Christmas Countdown Day 8 - Rustic Snowman

Rustic Snowman

Another pretty, rustic card today using a Molly Blooms stamp I have had for a few years now and it's still one of my favourites.

The card has been stamped with potting soil archival ink, and water coloured with inktense pencils.  I've added some distressing and some Heidi Swapp color shine spray, glitter and a touch of glossy accents for some sparkle.

Happy Crafting

Anna x

Christmas Countdown Day 7 - Wiggle 'til You Giggle

Wiggle 'til You Giggle

Today's offering is a super cute wiggly snowman.

A very quick and simple card using a cut file from Miss Kate Cuttables, I made the snowman into a shaped card and popped him up onto a wobble spring for some added fun :)

Happy Crafting
Anna x

Christmas Countdown Day 6 - Rustic Stag

Rustic Stag

Just a quick card today.

Stamped with a freebie stamp from the Creative Stamping magazine in potting shed archival ink.  Water coloured with Inktense pencils and distress ink in gathered twig.

I added some splashes with Heidi Swapp gold Color Shine spray.

The papers are from an old collection of Papermania Christmas papers and the banner stamp is from a Hero Arts set.

 

Happy Crafting

Anna x

Christmas Countdown Day 5 - Steampunk Santa

Steampunk Santa

Today's offering is another card, much more grungy and vintage than the first few I've shared. 

Supplies

The Artistic Stamper Steampunk Santa stamp
The Artistic Stamper Calligraphic Mat #8
Craft Stamper magazine free mini stamp set Believe
My Craft Studio Shabby Sweet printable postcards
Tattered Lace Dies Victorian Snowflake
Kaiser Craft Papers
Papermania metal clock faces and gears
The Works metal key embellishments
The Works Wooden frames and corners
American Crafts Chestnut brown woodgrain textured card
Manilla tag
Red & white twine
Heidi Swapp Color Shine gold
TH Distress stain Festive Berries
Ranger archival ink pad Potting Soil
Glossy Accents
Red sequins
Gold card
Red doily

Happy Crafting
Anna x

Christmas Countdown Day 3 - Angel Wings

Christmas Countdown Day Three

Angel Wings

The gorgeous Tattered Lace angel wings die inspired me to make this card.

The stamp is a Lili of the Valley stamp and I painted it with Twinkling H2O's and Inktense pencils.  The layers are distressed with faded chipped sapphire distress in and there is a splattering of distress spray in brushed pewter.  The snow flakes and wooden shapes where covered with the distress sprat and glittered with stickles for a touch of extra sparkle.

Supplies
Tattered Lace Dies Angel Wings (D1037)
Lili of the Valley Stamp Peace on Earth
First Edition Silent Night Paper Pad
Papermania Capsule Collection Bexley Black Doily
Wooden Stars and snowflakes HobbyCraft
Die Cut Snow Flake cut on Silhouette
White berry sprig from The Range
Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Chipped Sapphire
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain in Brushed Pewter
Inktense pencils
Twinkling H2O's
Silver and white bakers twine HobbyCraft
White lace from stash
White cobweb fabric HobbyCraft
Stardust Stickles
White Sequins

Hope you liked today's instalment.

Happy Crafting
Anna x

Christmas Countdown Day 2 - Silver Antlers

Christmas Countdown Day Two

Silver Antlers

I just adore this free stag stamp from Creative Stamping magazine, I've used it on several cards and I plan to use it on some mixed media layouts too.  I love how simple and clean this card looks,  the silver, white and grey just work perfectly :)

Supplies

Creative Stamping magazine issue 56 free stamps
Penny Black Slapstick Cling Stamp Set Christmas Banners
First Edition Silent Night 6 x 6 paper pad
Black Stazon
Stampin' Up Smoky Slate ink pad
Stickles Candy Cane
Metal snow flake charm
Silver and white twine
White card
Holographic silver glitter

This was so easy to put together, you could easily knock up a batch of these in no time.

I matted and layered the Silent Night papers onto a 6 x 6 card blank, inking the edges with the grey ink.  I then stamped the stag in Stazon onto white card and the banner in grey ink and fussy cut them out, not bothering with the antlers ans I also stamped the stag onto the patterned paper.

I popped up the banner with foam pads and added a bow and charm.

The stag was glued flat to the card and the antlers glittered using the silver glitter.

And that's it, so quick!

Don't forget to check out my new Facebook Page

Happy Crafting
Anna x

Christmas Countdown Day 1 - Snow Ride

Life seems to have gotten in the way of blogging one again and here we are in December.

