Bee Flourish

Hi bloggers both old and new.

I love this stamp, The Bees from honeyDoo. I found in my stash an old stencil which reminded me of Honeycomb so I started with this using distress inks. I then used the Bee flourish, which is one of my favourites, to stamp the flourish, the bees and the flowers. All these are included in the set.The bees stamp so nicely!

Simply mount this on to a background mat and there we are!

Take care till next week.

Lovely Lilly

Late again, Where does tthe time go, week by week the year is passing so quickly. 

Hello to all you bloggers....Love the warm weather tat has finally arrived...at least I can get out in the garden lots to do after all that rain.

Well here is my offering for this week.

Its using the lovely lily from honey doo crafts which I have coloured with water colours to give a delicate finish. I then used Sue wilson dies to frame it and mounted ob the beautiful blue paper I had in my stash. A sentiment from Honey Doo completes the card. I hope you like it.

I hope the warm weather continues, take care.
Janet

Roses are Red

Hi Everyone

Well its wet wet wet here in Lincolnshire and it looks like its here for the next few days so no gardening for me!

Cards well time to get my crafty head on and head to the craft room (er....well bedroom that holds my crafty stuff).

Here is a card using Roses are red from Honey Doo Crafts. Very simple just stamped, cut out and mounted on to black card cut with spellbinders curved squares. These were arranged on to the card base and a sentiment added. I love the monochrome look!

Heres to plenty of crafting over the next few days.
Take care till next week.
Hugs
Janet

A Little Bit of Spring!, Veined Flowers

Hi
Welcome to any new bloggers out there, I do hope you enjoy looking at my creations.
Well its spring and although the Daffodils have gone I thought I would show you this card to bring a little brightness into your world.
Sometimes you just have to go with the flow. This is my attempt at changing the veined floweres into Daffodil's by adding a cup in the centre. The flowers themselves were stamped onto white paper and then embossed with the gold sparkle embossing powder by Honeydoo. I placed these on the top of a die cut piee of card which I edged with yellow card cut from an old border die from spellbinders. Lovely spring colours for a dreary day!

The sentiment one of my favourite from honey doo stamps

Take care

Janet

Let's Party

Hello all you bloggers, new and not so new. Welcome to my weekly ditty.............

I promised something a little different for me this week. Well I have been playing with the We R Memory Keepers DIY Party board available from Oyster Papercrafts.

A very simple device for making 12 different party items officially, including hats, treat bags, cup cake holders,  blowers etc. I have also made a cup and saucer and cake stand which are not in the handbook. The cake stand was inspired by the We R memory keepers blog.

I saved various containers including yoghurt cartons and drinks container.  

Here's what I came up with.

 I found that working with plain paper and decorating while it was still flat was the way to go. I used pom poms, die cuts, gems, flowers and rosettes from my crafty stash to decorate some of the sets.

I used My Favourite Things, Just Delightful Stamps Prehistoric fun to decorate a cup holder, party horn, hat and treat bag. I stamped and embossed the image and coloured with alcohol pens.

 I found inspiration from last months Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine (issue 168 April) for the Rabbit, of course you could also make other animals or  Father Christmas in a similar way.

I stamped and embossed a pattern on the black card, of course you could use any of your small background stamps to repeat stamp a background. 

 The cake stand and cup were made from a the cup holders which I added a die cut circle to I then die cut a circle out of gold mirri card and a small strip was used to run around the top of the cup, the handle was just a strip of card fixed to the side.

 I do hope you like them, back to normal next week.
Have a splendid week hope the weather is kind to us all.
Take care
Janet

Veined Flowers

Hi bloggers,  

Again something a little different today. 

Here is a card using Tonic Square Lattice Frames and Veined Flower stamps by HoneyDoo Stamps. 

My favourite colours lilacs and purple I hope you like it.

Take Care
Janet

Roses are Red

Hi Bloggers,
What day is it?  oh Thursday......wow the days are passing by so quickly, Tuesday came and went and only this morning I realised I hadn't done a blog this week.
Well here is a card I made some time ago, very similar to a previous card using the Roses are Red card from HoneyDoos. Last time I decoupaged the rose and cut out each layer by hand, now we have the Die (thanks Amanda) which makes the whole process easier and quicker. I coloured the stamp this time with Poly Chromos pencils, and used the die to cut it out which gives a narrow border around the stamp. My favourite background Die, diamond Lattice by Memory box gives a very delicate look to the card and a sentiment using one of the Sue Wilson dies completes the look.

