SATURDAY SPECIAL GIVE-AWAY CARD - SUNFLOWER

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If you would like to give this pretty card a new home all you need to do is to leave me a comment.  The winner will be announced Monday

Have a great weekend

Thank you for visiting my blog, I appreciate you taking the time to leave me a comment and I do read everyone

June x

MOTHER'S DAY WITH A DIFFERENCE

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Today's card is a commission and the message was "she loves horses and I'll leave the rest to you"

I downloaded the above image of horses from a company named  GraphicStock.

I also decided to make an easel card and introduced pinks and blues for my colour combo.  The card itself was not a bright as shown, in fact it was a lovely muted shade of pinks and blues!

Once I created the easel for the card I die cut the horse's picture using double pierced ovals by SW for CE.  I also used this die set to create the blue and pink frame as well as die cutting some patterned vellum that I wanted to use over the main image, to soften the tones.

I cut several layers of the border die and adhered them together to give dimension but to also create a step effect to support the upper part of the card.  This was then adhered to the base of the card where I had previously die cut an oval using pink card.

I printed a verse and adhered it to the back of the card, attached a few blue, pink and white flowers, stamped the Happy Mother's Day sentiment onto white card then die cut it, added mounting foam to it and attached it to the card.  Three pink gems and one white butterfly completed ensemble

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June x

TUESDAY TUTORIAL ~ LOVE YOU FOREVER

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We have a CAS card (clean and simple) for today's tutorial, so let's get started

The above card is today's tutorial

I began with a white DL card base and decided to use it landscape

I cut a strip of black card for the centre of the card then a piece of white card that was pre-embossed from one of my paper pads by Craftwork Cards.  This card stock and designs are top quality.

I adhered the pre-embossed white card onto the black card then to the card base using Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear PVA Glue by CE

The card is now prepared for the embellishments and I used several elements from the Prospectives - Love Die Set by SW for CE

Using black card stock I die cut 'LOVE' separately, 3 times, then, once only for 'YOU' and 'FOREVER'

I adhered the 3 LOVE to each other to give dimension and position it onto the card.  I used spray adhesive by Crafter's Companion, to adhere 'YOU' in position on the card and again with 'FOREVER'

A verse was inserted to complete the card

Thank you for visiting, all your comments are very appreciated

Happy crafting...

June x



BLACK, WHITE, RED AND A LITTLE GLITTER

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The base card I have used is an A5 white card with scalloped edging.  To this I added mat and layers of pretty red paper, from my stash, alternating with white card and finishing with a red top layer.  I used both the outer and inner dies from the Cascading Butterflies set to create the main focal point.  Once cut I then embossed the butterflies using *Ocean Waves EF.  These were then adhered to the card and the outer die cut was placed on top of the image.  I sprinkled a little Glamour Dust around the outer parts of the butterflies,

I then cut and embossed 3 of the Daisy Cluster Die Set in black and adhered these together to give some dimension and with the other set of the 3 flower die I cut and embossed that onto white card.  These were then adhered to the daisy cluster and black flat back pearls were added to the centres. 

To complete I added  3 more black flat back  pearls to the top right of the card, stamped a verse and inserted it inside the card

*If you click onto the card image you will see the embossed detail on the butterflies

Tomorrow is Tuesday Tutorial, it'll be good to see you here again

Thank you for visiting, your comments are so appreciated

June x

Ingredients:

• Cascading Butterflies Die Set by SW for CE
• Ocean Wave EF by SW for CE
• Daisy Cluster Die Set by SW for CE
• Glamour Dust by DecoArt

AND THE WINNER IS....

Good morning blog friends

Using Random.org name picker the winner of Saturday's card is...

Pam

please email me at:

poppyfieldcardcrafts@outlook.com

with your postal details

Back later today

June x

JUST FOR YOU ~ SATURDAY SPECIAL GIVE-AWAY CARD

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This is a grey and white (with just the tiniest hint of blush pink) card.

Off camera the card is not as dark as it's showing here!  When I attempted lightening it the result was not good.

If you would like to give this card a new home just leave me a comment and the winner will be announced Monday.