I have been a busy bee creating my December Daily album and getting the few cards I am making this year done.  I now only make cards for close family members as I don't have time to make 50 plus cards lol!   I've also been working on some fun mixed media projects which I'll be sharing soon.

I have planned to update with a new blog post every couple of days through out December, so fingers crossed my plans work out.

I'm also planning to get a couple of videos up, to share my December Daily progress and maybe some handmade ornaments I've made for our tree.

I also have a new Facebook Page, go check it out here

So, onto the first instalment of Christmas Countdown!

Snow Ride

This card nearly went in to the trash can lol!  I originally coloured the image just with Inktense pencils, however, I had done it at night in the living room and the lighting is dismal in there and it wasn't looking that great.  I decided to fiddle with it the next morning and added some distress markers and was much happier with the result, not perfect but heyho it's for my Mum so I'm sure she won't mind lol!

Supplies

Lily of the Valley Stamp Toboggan For Two
Ranger Black Archival ink pad
First Edition 6 x 6 paper pad Silent Night
American Crafts white textured cardstock
Papermania Capsule collection grey doily
American Crafts white glitter paper
White iridescent sequins
Small pinecones
White berry sprig
Red Berries
White Eyelash yarn
White lace
Distress Markers
Inktense Pencils
Stickles Stardust
Sakura Gelly Roll glitter pens in red and green

I just love Lily of the Valley stamps, they are so whimsical and sweet!  I stamped the image in archival ink and then water coloured it with Inktense pencils and distress markers.  I added a few touches of sparkle with the gelly roll pens and Stickles.

The large snow flake was cut on my Silhouette from the AC glitter paper, I inked all the paper edges with distress ink and then distressed the edges with my scissors.

To add some dimension and a extra bit of colour and texture I added the cluster of pine cones and berries.

I really love how the card came together and I hope my Mum will love it too.

Happy Crafting
Anna x

Christmas Countdown Series

Christmas Countdown Series

Hi, I'm excited to announce I'm doing a series of posts to countdown Christmas, with lots of lovely projects to share.

I've been busy with my Christmas crafting, there will be posts about cards, ornaments, mixed media projects and scrapbooking my December Daily album.

The first post will be up on the 1st of December so please stop by and say hi :)  I'll be adding a post every other day throughout December and there may be some blog candy involved somewhere so be sure to keep popping by.

Happy Crafting

Anna x

Tattered Lace Kaleidoscope Samples - Huge Update

Hi, well this is a huge update as I did a lot of samples for this collection of dies.  The Kaleidoscope collections is beautiful and so versatile.  I loved the flowers and butterflies and even made stamps from them to stretch them even further. 

All dies can be purchased from crafting .co.uk and don't forget to enter the Tattered Lace Blog Challenge to win some awesome prizes

First up are the butterflies. these are so gorgeous, and range from some teeny tiny little butterflies to an xxl size.

I got my shabby chic on for these, they were perfect and so girly :)

Kaleidoscope Butterflies

Butterfly and Roses

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Butterfly XXL (D528)

Westminster (D310)

Hearts (D265)

Decorative Cartouche (D205)

MCS Shabby Sweet

Tim Holts trim

Flat back pearls

pink and white glitter

spray adhesive to spray the butterflies and adhere the glitter

Wild Orchid Crafts roses and cherry blossoms

White glitter card

American Crafts pink and white card stock

White satin ribbon

Pink organza ribbon

Divine twine in white and gold

Worn lipstick distress ink

 

Butterfly Dreams

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Butterfly XL (D526)
Kaleidoscope Butterfly L (D523)
Lavish Blooms Poppy (D288)
Foliage (D181)
Ornate Frame (D247)
Elegant Alphabet (D293)
Ditsy Dots (corner) (EF004)  
MCS Shabby Sweet Papers
AC White, smoke and lavender card stock
Doily
Flat back pearls
Cabachon
Satin ribbon
 

Butterfly Rose Panel 

Supplies 

Kaleidoscope Butterfly XXL (D528)
Kaleidoscope Butterfly S (D525)
Ornate Frame (D247)
Rose Panel (D307)
MCS Art Nouveau
Ditzy sentiments
Picket fence distress paint and stain
AC white and straw card stock
flat back pearls

