Autumn Leaves

A card for the men today.  I don’t know about you but I really struggle to make cards for men and usually end up buying them, so when this Silhouette Tree stamp arrived in my DT kit I thought it would be perfect for those hard to make cards.

I found this cute owl charm in my stash which fitted with the idea I had in my head whilst I was making this.  I cut the Autumn Ivy Leaves circle die from some of the paper that is in the pad, inked it whilst it was still in the die then inked the edges.

I coloured the Kraft Art Leaves with a dark brown marker.  Note I couldn’t NOT put flowers on, I tried sitting on my hands and nope, that so didn’t work lol.  I restrained myself tho, and only snuck two on.

Products used from Wild Orchid Crafts are
Lilies
Owl from the Mixed Clocks Metal Embellishments
Flatback Rhinestones

Products used from Noor Design:

Every Moment

First up – thank you so much for all the messages, emails and comments, I really do appreciate it ♥

I’m back on the Wee Stamps train again, I simply adore Sylvia Zet’s images. 

The papers and tag are from the Nitwits Autumnal Bliss collection – so pretty!  I used a Spellbinders border set for the shaped and scalloped border.

The stamp is called Hopeful from Whimsy Stamps.

All the embellishments are from Wild Orchid Crafts :

WHITE MULBERRY PAPER TRELLIS ROSES MKX-682 (I coloured the trellis rose to match the vintage brown rose)
EARTH TONE MULBERRY PAPER CHRYSANTHEMUMS QVR-077
VINTAGE COLOUR OPEN ROSES MKX-043
BROWN & WHITE SWEETHEART BLOSSOM MKX-200
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER GYPSOPHILA FLOWERS GST-225
VINTAGE SEAM BINDING RIBBON - PEACH MKX-491
MIXED METAL EMBELLISHMENTS MKX-287

Happy Birthday

A quick card from me today, the last month hasn’t been the best – I lost my mom suddenly a few weeks back so my head and my heart hasn’t been in my craft room.  And my health has not been behaving, if the cardiologist or GP put me on any more medication you’ll hear me coming before I even leave.  23 tablets a day is no fun, I can tell you.

Anyhoo, enough moaning and feeling sorry for myself.  Here’s my quick card.

I’ve used lots of Noor Design products – isn’t that butterfly just delish?!  It’s vellum, although that’s not showing up very well in the photos sadly.  I dipped my finger in some gold paint and edged the butterfly and also dabbed some on the flowers.

I used papers from a couple of pads, I think they work well together

All the products I used are in the linky below

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Gifts for Grandma, new Whimsy release hop

Welcome to Day 3, the final day, of our October Rubber Stamp and Die Release

Over the last 2 days we have showcased 18*BRAND NEW* red rubber stamps/stamp sets, 3 new Clearly Whimsy clear sets, and 2 Shapeology Die Sets. All of these new products are available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from selected Whimsy Stamps retailers.

Our design team members have created amazing cards and projects featuring these new goodies, we hope you have enjoyed the hops over the last 2 days. Today, we have more inspiration to share and we hope you will hop along with us for the last chance to win a Whimsy Gift Voucher during our October release.

For my card today I have coloured up Gifts for Grandma with copic markers, along with one of the Country Christmas sentiments and the new elegant snowflakes die set.

She is just too sweet ♥

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at two of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winners from the comments left here and on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment at every stop to be entered into the draw.

Becky Carafa
Michelle Oatman
Kristie Goulet
Shelby Thomas
Alanna Moses
Bridget Curnow
Shannah Bartle
Debbie Eastman
Cindy Hoesel
Iris Wiechmann
Bev Rochester (me!)

The winners from each of our 3 release day hops will be drawn and posted on Monday, October 19th. Be sure to join us and leave your comments by 8am ET on Monday for a chance to win!

Thanks for dropping by. Happy hopping!

Vintage Christmas Wishes

I ordered some sheets of images from Live Love Crafts a few weeks back.  The image on today’s card is from a Pion Design sheet, I just adore the rich colours, so pretty.

I coated the trees with gel medium then applied Distress Glitter, once dry I added silver pearls to the trees to serve as baubles.

I love how the papers from Noor Design work so well with the image.

