A pot full of daisies

I love flowers but this year my garden is more veggies and fruit than flowers, as I just haven't gotten around to sorting out the bedding plants yet. Little man doesn't seem that keen on gardening as he spends most of the time pulling up any plants I have just planted! So this year veggies will have to do and hopefully next year he will understand not all plants want pulling out the ground and eating!

I just love how this card turned out and, I really enjoyed making it - stamping, painting and distress inks what could be more relaxing??????

To make this card I started by die cutting a large oval out of cream card and stamped the small daisy in the centre and masked it off and repeated until I had a triangle of daisies and then I stamped the largest pot from the Lots of Pots stamp set. I then coloured them in using Distress Inks and a water brush. I then distressed around the edge and added two doodle lines.

Onto another piece of cream card I stamped 2 of the largest, 4 of the middle sized and 5 of the smallest Daisy flowers. And then 4 of the larger leaf and 10 of the smallest ones. These to were coloured in using Distress Inks, cut out and shaped using an embossing tool.

I used an A5 off white card for the base card and rounded off the corners. Next I cut a piece of brown card 1cm smaller on both sides and a off white piece of card another 1cm  smaller then the brown. The off white piece I then embossed, lightly distressed, added faux stitching around the edge and mounted it onto the piece of brown card. Across the centre I added a piece of brown ribbon and attached it to the base card.

In the centre of the card I attached the oval which I had mounted onto a larger scalloped oval. Around that I arranged and attached the cut out daisies and leaves.

To finish of the card I added stickles to the centre of the flowers and a bow and hat pins to the ribbon.

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Which way up?

These little beauties are so quick and easy to make, but, I can not decided which way they should stand up!!! 

They are both made using the New Little Lizzie or Lizzie and Friendz. stamp set.

Or the New Little Daisy or Daisy and Friendz sets.

To make these cards I cut an A4 piece of card in half long ways and folded it at 14.5cm long (trimming off the extra). 

For the Lizzie card:

1. I then stamped the smallest flower around the edge of the card coloured it in and distressed it. 
2. Next I cut a piece of card 13.5cm by 9.5cm and tore a smaller piece of handmade paper to mount onto that. Onto the handmade paper I again stamped the smallest flower randomly (using 1st/2nd and 3rd generation images) and distressed all over the paper. This was then mounted onto the piece of card.
3. Around the right hand edge/ bottom (depending which way your card is standing) of the card I wrapped a piece of lace, which had been distressed and over the top of it piece of ribbon.
4. Onto some handmade paper I then stamped 4 of the smallest flower and 2 of the middle sized flower and 4 leaves, to these I added a little bit of colour using pencil crayons. These were then cut out.
5. Once the flowers and leaves were cut out I then arranged them along the lace/ribbon attaching them with glue.
6. To finish off the card I added a ribbon along the folding edge, a gem in the centre of each flower and in two visible corners. Finally I added 2 hatpins to finish it off.

For the Daisy card:

1. I then distressed around the edge of the card. 
2. Next I cut a piece of card 14cm by 10cm and a smaller piece one 13.5cm by 9.5cm of card. Onto the smaller piece of card I stamped the smallest flower randomly (using 1st/2nd generation images) all over the piece of card. Then coloured them in and distressed around the edge. This was then mounted onto the larger piece of card and a sliver brad added to each corner.
3. Around the right hand edge/ bottom (depending which way your card is standing) of the card I wrapped a piece of lace and over the top of it piece of ribbon.
4. Onto some handmade paper I then stamped 4 of the smallest flower and 1 of the middle sized flower and 8 leaves, to these I added a little bit of colour using pencil crayons. These were then cut out.
5. Once the flowers and leaves were cut out I then arranged them along the lace/ribbon attaching them with glue.
6. To finish off the card I added a ribbon along the folding edge and 2 hatpins to finish it off behind the flowers.

Mothers Day.

I know its a while away but I was given some handmade papers and all I could think was how gorgeous they would look with Daisy Doodles so here they are, beautiful hey!

To make this one I stamped detailed Daisy onto the handmade paper 6 times and the detailed leaf 8 times and cut them out.

