Little Bethany

With the fever of my newly stencilled paper, I made this card for my little niece Bethany. Sweet little lady and I think a sweet card to match? This time I put the railings style template upside down and over stamped it with a nice daisy.

I got the flowers from the Artsy weekend - you can never have enough paper flowers can you? The images came from the Crafty Individuals pad and I cut the face out with a punch because cutting circles by hand isn't my forte - is it any ones? The word "presents" features strongly since I think this might be on a little one's mind at Birthday time!

Vintage Fairy

This card was made for my second Mum, Minki. She loves fairies but not the fluffy kind so of course she had to have a little vintage fairy for herself on her birthday. I used a brad from W-R memory keepers, the letters are cut from Tim Holtz papers as is the background to the tag.

The gold border is Paperartsy German Scrap and the birthday message is typed then stamped and glimmer misted.

Nothing is ever finished in my book unless it has a flower on it, and there you go!

Tim Holtz' new masks

I bought my first of Tim Holtz' stencils (large mask) at the recent Artzy Crafty weekend that Lin and Leandra put on last weekend. It was a fellow kind customer that told me they were brill and I think they are too! I can't wait to collect some more...

First I used butterscotch and cranberry adirondack spray mists along with apple and a red glimmer mist over the fence looking one on a 12 x 12 paper that was very boring to start with. Pleased with the resulting few papers, I cut out a piece and attached it to a tag for a background and stamped the numbers on the top left and the railings (B-Line stamp available from Lin). I then added one of these We-R memory keeper big brads and a few fibres. The woman and girl are cut out from a lovely little book by Crafty Individuals.

On the right of the tag is the little computer typed message. I'm going to give this to my sister Frances for her birthday in May. Then I added some cute little flowers which I got at the weekend too and the girl image which I got from Lin ages ago. The gold edging is from Paperartsy. The tag looked really weird on plain card because it was so busy so I distressed the edges of the card with a little red and espresso Adirondack ink then used the stencil from the same mask kit to make the soft background using lettuce, butterscotch and espresso. This seemed to busy up the background for the tag to share the same style. This card makes me feel like spring and it was good to fish out my old Adirondack mists and not just do glimmer mists all the time. Its nice to add to the usual sludge colours of vintage work with a few brighter things at this time of year but whenever I work with warm sludge colours I think of Lin. I must do this in some pinks and purples immediately before she thinks I am converting!