GlitterAngel Art

Floral Frenzy

Here are the last few cards for Saturdays class, and just as well because I’m running out of flower related titles for my posts!

 

Now I have to give credit for this last card to Kath – I was working on ideas using a sketch with three circles on, then I saw her card where she had overlapped the circles and drawn stitching round them and I thought it was a much better idea than the three smaller circles I was originally planning so thanks Kath! :)  Her blog is well worth a visit because she always comes up with such wonderful ideas.

DCM – Cute as a Button

Well how exciting – this week is my first time for setting the dare over at The Daring Cardmakers.  I decided to set the challenge of using buttons on your cards – but it’s not that simple, I want the buttons to form part of the main design of the card, not just be added onto a corner as an embellishment.  The inspiration for this is the Papertrey button stamp sets I have – they have a few different sets available, and there is part of the image missing where you put a button.  Since I’ve used my set a lot recently, I didn’t want to repeat myself (or make life too easy for myself!!), so I decided to draw a stalk and leaves and insert buttons for cherries.

 

The papers are from Pink Petticoat and the flower is made from scalloped circles of tissue paper scrunched up and attached with a brad. 

I can’t wait to see what ideas you all come up with for my dare, and don’t forget to check out the amazing cards that the DT have created this week

More lovely blooms

 

Here’s another card for my class this Saturday – the flowers are a digi image, but the leaves are stamped.  I’ve coloured them with some peach and coral promarkers to match the lovely gingham backing paper (which is a download from Raspberry Road Designs).  I couldn’t resist adding a little bit of glamour dust to the centre of each flower.  I love the colours of this card – not necessarily colours I’d usually use, but that’s the good thing about getting new papers – makes you think of new colour schemes :)

Flower power

Another card for my class next Saturday.  The little birdhouse is from Raspberry Road Designs as are the papers.  I stamped and coloured the little bird and the flowers and coloured them with Promarkers, then I added some little pearls to the flowers on the birdhouse.  Cute isn’t it?  If you haven’t heard of Raspberry Road then their website is worth checking out, they have some lovely papers and images. 

DCM –Wish you were here

It’s Lynda’s turn to set the challenge this week at Daring Cardmakers and she set the theme ‘wish you were here’.  This is actually my second attempt as I didn't like my first card, I’ll share the card I’m not happy with too.

I thought this Tanda stamp was perfect for a holiday theme, and I decided to pair it with some little strawberries from a sizzix embossing folder. 

And here’s my first attempt – I used one of my cupcake stamps for the ice-cream and drew the cone shape onto some Pink Petticoat paper.  The thing I’m not happy with is that I think the text is too big in proportion with the rest of the card, but I only decided this after I’d stuck all the letters down!

The other members of the Design Team have come up with some gorgeous cards, so pop over to have a look.

Blooming lovely

I’m VERY slow of the mark with my sample cards for my next class on the 30 July.  I thought that by staying in London during the week I’d have loads of uninterrupted crafting time, but I think I have less!  Although I do have a bit more time in the week, my weekends are now totally spent doing stuff with my boyfriend whereas when I was at home all week he used to play golf a lot at the weekend and leave me in peace to craft! 

Anyway, I’ve decided that this months class is going to focus on flowers.  I’ve written lots of ideas in my notebook, so I’ve just got to get on with putting them together.  This card is quite simple, just using one flower design, but I think using the same image several times and just highlighting one with colour is really effective. 

DCM – Pinterest

It was Nat’s turn to set the challenge this week over at Daring Cardmakers and she came up with the brilliant idea of using a ‘pin’ from Pinterest as inspiration for our card. 

Above is my Pinterest image – if you click here you can see the original photo. 

And here is my card that was inspired from the photo:

It was one of those cards that seemed like a good idea at the time!  Constructing the ‘basket’ for the flowers was quite tricky – I used some thick acetate and lined it with vellum to get a similar effect to the original photo.  The flowers are made from crepe paper and I just love the colours in this card – it’s not one that I could post to anyone though!!

More work with sketches

I enjoyed incorporating sketches into my last class and have decided it’s something I’m going to do more of as it stretches me a bit and gives me new ideas.  Kathy from the Daring Cardmakers also has a challenge blog for sketches, Kathy's Waffle Sketch File so I decided to take part with this month’s sketch.

My new craft space

I thought I’d show you how lovely my new crafting space is.  My old room was lovely, but I must admit it’s lovely sitting in front of a window rather than looking at a wall!   As this is a huge room that is also my bedroom and lounge, I was quite keen for my craft stuff not to look quite so messy and cluttered.  It was hardly messy to start with, but as I store all my supplies in clear plastic A4 boxes, I felt it looked a bit messy to see all the different colours of the contents.  So I decided to line each box with some pretty Pink Petticoat papers in a lovely green that goes nicely with my painted magazine boxes and the pale yellow walls.  I’m really pleased with the results.

 

I’d like to get another of the drawer units for my expedit shelves and get rid of those blue plastic drawers so it’s more even looking, but in the meantime those drawers look much better now they have the same lovely polka-dot papers.

What was I thinking?

when yet again I volunteered to make 25 invites for my niece Ella’s birthday party?   You’d think I’d have learned my lesson from last year’s mammoth task of all those Minnie Mouse party bags.  It must be like childbirth (luckily not something I’ve tried), as every time my sister puts in an order for party invites, party bags, christening invites, wedding invites, etc.  I forget quite how much time and effort it takes and happily agree. 

At least the task is over for another year (although I’m still concerned that she hasn’t mentioned party bags yet, I fear there might be more work for me to come!).