DH Birthday

This is a card I made for my for my dear husband for his 31st Birthday in June! Paul is a strong believer in God and is someone who uses him in his daily life! I know that this can be a touchy aspect to talk about when there are many who do not be,lieve and that's ok but, for us we are strong in our Faith and is very important to us in life! So, anyway I will just say I enjoyed making this pyramage card for my DH and guess what? he loved it too. I find it awfully hard to create cards for men as well but, felt this truly worked!

Another Birthday card made by our darlin daughter Ava for her Daddy, this he truly adores. Ava is somewhat of a very creative person and loves her drawing & painting, so this was just perfect for him on his special day! xx

Blogging Again

Back to Blogging Land now and hope to Blog twice a week for an hour at a time, maybe just 30 mins shall see how it goes! Apologies to all who follow my Blog but, life has been a bit hectic and things have been going on too that I can not talk about!

Anyway!.....Lets get to the crafting world! I have been extremely busy with my passion for cardmaking and have been doing different things but, not too much differently. Above is a Fairy Card I have done using a beautiful Stack It Fairy Decoupgae given to me from a close forum buddy Elfiedust (Erin - over on CB Forum). WErin sent me a stack full of print ourts of various airies too, was ever so generous of her. Thanks hunny! These are just magical to use and leave your cards with such elegance and beauty for their own beauty! ANother can be seen further below!


Next comes my new LOVE! Yes, I am IN LOVE with my new ay of working, Painted Stamped Images! I just can not get enough of my coloured images and have the joy of painting swapped images and my own stamped images of all sorts using my most favourite and best paints that you can get in the world EVER, Rembrandt Water Colour paints! These can be bought from our online store following this link www.trinity4arts.co.uk. I say that these are the best paints ever for their vibrancy in pigment and the hues are beautiful and rich plus, the price for the qaulity is amazing, you will not find anything as good as these! Back to my stamped images. Above is a new card using my Fingers Crossed stamp, seen used in a craft mag a few months ago which I just had to have! A gorgeous stamp to work with and I had so much fun making this card using the new LLB papers! Added on some bling and stitched on lots of sequins and beads too and, hey presto! Below is a close up! I have many more and will be posting more like this!

Below is another and first Stack It Up Fairy decoupage card. Stitched on - mad I know I am but, very therapeutic fo me stitching! - every bead around the fairy circle to frame and finish the card along with stitching on the cream flower and bead and beads and shell sequin below! Not sure what the paper is but, was given to me in a RAK (random act of kindness) from my dear friend Sarah Louise (tiggertastic over at CB forum), if anything to go by what she uses it'll probably be Basic Grey paper or K& Co.

This here below is a card I have made within a series of Fairy cars I ahve made in the last couple of months! I have made these for a special reason which no one knows about so will not spoil it on here for now! Keeping them all suspicious for now! I hae made 20x of these and have thoroughly enjoyed making each and every one of them. All done in the same way and using the same techiniques: stitching, beading, matting and flowery! Hope you enjoy seeing the mmany I have done when I post them!

Thanks for reading back on blog folks, means a lot to me! Just hope it brings you joy to read and see my creations! xx

Oriental ATCs

Over on the Crafts Beautiful forum various swaps are taken each month, hosted b someone different each month! Phillipa Baxter (snaggles) is hosting it this month (June) and announced the winning theme to be "Oriental". This theme is set for the ATC Swap and here are my ATCs shown for the June Swap! I used some beautiful elegant Oriental decoupage designs for mine along with tea bag folding patterned floral paper which just sets the images off and works perfectly well too! I now hope that they both make a journey to a warm and appreciated home whee the recipitant will love them and enjoy looking at from time to time!
Thanks for looking, I really enjoyed making these and found it sooooo hard to part from them!

Oriental ATCs

Over on the Crafts Beuatiful Forum they run various Swaps and ATCs is one of them (Artist Trading Card) These are small cards of art using any craft technique or beyond where the actual ATC measures 2.5"x3.5". FOr Junes ATC Swap the host announced that the winning them is "Oriental". I have used these wonderful and delicate ooking Oriental Decoupgae images for mine. I adhered them onto tea bag folding patterned paper which are very oriental looking and wor really well with the two images (here and above)!

Classical Butterfly

I made this very unusual card using an exquisitely beautiful image of a Butterfly I purchased from a craft website weeks ao! I really LOVED working with this image and enjoyed putting together this card using this lovely classical B & W paper which works just perfectly with it, wrapping paper bought from a shop! I used a very interestin ribbon with beaded tassles on it and some lace too then finished off with stitching on white beads and punched out diasies reliefed. xx

Blueberyy Hill

These are a couple of my most recent card makes! I have been inspred for a while to try out painting my stamped images and, have to say doing so has been a therapeutic joy! To be able to paint again is a real joy and a big passion of mine, so to be able to paint in my favourite medium, WC, I have been really excited to be painting again! I can not do without my Rembrandt WC paints either, best paints ever to have and use for their vibrancy and quality too and the price well, you can not beat it! We sell them on our website www.trinity4arts.co.uk! check it out, if you get a spare 5 mis or 10, 15 or more.....! I used my new Bluebery Hill papers for these two cards and did a lot of stitching too! Thank you very much for looking! The two images were provided by the lovely Charlotte (Craftycharl) over on te CB Forum!

natalie xx

Bad Blogger

I must apologise for my ever so bad blogging in the last many months. I never seem to get around to it these day and feel terrible as I know that blogs are popular and ever so inspirational to other crafters! I will be back to blog properly and shall try and do it once every fortnight or week with afew things!

Sorry for this bad blogging! An also sorry for not blog hopping either. Been crafting lots and admiring everyone elses makes on the CB Forum!

Hope you are all well

Natalie xx