Steampunk Stuff

Morning ladies and gentles:)

My Brother-in-Law is Steampunk mad and I, also love me some Steampunk too, so as it was his birthday yesterday, I thought I would indulge in a bit of card making (lol!  as if I don't do enough) and made him a Steampunk style card.

Here's the results, quite pleased with it.

I love all the texture and dimension especially the clock face which I created in Silhouette studio and cut on my Cameo, then sprinkled with copper, gold and Tim Holtz distress powder in walnut stain and heat embossed.  The numbers were created using a really old Helix plastic stencil, it's probably twenty years old lol!  Just goes to show I never throw anything away.  I mixed some modelling paste with some mica powders and some early espresso ink refill to colour it, however in retrospect I really didn't need the mica powder as you can't see it.  I spread the paste through the stencil and then covered with distress embossing powder.  Because the stencil is so thick it gave loads of dimension to the paste.  However I got impatient waiting for it to dry and blasted it with the heat gun, even though it had felt dry, it still puffed up.  It did give it a very cool appearance though and the embossing powder worked really well.

For the tag I splodged some walnut stain, gathered twigs and scattered straw on to my mat and spritz with water, then dragged a manilla tag through the inky mess and then dried with a heat gun.  I then spritzed with Mr Huey's dark calico spray and Dilusions white spray and spritzs with some water, dried and then stamped with Ranger archival ink in potting soil and inked with the same three inks I used to distress the tag.

So lots of messy, inky fun, it made a change from the girly stuff I normally do.

Supplies
Inks
Tim Holtz Distress ink pads Scattered Straw/Walnut Stain/Gathered Twigs/Brushed Corduroy
Rangers Archival Ink Pads Black/Potting Soil
Brilliance Cosmic Copper Pigment Ink Pad
Spray inks
Dylusions Picket Fence
Mr Huey's Dark Calico
Stamps
Creative Stamping Magazine free set Timeless Opulence
Craft Stamper magazine free stamp moustache and Glasses
Prima  Tempus Fugit Cling Stamps
Other
SteamPunk Antique Brass Elements from Hobby Craft
Tim Holtz Ideology Memo Pins/spinners
Papermania Chronology Collection Gears/Clock Faces and Label Plates
Manilla Tag
Tim Holtz Cor'dinations Kraft cardstock
Windsor and Newton Galeria Acrylic Modelling Paste
Embossing Powder Gold/copper/Tim Holtz distress powder walnut stain
Distress Crackle Paint Rock Candy
Tin Holtz Gears Embossing Texture Fade Folder

Thanks for dropping by, leave some love in the shape of a comment to let me know what you think.

TTFN
Anna x

Lots of Tattered lace DT Samples

Well time has run away with me again and I've been neglecting the blog but it's been a crazy couple of months.  This is just a quicky post with some of the samples I've been making for Tattered Lace.  I'll add the die numbers later as it's 2am and I'm still not finished editing stuff lol!

This first lot is using the Scruffy bow, All Laced Up and Severn dies, as always, gorgeous dies and the lovely images are from My Craft Studio Shabby Sweet CD collection, possibly my favourite MCS cd ever!

These samples were made using the new Christmas embossing folders, I got to play with the holly folder collection which is just gorgeous and I definitely need all of them!  The 3 wise men dies are part of the festive collection 2014.

I will try to edit this post later and add supplie list etc.  Next up is my trip to the Summer Crafting show hopefully :)

Happy crafting
Anna x

Windmills and Bull Rushes

So we seem to be having a beautiful spring so far, it's been gorgeous today and as I've had a day off I nipped to town and picked up some gorgeous laces from the local market.  Sat outside the cafe and had my lunch and soaked up some rays, much need this week as I have had a really bad fybro flare up and it's made me so ill!

Anyway, speaking of spring the card I'm posting todays is perfect for a spring card, it is an order for a customer and they asked if I could do a box card with a windmill.  Hmmm... I said, what's a box card lol!  Anyhoo after doing a bit of research on pinterest and google, I messed about in Silhouette Studio and came up with a box card, which I used for the Days Out sample here.  I then had to come up with a windmill design and this was the fun part, I totally designed the windmill from scratch in PaintShop Pro, Inkscape and Silhouette Studio, I even made tiny mill stones and a picket fence to go with it and I was thrilled with how it came out.  I just love this card, I hope the recipient loves it too :)

I'm hoping to get the cut files up in my shop, I've got a bit of tweaking to do but they should be up by next weekend.
 

