Next Crafting Workshop Sunday 11th May 2014

Hello all,

Our next crafting workshop is Sunday 11th May at Lench's Trust, Quinton, B32 10am start.
We will be doing the following projects.

Wedding/engagement/anniversary card using mica powders and stamps.
twisted easel black and white card
flower ladies card - using quilling tool for flowers.

Hope to see you then.

TTFN

Debs x

father's day card

Hello all,

I was asked to make a father's day card for someone at work with nice cars....  so I thought what better than a waterfall card with very nice cards on it.

I started with an 8 x 8 card blank and matted and layered on to it with silver miri board and a pretty black and white background paper.

I then created the waterfall element of the card using the sliver miri and same backing paper and adding the pictures of the lovely cars.

I finished with gems and a sentiment and a ribbon for the pull element of the waterfall card.

TTFN, happy crafting.

Debs xx

Aly's Inky Fingers Competition......

Hello all,

I though I would have a go at Aly's Inky Fingers competition from this months project club stamps.

I took a piece of A4 card to make an A5 card blank and matted with black card, I took a white piece of card and stamped the various flowers and leaves from the stamp range from this months project club in different distress ink colours (rusty hinge, shaded lilac, forest moss, walnut stain) and inked round the edges of the card in lemonade and scattered straw and shabby shutters.  This created my backing paper.

I took a doily and again inked the doily with the same inks and stamped with the same flowers in the same colours.

I created a ribbon strip from white card matted on to black card and inked and stamped again to match the doily and backing paper.

I die cut a pretty shape and again inked and stamped this, and stamped the Thank You" stamp from the project stamps in the centre of the die cut card stamp and layered on to silver.

Again from the stamps I stamped the watering can with stayz on ink on to silver miri card and cut out to make a pretty accessory for the card.

I layered all together and punched some leaves to decorate and some glitter and liquid pearls and volia - this is my card for the competition.

I must admin I had a lot of fun making this card and am very pleased with the results.

TTFN

Debs x

Card Making Workshops Sunday 27th April 2014

Hello all,

The next card making workshop is Sunday 27th April 2014 at Lench's Trust, Ridgeacre Rd, Quinton, B32.

Its going to be a  good one.......

Class starts at 10am, please come along for some crafty fun and friendly atmosphere.

Hope to see you next Sunday.

Happy Easter

TTFN

Love Debs x

how to make quilled flowers......

Hello all,

This is an instructional blog about how I make quilled flowers, I use the crafters companion quilled flower dies and stamen and spectrum noirs to colour them in with.  I die cut the petals and stamen from 140 gsm white card as I find this weight more suitable for manipulating the flowers.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.     Using your quilling dies, cut two petal strips and two stamens.

2.     Colour them in the colour of your choice with spectrum noir pens (or pro-markers)

3.     Put double sided tape on each petal strip and each stamen strip.

4.     Stick the two petal strips together ensuring you have staggered the petals

5.     Do the same with the stamen, but leave the very end of the stamen unstuck (no tape)

6.     Take your quilling tool and roll the stamen around this, then add your petals, rolling them round the stamen

7.     Press down hard to ensure stuck together, shape petals and pull them out

8.     Spray with glue spray and dip in glitter

9.     Punch or die cut leaves, colour in and spray with glue and dip in glitter

10.  Add to your card

The final picture is the finished card to which I have added leaves, swirls and branches..

TTFN, happy crafting

Debs xx

quilled flowers

Hello all,

I needed to make a "thinking  of you" card for someone at work who has had some very bad news this week.

So I though what better than some beautiful quilled flowers and loads of glitter to cheer someone up a little.

Using the Crafter's Companion quilling dies, I  cut, coloured with spectrum noir pens (PP1, PP3, PP5, CT1, CT3, CT4, GB5, GB3, CR1, CR2, HB1, HB2, HB3, and LG2, LG4, CG4, for the leaves) and quilled 7 flowers and sprayed with Crafter's Companion Stick and Stay and dipped in glitter..... you need a bit of sparkle.

