You Are Special To Me

Hello everyone how are you all?

To day I have a card I made a while ago, I'm thinking maybe a month ago or just over.

I've used a Sylvia Zet image from Hobby House (I think) which I've had for ages.

I will give a links to items used at the bottom of the post.

Papers are the super gorgeous Pion Design Easter Collection from Swedish House Crafts.

I have machine stitched all around the edges as always.

Doily & lace are from my stash, also the bulldog clip is.

The small bit of paper is a scrap that I stamped a sentiment onto & then layered it up with foam pads.

The die cut going along the middle is a Magnolia Doohickey.

The gorgeous butterfly is a rubber stamp from Swedish House Crafts which I stamped with Versa & then heat embossed with white embossing powder, I then fussy cut it out & added fine purple pearl string to the centre.

The circle die is a die by Gummiapan from SHC, link will be at the bottom. These are fabulous for adding a bit of interest to your projects, I have the square one too & love them both.

The flowers I made myself using foamiran & Whimsy Peony dies. I used white foamiran & used oil pastels to colour them. The leaves I used olive green foamiran & added colour to give them a realistic look......its rare leaves are one solid colour.

I heat shrunk some organza ribbon & added some string in amongst the flowers.

As always I have decorated inside to co-ordinate with the front.

I used a Roxstamps die to cut out the image & then used a smaller one to make a frame.

Items used from Swedish House Crafts......

Roxstamps Cross Stitched Nesting Square dies

Gummiapan Doodle Circle die

Pion Design Easter Greetings Complete Collection

Gummiapan Stamp Butterfly Morpho Large

Versamark Watermark Ink Pad

Thats it from me, thank you so much for stopping by.

Hope you have a super weekend.

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

AUTUMN

Hello everyone how are you all?

Sorry I've been missing in action I've been quite ill lately & then had to have tests took. So have not had energy to even blog, let alone craft but I finally made this card.....only took me 4 days lol.

Anyway I'm late with not 1 but 2 DT cards oops, so I'm combining them both...yep I'm cheating lol.

Ok so the new challenges have started over at All About Magnolia & Deep Ocean Challenges & luckily for me their themes are nearly the same.......phew!!! Lol.

AUTUMN COLOURS at DOC or AUTUMN/HALLOWEEN also at AAM

I've gone with Autumn colours to suit both challenges. I absolutely love Autumn, I love all the changing colours of the leaves & trees & love the rustle under my feet when the leaves have fallen on the ground. Its a beautiful time of year.

I thought I would use a Halloween kind of stamp but make her more Autumn orientated ;-)

This is Witch Tilda With Small Pumpkins but I thought rather than her being a witch she could just be sitting amongst the trees enjoying Autumn.

The papers are Maja Design 'Walking In The Forest' 6x6 pad from Swedish Houe Crafts. I have machine stitched the both layers & the top layer I cut out using a die from Magnolia Doohickey Club Kit Volume 11........you can get these Magnolia Volumes from Swedish House Crafts at a great price & they are soooo worth the money.

I also added gesso to both layers to soften them & give them a shabby chic look.....Autumn the shabby chic way lol.

I have cut the envelope from the Maja Design 6x6 pad & then cut the tags from it also & added eyelets & waxed cord & popped them inside the envelope to write little messages on them.

I also cut the shaped larger tag form the same pad & added Autumn to the top, the Autumn I cut from the front cover of Maja Design 'Vintage Autumn Basic's' 6x6 pad, I have 2 pads & 1 is nearly gone so used that cover.......recycle recycle lol ;-)

The tree's are Doohickey dies from Swedish House Crafts called 'Birch' from the Animal Of The Year collection. I cut it out of Kraft cardstock & then gave it a painting with gesso. The second tree I popped onto foam pad to give it a 3-D effect.

The Magnolia stamp I coloured with distress ink refills, I also added stardust stickles to the pumpkins.

Colours used are..........

Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose - Skin

Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs - Hair

Rusty Hinge, Hickory Smoke, Carved Pumpkin  - Dress & Band on Hat

Frayed Burlap - Boots & Hat

Ooops I forgot to add colour to her lace at the bottom of the dress......better fix that :-/

Flowers are WOC, the leaves are Magnolia Doohickey dies & I added some small leaves made with foamiran & Magnolia dies from Volume 11 to the larger tag. I used a peachy coloured foamiran & coloured them 3 colours with oil pastels.

Lace is from my stash.

Well thats it from me, please pop on over to both challenges & give my DT members some love, they are all so talented.

Thank you for stopping by.

Huge hugs Vicky xxx

CHALLENGES I'M ENTERING..........

Magnolia Forever - Fall / Halloween

Simply Magnolia - Autumn