Milestone Birthday

Missing A Big One

My Aunt came to visit me the other day and I was so glad she did, as she started  talking about her sister in laws big birthday coming up!! I'd made her a lovely card but it wasn't a big one, so oh heck!! here I go, what can I do for her. After Sheilah had gone I went into my craft room and started to rummage around and couldn't think of anything so I went to bed.

Next day I needed to get it done as her birthday was close. I looked at the large number and dies and then the milestone moments came to mind and that was it my idea came alive pretty quickly.

When I die cut the two numbers I wasn't happy with them as the stamping was a bit patchy then I had a light bulb moment and grabbed my old faithful embossing folder and all was saved. Sorry for the use of retired products, but I'm sure you could adjust the colour scheme to suit your own preferences.

The materials used are:

Card stock: Coastal cabana (r), whisper white

Ink: Coastal cabana (r)

DSP: 2013/5 In colors (r)

Stamp sets: Milestone moments, number of years

Embossing folders: Perfect polka dots (r),  Seaside

Framelits: Large numbers

Thinlits: Happy Birthday

Ribbon: Glitter (r)

Accessories: Lace doilies (r), white perfect accents

Happy crafting

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

I have never enjoyed a hobby more and would love to help you get started. If you'd like to have a go and live in the Walsall area of the West Midlands contact me and I would be happy to help you. Click the Contact Me above for how to get in touch.

Magical Mermaid

Mermaids Are So Magical

The card I have chosen for today is one I made some time ago.  It was a stamp set I wasn't going to get until my granddaughter started going on about mermaids all the the time. So I thought hey ho it will be worth getting if she likes her card and she did.

It was quite easy to make the hardest part being the colouring in of the mermaid which I did in a combination of colours for the tail with blushing bride for the bottom of the tail and for her back I used the retired blendabilities (yes mine still work) for her back and arm.

The dazzling diamonds hasn't really shown up in this picture but I just put a few spots of glue across the bottom where the shells and so forth are and then added the dazzling diamonds.

The materials used are:

Card stock: shimmery white,versamark, whisper white

Ink: Old olive, pool party, sahara sand

Markers: Berry burst, blushing bride, crushed curry, fresh fig, so saffron

Stamp sets: label me pretty, magical mermaid

Embossing folders: ruffed 

Embossing powders: clear, copper

Punches: pretty label

Accessories: dazzling diamonds, tombow glue

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

I have never enjoyed a hobby more and would love to help you get started. If you'd like to have a go and live in the Walsall area of the West Midlands contact me and I would be happy to help you. Click the Contact Me above for how to get in touch.