Red, white and pink Valentine

……… AND NO HEART

I took some inspiration this week from the fabulous team at Frilly and Funkie with their Valentine’s Day with a twist challenge and this is what came out of it.

A very tonal tag in pinks and reds.

I started by smooshing and dipping my tag into festive berries distress stain…..

… then brayering spun sugar and picket fence distress paint over the top.

When it was dry I stamped over using picket fence distress paint again with the text stamp from Tim’s Love Struck set.

I used some distress stain and distress paints (colours above) on the ribbon and stamped the Love text stamp over the top with black archival.

A chipboard butterfly cut using the movers and shapers dies was covered in worn lipstick distress ink and I then covered it with festive berries and spun sugar distress glitter.

I used my splatter brush with white paint on the stain/paint covered petals and the tag (thanks Trace for the recommendation - it works well) and started gathering the elements I thought I might use,  a cupid cut in corrugated card, painted white and stamped over, a strip of pink fabric like angel hair….

….. and started to layout and add the things I wanted.  I added resin flowers to the crinoline petals, gathered the fabric and when stuck down I sponged over some white paint.

Finding a plaquette with 14 on was perfect, I tied some stained jewellery line through the holes.

When I was happy with everything I cut some patterned card and used it to change this into an extended tag and stamped the sentiment using Tim’s Simple Sayings set.

Thanks Cec and girls for the inspiration, this really got me thinking.

Happy Valentine’s when it arrives.

xx

Workshop at Art of Craft

For my card making ladies my first workshop for 2014 will be ‘Cards from Scraps’ trying to use up some of that huge box of patterned papers we all seem to have.

I have designed 5 cards from which the class can choose to use as design inspiration and they all follow a shabby vintage style.

Card 1 uses those scraps layered up with a corrugated card heart painted, stamped and tied with string. I have a box of die-cuts that have been left over from other projects so it was good to make a dent in these too. The little butterfly was punched from the paper the sentiment was stamped onto. (Stamp from Stampin’ Up).

Card 2 is a bit more vintage in style again with layers of patterned and plain papers but also using scraps of different coloured plain and patterned papers to die-cut two doily shapes. The flower was die-cut from some old music score paper (I collect music books from charity shops to use) and a couple of flourish die-cuts to add further interest.

Card 3 used three patterned papers for the background, I dragged white emulsion paint around the edges using an old credit card with some baker’s twine and a shabby bow added. The flowers were cut from three different patterned papers that toned really well together and I used my fingers to edge them with white emulsion paint. A stamped sentiment, a small piece of trim and a Martha Stewart punched butterfly finish it off.

Card 4 has been made using a seed packet front from the Tilda Garden Party paper stack, there are about 16 of these on one 12 x 12 page, so they go a long way. Again layered onto scraps adding a piece of hessian, a downloaded butterfly (and again I have a small box of these), a computed generated sentiment and some little pearlidoodle drops.

Card 5 uses a dress form cut from a Bo Bunny paper (I remember buying this when in California and out shopping with Terry – I think we both bought the same sheet). Again I dragged white paint around the edges of the background piece and then punched borders, stamping, bunting and a bow finish this one off.

My local workshops are held at The Art of Craft, Farnborough Hants and all details can be found by clicking the Classes Schedule above.

Thanks for looking.

Cute little Valentine card

When I stayed at Chrissie's I made a couple of things that used up some of our scraps and this little Valentine card was one of them. It is on full view with details over at the Country View Crafts Updates blog.

Have a great weekend and hopefully some creative time for yourself.

xx

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Valentine Bunting for CVC

Today I am sharing some bunting over at Country View Crafts Updates, I made this for my conservatory. We had a Murder Mystery Party last Saturday night (postponed from New Years Eve because of illness) and I re-themed it around Valentine, so I needed some decorations, what better than to use some of my supplies and make some myself.

I designed two pennants and made 6 of each. (Details over at CVC)

This is what they looked like once I had put all the elements together and strung them up.

.Here you can see the whole piece finished and in place.

Have fun making your own Valentine projects and I will see you again on Friday with a simple little Valentine card.

Enjoy the rest of the week.

xx

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