Shirls Cards

Dancing On Air

May 16th, 2012 by Shirl

Brenda has her Tuesday Treasures again and the treasure on my card today are the buttons I have made, love making these.
The reason I call them my treasures is because they are bottle tops which Andrew crushed for me so that I can make pretty things with them. Now I don’t think he really understands my obsession with crafting but if there is any heavy donkey work to be done he will help. I have a box full of crunched up bottle tops just waiting to be turned into little treasures. Thanks babe.

Both bottle tops have been Gessoed, whilst still wet I added pieces of voile gauze, the first I made two holes for the cotton to go through then added crackle accents, my second I again added voile but this time added a piece of purple material plus the crackle accents. This piece started off as a 6″ x 6″ piece of cereal box, Gessoed then added pieces of cotton voile gauze, the beautiful stamped image is from Crafty Individuals and coloured with copics. Another thing my little treasure did was buy me all the copics ahhhhh.

Another fave thing I did … haven’t done it for a while though is printed onto kitchen roll then die cut with various dies before adding to the edges. Love the dimpled effect you get when you use a quilted piece of kitchen roll. Below are the two images I printed out.

Entering for – Bunny Zoe’s Challenge – Anything Gores
Simon Says Stamp & Show – Anything Goes
CMC Copic Challenge – Anything Goes
The Stamp Man Challenge – Favourite technique – Love these buttons
CCEE Stampers – Make your own buttons or brads

Shirl

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Song Bird

May 14th, 2012 by Shirl

My fave makes are tags and this one is all about birds. Stamps are from PaperArtsy and Hero Arts. Lots of texture to this card with some hand stitching thrown in for good measure. Used the TH Marker pens for the colouring, wasn’t very sure about these to begin with but they are growing on me.

Found an old necklace which had a ball and chain for the clasp so cut some off and attached to the birdcage.

Entering for Vintage Page Designs Challenges – They want to see Birds
The Cheerful Stamp Pad – Tags
Make My Monday – Any Flower With Music
Simon Says Stamp & Show – Anything Goes
Sugar Creek Hollow – Tags
Shirl

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Victoriana

May 8th, 2012 by Shirl

We had such a quiet and lazy Bank Holiday Monday that I had a just for me day with my crafting. After speaking with my granddaughter Amber in the morning I felt inspired to make this DL card which has all my special things on it, pretty digital image, stitching, scrunched up vellum, inks, flowers, ribbon, pearls and not forgetting me fave colour … pink. The bottom flowers were spritzed with Memory Mists then opened the beautiful picture in my graphics program, selected only her face which was then printed off and cut out with an oval die.

Here is the gorgeous image I used which I found in a folder on my computer, not even sure where it came from as I have had it literally years.

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Brenda who is an absolute gem and such a generous lady who shares all her crafty knowledge with me when I am home in the UK … she is also one of the lovely stampettes at FSC … is challenging you to share something special or your treasures with her so I am sharing my card with her.

Entering for: Really Reasonable Ribbon’s Rambling – Feminine With Ribbon
Craftymess Challenge – Pink and Cute

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ATC

May 6th, 2012 by Shirl

This ATC is for the Stampotique Designers Challenges but you must use one of their stamps.
Now some people will think that this little guy (Weasel) looks creepy but I think he is cute and Puss Puss is just soooo sweet.
Sprayed some gauze with Glimmer Mists then glued onto cardboard (size 3 1/2″ x 2 1/2″) stamped Weasel with black Versafine ink (because of the size of the card his legs were cut off, trust me he felt no pain) then coloured with Marvy Le Plume pens (very delicately because the gauze moved) also stitched on a pocket for the tag.

Shirl

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New York City

May 6th, 2012 by Shirl

Well this was certainly a challenge for me, Fashionable Stamping want to see your Cities Of The World for this fortnights theme
guess who didn’t have anything not even any paper that would have been suitable.

Out of desperation I made my own background paper with images from the Graphics Fairy … first picture shows the paper I made with no embellishments added. Here are the links for the images used … Sheet Music … Patriotic.

These images come with a white background so I had to edit them in GIMP (a graphics program) converted to a png format and made them transparent. I also changed the colours - very pleased with how it turned out.

