Throwback Thursday and goodbye!

Hello!

Well,this is my last blog post here for the time being,so I am treating you to a proper throwback stamp set! 

It's simple,it's pretty,it's oh so easy yet effectively modern,it's Wplus9 Iconic Christmas.

See? Easy and elegant :-)

The words are from the gorgeously useful Winnie and Walter The Big,The Bold and Fun (these sets from W & W are great for project life too!)

Stamp the tree,stamp and cute out choice words,and a sequin at the top and bobs your uncle!

I hope you like it!

Right,that's it from me-Tara has an awesome new DT member lined up,you will meet her soon! 

I can't wait to see her projects :-)

Happy Christmas everyone,and all the best for 2015

Lou x
 

 

Throwback Thursday

Hello! 

Brrrrrr! It's getting colder-although we haven't seen the snow our American cousins seem to be having ❄️

Today's card may be considered a little bad taste (pardon the pun) but I got the idea from a pin on Pinterest I saw the other day and thought it would make a funny card 😉

Yes,I know I know,but it's kinda funny! 

So,easy peasy to make-Wplus9 Milk and Cookies stamp and die,making a tiny slit for the straw. The scarf is simply the cookies die! How cool is that?! (Yup-more puns! Sorry!) The nose is just a tiny scrap of orange card and the eyes and mouth are the teeny tiny die off cuts. Talk about recycle! (And they say us crafters hoard-ha! Zero waste,more like it 😉 )

I hope you liked today's card and it made you giggle.

In other news,this is my penultimate post. My daughter has been gravely ill for some time,and is not responding well to her medication so I need to step back from the DT and spend all my time looking after her,but I will be popping back from time to time. It's been a sad desicion but family comes first. Tara has an awesome replacement lined up,so you will meet her very soon!

Have a great Thursday! 

Lou x 

 
 

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Feeling Christmassy yet? Everyone seems to have a lot more enthusiasm for decorating early this year-everyone I know has their tree up already! 

Today's card is a fun scene made using Lawn Fawn Winter Bunny and Lawn Fawn Critters in the Arctic,for a Winter rabbit team up.

The snowflakes are from the Lawn Fawn snowflake dies (oh I LOVE love those!) The bunnies are Copic coloured and fussy cut out (although both stamp sets do have matching dies) and the snow is just torn up glitter card.

Well that's it from me this week-hope you like it!

Lou x
 

 

Throwback Thursday

Hello! 

Wow,what a cold misty morning-it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! Yippeeee! 

Today's card is made using the versitle CAS-ual Fridays Round tag die and Mama Elephant's Alpine Carolers.

Very simple and self explanatory card-again,you can churn a few of these out very easily :-)

I cut the tag from glitter card and mounted it over plain white. The caroller is Copic coloured and brushed with A Wink of Stella (but very hard to pick up with my camera!)

I love this stamp set so much! Hurry-there aren't many left ;-)

See you next week!

Lou x

 

 

Throwback Thursday: Little Black Dress season

Hello!

Don't you just love stamp sets you can stretch out for lots of occasions? Me too! 

Today's card is inspired by a LOT of my friends statuses on Facebook-that elusive search for the 'perfect' little black dress. So I thought I would do a bit of a different Christmas card for a few of them

Everything is I used is Lawn Fawn. The dress is from Happily Ever After  which I embossed onto stiff black card and fussy cut out. Just hiding underneath the dress is the mannequin stand from Sew Lovely ,stamped in black and gold (just so the dress wasn't floating). The banner is Bannerific and the font is Milo's ABC's

The window is on pop dots to give it a bit of depth (oh how I love pop dots!) The ultimate in window shopping 😉

I think they will enjoy a slightly different card 

I hope this has inspired you!

See you next week :-)

Lou x
 
 

 

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Well,we are rocketing towards Christmas at a lick - how is your Christmas card making going?   I have made more than I did last year so that's a plus!

