Happy Mother's Day

 Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you. A gloriously sunny day today. Hope there's some sunshine wherever you are :)

The topper and papers are from Craft Consortium Cottage Garden.

Dies used are from Pinkfresh Studio, Memory Box, Marianne, Heartfelt Creations and John Next Door. Tonic butterfly punch.  Pearls and drops to finish.

Thanks for popping by and any comments.

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima

xxx

Shoes and handbag for 50th birthday

Hello lovely crafters. Hope all is well with you in these turbulent times.

Gosh, I can't believe it's been that long since my last post!! Time is definitely flying past!

I've just been so busy with work and things happening at home. Crafting has had to simmer on the back burner for a bit but I did manage to make this card for a colleague to give to her friend. 

The colours are the recipient's favourites and she likes her handbags and shoes. 

I used a Chloe EF - once in white for the base,  then again in black and fussy cut the bag and shoes and finally in mustard for the bows, flower and tassle. I used another floral EF in the background and finished with die cut flourishes and black gems. The sentiment was done on the computer. 

Thanks for popping by. Hope to be back soon!

Take care.

Fatima xxx

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

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends AG

Dream Valley # 230 add gems, pearls or both

Crafting Happiness #61 AG

TTCRD AG

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Ch. #76 Anything Christmas goes

Lemon Shortbread #126 AG

Crafty Sentiment Designs AG
Krafty Chicks #520 Christmas

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

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima

xxx

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:

Creations in Pink AG

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

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:

A Gem of a Challenge #16 AG

Allsorts #583/4 make it masculine

Crafty Friends Ch #142 AG

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

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

Hip Hip Hooray!

Hello crafters. Hope all is well with you.

Lots of glitter and sparkle on today's card (I'm still dusting it off everything as I type!).

I fell in love with this paper pad from a recent docrafts goody bag and when I saw these flower stamps and dies - well, a perfect match!

I stamped and embossed the flowers with WOW glitter embossing powder, die cut and layered them up. I added some stamens to the centres.  I used the same embossing powder for the sentiment stamp. I glittered some of the edges using  Hunkydory loose glitter. 

Items used:

Tonic Classical Curved Layering Dies
Chloe's Rose Mallow Flower stamp and die set
Kaisercraft sentiment stamp 'Hip Hip' 
Papermania Bluebirds and Roses paper
Dreamees stamens 
WOW embossing glitter powder Pretty in Pink
Hunkydory Diamond Sparkles Blush Pink


Challenges:

Allsorts  #581/582 flowers all over
Crafty Friends Ch. #140 Happy Birthday
Creative Knockouts #360 flora and fauna
Kraft Chicks #517 all occasions 
Seize The Birthday #195 
Fab n Funky #491 use a real stamp
Creations in Pink #24 AG


Thanks for visiting.

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima xxx