CCC June reveal and my Princesses.

 Well it's been a busy week... Lots of babysitting Grace as her new baby sister finally arrived via c-section on Saturday morning.  Florence Jessica Turley - our newest Princess.  Photos at the end of the post....

Anyway today I am finally sharing the card I made for the June CCC (see the full reveal here) I am not sure if my recipient, Lou, has received it yet... but here it is 

I went with the technique option - shaped card and lace added with the Vintage theme.   My shaped card base was made with a Tim Holtz Bigz Vintage Cabinet Card. The flowers with Tim Holtz Bigz Die - Tattered Florals and the birdcage and bird from the Bigz die - Birdcase.   It's been a LONG time since this dies have been used.   I used a variety of Distress inks and paints to add the vintage background and the birdcag which was cut with kraft card..  Also rubbed some Gathered Twigs ink on the lace.  The bird and flowers were cut with some patterned paper from a $2 shop pack, sponged with Gathered Twigs.  I used some Scarpers Floss to crochet the chain for the cage. 

And as promised - some photos of Florence and Grace.

and Grace crafting while staying with Nanny

Snow Globe shaped card at Die Cut Divas

 Hi there.  It's the last day of the month so I'm sharing my sample for Die Cut Divas.  Our sponsor this month is Poppy Stamps 

I used a sweet die set from Poppy Stamps called Cabin Snowglobe Pop Up Easel  - such a cute set - lots of little bits to make up this gorgeous card. 

Here is the card closed.  I cut all the pieces out.  The base in red card and then used red and green cards to cut out the cabin and trees.  I cut the base and branches from white card - for the base I then used a distressed stripes embossing folder to add the grain before using Walnut Stain Distress ink to colour.  Did the same with the branches.  I die cut the snow banks and the cabin roof from glitter paper.  I also cut the berries from the glitter paper.  Added Copic markers to add the colour.  The bottom of the globe has a little bit of gold card.  I added the elements - inspired by the packaging.  

And here it opened 

and here is it next to a Copic maker to show the size of the card. 

I enjoyed putting this one together.  It took a while but so love the outcome.  

Do come and join us... last day today.   We'd love to see your shaped cards. 

Christmas Pinecones.

 Hi there... Here's one of the cards I did yesterday afternoon.  It's a shaped Christmas card.  I made this with two challenges in mind. 

The challenge at Let's Squash It - is Don't be So Square.   Use your embossing folders and make a shaped card.   I made my card base using a very old Tim Holtz die  - called Vintage Cabinet Die

I cut it three times  -two used as the base and one for the embossed panel.  The embossing folder is an Altenew one - Classic Pinecones Slim 3D folder.  I used some Rocky Shores and Mocha Altenew inks to blend on some colour on the cones, and Moss for the needles.   The pre-printed sentiments are some digital images from a magazine.  

I'm also entering this one in the Never in a Nativity challenge at Christmas Kickstart. 

    

Shaped Card - NZ swap group

 This month's swap at my NZ group - our theme was make a card with layering dies and with a nice sentiment.... '

I have a lot of older Spellbinders nesting dies so pulled out a couple of sets and this is what I came up with. 

I used a plain nesting die to make the base and used some Patterned Paper to add on top.  I then used an ornate die for the centre.  The sentiment is from a Catherine Pooler set.  I added some blending around the edge.  Added a couple of gems in the corners.

I am slowly getting better.  Still coughing and full of phelgm.  We had a lovely quiet weekend up at Mangawhai.  The forecast was for heavy rain - but it stuck to just the nights and most of Saturday was really nice.  Today was nice in the morning but by lunch time it had clouded over and started spitting.  We went out to dinner at one of the local restuarants to celebrate my birthday.  I was too sick on Monday to go out so enjoyed the company and food last night.  

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hero Arts Shaped Card

It is my day at A2Z Scrapbooking and our challenge this month is Shaped Cards.

I've used my favourite Layering Poppies stamp set to make my card. My card base is made with by die cutting two Spellbinders dies and glued them together at the top.   I trimmed a smidgen off the bottom curve on the back to allow the card to stand up.    I used some Patterned paper for my inner panel.   On a separate piece of card stock I stamped the poppy in Hero Arts inks - Soft Cantaloupe and Punch Chalk (discontinued) and Distress Ink - Aged Mahogany.  The stem is in Emerald  Green.   I used the matching dies to cut out the Poppy.

I did have a little mishap when stamping the sentiment.... as I went to pull the sentiment off the backing sheet (it was the first time I used this sentiment) and I tore it!

 

With much butting and wiggling, to say the least, I managed to get the sentiment stamped.

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Hope you will join us and share your shaped cards.

Dawn

Tea Party.

I wanted to try something different for the latest challenge at Virginia's View... her challenge is to make a shaped card.  I decided that I wanted a Teapot card, so did some internet searching and found a template.

I printed the teapot twice, once flipped so that they matched. I then fussy cut and stuck the two together.  I coloured the flowers with Copics and then watercoloured the rest of teapot.  The card bobbled with the water but loved the texture it gave the teapot.  I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the little Penny Black girl.  The sentiment is from the same set.