September's crop kit

Here we are then, a little late in the day maybe, but it has been rather hectic! This month's kit uses one of our newest manufacturer's Authentique. I chose their Blissful line - yellow is a colour I hardly ever scrap with, but I'm really pleased with the results and I love the black and white photos that complement it so well :)

Echo Park Country Drive

This month I received the Echo Park Country Drive papers & alphabet stickers. I made a quick simple page using Birds on the wire paper.



and leafy tree tops paper.

Flower tutorial with KI Memories

Today I would like to show you, how you can create you own custom made flowers/blossoms from patterned paper.

I don't know about you but I always find that I very rarely seem to have the perfect colour fit embellishments for my projects at hand. That's where your handmade embellishments come into place - they are fun to create and leave you with a sense of achievement, when you look at the finished project and think "I made that flower!!!"

First gather a few supplies in addition to your papers:

Wet adhesive

Flower shaped punch or dies

Ink pad (optional)

Mists (optional)

Pearl, brad or bling (optional)

Embossing tool or burnishing tool (optional)

For this tutorial I have chosen to make use of the Cuttlebug Flowers die set, which is perfect for layering you own blossoms.

My chosen papers are

Love, Elsie - Claire Gossip

Love, Elsie - Forrest Ranger

Love, Elsie - Claire Diary

Cut out as many flower shapes as you wish (I always like to create a few "spare" blossom for later use) and lay them out in front of you.

If you like, you can spray them now with some mists, or enhance their edges by running an ink pad along. Alternatively, just leave them as they are.

I then like to carefully roll the end of my embossing/burnishing tool in circular motion along the middle of each flower. If you don't do it too hard, you will soften the middle of the paper and the edges should slowly raise up by themselves.

Or you can just carefully crunch the flower upwards and unfold it a little afterwards.

Once you have crumpled/burnished all your layers, adhere them on top of each other like so (you only need a small amount of glue in the middle section).

If you want you can add either a piece of bling, a pearl, a brad or a button in the middle and your blossom is ready.

See, really easy and the results are definitely worth it. Besides, it is a good way to make use of any scrap paper that you have lying around.

Sketch week, day three.

Hi and welcome to the last card for this weeks sketch week.

Here is the sketch again for the last time...

and this is the card...

The background for the top part of this card is from here...

and here is a close up...

 

Thanks for popping in this week to see the cards, let me know if you use the sketch so i can put it up here on the blog. I will be back next month with another sketch and another three cards!

card sketch...day two

Hi and welcome back to card sketch week here on the blog....today i have another card to show you using the same sketch as before...

And here is todays take on the card...

and here are some close ups...

to make the flower, i cut out several different petal leaves, and adhered them onto a small square to keep them stable and together.
I cut out a small flower from this pattern paper..to put into the centre of the paper flower that i made.

The 'Joy is a flower' strip that you can see in the photo above, is taken from this die cut set..again they match this line perfectly!!!

Come back in a few days to see the last card in the set!

Card sketch...day one

Hi...this week is going to be a bit a bit quieter for me and i am sure for alot of you as well, with all the children going back to school.

So with all that spare time we are going to have ( ha!) i thought i would give you a card sketch this week.

So...here is the sketch...

I have three cards made with this sketch...the other two i will show you during the course of this week.

For all of these cards i used the new line from Crate Paper called  Random which is gorgeous. I also used this with it as it matches perfectly...

you can find this here...have a search though the new products here...there are so many gorgeous stickers, chipboard stickers and letters in there...i bought lots the other day and have used them lots!

Here is the first card for this week...

and some close ups...

I also used these on this card for some of the sentiment...

 And trust me when i say...if you are buying this line...then you have to buy this paper...

I know it looks scary when you look at it like this...lots of big patterns...but trust me cut up into smaller sections this paper is just divine!!!!!

Come back on Wednesday to see the next card.

Basic grey...

As usual, before all the new lines come out, i try to make sure that i have at least cut a few sheets from the last CHA....and as usual, i was hoarding my Basic Grey...so i made myself cut up those gorgeous papers....

For this page i used the line from Basic Grey called..Hello Luscious...you can find the line here....

I used these to centre all my embellishments and lettering on...

so gorgeous, you can find them here

and some close ups!

Just have to get my hands on the new lines now and hoard them for months as well!!!! do you do that?