Flippin' Men - Fishing

This is just 1 in a series of 20 Flippin' Men by La Pashe.

I love the way this one makes up all chunky pieces to cut out, I used one of aperture cards which were designed to compliment the Flippin' Men sheets and covered it with basic grey papers.

Cuttlebug Butterfly Card - Crushed Glass Glitter

Using the cuttlebug i cut out the butterfly and embossed the with the matching folder I then cut out a second butterfly from acetate and using the glossy accents and the diamond dust crushed glass glitter made this one nice and sparkly before attaching the two together.
I cut out 2 sizes of the label 1 nestabilities dies and wrapped and tied a ribbon around the smaller die, then layered the two together with foam pads.

I did stamped the words New Beginnings on the top label.
The base card was a pre-embossed square card that I found in my craft stash all I did was round off the corners.

Twinklets Crushed Glass Glitter

I made up a snowflake from a cuttlebug die and some craft punch shapes then added ranger glossy accents to the shapes and dropped them into the glitter and left them to dry while I made up one of Claire's 3 Kings shapes (Found here) it is sort of a flat bottomed cracker and when made up you can add goodies inside it.

I intend making a few for the Christmas table and adding gifts inside.

A close up view of crushed glass glitter on the snowflake layers.

I think this will be my favorite product for a long time to come.

I also tried the glitter out on some flower shapes

An even closer view

Prisma Pencil Lily's

Lily's coloured with Prisma Pencils, I stamped the ellusive images lily's with white stazon inl onto smooth black card.

I then coloured the image with Prisma pencils and blended the pencil marks with a Paper Stump and baby oil, I prefer this to Gamsol or Sansoder.

I used Nestibilities labels to create the shape of the card and to cut out the image, I used ink essential white pen to make the faux sewing border.

Friend Card

Made by stamping Spiral Bouquet blossoms onto the white base card with a wine coloured ink and using the same ink I distressed a piece of patterned card stock and layered a contrasting striped card on top.

I used an acrylic chip and glued this to pattern card then stamped bloom in Palette ink and tied the chip to the card with a wine coloured ribbon.

Added a couple of pearls and a couple of punched out blossoms to finish.

Greeting Card Museum - How it all Began

Hand made cards, where did it all begin? well I have had a favorite site for many years it takes you through the history of Postcards & Greeting cards and has some of the most beautiful examples that I have ever seen.

This is the site Postcard & Greeting Card Museum

Some of the designs are so intricate it is hard to believe they were created so long ago.

I think it is nice to look at a bit of our past and understand where we get the tradition of card making and sending from.

Stamped Christmas Bauble

This rubber stamp is by Elusive Images, it come as a set of 3 baubles in different sizes, I have used this set before but I coloured them and used it as a friendship card see here.

This time I decided to do it in monochromatic colours I just love black and white.

I stamped the bauble onto black card stock using versamark then used a white detail embossing powder and gave it a blast with the heat gun. I stamped the DMC border using Versafine Black Onyx ink.

The bauble was cut out and added to the card with craft foam pads and a pretty bow was attached to finish.

Family Scrapbook Pages

More scrapbook layouts,I thought it was time to introduce you to some more of my family so I've added 3 scrapbook pages from my treasures for you to see.

This scrapbook page is one of my favorites, it is my Mam and she is elegant as the words state, I love the old photo's.

The page already had a butterfly on it so it was traced with a glue pen and left to go tacky then golf leaf was brushed over it to make the butterfly pop.

Donkey Derby, my Brother Alan at Butlins holiday camp.

This layout left me quite nervous cutting a precious photograph so instead it was scanned and printed then cut.

I really must get around to finishing my Scrapbook, in this layout you just have to check out the pushchair, This is my Mam and Dad and my Brother Alan is the little one in the pushchair.

The gift tags were coloured with distress inks, a couple of die cut keys and some rich patterned Scrapbook paper and lots of layers.