Believe in Yourself

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Butterfly L (D523)
Kaleidoscope Butterfly S (D525)
Mini Branches & Florals (DX08)
My Craft Studio Shabby Sweet Papers
Ditzy Sentiments
AC smoke, sky, white and rain card stock
White glitter card stock 
White lace
Adhesive diamantés
White glitter

Butterfly Hearts 

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Butterfly XL (D526)
Kaleidoscope Butterfly L (D523)
Kaleidoscope Butterfly M (D524)
Kaleidoscope Butterfly XS (D527)
Foliage (D181)
Rose Garden embossing folder  (EF006) 
AC shrimp and vanilla card stock
cream and peach roses
flat back pearls 

Kaleidoscope Flowers

Denim and Lace

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Flower XXL (D534)

Kaleidoscope Flower XL (D532)

Kaleidoscope Flower L (D529)

Kaleidoscope Flower M (D530)

Westminster (D310)

Feather (D165)

Rose Garden embossing folder (EF006)

MCS Shabby Sweet

Flat back pearls

Weathered wood distress ink

White lace

Denim ribbon

Silver beads

Whire pearl card stock

AC denim, white and rain card stock

Silver Krylon pen

Tim Holtz misting tool

 

Silver Stars

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Flower M (D530)
Kaleidoscope Flower L (D529)
Decorative Cartouche (D205) 
Christmas Sentiments (D096)
Westminster Border (D308)
Spellbinders label 4 
6 x 6 in card base
White glitter
White glitter card
White pearl card
White glitter ribbon
White satin ribbon
iridescent gems
iridescent embossing powder
silver sparkler
Redline tape to create the glittered border around the outside of the card
 
Background done by cutting flowers from fun foam and stamping with versamark and embossing with holographic embossing powder.

Pastel Rainbow

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Flower M (D530)
Kaleidoscope Flower L (D529)
Kaleidoscope Flower XL (D532)
Kaleidoscope Flower XXL (D534)
 Decorative Cartouche (D205)
 Ditsy Dots embossing folder (EF004)
Spellbinders standard circles  
Ditzy Delights Sentiments
AC Banana, Shrimp, lagoon, white, bubblegum card stock
flat back pearls
Promarkers in matching colours to colour the pearls

Lemon Flowers

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Flower L (D529)
Kaleidoscope Flower XL (D532)
Kaleidoscope Flower XXL (D534)
Ornate Frame (D247)
Fretwork Lace embossing folder (EF005)
Ditzy Delights Sentiments
Lemon glitter ribbon
lemon organza ribbon
Large pearls
pearl brad
AC banana, moss and white card stock
Lemon glitter ribbon

Soft Green Cut out Flowers

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Flower M (D530)
Kaleidoscope Flower L (D529)
Kaleidoscope Flower XL (D532)
Bon Voyage (D343)
Ditzy Delights Sentiments
AC geyser and white card stock
Green glitter card
Flat back pearls
Matching sparklers
White satin ribbon
 

Perfect Peacock

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Flower L (D529)
Kaleidoscope Butterfly M (D524)
Butterfly Garden embossing folder (EF002)
Stamps cut from fun foam
Distress ink peacock feathers
AC Aqua and white card stock
Jade satin ribbon
Adhesive diamantés

Red and Gold Christmas

Supplies

Kaleidoscope Flower L (D529)
Kaleidoscope Flower XL (D532)
Kaleidoscope Flower XXL (D534)
Ornate Frame (D247)
stamp cut from fun foam and stamped with versamark, embossed with gold embossing powder. 
Gold metallic ribbon
Red satin ribbon
Seed beads
 

Birdhouse Row

Christmas Birdhouse Row

Supplies

Birdhouse Row (D541)
Christmas Sentiments (D096)

Decorative Cartouche (D205)

Lacy Rose Collection (D232)

Ditsy Dots embossing powder (EF004)

AC crimson, white, evergreen card stock

Red adhesive diamantés

Green satin ribbon

Red and white dotty ribbon

Summer Birdhouse Row

Supplies

Birdhouse Row (D541)
Ditsy Dots (EF004)
Derwent Inktense Pencils.
Ditzy Delights Sentiments
Spellbinders scalloped square
2" square punch
Flower Soft Delphinium blue
White scalloped ribbon
Blue gros grain ribbon
AC banana, white and sky card stock

Spring Birdhouse Row

Supplies

Birdhouse Row (D541) 
Cherished Centres (D282)
Mini Blooms (D279)
Foliage (D181)
AC Geyser  and white card stock
green glitter card stock
flat back pearls
 

