Easter Rose

Hi there my crafting friends, good to have you back again, this is a new release from Kith and Kin Stamp Company https://www.facebook.com/kithandkinstampco/app_150178545006427 they have been kind enough for us to have the image as a preview to create as we wish to show you the beautiful Easter Rose, so thank you kithandkin, you can purchase her here http://kithandkinstampco.bigcartel.com/product/easter-rose  so go on over to the link and buy it now!

I started by die cutting the image out with Oval Majesty die leaving in all the tiny die cuts, whilst it was still in the die I inked the bottom of the image with Crushed Olive and the top with Tumbled Glass being careful not to go over the image itself.

Being an Easter image I wanted her dress to be a vibrant colour we associate with Easter so it had to be Bright Yellow!!! I coloured her shoes to match and gave her a basket of colourful eggs, the little bunny I coloured in Tan adding a touch of Light Grey to his White fur!

I found this lovely paper in my stash, I wish I could remember where it came from but I thought it matched the image so well I cut it to size, matted and layered it up onto some Green Satin card and Custard card, then attached the image on top.

For the base card I folded a sheet of Custard card in half, cut some Green Satin card to size and embossed it with Grande Floral Embossing Folder then matted this onto the base card, on top of this I added the focal image at an angle.

I was going to gather a lot of flowers together to decorate around the image but these tiny flowers looked so lovely in a circle as a flower wreath, so I kept to the two colours, I have used Green & Yellow! I die cut a small circle out to attach the flowers to then added a couple of White leaves to break them up and I attached it to the card as seen.

Inside the card I added the rest of the beautiful patterned paper I had used under the image to match the front. Adding the Gold letters to make up 'Easter' in the bottom right corner finished the card.


Card dimensions 5"X7". Do go over to http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.co.uk/ to see what lovely creations the other DT members have come up with.

Items Used:

Kith and Kin Easter Rose
Creative Expressions Foundation Card Custard
Create and Craft Satin Card Green
Pretty Paper ( sorry cannot remember where this came from)
Promarkers
Spellbinders Oval Majesty
Spellbinders Standard Circles Large
Sheena Douglass Embossing Folder Grande Floral
Buckwell Craft Supplies Flowers
Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Faux Quilled Leaves
White Card
Tattered Lace Die Alphabet (free with Magazine)
Gold Card

I would like to enter this card into http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/challenge-255-always-anything-goes.html


Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Will-O and the Wisps

Morning my crafting friends, lovely to have you visit me today, I do love your visits and any comments you may make, its good to know you all support me in my creativity.

Its back to work today after a wonderful long weekend off but only four days till half term lol! We do wish our lives away in this job I can tell you. How I would love to retire or find a job where I can craft all day!!!

Anyhow, today's post is another stamped image from Norma J Burnell who designed the Moon Owl I did on Sunday.

This time I decided not to stamp straight onto the card as I felt she needed to be die cut.

I matted up a basic 6" X 6" White card with Rich Plum card then I stamped my sentiment onto a piece of White card before putting it through the E-Bosser with the California Background die to emboss the pattern onto the card, this was not wide enough to do the whole card, I could have extended it but decided to leave it plain as the image was going to go there anyway and I quite liked the contrast.

I stamped my image onto White card and coloured it in with Promarkers, I actually coloured her in with similar colours that are shown in the image on the front of the stamp packaging as I liked these colours. I die cut her out with Gold Labels Four, then die cut a piece of Rich Plum card  also using Gold Lables Four, I cut this in half and placed it under each end of the image to make it look like a larger die cut if you get my meaning? I attached the image to my card on the right side.

To finish the card off I added a Fern leaf and three little flowers, to match the colours used in my image, in the bottom left corner. There you have the finished card.

Items Used:

Basic White Card Base

Creative Expressions Foundation Card Rich Plum

Spellbinders Imperial Gold, Gold Lables Four

Sweet Pea Stamps Norma J Burnell's Will-O and the Wisps

Promarkers

Creative Expressions Unmounted Stamps Friends Sentiments

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Dies California Background 

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Fern Trio

Creative Expressions Theresa Collins 8 X 8 Designer Pad (paper used to die cut Fern Trio)

Buckwell Craft Supplies Assorted Coloured Flowers

Ranger Archival Ink Black

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx