Owl be there!

Today I'm off to the Great British Craft Festival North at Bolton Arena, it was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and I still have some money left, so probably going to treat myself to lots of crafty stuff that I don't really need LOL!

I also thought I would show you a couple more of the cards made for the last Complete Cardmaking magazine, using the Owls from the Kraftyhands kit - What a Hoot , this time around I have a birthday and wedding card.

Papers and topper - What a Hoot CD Rom - Kraftyhands

Tonic layering dies - plain and scallop circles

Magnolia Doohickey - DH004 Leaf swirl

Memory box - Scalloped Posie

Grosgrain ribbon and stick on gems - Meiflower

For the wedding card I added white organza ribbon as a veil with a crystal headdress, part of a doily made her gown and was finished of with more gems. The groom has a silver grey dickie bow and matching hat band, small pearls for shirt buttons and small gems for his waistcoat buttons

Owls - What a Hoot CD Rom - Kraftyhands

Centura Pearl blue and white cardstock

Embossalicious A4 folder - Floral Trellis - Crafters Companion

Marianne Creatables - LR0326 - Bow

Lea'bilities - Branch 4 Seasons

Tonic layering dies - Scalloped circles

Ribbon, pearls, gems - Meiflower

Doily - stash

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look,

have a lovely weekend,

hugs,

Colette xx

Whooo gives a hoot!

I recently did a magazine commission for Complete Cardmaking using a fab kit from Kraftyhands called What a Hoot! If you haven't guessed it already, the kit was all about owls. On the free CD that comes with the magazine you get 10 different coloured owl shaped cards with decoupage, a collection of owl toppers and some papers. The magazine came out a few weeks ago, but I have only just managed to get around to showing you some of my featured creations.

The first two cards are made using the Owl shaped cards with matching decoupage, I decided to do a female and male version.

I gave the boy owl a little waistcoat using the decoupage tummy layer as a template and cutting it from one of the papers in the collection, I added a ribbon dickie bow and if you look very carefully you can also just see a little matching handkerchief sticking out of his waistcoat pocket.

The girl owl has a little lacy top made from a doily and decorated with pearls and a pretty organza bow topped with a satin rosebud trio, from Meiflower.

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

A touch of green

Happy St. Patrick's day!

I have a couple more cards to share with you today, I made them for the January edition of Complete Cardmaking magazine, using papers and images from the On Nitwit's Pond collection, (a mini version of the full Nitwits kit) which you get on the free CD, the cards are not Irish themed in anyway, but a couple of them feature a frog, and he's green, so that's my very tenuous link LOL!

Papers and image from free CD

Printed onto White Linen Card - Papermill direct

X-cut 2 in 1 corner punch - small

Ribbon and stick on gems - Meiflower

Papers and images from free CD

Creative Linen white stepper card blank - Craft Creations

Images printed on A4 170gsm matt inkjet photo paper - Photo Paper Direct

Tonic layering dies - Scalloped and plain circle

Stick on gems - Meiflower

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Baubles, snowflakes and a gift bag

A couple more creations today from the Sarah Paris Complete Cardmaking commission, this time around I have a couple of cards and a gift bag to show you.

The baubles and snowflake digital stamps, sentiments and papers all came on the Free CD included with the magazine.

 I made an easel card, colouring the baubles to match the background paper and using one of the sentiments for the stopper.

For this card I printed the sentiment onto the paper arranging the snowflakes around it randomly and colouring the word Celebrate and parts of the snowflakes red, to finish off I added a crystal gem to the centre of each snowflake

I used a brown paper lunch bag and made a lid, which slides over the handles, from Kraft. I coloured up the sentiment and snowflakes, die cut the sentiment and cut around the snowflakes before adding them to the front of the bag which I had already decorated with papers from the collection.

Nellie Snellen Pine branch die used on easel card

All ribbons and gems- Meiflower

Digital stamps and papers are available to buy from the Sarah Paris online store.

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

A couple of Christmas cards

Today I have a couple of Christmas cards to show you which were part of my commission for the September edition of Complete Cardmaking magazine.

I was given a Sarah Paris kit to play with which contained several papers and a good selection of bauble, snowflake and sentiment digi stamps.

For the first card I merged together the snowflake string and the bauble in Photoshop before colouring to match the background paper I was using. The right hand side of the card front is acetate, and the bauble is fixed to this so that when the card is open the bauble looks like it is dangling. I coloured the "Merry" of the sentiment to match the bauble.

digital stamps and paper - Sarah Paris - Free CD Complete Cardmaking Magazine issue 52

Embossalicious A4 Let it Snow embossing folder

Die-namics pierced fishtail flags die

Gold ribbon and gems - Meiflower

Papers, snowflake and Joy digital image - Sarah Paris - Free CD Complete Cardmaking Magazine issue 52

Scalloped and plain oval - Tonic layering dies scallop and plain oval set

Ribbon - Meiflower

Papers and digital stamps are also available to buy at the Sarah Paris online store

Thanks for stopping in,

hugs,

Colette xx