Cards or scrapbooking?

So today is my birthday and I will be quite old.

So to celebrate I am going to give away  a goody bag of crafty yummyness. 

I will put a picture up later but leave a comment on this post.

The draw will close on 23rd February

 

 

I have been asked to do a demo in April showing how you can use card making products in scrapbooking and scrapbooking products on cards.

If you are a card maker you don't need to go out and buy tons of new stuff a pack of 12 x 12 card stock and a scrapbook is enough to get started. Remember if you hate giving away all your lovely bits this is a way of keeping them.

 

So I used my fav layout Vintage notes papers ribbon and hearts.

I punched the edge of the papers and die cut hearts to make the flower.

I will be doing quite a few more of these over the next couple of months and will do some that include more than one photo so watch this space,

 

 

 

The page is 12 x 12 and the card is 5 x 5

 

 

 

 

Friends

 

 

I love over stamping so this little number was chronology papers over stamped with vintage notes and the freebie stamps from the magazine.

I finished it off with a few clock bits that I cut from white card and inked they did look a lot darker in real life.

The heart was from the vintage notes decoupage pack with a bit of chronology metal wear,

 

 

 

see you tomorrow thanks for popping by,

Wish I could draw.

 

 

My favorite layout once again. I used vintage notes papers and some of the spots and strips. Lots of matting and layering a handmade flower and a just to say topper. 

I tried to do a freehand florish but it was a total failure never mind better luck next time.

 

 

See you tomorrow thanks for popping by.

Steam train

 

Love Chronology and this page was a combination of the one on www.bespokecardsandmore.com  and the Steam fair an earlier post.

The edge was  stamped with the Looking glass stamp from the Chronology range using chocolate ink. I then over stamped with the freebie stamp from Creativity.

The circle was cut from the card using the circle shape cutter. I the put a piece of black onto the back of the page.

Re cut the circle smaller and stuck it back into the space.

This created a section to do my journaling on.

 I covered the join with clock pieces from Chronology - Pocket Watch and a balloon from build a scene vintage  hot air  balloon. i added a few bits of metal wear again from the Chronology range.

The title was some alphabet stickers that I coloured brown and then mounted onto kraft card.

 I then cut these into small scrabble size tiles.

 

 

see you tomorrow thanks for popping by, 

Love is all around us

 

Hope you all received lots of lovely Valentines day cards yesterday.

This card was made using the Vintage notes filigree heart die,  textured card stock, just to say toppers and sentiment and Vintage notes woven fabric tape.

I did find that it helps to use either silicone paper or warburtons bread wrapper to help the dies release.

The flower vase was glased with Anita's 3D gloss. I finished the heart off with some gems.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow thanks for popping by.

Chronology

Over stamped edge and distressed decoupage elements screwed up and layered.

An easy introduction to chronology and inks.

 

 

see you tomorrow

Mash up

A quick mash up using "Happy days" paper, the "Xcut" habedashery die set and the "vintage notes" fabric stickers and lace.

 

 

See you tomorrow

Build a scene

Oh these are fantastic dies.

 I'm still using these as complete sets but will be mixing them up I think.

I did cut a balloon from the balloon set and placed this low behind the landmarks.

I cut the scene in white and then lightly inked the edges to make it stand out.

Matted and layered it onto crisp white black and blue.

 

see you tomorrow

Love

 

 

Taking photos at a demo isn't always easy so I'm sorry if they arn't that good.

"Vintage note" is lovely and this simple little card uses the papers and decoupage.

I team my papers with "Papermania" textured card stock.

 This comes in A5, A4, 8 x 8 and 12 x 12  you get 75 different colurs in a pack.

Remember to make it go further gut it as much as you can.

 

 

See you tomorrow

Vintage love

 

Simple must be my middle name for this selection.

This card used "vintage notes" papers and decoupage.

 

 



Here it is again

As I said yesterday I use this layout alot, again this one uses "spots and strips" but is a simple

 8 x 8 layout. 

It took 15 mins and leaves a lot of scope for you to take it to the next level.

 

 

See you tomorrow

Spots and srtip

Circles everywhere.

 I love this layout and you will see I have used it in a lot of my samples cards and scrapbook.

