November Blog Challenge - Add a Sketch

For this months blog challenge over on Let's Craft and Create it's an ATG/Add a sketch.
So I thought I'd sketch one of my favourite characters,  Emily - The Corpe Bride to add to my card.

I love the tale of the Corpse Bride and I'm a big fan of Tim Burton.  They always tend to put this on the TV over Christmas.

I used the Spider Web Frame die by Tattered Lace on mirri board, some mulberry paper flowers inked with Tim Holtz distress oxide in soot.  Finished off with a little festive ribbon for the bow

I wanted the flowers to look smoky and quite crusty so added some drops of crackle glossy accent to the petals for a more distressed effect and the centres from my Tattered Lace poppy dies.

For the veil, I used form ivory webbing, which also added a little more texture to the card.

Pop over to the Let's Craft and Create blog page and see what the rest of the design team have been making. There is a $10 gift voucher for the winner.

Happy Crafting

Tattered Lace Charisma Swift Poppy

Sharing my poppies made for Armistice Day on 11th November. They were made using the Tattered Lace Charisma Swift poppy die and flower forming foam.

I also used a mixture of leaves om my poppies. The Fleurs chrysanthemum and dahlia leaf dies.

The swift dies make a selection of large to small poppies and used I black cardstock for the stamens in the centre for a little more structure.

https://www.tatteredlace.co.uk/

https://www.crafting.co.uk/fleurs-flower-forming-foam-poinsettia.html

I folded the 3 petals over each other until I was holding one petal and then pleated and twisted

without flattening the shaped of the pleated petal edges, using your thumbs gently stretch the foam at the base of the flower to give your poppy a more natural flower shape.

I have used the largest size poppy die, a middle die and the small die to make one flower.

Offset the poppies using a hot glue gun between each layer and a ball tool onto a spongy mat. I would recommend using a hot glue gun when putting these flowers together as you will find that wet glue not only takes ages to dry but doesn't form a firm enough bond with the foam.  I always use the same mat for glueing (as I end up with blobs of hard glue here and there) and a separate one for my shaping etc.

I also used a ball tool to shape the stamen before using hot glue in the centre along with a large black pearl to finish it off.

I  have used a chrysanthemum leaf die and brooch fixing on the back.

Fleurs Edge to Edge Chrysanthemum Leaf die

Fleurs Flower Forming Foam is very mouldable, especially with warm hands.  It is unlike regular craft foam which is much thicker. You can use a heat gun to gently curl and then mould the petals also, although take note using a heat gun with slightly shrink your foam.  

If the petals lose their shape, they can be easily remoulded.

This year it is the Centenary Anniversary of Armistice Day.  The Armistice was signed at 5am on 11th November 1918 and came into effect 5 hours later, bringing about the cessation of hostilities in the First World Way.

It great to see so many displays to celebrate the Centenary. In this particular one 23,000 knitted poppies have been used to mark the day.

           

Like a sea of poppies.

Knitted by volunteers.

Happy Crafting

Christmas Card using Fat Quarters

With Christmas fastly approaching and the last challenge for Daisy Chains  this year, I am sharing my Design Team card for the Winter/Christmas theme.

For this project I used:-

• C6 pearlescent aperture card
• Christmas fat quarters
• wadding
• Christmas die cuts

This style of card is so quick and easy to make and you don't need that many materials to create a pretty Christmas card that is that little bit different and it won't cost you a fortune to post if you have made a batch.

I used double sided tape to keep the fat quarter in place over the aperture. One square of wadding is ample behind the fat quarter to give the card that cushioned effect.

The Seasons Greetings die is from Tattered Lace and the holly dies were free with a craft magazine.

I love the gold thread in the fat quarter, which highlights the image perfectly.

I have a good selection of these Christmas fat quarters that I picked up this year and have decided that they will be my Christmas cards.

Pop over to the Daisy Chains blog page and see what the rest of the design team have been making.

Happy Crafting