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

Use up that patterned paper...

L LOVE patterned paper.... I see a pad and bam it's on it's way home with me. - usually nice and cheap at my local Warehouse or KMart... in fact I have soooo many it would take years and years to use them..... I really must stop buying them and use up what I have... 

so today I'm sharing a couple of cards I made with some pretty paper I had stashed in my craft room cupboard.   It was an A4 sized pack of vintage papers.  

First up is an A2 sized card

 

This is such pretty paper.  I die cut a piece of the paper with Gina K Master Layout 2 and matted it with the black layer.  I die cut a white and black circle and matted together and added a sentiment from Gina K Designs - It's All You mini stamp set.  I die cut some branches from Altenew's Bitty Branches with vellum and added behind the circle.  

My second card is a mini slimline 

I just love the vintage floral look of this paper.   I used Gina K Master Layout 7 to cut the mini slimline layer and matt.  I die cut the circles and added the sentiment.  It's from a set called Enchanted Garden by Sugar Pea Designs for Catherine Pooler's Stamp of Approval.  

I love the way the paper takes centre stage on both these cards.   I have die cut a couple of other panels from the page so have them ready to make some more cards. 

I'm still coughing a lot but slowly getting better.  Lots of people from work are off with 'flu and bad colds this winter.  We have been hit hard after last year being in isolation for such a long time... the bugs didn't have a chance to spread.   But this year- everyone seems to be getting sick and taking longer to recover.     Hope you are all taking care out there. 

Fun Pop Up Step Card

 Our NZ group technique swap this month was a Pop Up Step Card.... There is a video tutorial HERE 

I thought this might be hard to do, but in the end following the instructions it was resonable easy to put together.

I went down the vintage looking alley.... using papers similar to the tutorial.  I used some punches to make my daisies and stamped some leaves from an Altenew set which I die cut to add to the flowers.  I used an Altenew sentiment cut and a die cut from a magasine to make my sentiment.   This one folds flat to put into a standard envelope.  

I'm taking a week of work from tonight.  We are heading off on a little road trip.  Down the East Coast of the North Island.  We are stopping with friend's for a few days.  Looking forward to the break, before the wedding.  My daughter and her family are staying with us for 9 days and my Dad and his partner for a week...so it's going to be a full house.  

I do have a post scheduled for next week.  Take care 

Vintage @ Red Carpet Studios

 

Welcome back for another challenge at Red Carpet Studio.  This week's card challenge is inspired by Hollywood Noir films....so create a Vintage card.

I like Vintage/Shabby Chic cards but not always sure I can pull it off, but was happy with today's project.

My lovely PP available for free from my fellow Red Carpet Studio DT member Olga, available here.  She has some beautiful papers that are all free.   I printed out the paper increasing the colour tone and saturation a little.  Not sure who produces the butterfly die as I've lost the package it came in. I sponged it with some soft pinks and purples and once I had the ribbon and flower on, spritzed it with some Adironack Colour wash. The doily was also sponged with shades of pink and purple.     This one is a bit more Shabby Chic than vintage... so hope over to the blog and see the fun Vintage cards created by the team.

Had a lovely weekend visiting with our friends in Te Puke.  It's been nearly 2 years since we have seen them.  Here is this morning's brunch

Bacon, lambs fry, tomatoes, fried potatoes, poached eggs, mushroom sauce.   Deliish!!!!

We also visited Hubby's sister in Papamoa and then stopped off to drop something off at our friend's Mum in Ngatea... so it was a long afternoon trip home.  

Well time to catch up with all the blog posts I've missed this weekend. 

Have a great week.

Vintage Magic.

Two vintage style cards to share today.  Firstly for Simon Says Stamp challenge - which is MULTIFOLD CARDS/CREATIONS.  - anything with more than one fold.  I tried my hand at making a double step card.  I had a template in my little notebook but if you are interested it can be found here 


I used some PP that was part of some free papers in a magazine.  I cut it to fit the steps and sides and edged with Fired Brick distress ink.  My focal panel was cream to match the PP and also edged in the red.  I stamped the Rose from a Hero Arts set and coloured with distress inks.  Sentiment from Kaisercraft.  

My second card is for two challenges...
Die Cut Diva's ~ The Old Fashioned Way
Card Patterns #132

I turned the sketch on it's side and used a normal sized card rather than a square.  I was keen to try out my new Nellie Snellen dies.   Once again, I used this lovely PP ( pleased I scanned it so I can print out some more of it) I used the Rectangle die and the Eastern Circles die.  My vintage lady is by Inkadinkado~ coloured with chalks and the sentiment which I embossed, is from Stamp-It. 


Our weather today has packed in and is very cool, wet and windy.  So have taken the day off my walks.  Tomorrow I'll have to go out, regardless of the weather... got to keep up the exercise. 


Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your weekend.
Cheers

Dawn

last minute tags, new stamps and a winner....