I have used "spots and strips" in this one and a couple of handmade flowers.

 The topper was from "Vintage notes"

 

 

See you tomorrow

Steam fair

This may be my last ever post if my son finds out I have put this page on here.

I really like the "Chronology" range this work great with our visit to the Dorset steam fair.

I used textured card and stamp the edge in chocolate. I then used the freebie stamp from the magazine and black ink and randomly stamped over the cogs. I matted the photo onto card stock as I'm not sure if the card board box I ripped up was acid free.

The other elements were made using dies which I distressed.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

Your a star

A simple little star using the "spots and strips" paper and "vintage notes" stamp.

 

 

See you tomorrow

Proud to be british

 

2012 was such a great year and I wanted to incorporate into my page.

So I used "portabello rd" a great range for all those 2012 pages. I used the "build a scene set" and cut the London scene in shades of blue.

The Proud to be British was cut using the "Xcut" alphabet die.

This one has little holes in the letters so I stuck tons of gems to represent the diamond jubilee.

The Olympic rings were cut using a circular die.

You can't see the rub ons very well but they said "Inspire a generation"

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

Just to say

 

This is my favorite card from the present loop.

As you know I love the kraft card so I teamed this up with some cream card and papers from the "spots and strips collection".

This paper is double sided and the strip  used was from the same sheet

I stamped a sentiment from "vintage notes" and used a decoupage that I had left over from "just to say" .

I tied a bow and stuck that to the card with silicone glue and finished it off with a "vintage notes" decorative pin.

 

 

See you tomorrow

It's been a week

 

So it's Sunday if I have scheduled this post correctly. And I have posted everyday.

Easy if you plan ahead!!!! I think not.

 

This is the last of my samples so hopefully I got some good photos yesterday for the coming week.

this card uses the vintage notes collection.

 Note to self take some photos of spots and stripes.

The centre section is one of the journalling tags and the rose is from the decoupage pack although there is not decoupage nvolved.

I shaped the flower and stuck it to the card using silicone to give it that dimension.

 The blitters at the top were one I found in the bottom of my embellishment box.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow 

Double the heart

Love this die. It is so pretty.

 I used double sided paper for the heart after cutting it I decided  that the waste was very pretty so I trimmed the paper and matted and layered it a couple of times gutting each piece as I went.

I finished it off with a crochet flower, button and a piece of bakers twine a sentiment and a few domed gems.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

Vintage notes

 

This is my eclectic moment. The photo doesn't do it any favours.

The base card is kraft which really works well with the vintage notes collection.

I did a bit of stamping on the card and then layered up papers, sentiments and buttons.

 I added a pleated strip and a crochet flower for a bit of texture.

 

See you tomorrow.

Art Deco

 

Wow this is a simple card!!

The topper is from the ultimate pack.

 I love my matting and layering as it can make the papers and images. pop.

It does add a bit of weight to the card.

So where possible I gut the card, this saves me card and cuts the weight down.

Everything is stuck with tape so is very flat.

 

 

Gutting is one of those technical terms, NOT.

 It means cutting a frame out of the card.

Save the centre piece of card for a future project and use the frame for your matting.

This really comes into it's own when using expensive card or when card is limited.

It does save pennies as well.

 

See you tomorrow

Love vintage notes

 

Yes I do love vintage notes.

This layout is one that i will be taking to demos this coming month. used textured card stock for the mats and vintage notes papers and journaling tags teamed up with some of the elements from the decoupage pack.

 

I am trying to schedule my posts so I don't miss a day so lets see if this works.I am preparing this on Tuesday morning to go live on Wednesday.

A touch of chronology

 

 

Loving the new chronology range. It has to be said I do love vintage and steampunk styles so this is great for me.

This card was made using a 5x7 card a piece of paper from the 8x8 paper pack that I cut and matted on black card. I then used some of the screw brads in the corners.

The stamped image is the freebie of the front of creativity magazine stamped and cut using the out of the box technique. I then matted this onto black card.

The hinge effect was created by cutting the winder part from the Xcut clock die set.

Quite a "clean" card watch out later when I post a distressed card.

