New masks by Peerless Designs

As you know I design for Peerless Designs, well Sarah has designed some beautiful mask medleys and will be demonstrated on create and craft on 27th March at 8am & 1pm.

I have thoroughly enjoy playing with these masks, and have used different mediums on them as you'll see from the images!

The first one reminds me of Art Deco era. I used craft foil which I embossed, I lightly distressed the embossed image then used black ink to give it a more vintage look. I distressed a small doily using black ink and centred a fan I made in the centre, this was positioned in the centre of my main embossed image, I hope you like it!

So sorry...

I am so very sorry I haven't updated my blog in a long while but I nursed my husband who had cancer and, sadly my wonderful husband lost his fight.
I've just started to get back into my crafting zone and I'm about to post some new cards and projects x

Busy bee!

Morning all, haven't been on here for a while as I was helping with my niece and nephews 40th birthday party also, as I announced some time ago, I design for jammi panda designs so have been doing lots of samples for Fee's Christmas CD ROM to be released later this month, its vibrant and cute different from the normal Christmas designs. I will post as soon as Fee gives us the go ahead, at the moment it's still under wraps! 

Hunkydory Christmas

I know it's early to be thinking about the 'C' word but, last year I had so many orders for Christmas cards I seemed to be in my craftroom 24/7 and had very little time to make my own personal cards so, this year I'm starting to make them early!
These 2 cards are from the Hunkydory Christmas compendium, there is something for everyone from Cute, vintage, elegant to classic Christmas!

Word Play CD ROM from Peerless Designs!

As promised, cards made from the new Peerless Designs CD ROM! It is so very different but so gorgeous but you will have to wait until 20th July for the release of it which will be aired on create & craft at 10am!

Anniversary Book card!

I was asked by my friend Wendy to make a special card for her hubby for their 30 wedding anniversary, so with thinking cap on and some sneaky work from Wendy she brought her wedding album to me and I scanned a photo of them cutting their cake! I took it through psp and removed all the background from the photo and was left with their hands showing their wedding rings, this I then used as the main image for the book style card I made and here is the end result! Wendy was so emotional when she saw it as it is very personal to both of them!

New CD Rom from Peerless Designs

Just to let you all know Sarah Hallam of Peerless Designs has another new CD Rom to be released July 20th 2012! It's called Word Play and is totally different with stunning images all made from words! I will be uploading some of my samples over the next few days...

Diamond side fold card

Another card from Peerless Designs new Christmas CD rom! This is a diamond side fold I created myself! The poinsettias embellishments I also made myself from a template I created!

New CD rom from Peerless Design!

From Peerless Designs new cd rom-'2012 Days of Christmas', I decided to make a tag book which is made of 6 pockets and each side of the pocket represents one of the 12 days of Christmas with matching tag! The release date is June 25th and you can watch it on create and craft!

Peerless design

From an older CD rom of Peerless Designs-Simply florals. I love the verse of Wordsworth-Daffodils.All elements are on this CD, checkout Sarah's website www.peerlessdesigns.org for more gorgeous CD roms. The beauty of Sarah's Cd's is; it is all her own artwork!

Hand made Roses

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Thought I would share with you how I make my hand made roses! I used 4 squares of 7cm x7cm of paper (step 1), fold diagnally 3 times, cut the open end into a cone shape and snip a tad off the bottom too (step 2). Open out and cut 1 petal off (step 3) Curl petals and glue the open end by overlapping petal (step 4), The centre is made by using 3 petals curled and rolled (step 5), Continue with this method with the other 3 squares removing an extra petal each time, don't disgard petal cut off as this is what the centre is made from. Once you have made 4 pieces use glue around the base of each layer and position inside each other, you should now have your rose complete (step6), Enjoy....

Hunkydory

This is from the Hunkydory 'All Occasion's' women collection! I distressed the background paper using Tim Holtz distressing ink pad and also the border of main image, then matted on gold mirri board and placed off centre. I added gold stripe organza ribbon along the the left edge and two hand made paper roses. I heat embossed skeleton leaves using cosmic shimmer embossing powder and finished off with large bow made using my Bowdabra tool!

Rose stamp card

This gorgeous rose stamp was stamped on yellow satin board using archival ink and clear embossing powder. I distressed a doily with Tim Holtz distressing ink and matted image on this. I made the roses and painted them using H2o paints. The skeleton leaves I heat embossed with cosmic shimmer embossing powder and finished the look with a bronze ribbon bow made with my Bowdabra!

Book card

This beautiful book card was made for me by my wonderful friend Angie MacWillson and is made out of 'toilet roll cores'! Every page is lovingly decorated with me to you papers and images and beautiful wordings. I was so overwhelmed I just had to share with you! xx

Stamping on satin board

I have been having a play with some satin board! I used archival ink to stamp my image, then clear embossing powder. Heating from underneath and the image was perfect! Tried lots of different colour satin board and inks but always used clear embossing powder over the stamped image....love it!

Sorry!

So sorry I haven't updated blog for a while I have had lots going on so, hey ho here we go! xx

Rapunzel

I love this card and think it is perfect for a little girl! It was a request from my brother for his little granddaughter who adores 'Rapunzel'. I cut the flower aperture and placed Rapunzel in the centre matted on purple mirri card. I decorated the petals with flower and butterfly gems. My brother was well pleased with the end result and so was I!

House mouse 'sunflower'.

This was made using Joanna Sheen's 'House mouse' collection. I used the idea of the sunflower itself as the main idea for the card. The backing paper I made myself using paint shop pro. I cut into sections and matted on gold mirri card.

Another Hunkdory!

Another from the Hunkydory vintage pearl collection! I used an aperture card front matted on gold mirri and then matted on card stock. Gathered lace was used down the left side and a satin bow to finish the look!

Hunkydory collection

This is from the Hunkydory 'vintage pearl' collection. Main image was matted on embossed oval which I distressed using Tim Holtz distressing inks. This collection proved popular for mothers day requests.