Congratulations!

Supplies:  Shall we dance stamp - Lili of the Valley, Sentiment - 
SRM Sticker, die - x-cut, patterned paper - Persnikety - 
Lilybee design, metallic paper - Canson, White card blank, 
wink of stella, copics, roller adhesive 
and glossy accents.

This is a cute Lili of the Valley stamp ("shall we dance").  I partially coloured with copics and cut with a square die cut - then realigned and cut into a rectangle.  Added an SRM Sticker and some sequins.

I added some wink of stella to the dress - impossible to photograph.  Thought this would make a cute Wedding Card.

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Congratulations - another fun shaker Wedding Card!

Supplies:  pp - Amy Tangerine for American Crafts, 

computer generated sentiment, glassine envelope and 

insert - from my stash (possibly Paper Source!), machine 

stitching, SRM sentiment sticker, heart die - Spellbinders, 

pop dots, roller adhesive - Tombow, white sequins and white 

card blank - Craftworks.

Used some pp from the Studio Calico August Card Kit - Marks & Co to create this fun wedding card. 

I found the glassine envelope and insert in my stash and know that I have had it for quite a while.  I machine stitched the top of the glassine envelope to make sure the sequins wouldn't fall out!

It's a touch of a shaker card! - it has the shaker element and is certainly using non traditional wedding colours but I thought it was perfect for an autumnal card.

Thanks so much for stopping by and peeking - hope you have a wonderful Wednesday.

Wedding Cards using dies!

Supplies: pp and cardstock - October Afternoon 

(Studio Calico July Card Kit), white sequins, Alphabet dies - 

Lawn Fawn, acetate, computer generated sentiment, 

enamel dots - MME, pop dots, white card blank.

Firstly, I decided to make some wedding cards in non traditional colours!!

So the first one I created using some patterned paper from the July Card Kit by Studio Calico - Valley High.

I created a layer between the cardstock and pp and layered it with acetate to create a "shaker" card using sequins.

 

Supplies:  pp and cardstock - Studio Calico August Card Kit (Marks & Co.), 

gems, Boy Meets Girl - Die-namics by MFT, heart die - 

Spellbinders, pop dots and card blank

The second one I want to share today is another wedding card with the same colour palette!

Thanks for peeking - hope you have a wonderful day. 

Happily ever after....

Supplies: pp and cardstock - Simon Says Stamp October Card Kit, 

PTI Love Lives Here sentiment, Pin - Making Memories, machine stitching, 

Spellbinders heart dies, pop dots, tuxedo black ink - Memento, 

roller adhesive and 6x6 card blank.

I wanted to share a quick and easy Wedding Card I made using the products from the October Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp.

I cut hearts using a Spellbinders Die and lots of machine stitching!  I was inspired by Lucy Abrams card here.

Hope you have a wonderful day. School holidays start in 25 mins ... yipee!!! Happy Friday!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

On your special day

Supplies:  pp - London Market collection - Pink Paislee, 

Frame stamp & sentiment Chatsworth collection - Papermania, 

Ocean Tides ribbon - PTI, butterfly die - PTI, Resin flower - 

Whimsies - Webster's Pages, pearl heart - Hobby House, 

Kraft card blank - Papermania, pins - Hobby House and Making Memories, 

 Colorbox blue ink, pop dots and tombow roller adhesive.

I love how this card turned out - love the shades of aqua/green and pale blue.  The sentiment and frame are stamped on cream cardstock and lifted from the card using pop dots.

I kept it simple enough, embellishing with a resin flower by Webster's Pages and gorgeous patterned paper from the Simon Says Stamp June Kit of the month by Pink Paislee.  I made it as a Wedding Card but I guess could be used for a number of different occasions.

Challenges

Crafty Calendar - Things with Wings

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Something Old, Something New

Supplies: Vintage buttons, sentiment - "enjoy the ride" stamp set PTI,

 pp - Kaisercraft Bubblegum Hills Collection, papermania pearls, 

embroidery thread, machine stitching, pop dots, Spellbinders heart die, 

white cardstock, memento black ink, tea dye distress ink and 

blending tool, Big Shot, Purple Cows Guillotine and craft knife.