 

Don't forget to pop over to www.bespokecardsandmore.blogspot.com to see a different

selection of cards.

See you tomorrow.



All aboard

 

So this little offering is from a batch of scrapbook layouts I have done. we are currently doing this one at my scrapbook crops.

The 12x12 card stock was a dotty coreordinations.

The papers are from home for christmas I used the X cut heart die and mats of black. the large heart was cut free hand and finished with a couple of gems.

The flower was made by cutting 8 small hearts folded in half and arranged in a circle. I topped the flower with a hand cut snowflake from a scrap of paper.

The leaves were cut from Cherry Lynn pine branch.

The title was cut on my cricut.

 

 

 

Pop back tomorrow for another card.

 

 

 

 

Been awhile

 

So I'm back the only way I could do it was to go back to my beloved Iphone. I have braved the weather and taken some pictures of my latest batch. So here we go again I promise to try and be a better blogger.

 

 

These 2 cards are both made using A5 kraft cards. The backing papers on the left card is from capsule collection spots and strips with the Vintage notes stamp and spots and strips flowers finished of with a button and bakers twine. The second card is using vintage notes papers and the flower etc is the same as the other card.

Pop back tomorrow and I will show you a scrapbook page using the vintage notes collection.

thanks for popping by.

Happy New year

So the new year is almost here the time of year when we all make resolutions that we can't keep. However this year I am going to try and post more often.
I plan to post ever day but we will see.
So we now have to get the stupid phone to work so I can load my photos to the computer.Will speak to the daughter later in the week so plans are on hold until Friday :( :(

Phone blogging

Trying to get photo size right

Strictly Party

A quick centre step strictly party card today the ultimate die cut pack has tons of toppers,decoupage and papers. So I cut the papers down to cover the front, cut some of the butterflies out to 3d and used a decoupage for the centre. Finished with gems.

Sunny happy days

The sun has made a couple of fleeting visits today which has been lovely.

This is another samples from the present loop.  Happy days are here again. I just love cutting up those papers and using them as embellishments.

Dutch fold

Love theses Dutch fold cards this one has been teamed up with strictly party. The card base is textured card stock a really bright colour for another dull summers day.
On a brighter note am off to see the torch parade. Hubby has been marshalling it for the past 2 days and says the atmosphere is amazing this from the grumpy old git is an amazing statement in it's self.
See you tomorrow at the range Bournemouth.

Strictly Christmas

Another blood test so more sitting around. So another chance to post a card. This one is strictly Christmas meets Chelsea green saw this idea on Jo Austin's blog so this is my variation of it. Love those designer die cuts for creating a nice edge to your project. My top tip would be to draw round them and keep as a template. Before I built up the decoupage I cut the base layer with my die. I then drew around the die onto mirror card. There is a bit of ruffle on the spin side.
See you tomorrow. Where will I be????

Happy days are here again!!!

Sat waiting for the supermarket to open so thought why not blog a card. So I hope the card I have picked matches the description. This should be a happy days card using the cans paper which I chopped up, shaped and layered. I did the same with the advert!! Again I distressed the edges and layered with the embossed stitch folder.

Strictly party

A simple little offering today using the Strictly party ultimate die cut pack. This is one of the toppers layered with mirror card and papers from the same pack. I used 3d gloss on the butterfly and a portabello rd bow. The little blue dots are from a goody bag last year so you may have them if now a couple of gems would work.

Christmas is here

The sun is shining here today I hope it's dry where you are as I'm sure we are all now getting fed up of this rain.

This is one of the Christmas cards from yesterday I used the Christmas tidings ultimate die cut pack. These are such good value. I use a topper that had a frame. I cut the frame off and matted the picture on to silver mirror card which I then stuck to the paper covered card. The frame is then mounted onto the card with foam pads at a jaunty angle. Finished off with a sentiment and some layered poinsettias from the goody bag.  

Oh happy days

Oh happy days!!! raining all day never had to drive with my wipers on full pelt with vision of about 20mtrs. The demo in Gosport range was dead. I'm beginning to worry now thats 2 on the trott. Still Bournemouth Range next week should be busy!!!

