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

Darling Daffodils

 Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you.

Today I have another Mother's Day card, this time featuring some cute little daffodils from Lawn Fawn. It's a simple but pretty set of dies. 

I used the Sue Wilson Noble Looped Squares for the frame and layered with some old PM paper. I placed a die cut oval vellum under the flowers and finished with some gems. The sentiment is a stamp from Personal Impressions. 

Challenges:

Allsorts #719  a trio of something

Cardz for Galz #194 use vellum 

Crafty Catz #628 AG

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

Happy crafting.

Fatima 

xxx

Happy Mother's Day

 Hello crafters. Hope all is well with you.

Today's card was inspired by the latest release from John Next Door.  I watched  the shows and videos and although I  loved the concept of the layering dies and the results were gorgeous, I couldn't justify purchasing them, not even for the convenience of having them all put together in sets! So I had a rummage through my copious dies and layered them up. It's a mish mash of different brands but I think the result isn't too bad. I omitted the rectangular layer which John included.

I used Filigree dies from Creative Craft Products. The dotty edged dies are some old faithful Tonic ones and the plain edge were from Chloe's. The Cornflowers are from JND. I darkened the petals tips with DI and added Dew Drops from Craft Artist to the centres. The sentiment is from The Paper Boutique. The leaves are from my stash.

That's all for now.  Thanks for visiting and any comments you leave- always appreciated.

Happy crafting.

Fatima 

xxx 

Have a Great Day Wisteria flowers

 Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you.

Some embossing and stencilling today using the Wisteria collection from Nature's Garden.  This is a lovely little set of stencils (only 3 layers) and folder and I used the traditional colours of green and purple for colouring.  I used the same oxide inks for inking the edges of my layers as I couldn't find the matching shades of card.

The area to the bottom left of the image is perfect for a sentiment and I stamped mine using an old Tatty Teddy stamp set. I completed the look with some  gems.

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

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima

xxx

Beautiful Blooms

 Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you.  I know it's been a while!

Using wax seals seems to be 'in' at the moment and there are some beautiful designs by several companies. I haven't gotten around to purchasing any of the paraphernalia, but I did get the faux seal stamp and die set from Spellbinders along with the sealed  twine die. 

I stuck to my favourite shades of Oxides to create the blended edges to the card and also to colour the card from which I die cut some of the flowers, leaves ( SB Be Bold Blooms) and seal. I also used silver and different shades of glitter cards for the other flowers and foliage. I arranged them all centrally so they emanated from the twine die and seal. The plaid EF I used in the background is also from Spellbinders. 

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

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima

xxx