Supplies
American Crafts cardstock in Stone, Lagoon, and scraps of green, white, black, grey and brown shades
White Super Smooth 300GSM
Stampin Up ink pads in Marina Mist and Certainly Celery
Brad
Black fine liner
Free Stamp sets from Get Stamping And Creative Stamping
Paper Mania Urban Stamps Dragonflies

Hope you are enjoying the sunshine where ever you are
Happy Crafting
Anna x

Pretty in Pink Card

Hiya, me again, just wanted to share a card I made for a customer, very happy with how it turned out, especially the colours.  I cut the numbers and mats on the silhouette and the polymer clay butterfly was made with Fimo glitter white clay and I used a sugar paste cutter to cut it out.

Supplies
Wild Orchid Craft roses
Polymer clay butterfly
Centura pealr White card stock
Docrafts Vintage Notes paper stack
American Crafts card stock Peony
White crochet lace
Pink organza ribbon
Ivory flat back pearls from Ebay seller Bad Ass Beauty these are the most gorgeous colours, they are more white than ivory and have a lovely iridescent sheen!
Docrafts Vintage Notes sentiment stamp
Silver embossing powder and embossing pad

 That's all for now, happy crafting
Anna x

Beautiful Tattered lace Venetian Collection

Hi, here are the samples I made for this weeks Tattered Lace new releases, the Venetian Collection plus the gorgeous rose from the new Tattered lace mag.

Really beautiful dies again, loving the church, roses and basket especially.  I really felt like getting messy this week so out came my sprays and inks :)  My Silhouette is now speckled red lol!  Hopefully it wipes off!

Church Scene
With this first card I really wanted to use the fern frame as a stencil to make a cloudy sky, the shape really calls out to be used like this so I traced it as I wanted it larger than it would have cut out and then cut the shape by hand, I then used the actual die as a stencil and softly inked the card with an ink duster and blue jeans distress ink to add some cloud shapes.  The church was coloured with Promarkers and embossed with clear embossing powder and backed with some more card coloured with a lighter grey to make it more solid.  I just finished the scene using straight swag and the inner parts of the fern in the Venetian floral.

Supplies
Venetian Swag (D325)
Venetian Floral (D327)
Venetian Fern Frame (D329)
Venetian Border & Accent (D330)
Church (D332)
American Craft card stock in Lagoon and Olive
Centura Pearl white with silver
300gsm Super smooth  card stock
Promarks in Caramel, Tan, Ice Grey 2, Cool Grey 2, Cool Grey 4
Flat back pearls
Anita's wide satin ribbon in Soothing Blue
Teresa Collins Fabrications Linen stamps FAB153
Tim Holtz distress ink in Faded Jeans
Silver embossing powder
Versamark ink pad


Circles In Time
A very simple Father's day card, the image was put together in My Craft Studio, Lots of layering on this card.

Supplies
Venetian Border & Accent (D330)
MCS Best of NSR Vol 1 Finishing Touch
MCS Shabby Sweet
Tim Holtz Retro Circles embossing folder
Centura Pearl white with silver card stock
American Crafts Graphite card stock
Silver brads
Super smooth 120gsm


Purple Passion
Another simple Father's day card, just matting and layering and a little bit of fussy cutting for the corners.

Supplies
Venetian Fern (D328)
Decorative Cartouche (D205)
Alphabet Deco (D153)
Westminster (D310)
Gold Mirri card
Stardream Punch card stock

Victorian Roses
I really loved the shape of the swags and when I started playing with the shapes I really felt I wanted to do something Victorian in style, I've used shades of soft dusky rose for this card and although it took a while to get it how I liked it, I was very happy with the end result.  The swags are embossed with gold embossing powder and the rose and ivy were coloured with Promarkers and then embossed with holographic embossing powder to give them some sparkle.  The  3d rose and small blossoms were coloured with the same Promarkers and the background was coloured with an ivory Promarker to add some texture and then inked with distress inks.  The gold mat was just a piece of card edged with a versamark pad and then covered with melt dust embossing powder in gold sparkle.  The ribbon was also coloured with a Promarker to tie it all together.  The shaped panel was made in Silhouette Studio and then cut on the Cameo.

