March Calendar Journal

I started off painting the pages with a green and white mixed paint. I still haven't attempted to draw on My Calendar Journal yet .......so i printed off 2 daffodils and painted them, and to add shine used my heat gun.  I cut Squares out and inked the edges. March was printed off the computer with a quote.  Butterflies added and also heart pearls were put on the 17th as this is very special day for me.  My nana Birthday and also anniversary of my mums death.     

Easter Cards & Basket

These Easter cards were made by layering papers,die cutting circles and adding Easter toppers/flowers and ribbon. 




 





This Easter basket was made at my local craft shop "Running with Scissors". I cannot make all the classes so on a Friday in the afternoon crop session i made this Easter Basket from the sample one already done but i altered it a little.

50th Birthday and Best Wishes Card

50th Birthday Card

I made this card with a new die cut i have just bought, i have never used a die cut for a card before and it wasn't as hard as i though it would be.  This card is a Special Card as its for my Friend on her 50th Birthday.  All i need to do now is to make a box for the card to go in.  

This card i copied with a little tweak of my own from my local craft shop "Running with Scissors".  Every Friday i attend "Running with Scissors" for Scrap Booking, the afternoon session is called "The Crop"you can either  Craft/chat/share ideas eat cake Mmmmm we have nice cake shops near by and i have a good laugh with some very Special Friends i have met over the last year.  Basically Friday is "My day" in which i escape to Running with Scissors for "me time".......... and i love it. 

This is the shop i attend:   http://tj-runningwithscissors.ning.com/

Family Chipboard Album

Family Chipboard Album


Over the weekend i have been keeping myself busy with various things.  I love working with chipboard......

 BoBunny Papers were used throughout the album, with ribbons,gems leaves and quotes.

Door Hanger

The Door hanger

Chipboard was used for the hanger.The edges were painted with pink before paper was glued to the front and back.    

Ribbon was tied round the hanger, flowers and rhinestone flourishes were added. 

The same stamp was used that was used for the card, but the girl was cut out and added onto the paper.

The back of the hanger was covered in paper.

Birthday Card

Birthday Card

I have started to collect "simply gorjuss" stamps so yesterday I decided to make this card and door hanger for my daughters friend.  This card was made using "the girls paperie papers", i distressed the edges with scissors then using my sewing machine to stitch stitches all round the paper.  I have seen many cards with this effect of sewing round the edges and was pleased with the outcome.

   The stamp was stamped onto brown card then using inks and watercolor pencils i had a go at coloring the girl in.   Not quite the effect i wanted but im new to this painting. just looking forward to my new pencils arriving and then getting lessons on painting and shading in.

Happy Birthday was stamped onto paper and Lace was added onto the bottom

Flowers & gems were added.

February Calender Journal

February


My February page.... which i enjoyed doing with it being the month of Love, so the theme was hearts......


I painted the full page with guesso paint,and used Acrylic red & white paint and mixed them together.  I dry brushed the paint onto the paper with different brush strokes.

The hearts was punched out and used distress ink on the edges, and dry brushed distress ink onto the hearts.  Small hearts were cut out and stickles applied round the edges. A stamp was added to the corner of the page.

Using the postage stamp die cut 4 squares were cut and distress ink applied to the edges.  A Love stamp was stamped on to the card, and hearts were cut out from Papers i had.

Using the die-cut machine 2 Flourishes were cut out and distress ink applied to the edges. The wording was stamped out and put onto card.