Allsorts Challenge–Flowers and Swirls

It’s Saturday so that means it’s the Allsorts Challenge Blog  posting for me as their guest designer.

Flowers and swirls was right up my street, it has been a good while since i got out the punches and did some floral punch craft so out they came along side my Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder and this is what I came up with.

Something pretty for the weekend. I made the rose using the Punch Bunch Tree cream copy paper then inked it up until I got the desired colour.

Head over to the Allsorts Challenge Blog and see what the rest of the girls have been up to, it’s sure to be amazing.

Floral Craft Blog Candy

Oh this is exciting I have everything you need to make beautiful blossoms for blog candy.
just look at what you could win.

This is a must have for any flower loving crafter, the perfect prize from La Pashe, 16 sheets of build a Blossom and all of the tools to go with them.

Build a Blossom set 1

Build a Blossom Set 2

A Character Shaper tool, this will help you to shape petals to their fullest.

Reverse Tweezers a must have for curling petals and keeping hold of the petals before sticking in place

Double Ended Embossing Tool perfect for veining leaves

A moulding mat to give the perfect shape to your blossoms

Entering is easy, all you have to do is leave me a comment and then tell all of your friends, if you have a blog add the candy to your side bar, if you haven't a blog add it to facebook or anywhere that your friends will see it.
I will draw a winner on Thursay 10th March so be sure to leave a comment by Wednesday midnight GMT
International entries are allowed.

Set 2 Build a Blossom - La Pashe

The second set of Build a Blossom to be released on Monday from La Pashe below is just a couple of my makes from the Trade show, also a preview of the 2nd set to me released.

Chrysanthemum in lemon.

Chrysanthemum two toned

Pansy, such a great flower for Mothering Sunday.

Floral Craft Turorial - Build a Blossom, Cherry Blossom

This the first video tutorial for the Build a Blossom range by La Pashe I will show you just how easy it is to make realistic flowers for your cards, gifts and projects, I have took all the hard work away and made floral craft as easy as ABC. I will show you tips and tricks and take you by the hand to make a thing of beauty.

The sheets are available for sale now at La Pashe and there are 8 designs. I have many more videos to share with you and they will soon be available to view on the La Pashe web site

Peony Bloom

This is the Peony 2 Bloom by Just Inklined which is being given free from the Imag-e-nation online shop this week if you sign up to their newsletter you get informed every time a new free image is available.

I printed the image at full size then cut out a square from the printed sheet keeping the head of the bloom in the corner of the square, coloured the image with Promarkers added a pretty ribbon and some pearl pins, stamped a sentiment then added a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to Detail...

You can see in this photograph that I printed out the image twice and cut out the first 2 layers of the Peony petals to make the flower pop.

Autumn Leaves

Just a quick card today as I have been working on theme project which has now got me scratching my head on how I'm going to build what I need next.

A simple card using punched out leaves and inked up to add the colour I wanted, I used the sizzix fall embossing folder on the cream card, added a few berries and a pretty ribbon and a bit of love to bring it all together.

You can see from below that the leaves started their life yellow in colour, I used dye inks and blended them onto the leave to get the colour tones I wanted.

Floral Craft - Violas

It has been so long since I did any Floral Craft that I thought I might have lost my touch but I managed to grab a couple of hours free time so I sat down and went to work.

I love Violas such a pretty little flower and to make them from scratch was a challenge trying to capture there likeness.

I used a small pear punch, a mini sun punch, a medium Japanese Gingko punch and a medium birch leaf for the flower and a deep purple marker to add the centre veins to the petals.

Hope you like this.

Checking - Mo Manning Image

Checking was a freebie given by Mo on her facebook page which she will be doing from time to time click here to join her.

I tried to keep everything matching with this.

Card, pink, blue and Kraft, ribbon, button, Martha Stewart border punch, a pretty flower, promarkers to colour and a bit of love to bring it all together.

Attention to detail...

A blue mulberry rose and some punch craft leaves.

Adding a ribbon tied in a bow through a button and showing the scalloped edge made used a Martha Stewart border punch.

A Little Birdie Told me...

For this card I used cream and pink card, Bella Toile background stamp and pale plum ink pad and the 2 in 1 bird punch (all from Stampin Up) Martha Stewart Border punch (Doily Lace) die - cut flowers, Nestabilities Label dies cream ribbon and flowers from Wild orchid Crafts.

Lastly a bit of love to put it all together

Attention to detail...

Using the same background stamp Bella Toile from Stampin Up and the same pale plum ink pad I stamped both the cream and the pink card so that the theme was carried throughout the card.

I used the Martha Stewart (doily Lace) border punch on the pink card and finished by tying a cream ribbon on top.

I used the same background stamp on the wing of the bird and a little gem to dot the eye.

Prima Alabaster Flowers

The lattice punch by Martha Stewart and the Prima Alabaster Flowers work so well together, I used a very pale pink base card and stamped it using the Papertrey Ink Fancy Flourish Stamps in cream and light fawn coloured ink.

Attention to detail...

The Prima Alabaster Flowers are so prettyI kept the card in subtle colours to compliment it, I added extra foliage to make the flower pop using the floral punch craft punches on cream card.

Flight of the Butterfly - Stampin Up

A new Stamp set from Stampin Up, Flight of the Butterfly, cut out using the Butterfly Punch by Stampin Up, the 5 flower corner punch is by Punch Bunch and can be found at The Frantic Stamper.

Attention to detail...

More of that cotton laced ribbon and a pearly button.

A touch of Stickles Glitter Glue here and there to add a bit of magic

Nestabilitie Chrysanthemum Tutorial

It seems that many of you were interested in making this flower so I have made a tutorial for you as promised.

On to the Tutorial

Click on the Video and turn on the sound on your computer, I hope you understand my posh North East accent

If you have problems watching here I have also uploaded this to You Tube

Click Here for You Tube viewing

Nestabilities Flower - Chrysanthemum

I used a cream base card with a Ripe Advacado ribbon, card and stamped flourishes in the same colour ink, all including the stamps available from Papertrey Ink.

I used the scalloped Circles Nestabilities to create the flower, I'm calling it a Chrysanthemum because that is the blossom I was aiming for.

The Label shapes are also Nestabilies.

Attention to detail...

A closer look at the Chrysanthemum, I also used a leaf punch on green paper then distress it with chalk inks to make them look a little more lifelike.

If you would like to know how to make this leave a comment, if I have enough interest I'll do a tutorial.

The Shoe - Copic Creations Challenge 10

I created this card for the Copic Creations Challenge, I don't normally do challenges but my friend Marge told me about it & thought this one could be fun, I had The Shoe digi stamp by sketching stamper digi-stamps just sitting itching to be coloured so here it is, my challenge entry.

Attention to detail...

I wasn't sure which part of detail to show you on this card, the single petal at the bottom corner, the punched out heart shape in the top corner, the double tied ribbon? so I plumbed for the rose and the shoe detail.

The rose was made with a heart punch, I distressed some paper with red ink fading it out to a pink shade then punching out the hearts and tweaking the shapes into individual petals.

The front of the shoe was adorned with gold bedazzles to give a little sparkle and to add dimension.

Christmas Delights - Paper Folding Flowers

I love how this Christmas gift box has come together, I started by making a box from red and gold card stock, the bits of the gold card that I had left over I punched out some leaves ready to add to the top of the box.

Now for the flowers, I found these on a very clever paper folding blog called Folding Trees you must check out the tutorial of the flower here

You can see on this close up image that I used a gold marker on the centre folds to make the middle of the flower pop.

More views click the image to enlarge it.