Autumn Birdhouse Row

Supplies

Birdhouse Row (D541)
Wood textured paper
Mustard textured paper
Super Smooth 300gsm
Promarkers
Orange rainbow glitter
Brown buttons
Gold thread
SU Linen thread

Hydrangea Border

 

Dancing Butterflies

Supplies

Hydrangea Border (D547)

High Heel Glam (D034)
Butterfly Garden Embossing Folder (corner) (EF002)

White pearl and lilac card stock 

Flat back pearls

Lemon Crib

Supplies

Hydrangea Border (D547)

Crib (D133)

Ditsy Dots embossing folder (EF004)

Spellbinders scalloped squares

White pearl and lemon card stock 

Flat back pearls

 

Wedding Vines

Supplies

Hydrangea Border (D547)
 Hearts Beat As One (D276)
Congratulations (D241)
Rose Garden embossing folder  (EF006)
Chains embossing folder (EF003)

White pearl  card stock 

Flat back pearls
White organza ribbon
Silver mirri card stock
 

Fresh Green

Supplies

Hydrangea Border (D547)
Severn (D427)
Fretwork Lace border (EF005)
Spellbinders standard circles

 White pearl and green card stock 

Flat back pearls

 

Hearts

Rustic Tag

Supplies

Hearts (D265)

Corrugated kraft card

AC Vanilla and light kraft card stock

Pearl embossed paper from Tattered Lace mixed A3 stack

Brown and cream buttons

Cream lace

SU linen thread

Creative Expressions chicken wire stamp

 

Parisian Postcard

Supplies

Hearts (D265)
Mini Blooms (D279)
Postcards (D346)
MCS Shabby Sweet
Flat back pearls and button
White organza ribbon
AC rosebud and bubblegum

Blue Heart

Supplies

Hearts (D265)
Mini Blooms (D279)
Hearts Beat As One (D276)
Bon Voyage (D343)
mini peg
Blue Lace
AC white card stock
MCS All about alphabets

Golden Ornament

Supplies

Hearts (D265)

Lavish Blooms Lily (D285)

Chelsea (D302)

Pearl embossed paper from Tattered Lace mixed A3 stack

Gold satin ribbon

Flat back pearls

Cabachon

Gold embossing powder

Adirondack Gold alcohol mixative

AC light kraft and vanilla card stock

 

Wow!  that was a huge post lol!  Anyhoo, if you have any questions ask away, I'll be happy to help.
Happy crafting
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

Happy New Year!!

Hi, just a quick post to let you know I haven't fell off the face of the earth lol!

One thing I did want to announce is that I was chosen to be on the design team to make samples for Craft Channel Productions who produce the My Craft Studio and Tattered Lace Dies.  And my cards have been shown on Create & Craft, this is very exciting for me and hopefully will spur me on to do more with my craft this year.

I have had such a busy few months and haven't had time to update on here so I've added links to my FB albums so you can check out my crafty stuff from last year.

Cards & Keepsakes 2013
Christmas Fair 2013
My Craft Studio All About Alphabets Samples
Tattered Lace His & Hers Samples

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Busy, Busy

Hi all, slacking again with the blogging but real life keeps getting in the way unfortunately.  Quite a few things to share, I'm having a stall at a local Christmas fair this year so getting some cards together to sell.  This will be the first time I've done anything like this so I'm a bit nervous.

I'm also toying with the idea of becoming a Stampin Up demonstrator, I've been mulling it over for a while and I'm not getting anywhere at work so need to focus my attentions elsewhere because I feel like I'm not achieving anything at the moment.

PS. I Love You
So onto the crafty stuff, first up is a scrapbook layout, I can't take full credit for the layout as I loosely followed a layout I'd seen on Cricut.com The papers are Stampin Up from the holiday catalogue winter frost collection, a very versatile collection as it isn't all Christmasy so can be used on other projects and I just loved the colours. The cardstock is all American crafts in lagoon, stone, robin egg and black. I just loved this photo of my hubby and really wanted to do something with it and love how the page looks :) The arrows are cut from the Cricut Southwest cart in AC slate and the words from Wall decor and more in black and white. I just added a bit of faux stitching in black copic fine liner and uniball broad gel pen and added a few accents to the arrows and flags.