Supplies
Lacy Rose Collection (D232)
Venetian Swag (D325)
Rambling Rose (D331)
Mini Blooms (D279)
Large Ivy (D189)
Mini Oriental Ivy Flourish (DX13)
Basket Full of Delight (D333)
Ornate Frame (D247)
Anita's wide satin ribbon in Snow White, Coloured with Antique Pink Promarker
Cream lace
Cor'dinations Tim Holtz distress card stock in Tattered Rose
American Crafts card stock in Peony, coloured with Antique Pink Promarker to deepen the colour
Promarkers in Forest Green, Pine Green, Antique Pink, Ivory and Dusky Rose
Centura Pearl white gold
Super Smooth 300gsm
Tim Holtz distress ink pads in Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet
Flat back pearls
Stampendous Gold embossing powder
Melt Dust in Gold Sparkle
Papermainia Clear Holographic embossing powder
Verasamark embossing ink pad

Masked Ombre
 So I was saying I felt like getting messy, well I certainly managed to make a mess with this card lol!  I used the Venetian Florals to mask areas of the card and sprayed red, orange and  yellow inks on to the card at an angle to get an ombre look.  I then used the pieces I had used for masking to fill up the rest of the card.  The flowery border was made with the Bloomsbury panel which I extended by placing the edge of the die over hanging the edge of the cutting plates so it wouldn't cut right to the edge, I repeated this again so I had one long border. 

Supplies
Bloomsbury (D300)
Interlocking Floral (D057)
Venetian Floral (D327)
Interlocking For You (D058)
Super Smooth 300GSM
American Crafts card stock in White, Crimson and Pumpkin
Mr Huey's colour mists in Sunset and Taxi
Fireworks colour mist in Lady Bug
Tim Holtz distress ink pad in Picked Raspberry
Red rhinestones


Spring Wedding
Another simple card using the lovely church and rose dies, my favourites.

Supplies
Venetian Fern Frame (D329)
Venetian Border & Accent (D330)
Church (D332)
Rambling Rose (D331)
Centura Pearl in White gold
American Crafts card stock in Lavender
Create & Craft pastel glitter card stock
Anita's wide satin ribbon in Lilac Mist
Baby ribbon in Lavender
Rhinestones
Fiskars texture plate Hearts and Stars
The Hobby House Rhinestone Sparklers 14mm - Aurora
 Krylon silver pen

Spring Basket

Finally a double easel card, I used the silhouette to make the card base, I filled the pretty basket die with lots of flowers from various sets.  The basket was a laser cut as the dies hadn't arrived so I was sent a few laser cuts, I coloured it with Promarkers and as I had some left over leaves in white on my desk I coloured them with a Promarker rather than cutting another piece of card stock.

Supplies

Basket Full of Delight (D333)

Venetian Floral (D327)  

Lattice Bow (D237)

Decorative Bunting (D198)  

Mini Blooms (D279) 

Lacy Marguerite (D183) 

Foliage (D181)

Beautiful Blooms (D299)

Interlocking Special Day & Happy Birthday (D059)

Wild Orchid Crafts white stamens

Flat back pearls

American Crafts card stock in White, Latte, Banana and Peony

Promarker in Forest Green, Tan and Nutmeg

I hope you've enjoyed the update today and feel free to ask me anything or just leave some love.

Happy Crafting

Anna x

Hidden Surprises Tattered Lace Samples

Hiya, today's post is more samples for Tattered Lace, Hidden Surprises Collection, I'm having so much fun being on the sample team for Tattered Lace and My Craft Studio and getting such a buzz out of seeing my samples on TV :)  So exciting!

Again these dies are so stunning, I was a bit busy with hospital and docs appointments as well as shift changes last week so only manage nine samples but could have go on to make more if I had had the time.

I also received my Silhouette Cameo last week, and lucky I had booked a week off work :D  I've been having so much fun using it, I really wish I had bought one earlier!

So here are the samples, I noticed on the show that I have a very different style of card making to the other sample makers which makes me wonder if what I'm making is ok or not lol!  I suppose they wouldn't ask me to make more if it was a problem, but that's what you get for having an inferiority complex lol!  

Hanging Hearts Mobile

Supplies

Tattered Lace Cherished Locket Die (D270)
Tattered Lace Hearts Beat As One Dies (D276)
Tattered Lace Doily Delights Dies (D273)
Tattered Lace Mini Blooms Dies (D279)
American Crafts Crimson Cardstock
Clear jewellery thread
Crystal beads
Pearl beads
Gems
Tassel SM5970RD, Tassel Elegance, Expo International Brand (Bought from Joanna Sheens but I don't think she stocks them any more)

Perfect Gentleman

Supplies

Tattered Lace Flourishing Hearts (D275) 

Tattered Lace Hearts Beat As One Dies (D276)

Tattered Lace Adoringly Ornate Edge (D267)

Tattered Lace Beloved Borders (D268)

American Crafts Black, Vanilla, Sand and Pomegranate Cardstock

First Edition Paper 8 x 8 J' Adore Stack
My Craft Studio All About Alphabets
Creative Stamping Issue 15  free stamp set Timeless Opulence

