Short and simple

Greetings to you all!
I hope you are well. I totally thought I had posted this one already, in time for Valentine's day but I have the memory of a goldfish and clearly forgot!
Keeping the design simple, I used just two colours: red and white.  Although designed with valentines in mind, it can equally be used to celebrate an anniversary.

The fabulous image is from a stamp by Indigo Blu, also used: Wow! Sparkling Snow embossing glitter, Memento ink (lady bug) and the red glitter and heart were both from my stash.

I said it was simple today!
Something a little more complex for tomorrow though, so pop back for a look.
Until then, thanks for stopping by and happy crafting! xx

Challenges entered:
Indigo Blu- A Touch of Red
The Stamping Boutique- Hearts
Stamplorations- Stamps and Hearts

Fairy Easel

Greetings all, I hope you are well.
I am not in as much pain today so hope to get to do some art or crafting later on (fingers crossed). Today I am sharing a card that was just so much fun to make, I wanted to take it apart and do it all over again!  (I didn't though, I'm not quite that insane yet!)

It's an easel card-something I don't do very often but think I shall start making more frequently!  I seem to be very fond of purple just lately, and I have always been a huge fan of black so this card practically made itself once I saw the topper near the sparkle medium!

I hope you like it as much as I do!

I used:
Lelli-Bots Crafts: Enchanted Fairies topper and sentiment
                             Distressed Paper

Imagination Crafts:  Amethyst Sparkle Medium
                                 Black Satin Card
                                 Arch of Flowers Stencil

Ranger:  Distress inks in: Black Soot, Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord

Ribbon, handmade flowers, gems, glitter card, purple card and grey card all from my stash.

I would just like to say that the flowers were not made by me, but by a lovely lady called Carol. She makes all kinds of flowers at very reasonable prices (thank you Carol-they are fab).

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you have enjoyed this card, please let me know what you think.
Be careful out and about in this awful weather, and wrap up warm! Until next time-Happy Crafting xx

Challenges entered:
Imagination Crafts -Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly -Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time -Anything Goes with Purple
Party Time Tuesday -Anything Goes
Clear It Out -Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door -Anything Goes

Rocking Birthday

Greetings to you all, I hope you are well :)
I've been hit by some serious back pain the past couple of days and, while that sounds like plenty of sitting down crafting, the reality has been that I've been barely able to move.  I have managed to finish a card I started the other day before the pain flare, so I am sharing this with you today.

It's another Lelli-bots based card, using the Gothic Grunge toppers and papers (I am such a fan of this kit!).  I tried to keep this one gender neutral so there's a blend in doily and only the slightest hint of colour added to the card. There are lots of layers, but all are monochrome so I think it's a birthday card for a male or a female-let me know if you think I managed it!

I used:
Lelli-Bots Crafts: Gothic Grunge toppers
                             Brick wall paper
                             Distressed paper

Ranger: Salty Ocean distress ink

ribbon, angel hair paper, button, twine, doily, gems, chalk script paper, silver and black card all from my stash.

I really like to read what you think of my creations so please don't hesitate to leave me a comment-even if it's just a tip to help me improve! I'm always learning-it's the best part of sharing my work :)

Thank you for stopping by, until next time-Happy Crafting xx

Challenges entered:
Crafting from the heart -anything goes
That craft place -Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door -Anything Goes

Hello 2015

Greetings to you all- and a somewhat belated Happy New Year!  2015 already, good grief-how the years are flying by!  I'm not sure where January has gone but it's definitely time for me to get blogging.  While I await the arrival of a new art journal and some essential art supplies, it will be cards that I shall be posting about.  So, without further ado, here is the first blog post of the year:

I have recently treated myself to some toppers and papers from Lelli-Bot Crafts.  Using toppers is a departure from my usual card making so I found it quite challenging at first-but I'm pretty hooked now!  Here is a 7x7 card featuring a topper from the 'Gothic Grunge' collection as the central image.

Seeing as I don't feel like I have actually crafted if I don't have any ink on me, I added a touch of colour around the edge of the monochrome topper so that it blended with the background, I used the same ink as I used to make the backing paper.
I used:
Lelli-Bot Crafts- Gothic grunge topper
                            Distressed paper
                            Brick wall paper

Distress inks- Dusty Concord
                       Black Soot
                       Weathered Wood

Flying birds stamp by Visible Image
White pearl Wow! Embossing powder
Eggplant Adirondack ink

Doily, grey shimmer card, silver card, gems and ribbon are from my stash.

I had fun creating this, I hope you have enjoyed seeing it-please do let me know what you think.
Until next time, Happy Crafting :)
xx