Hello, everyone!
My card today has some beautiful pastel flowers, delicate leaves and a handwritten sentiment. It is the first one that went to a dear friend, whom I haven’t seen in a while. We had a lovely time enjoying some tea and coffee and talking about so many things… that we didn’t feel the time passed by. Read more
Hi, there!
It’s been quite a long time since I posted here last! Been busy planning & sketching birthday cards and many Christmas cards, gifts and of course the 2016 calendars. So, cupcakes, anyone?
Long story, short, as a friend would say, here’s what I came up with using Papermania’s Cupcake Mini’s clear stamps. Read more
Hi everyone! Hope you are all having a great summer! And maybe you enjoy cooler temperatures than ours.
I have a beautiful flowers’ card today made using a kind of a not so new technique for me: watercolouring. Technique, I haven’t used quite in a long time (since highschool).
So, first I stamped the DoCrafts Papermania Botanicals’ Wild Rose in black pigment ink on watercolour paper. The next step was the colouring part. I usually go for markers or inks, but after I tried my Promarkers I thought I’d like a softer look and went on trying my Papermania watercolour pencils. Here’s a look at my trial cover for the card. A bit messy, isn’t it? Or not.
A bit later than it should have been, here comes a post about a fine gentleman birthday card I made back in March.
The starting point and inspiration has been a card I made back in December. For this one I used the following: an embossing folder from XCut to make the card’s background, I cut out some flags from Heritage Press papers, added some bakers’ twine tied up in a ribbon just enough to hold a button. Simple and clean.
Hope you like it! 🙂
Photo credit Cristian Istrate
There are some new Santoro Gorjuss stamp sets available and one of them is called Sweet Tea.
As I love drinking tea and most of my dear ones enjoy this miraculous drink I knew I’d be using it quite often to make gorjuss crafts with. And as my niece asked me why Gorjuss doesn’t have a mouth I went on adding it. I have also been inspired by a card I saw here. Guess it looks gorjuss, isn’t it?
This card was made as a gift for a dear friend and accompanied a fine Basilur tea pack called Cream Fantasy.
Photo credit Cristian Istrate
Hello to everyone!
Hope you all have a beautiful sunny day and that you enjoy it to the maximum! I know I’ve been away for a while and it seems like a long time since I wrote something here, but it’s all worth it and I am back with a lot of energy, health and wonderful ideas. 🙂
As I have a huge stash of pigment ink pads and as they take quite a while to dry when used in stamping, I looked for other ways of getting the most of them. So, I found a very nice video on Jennifer McGuire Ink YouTube channel and thought to give it a try. And oh, my! I so love this new (for me) technique!
I made quite a lot of crafts using it and today, I will show you some of them: embossed flowers bookmarks. Hope you like them. And feel free to comment, recommend and why not ask for your own personalised ones. 😉
Photo credit Cristian Istrate
This birthday card went to a smart and lovely girl who turned 11 this March. She likes handmade art&craft and she enjoys making her own bracelets, earrings using various materials like paper, beads and safety pins. This lovely girl is also a good, determined and talented student. And she deserves the best of all!
So, for her birthday card, this year, I used yellow felt die cut petals and a special Papermania brad in sparkling purple for the flower. For the layout I wavy trimmed some textured cream card and wrapped it with amethyst ribbon. I attached the flower to the textured layout, added some foam adhesive on the back to give it a bit of dimension and only then adhered it to the plain cream card. The idea was to have a simple, but elegant and delicate birthday card.
Hope you like it. Thanks for having a look and for your comments in advance. They are always more than welcome and highly appreciated.
Every day is a celebration of life, joy and health, a birthday of someone dear and close. As there are some I’ve got the chance to celebrate this March, here are some photos of one of the cards I made.
Many happy, healthy, joyful returns of the day!
A project dear to me, close to my soul, made with a lot of passion and love for a dear friend.
It started with a question in a message. And how proud I am for being chosen for the task! The project consisted in making place cards/envelopes for my friend’s daughter christening. As I had the colours and preferences given ahead, I made some samples first. Here they are:
My friends made their choice and you can see the results below. Read more
Happy International Women’s Day! Happy Mother’s Day!
Wishing you all beautiful sunny days with lots of blessings and joy! Hope you all celebrated together with your loved ones and that you had a great time.
Here’s the 1st set of cards I made for this occasion.
March 1st and the first signs of a longed-for spring are so welcome to our hearts and souls! Colourful flowers made of felt and sewn with buttons were designed to be given this year as my handmade m?r?i?oare.
Wish you all a happy, sunny and lovely spring!
Talida 🙂
Hi everyone!
Challenges are always more than welcome as they put my creativity and mind at work. So, thanks a lot Jill for your crafty challenges and sketches.
This time it was about a photo with multicoloured hearts, you can see it here.
My first idea was to use an embossing folder and colour in the hearts with brush pens. Then I thought it would be to simple and I went on making my first shaker card. As a first attempt to this type, I can say I am happy with the result. Next one should definitely be better as I won’t fill the shaker that much. 🙂 I have to admit I went a bit crazy with so many hearts and thought I should add them all.
So, here is the card in details. Hope you all like it!
As always, your comments and appreciation are welcome and well received. All the best to you all!
