Baby Girl Card

Hi there, this is an easel card I made recently for someone who's just had a little girl.  The clothes on the line were cut on the Cricut, using DCWV Nana's Nursery paper/card.  I think it's on the cute side, with little clothes.

I'm going to enter this card in for the following challenges:-

Make It Monday
Scrap-Creations
Southern Girls Challenge

See you soon

Maria x

Welcome Gracie

Hi, it's nearly Friday - at long last!  I've made this card for a friend to give to someone.  The criteria was pink check or gingham and flowers, and this is how it turned out. I aimed for a window with a box of flowers underneath, as a sort of welcome to a little girl.  I used a punch and some clear rock candy stickles for the flowers,  acetate for the window, the sentiment was done on the pc and the blind was some white embossed paper.  There's a little spun sugar DI here and there as well.  I hope you like it.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

Make it Monday
Make My Monday
Scrap-Creations - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Open Challenge

See you soon

Maria x

Craft-Room Challenge: Altered Paper Dolls

Wow, what a fortnight the Craft-Room Challenge has had!!!  223 entries in their first ever challenge - it was a huge success!  The entries were so impressive with really beautiful and inspiring creations.  Their next challenge is Altered Paper Dolls, which will run for two weeks.  This really was fun to make as I haven't made a paper doll in a such a long time.  Once I got started, that was it.

I thought I'd try something along the lines of a bit spookyish (but not too spooky). I used the Cricut to cut the two basic pieces and used Distress stain, stamps and trims.  The veil came from some new net curtain I had for the front room window (but not any more!) and I used a bottle top with a paper flower for the head-dress  The spiders were made from acrylic gems with flowersoft wire for the legs, which I coloured with a black promarker.  The face was a download from the internet, with added eyeliner and white on the eyes, and I darkened the lips some more.  I hope you like it.

Have fun making your doll, and good luck!

I'd also like to enter my altered paper doll into:

Make it Monday

See you soon

Maria x

p.s. That's a tissue, printed with £20 notes, in the background - not real ones!

A little wall hanging

This is a little wall hanging, using Tando chipboard, I made for my mum recently  - I do love wall hangings!  The Tando Chipboard is from the Craft-Room online shop, the stamps I used were Creative Expressions "Vintage Sewing", and the papers, fragments and ruler ribbon are Tim Holtz.  The little scissors brad is a Woodware one.

I hope you like it and thanks for having a look.

Maria x

My First Home Made Stamp!

Well, I have finally unpacked and set up my new stamp maker which I bought 2nd hand from Ebay.  After blood, sweat & tears (and 3 attempts in the bin, lol), I found out where I was going wrong and finally have my first home made stamp.  It's not perfect, or even nearly, but it's a start.  I also made the flower on the card by dying a white cotton coaster (10 for £1 in the Pound Shop (I think there was 11 in mine!)) with some tattered rose distress ink diluted down.  As for the home made stamps, hopefully they will improve with practise (and a large order of stamp sachets from Julia at Craft-Room!)

I'm also going to enter it into "what is on your desk right now challenge".

Maria X

It's Friday at last!!!

At long last it's the end of the week, and time to chill out a bit.  The weekend is just not long enough!

I made this tonight with some GCD papers (Paris Nights) inked around the edges with black soot and a little creamy white metallic rub on stuff, and Perfect Pearls to paint the dress and the small wooden flower.  The metal panels are made from Artemboss coloured foil which I scrunched and flattened back out and dabbed some black Stazon on the raised bits - I'm really pleased with how they turned out.  I do hope you like it.

I entering this card in:

the Artistic Stamper Challenge, Monochrome Plus One

Thanks for taking the time to have a look and enjoy your weekend!

Maria x