Framed

I hope your week is going well so far. I just want to know where the sunshine is they promised us from today onwards. It's been cold and grey here but dry so I suppose we need to be grateful for that!

On our crafty trip to Harrogate the other week, amongst all the lovely things we saw that provided bags of inspiration, the one that stuck in my mind was on the Once Upon A stamp stand where they had made decorative frames by putting different shaped Nestabilities together. They were fantastic and another use for these wonderful must have craft items. My sister took some photos for me for future reference but I had to have a go as soon as I got home, so these are from memory.


The first one was sprayed with turquoise, meadow green and gold glimmer mists. The green layers were cuttlebugged with the textile folder and denim distress ink rubbed over to highlight the embossing which was then used to stamp the swirls on the turquoise layer and then clear embossed. I then dipped the edge of each layer in clear ink and gold embossed to give a random frame.


The dragonfly was stamped on acetate twice and cut out with stickles added. I then cut out just the wings on the second one and attached them with silicone glue. Two holes were put through the top with the crop o dile and brads added and gold wire put through to create a hanger.


The second was layered up in the opposite way with the scalloped square as the base and the red layers were run through the cuttlebug. I used Candy Apple Red and Suede Glimmer mists and ran Walnut ink distress ink around all the edges and used it to stamp the swirls. The flower was sprayed with gold glimmer mist and the gems added. As usual with glimmer mists the photos don't do the glimmer justice, they really do sparkle.


Now I've got my hands on the photos I shall have another go but I think the sky's the limit with these, you could do anything, the only problem is it makes you want lots of new shapes to play with.

Before I sign off tonight I'd just like to send my blogging friend Brenda lots of love for her surgery tomorrow. My thoughts are with you Brenda.

Thanks as always for visiting.

A Few Cards

It's been a funny day here weather wise. One minute the sun is out and the next there is a heavy misty rain coming down, but the wind had been cold and strong all the time. Not a day for being outside. Where has the Summer gone, how I long for the warm sunshine again.

Whether it's the weather or just one of those days, but I have struggled all day with some cards I have been working on. They are coming together now but it's too dark to photo them, so I shall show you another day.


While browsing through the blogs earlier I spotted that the Allsorts challenge this week was to do a male orientated card so I thought I'd enter this one. I made it for one of our neighbours whose birthday it was while we were on holiday. He looks after our house with his wife when we go away and we'd be lost without them. He likes anything to do with nature so I did this little Inkadinkadoo Owl which was sat on a Nestie edged with some swirls. The swirls and corner stamps were from a little pack from Studio G. The greeting was printed on the computer.


The second card was one I did for my Mum's birthday recently. I have to be honest and say I scraplifted it from the very talented Brenda, hope you don't mind Brenda, but I just loved the design. You can see the original here.

The paper was from my leftovers box and is one of my favourite from Anna Griffin. I matted and layered it onto co-ordinations pearly paper and the lovely silver embellishment came in a pack that I've had for ages. I stamped the swirl twice to get that lovely effect. Lastly I ran the edge of the card through the cuttlebug with one of the new border folders. It's a bit difficult to see on the photo but just finished things off.

Thanks for looking today. I did manage to salvage most of the wet paper from the other day but had to reprint my photos. The layout is now thankfully finished and out of harms way. It's another thing waiting to be photographed in good light.

Have a lovely weekend.