Cards from a While Ago

Above is a StargazerLily decoupage I made about a month ago used with papermania papers, really enjoyed making this.

Above here, is a Birthday card I made some time ago for a lady on the CB (Crafts Beautiful) Forum named Crafterga aka Gaynor. I painted the stamped image with my WC paints and adhered to Papermania paper and used lots of yummy paper roses too finished with a staggered sentiment.

And below here, is a card that I made using a Lily of The Valley Die cut image of a Fairy. Their die cut images are just gorgeous and irresistable to use. This was lovely to make and added on ribbon and roses and paper flowers too with sentiment of my own.

An Update

It has been quite some time since I have blogged on my own personal blog but, I have good reason for this: beenbusy with our business seling art and craft materials on our website www.iartsupplies.co.uk and we have a Blog on there now which takes a lot of my time when not dealing with orders and that and my wee family of my own. Having two kids takes a lot out of you.

Anyway, here are a few cards for you all to see which I created a while back. Have enjoyed using papermania Collections of paper stacks and have become completely obsessed with paper roses and paper flowers in all my cards.

Apart from really enjoying painting with watercolours, rembrandt watercolour range, I also love crafting with twisted pyramage designs, especially the Sandra Kuck Fairys and Children images.

Natalie

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Angel

I made this card using the most adoreable Angel image ever from Sandra Kuck designs. this is a twisted pyramage which I have adhered to some Papermania Capsule Red Hot and Aqua collections of paper stacks. I finished off by adhereing on various paper flower embellishments and paper roses and gems. Finished off with "For You" in my own handwriting and decorated the inside to finish!

Card to Fit A Sketch

This "City Miss, Pedal Power" card I have made to fit the Sketch I have pictured further down posted thursday 13th May, from the Cardmaking & papercraft latest issue. I followed the sketch but twisted it a bit and advanced it a little which you will see. It's mainly the text to balance it out better, otheriwse would have looked rather bizarre and off balance too. used bits and pieces for this and found it a bit of a challenge. Really enjoyed making though and loed using this image.

Ballet Wallhanging

Presented in this 3D box is a handcrafted wallhanging that I especially made for my neice, Isla. I chose the particular image for the basis of the card design because my neice was doing he First EVER Ballet Show just over a week ago and, I thought it would be nice to make her a little special gift for her Big Night.

This twisted Pyramage ballet image is one of Sandra Kucks designs, amongst a coule of other ballet ones, and i matched it with the most beautiful floral paper from the Rose Garden Paper stack by Papermania. It was difficult to choose the right paper but, this was worked best with the image. I then adhered on lots of pretty paper flowers with paper roses (my new craft fetish) and finished with my own sentiment.

Then completely finished the wallhanging by decorating the back to complement the front and wrote my message to her for her 1st Ballet Show.

More ATCs

These are some more ATCs ( Artist Trading Cards) that I have made over the past couple of nights. Used Sandra kuck Images and Fairy Images from die cut sheets from LOTV (lily of the Valley). Really enjoying making ATCs at the minute and surprised how quick they are to make too. I urge any crafter to give them a go.

ATCs

I have been busy creating ATCs this week to build up my stock and for one other reason but, I shall not say for what as it is a surprise for now!

I make a lot of cards using Twisted Pyramage Decoupage and on the sheets are tag shapes and little tags with a twisted pyramage too. These I use for making a Birthday set or some kind of set when it is for something special but, recently I have found using them on ATCs a very good way to use with scraps of papers and odds and ends from my crafty stash too. Very simple and effective. There are Angel Images, by Saadra Kuck, and some little Girl images on the beach and afternoon tea images also. Hope you like them and your comments will be much appreciated. More are on their way, so keep your eyes out. You can see better pictures of these on the following

http://http://www.crafts-beautiful.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/31229/

http://http://www.crafts-beautiful.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/31229/

Natalie x