I punched and die cut various leaves and again coloured and sprayed with glue and dipped in glitter (only some of them).  I punched out a vase and coloured with spectrum noir (EB7)

For the base card, I used A3 centura pearl snow white card, I folded in half to make an A4 card, matted with silver miri card and layered with centura pearl snow white card, I then die cut a trellis panel and matted with silver miri card and stuck to the base card.  I added the vase, leaves and flowers, then added punched, coloured, glittered butterflies, a pretty ribbon, gems, and liquid pearls butterfly trials and finished with a sentiment.

Hopefully it will make the person smile and remember she has a lot of people who care for her and who are wishing her well and thinking of her.

TTFN

Debs x

Next Crafting Workshop Sunday 27th April 2014

Hello,

Our next workshop is Sunday 27th April 2014 at Lench's Trust, Ridgeacre Road, Quinton. Bham. B32.

I cater for all levels of crafters and it is a fun and friendly group of like minded people.

We will be focusing on men's cards at this workshop - as men's cards always seem the hardest to do!

We have three projects to made, the first two pictures are the same card, it is a hide and slide card, the picture turns and appears, if you turn the other way, it disappears.

The 3rd picture is of a double pocket card, this is where you can tuck messages, toppers, pictures, book marks etc into the pockets on the front of the card.

The 4th picture is a DIY card - wall papering, I decided to make this fun and show when wall papering goes wrong..... it was fun to make.

I hope you can join me on 27th April for this work shop.

TTFN, happy crafting.

Love Debs xx

fairy card

Hello all,

continuing on from the fairy card, still using the fairy dies, this time I cut the fairy silhouette out of the card to make a topper, and created a double matt and layer from black card and white card, and put the silhouette on the top matt and layer, using a Martha Stewart leaf border punch, I punched a full strip (A4 length) of border leaves and cut up to make corner pieces and added a pearl to each corner.

I do love this die, next step is to cut the fairy out completely....... watch this space.

TTFN, Happy crafting

Debs x

fairy silhouette card

hello again,

More dies from the NEC (I did buy quite a few) - I think I am addicted to crafting, it is a problem - NOT!

I fell in love with the new tonic dies - fairies, and loved this one in specific.  I though I would make a silhouette card cutting out the centre panel and leaving it in the card.

I chose black and white and added a few pearls and a couple of butterflies.

Such an easy card to make.

TTFN, Happy crafting.

Debs x

weeping willow tree card.....

Hello,

Following on from all the new dies that I brought from the NEC last week, (with my co-conspirator - Ann) there is another card below that I made.

I brought a weeping willow tree die, and a beautiful ornate fence dies and a grass/flowers die for the bottom of the page.  I came up with the idea of a step card and put the fence on to acetate and cut it out and stuck on the small first step, then die cut the grass/flowers and inked through the die with distress inks and stuck this over the fence die on the first step.

I die cut two weeping willow trees and stencilled through the die with brown and green distress ink, I stuck one on the back step of the card and the other to the back of the acetate fence overhanging the fence.

TTFN, happy crafting.

Debs x

New dies...... Shoes and bags!

Hello all,

Well, I have been to the NEC last week and brought loads of lovely crafting goodies...... don't tell the hubby!

I fancies some lovely new dies and saw these shoes and handbags and fell in love with them and imagined so many things I could do with them.

One idea I came up with immediately was to use another new die - Happy Birthday and some black card and red miri card on a white card base.

I die cut the shoes and bags and the happy birthday,

I folded an A4 card in half to make an A5 landscape card and matt and layered red miri and black card to the top and bottom (different heights) and added the bags and shoes and the happy birthday.

This is what I created.

TTFN, happy crafting.

Debs xx

Workshop Sunday 6th April 2014.......

Hello all,

Our next workshop is Sunday 6th April and we will be creating the beautiful projects below.  The workshop is at Lynch's Trust, Ridgeacre Rd, Quinton. B32 and starts at 10am - 12pm.   The cost is £8 per workshop and all project items will be provided, all you need to bring is your own tool kit (trimmer, score board, ruler, scissors, etc).

