Hello denim card

For this months blog challenge on Let's Craft and Create I am sharing a card to say Hello"

As our theme, this month is paper strips instead of ribbon, I remembered that I had bought a  card kit from Hobby House called Mia Bella. As with all Hobby house kits, you can make so much from them and they have the best collection of embellishments if you are looking for an around kit to start off with.

This is just a selection of some of the card that I am using from the collection. I will still have enough left over to make another project.

Today I am really focusing on this sheet of denim card which will form the basis of my ribbon strips.

I used the Dreamees divine doily die on the denim daisy card stock.

For my flower I used some Fleurs flower forming foam with the Dreamees Sweet Sunflowers dies.

I inked the edges of the petals with an oil pastel, scrunched and shaped the petals a little before layering them up with a tiny drop of hot glue

In the centre of the flower I added a tiny drop of hot glue to stick the little white button down.

I used a rectangular stitched dies to cut my denim faux pocket out and used the card strips to edge the as ribbon. I did the same with the centre panel. The border strip along the base of the card worked really well as a stitched hem.

A few pale blue pearls and button to match my flower for the faux pocket with a "hello" sentiment to finish my card off.

Our design team have also been busy this month with projects of their own and there is always lots of fabulous inspiration shared by the crafters on our blog too. If you are interested,  there is a prize for the winning entry, following our theme and a badge for your blog for the top 3 runners up. Just click on the link below which will take you to our blog challenge. 

Happy Crafting!

Birthday card for a friend

Today I am sharing a birthday card made for a good friend of mine and linking it with our blog challenge on Let's Craft and Create's  friendship theme this month.

For my card I have used:-

• Tattered Lace Designer Vintage  - Foundation Doilies dies
• Tattered Lace Heart die
• Cream 240gsm card
• Katy Hudson - Sweet Nothings Collection
• Dreamees Something Stitchy flower stamp set
• Dreamees pretty pets backing paper from CD
• Piece of A5 orange card
• Peach ribbon
• metallic peach pearl gems

My card base measures 15.2cm in diameter, which is the largest doily die of this set, with the second largest layered over the top.

I have then used one of the smaller doily dies with some of the sweet nothing cardstock before the die cut heart in plain orange card (as an accent)and sweet nothings cardstock again.

Using the charisma pad, I die cut the "perfect pair" squirrels and the "sweet nothings" blue tits out. These are really pretty images . Katy Hudson is an illustrator based in Bristol who became obsessed with drawing animals and telling stories. The idea stuck, which led her to studying for a degree in illustration and creating some wonderful illustrations. These are just a few that she created for a papercraft collection on Create & Craft TV.

I printed out some backing paper from my Dreamees Pretty Pets CD to stamp my flowers onto as I knew it had the perfect paper I wanted for the flowers. I printed the flowers onto cream paper. I used two sizes of the something stitchy  flowers stamps and layered up my flowers to get plenty of dimension.

Have a look at the inspiration from the rest of the design team and what our crafters have been making for our blog challenge this month. There is a prize for the winning entry and a badge for your blog for the top 3 runners up.

.Happy Crafting

Michelle

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Sympathy Card

Sympathy cards are always difficult to make and sometimes it's challenging to find the right words too. I made this card for a dear friend and decided to keep it quite simple. For our blog challenge at Daisy Chains this month our theme is CAS - clean and simple.

I have decided to use this card as my DT project for our blog challenge.

For the card base, I used ivory centura pearl cardstock with my Tattered Lace Precious Nested Book die set from the Loving Memories collection.

Run the larger die twice through your die cut machine to get the front and back part of your book using a tacky pva glue or red liner tape along the inner spine to create your card/book.

The largest die measures 13.2cm  x  18.7 cm which makes a nice neat card.

I love the attention to detail on this die set. It is such a delicate collection. I also used the gilded cross die in the collection on some Hunkydory rainbow mirri card. This cross die does actually come with its own matching charisma paper which you can download for free direct from the Tattered Lace website in their downloads section.

Inside I used white printable vellum for the insert with a personalised verse.

Also using the smaller cross in the die set and a chain die from another Tattered Lace set that I had, I created a little crucifix to embellish inside.

As this card was going in the post, I didn't want it to get crushed so made matching gift box.

My card to let my friend know I was thinking of her at a difficult time.

Have a look at the inspiration from the rest of the design team and what our crafters have been making for our blog challenge this month.