Hey Cupcake
This card was a quicky card to send off to my niece in Canada.  The cupcake was cut from the Sweet Treats cart, paper is from DCWV Sweet stack which is totally adorable.   Plus I got it for a fraction of what it should have cost from The Range, along with a few other sale goodies :)  Lots of stickles in baby blue and glam pink, I used seed beads for the sprinkles and the sentiment is from a Fiskars stamp set called The Sweet Life and is stamped in SU early espresso, card stock is also SU early espresso and American Crafts lagoon I think.

Outer Space
These next two I had so much fun with, inspired by Mary from cardcrazy09 on YT.  She makes the most adorable cards.  Both of these monster were cut from the mini monsters cart, I used scraps for the majority.  The rockets are cut from the just because card cart and the stars were punched out from various punches.  The faces were stamped using the adorable Peachy Keen monster mash face stamps and I did a little extra doodling lol!  Sentiments were from SU birthday sentiments.  the black sky was embossed using the cuttlebug devine swirls folder and the orange planet was embossed with a Tim Holtz texture fade on DCWV glitter card and then I coloured over the top with an orange promarker.  To finish them off I just added a some stickles and googley eyes :)

Adorable Ducks
I have had these stamps since June I think and this is the first time I have got around to using them.  I just think they are adorable, they are from Crafty Individuals and come with a lovely sentiment too.  I stamped the background on SU crumb cake cardstock with crumb cake ink, using the Creative Expressions chicken wire background stamp, the matts were cut from SU early espresso and SU DSP Beau Chateau.  I added some SU linen thread, buttons and a tiny tag I cut on the cricut and stamp a sentiment in early espresso.  I stamped the ducks in Ranger archival on water colour paper and coloured them with distress markers.

Colours of Autumn
This card really started off with me experimenting with some Mr Huey sprays I had bought from Create and Craft when they were selling them off.  I was just messing about getting inky and sprayed some colour, then though I'd stamp some leaves and add some perfect pearls, it turned out very pretty and autumnal and so that set the theme for the next lot of cards I made.  Using the background I had made I just added a simple sentiment as a topper and stamped a leaf, added more perfect pearls and cut it out, added a few buttons and some linen thread and called it a card.  The sentiment is from SU. Cardstock is SU crumb cake and early espresso.  As this ended up being and odd size I made and envelope to match. 

Shimmering Dragonfly
Really the same as the other card except I stamped the dragonfly from Papermania dragonflies urban stamp set, once on the background and once on a piece of cream paper, I embossed the dragonfly with Stampendous fine detail black embossing powder and then painted it with perfect pearls mixed with a little water.  I used a Tim Holtz texture fade embossing folder to emboss the early espresso strip and the cuttlebug mesh folder to emboss the card blank.  The sentiment is from Papermania Vintage notes urban stamps set.

Autumn Thanks
This little set of thank you cards was made using the scraps on my desk, I challenged myself to not use anything that wasn't already out as I keep ending up with a mountain of stuff which all ends up in the scrap pile and never used lol!  All made from SU crumb cake cardstock, SU early espresso ink, SU french foliage and SeeD's leaves stamps set and the squares where stamped by inking an acrylic block with distress ink in vintage photo, spritzing with water and the stamping onto the card stock.  The sentiment is also SU.

Winter Frost
This set of cards were all made using the SU winter frost collection, the sentiment is SU from the holiday catalogue, stamped in SU smoky slate and island indigo.  The shapes were cut on the cricut, as were the snowflakes and the ribbon is from Papermania.  After I had stamped the sentiments I gently sponged some SU illuminate ink all over to give it a subtle shimmer, they came out very pretty and I made half a dozen of these to sell ;)

Gift Card Holders
All these gift card holders were made following Dawn5377's directions on YT.  These were so easy and simple to make and I can see me making plenty more as the possibilities are endless really.

This last item was inspired by Joy of Obsessed with scrapbooking on YT , I don't have the Close To My Heart cricut carts as they are ridiculously expensive to by from the States, with shipping and customs it works out around £100, money I'm not willing to pay, especially as half of that is actually for shipping and customs!!  So I decided I would give it a go using one of my other cricut cuts.  I purchased the Cricut craftroom Exclusive quilted ornaments last year and never used them so thought it was high time I did lol!  I basically followed Joy's instructions but as I didn't have any tulle, I added some roses from Wild Orchid crafts instead and think it came out very pretty.  It's cut from American Crafts, crimson, vanilla, and pomegranate cardstock, ribbon is from Papermania.  It looks really beautiful on the living room door and I think I may make a couple more for my other doors.  Very happy with this :)

That's all for now folks, I do have more to post but need to get the camera out first lol.

Happy crafting

Anna xx