearls and glitter glue.

Challenges:

Passion for Promarkers #525 Animals

Digi Choosday AG

A Gem of a Challenge #2 AG

Thanks for visiting

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx

Glitter butterfly

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

On to today's card...

I've used Tonic papers and corner dies, with yellow glitter card under the detailed top layer of the die.  The same glitter card has been used for the SW butterfly.  I've added Xcut punched butterflies and finished with pearls.

Thanks for fluttering by!

Happy crafting. 

Fatima

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Cheers to you

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

This is a quick card from an Hunkydory Art Deco kit.  I love the clothes from this era and they've been replicated beautifully in the toppers.

I always have a stash of white embossed panels ready,  done in different designs and the one I've used here is a Spellbinders EF. It seemed to fit this topper perfectly.  I finished with some ribbon and gems from my stash.

Thanks for visiting.

Happy crafting.

Fatima 

xxx

With Love

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

I had great fun making this card! It's unashamedly glittery but I love my bling!!


I had this layout in my head for a while and finally settled for this combination of circular die and stamp.

I started by stamping this Stamps by Chloe flower wreath and then die cutting with the Sweet Dixie Decorative Circular Die. I then coloured in the flowers with my Promarkers (as these would be seen when the petals are lifted).

I used the matching die to cut out flowers from a different sheet of paper to the background but from the same First Edition pad Wildflower. As these flowers stay in the paper a little bit of snipping was required to release them before I stuck them in place over the stamped flowers. Then the fun began with Sparkelicious glitters!

I started with green for the leaves, purple for the smaller flowers and then some chunkier gold in between. After lifting the petals from the flowers, I covered them in Hunkydory Diamond Sparkles Angel Whispers glitter and added a gem in the centres.

I finished with a stamped and embossed sentiment (from my stash).

That's all for today. Thanks for visiting.

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx

Basket of lilies

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

I rather like making cards with no sentiments - ready for any occasion and I do seem to have had a lot of requests lately for 'blank' cards (expect more!).

Items used:

LOTV art pad topper

Dies: TL, SB, Lisa Horton flower ( leaves coloured with Pros)

Poppystamps border dies

Paper is from a very old Papermania pad

gems

Thanks for visiting

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx

Black, white and gold couple

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

Sharing a card today which could be for a wedding.

I used an old Kanban di-cut mat in foiled black and gold and echoed that with some paper from Craft Sensations. The couple were cut with a  Sweet Dixie die. Other dies used were TL and tonic and I finished with a few gems on the bride and some Glitterations flower stickers from docrafts.

Thanks for visiting

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx

Wings of love

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

Sharing an 8x8 card today. Not my usual size.

The colours and images in this Dawn Bibby collection are lovely and although I love fussy cutting (and these images would be very easy to cut out) , using the matching dies is quicker!

Items used:

Dawn Bibby Wings of Paradise collection

ribbon and gems from my stash

Thanks for visiting

Happy crafting

Fatima 

xxx

Black and gold Happy Birthday

Good morning crafters.  Hope all is well.

Sharing a birthday  card today.

I've used papers and topper from an old Forever Friends collection.  To echo the shape of the topper, I used some Sue Wilson dies (the waste circles came in handy in the corners of the card). The stars were cut with Xcut dies.

Thanks for popping by.

Happy crafting.

Fatima

xxx

New Year

A very Happy, healthy and crafty new year to all my friends, followers and visitors!

The last few weeks have been busy and hectic but I'm back today with a birthday card using an Hunkydory DL pad. It's a nice size to work with and has some lovely floral images.

I fussy cut some of the flowers and leaves and  layered them up with foam pads.

Items used:

Hunkydory Flower Jars DL pad

Hunkydory die cut sentiment

twine and gems

Thanks for dropping by and any comments.

Happy crafting

Fatima

xxx