Wild Orchid Crafts products used:

Mixed pink English Roses
Burgundy Wild Rose
20mm burgundy Open Rose
15mm pink Open Rose
Miniature mixed pink Sweetheart Blossoms

Noor Design products used:

 

 

Wee Lullaby

I’m still working through some of my favourite stamps, this little cutie called Lullaby from Whimsy Stamps is one of them

I got me some of those new Sweet Dixie dies from Crafts U Love last week and had a bit of a play, and I’m impressed.  The dies are extremely reasonable (dirt cheap in fact) and cut beautifully.  The large snowflake and the lamp post were both under £5!

Copic colours used:
Hair – E49, 47, 44, 42, 40
Skin – E13, 11, 00, 000, R20
Scarf – G02, 00, 000, 0000
Dress – R21, 20, 00, 000, 0000
Wings – R00, 0000

Lots of delish Wild Orchid Crafts goodies:

MIXED PINK ENGLISH ROSES MKX-324
MIXED GREEN MULBERRY PAPER LILY FLOWERS MKX-133
MIXED PINK OPEN ROSES MKX-069
MIXED GREEN OPEN ROSES MKX-075
MINIATURE MIXED PASTEL SWEETHEART BLOSSOM FLOWERS MKX-265
MIXED COLOUR FLAT BACK PEARLS IN A DIAMOND CIRCLE MKX-657
STAR SHAPED WHITE PEARL BEADS GST-030

I used the gorgeous Linen and Lace digi kit from Nitwit Collections for this card, and used one of the inserts and also the burlap and lace trees on the insert.

The JOY letters are cut from a Tim Holtz Typewriter alphabet die

Back on Tuesday with a new card

Miss Frosty

Sylvia Zet’s images make my heart melt into a puddle of goo, and Miss Frosty from Whimsy Stamps is no exception.

I used a fair few copic markers on this one

Miss Frosty: C3, 10, 0, 00; YR38, 12
Birds: E35, 33, 30
Bird House: E79, 77, 74, 71
Leaves: G29 24, 20
Clothing/Berries: V09, 17, 15, 12: V12, 01, 000, 0000

How cute are these little ice skates?  I rubbed some milled lavender Distress Ink over them before removing from the die, then adhered a Joy charm at the top to “dangle” them from.

And a peek at more Noor Design yumminess on the inside

Wild Orchid Crafts products used:

*New* mixed colour English Roses (they are delish!)
*New* miniature Sweetheart Blossoms (OMW these are just the sweetest little things and perfect for tiny spaces.
Lilies
Mixed purple open roses (15mm)
4mm purple rose buds 
White pearly snowflakes

Noor Design products used:

Merry Bunnies

I’m going to extremes with my Christmas cards this year.  From blue and white to pink and green.  I used Christmas Bunny Stockings from Whimsy stamps and paired it with their new Merry large word die.  I’ve also used the gorgeous Noor Design 8 point die behind the image.  The mistletoe is from a Magnolia die.

Aren’t these bunnies just the sweetest little things?!  Coloured with copic markers, I used:

Bunnies: C5, 3, 1, 0, 00
Wood: E79, 77, 74, 71
Stockings: R59, 56, 81
Leaves: G29; 24, 20
Wall: E17, 15, 13, 11, 00; W3, 1, 0
Bell: YR24, Y13, 11

The delish papers are Nitwit Collections Holiday Bouquet

And all the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I used:
MIXED PINK MULBERRY PAPER COTTAGE ROSES QVR-043
MIXED PINK OPEN ROSES MKX-069
WHITE MULBERRY PAPER CHERRY BLOSSOMS MKX-053
CLEAR SILVER BACKED RHINESTONE FLOWERS MKX-618

Autumn

It’s a new month so a new Noor! Design Challenge and this month it’s Autumn or Halloween.  Now anything Halloween really does give me the screaming hab-dabs so naturally I went for Autumn.  I did a couple of projects, first up is a quick card

And I did a little mixed media project to go with the card

Products used for the card:
0458 Circle Aperture Die
0058 Autumn Picture and Paper Pad
0318 Fashion Hat Die (I just used the feathers behind the flowers)
0032 Vintage Flourishes Leaf Die
0313 Botanical Paper Pad

And for the mixed media leaf:
008 MDF Leaves
0042 Mask Art A5 Leaves Stencil
0050 Joycraft Artificial Flowers
0061 Joycraft Artificial Flowers
I also used Lindy’s Stamp Gang sprays for the colour mists.