Happy Crafting
Michelle
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Craft Journal

I finally got around to doing one of the things I had been meaning to do for ages and that was to start my Craft Journal. Today I am sharing the front page that has been finished with lots of layers.

I am also going to be using this project for our blog challenge this month on Let's Craft and Create where our theme is to use lots of layers.

My son bought me this journal kit for my birthday by The Dreamees, which comprised of 1 x set of A5 mdf covers, 1 x set A6 mdf covers, jump rings, journal stamp set, journal CD, set of fine writer pens.

Using one of the A5 mdf covers is used the following:-

• Dreamees Craft Magazine Issue 1 - I used some of the free papers that come with the magazine along with the free mdf shapes that came with the magazine(if you order direct from the Dreamees website).
• Dreamees Forget Me Not stamp set
• a strip of Hobby House gold flower pearl string
• a strip of rich plum satin ribbon
• small mdf heart
• Dreamees doily die
• Dreamees swirl die
• Backing paper from CD
• chipboard letters
• Gold superfine Wow embossing powder
• Versafine embossing ink
• Dreamees dinky inkies sparkle 2nd gen in treasure.
• Dreamees olive green pearls
• small piece cream webbing
• Tim Holtz distress ink victorian velvet

I stamped and heat embossed the Forget Me Not flowers onto some of the backing paper from the magazine. the gold embossing really highlighted the veins on the petals and leaves. I also used the flower stamp on the small mdf heart to get the same effect.

I used the mdf hearts from my shape kit that came with the magazine, covering the solid heart with backing paper

I used the treasure dinky inky on my chipboard lettering and to highlight the edges of the mdf heart and Tim Holtz distress ink in victorian velvet around the edges of my mdf journal.

I then went on to finish the other side with backing papers from the journal cd

which also had some lovely sentiments.

I have stamped the Something Stitchy flower stamps onto patterned paper and added a little glossy accent to the little button centres to make them pop, also to the button stamp. It just needed a piece of ribbon to bring the layers all together.

That is only the cover....

Inside I keep all my ink swatches. I made some simple charts to keep my colour swatches from the different ranges as an easy refer back to and printed off a colour chart for the Distress Inks, downloadable online.

A section for my Dreamees Stamps, CD & die collection catalogue, Tattered Lace die list. 

DT Blog Challenge Info, Craft Projects and some of the all essential journal pages that came with the CD Rom; such as a To do list, Address List and Birthday list. 

I've used the backing papers from the CD with the sentiments on some of my pages and for the larger titles, I have used the Dreamees Calligraphy stamp set. This alphabet stamp set is priceless in my opinion.

Have a look at the inspiration from the rest of the design team and what our crafters have been making for our blog challenge this month. There is a prize for the winning entry and a badge for your blog for the top 3 runners up.

If you don't have a blog, you can enter via Facebook just by adding the link from our actual blog challenge page to your entry on your Facebook page. Follow my link below to the challenge.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

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Fast Food Birthday Card

This month for our blog challenge at Daisy Chains I am sharing a card made for my nephew's birthday featuring some fast food. As our theme, this month is for boys/men I thought this would be a good card to share for my DT card for the blog.

Boys/men's cards can be a challenge to make as sometimes you find there is not a great deal of choice or you get stuck for ideas of what to make. As a crafter, I find you have to keep coming up with something new every year.

I like to make a card using a theme the recipient can relate to and with these Tempting Treats dies by Tattered Lace they are really quite generic so will appeal to anyone who likes fast food and as my nephew does, I figured that I was on a winner here.

For my card I used:-

• Tattered Lace Tempting Treats Meal Deal collection 
• A4 white 300gsm cardstock folded to A5
• A5 red 160gsm colour core cardstock
• A5 cream/red striped backing paper from my stash
• A strip of red satin ribbon
• 4 metal nailhead craft stickers
• chipboard alphabet/number stickers (The Range)
• Glossy accent to decorate

The matching charismas for the Tempting Treats Meal Deal dies can be downloaded for free directly from the Tattered Lace website.

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

Add a little glossy accent to make the ketchup look more realistic. The hotdog also comes with a mustard option. These dies would also make great party invites too.

I think this is a really fun die set with so many possibilities.

Have a look at the inspiration from the rest of the design team and what our crafters have been making for our blog challenge this month.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

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