I am working on something different for next week so back to the grind stone for me, I hope you have a good week. Take Care
Janet

Wall Hanging
Well its a beautiful day here, a little windy but warm enough for this time of year.
Something a little different today. Here is a wall hanging I made at a workshop I attended last week. It uses just one 12" x 12" paper, which is used to cover the stamp board rectangles. This is then decorated with various bits and bobs which you will find in your crafty stash.
I thoroughly enjoyed playing and I was quite impressed by the result.
Take care
Janet

Floral Crest

Hello Bloggers,
Welcome to any new visitors, I hope you enjoy looking at my cards.
Here is a card I made using HoneyDoo Crafts Floral Crest stamp and die.  I love yellow in the spring time so I have matted and layered the frame and sentiment on to yellow and then coloured the flowers of the crest With Yellow Mica Powder made into a water colour. The embossing Folder is Woven                              made by We R Memory Keepers and is really useful. The sentiment is stamped with HoneyDoo            stamp A Jar of Thanks,  and then cut out with Spellbinders Curved Square Die. I then matted it on to Yellow Card.

I hope you like it.
Take Care
Janet

Hi Bloggers,
Its fine here today but storms approaching say the weather men.....whoop whoop rain!!!!!
A very simple card today. Black and white made with Honey Doo stamps.
Pretty Display is stamped as abackground, the flowers embossed with dark moonstone embossing powder . The sentiment is one of my favourites from mini sentiments, I love it because its generic so can be used for any occasion.
Spelbinders dies have also been used.

I hope you like it, Take care.
Janet

A Bottle of Vine

Hi Bloggers,
I do hope you are all well.
We have had a little sunshine here and Ive had chance to do some tidying in the garden, spring is around the corner.
Here is a card I made with the Bottle of Vine Stamps and Dies from Honey Doo. Its a simple Easel card but instead of folding the whole card up I cut it into strips and folded in different places to give this effect. Each of the words act as a buffer for the easel.
The mages were stamped, coloured and die cut onto heavy cardstock (250gsm) so that they would stand up independently.
I made the base using a spellbinders die  and added a sentiment to finish the card.
I hope you like it.
Take Care
Happy Crafting
Janet

Spring Flowers

Hello Bloggers,
Well what can I say about this weeks Card. We all have cards that we are not sure about  and this is one of them.
i was pleased with the inside but the outside mmmmmmmmm...........
I had an idea in mind to make a simple card using spare inchies for a couple of weeks ago....remember I made a background using a small stamp from birthday sentiments and coloured with distress inks These I matted on to gold and placed in the four corners. I used edging dies (Sue Wilson Configurations) and edged the borders. I Stamped Die cut, Painted and shaped the Spring Flowers and placed one on top of each square.. I then used a fifth square for the sentiment. Too much I think so not happy with this but decided to stop here.

Now for some time now I have been wanting to make up an arrangement using the many Honey Doo single flowers.  I stamped the smallest of the spring flowers on to the white card and masked it, I then repeated this with the medium and large flower, masking each one. I then stamped the smaller flowers above and below and masked them. I then stamped the Leaves from the same set and masked those.
Each time I stamped I heat embossed with Gold embossing powder.
Care must be taken not to overheat. For the masking I used Post It Notes, but you can buy masking film or masking fluid.
I then used the leaf stamp from Birthday Sentiments to add to the arrangement. (If you are unsure how to build up a flower arrangement look in floristry books for a basic shapes).
The reveal, Remove all the masking and you have an image to paint with Mica
We are now used to dimension so I added flat layers to the main flower, so that the card could still be closed.
I distressed the edges of the white card with the green distress ink and stamped the sentiment in place. I then matted and layered this on to a blue mat.

Although I am not happy with this card I thought it was worth adding to my blog to show how you can add a beautiful insert to a card,
I hope you agree.
Thank you for taking tome out to look at my Blog
Happy Crafting
Janet

Butterflies

Welcome to all my blogging Friends both old and new,
No Flowers this week its Butterflies.
I love this stamp its so useful, you can cut out the individual Butterfies to add as small embelishments to your cards or use this String of butterflies to make toppers.
Here is a simple card, I stamped two strings of butterflies with the Butterfly Border Stamp (Honey Doo), painted them with different colours of Mica. I die cut with the matching die and placed on to white card. This I matted on to Gold Mirri.
I made a background stamping all over with the small image from Birthday Sentiments, such a useful little stamp. If you try this make sure you change the orientation of the stamp, its a simple but effective technique which can be used with lots of small (or large) stamps. I tend to use lighter inks so as not to detract from the main image. You can also mix and match several small stamps with different colours.
I arranged the toppers and added a sentiment.