This is the finished card which shows all the lovely stamping.
I chose New York as my city because Estelle (owner of the Stampsmith) sent my ordered goodies in an envelope which was covered in stamping and some amazing postal stamps (kept these for another project). Ripped and tore pieces of the envelope which you can see below, stamped Ophelia onto white card then inked with TH Stormy Sky.

Never been to NY … maybe one day … but please pop on over to see where all the Stampettes have been travelling to plus we would love to see which city you would like to visit.

Shirl

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Swinging Time With Flowers

May 3rd, 2012 by Shirl

May Flowers is the theme this time round at Little Miss Muffet Challenges so I used the TH Tattered Florals die then added my own handmade rose … made a little bow with the left over material. Decisions decisions, which image to use, but Riley won out in the end.

We have a new member joining our team this week so please hop on over to say hi to JOEY also Barbara has some exciting things happening soon.

Shirl

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Time For Summer

April 28th, 2012 by Shirl

First time of using these stamps from Crafty Individuals they have a challenge on at the moment called Time For Summer which was just perfect for my card. I have used C1-283, C1-302 and C1-235 which are all adorable. Stamped and embossed the two little girls twice, once onto the cardstock with pink embossing powder, then onto pink vellum with white embossing powder, cut out the vellum image with a spellbinders tag die which I overlaid onto the cardstock image. Stamped the flower image onto a doily embossed with pink again then coloured with TH Bundled Sage. For the mat on the inside of the card first stamped with the flourishes, embossed with Pastel Peach then inked edges with the TH – BS

Enjoy, if there are any other details you would like to know just ask sweets.
Entering for: Crafty Individuals – Time For Summer
Craftymess Challenge – Distressing and Embossing
Our Daily Bread Designs – No Designer Paper
Fab ‘n’ Funky – No Designer Paper

Shirl

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Come Fly With Me

April 27th, 2012 by Shirl

Well there it is the painted raffia which I used as a stencil on the previous page, did a little bit of stencilling before I added to the card, it was still wet with paint and left a smudge behind … but it matched perfectly with the little girl (coloured her and the birds with the TH marker pens)also love the little tag which I made into a handbag for her. Stamped onto the green striped ribbon then added some little dots to the edges so it all tied in together.

The album is coming along nicely but not doing another page today because I have to make a card for my card class tomorrow, not to worry will be working on it again on Sunday.

Lots of different stamps used if there is any that you would like the name of just lave a comment and I will get back to you.
Entering for: CropStop Challenges – To The Birds
Papercrafting Journey – Vintage
Craft Room Challenge – Ink It
Our Craft Lounge – Vintage
Craft Your Days Away – Just For Children
Craftymess Challenge – Distressing & Embossing
Shirl

Below you can see the rest of the album so you don’t have to scroll down.

Shirl

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Yes Let’s Hug

April 26th, 2012 by Shirl

Two more pages completed in the album hope you are enjoying them as much as I am making, if you want to see the start of the album please scroll down.

Dabbed paint onto the tag this time, then on the facing page dabbed with the same paint through a piece of raffia ribbon, tomorrow when I show the next page you will see the piece of raffia which was used … how tight am I wasn’t going to throw it away.

Entering for: The Stamp Man Challenge – Shabby Chic or Distressed Style
Rogue Redhead Designs – Spring Fashion Colours

Shirl

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Ophelia

April 24th, 2012 by Shirl

This is an ongoing project and as I finish a page I will post, yesterday I showed the album cover and today here is the front cover when it is opened plus also the first page. There are six pages inside and each of these have flap pockets added so that tags or photos can be slotted into them. The pages are suspended in the album and they are also pocketed so that they will take either 6 tags or 6 photo mats sized at 4″ x 6″, the album itself measures 5 1/2″ x 6 1/2″.

Used loads of stamps but the little French ones and sentiments on the tags were all bought at Ally Pally and they were only £1 a set … bargain eh … The gorgeous image is called Ophelia and she is another yummylicious from the Stampsmith, coloured her lightly with distress inks, if you have a look at the flap pocket you will see a smaller image of her … stamped onto shrink plastic, cut out with a nestie then made a hole at the top before I shrunk it down.

Nothing tomorrow as I am off to Waterford Hospital but will show more as and when … enjoy Shirl
Entering for: The Stampsmith Challenge – The Colours Of Spring
Simon Says Stamp Show – A Word
Sugar Creek Hollow – Fancy Folds
Our Creative Corner – Butterflies