Honey i'm home!

So, here we are! Nearly two years on and not much wiser to be honest :)

A lot has happened in the past two years and to quickly summerise we have had a human addition to the family, two pet losses and three new pets!

I have had a some time to get back into my crafting and now thanks to a wonderful shop I frequent I am into scrapbooking! Thanks PaperArts (link below).  I have only created two pages from scratch but I am really pleased with both of them! I am really enjoying altering tags too.  Oh and I created a fab altered bookbox after I took a Andy Skinner class.

This is my first scrapbook page!



This is my husband and daughter, I really love the way this one turned out. The main page is distress inked in peeled paint.  There were two layered pieces under the photo, the top one is peeled paint and faded jeans over gesso! It looks fab.

The bottom layer was a glossy cardstock with alcohol inks in Butterscotch and Lettuce.

I used a piece of paper from K and Co Speciality sparkle pad and edged it with a fiskers edge punch. I took plain ivory pearls and coloured them in with a green promarker and stuck these on the holes in the pattern down the edge.

The words were pink cardstock cut out on my Cricut using the George basic cartridge.

The pea pod was a labour of love! I am awful at drawing and despite my best efforts all of my peas came out looking squashed or just plain not pea pod like. I trawled the net for a free template and then printed it off. I punched two peas from green cardstock and put glossy accents on them to make them stand up. Stuck it all down and voila my first page!

So a sneaky peek at my second page I will post asap:

PaperArts website is http://www.paperarts.co.uk/ they are fab people and cheap as well!

See you soon

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Hi, Umm Boo?

Long time no see again!

I have had a huge change in my family life and have had very little time for cardmaking let along blogging. Will try get back to it soon though!

Straight to the point

Hey,
I never know what to write on this bit, you know the lead up to the card so this time I will just get on with it!

I made this card after messing around with some chalks on an embossed piece of cardstock. I wanted to know what it would look like to colour with chalks. I really like the soft effect the chalks make but it is very easy to make a mistake as the dust can go everywhere.

The recipe was:
Silver cardstock for the card
Purple paper from a stack i got ages ago, no name sorry
White cardstock
Purple ink
Bling
Silver ribbon
Cuttlebug
Stylised flowers embossing folder

I wont insult you by going through the process of putting the card together as it is fairly evident from the picture what went where. I did have fun with this card and tried pens/ pencils as well as the chalk but preferred the chalk final image.

What a break

It has been so busy here lately that I have not had time to craft very much. I have been to my crafting group though and made the card below.

I really love the Iris fold and the effects you can get with it. It is so simple yet looks really effective and quite complicated!

The recipe for the card is:
Plain white cardstock for the card and top layer
Red holographic card
various strips of pink and white paper
Pink sparkly paper for the iris
white cord
Red brads
A calligraphy pen for the sentiment

I have a pattern for the balloon iris fold which I found online a while ago. I cut out the balloon shape from the white cardstock and laid a white cord over the neck part of the balloon. I then completed the pattern for the iris fold and layered the card up with the red holographic card.
 I then tied a length of cord to the cord layered on the neck of the balloon and used silicone glue to seal the end to prevent fraying.

One thing I have found with the Iris fold is that it is just as effective to use one layer of paper i.e. no folds, if you have thicker paper. You can also use ribbon for a really cool effect.