I hope you like it.
Have a good week
Take Care
Janet

Flowers for Design

Hello fellow Bloggers, I hope you are all keeping well.
It feels a bit like spring here, its getting a little warmer and the snowdrops are in full bloom in the garden.......I love spring!
Well this week I have chosen this card to share with you all. When I started I didn't know where I was going.
I made the base by matting and layering an embossed piece of white card on to green. I made some background paper with a small stamp found on Honey Doo Birthday Sentiments set, then shaded with  distress ink. This I cut into inch squares, matted on to the same green card and arranged down the side.
Now What!
Oh yes I have'nt used the Flowers for Design  die yet so lets go for that one, I stamped and painted with Tangerine Fizz Mica, Die cut the image and shaped into the flower. I then stamped and die cut several of the leaves from Spring Flowers, these I painted with Mica Powder woodland fern and stamped and die cut flourishes from Veined Flowers. These were arranged around the flower for design. A sentiment was added and this was the result.

I hope to see you all next week,
Take Care
Janet

Foliage Flourish

Happy Valentines day,

Here is a card I made with Valentines Day in mind. I used the Foliage Flourish stamp and die by Honey Doo Stamps. 

I started by cuting out appertures in my base card. I stamped and heat embossed the foliage flourish then die cut and trimmed into heart shapes. These I carefully placed over the apperture. I added a ribbon and sentiment to complete my topper.

I placed this over a red base using pin flair glue to give added dimension. (See the shadows for interest) and then I edged with strips of the red card die cut with a Sue Wilson configurations die Trellis Edger.

I hope you like it.
Take Care
Janet

Little Lilies

Hi Fellow Bloggers,

I hope you are all keeping well,

Here is a simple card using  spellbinders botanical bliss die. I made two panels which I matted on to purple. I then stamped and die cut the Little Lillies flowers from Honey Doo Stamps. I painted with mica, shaped and aded to the card. Two leaves stamped and cut from the same stamp completes the card. a sentiment could be added but I decided to put that on the inside of the card.

A very simple but effective card. 

Take Care my friends

Janet

Trio of flowers

Hi Everyone, 

I've been busy again, 

Here is a card I made using the Trio of flowers stamp and die from Honey Doo Stamps.

I made the base card using Large Square Dies and made a mat in contrasting colour. I used a basket weave  embossing folder by We R Memory Keepers (from Oyster Papercrfts) for the base.

I stamped and embossed the Foliage Flourish and placed in each corner. Using the same colour paper as the mat I stamped and heat embossed the Trio of flowers, shaped them and arranged ion top of the folliage flourish. I added a sentiment and edged with the Sue Wilson Tags and labels Grace die. I added a bow which was made on my Zutter Bow Maker. I do hope you like it.

Take Care, See you next week!
Janet

Spring Flowers

Hi Everyone and welcome to all those bloggers who are new to this site.

Isn't it foggy this morning, the sun is just beginning to shine through the haze, once the fog has gone its going to be a beautiful day.

Did you know that Honey Doo Crafts have brought out a collection of Dies to go with their stamps? They will be shown on Create and craft Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11am, I do hope you can join us.

With Valentines day just around the corner I have chosen a heart themed card to show you today. It uses the dies and stamps from Honey Doo's. 

First of all I stamped and cut the background using a poppy die (from oyster papercrafts) side lattice cutout. Underneath I have used Guilding Flakes which gives an interesting effect. 

I have cut out the Leafy flourish and trimmed it down to make a heart shape. This I did twice and off set to give the impression of depth to the shape. I then stamped and cut flowers and folliage from spring Flowers, Painted with blue lagoon mica and arranged around the base of the heart. A sentiment was added using the Balloon Banner stamp and hey presto The finished card.

Please remember to join us on create and craft tomorrow for more ideas from the Design Team, Happy crafting.
Janet

Veined Flower

Hello everyone,

Something a little different today, A zig zag card.  Its made from an A4 sheet of card which folded into three, then I trimmed the two side sections diagonaly to give the shape.  I made a sheet of background paper using the Leafy Corner and memento Ink pistachio (one of my favourite colours). I cut out to fit the card and matted and layered on to the base. 

I stamped the spring flower stamps, and heat embossed with silver sparkle. I painted over with mica powder, the embossed veins resisted the paint then die cut.  I shaped and made the three flowers and attached to the card, smallest at the top. I then added follliage from the same stamp. 

I love the white edges which are left when using the new Dies from Honey Doo Stamps, and its much easier than cutting out each flower individually. I hope you like the card.

Take Care, Happy Crafting 

Janet.

Pretty Display

Hello My friendly Bloggers, I hope you are all keeping well and have survived the Cold/Flu that appears to be affecting lots of people country wide.

A late blog today!

Here is a card I made some time ago using Honey Doo Pretty Display stamp to make some background paper. I then used some of it for a tag and placed in the centre, finishing with a sentiment from Honey Doo

I love the background paper but not too sure about the tag.........never mind Ill know better next time.
Keep safe
Janet