Thought I would put up a card I made today for you to have a peep at, this is a 13.5cm square card using happy day products. Lots of layers to give dimension and black inked edges and distressing. Really must have a play at scrapbooking with this range.





Tea bag folded card

Since my card appeared on  Docrafts.com and in Creativity magazine I have had lots of requests for a  tutorial. As I am unable to do a video I thought this might help. The finished card is 13.5cm x 13.5cm. Make a twisted easel. Cut 2 pieces of patterened paper 12.5cm x 12.5cm and stick to the base and the easel.

 Cut 8, 7cm squares from your paper. I used 2 different shades of the same design to cut my tiles. Pick 1 of the designs to cut an extra tile for the stopper.

 With pattern facing down fold in half open turn the paper a quarter turn and repeat.

 Turn the paper over so the plain side is facing up and fold corner to corner open turn and fold again this will give you 4 triangles.

 Ease the tiles into a triangle.

 Have the point of the triangle facing you. Take the right sided folded edge and line that up on the fold running through the centre of the triangle and fold down. Repeat with the left side

Take 4 of each design to create the rosette. Alternate the tiles and using a little Anita’s tacky glue on the top of the lower fold slide the next piece in to place repeat with all 8 tiles. The centre generally leaves a small hole so use a blitter to conceal this. Using your tacky glue stile the rossete to the card. Stick the spare tile onto the bottom right hand corner of the base. Finish off with a few gems.

Lucy meets Wellington

 Thinking of little ideas for Christmas prezzie mini pzza box with some cards in for those forgotten cards or use as a quick thank you. The top set are Lucy Cromwell and the bottom Wellington.

Distressed wellington

A bit late today but here's my offering an easel with more from the die cut decoupage pack this time I distressed the papers and image.
I have received my new kit so this week I will be making samples for my demos gosport range 7th July and Bournemouth range 14th July pop along and see what I've been up to.

Listen to that music

A simple offering this morning am using up my wellington die cut decoupage pack there is so much in there. Again I used 3D gloss and a couple of buttons from boofle.

So let's see if I can load pictures and words today shall we
The card I have for you today is a Lucy Cromwell Venetian easel. I teamed it with textured and mirror card some gems and a little ribbon

Happy 18th Andrew

I was asked to make an 18th birthday card for my Aunties Grandson so decided to make a venetian easel card. I used some of the decoupage from the wellington range added a bit of 3D gloss and some buttons. I had to make sure she realised it would have to be posted at the post office as I never make a card that would get away with a 60p stamp. You can find the instructions for this fold on Joanna Sheens website thanks for the inspiration Sheila Weaver.

Has it worked this time??

Another Lucy Cromwell

A quick one today as I am off to the dentist ahhhhh hate dentists and this is for an extraction or 2.

This little card was made using acetate folded into a square card. I stuck Lucy Cromwells double sided paper to the inside of the card and then stuck a decoupage topper to the front so there is no DST showing. Finished off with a sentiment.

A variation of a dutch fold card. this was made using Wellington papers and toppers. I used the designer die cut pack as a template aand trimmed with ribbons and embossed cardstock stickers.

Tower box

Have been having a little play to see how easy these are to make and it was very easy. I used a sheet of textured A4 I cut it 9cm high and scoresthe lenghth  at 7cm increments. The little bit on the end I punch a fancy border. I then cut the square cards into 4 11cm squares. Then I scored a 2cm border. snip into the corders and  make into little boxes.These are then stuck onto each section starting on the left and making sure they side on top of each other.I then made another little box from the textured card I punch one section of border on each side before making up. Finish off with a a small square of cream and again punch the edge and stick on the top decorate with Lucy Cromwell products.

Back with vengence

So I'm back and ready for action. Don't let the ....... get you down. Most tools replaced just my CDs to go I still don't under stand why they took my Il divo, Osmonds, James Blunt and Take That surely they can sell those!!

This card was made for my daughters, best mates, mums wedding.It was a lovely day and the rain stayed off until late evening.

All the bits were taken from the Lucy cromwell range  I added some textured card stock, gems and ribbon. the edge was punched with a border punch (flower doily) The sentiments were the ocassions range. The green section under the congratulations was cut using the designer die cut as a template.