Magnolia sitting on a swing card.

Good afternoon, The weathers a little bit warmer but I still have goose bumps on top of goose bumps. I really feel the cold. Give me a hot place any day. Roll on summer and hurry up about it.

Hope some of you popped along to the paperlane Demo day in store on Saturday.

Poor Cas had a few glitches, what with the power in store going off and of course everything these days been powered by electric was a bit of a nightmare for her so Big HUGS TO HER.

I popped in to see the  wonderful new stamp range  that my fellow D.T. member (Bev)  launched at paperlanes demo day.

Click here to see her work and the new

Uniko Studio's stamps.

Greats stamps, lovely quality, Also simple clean designs and up to date with toady's modern trends. I tried the cogs and pocket watch stamps at the make and take demo. These would look fab on any mediums you use your stamps on, and you get a lot of stamps for your money. Not only that the packaging is fantastic, Fabulous storage for your stamps, also keeps them clean and dust free, clearly labelled. They are currently on sale at

the paperlane Northallerton.

Made a card on Friday to share with you.

Thought I would try a tent card and here is the results of my efforts

Papers used were Prima Pixie glen,

Used the magnolia swing stamp and Tilda sitting upon it.

Swing I mounted it with eyelets and chain so it would actually swing back and forth.

The arrangement of flowers are a selection I placed together. These are from

wild orchid crafts

The base of the tent card I had to cut in an oval  so when the card was close the base piece when folded didn't show in the main oval window.

Also added a few little embellishment's like ribbon and buttons and small dummy charm, as the card was for my daughter on the birth of my 1st grandchild.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please feel free to leave comment or ask questions about the cards I make. All comments are truly appreciated.

bYe ByE

for now

Klare

:O)

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Nellie Snellen - fairy on present (christmas card

Thought I had better get started as Christmas is not far away ... only 61 sleeps. So made a Christmas card to share with you. Ive had this little stamp about a month sitting on my desk. Its a Nellie Snellen stamp and shes just a little cutie.

I used lots of glitter in this card Yet picturing glitter and getting it to sparkle on my photos is difficult to show you effectively.

The fairy image was masked off. Then the  background was stamped with a

 Great Impressions wooden stamp.

I stamped it with chalk ink pixie pink. Then I added holographic embossing powder I have had for years, Heated it to set the embossing powder. Then I coloured fairy with copic markers.

Added lovely bronze gold coloured glitter to stars on image and glamour dust to fur trim of her jacket

layered my lace, ribbon and daisy trim that I think looks like snowflakes,added button clusters.

Don't know if you can see from pictures. I used some of this organza glittered snowflake fabric

over the top of my design papers. I have had it a year, seen it thought it looked lovely, bought it then thought what do I do with it. Then had a light bulb moment... I will layer it over the papers and it worked well with this card.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please feel free to leave comment or ask questions about the cards I make. All comments are truly appreciated.

 

Oh don't forget only a few days left to get your entry's in for the thepaperlane challenge

Glitz and Sparkle is this months challenge.

bYe ByE

for now

Klare

:O)

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Beautiful tilda - (magnolia butterfly dreams)

Hi, Hope you have had a lovely weekend. The sun is shining here at the moment.

But I am feeling the cold.

Today I would like to share my card I made a few weeks ago. From the title you will have guessed its a magnolia stamp From the butterfly dreams collection 2011

only have 2 magnolia stamps at present and this one you have already seen. It was used on the canvas bag I made. But I like to use my stamps over and over again on different projects. So you will see them again been used on new idea's and projects.

I just love the magnolia doohickey dies but they are a little expensive.

but a girls got to have what she like sometimes.

I like the delicate colours you can get by using your distress inks to colour your images.

Still like to use my copic markers, but with inks I seam to get more a of a look I'm happy with. Maybe I just need more practice with my copic colouring.

And here's the inside of the card, simple but compliments the front of the card.

Needed to make a box envelope to accommodate this card as the flowers made it to bulky to go in to regular envelope. I found a tutorial on how to make the envelope on this ladies blog site.

needed to adapt the measurement's to accommodate this card, as it was bigger than 6x6. Used the 12x12 Prima botanics paper for the envelope,

 as I had used paper from same collection 6x6 paper pad for card.

I just love papers that have writing on or scrolls and flourishes, post cards images.

