Granddaughter card

Good morning blog friends, hope you are all having a good week. I have been trying to get some organisation in the crafty stash and elsewhere in the house this week, while I am on leave from work. BUT, things keep calling me to play with them lol. I started organising the alcohol pens the other day, but got distracted by practising colouring ;o)) Then I thought I really need to clear my desk as I am down to a few inches of space to work in, BUT some of the new purchases were still on the desk so, yes you've guessed it, I got distracted again lol.

 

Anyway none of that has anything to do with today's card! Luckily I had made a couple of extra cards for other members of the family to give to Keira on Monday. This is one I made for Mum and Dad.

 

I love the layers on this card. It's really simple, but using the papers from the same pad is soooooo much easier than trying to put others together.

 

I decided to back everything with a dark brown Core-dinations card for a change and I really like how it enhances the pinks.

 

The topper is a ready made one from a magazine and the papers are all from the Butterfly Garden 6x6 stack from Wild Rose Studio.

 

I finished the card with a little tag and Granddaughter label, some pink lace and some of our little blossoms from Thailand.

 

Hope you like it, thanks for calling by again.

 

See you soon.

 

xxx

It's Owl-right now...

I know, I really am scraping the bottom of the barrel for titles now lol. But it's better than just yet another Happy Birthday isn't it???.

 

Anyway good morning and Happy Saturday. Hope you are all well and looking forward to a nice weekend. I'm resting up today, as had a bit of a hard week, and then we are off to the Great British Craft Festival tomorrow. And for once I have managed to talk my hubby in to coming too :o)) On the couple of occasions that we have been to the NEC, our baby brother, John, has very kindly escorted us, (make that drive us there and back, and help with carrying bags lol) but this weekend we will have John and Alan with us, so really looking forward to the day out :o))

 

Today's card is one of our new digi stamps from Saturated Canary. The super talented Krista Smith had a bit of a sale on last weekend with the release of four new stamps so I'm afraid I couldn't resist!

 

This lovely lady is simply called Tea and a book.

 

I thought she warranted something a little different so I went to town with green papers, twine and flowers.

 

I coloured the image with Promarkers and cut it out with Spellbinders Labels Twenty Eight. Matted on to some green sparkly paper cut with the larger size die.

 

 I inked all of the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, and layered everything on to an 8x8 scalloped edge card blank.

 

The paper hearts and tiny little flowers with twine bows came all the way from Thailand :o)) My son and his girlfriend picked us up some lovely bits and pieces while they were over there and these are a couple of them.

 

I finished the card with a small frame wrapped in natural twine and an owl that I made from air dry clay. The owl was white so I gave him a spray with a Tan mist and then gave him a good coating of Gold Gilding Wax. While it was still wet I rubbed it over with a baby wipe to show some of the base colour through.

 

Anyway that's more than enough from me today. Hope you have a great weekend.

 

See you soon.

 

xxx