Welcome March!

This week's challenge on Paperplay Challenges is "Something Old, Something New".

This challenge "called" to me on several levels - when I hear that saying it reminds me of Wedding and a Bride.  I also adore buttons and had lots of beautiful ones with sparkle on them in my stash.

So my old/new is old vintage buttons and new paper.


I hand stitched the buttons to a diecut heart which I then embellished with some pearls

Edited to add - when I made this card I knew I had seen a button heart somewhere but just couldn't remember where the inspiration had come from.... then I found it!  Heather over on Stamping and Stitching had her card featuring a button heart on Paper Crafts Magazine this month. 

Challenges
 Love to Create - Real or faux stitching
A Passion for Papertrey - Needle and thread
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes 
Divas by Design - Spots and/or Stripes
Little Darlings Challenge - Pearls

Thanks for peeking - hope you get a chance to play along with us this week.

Two People, One Life

 Supplies:  pp Bubblegum Hills Collection - Kaisercraft, 

kraft cardstock - Papermania, Spellbinders heart dies, 

sentiment - Create with TLC, machine stitching, 

tombow roller adhesive, scor-pal and printer.

It seems that there are quite a few weddings happening at the moment.  I was asked to make this large card (8x8) for a couple getting married shortly.  I used the opportunity to use the freebie sentiment by Paulette - Create with TLC.  I made it "Bright and colourful" using the wonderful Bubblegum Hills collection by Kaisercraft.

Challenges

Crop Stop - Wedding or Anniversary

 Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Love is in the air

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Lily Pad Cards - Simon Says Stamp presents a Patterned Paper Challenge

Thanks so much for stopping by - hope you have a wonderful weekend.  It is mid term here in Ireland next week so a lot of school are off for the week / or part of the week.  No early morning starts - yipee!

Get in shape!

Supplies:  Cuthbert and Kiki Wedding Digi by Pollycraft designs, 
Spellbinders scalloped circle dies, Papermania pearls, sentiment from 
Love Lives Here - PTI, Memento Black ink, Blue/Grey Papermania 
textured cardstock, copics,

pop dots and adhesive.

This week's challenge on Paperplay is "Get in Shape" - we want to see "shaped" cards this month.

I made a scalloped circle card that fits inside a 4x4 envelope.  Cute little mini card that has photographed quite dark (sunshine is rare here in Ireland at the moment - very dull, grey and DARK!).

Challenges

Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Favourite Things (I just adore this couple - one of my fave wedding digis)
Craft your passion - Beary Sweet (must have a bear) 
Simon Says Stamp - Animal Antics

Thanks for peeking - hope your day is filled with sunshine.  Don't forget - we would love for you to play along with us - we are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp this week.

Wedding Congratulations

Supplies:  Digital image - Cuthbert & Kiki Wedding - Pollycraft, 

Quickutz cookie cutter circle dies, Spellbinders scallop die, 

stick pins - Making Memories, Computer generated greeting - Aquarelle, 

Scrubble, Diamond stickles - Ranger industries, white ribbon - 

Paperchase, X-Cut scallop border, textured grey cardstock - Papermania, 

special vellum glitter embossed paper - Papermania, vellum adhesive, 

card blank by Anita's, copics C1, C3, C5 and popdots.

Quick card share today - used one of Paula's fab digis - available over on Pollycraft here.

The glitter on the underlaid vellum isn't very evident in this photo but is really very glittery!  I matched the image by using diamond stickles on the bride's headpiece and flowers.  Used my copics for shading - kept the colour on the image to a minimum.

Raised the sentiment/greeting off the card with dimensional adhesive (pop dots!)

Challenges

Creative Craft Challenges - Congratulations

Forever Friends - Use an animal

Thanks so much for peeking, hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Happily Ever After

Supplies:  LOTV - Wedding couple, PTI Love Lives Here sentiment, Papermania 

aqua gems, Textured cardstock - Papermania, 6x6 Card Blank - Craftworkcards, 

machine stitching, copics, diamond stickles, Ranger white enamel and adhesive.

I love this couple from Lily of the Valley stamps.  I paired them with the sentiment from the "Love Lives Here" set by Papertrey ink.  I kept colour to a minimum - love the touch of diamond stickles on the wedding gown and some white enamel touches around her bouquet!.

