Ooooh La La!!

Hello, I hope you are all keeping warm this snowy winters day and yes it is still snowing, well at least where I am. This week I have made two cards using I love Paris by Stampendous and Travel to Paris by Crafty Individuals, same theme but both very different as you can see from the photo's....

 The first card has been made using the
Crafty Individuals stamp.
The background paper is from a set by Craftwork Cards and the Eiffel tower die is by Marianne Craftables and this tower was cut from 300gsm white card stock. The border has been cut using the Woodware crafty edger ribbon die and the stamped image has been stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa and coloured with Victorian Velvet D Ink pad, a little gold embossing has been added and the ribbon is seam binding .
I have also used a Memento Desert   Sand ink pad and a Martha Stewart border punch and two daisy punches and a corner rounder.

 The second card as you will of guessed is made with the Paris stamp by Stampendous. Stamped in black Archival onto tag then stamped and embossed in gold powder onto white card, cut out and layered over the top of first image. The background of the tag has been distressed with Stormy Sky and the flowers I have painted with Festive Berries (any of the red shades will do) both of these are Distress Ink pads. The little corner stamp is from my stash.
Both of the base cards I used are 6x6 square
Hope everyone has a good week, stay warm, see you all soon......
Sheilagh x

Peacock Feathers for the New Year!

A Belated Happy New Year to everyone

Hope you all are well and feeling better this cold Monday morning, I am thankfully on the mend and hope it stays that way since being ill from before Christmas although I still have more tests this week but I am feeling much better and glad to be back in the land of the crafting!
Here are two cards I made at the weekend with Woodware's clear magic stamps (Peacock in frame & Feather) I stamped the images in black Versafine then painted with my Distress inks Peacock Feathers, Dusty Concord, Broken China, Picked Raspberry and Peeled paint. The background has been stamped in Brilliance Galaxy Gold, I have also embossed with Black & Gold powders and added a touch of glitter with a Quickie glue pen.  The die cut feathers are made from Spellbinders Positively Me Jewel Fantasies 4, there are four different feather dies in this set. I coloured seam binding ribbon with my distress inks and added organza ribbon and a paper flower to one of the cards and pearl gems to the stamped feathers on the other card.On this first card I have covered the peacock with Anita's 3D glaze. Both cards are 6x6 square.

Just looking outside I think I'm off now to knit another scarf it could be we are in for more cold weather, it's a good job these birds have plenty of feathers lol!...See you later  : )

Hero Arts Flower Cluster and Posy Skettch

Hi hope you have all managed to stay warm today and every one is feeling better than last week. My plan yesterday was to put up the Xmas Tree and get all the decorations done and out of the way but alas it wasn't to be with a house full of hungry family and grand children and boxes and boxes of trees lights and various other decorations to go through and sort out that were all over the lounge, dining room and even in the hallway I didn't stand a chance with just too many hands of the little variety all wanting to help it was just pure chaos so I gave up and now it is all waiting for me to start over, at least I will be able to do it at my own pace lol!
Here for you to look at are my efforts from this week end using Hero Arts stamps Flower Cluster and Posy Cluster Sketches hope you like them....

 I have stamped the flowers in Black Memento and coloured them with my Promarkers and glitter pens. The front of the card has also been stamped with Memento ink and coloured with D Inks Tumbled Glass and Scattered Straw. I have added yellow Stickles glitter glue to some of the background flowers.

On this card I have stamped all the images with my Memento Ink and used  D Ink pads - Scattered Straw, Tumbled Glass, Shabby Shutters and Faded Jeans.

 Both dies are cut from Spellbinder Dies.
Everything is glued with Cosmic Shimmer Glue

Hope you all stay wrapped up and warm this week as I have herd it is going to get colder BRrrrrrrrrrr, I know I will  : o

Hero Arts Continued

Good morning yet another wet and dreary day to look forward to Ha! just the weather for crafting I say and for those of you who will be joining me this afternoon to do just that here as promised is the second of the cards we will be making in this weeks classes...................

I have kept this one simple in style and have only used Walnut Stain D.Ink pad to stamp the images and also colour them.
I have die cut two Spellbinders corner dies in Gold Mirror card and a touch of Cosmic Shimmer glue to fix them into place, and the sentiment has been layered onto the Gold Mirror card as well.
Some cream seam binding ribbon and a couple of self adhesive pearls add the finishing touch.
See you later x
Sheilagh : )

What a Weekend! & Hero Arts

Hi to all you ladies hope you had a really good weekend, and it was nothing like mine! We had our Grandson's Christening Yesterday and after much stress and deliberation too-ing and fro-ing , Where's this ? Where's that ? Who's got what ? Where's my? Who's taking who ? What happened to that ? What time is it? We'er going to be late, Should be at church NOW!  OMG nowhere to park******, etc, etc, no wonder I came home early with an horrendous headache and went to bed before 8.30pm.  I'm so glad it's Monday, Oh OMG, class cards!!! got to finish, so you can judge what my weekend was like and that's just a small part of it so it's no wonder to you all why I am so behind with this weeks classes, apologies to everyone.
Right this week we are going to use some Hero Art stamps to create our border and main image. On the first card I have used Distress inks Picked Raspberry , Evergreen Bough and Shabby Shutters and I have stamped with Memento black. I have coloured the images with the D Inks and added some glitter with my Quickie Glue pen. Both the background paper and Die cut panel have been sprayed with a gold shimmer spray. Spiders web has been added behind the main panel to add dimension and texture.
Here are a couple of pics to help you get the picture of what we will be doing this week x

The background paper has been stamped with the Script stamp in Evergreen Bough and a couple of swirl stamps in black ink and then it has been sprayed with gold shimmer mica spray.
The images have been painted with D Inks and glitter has been added to the main image with a quickie glue pen. 

Here you can see the Hero Arts stamps that I used, I really like the script and sentiment stamps, the swirl stamp is from my stash.
Will post a pic of the second card we will be making  later x
Sheilagh

Walk in Wonderland (in a different colour)

Well what a white frosty morning today has been and it still is here in our little corner of Lancashire and did you know by any chance that it was Lancashire Day on Tuesday of this week, no neither did I until a friend on face book told me fancy that we have a day to celebrate Lancashire, good I say as I'm am after all a Lancashire lass born and bred. Enough of that for now as it is nearly dinner time and I am now thinking of cheese Mmmm Lancashire cheese maybe! my mum used to cook it under the grill on a plate then put it on some fresh crusty bread Ahhh those were the days! Before I go and hunt out some of that deliciousness from my childhood I thought you might like to see this card that I made like the other one from Monday only in a different colour using the same Walk in Wonderland stamps.
Bye for now off to get my lunch before venturing out in the frostyness!!! Lol x