{Roses and polkas}

One of my favourite combinations on anything, whether it be clothing, home ware or soft furnishings is roses and dots.  It is such a classic and well tried combination of pattern.

For this card I used the beautiful 3 step rose from Picture Perfect, the detailed leaf from kinda Eclectic and the small dots from Timeless Textures.  Then to finish it off with those two little butterflies I used Grateful Bunch.  At this time of year I am fortunate enough to see butterflies in pairs as they seem to dance around each other in mid air.

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{Flower class results}

On Tuesday I ran a paper flower making class, some of the lovely ladies that came sent me photos of the items they made, thought you might like to see them.  I love how everyone can change the look of what they are creating by different choices of colours and stamps.

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-{Rose Wedding Card}-

Had the pleasure of making this card for a lovely couple.

Here's a video of how I constructed it, there are loads of tips in it!

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{One Sheet Wonder Wednesday} week 11

Oops... I know it's Thursday... I did film it on Wednesday - honest!

Enjoy!

Edited...

Here are the measurements in inches...

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-{Spiral Flower and Fringed Leaves}-

This little project just makes me smile.  I was inspired by a picture on Pinterest.

It's by a quilling artist Anastasiya Bertova - do Google her, her paper crafting is phenomenal! 

So here is my video...

After I made the above, I was just itching to try other colour combos, so made this trio of boxes using Blackberry Bliss, Min Macaron and Delightful Dijon.

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-{One Sheet Wonder Wednesday}- Week 7

Welcome to another OSWW! Can't believe this is already week 7, quite chuffed with myself for keeping going this long.  I've no idea how long I'll keep doing them, each week I somehow manage to come up with a new idea, I guess it's because I am fortunate to have such great products to work with.

Do let me know if you are inspired, I love hearing from you!

And here is the card...

Here is my inspiration, it came from Encza's lovely blog, you can see her post here.

Ingredients:

Stampin Trimmer

Kinda Eclectic

Cut the card to 13.5x20cm

Score at 5, 10 and 15cm across the length, and at 3.5cm, score between 3.5 and 10cm (turn card around and do the same at the other end)

Then across the short end, wit the card at 3.5cm, cut between 3.5cm and 16.5cm.

Please watch the video again to be sure :)

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-{Paper Wild Rose}- Video Tutorial

I absolutely loved creating this.

I don't know about you, but sometimes I get those Eureka! moments when crafting.  Last week I had to prepare a paper flower class, and I knew that the ladies participating were well seasoned crafters, so I had to do something a bit different and inspirational for them.  I had been thinking about how to use stamps to create different colour effects on flower shapes, the "sun" stamp from Kinda Eclectic just seemed to work so well.

I'll let you watch the video... I'm sorry that it goes a bit blurry, my camera didn't refocus like it normally does, and I'm afraid I'm too pushed for time to re film.  Had a wonderful week preparing for and then attending a friends wedding this weekend.

On the left is a flower that I have curled the petals inwards and the other one I haven't.

Ingredients:

Spiral Flower Die

Fun Flower Punch

Kinda Eclectic

-{Easy Grid Card Technique}-

I've been prepping for a stamping technique class, and have been working on how to get the most out of your stamps...however I know that some of the ladies coming to my class like to watch my videos, So, although we'll be doing something like this next week, I'll be doing something extra with them.

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This is the little card, however, you can have great fun with this technique and create bigger grids.

Ingredients:
Kinda Eclectic stamp set
Cajun Craze, Soft Sky, Smokey Slate
Whisper White, Cajun Craze and Naturals White card stock.

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~{He is Risen}~

Happy Easter!

Ingredients

Sheltering Tree, 

Kinda Eclectic, 

Skinny Mini Alphabet, 

Gorgeous Grunge, 

Daffodil Delight, Hello Honey, Island Indigo, Old Olive, Rose Red

White Chalk Marker

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~{Symbolic Easter Stamping}~

After a busy month of Stampin' Up! parties and events, it was really nice to sit at my craft table and do some stamping just for me.  

I wanted to create an Easter image that described my reflections on Easter time.  That although Good Friday is the celebration of a death, it is a death that was meaningful and continues to be meaningful for me.

As I got a couple of unwanted marks on the card in the video, I remade it the next morning, and instead of using the Hardwood stamp I use one from Gorgeous Grunge to create a cross shape.

Ingredients:

Gorgeous Grunge (Blood and Cross)

Kinda Eclectic (Light Beams)

Serene Silhouettes (Thorns)

Another Thank You (heart)

Hardwood 

Real Red, Black Stazon, Hello Honey and Sahara Sand.

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