Love is in the air

I have been commissioned by the American company http://www.craftysecrets.com to do some design work for them, so all week I have been busy with my PSE and mouse designing papers for them. I love doing that but have also missed doing some "real" crafting. So, it was great this afternoon to get papers and stamps out and get my fingers dirty. Here's the result, a pop-up card. I'm sorry the photos are so bad because it's a really dark day here

Front of card

Inside

It's inspired by an article by Helen Chilton in the March issue of Craft Stamper.

Tag book to use up scraps

If you are anything like me you will also have boxes full of scraps, too lovely to throw out. I decided to make a whole lot of tags to use some of them up. I put all the tags together into a booklet, now every time I need a tag I can just open it up, take out the tag I want and make new ones when I feel like it.
Here is the booklet

And here are the tags individually

Friendship booklet

With Valentine's just around the corner, I decided to create a friendship booklet for someone special.. Images and stamps are from Crafty Secrets.

Here you see the complete booklet

And here are the individual pages from the largest to the smallest

Two tags and a card

Happy Sunday everyone.
Here are a few projects I've been working on during the week. I only managed to blog them today. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Shabby chic vintage sewing tag

Tag inspired by Nancy from Sugar Lump Studios

Card using my new Crafty Individuals stamp

Gift card for a friend

Here is a rather traditional stamped card. (Not often I make cards with just stamping on them...). The friend it's for is not really into hand made cards I don't think, - I wonder what she will make of this..

A new freebie and some samples

Here is another free printable background paper and this time round I thought I'd show you a couple of card samples I made with it.

The paper is 8 x 11 (A4)

I printed it full size and then cut it to create two 6 x 4" cards adding various bits and pieces I had flying around on my desk to embellish them.

I cut a tag shape out of the first card with one of my Spellbinder dies (Labels Four) which I then used to embellish the second one. The image of the girl was simply glued behind where I cut out the tag shape.

First Challenge at Snazzys

Today the first challenge over at the Snazzys DT blog is starting. The theme is "Romance", very suitable for this time of year.
Each of the DT members have made sample projects to give you inspiration to join in and there is of course a fabulous prize to be won for one lucky winner. Here are some pictures of the sample I made:

I first covered a heart shaped box in Gesso and when that was dry in Titan Buff acrylic paint. The roses in the corners are from a paper serviette that i tore and then glued on with matte medium. I covered all the edges of the box with some Tim Holtz tissue tape and then stamped the words of a Darkroom Door word block stamp in vintage photo all over the top and the sides of the box. I glued lace around the sides and further embellished with one of Tim Holtz's dress form dies covered in various papers, a stamped andpunched out butterfly and some pearls from a Viva decor pearl pen. Finally I stamped the word block stamp in black archival, cut out three of the words and distressed the edges with vintage photo distress ink.


Hope you'll head over to the Snazzys DT blog and join in for a chance to win the fantastic prize!

Last Calendar pages and an announcement

Some of you may remember that I was in the process of making a desk top calendar. Each page can sit in a little holder that I also made. Well here finally are the last 4 months:

September

October

November

and finally December

Here is a picture of all 12 months together

Now for the announcement:
Snazzy's has a brand new challenge that will run every month that has 5 weeks in it.
So starting Monday {as January  has 5 weeks} one very lucky winner could win the same DT goodie pack that we've had to work with all month.
Here's a peek at the prize:

So make sure you hop on over to Snazzys DT blog tomorrow for all the details!

Final DT projects for this week.

Here is my final little project for Snazzys this week, showcasing the beautiful Dreamer Collection papers from 7 Dots Studios

 Next week the team will be hosting our first challenge, with a great price to win. Hope you will visit the blog to get the details. Just click here

Triptych using "Dreamer Collection"

Here is a sneak peek  of my second project for Snazzys. If you want to see more head over there by clicking here

A couple more freebies

Here are a couple of new 8 x 8 background papers for you to use if you like. I think they would work well to decorate the top of a box or something.

The image on the second one is a freebie provided by Artfully Mussing.

Snazzys DT Project sneak peak

This month we are featuring the amazing 7 Dots Studio "Dreamer Collection" papers and Creative Expressions "Tickets" stamps.

Here is a sneak peak of my first project this week:

Hope you'll take a look at the whole project and leave me a comment. All you need to do is click here

Wedding Card

Here is a card for a wedding, it's a double diamond card. A bit over the top I think and not my usual style. I think I got a bit carried away...
Sorry for the bad photos, it was rather dark, so too many shadows...

Exciting News!

I just heard that I made it through to the third round for the Spellbinders DT contest, I am so excited!! Even if I don't make it through to the final round I am very happy I got this far. For this last round we will be sent some of the new dies to make a project which in itself is amazing as they won't reach the market until well after CHA. Anyway keep your fingers crossed for me!!!

A quick Thank you card and a gift

After all the festivities, I needed several thank you cards, here is a quicky I made yesterday. I also wrapped a little soap with bits and pieces from my own free printables. Next on my list of things to learn is how to make the soap!! Any tips, please be in touch lol.

More freebies

I am hugely enjoying playing with some digital work. So here are a few more freebies for you to play with if you wish.

Most of the graphics from the Graphics Fairy, thank you!