Saturday 25 June 2011

Papertrey Ink birthday card




Hello everyone and welcome to my blog,





Its Papertrey Blog Hop day and this time Nichole gave us this picture to use as inspiration for a project

June Blog Hop inspiration

The picture looked really girly to me so I decided to do a little girl birthday card using the Out of this World set because rockets are not just for boys are they? I tried to match the blue colour and inked in a sky as a base.





I matted the base onto raspberry fizz card and die cut the rocket and moon before using Copics for colour. I used a little Glossy accents to give a raised porthole effect and added some glitter for a some bling. I used a mixture of sentiments from OOTW, Its a Celebration and Birthday Basics. I die cut a fillable frame to slip behind the top right corner,



and popped a little raspberry fizz ribbon and a flower brad on the lower left corner to balance it.


Well I think that's enough pink to satisfy the girliest of girls and I'm going to finish now so I can get round to see what lovely inspiration everyone else got. Happy hopping!

Hugs
Carol x

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Papertrey Ink Birthday Card

Hello everyone,

I've been a lax blogger of late but I have a longer post than usual to try and make up. First an update on the lovely ducks who have been visiting us. When I last reported, Mother Duck had hatched 10 ducklings who were swimming around our little pond. The following day, they managed to scrabble out of the pond and follow Mum around the garden to have a stroll and explore.



The day after that, one of the ducklings disappeared and even with 10 ducklings to care for, Mum knew that one was missing and it was so sad to hear her calling for it for more than an hour.  The next day four more disappeared whilst we were out but the family remained with 5 ducklings until she took them away, we know not where! I hope it was to somewhere safe with a large pond so the remaining ducklings can survive to maturity and maybe visit us again next year. Nature can be very sad.

I mentioned that I had been away for a week and when I returned, I had a package waiting for me from a very kind fellow blogger called Margaret

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who sent me a mound of stamped images using PTI's Wreath for all Seasons after I admired the cards she made with them. She also sent a beautiful card (the background is shimmery and my photo hasn't picked that up),


and a set of stamps that will be very useful come Halloween this year. Thank you so much Margaret, it was a wonderful surprise to come home to, and I will make good use of these images.

And finally I have a card that I made for this weeks Make it Monday challenge over at Papertrey Ink. Erin Lincoln has a video showing the reverse masking technique on the blog which is very useful. I wanted to try a colour combination of Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist and Enchanted Evening :-



I used Vintage Labels stamps and made a mask by cutting out the centre before over stamping and clear embossing with Background Basics Text Style. This was then cut out with Nestabilites Labels 1 die and matted onto another mat. I punched 2 circles for the sides and added buttons and bows. For the centre I used the Beautiful Blooms die and a daisy punch, finishing off with a gem. The border was made with the Victorian Lace die, and the sentiment was from Enjoy the Ride.



Sorry this has been such a long post, but thanks for sticking with it.

Hugs
Carol x



Friday 17 June 2011

4th July card for Waltzing Mouse Blog Waltz and June Old Stash Challenge

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I'm sorry to have been AWOL for so long but we've been away for a week and its taken me some time to get caught up and find some time to craft. However, to help me get back in the swing, its the 17th of the month and its time for the Waltzing Mouse Blog Waltz.


The challenge this time is to create a card for the 4th July and at first I thought I'd have to pass on this one because I don't have any appropriate stamps, let alone anyone to send it to, but not to be daunted, I looked through my WMS stash and tried to be a bit creative with what I had.

I decided to make a US flag and started with the rectangular frame from Frame It stamped in red and then I created the stripes with some red ric rac. For the stars part, I played with the star tree from Teeny Trees and just kept stamping it until I had a panel that pleased me.


For the background I started with a white card base and cut four squares of Coredinations card stock and embossed them with a Cuttlebug folder, before sanding them to expose some of the core. A sentiment from Frame it, some ribbon and a few star gems for bling finished it off.




I'll update you on the ducks in my next post because I'm sure that like me, you will want to waltz off to see all the goodies on the other blogs. This card also counts as my June 'Use Old Stash Challenge', in my continuing attempt to use old materials that have been neglected in favour of shiny new stuff.

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs
Carol x



Thursday 2 June 2011

Cricut / Papertrey Ink Birthday card and Ducks!

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry not to have posted for a week but things have been a bit hectic in my life and crafting has had to take a lower profile. However, we have had a happy event in our household! We have a small pond in our garden that has been visited for a couple of years by a pair of mallard ducks, and this year the female laid eggs and today 10 little ducklings took to the water with their Mum.


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They are so cute and have been strutting round the flower beds, exploring all the nooks and crannies. We've been so excited to see them and just hope all the little cuties make it to fledging time because neighbouring cats and a fox regularly visit our garden. I'll keep you posted on the progress!

Whilst I am here, I'd like to share a card I made for a 50th birthday.





I started by using PTI Background basics Twinkle to create the backing paper in Hawaiian Shores ink. I then used my Cricut to cut the panel from Just Because Cards and the numbers from Plantin Schoolbook. I stamped a couple of banner bits from Banner Builders and over stamped them with words from Big Birthday Wishes, cut them out and attached a bit of card as flag posts, an idea I saw Erin Lincoln use. I decided not to ink any edges on this card because I wanted a cleaner look, and I think I'm going to be using this larger sentiment set again because it is very versatile.

Thanks for looking in.
Hugs
Carol x

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