All about Weddings

This weekend has been all about weddings, my Daughter had a dress fitting and sorted out the wedding car for the special day.

So much to do, invite cards to make, wedding favours to make. They are all planned and we know what we want, just need to knuckle down and collate numbers.

Chris came in from work asking me to make a Wedding card for one of their agents so I set too and made this for them all to sign.

Of course I used Hunkydory imagery and topper sets as I wanted a professional finish with the best card stock available.

 

Using foiled acetate as a designer feature to the front of the card. Using the background card to hide the sticking son the inside of the acetate.

And finishing the back with some pretty card to send good wishes and sign their names for the Happy Event.

 

 

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Stenciled Woodland Card

After seeing a Poppy Stencil show it made me want to play, one problem though, my stencil paste was in the loft so I thought I would make do with some tester pots of emulsion paint.

Ok, ok it's not what I should be using but it kept me sane through the workmen noise.

I used an old stencil from Dreamweaver, it is one that I instantly fell in love with.

I matted and layered up with Hunkydory Adorable Scorable and foam pads to create lots of dimension.

Now the good thing about using the paint was it stayed wet long enough for me to add my glitter.

The bad thing however was that the paint seeped underneath the stencil a little on the top left corner, however I can live with that and call it unique ha ha!

Floral Craft, Bearded Iris

We are busy at home getting our living room updated and whilst the workmen were hammering and banging I retreated to my craft room for some sanctuary.

I cut out a few shapes and started with my Bearded Iris, hard to believe that this flower started life as white copy paper. I used the Sizzix Bearded Iris dies to cut the shapes.

I used Hunkydory Adorable Scorable for all of the matting and layering and all of the foliage and some of my floral craft leaf punches, as you can see the Adorable Scorable embosses beautifully with embossing folders.

I first coloured the copy paper petals and leaves with ink from my inkpads and then used pan pastels for the shading.

I used a ball tool and a scoring tool to shape and add lines to the petals.

The center stamen of the flower after inking yellow was dipped in glue and dipped into some flowersoft.

All in all a lovely morning well spent.

I did make another card so hopefully I’ll get that one wrote up soon.

Eastern Treasures

Think.... Pretty, fresh, modern, beauty, happy, pastel, spring, fresh, summer and you will be half way there to loving this new collection from Hunkydory crafts.

Anne-Marie is at Create and craft now with this stunning collection and I will take over on Wednesday at 11am.

Here are some of the cards from the show and you will see just how beautiful it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I said stunning.

 

 

 

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Crocheting for the Children

I've been ever so busy trying to get some crochet finished for a baby that is on the way.

A baby blanket, baby hat and baby booties make a lovely gift for a mum to be.

One of the floor managers at Create and Craft is due to go on maternity leave very soon and knows that she is to have a baby boy. I thought it would be nice to show my appreciation to her.

I'm really pleased how these turned out and will be taking them this weekend when I am back there for the Hunkydory Pick of the week.

I also made a Minions style hat for Jack as he is crazy about them, I loved it so much that I made a smaller version too.

 

Details of how to make the hats are on the previous posting from me so check it out, very easy to make.

 

 

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Pretty Ballerinas Deluxe Card Collection

This is the most beautiful stunning imagery that I have seen in such a long time.

Hunkydory have totally given sophisticated elegance to this collection for our card making.

 

It's just stunning isn't it?

With this one I tried to give a Tutu effect at the bottom, the collection has both sepia and monotone colour ways and rich gold and silver foiling.

Anyone that love the arts is sure to love this collection.

 

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3 For 2 Pick of the Week Deluxe Card Collections

If you want to choose your own paper craft collections custom your own sets to meet your needs then we have that covered for you at Hunkydory.

I will be bringing you the Deluxe collection at an amazing 3 for the price of 2 on Create and Craft starting midday 12pm 6th November.

We have 4 never been seen brand new collections and some of the favourites too. 

Hope you can join me, all I will say is the new ones are amazing and I fell totally in love with one of them in particular.

This is the perfect time to grab your favourites.

Corsage of Flight of the Butterflies

Today 9am and 3pm on Create and Craft TV 2 hours of inspiration and fun with Mr Nigel May and myself.

 

So easy to make beautiful pieces like this from beautiful Hunkydory images.

 

Don't forget there is capped P&P and double discount for club members.

 

 

 

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Flight of the Butterflies

Be still my beating heart, that is the exact words that I said when I received this kit for my Shows on Create and Craft Saturday today at 3pm and Sunday 9am and 3pm.

I started to prep my demos for the shows and just couldn't stop, the more I used it the more I loved it. This set is quite different our usual Hunkydory sets, it craves to be used and explored.

 

I hope you can join me for some inspiration.

 

 

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Poppy Garden Luxury Card Collection

Those that know me will also know that I adore Poppies, I love to see fields that a a carpet of reds with the bloom of wild Poppies dancing in the breeze.

That is exactly the feeling that I get with the new Poppy Garden Luxury card collection from Hunkydory.

This collection will launch on Create and Craft on Friday 25th September at 12pm with Annemarie and I will step in on Sunday 10am.

Due to family commitments at the moment, I will only be doing the Sunday Shows for this collection so I hope you will be able to join me.

I have been grabbing a little me time where I could and managed to have some fun with the stamps, card blanks and some of the luxury collection before my shows.

I love that you can get creative with this set.

This was made using one of the Fold Me card blanks, I've had great fun using these and have more to show you in my shows on Sunday.

Again using one of the card blanks and a stamp set, Forever Poppies, this set has seam to seam designs so you can get really creative using them.

I think this is one collection that you just don’t want to miss.

Adorable Scorable with Alcohol Inks

After using the Brusho Art Paints, I suddenly realised that I could get a stunning vibrant effect using the Hunkydory Adorable Scorable and Alcohol Inks. well I wasn’t wrong, I decided to use colours that I would normally shy away from and used yellows and orange and I’m thrilled with the effect.

After such a stressful few weeks it was good to get in the craft room and experiment, I truly champion Adorable Scorable by Hunkydory, if you haven’t yet tried it then you are missing out, quality smooth coated 350gsm card stock with flexible ink that is amazing.

 

I used cotton white Adorable Scorable to stamp and ink onto and cut some small slithers from the mellow sage colour to make spiral foliage.

I’m back at Create and Craft from Monday with a fabulous deal of new Hunkydory sets at 9am and 6pm Sky Chanel 674.