I decided to make a couple of special last minute tags for some gift baskets I purchased yesterday and thought I'd enter them into Louise's latest challenge... to use gold or silver on your tags.

this is the first one ~  the second is very similar... a bit different distress round the edge and a different flower.  The vintage image was a freebie on Joy's (aka dustypenny) blog.  I resized it in word and printed on 140gm cream printer paper.  I added glossy accents to the birds and the holly berries and some glitter glue in gold round it.

Now for the new stamps.... my parcel from Simon Says Stamp arrived this morning... I got three new stamps... the Cling Bicycles, Small striped flower and Classic Fabric design.  Plus the wonderful staff at Simon Says Stamp added a set of blue rhinestones as a little gift.  How sweet.  Can't wait till I can play.... maybe next week.... too busy today.

And yesterday I was stoked to find out I made the Fab 4 at the Play Date Cafe challenge ~ a touch of Yellow with this card.  Quite excited.

Well that's it for me for a few days.... I just realised I forgot the avocado when I went out shopping the morning... so need to see if I can get one now.....:-(  at least the fruit and veg shop is only a kilometre away.

Tag Tuesday challenge

This week over at Kard Krazy - the challenge has been set by Sarah to use a Mannequin template for your tag.  The template has been provided by Sarah. 

This is what I came up with:

I resized the template to about 3 3/4 inches and printed it on the reverse of my cream card stock and cut it out.  I then stamped the Old French Writing ( Hero Arts) with black ink - missing bits here and there for an antique look... and embossed it with clear EP.  Next I sponged all over with Dusty Concord, Worn Lipstick and Faded Jeans Distress Inks.  I finally stamped a small Fleur de Lis ( Teresa Collins) in the Dusty Concord.  I added some netting and the Dusky Purple and red flowers, the lace and gems.  I'm just pleased you can't see the back of this tag... Trying to get the netting to stay on was a real mission I can tell you!!!   Lots of good old sellotape on the back.

Still at home today and will be for the rest of the week.  Had a chest xray today... all clear but I have a vicious virus that is just going to take time to come right... The doctor said to stay at home for the rest of the week.... As it is only 2 weeks today till we head off.... I will do as she says.... Come hell or high water, I WILL be on that plane!!!!

Thanks for stopping by.  I really appreciate you taking the time to visit

Summer Tag - Tag Tuesday challenge.

Thought I was too late for Louise's Tag Tuesday challenge, but luckily it is a two week challenge with the theme being Summer.
I had some left over background PP that I had made for an card - I used Joy's technique of smooshing the ink onto the craft sheet and spritzing with water ( in this case pearlised water) and using it as the stamp-pad... I used Tea Dye and Wild Honey distress inks and the conch shell from a Hero Arts set.

I used my Tag spellbinder to cut out a tag.  I added a couple of shells in Rich Cocoa for contrast, added some lace hearts and the Cosmo Cricket little letters.  The bathing beauty image was located at The Graphics Fairy blog.  I printed it out at 30% onto some photo paper and used a pair of scallop scissor to make it like a stamp.   I was rather pleased with the outcome.

Feeling much better today... the pain seems to have mostly gone.  And having my hair cut made me feel like a new woman!!!  I am in the process of growing it a bit... at that horrid stage - not long enough and not short enough... but will work through it. 

Thanks for stopping by.. hope the week has been going well for you... nearly the weekend!!! 

Cards for the Boys....

are always so difficult.... no frills and frippery, not flowers or butterflies...
So when I saw some lovely male orientated cards in an Australian Simply Cards magazine, I knew I had to get some of the Graphic 45 papers they had used and make some cards....
So far 4 cards done.... sneaked off this afternoon to stamping at Helen's place.  Knew I couldn't do all day but got a couple of hours in....

This one is for my Dad ( don't look Dad).  I had seen this one by Lucy - which inspired me to computer generate the sentiment.  I used PP from the pad and cut and matted the car from one of the pages.  Used Old French writing for the background.

Again used papers from the pad or this.  The stamp is by Stamp-It.  Lots of distressing to give it a vintage look, added some brads and layered everything.

 this whole pad of papers is great for male cards... the car on this one is at the bottom of the page because I stamped the Fleur de lis first and noticed it was crooked.  So covered it up with the car and put the sentiment at the top.  I borrowed the sentiment stamp from Sandie - it's by Stampin' Up!
And finally

another quick and simple one again using the car and PP from the pad.  Added little black gems to the corners of the car and added the sentiment and all done.  I'm going to do more the same to stock up on male cards- I often get requests for male orientated cards so having a few on hand will be good.

Thanks for visiting... hope your weekend is going well.  I'm off to watch the 2nd half of the All Blacks versus Wales... ( rugby)  AB's winning so far!!!
Cheers from me...

Tag Tuesday challenge #56 - Men!