 

Shaker Heart & lace

Supplies

Tattered Lace Beloved Borders (D268)

Tattered Lace Hearts Beat As One Dies (D276)

Tattered Lace Doily Delights Dies (D273)

Tattered Lace Flourishing Hearts (D275) 

Tattered Lace Lacy Rose (D232)

American Crafts Black and Crimson Cardstock

Acetate

DCWV Blackcurrant 12 x 12 Stack

My Craft Studio  Simply Silhouettes

Gems

Micro beads and glitter

Champagne Wedding

Supplies

Tattered Lace Champagne Glasses (D269)
Tattered Lace Hidden Amore Edge (D277)
DCWV Blackcurrant 12 x 12 Stack
My Craft Studio All About Alphabets and Nesting Shapes for die cutters
Wild Orchid Crafts Roses
Ivory Pearl Cardstock
AC Black Cardstock
Pearls
Cream Ribbon

Shabby Butterfly

Supplies

Tattered Lace Mini Blooms Dies (D279)
Tattered Lace Beloved Borders (D268)
Tattered Lace Wondrous Wings (D024)
Tattered Lace Ornate Frame (D247)
AC Mint, Blush, White, Canary, Olive Cardstock
350gsm Super Smooth cardstock
Wild orchid Crafts white pearl stamens
Pearls
Micro beads
White lace
Pleated Ribbon
Shabby Green Frantage Embossing powder
Spun Sugar Distress inkpad
MCS All About Alphabets 

Steampunk Style

Supplies

Tattered Lace Counting the Moments (D272)
AC Pumpkin and Black Cardstock
Docrafts Chronology Paper Stack 6 x 6
SU Sanded Stamp (Retired)
Chipboard Plaque
Docrafts Chronology Key, Gear
Tim Holtz Game Spinner
Kanban Ticket stamps
Creative Stamping Issue 15 free stamp set Timeless Opulence
Distress Embossing powder in Walnut Stain
Gold, copper and Black embossing powder (a little of each mixed together)
Black Candi Dots coloured with Adirondack Gold Alcohol mixative
Brass Buttons
Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks
Tea Dye, Tattered Rose, Old Paper, Vintage Photo Distress Markers
Adirondack Black Archival Ink Pad

 Easter Elegance

Supplies

Tattered Lace Ornate Cross (D246)

Tattered Lace Mini Blooms Dies (D279)  

AC Canary and White Cardstock

Create & Craft Silver Mirri Card

Create & Craft Pastel Yellow Glitter Card

Organza Ribbon

Gems

Silhouette Frame from free shapes in Silhouette Studio

Floral Filigree Screen From Silhouette Store

Creative Stamping Issue 9 Easter Sentiment and Frame

Nouveau Elegance

Supplies

Tattered Lace Hidden Sweetheart Edge (D278)

Tattered Lace Double Delights Adore (D274)

Tattered Lace Decorative Cartouche (D205) 

AC Sage Cardstock

250 GSM Super Smooth Cardstock

C&C Gold Mirri Card

MCS Art Nouveau CD

Pearls

Tattered Mother's Day Gift Box

Supplies

Tattered Lace Cherished Moments Corner (D271)
Tattered Lace Summer Meadow (D280)
Tattered Lace Mini Blooms Dies (D279)
AC Sand, Mint and Lilac Cardstock
Kiaser Crafts Cherish Stack
Docrafts Fabric Tape
Tattered Angels Vintage Pink Glimmer Mist
Pearls
Cream Ribbon
Tea Dye Distress Inkpad
VersaMark Ink Pad
Gold Embossing Powder
SVG Cuts Big Boutique Boxes Large Cube Box

Well that's all of them, if you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment or drop me an email.

Happy Crafting
Anna x

Tattered Lace Design Team Cards

Hi all, well this month is already getting away from me, I wanted to post thes cards several days ago but haven't had time to update my blog.  Busy working and sleeping :)

Today's post consists of the cards I made for the Tattered Lace dies released at CHA on Jan 11th.  What can I say, totally beautiful dies, I was sent the padlock & key, the lattice bow, the English rose and the lacy rose dies.  Here's a link to the Florentine Collection

Padlock & Key

Treasure chest card

21st Birthday

Valentines Hearts

English Rose

Climbing rose

Ink dusted rose & lacy rosebuds

Double rose

Lattice Bow

Citrus Wedding Cake

Birthday Boy

Peaches & Green

Well that's all from me, just sorted all my scraps out, I may never need to cut a whole piece of card ever again lol!  I hope you get some inspiration from these.

Happy crafting
Anna x