International friends are very welcome too!

This is a closer shot of the card, it's only a tad better than the one above, but you can see the sparkles more on this one

Thank you for visiting my blog, all your comments are so appreciated

June

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BELIEVE

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Today's colour theme is teal and white.

I have used a selection of dies from Spellbinder's Persian Accents Set.  The border die for the bottom on my card, one corner piece , as shown, and one other for the main focal point.

I cut two borders, one in white and the other on the teal card.  I slightly overlapped the white underneath the teal to give a shadow effect.  The corners were die cut and I added white card to the back for contrast.

Next, using white card, I die cut 3 more pieces from the set.  I snipped off one of the pointed pieces on the two outer die cuts, making it less bulky to cut out .  One of Phill Martin's/Sentimentally Yours  stamp range was used to stamp the sentiment

That's all for today.

Don't forget tomorrow is the Saturday Special Give-Away Card!

Thank you for vising my blog, all your comments are so appreciated

June x

WISHING YOU A HAPPY DAY

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This is a DL size white card base and if you were wanting to post it you would either need a card box or a padded envelope.  If I am handing one of my cards to someone and there is quite a bit of dimension I use either one of my card boxes or I wrap the card in pretty tissue paper and add a ribbon and tag

From my stash I die cut a piece of white and grey paper using the double ended pierced tag die and adhered this to the card base.  I tightly tied, in the middle, some white tulle  and adhered that onto the paper panel.  I then used a thin strip of red line tape to the left side of the card and placed the  Royal Love topper, that I had previously die cut and sprinkled with  Diamond Sprinkles

From my stash I adhered one peach, one pink and one pale yellow rose to the centre of the panel, then added, again from my stash, two pale pink flowers.  I also found some thin gold 'wire' (in my stash and I apologise as I do not have any recollection of buying it!) and curled it prior to placing it at the top and bottom of the flowers

I stamped the sentiment onto white pearlised card, die cut it with a smaller pierced flag, added mounting foam to the back for dimension and adhered it, at a 'jaunty' angle to the base of my card

A verse was inserted and 3 white flat back pearls to the right hand corners of the card

Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment, which I do read and appreciate

June x

Ingredients:

White DL card stock

White pearlised card by Crafter's Companion

Grey and white paper

White tulle

Paper roses

Satin flowers

Spellbinders Shapeabilities 'Royal Love'

Stitched Flags from Sue Wilson's Frames and Tags Collection for Creative Expressions

Pierced Flag Sentiments Stamp Set by John Lockwood for Creative Expressions

Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear PVA Glue

White flat back pearls by Creative Expressions

Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Jewels 'Diamond Sprinkles'

IS IT MIDNIGHT YET?

TUESDAY TUTORIAL ~ TO SOMEONE VERY SPECIAL

Good evening!!

It is now!  Unfortunately there have been technical problems with my PC connection and this post was scheduled for 6am this morning!... it never happened!

So, here we go with our first tutorial

I started with an 8" square white card base and added a pretty pink paper, from my stash, to it leaving a narrow border.  I die cut the Umbria set from SW's Italian Collection, in ivory card.  I used all 3 dies but omitted using the centre one on my card.  I used the same coloured card for the flower at the top right as I already had the bottom left flower made and stored

I also die cut several pieces from the Spring Foliage ~ Finishing Touches Collection  and again using the Blossoming Branch from the same collection by SW in ivory card

I dusted two of the flowers with Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet Distress Inks by Ranger.  I added a rose centre to the larger pink flower and a flat back pearl to the smaller pink flower

I added ivory stamens to the bottom left flower 

I stamped the sentiment, from Phill Martin's Baroque Border Sentiments, again using Tattered Rose, onto ivory card (in hindsight I should have used a darker shade or even a coffee coloured ink) and die cut it using the middle pierced flag, then added mounting foam to the back and placed it within the left side of the main focal point.  I then added a pink dazzler onto the edge of the tag

The remaining ivory flower and leaves were arranged and adhered to the bottom left of the card plus a little metallic gold linx by Creative Expressions was also added to opposite corners

More tomorrow

Thank you for visiting

June x

And The Winner Is...