Just a little reminder, the challenge is still open at the paperlane this months challenge is 

"Anything but a card"

So grab your molly bloom stamps and join us.

Entries need to be in by 28th September 2011 and this months lovely prize is a

 character stamp from the BRAND NEW Molly Blooms 'Winter Wonderland Collection'!

The have some lovely stamps in this new collection.

Thank you for popping by today.

bYe ByE

hUgGlEs

Klare

:O)

x

Lili of the valley - dandelion clock

Good afternoon, slow progress on the decorating bedroom situation, hubby keeps saying you cant rush it ...grrrr. sick of dust from sanding celling and walls, already gone through one pot of filler for all the dings & dents in wall. So to get away from it all I hid in my craft room. while he sanded filled & sanded some more.

I pulled out my Lili of the valley - dandelion clock stamp & prima papers

I am really pleased how this card turned out. Usually I think the cards I make are just ok & every one Else's are so much better. But this card I really like.

Got a little stuck at one point & it was close to going in the bin.

 Had gap above image that nothing I put in place worked.

 So left it over night & came back to it & added the banner at top & the butterfly.

Love the toadstools, A new stamp I got last week from

the paperlane shop at Northallerton

The inside of card, feel it missing a little some thing ...hmmm

may add some more to this yet. Maybe a feather under butterfly ? don't know

Recipe

White card for base

Red paper from the prima botanics collection

Postcard paper from my stash sorry no make wrote on it, as is the green paper

around image.

Image: Water colour paper,

Distress inks to colour image:

 tattered rose-skin

scattered straw-hair

aged mahogany- top, flowers, shoes

milled lavender and tattered rose- skirt, wings

vintage photo- sole of shoes, distress edges

peeled paint - grass & dandelion

broken china-sky

Toad stools

vintage photo-underside of cap, stalk

aged mahogany- tops cap

also used perfect pearls as paint- perfect copper, forever red

pearl pen for white spots

All edges of papers were distressed with vintage photo distress ink

Sew machine - stitch edges of layers

Small bit of scrap lace used just peeping out from taer in paper

Feathers- black feather thanks to my pet chicken, white feather from shops,

black & white spot feather from the guinea fowl at the stable where I keep my horse.

seam binding-was cream dyed it with tattered rose distress ink

Selection of flowers-from wild orchid crafts

 Pearls sprays, & stick on pearls

Dies- ovals,  Magnolia DooHickey Tilda Lace Die,tim holtz baroque

Stamps- lili of the valley- dandelion clock toadstools by kars,

think the butterfly is kars stamp too.

with love stamp is an old one don't know make

Extras- small crystals on flowers are stones I use for nail art they are really tiny

glamour dust on skirt, wings, flower heads, butterflies

Well best get on and do something today

bYe ByE

HuGgLeS

Klare

:O)

x

Draw Gift Card

Afternoon, Hope you have had a lovely weekend. The weather here was lovely yesterday.

Just thought I would share with you the draw gift card I have just finished making.

Its the first one I ever have made.  I really like the way its turned out, hope you like it too.

I really enjoy reading your lovely comments, and its

appreciated that you take the time to leave a comment.

So I would like to thank all of you for the lovely kind words, it encourages me to share with you

the crafted items I make with you all.

So let me show you the Draw gift card I have made.

I have only added the two draws, But you can make it with more if you like.

Sorry about picture quality, but this just gives you an idea what the draw fronts look like.

Recipe

Plain cream card stock, Watercolour paper for stamped image,

 Blue crinkled paper i've had for years, dont recall make or where I got it from.

 Design paper from papermania rose garden paper pack.

Paper doily

Rubber stamp used from Lilli of the valley called summer days.

Distress inks, tattered rose for skin tones, Chipped sapphire, scattered straw, vintage photo,

other inks used Stampin up, old olive, always artichoke

Die cutters, magnolia doohickey doily flower, Bosskut Flourish

Martha Stewart punch around the page eyelet lace

Flowers a selection of different sizes and colours from wild orchid crafts

Metal corner toned down with cream acrylic paint you can get them from wild orchid crafts too

Seam binding, Lace , Glamour dust and Stickles on image, just on the flowers and a dusting on the roses also the die cut doily flower too

Tag from the papermania rose garden paper pad

Eyelets from stash

Draw pulls made from old broken necklace.

Right think thats all it for today.

Thank you for dropping by

Enjoy the rest of your day

Huggles

Klare :o ) 

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