Wedding Invitations

Hi all. After a long time  of me forgetting to post these wedding invitations, here they are. I have finished them a long time ago. My friend at work wanted an Autumn theme. So 300 leaves were cut out, stamped, inked and crushed.

They were put onto cream linen cards. My friend wanted a bit of bling so added some gold rings. The wording were slightly inked. I wanted the effect of the leaves just being dropped. Hope you like them and sorry for the long wait.

Santorini. Greece

Hi all. Just a few pics of our amazing holiday in June. We went to Santorini. Greece. It was our 30th wedding anniversary and my 50th. This place was one of the most beautiful places we have ever been to.

Me and Andy love Greece anyway. The food. The people and the relaxing way the Greeks are. Greece wins any holiday destination for us.

I have also being doing lots of crafting but to be honest I forget I have this blog and forget to post. The photo below is me posing in Oia. Pronounced Ear. Spectacular.

Leaves. Leaves

  

Hi all. Have been asked to do some wedding invitations. They are for an October wedding and he wanted Autumn leaves. So hubby cut out 300 white leaves and I sat and inked both sides.

 

They are all done now and I am very pleased with how they all look. Will show the finished invitations later on.

Hello to you all. Been busy making Mother's Day gifts and Easter gifts.

Made these little gift boxes to sell at my fair. Used Raffia to tie them. Added some little Ladybugs that I fell in love with and I am using on my Easter cards.

Hope you like these.

Pompom flowers.

Hello,to you all. Have gone mad on making pom-poms. Made these flowers, added some raffia and a stamped message. Have got lots of ideas with pom-poms so will try and share them with you.

ribbon wreath.

 Hello. I am still  around.  Made this ribbon  wreath. 

Little jar of flowers.

Hello to you all. As you know I love using jars for my crafts. This is an old spice jar. Not a big fan of dies, but in a previous post love Heartfelt Creations stamps and dies. Vintage morning stamps and Majestic Bloom die.

Stamped all the flowers and die cut them. Coloured with distress inks. Stuck two flowers together and put some florist wire in between. Shaped flowers with water and ball tool. Added gems and then used gilding wax over the centres of the flowers.

Just slightly glimmering.

To get the flowers to stand still in the jar was a nightmare. So wrapped them in a piece of burlap and made some kind of a clump then using Pinflair Gel to stick to bottom of jar.

Added piece of burlap ribbon and a button round middle of jar. Hope you like my mini  creation.

Bugs an all.....

Hello all. After having a lovely break in the sun I am back to crafting. Wanted to do something with these bug stamps. Covered a cardboard square with cream acrylic paint.. Used a crackle stamp from Indigo Blu.

Stamped the large bug onto a hessian tag,added bits of corrugated card and string,buttons and broken kebab sticks.

Edged with black and brown inks and of course to use my favourite.Treasure Gold gilding wax. The more I touched this project with my dirty fingers the more it smudged everywhere, but also the more I loved the effect.

Hope you like this one. Let me know what you think..

Heartfelt Creations wreath..

Hi all. Made this wreath using Heartfelt  Creations stamps and die cuts. Vintage morning background stamps with Majestic Blooms die. Not a big fan of die cuts to be honest...but love this set.

Just wrapped some strong florist wire to make the circle, wrapped with some hessian ribbon. Stamped all the flowers,die cut them out. Inked with Tims inks. Gently sprayed the flowers with water, this makes them more pliable to shape with ball tool.

Stuck the flowers onto the hessian to form the wreath and then just added some pearls to the centres. Will make some more to sell for Mothers Day gifts at work...

Sea shells.

Hi to you all. Why is it when your ill you can just keep crafting. Have been having a good play whilst off from work.

Entering this little project into Countryview Challenge. Painty pleasures. Made this with scraps of card,painted with acrylic paints. The back ground is a square of mount board washed with cream acrylic paint. Turquoise circles then stamped with a blue Distress ink, using a swirl stamp.

Stamped the shells along the bottom, then added the painted correguated card. Added shells and buttons and some twine to finish off...

Just a card.

Hi all. Made this card by stencilling the background. Then stamped the words in the centre and just carried on stamping to create the shadow words,not re-inking the stamp. Added some corrugated card in a strip, just added some gold gilding wax across the top. Added a paper rose and a button.

Shopping sins

 

Hi everyone. Even though I love Christmas I do love to get back to normal. Normal means our dining room table is now covered in crafts!! Have been having a real play with different things and really been enjoying getting so messy. My New Year I have promised myself to enter more challenges. So this is the first one of the year..

Entering this little jar into http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/no-more-shopping-sins.htmlShopping sinsWe all have shopping sins so this was easy for me. When I first started crafting peel offs and rub ons were big business as craft stuff was very limited back then! So my shopping sin is a sheet of rub on letters and words.

I put the letters on the bottom of the jar, rubbed over with cream acrylic paint, gold gilding wax to give a bit of texture to the letters. Just highlighted the letters with a black pro-marker so that they didn't vanish all together. Made some paper roses and added bits and pieces. Hope you like this little creation......