Onto a cream piece of card I stamped Mother into the centre and distressed around the edge using purple ink. Next I wet a piece of kitchen towel and stamped the solid Daisy stamp onto it then onto the card to remove the ink from the card. when it was dry I then 2nd generation stamped the detailed Daisy stamp in purple ink. This was then mounted onto a pale purple card and then onto a dark purple base card.

I two opposite corners I added a metal emblishment and across the bottom I added some cream ribbon. In the top left hand corner I arrange the cut out flowers and attached them to the card. Finally I added some Stickles to the flowers.

I can believe how quick and easy this card was and also howmuch i love those handmade papers!!!!!

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Oh dear

Is anyone still out there............

What can I say I have been really bad these past few months. 

We (by that I mean the royal "we") have been to the Ross Papercrafts Shows at Rainton and Grimbsy and a week on Saturday (25th October) I yes I will be at Stamperama in Flitwick in support of the East Anglian Air Ambulance. I can't wait, it will be my first show since May and boy have I missed chatting away to all you nice people! So please if your in the area that day why not come along have a chat and support a great cause! Check out their website for more info http://www.stamperama.com

I have also been playing with my paints again!

Since Little Lady started school/swimming we seem to get a letter (or two!) every night so I decided that I needed a better way of filing it all, our poor breakfast bar was disappearing under a sea of "important" letters. So I bought some cheap clipboards, decorated them and now they are hung neatly near the front door with all letters and notes neatly filed!!!!

This is Little Lady's

Do you recognise the stamp I used???? Yep its Lizzie Doodles, Little Lady chose it herself and helped to finish it off!

And this is Little man's

As for the other two I am just adding the glaze and will share them with you when they are dry!

Oh and Little Lady she is loving big school, the best part being lunch times where her and her "bestiest friend ever!" play with the big kids - I dread to think what she gets up to! And Little Man well he is a star, keeping me on my toes and growing up very fast on Friday he hits the big 10 (weeks!) where does the time go - if I am not careful he will be off to school before I know it!

Daisy Dragonfly

This card is one I made on Saturday whilst we were at the Ross Papercraft Show at Doncaster, normally I don't bring many of the cards I make home as I like to give them away. 

However, this one......

came home with me!

To make this one all I did was stamp three solid Daisy flowers and gave each one a leaf. Over the top I added the detail stamp and distressed around the edge of  a piece of cream card that is 2cm smaller than an A6 card. In black Ink I then stamped Baby Dragonfly towards the top of the piece of card and across the bottom I stamped "Birthday Wishes". Baby Dragonfly was then then coloured in using a water brush and Distress Inks.

Onto a pale purple piece of card Cut 1cm smaller than an A6 card I stamped Mini cog corners around the edge, matted the Dragonfly onto this. Between the base of the Dragonfly and "Birthday Wishes" I wrapped some string around and tied it in a knot.

To finish off the card I took an A6 blank card and stamped Daisy around the edge this was then distressed and the Dragonfly added to it. Finally I added a gem in each corner.

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Stamps used for this card

Time to play

Some days I just need to play with my inks, I don't have any plan I just play and sometimes things just come together.

For this card I raided my bits box and found some small pieces of cream card and stamped the solid Daisy stamp in different colours. (To get the watercolour effect I ink up my stamp then spritz it with water.) Next I added the solid leaf and over stamped it using the detailed leaf stamp and a darker green ink. Then I stamped the detailed Daisy stamp in black.

Around the edges of the small squares I distressed and added some "sketch marks" (I do this by inking up the edge of my acrylic block and stamping it around the edge of the squares.)

The square were then mounted onto a large square piece of card that I could then stamp "Birthday Wishes" around the edge. This was then distressed too. In the four outer corners I attached a brad and a bead cap.

Finally I attached this to a 8 inch square blank card that I had randomly stamped Daisy onto.

To finish off the card I stamped the detailed Daisy onto velum four times, clear embossed it and cut them out, these were attached to the centre of the card and finished off with a button and some twine. I then added a a gem between each of the saying to make it sparkle.

Not bad really for a card that started off with no plan......

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Stamps used for this card

Daisy

This card was made by Sue. 

I just love the colours.... and amazingly she has only used two shades of blue to create it (Memento Paris Dusk and Stormy Sky Distress Ink).

To make this card Sue used our new stamp set 

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