Testing testing

I have been so frustrated with uploading to my blog 

from my notepad so my hubby suggested. I tried his and Ta Dah it's worked.

The photo is my doggy Archie when he was a puppy 5 years ago.

Debbie xx

A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

 

I admire Artists who can create beautiful pieces art that can be

that can be hung around the home.

When I saw the butterflies on the Harebell and Briar Rose Butterfly

 stamps sets to and gathered all my scraps of marbled card then stamped them with black ink.

 

  

 

 

I cut out the butterflies and arranged them around a canvas.

My first thought was to have them flying in one direction but was unhappy with the layout. 

I decided to have them sitting in a tree so I lightly sketch a tree design

 onto a canvas that had a coloured green and blue resembling a landscape.

When happy with the shape I painted with black and arranged the butterflies. 

 

 

 

 Here is the canvas hanging proudly in our living room.

 

Here is a small note card coloured with Coloursoft Pencils and a lightly inked edge.

These stamps are so detailed and beautiful to colour.

 

 

Thank you for visiting

Debbie

Nouveau cards

 

The Fleurs Nouveau Peacocks look so majestic standing with the stylised flower and I thought they deserved the time to be cut out and coloured. 

I love the style of the stamp as it can be used for cards for allsorts of occasions.

I had the background in my stash from a playsession using stencils, inks and sprays.

 

 

 

 The following two cards are A5 size. I used the flowers from Lovebirds Nouveau and Fleurs Nouveau on cards that had been coloured with Alcohol Inks and Blending Solution onto matt coated card.  The sentiments are from Mackintosh Sentiments Clear stamps.

 

 

 

 

 

This card is a clean and simple that I made for a Wedding Event

my daughter was involved in at work.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

Debbie

 

 

 

#Bring Back Our Girls

I read about this event via a friend on FB earlier this week and felt it is a wonderful idea for fund raising and highlighting the plight of the girls who have been kidnapped.
Please go over to the auction and view the wonderful artwork donated by very talented and creative people.

http://www.32auctions.com/bringbackourgirls


This is a list of the Artists web pages/blogs who are involved in the Auction.

Jessica Sporn   http://jessicasporn.blogspot.com
Linda Kittmer  http://lindakittmer.blogspot.ca
Ronda Palazzari  http://rondapalazzari.typepad.com
Marjie Kemper   http://www.marjiekemper.com
Judy Shea   http://thekeytomyart.wordpress.com
Glenda Hogland   http://pilgrimsthoughts.blogspot.com
Astrid Maclean  http://astridsartisticefforts.blogspot.com
Lisa Pace   http://lisapace.com
Jackie Neal   http://creatingwithoutcrayons-jackiepneal.com
Claudine Criner   http://claudinesartcorner.blogspot.com
France Papillon   http://www.france-papillon.com
Kristin Van Valkenburgh  http://TwinkleTwinkleLikeAStar.blogspot.com
Marcia Beckett  http://marciabeckett.blogspot.com
Ruth Levy   http://lerusho.wordpress.com/
Sally Lynn MacDonald   http://www.SallyLynnMacDonald.com
Renee Zarate   http://renee-boltonhouse.blogspot.com
Natasha May   http://natashamay.blogspot.com/
Carmen Whitehead   http://www.serendipitystudiobycw.blogspot.com/
Seth Apter   http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/
Marybeth Shaw   http://mbshaw.blogspot.com/
Amy Ingardia-Walker  http://creativelyquirkyathome.blogspot.com/
Kelly Warren  http://happyshackdesigns.blogspot.com
Julie Bernier http://juliebernierphotography.zenfolio.com/
Adrienne Hoban  http://www.allure-decor.com/
Krista van Tol   http://craftylittlepigtails.blogspot.com
Cheryl Grigsby http://cherylspaperartz.blogspot.com
Jill Meyer www.jillmeyer.com
Lisa Flaherty http://mypeaceofpaper.blogspot.com
Kerry C. Mitchell http://kerrycmitchell.com

The reason I wanted to be involved in a small way is...

 

Girls everywhere deserve access to education. But it’s a fundamental human right of every girl to be safe from harm.

Thank you for visiting

Debbie

http://girlrising.com/nigeria-action/
 ‪#‎bringbackourgirls‬

Repeat Stamping

 

Good morning.

I've really had fun playing working with the Fleurs Nouveau stamps.

For my first card I had great fun colouring the flower with pencils and wanted to keep the colours soft as I used Memento London Fog for stamping as a change to using black ink.

I cut out the flowers with an oval die and blended with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink.

I stamped around the oval with words from the Amazing Birthday words. These are clear stamps and they will bend beautifully and you can see where you're stamping. The flower oval was attached with foam pads and I mounted onto a pale pink.

 

 

 

The mathematical side of my brain was very happy doing the repeat stamping for the background of this card. The stamp is from the Nouveau Lovebirds set. I love symmetrical things like fabrics and wall paper.

I stamped with a pale green and because there is a lot of detail in the background decided a sentiment on a label shape would be sufficient as a topper.

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by

Debbie

 

Beautiful Birds

 

When I received the Nouveau Lovebirds stamps, I was curious to see if I could go

with a wedding theme.

I stamped with Versamark and embossed with gold powder. I recently had a play with some Coloursoft Pencils and with a little left over birthday money I invested in  a small set.

 

For the birds and trees I quickly learned that it was best to keep the pencils sharp. Glenda is an expert when colouring with pencils and I certainly enjoyed taking time colouring the image.

I chose to mount the birds on colours from the pencil work. 

The Ivy Corners from the Wedding Belle and the sentiment were stamped with green ink.

I have a friend getting married in the summer so this card is going in the box of cards ready for their big day.

 

Many thanks for visiting

Debbie xx

A Spring Box for little treasures

 

I had a lovely few days playing with my crafty purchases that have been sat in a box waiting for inspiration and time.

 

I bought this MDF box at Harrogate show with a few other things I needed, well fell into my shopping basket.

 

 

I didn't want to paint the box so when I bought a paper pad last week and found a delightful script paper set too to decorate it.

I trimmed the paper to the sizes of the sides and lid then painted the edges with Broken China paint and left to dry. I stamped the border stamp from Elegant Edges and the smaller flowers on the Springtime Edges with Cornflower Blue Archival ink then blended Broken China Distress Ink around the edges.

 

I glued the paper onto the sides and while that was drying stamped the flowers again in the corners with Potting Soil Archival Ink.

 

 

The top paper was glued and I rubbed gold guilding was around the edges.

The hole for the knob was drilled by my hubby and finished.

 

 

The knob was another recent purchased from Marks and Spencer, I'm pleased I only needed one as it was £3.50, I kept that quite from hubby.

 

Thanks for visiting

Debbie