Everyone is welcome and we will cater for all levels of crafter's, from beginners to advanced.  It is a lovely friendly group.

We will be using a variety of stamps and distress inks to create our own backgrounds and images and using die cuts to build up the pictures creating different layers and levels to the projects.  Depending on the colours of distress inks you choose you can create different seasons for your cards.

We will also be creating alternative Easter Gifts - no chocolate involved.....

Using deep picture frames, we will be sanding the frames so we can stain them to the colours we want, and will be punching out butterflies, making quilled flowers/leaves and creating our own backgrounds to place inside the frames.

We will be using glitter and liquid pearls to finish off (you can't forget the glitter).

Hope to see you next Sunday.

TTFN, happy crafting.

Debs x

lady silhouette card

Hello all,

I brought one of the new tonic dies - and decided to cut into it and take out the image in the centre of the die - as you do!

Using a basic 8 punch (they are so good - I really recommend these) I created a black and white shaped background for my silhouette lady, I put her down on the white punched background and twisted the black punched background and stuck this down (with foam pads to lift).

I then used a beautiful corner die and created four corners.

I kept this card in black and white as I felt it looked good like this.  This was so much fun to make.

TTFN, happy crafting

Debs x

Glass painting continues......

Hello,

I have had an idea for a future project and lovely Christmas Gift.......

It involves glass paining on candles and creating your own wreath around the bottom using leaf and flower punches to create beautiful realistic poinsettia's and punches/dies for holly and ferns......      watch this space!

More to follow once I have had a play!

TTFN

Debs xx

Corpse Bride Wedding Card.....

Hello

Well, I must admit, I did enjoy making this card.

I was asked to make a "Dark" wedding card, so I though what better than corpse bridge as a base and black and white.

I started with an A3 piece of card to make an A4 card blank, I matt and layered with silver miri board and a grey scale backing paper, I then googled an image of corpse bridge and printed out and added glitter  - it is a wedding card after all.

I them punched out some  hearts using a martha stewart heart punch and used for decoration, I die cut a large black heart and a smaller white one with a sentiment and attached gems to the corners and a lovely big black and white polka dot ribbon to the top.

And this is the finished result.

TTFN

Happy Crafting

Debs x

Mother's Day......... Carried On!

Hello again,

Continuing on with the personalised Mother's Day gifts, so far we have, 2 DVD's (not hand made), hand made scarf, hand made box for everything to be put in and a hand made card and some bubble bath, moisturiser etc for a bit of pampering.

I thought I would continue down the handmade route and make a personalised picture frame for her.

I started with a basic wooden frame (the size is not important......), I roughly sanded the frame and added some stain to the frame to make the wood darker and then glitter sprayed the frame with Crafter's Companion Pearl Spray to give it a little sparkle (not too much - just a hint).

I then die cut a fence panel from white card and coloured in with my EB3, EB5, EB7 Spectrum Noir Pens, and cut a branch from Core-dinations card stock, I punched out 4 butterflies and coloured with Spectrum Noir pens (PP2, PP4, CR4) and stuck two together and  then sprayed with Crafter's Companion (purple can) re-positional spray glue and dipped in glitter (you can also use the red can - permanent glue spray), I then used Tonic stamp and punch to create the flowers, once punched out of white card and stamped I coloured with Spectrum Nior pens (PP2, PP4), and stuck two together, I added glitter and once dry I dipped in melted clear embossing powder (UTEE - I used a melt pot for this) and left to dry, I also punched twigs and branches and again coloured and dipped in melted UTEE and set aside to dry.

I put the picture in the frame and added the fence to the bottom left hand side and the flowers and branches/twigs to the bottom right corner and the branch top left and finally added butterflies and used a liquid pearl pen to create butterfly trails down the frame.

I used a hot glue gun to stick everything down, but you could use 3d glue gel if you prefer.

I then decided to get my own back for all the embarrassing baby pictures and put a lovely picture of my Mom wearing a pink piggy hat....... you know what they say about pay backs!

