Roaring 20s

I  love the 20s of the last century and when the new CDs from Debbi Moore appeared, just could not resist.

And there I am with the following result: I just printed the image and the backing papers and played with my sissors and other tools.
For this project the following materials were used:

• Roaring 20s - Debbi Moore Designs CDs
• Neeenah card - Crafter's Companion
• Epiphany tool - round circle 2.5 cm
• Cuttlebug
• Marianne Dies 
• Collall glues - Crafter's Companion.

...Put Your Feet Up and Relax...

Who wouldn't like this? Just to put the feet up, relax and enjoy.

This is meant for my brother whose birthday is rapidly approaching.


 To make this card I have used the following:

• • Mulberry Wood - Relax, Everyday Rubber Stamp by Crafter's Companion
  • Sectrum Noir Stamp sets from Crafter's Companion
  •  EC Shape Studio Tool -  Circle 25.
  • Different papers
  • Core'dinations card stock
  • Blank card
  • Different types of Collall glue from Crafter's Companion

  
  

In the same boat

'In the Same Boat' is  my wedding anniversary  card.

It's been nine years since I got married and this is what I made for my husband last night. What I used here was one of the latest SWALK stamps - - coloured in with Spectrum Noir pens. The image was cut out and mounted on a die cut doily and embossed polka dot card.

Tools used:

• Quackers - Pawfect Pals Collection - SWALK from Crafter's Companion
• Spectrum Noir pens from Crafter's Companion
• Core'dinations - Whitewash
• Epiphany -EC Shape Studio Tool - Round 25
• Tonic Studio Simplicity Die- Doily
• A blank square card
• All-purpose Collall glue
• Collall Glue Gel
• Darice Polka Dot Embossing Folder

Toreads Magic

The new range from Crafter's Companion put a smile on my face from ear to ear. 

This little cheeky one was coloured with Spectrum Noirs. I just took every colour I liked randomly and coloured the little one.

A Magic Kiss

 It is almost 2 in the morning, and though it is very late and very early at the same time, my creativity has just resulted with this lovely card. 

To make this card I used:

• Strawberry's Kisses -  Mistletoe Mwah
• Watercolors
• Watercolor card
• Collall permanent glue
• Some scraps from some old DO crafts designer paper
• Mistletoe die from Marianne design Creatables
• Pearls from The Works

A Calendar with Strawberry's Kisses

In order to make this little calendar, I used the following  from Crafter's Companion :

• Strawberry's Kisses -  What a Cracker stamp set
• Spectrum Noir alcohol pens
• Neenah card
• Collall permanent glue
• Some scraps from some old DO crafts designer paper
• DO crafts mini calendar for 2013
• DO crafts snowflake punch from some 2 years ago

And for Your Christmas Tree...

The biggest problem was to find a place to hang this cutie and take a photo.
(It is hanging from one of shelves in my living room).

To make this tree decoration I used the following  from Crafter's Companion :

• Strawberry's Kisses -  Christmas Fairy stamp set
• Spectrum Noir alcohol pens
• Neenah card
• Collall permanent glue
• Die of your own choice

Christmas Fairy

More from Strawberry's Kisses. 

To make this card I used the following  from Crafter's Companion :

• Strawberry's Kisses - Christmas Fairy stamp set
• Spectrum Noir alcohol pens
• Neenah card
• Some scraps of paper from Do crafts,
• Collall permanent glue

Christmas with Strawberry's Kisses

When they appeared first time almost a year ago, Strawberry's Kisses stole our crafters' hearts and to have them for Christmas this year is a sweet treat.

To make this card I used the following ingredients that come from Crafter's Companion kitchen:

• Strawberry's Kisses - Happy Christmas stamp set
• Spectrum Noir alcohol pens
• Neenah card
• Some scraps of paper from Do crafts,
• Collall permanent glue

Blossom

While watching the Olympics, I just wanted to make something that would be GB  by marrying beautiful Blossom stamp from MOREHEADS  by Crafter's Companion - coloured in with splendid SPECTRUM NOIRs again from Crafter's Companion and PORTABELLO RD paper from DO crafts. 
The result was not bad at all.

Happy Crafting. xxx

The Girl

Moreheads are the new stamp sets from Crafter's Companion. They are lovely, especially the girl which was a real delight to colour with Spectrum Noir alcohol pens.

Christmas in Mulberry Wood...

 A rare is the occasion when the whole range of  products can touch my imagination as Christmas in Mulberry Wood CD and stamps did, and that's what happened.

These little ones conquered  my heart after my all time favourites SWALK, HUMPHREY and POPCORN.


 I would praise CD's decoupage section which is second to none.

After having printed the images, it took minutes to cut them out and layer them with the silicone glue.  and assemble them  into cards.


