A Ladies Diary by Graphic 45

I have really fallen in love with Graphic 45 12 x12 papers, these cards were made with a couple of sheets from the A Ladies Diary Collection. My photos don't really do the colours justice, they are trully beautiful papers. Off to play with them some more now!

A Magnolia Moment

I decided to play with one of my Magnolia stamps last night, first time I have done any "colouring in" for ages!

The base card was an 8 x8 from Craftwork Cards. The backgound papers were a mixture of Cosmo Cricket 12 x12's and Dovecraft's Tea House 6 x6's. I also used a Martha Stewart punch to creat the trellis border. I then added a few paper flowers, adhesive pearls and spray pearls to finish off.

 Am quite pleased with the finished result.

Stationery Set

This was inspired by the Craftwork Cards Priviledge members project video for June.

It was simply made from pieces of cardboard covered in white & patterned paper.
Includes a strip to hold your postage stamps, a pen holder and a small open pocket which holds all four co-ordinating notelets/cards.

Sunday

I have been making a few cards using the new "Layer Perfect" tool by Cheetah Crafts and I have to say I am very, VERY impressed with it. I can totally understand why it sold out in minutes on Create & Craft, on it's first airing with Barbara Gray

I love the design of the packaging, the simple, easy to follow instructions and the way it feels in your hand (there is a really good weight to it). There are two versions of the tool one in cm and one inches

It is a quality product that is totally brilliant to use ... I can't believe how quick and easy it is to line things up. No more scrapping a card because of wonky edges!

Feel free to click on the link to the Cheetah Crafts website and watch a video of it being demonstrated.

A Fabulous Friday ...

Those of you who have seen me on Facebook, will know I have recently become a fan of Hot Off The Press - mostly because of the wonderful creations posted by Fabrizio Martellucci. Well on Friday I visited another crafty FB friend of mine Pauline Butcher, another amazingly talented crafter ... like myself she has a room dedicated to crafting and I was in awe of the amount of totally beautiful crafting stash she had. Whilst having a thoroughly good mooch Pauline came across a HOTP Floral cardmakers pack that she said she would not use, so the next thing I knew she had given it to me!  They are just my kind of papers, so using the sketch ideas that come in the pack I made the two cards shown above. I even decorated the inside of the cards - something I haven't really done before. Am chuffed to pieces with the results - so big hugs and a thank you to the lovely Pauline xx

And the Winner Is:

The winner of my blog candi chosen at random is Trudi - congratulations!I will be in touch shortly to get your address, so that I can post your goodies out to you. A big thank you to everyone who has followed me and left such lovely comments, they are much appreciated.

Hope you all have a really crafty Sunday x

Papermania-maniac!

8 x 8

6 x 6

8 x 8

Very occasionally, I like to make a card or two that I don't have to think about too much. This new papermania "Lucy Cromwell" collection is perfect for when my crafting mojo is running low. Beautiful papers and die cut toppers that could not be more simple to put together. I did however muster up a little energy to add a touch of Star Dust Stickles and the odd adhesive pearl here and there.

I'm On A Mission ....

... to use up some of my old crafting stash. I have been sorting out all my Craftwork Cards stash today and decided I had to use some of it up. So I made this very simple 6 x 6 card which was inspired by a Craftwork cards sketch.

The flower bowl was made by using a Labels 25 nestability and cutting a third off it. The remaining two thirds then became a bowl! Simples!!

My Precious ........ lol

I used another 12 x12 sheet of my precious DCWV Mariposa card stack to make this 8 x 8 Z-fold card. Nothing that clever about it, once again just a spot of matting & layering with the addition of some ribbon, some adhesive gems and some gold stickles.

I must stop stroking my card & paper!

Much as I would have liked to have done 10 post last night, I ran out of both time and energy! As mentioned in other posts I am making a conserted effort to use up some of the card and paper stock that I have only previously stroked. This 12 x 12 pack by DCWV  (Mariposa) is one that I have stroked the most as the images are truly luscious!

So after taking a deep breath I tore out another page and cut into it - the three cards all came from one 12 x12 sheet. The paper was already so gorgeous, I didn't really need do much except mat & layer it, then add a bit of ribbon - just goes to show that card making does not need to be difficult!