Valentines

Happy New Year and to start our blog challenge off this year over on the Let's Craft and Create blog this month we are starting with a love is in the air  theme:- Valentine/Engagement/Wedding

I decided to make a Valentine's card for this months DT project.

For my Valentine card I used some of the card and elements from the Hunkydory Roses for Your Adorable Scorable Valentines card kit I had.

This fabulous card kit goes a very long way and Hunkydory are known not just for their excellent quality but they make brilliant card kits.  You always have ample toppers and card to make some lovely cards and apart from a few small toppers, this will be my last card made completely from the kit minus a few gold metallic pearls by the Dreamees.

All the card in the kit mixes and matches so it was really easy to put this card together.

Every month there is a prize offered to the best entry and a badge for your blog for the top 3 entries.  Have a look at the rest of the fabulous DTs inspiration over on our blog challenge this month.

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Happy Crafting

Winter Shadow Box Frame

Happy New Year and to start our challenge over on the Daisy Chains blog this year the theme is "Wintertime".

I decided to make a shadow box frame for my DT project keeping the finished result quite simple looking.

Materials used:-

• 6 x 6 inch shadow box frame ( I picked up from a charity shop)
• clear acrylic gemstones
• mini snowman Christmas decoration from my box of Christmas bits
• Cosmic Shimmer glitter texture paste in ocean spray for my background
• Sentimentally Yours A5 snowflake stencil (borrowed from a friend)
• Christmas tree stamp
• Versafine embossing ink
• few clear gems
• Chloe Endean Wow embossing powder glitter mix in silver
• "With Love  die from my stash
• small piece of white craft foam to die cut sentiment

First I made my background using the Cosmic Shimmer glitter texture paste in ocean spray through the snowflake stencil. I just had enough to make my background.  I had almost forgotten how lush this texture paste is and how it sets perfectly.

I then stamped my Christmas tree onto some white card  and heat embossed it using the silver Wow embossing glitter. I used foam pads to attach it to my snowflake background, giving it a little dimension and then added the gems to the tree.  For the little snowman decoration I used a little hot glue.

Then I added a handfull of clear acrylic gemstones for the base of my winter scene.

This was finished off with a white foam "with love" sentiment.

Have a look at the lovely projects made by the rest of our DT over on our blog page this month

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Happy Crafting