New Home Card

Todays little joy is to celebrate a friends new house. I just loved these stamps from Polka Doodles. I coloured the images with promarkers. I added flowersoft to give a little texture on the trees and garden paths. It was a fun card to make using different papers from the Polka Doodles "Sundae of Seasons" This is such a great cdrom and I find myself going back to it time and time again for all the different papers. I use cdroms alot...sometimes for the images and sometimes when I'm looking for a different paper. I know alot of crafters that just use their cdroms for the image and matching backing papers and that's it. I love to look at the images and see it as a design feature for the card and what I really enjoy is doing the decoration..sometimes using embellishments from my stash or more than likely making my own. I love my collection of cdroms and as a crafter they are my largest resource. I can't seem to get on very well with card kits because i always feel as if too much as been done for me. Having so much done seems to stifle something in my brain. I think it's down to the fact that I like fiddling about and starting with a blank piece of paper,,some stamps and whatever colouring medium I fancy is the way to go for me. I always buy stamps that I feel I can use in lots of different ways, one of them as an addition to an image from a cdrom. I'm off now to make a start on an atc...so out will come the inks and the jewels. I will share when it's finished. Lets get crafting.

The parlour fairy

This is a piece of mixed media art that I keep playing around with. It's an original painting on canvas. I painted her with H2os and I loved the shimmering effect that it gave to her skin. The wings are painted, with fantasy foil over the top and then I painted more H2os over the top. To be fair the picture does not show the true effect but I so wanted to share this piece. The butterflies are stamped images again coloured with H2os. Can anyone spot a theme here? The butterflies that form her crown are punched usung a martha stewart punch and then coloured.

I thought that I would share this card just because I so enjoyed making it. It was an order for an anniversary card. The background card shape was made using the glitter girls tall stories board. The stargazer lilies, I made by hand, starting with a plain piece of paper. I cut the petal and leaf shapes and then painted them using H2os. I let them dry thoroughly...which is so hard to do with a house full of cats!! When they were dry I made a coil on a bamboo skewer and attached the petals and shaped them. The hole left by the skewer I filled with pinflair and added the stamens. The stamens were made using the flowersoft wire and mixed colours of flowersoft. I also made a tall stand to display the card. The reason I loved making this card was the amount of fine work and fiddling it involved. I think that I'm just a little sad....the more detail I can create..the better I feel.

A time to begin

It's often the case that you have a bright idea and life takes over. I intended to start this blog into my crafting journey at the New year and it never happened. Well now I have had a long chat with myself and intend to blog my creations and share them.
The card above is made using the Joanna Sheen/ Jane Netley Mayhew cdrom. I loved this image and wanted to make more of the image. I stamped the background card and coloured with H2os. I tried to copy the flowers on the image itself and made grasses using card I had painted myself. The rocks were first painted and then had flowersoft added to give the look of moss. The kingfisher image I decoupaged to give shape.