Ta Dah......

I really enjoyed making this project and it is definitely unique.  Father's Fay next........ what embarrassing pictures do I have of my Dad!

TTFN -  Happy Crafting.

Love Debs x

Mother's Day.....

Hello all,

Well, Mother's day is coming around again and what to do this year......

I though I would go down the personal route and make special personalised things and give a goodie box of items, bubble bath, moisturiser, hand made items, scarf, DVD's, picture frame, all packed in a special hand made box.

My first project was knitting and I have knitted my Mom a cute red and black fashion scarf with sliver threads through it.

It was the first time I have knitted this this wool and it was easier than I imagined..... after I got used to it.

Secondly, I made made a personalised card for her, I used the Katy Sue Fabulous Fashions CD and created a window card following the instructions on the disc.  I had to add ribbon and gems and pearls and glitter - it would be rude not to.

And this is the end result......

More to follow soon.

TTFN

Happy Crafting

Debs x

Workshop 23 March 2014 - Projects we are going to do.....

Hello all,

We are going to be focusing on making Men's cards at the next workshop.

We will be making a tuxedo card, tuxedo gift bag and twisted easel pyramage card..... using a variety of crafting tools including distress inks.

All levels of crafter's are welcome and catered for, it is a lovely group of like minded friendly people.

Happy Crafting.  TTFN.

Debs x

Crafting Workshop 23rd March 2014 - Lench's Trust, Quinton. BHAM

Hello,

Just to let you know we have a crafting workshop on Sunday 23rd March 2014 at Lench's Trust, Ridgeacre Road, Quinton, Birmingham. B32 from 10am - 12pm.  All levels of crafters are catered for.

Today we made......

Floating fairy acetate step card

 Hide and slide card (shows a secret picture when opened)

 Now Opened.....

 And finally a domed acetate fairy card with verse on reverse.

On 23rd March - we are focusing on Men's cards.

Hope you can join me.

Happy crafting.

TTFN

Debs x

The Bird House Card......

Hello all,

I loved making this card, it was so easy but I love the end result and can do so much with it.

All you need is:

1 x A4 WHITE CARD

1 X A5 PATTERNED PAPER

1 X 3 X 12” CORE-DINATIONS CARD

1 X GREEN & PATTERNED PAPER FOR LEAVES AND FLOWERS

1 X PICTURE TOPPER

1 X SENTIMENT TOPPER

EXTRA ITEMS REQUIRED

Glue / tape / foam pads for sticking

Score Board

Trimmer / Scissors

Fence like punch or die

Scalloped punch or die

Small flower punches – different sizes

Leaf punch or die

distress inks

INSTRUCTIONS

Using the A4 white card, measure up 6 cm inches from each side and cut across the length to 7 cm (do this on both sides of the card, then cut the corner out so you are left with an upside down T shape.

On the bottom of the upside down T shape fold down 7 cm, this becomes the roof, and the two sides pieces become the gates/walls at the side.

Using patterned paper cover inside sides and back of white card; use the remainder to cover side front panels of white card.  You can ink this using distress inks to tint the edges and create dimension to the card.

Using different size flower punches, punch out flowers from the pretty papers and leaves from green paper, this is to decorate the front panels of the card at the end of the project.  Again, use distress inks to give the flowers shade and colour.  If you do not have patterned paper to use, using your spectrum nior pens colour in white paper to make your own coloured/patterned paper.

Make up the decoupage/invertage/picture topper and stick to the inside back section of the bird house.

Using the core-dinations card stock, cut 4 x 2 inch strips (short end strips) and using a scalloped punch, punch down the long edge of all 4 pieces and layer up on the roof to create a tiled roof effect.

With the remainder of the core-dinations card, punch or die cut fence like strips and put on the front side panels of the card to create a fence/gate like front.  Decorate front with punched flowers and leaves and add sentiment on the back of the card to finish.

This is such a lovely card to make for men.

Happy Crafting

TTFN

Debs xx