Good morning friends

Using Random Name Picker.Org

the person who will be giving

 Saturday's Card Give-Away

 a new home is...

Angela Radford

Congratulations Angela!

Please email me your postal details to

poppyfieldcardcrafts@outlook.com

Our Saturday Give-Aways run every week throughout the year so please call back next week (daily would be even better lol)

My post for today will be showing at 1pm

Thank you for visiting...

June x

NEW CHALLENGE AT CRAFTY CARDMAKERS ~ GO GREEN

Today is a new challenge at Crafty Cardmakers,

the theme is 'Go Green'

Please pop over to their blog, Crafty Cardmakers, to see the other designs and inspiration from my very talented design teamies

I chose to make a tag showing lots of green but also to incorporate stash I had stored!

I covered the tag using white Gesso, then gave it a coating of Distress Ink in Pine Needles.  When dry I randomly smoothed a little more of white Gesso 

The paper flowers are made free hand, as are the leaves.  The foliage is also from my stash

I matted a piece of orange paper onto black card and adhered it to the tag.  The flowers, leaves and foliage were arranged and also adhered to the tag

I used an old stamp set to stamp the word FUN, each letter on a different coloured paper, then matted to black card.  I tweaked two letters for a little dimension

To complete I covered each letter with Glossy Accents and left

them overnight to dry completely.  When dry I adhered each letter to the tag

Thank you for visiting, I do read all your comments

June x

HAVE A TRULY FABULOUS DAY! & SATURDAY GIVE-AWAY CARD

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If you would like to give this card a new home leave me a comment and the winner will be announced Monday
I will post to any country!


Next week will see the first of my 'Tuesday Tutorials'... keep visiting!

Hope you all have a great weekend

Thank you for visiting my blog

June x

JUST A REMINDER

Hi blog followers, apologies for there not being a card posted for today but please come back tomorrow as it's the

Saturday Special Give-Away Card

June x

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY..... again!

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First things first, my apologies for not posting yesterday, the card above was for yesterday!  I'm afraid the 'old war wounds' were pretty bad etc etc

So let me get straight down to the card.

Using A4 Baby Pink Foundation Card I scored it in half to create an A5 portrait card.  I also cut several thin layers of the pink and white card. On a piece of white foundation card I stamp and heat embossed the sentiment Happy Mother's Day by Clarity using WOW Gold Satin Pearl Embossing Powder.  Next I cut the Cascading Butterflies Die using White Foundation Card, I didn't use the outer cutting die as I wanted the image of the butterflies only.  I then embossed this card with one of my folders from my stash.  I cut 2 of the same elements from the Kinetics - 3D Window Box & Accessories in white card.  I used 4 different shades of ProMarkers to colour the flowers  and window boxes, highlighted the tulips using a white pencil, added mounting foam to the back of the window boxes, from that set and adhered 3 small flat back pearls to each box and to the centres of the smaller flowers.

I chose 3 of the butterflies, sprayed them with adhesive glue and sprinkled Diamond Sprinkles Glitter Jewels over them.  I then removed the excess, applied Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear PVA Glue to the centre of each butterfly and added white flat back pearls.

Where the butterflies had been cut., on the white card, I applied some double sided adhesive sheet to cover the cut image on the back of the card, then working on the front of the card I used Golden Jewels Gilding Flakes to the butterfly shapes, and, with a piece of Rubit Scrubit I burnished the gilding flakes.

I used one of my tag dies from my stash to cut and emboss the sentiment then gently dusted a little distress ink, around the edges, using one of my smoothies that already had Victorian Velvet Distress Ink on it.  Mounting foam was applied to the back of the sentiment and adhered to the card.  I also adhered the smallest butterflies to the edge of the sentiment.

