A Christening Card

Hi, I love Saturdays so much - no work, lots of pottering about in my craft room, and a bit of Bon Jovi in the background.  Perfect!  (I must upload a video clip of 40 odd thousand (I believe) people singing Living on a Prayer, lol).

I thought I would upload this - I made it today for one of my boyfriend's family, whose new baby is being christened tomorrow:

 

I used Kraft cardstock (I'm getting addicted) and Core'dinations Nostalgia (also addicted), a plain cream card chopped up for the mats, and a little charm I bought at Aintree craft fair.  The embossing folder used was Swiss Dots, the sentiment and name were done on the computer, and the lace was from my stash.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

Hope you (and the baby's parents!) like it.

Maria x 

Vintage

Hi, what dreadful weather we're having at the moment!  Perfect weather for crafting :-)  There are so many vintage challenges around at the moment, I thought I'd do something with that in mind.  I used some Core'dinations paper with a photo stamp - and this is the result.

The brown and cream cardstock is from the Nostalgia pack and I sanded it with an emery board.  The ribbon is American Crafts and the image is stamped in Versafine Vintage Sepia. The pale blue colouring on the dress has been done with Promarkers.  The mesh metal ribbon  is from Ribbon Box and the velvet brads I already had. 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

Top Tip Tuesday - Wedding or Anniversary
Make My Monday - Brown & Cream plus Pink or Blue
Craft Your Days Away - Vintage
Southern Girls Challenge - Childhood Memories

Maria x

Blingy Bird

I thought it was about time my Cricut saw some action so I had a play about with the Home Decor cartridge at the weekend and this is one of the cards I made:

 

 

I used canvas paper for the background with a bottom border from the Desert Blooms pad.  I cut the silhouette bird, it's crown, and the butterfly from the same card as the border, and the detailed overlay bird from some glittered card from the same pack.  The frame has also been cut on the Cricut with some plain green card, and I added some gems and ribbon.

Hope you like it.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Birds of a Feather

Maria x

Tatty Ted

Well, it's been a beautiful day here weather wise - let's hope it keeps up!  Sadly it's back to work tomorrow.

This is a card I made this week for one of the girls in work's birthday, which is coming up shortly.  She absolutely adores Tatty Ted.

The base card and the mat under the image are Kraft cardstock (the mat is corrugated), the blue polka dot paper is Back to Basics and the image is coloured with promarkers and cut out with a nestie.  I then edged quite deeply in with blue shimmer chalk and added some buttons and cord and corners, and attached a mat for the easel.  I think the pastel blue looks quite nice with the Kraft card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

Crafty Cardmakers - Spots and Stripes
Creative Stamp Friends - Dots 
Forever Friends - Birthday (use an animal) 
Riley and Company - Dies or Punches
Top Tip Tuesday - Beginning with a "T"
Crafts and Me - Birthdays
Divas by Design - Die Cuts & Punches
Clearly iStamp - Punches, Dies, Cutouts
Inspire me Fridays - Anything Goes

I hope you like it, and thanks for visiting.

Maria x

Summer Birthdays

Hi,  it's time again for a brand new Craft-Room Challenge!  The past two weeks have flown by so quickly and the entries for the Altered Paper Dolls challenge are quite stunning and very creative - it will be so difficult to pick a top 3!  Good luck to everybody who entered.

Now onto the next challenge - Summer Birthdays.   I love this time of year - we have baby rabbits in the park nearby.  I made an easel card and used a LOTV image - two little girls sitting on a wall in the sun with some flowers that they've picked.  I coloured the image with watercolour pencils, which I don't use very often but thought they might work well for this challenge, and coloured the background with pastel shimmer chalks. I added some punched flowers with clear distress stickles to finish it off.  I hope you like it.

So, get creating - we'd love to see your entries!  There's a £10 voucher to be won in the random draw, to spend in the Craft-Room Online Shop - all you need to do to be eligible, is link up your entry and display the Craft-Room logo in your side-bar, with a link back to the shop. 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

The House That Stamps Built - Watercolour

Good luck!

Maria x

My Odds and Ends

Hi, what a gorgeous day it's been here, considering it forecast rain!  This is something I made last night but haven't had chance to post it on as I've been at my mum's all day.  I wasn't sure what it was going to be really until I started.  I used a few left-over bits and pieces lying around such as the flower, butterfly and the lace.  I used DI on the background, and I bought some TH tissue tape from Craft-Room which I was itching to use so, having seen what Craft Stamper magazine did with a few stationery items, I had a go myself and covered a bulldog clip, finishing it off with a bit of fresco finish metallic glaze - I also used this on the butterfly and torso.  I also saw what they did with a paper clip in CS mag so had a go at that as well, with some Sepia Glossy Accents.  The chain around the torso is from a broken piece of jewellery (I have a tendency to occasionally take apart unbroken ones!) and the punched paper pieces were a mat that I had punched and not used.  The flower is has been inked and covered in crackle accents, with a snappy thingy added to the centre.   I used an edging tool to rough the edges a bit, matted it and mounted it on a page from a chipboard album. 

All in all, I'm really pleased at how this has turned out, considering most of it is from left-overs, lol.  I do hope you like it.

I'm entering this piece into the following challenges:-

Class Act Insider - Vintage
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Sew Many Cards - Punch It
Totally Papercrafts - Say It With Dies Or Punches
Delicious Doodles Challenges - Things That Flutter
Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Maria x