I love looking at all the wonder vintage/collage tags that people make so thought I'd give it a go for this week's Tag Tuesday. The theme was :Men" -

as this stamp is the nearest I have to a man, it had to do. It is by Inkadinkado. I stamped it onto white card with a Blue Memento Ink and then used Vintage Photo distress ink sponged over it and on the edges. I cut the tag by cutting a strip of cream card the width of the top of my spellbinders label, slip in into the label and cut the top only. I over stamped the tag with HA Old French writing and Music stamp by Kiwistamping.co.nz. Again I distressed the background with the Vintage photo distress ink. I also added some sticky grid which I had coloured with the blue ink, added a button and the gold swirly bit. Quite pleased with the outcome.

Just a very quick post tonight so I can get this into the challenge.  I still have to pack my bag and then it's an early night as the shuttle is arriving at 4.30am to pick us up for our 6.55am flight to Brisbane.  So I'll be away for a few days and won't be able to comment unless I can sneak out to an internet cafe!!!!  so everyone have a great rest of the week and a great weekend --- I will!!!

2 challenges in one - HA and 2Sketches4You

Butterfly piecing
Originally uploaded by turleyfamily(Dawn)

This weeks challenge at Hero Arts blog is to do paper piecing. I decided my Heart winged butterfly seemed just the stamp to do this. I used two coordinating patterned papers that I got in a freebie from one of the English magazine I get. I stamped the butterfly twice on card stock, and twice on each of the patterned papers. I them cut out the patterned pieces and stuck them on the plain card. I then cut out the middle hearts from one and layered onto the other to give a bit more dimension. The sketch was from 2sketches4you challenge this week It is a great sketch by Laura. I stamped HA raindrop background on the card using Kaleidocolor Ink ( Autumn Leaves). I didn't have any dark brown ribbon so used a strip of a shiny brown card as a ribbon ( also put it under the punched out edge). I used a Fiskars edge punch to make the scalloped edging. I finished with some lovely pink pearls and a tiny sentiment stamped in Sepia Archival ink. The sentiment is from a Stampin' Up! set.
I also got a few other bits and pieces done today.  I have make a butterfly a bit like this one - I used the papers on the back of a stamped butterfly on acetate - just waiting for it to dry so I can design the card it is to go on and made a lovely book mark which I still have to photograph.

Over the last couple of days I have also made a Halloween card ...I don't have any Halloween stamps but want to sent a Halloween greeting to someone who just loves Halloween, so found this wonderful vintage image here. I printed it out on photo paper and matted in orange cardstock. The lace edging was from my friend Monika and was white. I used Distress Spiced Marmalade to colour it.

I also printed off a card from a site I found that has free gift wrapping with matching cards and tags.  Here it is ,  There are lots of designs.  The card came in the orangey colour - all I had to do was print it out, titivate it a bit with the faux stitching and added the rub-on word Inspire and added a leave cut out on my cuttlebug from a paint sample I had. 

Well thanks for stopping by.

3 cards

I managed to finish 3 cards over the past couple of days. This first one I started earlier in the week after watching Jennifer McGuire's Thinking Inking week 9 part 1. It uses crayon resist. I stamped the HA Grid stamp in black on white card card and used a white crayon to highlight parts of the flourishes and put some dots on. I then used Shabby Shutters Distress ink to cover the card. I did the same on the printed flowers and used Worn Lipstick distress ink. I had got that far when I noticed that Dustypenny (AKA Joy) had posted her card .... talk about great minds thinking alike....Look at this. Any way I finally finished mine off and as the rain had eased today managed to get the photo taken. Joy is a prolific card maker so take time to view her photostream or her blog.

My next card is one I did for a christening I'm going to on Sunday. The image is by Inkadinkadoo. I stamped the image in Memento Blue Danube ink onto white cardstock and distressed with Faded Jeans distress ink and my fingernail. This was mounted onto another piece of cardstock that had been also inked with the distress ink (cardstock was a browny colour) then matted onto white to leave a narrow border before finally mounting onto the blue card. The little one being christened is about 3 1/2 so thought this is a little bit different. Inside I have a rub on that says " You are a treasure to God"



And today I got a chance to play with my new Hero Arts Cling stamp - Antique Brocade plus do a card for Hero Arts challenge this week. It is to make a card using the sketches done by Shari Carroll. I stamped the cling stamp in black on red cardstock and cut into the shapes on Shari's sketch #4. The image is from HA digital kit ( available for free at 2peasinabucket)
I resized it and printed it onto white card stock and used my nestibilities oval scallop to cut it out. I layered the red card onto a cream background card and then pop dotted the oval. Finished it off with 3 black buttons. I am quite pleased with the results. I struggle a bit with the digi images - not really sure how to put all the bits together but like being able to print out background papers or images to use on "real" cards.
Well thanks for taking time to read this long post and have a great weekend