My Son's Birthday card

It has been awhile since I have posted to my blog hopefully my MoJo has returned!

Below is the card I made for my son`s birthday . I thought the stairs card would be a change,

I used brown card stock for the base and decorated it with a sand coloured card which I embossed with a brickwork embossing folder this was matted on gold card stock.

For the tools I die cut  using Marianne Creatables LR0288 Tools Die.

The Greeting were stamped onto white card stock and attached using small brads.

50th Birthday

Well here is another one of the latest things a pop up box card. These are just great for posting that is depending how much 3d  stuff you put on and in them. Well here is my latest effort at one, this one is for my niece who will be celebrating her 50th birthday in May.

For the flowers I have used
Stampin Up : Flower Shop and Petite Flowers Stamps plus the punches that go with them.
 Leaves are made with  the Bird Builder Punch.
Labels of Love Stamps plus the Artisan Label Punch used for the greeting label.
Butterflies are stamped using Stampin Up Papillon Pot Pourri  Stamps and punched out with  S.U Elegant Butterfly Punch and Bitty Butterfly Punch
The ink colours I have used are Stampin Up Regal Rose, Strawberry Slush , Certain Celery and Pistachio Pudding.
The numbers were Silver Glitter Card cut with Die-namics Number Dies.
Diamante gems used fro centre of flowers and butterflies.
The ribbon some silver ribbon I had in my stash.

Rose Ball Topiary

I would like to share with you my latest projects these topiary style rose ball trees.

I used the Stampin Up Spiral Flower Die to make roughly 85 roses for each tree. Once these were made and shaped they were stuck on to a solid polystyrene ball size 120mm using a glue gun. A 12mm wide dowel was coloured with Early Expresso Ink and Alway Artichoke ink from Stampin Up then inserted into the polystyrene ball.  I used  10cm tall metal buckets in beige for both trees The trees were set into plaster  of  paris  casting powder, held whilst dry this took about 20 minutes to set I then decorated over the plaster with cream decorative gravel. Finished off making satin ribbon bows to match with the colours of the trees.

Paper Flower Wreathes

Hi everyone I would like to share with you two of my latest projects. A flower wreath made with a Stampin Ups kit, the second one is my own version using paper flowers which I have made. These have brought a bit of Spring / Summer into my home.

This is Stampin Ups Wreath Kit

This is my own version using flowers I have crafted.

Origami Boxes

I am sharing with you three Origami Boxes I have made from the instructions given on You Tube by Christina Griffith..These are a fair sized box that will take a nice little gift inside.

Christina  Griffiths
Box Base
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYqDiACEXg

Box Lid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQNABRvb_c0

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Here are my attempts these using Stampin Up designer 12 x12 papers

Now for Valentines Day

You are never too old for romance, here is a card I have made using the Pop Up Box idea which was shared by my Stampin Up up line manager Monica Gale. I am hooked on this style of card as you can fold it down flat for posting in the mail. This is my Valentines Day contribution.

I used black cardstock for the box and decorated it with Stampin Up Designer Papers More Amore which I purchased and downloaded via their M.D.S system.

In the Box :

I used  Red cardstock and the Stampin Up framelit hearts die set and the Stampin Up  Heart to Heart Punch was used to make the heart flowers.  I used  Stickles  Xmas red to give them a bit of bling. 

Leaves were cut from green cardstock using the leaf from theStampin Up Bird Builder Punch and Spellbinders Shapeabilities Foliage dies.

The Owl was made using the Stampin Up Owl Punch.

 Decoration on the fold down sides: Memory Box Die Sofia Heart 

 Decoration on the front fold down : Stampin Up  Artisan Label Punch stamped with sentiment from Stampin Up Love  You More stamp set. and of course a bit of bling using Stickles Star Dust.

Well A Belated Happy New Year Too You All

I have got my crafting mojo back, it is awful when you lose it!!!

I would like to share with you my latest cards I have been making.

Over the past few weeks I  have been interested in the brayering and sponging techniques that I have seen on the web. So I thought I would have a try at doing a few myself.

 Here  are some of my attempts which  I think will be great to use for masculine.