Thursday 13 August 2020

Festive Wishes

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

A festive card today.  I've stuck to traditional colours and I do love the combination of red and gold.




I stamped, heat embossed with gold powder and fussy cut the poinsettia cluster. I did this twice and layered just the flowers on top, adding pearls to their centres. This stamp is an old one from Woodware which I bring out every year. The whole stamp includes a sentiment too, but I didn't use it this time as it didn't fit in with my new Yuletide Frame from Crafter's Companion.



I arranged the flowers  in the left corner and used a sentiment die from Sue Wilson - white with a red metallic drop shadow.



Some red gems in the holly in the corners were all that was needed to finish.   I wanted the flowers and die to be the stars as it were, so I used simple dotty paper in the background from Papermania's Tulip Christmas range.


Challenges:

Crimbo Crackers  #213 AG
Aud Sentiments Ch. #257 AG + sentiment
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #502 Anything christmas goes
Dream Valley # 230 add gems, pearls or both
TTCRD AG
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Ch. #76 Anything Christmas goes

Thanks for visiting and any comments you leave - always appreciated.

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima
xxx


Tuesday 11 August 2020

Flowers in a vase

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

Onto today's card...
 Once again I've used a LOTV art pad image and teamed it with some new papers from Craft Consortium - Bright Blooms. 



I've used some Crafter's Companion butterfly and flower dies - I inked through the latter to highlight the embossing on the petals.  The flower border die is from Tonic. A button and some pearls add the finishing touches.

Challenges:

Creative Craft Cottage Ch. #132 ribbon/lace / pearls
TTCRD AG
Let's Craft and Create #162  AG + lots of layers
Dream Valley #230 add gems/ pearls

Thanks for dropping by and any comments - always appreciated.

Happy crafting.

Fatima
xxx

Sunday 9 August 2020

Boating Fan

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

I've used a cute topper from a LOTV  Art Pad. I just added a little colour to the sails of the boat.


The paper is from Craft Sensations and I've used a selection of dies for the sun, clouds and border.

Challenges:

Allsorts #583/4 make it masculine
Daisy Chain Ch. #44 for the boys/men
Love to Scrap #136 for the kids
Aud Sentiments Ch. #257 AG + sentiment
Let's Craft and Create #162 AG + lots of layers

Thanks for visiting.

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima
xxx



Thursday 6 August 2020

Pearl Anniversary

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

I've used an Hunkydory Little Book topper for today's card.



As it's a Pearl anniversary, lots of pearls!  I cut the topper with a Spellbinder Die. The background embossing was done using a Sue Wilson EF.  The flowers and leaves are all Sweet Dixie, finished with pearl centres.

Challenges:

Unstampabelles #103 Good  News
The Paper Players #502 Wed/Ann.
Die Cut Divas - flowers


Thanks for visiting.


Happy Crafting and take care.

Fatima
xxx