Less is More - Script

It's One Layer Card week over at Less is More and the challenge this week is to include 'script' in your project. I think this is the first ever one layer card I've attempted and to be honest, I found it quite difficult!

This is my attempt.

I stamped Magnolia's Love Letter stamp in Versamark and then heat embossed it in white. I painted over this with a Distress ink wash in Tattered Rose.  I then stamped the flower head of my stamp from Penny Black's Allegro stamp set in Worn Lipstick and sprayed with a water mister.  I then stamped the image onto my card to give a watercolour effect.  I did the same with the stalk in Shabby Shutters.

Haven't decided what sentiment to add yet so have left it as a blank card.

Less is More - Neutrals

I have been an avid follower of the Less is More blog run by the very talented Chrissie and Mandi for a very  long time. I check the blog regularly and love looking at what everyone has been creating for the weekly challenges.  However, I've never been brave enough to enter a challenge.....until now!!!

Here goes then...my first ever Blog Challenge entry!  The challenge this week is Neutrals and this is what I came up with.  (Just hope I have followed the Ladies's rules correctly!)

I used a Kraft card as my base card and added strips of First Edition patterned paper.  The stamped image (Memento rich cocoa) of two birds in a nest was part of a free stamp set with one of the card mags. This was die cut using a tag die from the X-cut Dielicious Tags/Bookplates set backed onto an oval. The sentiment is a Personal Impressions Paula Pascual design.  Hope you like!

Blogging again!

Nearly 5 months has passed since I last blogged!  I have been busy crafting, but I've just been uploading my cards to my Do Crafts gallery rather than on my blog.  However, all that is (hopefully) about to change as I want to start taking part in some of the many Blog Challenges out there, in particular the Less is More Challenge Blog.  So keep watching this space for regular blogs.

Caggy

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Wedding Invitations

Following a contact I made at my YD's nursery summer fete, I was asked to make up some sample wedding invitations for a bride-to-be.  My brief was simple: ivory, gold and traditional.  I came up with the following 4 designs and am happy to report that the bride-to-be and her fiance loved them all!  Fingers crossed I'll soon be finalising the details with them and discussing the T&C's.



"Diamante"



"Embossed Heart"

"Paper Roses"

"Filagree Hearts"

Haven't blogged for aaaaages so thought I'd just add a small selction of some of my favourite makes over the last month or so.

< This was a commission for my Mom for my cousin's daughter's 18th; love the image from the Digistamp boutique and Pink Petticoat papers.

> Love the textures on this one and quite like the look of the staples!

 

Father's Day

I've been busy lately making Father's Day cards for a stall I did at my OD's school Fun Run the other week  plus a  couple of commissions for some of my work colleagues.  Find men's cards soooo difficult - don't know what I'd do without my trusty Sizzix star die or buttons!

Busy, busy, busy!

Can't believe it's been over a month since I last blogged - (chant whilst tapping forehead - "must blog more, must blog more, must blog more").  Alot's happened over the last month.  Had a lovely day at a friend's wedding recently; it was nice to get all dressed up and my girls looked absolutely beautiful (if I do say so myself!). 

                   My beautiful girls                                                              The happy couple

                                                                         

I am also now a published card designer!  I e-mailed a pic of a quick card I made using a stamp that was a free gift in a previous issue of Cardmaking and Papercraft and it was published on the letters page of the June issue.  (This wasn't one of my 'showcase' cards by any stretch of the imagination but it was one of the quickest I've made - the cute little stamped images are so quick to colour.)

The main reason for the lack of posts has been because I have been busy card and candle making for summer fayres.  My crafting bud Lisa and I did our first summer fayre at her boy's school and we were asked to do a table at a fund raising event the following day.  We didn't make a fortune but we had fun and we all have to start somewhere!  I've just received my new business cards and labels from Vistaprint so am hoping to do more fayres and events throughout the year.  (Next one is 12 June so when I'm feeling better - full of cold at mo - I need to get cracking with some father's day cards.)

                                        My stall                                       Lisa's beautiful decopatched gifts