Happy Mother's Day (for last week!)

Hello!!

I had a cross stitch I'd been working on here and there for ages.....I decided to set myself the target of finishing it for Mother's Day.....just about managed that give or take a week hehe!!

Here is the finished article...it is stitched on an Aida panel on a towel. The pattern in from a book called The Ultimate Cross Stitch Companion.

I was supposed to do some extra French knots but I managed two, and I think I've finally got my head around them though for future patterns....hehe!

Here are the cards I made as well one for my mom and one for Lee's mom.

This one is some Tim Holtz paper with the butterflies on which I stuck down some alphabet masks...tim holtz again! I then sprayed the paper with Dylusions in yellow/orange and then removed the masks. I cut it out with a spellbinders dye and used walnut stain around the edge. I got a couple of chipboard shapes and coloured them possibly with distress stain I can't actually remember! I then used some distress stickles on them as well. I used a grass stencil at the bottom with some paint and then I also added a flower which I inked a little and a couple of ready made bees.

This one I had some new sparkle mediums and a stencil so I used three colours on black glossy card and it worked pretty well and I managed not to get them too intermingled as it just did each colour at the same time as I'm too impatient to wait for them to dry. I then cut it into a circle and stuck it on a card and added some picked raspberry distress ink and a greeting.

Birdie Card

hehe get it? Sorry terrible joke. Anyway here is a card I made.

The hats are all from Lost Coast Designs I totally love all their stamps, and the bird I'm not sure he was just a one off stamp I got and not sure about the Happy Birthday either that was just another one little stamp on it's own. Anyway I started by taking some grunge paper and embossing it with two Tim Holtz folders the circles the one that looks like rays of sunshine I used various distress ink colours on the paper to highlight the embossing and then I cut those out on the Big Shot with stars and rectangle dies. I edged them all with walnut stain. I cut out the birdie and the hat and also coloured them with some distress ink and a craft nib. I am not the biggest fan of cutting stuff out but I got there in the end. I also stamped the greeting on some paper and cut that out, and the green on there is distress stain. Then I layered them all up to create the finished card.

Another card

Here is another card I have made.....

I firstly brayered some ink on to the background but as it is quite absorbent paper it was quite pale so I then added a few sprays of Dylusions - I forget the actual colour names but they were blue and turquoise. I then used a ruler to tear out a neat square and went round the edge with salty ocean or maybe it was peacock feathers...haha one of the two anyway! Then I took some Graphic 45 papers the old curiosity shop and cut out the picture and then used a set of spellbinders to cut out the leaves - using a sheet of Graphic 45 paper from the same set. Then I just hand wrote Happy Birthday at the bottom.

More Christmas Cards!

Here are my final lot of Christmas cards.......with the robin on the mushrooms being my favourite card this year. The robin is a Little Claire stamp, the mushrooms are dylusions coloured with distress inks, perfect pearls and some glitter, and the snowflakes are a Tim Holtz stamp embossed with white embossing powder and the robin was coloured with distress inks too....using a cut n dry nib; and little bit of fake snowy stuff that I forget the name of.

The penguin card is using distress stains and inks, I forget which set those stamps are from, and I went round the edge with perfect pearls.

The next one I created a background with gold paint and I can't remember if it was metallic glaze of shimmer mod podge, then I stamped the snowflakes and added some ribbon and cut the greeting out using a nestability.

The final one was simply a shape cut out on the cricut and some background paper, another snowflake with glitter on and a greeting.

 Here is a wedding card I made for my cousins wedding......I think it was distress strains in the background and some gesso and a spritz of purple dylusions.....then I cut out the flower using grunge paper and a spellbinder die and coloured it with distress ink and I drew the little stick people, die cut that also and lightly went over with spun sugar distress ink I think it was.... then I stamped on the congratulations which is from a Paper Artsy set and I used Staz On and glued down some ribbon and sprinkled some glitter on whilst the glue was still wet.

This was a birthday card for my dad......pastels in the background and then mostly Hobby Art scene its which I love.....and a bit of paint and micro beads around the edge of the card...

Wooooooooooo new goodies..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out this card......I got some really cool new stamps Inkadinkaclings - kinda like zentangle on animals.......I used the parrot and stamped it on grunge paper and coloured with distress inks - dusty concord, barn door, scattered straw and spiced marmalade - where would we be without distress inks?! Oh and of course I went round the edge of the parrot with walnut stain....Also I got some new Spellbinders and cut out all those leaves on white card and I coloured them with distress stains - peeled paint, vintage photo and walnut stain and I used a nib to just add a bit of walnut stain ink around the edge too. I used the Forest moss ink pad directly on to the card, which itself was already a light green colour. Finally I added the sentiment from Craftwork cards. All in all a celebration of distress.....can't wait to use the other animals in that stamp set too....and I got a couple of other new sets too.....although I am already thinking about all the other things I really "need"......arghhhhhh!!