Just To Say ...

Hi there Folks,

A new wee post for me today, sharing with you my lates project. Here I have used this cute little image called Say it with Flowers by Scrapper's Delight. You can get it free from their Facebook Fan Group if you play along with their 'Progressive Freebie Challenge'. It's well worth joining!! So on to my finished project, which I had fun creating, here it is...

This is such a sweet image, I coloured her with promarkers, adding glitter highlights then carefully cut out. The card blank I've used is 7x7 scallop edged on which I matt and layered non-shed gold glitter card with contrasting pink floral papers and a lace ribbon border. I placed image as shown, then decorated with die cut flowers, twigs, blossom stamen and berry sprigs, adding glitter glue, glitter beads and gems for effect. Finishing off with die cut sentiment.

Materials Used 

Scrapper's Delight - 'Say  it with Flowers' image

Promarkers - Ivory, Satin, Blush, Dusky Rose, Sunkissed Pink, Tan, Caramel, Cool Grey1 and Limited Edition - Apple Cider

Trimcraft - Dovecraft 'Perfectly Pink' and 'Painted Blooms' backing papers

Craft Buddy/Dawn Bibby Creations - Fusilier, Twigs, Berry Sprigs & Blossom Stamen dies. Gold non-shed glitter card, Kraft card and Centura Pearl card

Sweet Dixie - 'Just To Say' sentiment dies

Ranger - Stickles 'Cotton Candy' glue and Liquid Pearls 'Gold Pearl' 

Martha Stewart - Glitter Beads 'Copper'

DecoArt - Glamour Dust 'Gold'

My Stash - Brown lace ribbon and Pin linen paper

Once again, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and leave such lovely messages, I really do appreciate it!! Don't forget to stop by and pick up your freebie and play along with the 'Progressive Challenge' over on Facebook.

Take Care

Crafty Hugs

Donna

xxx

I'm entering this into the following challenges:-

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge - #1 Anything Goes

Morgans Artworld Challenge - #02 Anything Goes

Classic Design Team Challenge - #2 Anything Goes 1-27 Feb

Crafters Castle Challenge - #14 Anything Goes

Love to Craft Challenge - #31 February Anything Goes

Always Fun Challenges - #96 Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft - #85 Anything Goes

Promarker Challenge - #479 Flora & Fauna

I Love Promarkers Challenge - #377 Anything Goes with option of Use a Die or Punch

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - #448 Anything Goes

Valentine Colours

Good morning Folks,  how are you all? I'm here today as this is the start of a new month long challenge over at Crafty Addicts. Our theme as always is 'Anything Goes', but you could follow our twist, which this month is 'Valentine Colours'...Kindly sponsoring us this month is the fab Colour of Love (Formerly Lacy Sunshine). Their image I'm using is Rory Love Letters, isn't she so cute???...

For this, I matt and layered red satin card, white centura pearl card and red flittered card, along with a stiped ribbon border and bow. The image, I coloured with promarkers, adding glitter glue for effect and dimension. I decorated with die cut satin card heart, die cut flower, berry sprigs and leaf spray, finishing off with added glitter glue, buttons, mini heart die cuts and ladybug button...

Materials Used 

Colour of Love (Formerly Lacy Sunshine) - Rory Love Letters image

Promarkers - Satin, Blush, Mustard, Caramel, Cocoa, Baby Pink, Berry Red and Crimson

Limited Edition - Apple Cider, Lime Twist, Daffodil Blossom, Fresh Meadow and March Hare

Crafter's Companion - Watercolour card

Craft Buddy/Dawn Bibby Creations - Fusilier, Berry Sprigs, Blossom Stamen and Fantasy Fern dies. Red Satin, Green and Red Non-shed Glitter card

Joycrafts - Heart die

M&C Boutique (The Works) - Small Heart cut outs from 'Love' die.

Ranger - Candy Cane glitter glue

My Stash - Ribbon, Buttons and Ladybug button

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you like my little bit of inspiration? If you need more then head over to our Challenge blog, where you will find my fellow DT buddies inspirations, then why not have a go and join us this month, we'd love to see all your fab makes!!

Crafty Hugs

Donna (DT)

xxx

I'm entering this into the following Challenges:-

Morgans Artworld Open Challenge - #02 Feb Anything Goes

Classic Design Team Challenge - #2 February Anything Goes

Love to Craft Challenge - #31 February Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge - #287 February 2019 Love and/or St Valentine's Day

A Bit More Time to Craft - #85 Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #99 Anything Goes

Cupcake Inspirations - #463 Be Mine

Always Fun Challenges - #96 Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge - #505 Love

Promarker Challenge - #479 Flora & Fauna

I Love Promarkers Challenge - #377 Anything Goes with option of use a die cut or punch (Die Cuts)

Crafting by Designs - #February Anything Goes

Crafter's Castle Challenges - #14 February Anything Goes with Option of Valentine's Day

Hunkydory Review

Hiya,

Recently I was very honoured to be asked to write a blog review for Hunkydory. 

The items I am reviewing here are:-

Distress Oxide Ink Pads 

Mowed Lawn 

https://www.hunkydorycrafts.co.uk/distress-oxide-mowed-lawn-domowed.html

and 

Candied Apple 

https://www.hunkydorycrafts.co.uk/distress-oxide-candied-apple-doapple.html

This is the first time I have used distress oxide inks, and I must say that I have been converted. I already love the original distress inks and have loads in my stash, but these certainly have changed the game in crafting! 

They come in the same size of 3x3", the difference being they are grey, so you don't confuse them, and of course you can still enjoy all the same benefits as with the original inks, using them with stamps, stencils or even apply directly on to any surface you use but with more versatility and fantastic coverage!! 

The quality and feel of the raised felt pad makes them easy to use and work perfectly on all types of card, but with them being more opaque than translucent like the distress inks, adding a spritz of water makes the colours 'pop' especially on dark card. You can layer and build up colour more by wetting then drying, making the colours turn out gorgeous. They dry with a chalky sort of look and feel. Brilliant for all sorts of projects, especially mixed media. I thoroughly enjoyed getting messy playing with these. A great price too £6.99, so I will definitely be adding more of these to my crafty stash!!

Here I have created this desk calendar using the ink pads for the background design

Materials Used

Ranger Distress Oxide Inks - 'Mowed Lawn' and 'Candied Apple'

Sue Wilson - Finishing Touches Oak Leaf Swag dies

Little Birdie - Flowers

PSX - Gold Detail embossing powder

My stash - Kraft card, Gold Metalic card and Calendar Tab

Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Oak Leaf Swag Dies

https://www.hunkydorycrafts.co.uk/finishing-touches-oak-leaf-swag-ced1493.html

Two high quality 10 x 5.3cm swirling oak leaf, decorative branch & delicate flourish mirrored dies, that are a fab addition to Sue Wilson's Finishing Touches collection and greatly priced at £13.99. As normal, they are hard wearing with stunning intricate details that cut perfectly and can be used in most standard embossing & die cutting machines. 

They work together beautifully by using them with other dies and stamps in the collection or on their own to create simple but effective decorative elements for all sorts of crafting - be it card making or even cake making! 

The dies can also be used alongside other companies' products to add more versitilty too. Dies are not only for die cutting, as they can be used in various different ways. One of my favourites is by cutting out on heavy cardstock and using as a stencil, as I have done here in my project. Adding also as a decorative die cut element along with other die cut elements from the Finishing Touches collection.

Materials Used

Sue Wilson - Finishing Touches Oak Leaf Swag and Delicate Daisy dies

Ranger - Distress Oxide 'Mowed Lawn' ink

My Stash - Green non-shed glitter card, Silver mirror card, Butterfly embellishments and Gems

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today and hope that you have enjoyed my review on these products from  https://www.hunkydorycrafts.co.uk/.

Till next time

Crafty Hugs

Donna 

xxx

I am entering both into the following Challenges:- 

Sparkles Forum Challenges - #112 New Year New Stash (Ink pads & Dies)