Where does the time go to. The start of the new academic year is always busy, long days, late nights and little time for crafting. Over the past few weeks I’ve managed to make just one card, which I'm not sure about so holding on to that one for now to see if I make changes. I decided this weekend to take a break from it and met up with some like minded friends for a crafting session. I didn’t really have a project in mind, though I know Ive got several birthdays coming up that I need to get organised for, but just to meet up and chat is always good. As crafting got underway, I decided to make paper flowers as a way of relaxing and set about stamping assorted size flowers onto pink patterned paper. Once stamped, the flowers were cut out, shaped and layered to give depth. I arranged the flowers and leaves onto a backing paper and as a finishing touch, used a Dreamweaver stencil and embossing paste to make the sentiment.

Sunday Morning Blues

 

I was up bright and early with the birds this morning and its turning out to be another sunny day. As I laid out some materials for crafting, I realised I really do need to invest in some larger embossing folders. When starting out cardmaking the thought of doing a large card didn’t even cross my mind and I made lots of small cards, mainly using the free kits from crafting magazines following the designs step by step. As interest grew, so did the size of card and I mostly now use 8x8. I only have two embossing folders that can fill that size and one I don’t actually like all that much so I tend to use the same background over and over again. Being limited as I am, I still used the folder but tried to break away from using it just as a square background.

Todays card was made using an Embossalicious folder Regency Swirls, Martha Stewart Cosmos Punch and Marianne Design Frame and Swirl. I tinted the background, flowers, frame and swirls with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink.

 

 

 

Slip Sliding Away

Was a busy week last week with not much time for crafting, which also meant no blogging, but I managed to make a little something over the weekend. I often find when buying themed paper packs that there are papers that just end up at the bottom of the paper pile either because the colours are too bold or I just don’t know what to do with the patterns. I am challenging myself now not to buy any more papers but to try to be a little more experimental with the papers I have.

This weekend, I dug out papers from the Mariposa Paper Stack which I bought about a year ago in a sale. I have used some papers to cover drawer fronts, and I gave some papers to a friend, but I decided to use them to make a sliding card. This technique was something I haven't tried before but thought I would give it a go. I made a few mistakes when making the card, like cutting the slot too big, but I managed to rescue it. I also used some old Christmas papers to make a second card.