  I also used the sentiment stamps from the accompanying stamp sets.



But not only is the decoupage to  admire, there are also fantastic stamps that can be used with or without the CD. You can colour them with your favourite pens and they will  look magnificent.

For the above cards, I have used the following products:

• Neenah Card - Crafter's Companion
• Christmas in Mulberry Wood CD and Stamps - Crafter's Companion

• Mistletoe die from Marianne Design Creatables
• Spectrum Noir Alcohol Pens - Crafter's Companion
• Epiphany
• Various card stock and a punch

Mulberry Wood

Mulberry Wood - a new collection of stamps and CD from Crafter's Companion has stolen every body's heart including mine.

These little cuties are perfect to make  Christmas cards which can be sent not only to the dearest and nearest, but also to everyone  making everyone smile even if one might not be in a mood to smile. The real feel good factor comes with them into your life.

Sent with Love is one of those little stamps.

To make this little card I have used:

• Mulberry Wood rubber stamp 'All Wrapped Up'
• Mulberry Wood CD
• Spectrum Noir alchocol pens
• Neenah Card
• Momento ink pad
• Collal Glue
• Bits and bobs from other companies

Happy Crafting

My little Scarecrow Cards

After a month of doing nothing and having a very nice holiday in Italy, I have created these two little Scarecrow cards  and  named them simply Autumn and Winter.

It has taken me no time to stamp and colour the lovely images with my Spectrum Noir pens, and to embelish them.

 The very stamp that comes from Hobby Art kitchen  is very inspiring  and motivating, so I have decided to made cards in two of my favourite seasons colours.

Materials and Tools used:

• Scarecrow from Hobby Art Ltd
• Spectrum Noir from Crafter's Companion
• Cuttlebug
• Various embelishments.
• Momento ink pad
• Neenah card and various cardstock

My Bike

This is an experiment of using a printed image - a digi stamp with Spectrum Noir pens. The final result is more than satisfactory. 

To  make this card I have use:

• Wee digi stamp 'Rosie's Bike Ride'
• Spectrum Noir alchohol pens from Crafter's Companion
• Neenah card from Crafter's Companion
• White roses from The Works
• Doilies from Joanna Sheen online store
• Some paper from Boofle collection from DO Crafts

Friends and Wine....

Some more  of SWALK. 

This time it is Specrturm Noir alchocol pens, Neenah card, and  black Co'ordinations in combination with Wine of Friendship, and all from Crafter's Companion.

Happy Crafting. xxx

A Country Girl....

This lovely girl comes from the kitchen of Crafter's Companion's SWALK range 'Sweet Stuff'. 

' A Little Bird'  is  my favourite one as the Daydream Beleiver is. I used my Spectrum Noirs alchocol pens on Neenah card which made it  easy and fast to finish in a card.    

                

A Sunny Day

What a lovely SWALK image that fits perfectly today's weather - which is sunny and warm.  

To make this card I have used:

• Neenah card from Crafter's Companion
• Spectrum Noir alcohol pens
• SWALK stamp from Sweet Stuff collection
• Black Momento ink pad
• Mirri card
• Collal glue of all sorts

A Touch of Orient

All of these gorgeous cards were made in an evening last week.
It was a joy to make them and play with the wonderful images and papers from the lastest CD that came from 'Debbi Moore's  crafting kitchen'.

I I just printed the images and papers from the CD onto a supersmooth card, cut out everything to mat and layer and mounted on a 12.5 cm(5 inch)square white blank card.

To end, I embelished the cards, I used some floweres distressed with Tim Holtz distress ink pads and some die cuts.

Ingredients:

• Glitter and Glitz Oriental CD - Debbie Moore
• Neenah super smooth card - Crafter's Companion
• Tim Holtz Distress ink pads
• Marianne Dies - Swirls
• Collal Glues ( all types) from Crafter's Companion

A bit of SWALK and Humphrey

While still waiting for the lastest SWALK stamps, I  was playing with what I have.



                                                       





   These stamps are ones of my all time favourties.

The cards were simple to make.

The images were all stamped with black Momento ink pad onto the Neenah card and coloured with  Spectrum Noir pens, all from Crafter's Companion.

While waiting for SWALK....

Another miserable, windy and cold day. It looks like spring is not allowed to come into our lives and bring some colour and sunshine. 

But. luckily for us crafters, there is always a way to make our lives brighter and happier.  The other day I heard the news of new SWALK coming and since I am getting impatient for that launch I decided to play today with this little fellow from Crafter's Companion:

 This little Humphrey from A Year With Humphrey - Party Time stamp set was coloured in with fabulous Spectrum Noir pens on Neenah card and all together coming from Crafter's Companion Kitchen.
                                                              Happy Crafting. xx

Mini Gift Boxes

These little boxes are very easy to make and they are the unsuccessful result of my trying to understand a project that I saw long time ago on Crafter's Companion FB I'm a Crafter Companion Group.

