Kraft notes

So what do you do with double sided papers? I argue with myself.

I rolled the paper over a pen to get the curl. I added a piece of matching paper behind to follow the pattern through.

The flower was made with my favorite flower die "petal posy" which I shaped upwards.

The brads were in a goody bag from last year.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

More Gorjuss

 

Another distressed Gorjuss.

It's hard to see on this one but the frame WAS white I inked it lightly to change the colour. The edges were distress with my knife on the larger piece of paper. I then inked the beige piece with my dominoes.

I cut the frame off the topper and remounted it onto the project with foam pads to add some dimension.

The butterflies are cut from the waste on the decoupage sheets.

I am sure Gorjuss has "borrowed" Mr Beans "Teddy"

 

Kraft notes

 

Layout of the month I think.

This one is distressed and uses the ultimate die cut pack.

Am planning some tutorials. So my question is

What would you like to see?

Thinking caps on!!

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

Gorjuss

I have to say this range has really grown on me. the papers are so lovely and Gorjuss reminds me of Pippy Longstocking.

Now that shows my age.

So this card uses the pale beige paper which I over stamped with the text stamp "postmark" from all aboard.

I then over stamped that with the date stamp from "Air mail" also from the All aboard range.

I then added a tag from the Gorjuss ultimate die cut pack.This was  was too large for the card so I trimed it and then cut the button and stuck them back on. Gorjuss herself was cut using the "out of the box " technique. I then created a "fake die" to mount her on.

finished with one of the bookplates cut from the packaging with a few butterflies and gems.

 

 

See you tomorrow

All aboard

 

This card uses the all aboard range.

I have used the stamps which I have cut out and mounted on pads to give a bit of dimension.

 

 

See you tomorrow

Mash up

This is one of my samples and by heck are there a lot of them,

I will post all of them for you to see eventually.

this card is a 5 x 7 I used All Aboard papers, journalling cards and Kraft note decoupage.

Really loving these products at the moment and am off to play a bit more today.

 

 

See you tomorrow

Boxing clever

I have always said the ultimate decoupage packs are the best value for money when buying the new ranges and this one is no exception.

They are full of lovelyness.

There are always a couple of sheets of  boxes and bags and I must be honest I have been lost as to know what to do with them.

This time I had a flash of inspiration.

I made up the boxes and sandwiched them between two pieces of card.

 I then covered the top piece with paper.

I then made a twisted die cut easel which I decorated with a topper and a felt flower.

Which I stuck onto the top of the boxes.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

You are framed

 

Another helping of gorjuss this one is my new layout which you will see clearer

as the month goes by.

All the edges are distressed, surpise, surprise.

The background paper was stamped again with the all aboard stamp using a chocolate ink pad.

 I cut the frame from the topper and mounted that on foam pads,

The blue section was left plain for your sentiment.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

Forever friend "Kraft notes"

Beautiful papers and yummy images.I am so spoilt for chose.

Teamed this one up with a bit of plaited bakers twine and some shimmer dots from last summers collection. Again I have distressed the edges I think this is my new "Thing"

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

All aboard

All aboard what can I say? love it.

This little number is mainly made up of papers from the

 12 x 12 paper pack.

There are a few bits from the goody bag as well.

The edges of all the bits have been distressed with my knife.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

Gorjuss

I am really loving this range maybe more than I thought I would. So the first of many samples is this one. A square kraft card with gorjuss papers which I over stamped with one of the stamps from the All aboard range.

The stripy paper is also from Gorjuss as is the bakers twine and buttons.

I did trim the decoupage a lttle so more of the background showed through.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow

Gorjuss has arrived

 

So Gorjuss arrived yesterday and I have been using matchsticks to keep my eyes open.

I thought I would give a sneek peek of the 2 projects I have made.

 

 

The top project is still a work in progress but will be finished by tomorrow!!

 



 

This one is all finished and is back to the shaped cards I love making.

 

See you tomorrow when I will start showing the samples.

Sneek peek

 

 

So as promised a sneek peek of my projects.

 I cant show you the whole thing as yet but I will be taking these on Saturday and Sunday.

The first is a scrapbook page

 

 

As is the second one both using All aboard.

 

 

This one is a bit blurry but is a clean forever friends.

 

 

The next one shows matting and layering!!

 

 

This is a bit distressed.

 



 

Another distressed one with matting and layering.

 

 

My Gorguss goodies haven't arrived yet so will put sneeks up when possible. I am now off to do some mash up samples now so I will be mixing Forever Friends with All Aboard.

Should be interesting

 

I have done the draw for the blog candy and am please to say that Kimbo has won the goodie bag. So if you can contact me I will organize delivery.

Thanks for entering

See you tomorrow



Shes there somewhere

 

 

So the fist loop of the year draws to an end hasn't it flown by fast. this is the last sample and it's from the chronology range.

This is a 6x6 card and I used the technique I used in previous scrapbook pages over stamping the edges of the card. I then stamped the love from the vintage notes stamp set cut it and mounted it on foam pads.

The clock was cut from the 8x8 paper pack and the centre removed to put in a picture. I finished it off with a bit of metal wear and some bakers twine.

 

 

I am sure my Chronology will find it;s way into my Gorguss new stuff.

 A sneaky peek of a couple of samples tomorrow.

See you then  



Heart warmers

 

This card uses heart warmers sentiments which I cut up and put on the card as 2 separate elements. I then made a couple of flowers and handmade gem florishes.

 

A bit of distressing of the paper with my scissors. Which reminds me of a tip I heard use a sewing stitch unpicker to distress the edges of you card or paper safer than the other options.



Up up and away

 

Love these buid a scene dies There is so much you can do with them.

Here I used the largest balloon and cut it in left over bits of spots and strips with a piece of textured card stock for the balloon itself.

The message on the balloon was from the vintage notes papers. There are 2 sheets of sentiments which can be chopped up. 

 

 

I did cut the sand bags for the balloon basket but must admit I lost them they were so small.

 

See you tomorrow

Spring is just around the corner!!

 

 

As I am scheduling this one the sun is shining even if it's a little cold. O.K it's freezing

More spots and strips for this one very cheerful with a little handmade flower in the corner.

don't forget tomorrow is the last day for entering my blog candy.

 

 

 

I shall be starting my samples tomorrow can't wait to have a play with my Gorguss new products.

There are some lovely papers and stamps. If you are off on a cruise or the holiday of a lifetime you will love All aboard.

Still waiting for my goody bag and magazine.

My first demo will be at

Emerald crafts

  14 High Street
Lyndhurst
HAMPSHIRE
SO43 7BD

So pop along to see the yummy new stuff.



What a lovely day

 

What a busy day in Portsmoth.

 

MATERIALS BANK & CRAFT CENTRE
16 ANSON ROAD
FRATTON INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
PORTSMOUTH
HAMPSHIRE
PO4 8TB

Has to be one of my favorite places to go Sally holds a lot of Docrafts stock and the prices are cheaper than other places.

She now has a webpage so you can buy online worth a quick I think 

http://www.beneficial.org.uk/shop/

 

 

This is that layout agaaaaaaain!!

I mixed the spots and stripes and vintage notes again and this time added floating hearts and a decoupage heart.

I have finished all my demos for this loop now and I must say I used nearly all my vintage notes.

I think I will be using spots and strips with the new bits that came through the door on Thursday.

I sneek peek coming up I think.

See you tomorrow

 

Blog candy

So I promised to show you the candy and due to it being my Birthday I got a bit busy so here it is better late than never. I have decided to change the closing date until Monday 25th February to give you a little extra time.

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.