Had hoped to share an anniversary card today - but it turns out I didn't photograph it very well before it went in the mail yesterday .... oops!!  

Happy Anniversary to my inlaws!

Challenges

Wee Memories - no patterned paper

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Wedding Card

Supplies:  AC ... Papermania pink ink, Papermania Sheer Ribbon, 

Black and hot pink Canson tinted board cardstock, Quikutz Polka dot 

embossing folder, Papermania pearls, Memento tuxedo black ink, 

Spellbinders heart dies, Maya Road flower stick pin, heart shaped stick pin

X-Cut scallop border punch and pop dots.

Quick share - a wedding card because we are well and truly in wedding season here in Ireland now.  

This is a 6 in x 6 in card (finished size).  I used hot pink (non traditional!) with black for a punch of colour.  I picked up a set of American Crafts stamps - Boutonniere collection.  I created the graphic pp by stamping black ink on the pink cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by - I really appreciate it.  Hope you are having a great week.

Wedding Card

Supplies:  Special Vellum Glitter Embossed by Papermania, 

WMS - Vintage Labels Two, computer generated sentiment - 

Aquarelle font, Black cardstock - Folia, X-Cut scallop border punch, 

Hero Arts gemstones, pop dots, machine stitching and craft knife.

Met a friend this morning who asked me to make a Wedding Card for her brother.  So I came home and dug out this beautiful glittered vellum that I had bought a while ago and decided to use it on this Wedding Card.  

I used the wonderful Waltzingmouse Stamp set Vintage Labels Two.  I printed the sentiment on white cardstock first and then stamped around the sentiment.  I then stamped a second time and cut this out along with the oval aperture.

 Beautiful shimmer off this in real life!  I then added little Hero Arts gemstones along the scalloped border.  I always find vellum tricky to adhere given that a lot of adhesives will show through!  I solved the problem here by machine stitching through the vellum onto the card base.

Challenges

A spoon full of sugar - Sewing

 Jac-inks Papercraft Challenge - Die Cuts plus texture

Top Tip Tuesday - Wedding or Anniversary

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Hero Arts 90 minute scramble and Greeting Farm Freebies!

Supplies:  Hero Arts True Hearts C2908 and sentiment from HA Everyday 

sayings CL342, glossy accents, red copic and memento tuxedo black ink.

Quick share today - here's my card that I made for Sally's wonderful 90 minute scramble on the Hero Arts Flickr Group last night.   Sally wanted us to make a Wedding or Celebration card using at least one Hero Arts stamp or option two was to create a card on the same theme using at least one HA stamp but using the colours "red, white and blue".

I don't have blue / navy ink (well, I'm sure I do... but I didn't have enough time to go searching) as I decided to make a quick card for the scramble with 15 minutes left before the scramble ended!  I added glossy accents to the coloured hearts after I photographed and I like the graphic look of the finished card.

The Greeting Farm have two freebie digis for the weekend - Easter Ian and Easter Anya - check them out here.

Thanks for peeking, hope you are having a great day/weekend.

Wedding Card

Was asked by a friend to make this card for a couple getting married today.  I decided to ink up my brand new Waltzing Mouse Stamps and even though my matching Spellbinders nesties haven't arrived yet I decided to hand cut the stamped image and cut the oval out with a craft knife.

Firstly I printed the names and sentiment using Word onto white cardstock. I then used a stamp from the WMS Vintage Labels 2 set and stamped using Memento black ink. I then stamped the image again on the same white cardstock.  Cut out both stamped images and removed the oval from the blank image so that the sentiment is visible through the opening/aperture. I then used a black copic marker to go around the cut edges of all the images to "finish off". This is a trick I learnt from my friend Kathy.

I adhered the top image directly over the bottom one with pop dots/dimensional adhesive.  I tied sheer white ribbon by Anita's around the card and then adhered the stamped images on top.

I added tiny heart shaped gems to the card to give it a little sparkle.  Congrats to the newly wed couple and thanks for peeking.

Hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Deirdre

Wedding Cards

Following on from my post yesterday you will know that it's "Wedding" over on Paperplay this week.  All you have to do is create a project/card with a Wedding theme.  I just want to share some more Wedding Cards I made in recent weeks.  Same Stamp - different cards.

Used the Forever Friends Wedding Stamp with the sentiment "Congratulations" masked from the bottom.  I then coloured with copics, matted and layered with my scalloped circles, added some stickles for some shine.  Adore the sheer Papermania ribbon - so that had to be included.  The name of the bride and groom I printed on my computer and then stamped the border using PTI fillable frames #1 and cut with the matching die cut.

This card has less colour.  I printed the greeting and again used my PTI set to do the border/cutting.  I cut black cardstock with my Martha Stewart punch and then machine stitched the ribbon to it at the back, tied it on the front.  I added the stamped image with pop dots raised off the card.

Thanks so much for peeking and I hope you play along with us on Paperplay this week.

Paperplay - "Wedding"

This week's challenge on Paperplay is "Wedding" and it is very kindly sponsored by Waltzing Mouse Stamps.  The prize is a stamp pack of the Winner's choice.

As the wedding season is well and truly upon us I have made quite a few wedding cards in recent weeks.  This is one that I made at the weekend on the request of my SIL.  She asked me to make a Wedding "shaker" card.  So I used a slightly larger card blank, white pearlescent paper (as the overlay) and some scalloped pp's inspired by Lucy here.  While these are fun they are a little fiddly to make and somewhat time consuming, but I do like the result.  Let's hope the bride and groom do too!

Supplies: Large Card Blanks by Anita's, Pearlescent cardstock, Forever Friends stamp,

Spellbinders Scalloped Circles Lge, textured cardstock black and white by Papermania,

Embossing folder - dots & circles, pop dots and misc sequins

The top layer is raised on foam dots with a square of foam tape around the edges of the scallop to act as an enclosure for the sequins which I used in the shaker.

Entering it into the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge - monochromatic card.

Thanks so much for peeking and I hope you get a chance to play along with Paperplay this week.

Quick & Easy Wedding Card

I am sure like me you have stuff in your stash that just doesn't get used.  You buy it with great intentions but it ends up getting warped/lost! in the bottom of a drawer or box.  Well, I had this pack of die cut sentiments by Forever Friends and I decided to try and use them.

I used a large tall card blank by Anita's, cut Bazzill dotted swiss cardstock in a co-ordinating colour, cut silver card with my new curved rectangles by Spellbinders, embossed, white ribbon threaded through a Papertrey Ink vintage button added some Hero Arts smooth gemstones and last but not least the die cut sentiment.  Not your typical wedding colours but great if your brother or male relative was the groom don't you think?.

Entering this into Charisma Cardz Challenge - Weddings and
One Stop Craft Challenge - Wedding Wishes.

Look at what Kathy is giving away on her blog... not one, two, three, four..... but SEVEN of these amazing stamps (ends 27th May).  They are so fun, don't you just love what she has done with them.  So quick.... go here to enter.

Thanks so much for peeking.  Hope you have a great Wednesday.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone.  Wishing you all a wonderful year ahead full of joy, happiness, health and love.  I haven't shared a card in ages so this is one I made today.

It is a shaker card which is just a little added twist to the standard Wedding Card.  I used the Forever Friends stamp and coloured with copics.  The beads are tiny seed beads but shake beautifully under the layer of acetate.

Supplies - DCWV card blank in black, Forever Friends Stamp, Copics, Memento Ink in Black,

Silver cardstock, acetate, Nesties Labels One, seed beads, glitter star by crafttime and foam adhesive.

I also stamped the image on the envelope and coloured again with Copics.  This card is for my SIL who is going to a wedding tomorrow.

I attended a wedding a few days ago in the most amazing setting - Holy Cross Abbey and have a few photos to share.  It was breathtakingly beautiful in the bitter cold.  It started snowing during the ceremony but I didn't manage to capture it when we were leaving as I was busy trying to stay warm!.

Photo of the Cloisters above and a doorway below

You could feel the history of the place all around you and I was disappointed it was raining / snowing as I was unable to capture as many photographs as I would have liked to.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you are having a wonderful start to 2010.