You must be asking why unsuccessful. Simply because, I made a mistake in measuring for the prototype  box and then, I had to adapt  the whole project to something similar.






On, the other hand I do not want to say it is mine, because it is not.
So, thank you very much ladies from the group for sharing the project that helped me make mine.

The materials and tools used:

• Darice emobssing folders
• Core'ditnations - Black Magic
• Ultimate Pro - Crafter's Companion

•  Core'dinations Accessories - sanding block and dust buddy
• Collal glue from Crafter's Companion

• Haberdashery stamp set from Stamping for you -Debbi Moore
• Buttons embossing folder from Design Objectives
• And, lots of love.

Haberdashery with Debbi Moore Designs Stamping Magzine

Not only is the Shabby Chic collection of Debbi Moore Designs CDs one of my favourites, but also the Stamping magazine that follows is. It is needless to say how much I enjoy the free gifts that come with it.

The second edition is dedicated to a lovely new CD – HABERDASHERY that has appeared recently. It is all about lace and ribbons, threads and needles, buttons and thimbles.

As a result of reading the magazine and using the free gifts, I made these two similar, but different cards.

Mother’s Day Sunday

I love Sundays. They remind me of my parental home and my growing up. After all, they remind me of my Mother.  It would always be that lovely smell that would spread from the kitchen to wake us up on Sunday mornings. My brother and I would know that our Mother was there for us. 

And, she is still.  

Athough I live far away now, I can still ‘smell her presence’ on Sunday mornings.

 

Materials used for this card are:

• The Tale of Two Bad Mice – Beatrix Potter – stamps from Crafter’s Companion
• The Paintbox Poppets CD from Crafter’s Companion
• DO Crafts Digital Designer template
• Spectrum Noir pens from Crafter’s Companion
• Tim Holtz distress ink
• Some white cardstock
• Neenah card from Crafter’s Companion

Sweet Memories

Jane Shasky double CD from Joanna Sheen is one of my favourites. I always wondered why there were no any stamps. And, to my surprise, I found out that there were three stamp plates: Slice of Heaven, Sweet Memories and Relax & Enjoy.

This beautiful water can is from Sweet Memories. I simply stamped and water coloured the image. Then, I cut I out and layered with the rest of the elements.

Tools and elements used:

• White card,
• Tri-boss universal embossing folder – patchwork from DO crafts,
• A white card die cut doily,
• Tim Holtz ink stamp – aged mahogany, and
• Spray and Shine from Crafter’s Companion.

Boofle

It‘s been a while now that I receive regularly Boofle cards from my OH.  I adore this little knitted doggy and no wonder that I went crazy when I saw that he would be a new baby in the family of DO crafts.

The card presented was created with the free stamp- Boofle from Creativity magazine.

Boofle was stamped and coloured with Spectrum Noir pens. Then once cut out, it was mounted on a white square card which was layered with different elements:

• Brown square card whose edges were distressed,
• Distressed square card which was embossed with the Tri-boss universal embossing folder – mixed buttons  from DO crafts,
• Grunge postcard stamp from Additions distressed with Tim Holtz vintage photo ink stamp
• And, stamp elements from rhe free stamp present from Stamping for You magazine from Debbi Moore.

Hello everyone,

I was surprised and honoured when I found a message from dear and talented Lousie about this lovely award that I was given  the other day.

The idea of the LIEBSTER BLOG AWARD is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs. This helps to spread the knowledge and readership.

To accept the award, you must:

1. Link back to the person who gave it and to thank them for thinking of you.
2. Post the award to your blog.
3. Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.
4. Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know. ‘Liebster’ in German means ‘dearest, so to carry on the Liebster tradition, I am going to pass this award on to 5 people whose blogs have  been an inspiration to me.

These talented ladies are:

Svjetlana
Debbie
Karmakrafts
Jackie
Sue

Paint Fusion CD

Lavender is one of my favourite plants and seeing  it in any form is a treat.

This one is from Sheena Douglas Paint Fusion CD.

It has inspired me to make a card, a mini box and an inside tag for earings.

 All is meant to be a farewell present for a colleague.
Hope she'll like it.

Materials used:

• Paint Fusion CD - Sheena Douglas
• Centura Pearl card - Crafter's Companion
• Dusky Concord Distress Ink - Tim Holtz
• Anita's 3D Gloss - Design Objectives
• Ultimate Pro- Crafter's Companion
• Various types of Collal glue - Crafter's Companion