April Krafthands Blog Challenge

Natures Work.

I love butterflies so for this card went straight to the Butterfly Botanicals CD. This image was already enlarged by me for another project. It is printed twice, one copy cut out minus the antenna. It is to hard to cut these out perfectly. The image is then layered over the bottom butterfly after the paper has been inked with distressing inks to make it less white and stark.

The flowers are stamped on vellum and embossed in yellow Wow powder. The centre of the flower  is made with a drop of green Stickles.

I did not add a sentiment but one can easily be added to the bottom right hand corner.

March Kraftyhands Blog Challenge

February Krafthands Blog Challenge

Hearts and Flowers.

It is not easy to see on the picture but the front of this card is acetate. I wanted to make the toppers on the front of the card look light and airy as if they were floating. I chose the Edwardian Rose Garden CD because of the beautiful flowers. The added bonus which I had forgotten about was that the gorgeous lacy backing papers have heart shapes on them.I cut the two hearts out of red paper and also the sentiment which is a new Tonic Die which just says I Love You. Some cream and red roses were added around the topper.

January Kraftyhands Blog Challenge - Winter Blues

This months challenge is Winter Blues. Now this could mean the sadness if winter, being cold and miserable with Christmas over, or it could mean the winter colours and beauty of blue.

I love my hydrangea bushes and always leave the flower heads on over winter. I tried to catch the winter look of these last year blooms with distress inks and sparkle frosts on the flowers. 

Kraftyhands December Blog.

Christmas No Squares Allowed is this months title.

This months end of year challenge is No Squares Allowed, so the 8 x 8 cards were left untouched. 

After watching the British Craft Network and enjoying Kay Rutter doing a star card demo I decided to use the star idea to make a decoration.

In the Create It Magazine there is a beautiful image of a stain glass window of the nativity scene. So with shape and image chosen I looked for a rich Christmassy paper in which to make the star. I chose one from Vintage Christmas and printed it on white pearl paper.

I mounted the image on one of my favourite dies using a buttery gold mirri card. 

Fronds in gold were added to each arm of the star and finally a pearl at each point.

A thin gold ribbon was added to allow it to hang. It is decorated on the back, but could  have a personal greeting on the back

Pram I have just Finished

Hope this video works and you can see the pram.

Kraftyhands Christmas Cheer

Here is my sample for the November Challenge from Kraftyhands.

For this months challenge I chose the lovely Santa image from the Create It 3 magazine. I wanted some heavily patterned paper fro the scroll and the background so I looked in the Finishing Touches CD.

 Had some mucky fun with inks to make the papers look old and worn.

 Then to add the magic of Christmas I added some of Chloe's chunky gold glitter, gold ferns and a dark red silky crush ribbon.

I think that the stamp was a freebie from a magazine.