Just a Note

Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you.

 

I tried an American A2 size card today to accommodate the Honey Bee Stamps frame die. It's a little bit smaller than what I'm used to but I might use it more in the future as a lot of the cover plate dies I have are A2 in size. I also used the two smaller tulips from the  Lovely Layers Tulips die set, also from Honey Bee Stamps. I inked these with oxides. The dotty papers are from a Craft Sensations pad. The sentiment stamp is from an old magazine freebie set. I finished with some gems.

                That's all for today. Thanks for popping by and any comments you leave.

                                              Happy crafting.

                                                  Fatima 

                                                     xxx

        

Happy Birthday to You!!

 Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you.

Let's bring in a little bit of the garden today.  The tulips in my garden are in full flower and add such a cheery touch.

I think yellow tulips are my favourite and I love seeing any yellow flowers in the spring garden.

These tulips are the layering dies from Lisa Horton. I cut everything from white card and coloured with oxides. The background rectangle dies are Lisa Horton Slimline Layered Daisy set and Creative Craft Products Stitched DL dies. Although you can't see much of it, I also added some ombre patterned paper from Craft Sensations.

For a little more detail, I embossed the scalloped rectangle with the Natural Woodgrain EF from Lisa Horton and used some of her Cloud 9 blending ink to bring out the woodgrain pattern. I finished off with a Creative Expressions Wordies sentiment and some gems.

Challenges 

Fab 'n' Funky # 570 use die cuts

Try it on Tuesday- hello spring

Creative Fingers #252 AG

 My Time to Craft #505 Easter, spring flowers

Craft Rocket Ch # 102 layer it up

Creative Knockouts #492 spring is in the air 

Through the Purple Haze for girls

Crafty Gal's Corner #242 easter/spring

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday AG

Little Red Wagon #700 layers

That's all for today.

Thanks for popping by and any comments you leave.

Happy crafting.

Fatima

xxx

To You Both

Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you.

For today's card I've used a sweet layering stencil set called Songbirds on Branches from Pinkfresh Studio. I thought it would make a nice card for a couple.

I initially stencilled on plain white but it looked a bit 'bland'. So I blended a couple of shades of yellow Oxides for the background and used more Oxides for stencilling the image. I only have the stencils in this set ( there are also matching stamp, dies and hot foil plates) so I pencilled in more detail.  I filled up the branches with punched flowers and added gems to their centres.  The eyelet arch die is from  Heartfelt Creations. The stamped sentiment is from a set I've had for years.

Challenges 

The Paper Shelter #549  anything that flies 

Creative Moments #244 wings and things 

Crazy is our Fame  anything with stencils

Get Creative Challenges #120 springtime blues

Dream Valley challenges #291 any celebration 

613 Avenue Create  AG + Let's stencil 

Crafty Catz #632 AG + add some blue

Cut it Up #275 starts with a b

Thanks for visiting and any comments you leave.

Happy crafting 

Fatima 

xxx

It's Your Day

 Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you.

I really enjoyed using these cute little mug with additions dies from Pretty Pink Posh.

  I have used elements from the original mug set and some from the Birthday Additions set. I ink-blended the balloons using Distress Oxides and layered onto gold glitter die cut balloons before  adding some highlights with a white gel pen.  I dug out an old Forever Friends paper pad for the starry background paper and dotted some gems around. The sentiment is from the Birthday die set.

                      That's all for today. Thanks for visiting and any comments you leave. 

                                                   Happy crafting.

  Fatima 

xxx