I applied Cosmic Glue to the spine of the two remaining butterflies and adhered to the matching gilded images.  The window boxes were adhered to the base of the card, a verse attached to the card inside and that was the card finished

Thank you for visiting, I do like to read all of your comments and it also lets me know you've called

June x

Materials & Suppliers

  white and baby pink foundation card:  Creative Expressions

  Cascading Butterflies Die Set:  CE

  3D Window Box & Accessories:  CE

  Gilding Flakes:  CE

  Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear PVA Glue:  CE

  flat back pearls:  CE

  Happy Mother's Day Stamp:  Clarity Stamps

  Golden Satin Pearl Embossing Powder: WOW

  Watermark Stamp Pad:  VersaMark

IDEAL FOR BAKERS - HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

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This is a cute Mother's Day Card especially if the recipient is a baker!

I love this Sherbet Foundation Card by CE.  I folded an A4 piece of this card to create a portrait A5.  Using one of the  pierced oval dies from SW's collection, I cut a piece of white foundation card then embossed it using Cascading Hearts EF by SW.  This was then adhered, at a jaunty angle, to the card base.  I then cut and embossed several pieces from the Necessities - Apron Die Set by SW for CE.  I used paper from Smirk 6"x6" Designer Paper Pack to cut the apron.  I also cut an extra piece for the 3 pockets and cut these landscape.  Mounting foam was attached to the back and adhered to the apron.  The single pocket, rolling pin, mixing spoon, spatula and oven mitts were cut and embossed on white foundation card.  I used an already inked smoothie to add some colour to the single pocket, mitts, spatula and mixing spoon.  I also used some pre-cut mini, mini hearts, adhered two together and placed them on the centre of the single pocket.  Using silver mirri card I then cut and embossed the set of measuring spoons and whisk.  The apron strings were cut from very narrow white satin ribbon.  The You're One In A Million sentiment is from SW's Kinetics Range - Candy Machine.  I cut and embossed it onto sherbert foundation card then using the outer die cut another piece of white foundation card and adhered the sentiment to it.  Mounting foam was also added to the back of this to give dimension.  I typed Happy Mother's Day onto copy paper and adhered it to the rolling pin

Thank you for visiting and taking the time to leave me a comment, which I do appreciate

June x



HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

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For this particular Mother's Day Card I cut an A4 piece of white card, landscape, to measure 7.25".  I then used the first two score lines (A6 and A5 Gatefold) to create folds on either side of the card.

I choose a pretty green paper by docrafts CAPSULE collection for the centre of the card and used a Martha Stewart Corner Punch on all four corners of the paper.  I then adhered to the centre of the card.  I cut and embossed the centre piece using the Gillian Die from SW's Frames & Tags, one in white card and one in a matching green paper from the above collection.  I adhered these together and gently smoothed a little Mustard Seed Distress Ink using the blending tool from yesterday's card (I did not apply more ink to the blending pad).  Mounting foam was adhered to the back of the centre piece then attached to the card.  I next cut several swirls from the Daisy Flourish Rhinestones Collection by Hobby House and added these to the focal point.

I cut and embossed two Wispy Fronds from SW's Finishing Touches Collection and adhered one to both side panels.  I also added a little Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue to the outer sides of the Wispy Fronds and sprinkled Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Jewels in Diamond Sprinkles to the glued areas.

I used a Clarity Stamp for the sentiment and this was heat embossed after I applied WOW Gold Satin Pearl Embossing Powder.  I cut several flowers from the Spring Foliage - Finishing Touches Collection by SW, shaped them using a small ball tool, adhered several layers then used a spray adhesive by Crafter's Companion over the flowers then sprinkled Diamond Sprinkles Glitter Jewels over them.  I added a small gold sequin to the centre of each flower then adhered these to the card. 

To complete I stamped a verse onto the back of the card using another Clarity Stamp for Mother's Day.

Thank you for visiting my blog, I look forward to reading all your comments and will always answer any questions you may have

June x

HELLO SUNSHINE and CARD WINNER ANNOUNCED

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Firstly though, my apologies for late post!

I thought I'd bring a splash of sunshine to this dismal wet day so let's get started.

I started with a white, 5"x7" card base and cut a strip off the front measuring approximately 2" plus.

