Naming Day with a Seaside Vintage Feel

Good afternoon everyone, thought I would post a picture of the naming day card I made yesterday, as mentioned in my Killer Heels post.  A friend rang me and asked if I would make a naming day card for her and of course I said yes, little did I know she wanted it for today.  The brief was a card for a little girl who lived on the coast and went to the beach each day, also my friend wanted a vintage feel to the card.  Well everyones idea of vintage is different but she said she would leave it to me.  Thinking cap on I came up with this.

 

 I used some lovely cream textured card from Papermill Direct, brown Stazon ink and Kraft card.  The stamps are some of my favourites by Crafty Individuals.  The words were printed in brown using the computer, then I stamped the images, cut the card to size and added a ribbon with the net tied in with the knot.  Some pearls and crystals were added with my heat wand being very careful not to melt the net, the finished panel was layered onto the kraft card and then onto the 15cm x 15cm card blank.

The insert was printed with a poem provided by my friend and I stamped the seahorse and shells on it too. I managed to get a quick photo before it was whisked away. 

Back to the housework now, see you on Monday with my Crafty Bloggers Network DT card and August challenge details.

Killer Heels

Good morning ladies and everyone out in blogland, managed to get some crafting done yesterday and hope to get back into the swing of things for a few weeks, until the end of August when I have the family staying again.

The challenge over at Less is More caught my eye the other day, a picture inspiration, how are these for killer heels!

I have recently sorted out my stamps, it's amazing what you find hidden away even stamps you have never used.  The shoe stamp and sentiment are from an unmounted rubber stamp plate by     which I used quite a lot 5 or 6 years ago for girly cards.  I stamped the sentiment onto black card with clear embossing ink and embossed in white, the shoe was stamped in black Stazon onto white card and embossed with clear powder with a touch of sparkle.  The base black card, white stamped card and sentiment were matted and layered onto a 15cm x 15cm white card.

I am struggling at the moment with some of my white card photographs I managed to take this one outside in natural light, not bad though it shows up the stray bits of white embossing powder I missed when brushing it off the black card. 

I also did a red pair of shoes on cream card, read something about the Wizard of Oz the other day which prompted me to do so (red slippers and all that).  The stitching is a bit wonky but this was just done just for fun.

Off now to complete an order for a Naming Day card with a seaside theme, wish me luck they need it tonight and I have no thoughts yet.

A Birthday Splash

Good afternoon friends, followers and passers by, another post from me today this time a birthday card for my daughter-in-law.  I was playing around with a set of stamps which came free with a magazine, a doily stamp from Papermania and some kraft card, and came up with this querky card.

 

The doily was stamped directly onto the kraft card and embossed with white powder, the image was stamped in brown Stazon, some areas bleached out and then fussy cut.  A piece of spotty paper (spare from running off some Sarah Hurley digi papers) was layered onto cream card and stitched in place.  This was decorated with sequins, pearls and a zigzag paper strip.  The patterned strip was added over the doily and the image added using sticky fixers then the sentiment stamped to finish.  I added a spotty patterned insert with a greeting and a few sequins and a strip of zigzag paper.

I was quite pleased with the end result I started to make another, inadvertently I used clear embossing powder instead of white, I continued on using a pink spotty strip which had gone wrong too (wonky sewing) and coloured the image instead of bleaching.  I bleached out some of the doily area and spattered some bleach on the card just to see what it look like.  I may add some fine glitter as well later.  Another version of the card using bits from my mistakes box, just made for fun. 

Time seems to be running away with me again I must get down to some serious crafting there are so many things I wanted to complete before the end of July but here we are August 1st tomorrow and I still have a pile of unfinished work on my desk!