Craft Camp - #5

Morning all.

Today's craft camp card was inspired by the amazing Jenny Hayward and her card seen here. Jenny's creation was in Blushing Bride (a pink!!!) and I guess if you're gunna CASE...you have to do as the crafting Romans do!!!! Not stopping at that one shade however, I changed a couple of colours position of flowers and came up with some wonderful generic cards for my stash.

These based on Jenny's card

Then with Cottage Wall DSP

...and finally with the GORJUS Graphic 45 DSP I used here.....

These cards also gave me the chance to play with the wonderful Edgelit Dies and co-ordinating set, Bordering on Romance and the Adorning Accents Embossing folders. They give such a different edge and really make a card look classy.

Thanks so much for the inspiration Jenny. I am very happy with the way that these turned out. Why don't you stop by Jenny's blog and see the wonderful things she creates?? 

Thanks for popping by.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzaz, Blushing Bride, Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence (ret) Springtime Vintage DSP, Cottage Wall DSP (ret) and Graphic 45 Baby and Bride Collection Paper - Unchained Melody - #450023

Ink: (SU) Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzaz, Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence

Stamps: (SU) Mixed Bunch, Brodering on Romance

Punches, Dies, Embossing: (SU) Blossom Punch, Adorning Accents Edgelit Dies, Adorning Accents Embossing Folders

Other Bits: Dimensionals, Lg 1/2 pearls fm Reject Shop

Lynda xx



A Bevvy of Boxes - #3

"With a little help from my Friends" is a FAB song and is pertinent for this post. Kerry Bunting as I previously mentioned is a magical friend and I was blessed to receive this a short time back. (Sorry Kez that I have not posted it here yet!!) It is beautiful and takes pride of place on my table.

The birthday bonanza of Sept continued with niece...Miss 15 (the day before my son's b'day). Oh the agony of it all!!! A quick call to her Mum and all she wanted was bangles....EASY!! With such a basic gift it needed spectacular packaging. Now I am NEVER one to bite off more than I can chew (yeah right) and had images of co-ordinated cards and boxes, but sadly time ran out. I looked up and saw my little draw from Kez,...and a MASSIVE lightbulb came on.....a combo effort. Card and box in ONE!!! An e mail later and some information and I was on my way. Kez based her easel draw box on a template from Liam Pucher. Liam is SUPER talented in 3D paper projects. Take a look round her blog if you have not before. It is amazing.

(Sorry to keep rambling) I wanted to use the devine Miss Anya Collection stamps that have sadly sat neglected and unused since I purchased them (a long time ago!!) These 3 savvy young gals are perfect for tweens and teens. Rather than colouring the whole image I paper pierced some of it. This was the result..

and this is how she looked completed.....

I bundled her up with some Grosgrain Ribbon as wrapping....

      




Then.......when she took the ribbon off.......

I was sooooooooooooooooo happy with the result that a (somewhat sad but enthusiastic) happy dance was undertaken. It looked so pretty with the bangles in it!!

The card was a very narrow panel at the back of the easel which cannot be seen when opened, but is there as a special reminder. Here it is from the side and close ups of the delightful draw handle and the sentiment. Given that the inside of the draw gleamed...Happy Birthday did not seem right. "Sparkle" fitted the bill perfectly.

Thanks so very much for enduring this post to the end. The crafting community is such a wonderful and caring group, makes you feel good just to be a part of it.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Orchid Opulence, Whisper White, Watercolour Paper, Cottage Wall DSP.

Ink: (SU) Rich Razzleberry, Black Stazon

Stamps: (SU) Warm Words, Miss Anya Collection (The Greeting Farm)

Punches: (SU) Scallop Oval and Large Oval punch

Other bits: Nestabilities Oval and Scallop Ovals, Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils, Lyra Watercolour Crayons, SU Dimensionals, handle fm Kez's local craft haunt, Kaiser Clear Rhinestones

Lynda xx





More comebacks than Melba!!!!

Both my MIL and FIL have been workers at Australia Post FOREVER. My MIL finally decided to retire.....after threatening to do so many times. This time 'was it and FINAL!!" So to commemorate such an auspicious occasion, I marked it with a card. I made it at a play date at my bestie's house. She had aquired the SU bird punch and let me have a play. I had seen similar versions of this card on SCS and here's what I came up with...

It let me also have a play with my relatively new nesties (Labels 8) which is a similar shape to the SU top note die. Dunno if I am happy with my sun in the top left hand corner.....but it needed something!! Here are some close ups anyhow....

In the weeks since I made this card...I have since aquired the bird punch and will show you some other creations with it.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Cottage Wall DP

Ink: (SU) Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence, Pale Plum, So Saffron (chalk)

Stamps: (SU) Teeny Tiny Sentimente, Pocket Silhouettes

Other Bits: Nestabilities Lables 8, SU XL Bird Punch, Dimensionals

Lynda xx

Crafter's Retreat #5

Yes....and still the creations come!!!!

The FAB Debbie P posted the most amazing wee box project sometime back...here....and I KNEW I had to give it a crack. I wanted to give it to my MIL for Mother's day. For this project I broke out the stunning Cottage Wall DSP and used the co-ordinating colours in that to make it work. I had many crafters looking at me put this together...and Debbie you'll be very happy to know it has a HUGE ooooooooooo and ahhhhhhhh factor!!! Debbie used the too cute Magnolia stamps...I decided to play a wee more with my Vintage Vogue clear mount stamps. The also very talented Kez and done some similar things here and here.

Here 'tis....fm all angles...LOL!!!

Fm the top...                                                           

With the top popped....showing the hidden calendar and the paper drawer open for those quick notes....

Sorry abt the variance in colour.....I tried to get it all the same but failed badly!! :(

Some close ups of the flowers on the easel and stand.....

...and finally a close up of the feature                          

...Oh yeah....and I did my first Build-A-Brad!!

The punch and 1/2 pearl combo.............
                                         

My MIL loved her Mother's day pressie (thank goodness). I had so much fun making these boxes and I can see many more being made in to not too distant future.

Thanks Debbie for providing such a great project and such inspiration for one of the great procrastinators!!

Stuff Used:

Card: (SU) Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Whisper White, Cottage Wall DSP.

Ink: (SU) Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Orchid Opulence

Stamps: (SU) Vintage Vogue

Bits: (SU) Build-a Brad, Martha Stewart Doily Lace Punch, Purple 1/2 pearls fm Bec's. Nestabilities Lg Ovals and Lg Scallop Ovals, double sided tape and SU Dimensionals.

Lynda xx