Hello everyone,

Only 8 weeks til Christmas, has anyone completed their shopping yet?  I've got a few presents but not all of them.  I can't believe the year has gone sooooo quickly.  My little man is walking now and looks a lot older than 15 months.

Anyway, I've got a really simple card to show you today.  It was a thank you card for my ladies when they craft on a Saturday.   I try to show my appreciation to them for supporting me and my business.

I just love the new Tulle ribbon, don't you.  It always keeps its shape and is so easy to work with.  I made these cards a while back and the sentiment is from a now retired set, Flight of the Butterfly.

Sometimes the simpler cards are the most effective and I hope you agree that this card fits that category?

Well til next time people stay safe and well.

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Mothers day pressie....

Oh my I can't believe its over a month since I last blogged, where does the time go???   I haven't been doing too much as my back hasn't allowed me to but I have made a few projects like my mums card for today and my grandson's christening keepsake for last Sunday but more of that another day.  One thing I was asked to do by my daughter was to make a 3d picture frame for my grandson's other mama, Julie, for mothers day.  She teamed up with her partners sister and they took their children to have a joint photo session so that I had one photo of all three to work with. 

Its difficult to make something for someone you don't really know as I've only met Julie three times and not really had the chance to chat with her too much.  However, her daughter said that the colour theme in her house was green and when she looked at my colour chart last weekend she said it was a similar collour to Old Olive so I had a bit of a starting point.

So I painted the frame with Gesso (not a SU product) and then, using a stamp from Vintage Vogue, I stamped around the frame in Basic Black.  I them used the smallest butterfly out of Flight of the Butterfly and stamped the image in Platinum shimmer paint.   I had a thin piece of rubber that came with my ink pad holder so I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslits dies with the big shot to make the smaller butterflies.  The shimmer paint was added using a dauber.  So that was the frame complete but I didn't get the actual picture until Friday so I wasn't sure what colours I was working with. 

Anyway once I got the photo I noticed that the main colours were dark blue and baby pink.  Now, using my colour coach I looked at what colours went with Old Olive and to my delight I saw that one of the set of recommended colours contained Pretty in Pink and the other set contained Night of Navy, how lucky was that!!!  Here is the end result.....

The base card was 12x12 Old Olive I then used a sheet of the paper from the Flirtatious Speciality Paper (pg 96) as the second layer and created the border with the Eyelet punch (pg116).  The next layer is Night of Navy and again I used the eyelit border punch.  The corners of the photo were created using the FancyFlower Punch (pg 118) and I cut a slit in the shape and put the corners of the photo through, this was a technique recently shown in a Demo magazine.  You can try it with any punch such as the curly label, square etc and see the different effects.  To make the flowers I followed a technique shown on another Demo's site here, where I stamped the sentiment En Francais on tissue paper.  I then folded the tissue paper 4 times and  used the 5 Petal Punch to punch out the shape.  I used some old olive card at the same time to give some stability as I punched the shape out, this was used as the base to the flower.  A brad was then put through the middle of all layers and the tissue paper crumpled up to create the flower.

The sentiment at the bottom was made using Very Vanilla card and Timeless Type Junior Alphabet die in conjunction with the big shot.  The little flowers were made using the Boho Blossoms punch.  Other materials used were buttons from the Regals collection, pearls and glimmer brads.

My daughter and her parterner were very happy with the end result as was his sister but the telling time was when they gave it to his mum as her present.   Luckily she liked it so I'm happy.   I'll be honest but whilst making it I thought I was missing out on something like this.... I need not to have worried as my daughters did a frame with 3 sections to it and the middle one was a photo taken of me and the girls last Sunday at Leo's christening and either side to that was little Leo.... I couldn't have asked for a better pressie, all my babies together.  I haven't taken a picture yet but when I do I'll show you. :)

Sorry for such a long post, I'll try and be quicker next time.  Til then take care.

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Class Cards

Good Morning everyone,

Thought I'd post whilst everyone else is still in bed...lol Tomorrow I have my sister in law coming round to do a class with me and these are the projects we will be making. Its my first class ever and next Saturday I have my sister and a friend coming round to make the same set.... I can't wait.



Yesterday my upliner, Victoria, visited with her 2 little boys. It was such fun running around after Blake who's only one. I think he's going to be an electrician like his daddy as all he went for was wires and anything electrical, especially my hubbys pc....lol I am hamster sitting for my sister and Zac was fascinated by them, kept calling them "rabbits"...bless. It was such a lovely time and so funny seeing us all chase after Blake.

Thanks for visiting and hope to see you back again soon

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Birthday Card

Hi everyone,

Quick post from me as its been a really quiet day so nothing to tell....lol. I've made this card using 2 different SU stamp sets, True Friends and Flight of the Butterfly and all other products are from SU. I hope you like it.



I'm joining in the following challenges

Stampin' Royalty create your own DSP (Designer Series Paper) or background paper!
Daring Cardmakers - August Birthstone - Peridot
Sunday Sketch and Stamp - Sketch

Thanks for visiting and please come back

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Bright butterfly card

This is not my usual style but I think it works quite well, its nice and bright.



The ingredients for this card are:
SU - Flight of the Butterfly and Occasional Greetings stamp set, CS Only Orange and Green Gallore, DSP Tea Party, plain and scalloped punch, Inks So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie
Own stock - Acetate

Challenges I am joining in with are:
Mojo Monday - Sketch
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Bright and bold
Cupcake Crafts - Acetate
Flutter by Wednesday - Butterfly
My Time To Craft - Butterfly on the card

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment as I love to read them.

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Remembering

Hi, Well I'm still off work and back at the drs today for re-assessment so whilst I've been off I've been making a few cards. My dear friend is having an emotional rollercoaster of a week this week and I wanted to show I was thinking of her and her husband so made her this bright card using True friends and Flight of the butterfly stamp sets.



Thanks for looking and tomorrow I'll be back to show you the 1st birthday card I made for her son :-)

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Hi

Well work and the Diploma I've just started is keeping me busy, hence not being on for a while. Yesterday I had some friends and family round for a crafting session and it was great fun. On Tuesday I went and helped Victoria out with a hostess party and again had fun helping.

I've made a few cards since my last visit and would like to share them with you, hope you like them and please leave a comment, good or bad...lol

On this one I wanted to show you could make a big card out of the stamp sets. This was for the office as one of our colleagues is getting married shortly and is made using the following:

SU items: Bride papers, Mr & Mrs Stamp set, round and round scollop punch and Lavendar Lace ink pad

Own items: cardstock, ribbon and false brads

SU products: Flight of the butterfly stamp set, Oval all stamp set, ribbon, Boardering blue ink pad, bride card, oval plain and scolloped punches

SU products: Greenhouse Garden stamp set, Say it with Scollops stamp set, Real red ink pad, jumbo wheel - its beautiful, real red ink cartridge, round scolloped and round punches, whisper white card on the top section I stamped the image with versamark then, using the brayer went overit in Pretty in Pink in to give the resist look.

This card was for my youngest daughter to give her sister for her 21st birthday today.
SU products: Red cardstock from Bold Brights and pink from Soft Subtles, Greenhouse garden stamp set, Real Red and Pretty in pink ink pads, white ribbon, oval and round scollop punches, oval and round punches, the greetings were taken from Fun and Fast Notes stamp set and Whimsical words stamp set'