Today's card is a simple elegant card that you can belt out lots of in one sitting, made using Simple Stories paper and the Wplus9 pear die and a touch of Hero Arts gold embossing powder.

Simple! I don't really need to explain it ;-) just cut,emboss and sew! 

The new challenge is up and ready for you to link your card-it's a pretty colour challenge this month, go have a look :-)   http://makethedayspecialcards.blogspot.co.uk/p/challenges.html

That's all from me this week!

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello! 

Are you starting to speed up into Christmas card production? I am! Autumn and Winter are just my absolute fave seasons ever<3 So with that firmly in mind,here is today's card,inspired by the wealth of 'ugly sweaters' that are bombarding the high street shops of late ;-D

I used Wplus9 Background Builders:Knit as my base (it is such an easy set to 'interlock') then inlaid a Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes die cut,making sure to keep the tiny little sweater pieces to pop back into the snowflake. The sentiment is made using Avery Elle Fun with Letters,which is out of stock right now,but any chunkier font will be perfect for this (check out some of the Lawn Fawn ones)

I hope this inspires you....not to go buy one of those sweaters but to explore your inner ugly sweater via the medium of card making ;-D

Til next week,have a great weekend!

Lou x

Christmas Card Time...........Again!!!!

Hi there........

I really thought I'd be finished with my Christmas cards now........I really should know better!!

I decided to use 'Tilda with Holy Baby'  love this stamp..........

It was going to be a small 4x4" card, but somehow it just evolved!! My cards are never planned!!! She is stamped onto a Nestie and coloured with ProMarkers and I have used my nice new fancy circle........part of the reason it has evolved into a bigger card......the card is printed on the other side and would have shown through if I'd have used a smaller card!! I just added some tatty flowers and a message.......

Thanks for looking, I'll be back soon with some non-Christmas cards........I have some nice new Avery Elle stamps to play with :-) Do check them out, they are brand new and really good quality and designs.....  Thanks Emily..

She xx

Christmas Paper Bag Book - Lawn Fawn

 Hi Everyone, It's Emily here again with another mini book.

  

This time it is a paper bag album ready for Christmas.  I  have used the Lawn Fawn Fa La La paper pack to decorate it and Lawn Fawn twine on the tags.

Front cover

Inside page and large tag for inside the first pocket

Opposite large page and tags for centre pockets.  The centre double pocket would be great for popping in memorabilia like panto tickets, school concert programme etc as well a tags with photo and jounrnalling.

Next large pocket page and small flap page

last pocket page, inside back cover.

 Rear cover

I have uploaded another shaky video to show the album in better detail (sorry the kids were chatting in the background!)

Directions

What you will need:

4 paper American style lunch bags (I bought some off ebay)

Glue
Cardstock for tags
Chipboard covers (optional)

Coordinating papers, embellishments, twine/ribbon

I have watched lots of YouTube videos of paper bag books and I'm not sure whose version this most resembles but this is how I made mine.

 Firstly glue the flaps down on all of the bags using strong glue

 Fold the bag as shown below so that you have a long side and a short side (previously the bottom of the bag).  This fold needs to be neat and crisp so best to use a bone folder or similar.

 Once all of the bags are folded you can start to assemble the book.  Start by gluing two of the short panels together. I covered the edge of the short panel page in washi tape to make it neater.

 Now glue the long side to the long side of another bag.

 Repeat.  You will end up with a book with the following pages, 1 long pocket, 1 short flap, 1 long double pocket, 1 short flap, 1 long pocket.

 You will end up with the spine like this (yours will be neater as the one in the picture is not glued)

I used a strip of card to cover the spine on mine.

 I now stuck on covers, you could make the book more sturdy by using chipboard under the pattered paper.

You can now decorate all the pages and make tags to go in the pockets.  I found the Lawn fawn papers great for this as they are good weight so made the book stronger.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you liked what you saw

Emily x