I stamped the remaining card front using VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad onto Heartfelt Creations's Sunflower Stamp Pad. Once stamped I sprinkled WOW Embossing Powder in White Pearl Regular over the stamped image, removed the excess and heat set it.  With the excess card I cut another two thin strips but varied the width of these.  Next I applied plenty of ink to my blending tool using Tim Holtz Distress Ink 'Mustard Seed' and applied it to the bottom half of the stamped image.  I then applied Tim Holtz Distress Ink 'Scattered Straw'  to another blender pad and covered the remaining image.  I did the same to the two thin strips of card stock.  I used a paper towel to rub the excess inks from the stamped image.

I measured a piece of acetate and cut it to fit to make a 'complete' card.  I used red line double sided tape to adhere the acetate onto the edge of the cut piece of card and then adhered the wider of the two strips of card over it.  I added the smaller strip of card to the outer edge of the acetate (hence creating a 'complete' card).

On white foundation card by CE I cut  the Cascading Butterflies from Sue Wilson's Finishing Touches Range for CE.  I used both the outer and inner dies to do this. I inked the butterflies, on both sides,  using the pre-inked blending tool.  These were adhered to the acetate using Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue by CE.

On a sheet of A4 white foundation card I typed Hello Sunshine,  I then copied and pasted it to the whole card  (I will store the other strips for future cards or classes).  I used the smaller ribbon tag die by SW to cut the sentiment and inked around it, using Mustard Seed Distress Ink, whilst keeping it in the die.  Next I used the same tag die to cut a piece of vellum that I adhered to the sentiment (to give it a softer look) and added two tiny hearts and one tiny circle to the edge of it.  I added mounting foam to the sentiment and adhered to my card.

Finally using a small rubber stamp named 'Tapestry', and Rusty Hinge Distress Ink, I stamped several images to the inside of the card that could be seen through the acetate.

Compared to the stages shown to make this card it really did not take that long to make it!

Welcome to Julie and Angela my latest blog followers, thank you for joining me

Thank you for visiting, I hope you may have gleaned a little inspiration, your comments are always welcome and I read them all 

June x

The winner of Saturday's card is...

Jane!

Please email me with postal details to

poppyfieldcardcrafts@outlook.com

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ALWAYS BELIEVE ~ SATURDAY SPECIAL GIVE-AWAY

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I hope you enjoy my blog and get a little inspiration from my cards.

Your comments are always welcome...

I really love this particular embossing folder by Couture Creations, namely 'Breeze'.  You may remember another card I used a few days ago with the same folder!  I also have another card using it again and will post that tomorrow.

Once I embossed the design onto coconut white foundation card by CE, I used Spectrum AQUA Pen in 'Peach' to add just a little colour to the bottom of each petal, then with a water brush I pulled the colour over each petal.  I heat dried the petals add applied Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue using the fine line brush by CE then sprinkled Glamour Dust by DecoArt over each petal.  This was then adhered to pink card creating a thin layer of colour and added to a white 5"x7" base card.

The sentiment is from John Lockwood's Pierced Flag Sentiments Stamp Set for CE.  I stamped this onto coconut white card using Adirondack 'Slate' Dye Pad by Ranger.  I used the smaller Pierced Flags by SW for CE then the next larger size for the pink card creating a border.  Mounting foam was attached to the back and adhered to the top of the card with an addition of 3 flat back pearls adhered to the bottom right

If you would like to give this card a new home just leave me a comment and I will announce the winner on Monday

Have a good weekend...

June x

LOVED YOU YESTERDAY

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I used a Clarity Stamp for the heart image and the sentiment for today's card.  Stamped them onto ivory card then used ProMarkers in red and grey to colour the large heart and red only for the smaller heart.

Thin mats of red and ivory card were applied and I then adhered these onto a white 5x7" card.

Tomorrow is Saturday Special Give Away so if you would like to give tomorrow's card a new home  be sure to pop back then, leave me a comment and your name will be added to Random.org Name Picker on Monday morning and I'll announce the winner

I do appreciate you visiting my blog and hope it gives you a little inspiration

June x

I am entering this card in the following challenge:

# Challenge #328 Clean and Simple (CAS) - I Love Promarkers