FESTIVE FRIDAY 5

Hello and welcome...

I used a 6" square red card

I also used a new die from a new company (for me) that's  named 'The Art Of Craft. The die was cut and embossed on a  piece of white card.  I cut a piece of double sided adhesive and applied it to the die cut card, on the back.  The backing paper was then removed and I liberally sprinkled Glitter Jewels 'Icicle Sparkles' over the exposed sticky area and burnished them in

The die  also has a circular centre die but I didn't want to remove the centre form this card, instead I die cut a piece of shiny red card with this die,

I then  added a small piece of double sided adhesive onto a piece of white card stock, added the second circular die from my set and die cut it.  It then had the backing paper removed and Glitter Jewels 'Diamond Snow' applied to it.  I glued this to the round red die cut, added mounting foam to the back and adhered it onto the centre of my card

In this month's 'Creative Stamping Magazine, Issue 47' there is a fabulous free sentiment set by Altenew.  I will be showing all what's available in Sunday's post

In this set I used the scroll banner and stamped it onto white card using an Archival Ink Pad in crimson.  I then placed and positioned the sentiment, from the same set, and embossed it using a VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad, I then covered it with a black twinkle embossing powder and heat set it

I then fussy cut out the stamped banner, edged around it with a Promarker 'Berry Red' Pen

I added small red gems to the centres of the snowflakes and slotted a piece of red florist ribbon through the loop of a metal Christmas stocking and adhered the stocking behind the banner

A dries clear glue was applied to both ends of the banner then adhered to the card

To complete I used another stamp from the set, stamped it onto a lightweight white card using an Adirondack Ink Pad in Slate.  I then coloured the image in using several ProMarker Pens.  I used the same sentiment for the verse and this was stamped with an Archival Ink in Crimson.  The envelope was also stamped, front and back, again using one of the stamps from the set

We hope to see you back here tomorrow for our Saturday Special Give-Away Card

INGREDIENTS:

• red card and envelope ~ Craft UK
• white card ~ Papermill Direct
• die set ~ Amy Design/The Art Of Craft  ADD10109
• Glitter Jewels, Iced Snow & Icicle Sparkles ~ Creative Expressions
• Black Twinkle Embossing Powder ~ WOW
• VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad ~ Tsukineko
• Archival Ink Pad 'Crimson' ~ Ranger
• Adirondack Slate Ink Pad ~ Ranger
• Christmas stocking ~ Hobby House
• red gems ~ my stash
• red florist ribbon ~ my stash
• double sided adhesive ~ Woodware
• Berry Red, Poppy, Leaf Green, Pear Green, Soft Green, Grass & Pine ~ ProMarkers/Letraset Limited

You should be able to see some of the lovely sparkle

Card inside

Envelope front

Envelope back

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June x

NEW CHALLENGE AT MAWTT ~ #53 ADD A NUMBER

Hello and welcome...

It's Team B's turn again for the new challenge at MAWTT, the theme is 'Add A Number' and my contribution to the design team is a card commission I was asked to make for a very special dad's 80th birthday.... also ideal for our challenge

If you click on the link below it will take you directly to MAWTT and you'll see the fabulous designs from the rest of the team, it would also be wonderful if I saw one of your cards entered too!

53. Add a number

I was told dad liked gardening and the seaside but that I also had 'free reign'

I used elements from The Shadow Box Collection  for the front of the card.  The card is an 8" square ivory card and I created 2 further channels in the middle to enable me to add more pages

I embossed a piece of black card and adhered that to the card base.  The shadow box was die cut and embossed with teal card and for the background I embossed more ivory card with a brick design embossing folder.  I added mounting foam to the shadow box and glued it in place on the card front

Using kraft card I die cut 3 plant pots, 2 leaves and the fork and trowel, but also die cut the last 2 in silver mirri.  I used Promarkers to colour the leaves and the handles on the fork and trowel and glued those pieces onto the silver mirri

In this particular set there is one single flower and I die cut this 3 times in green card, removed the flower head to expose the two leaves then glued them into place behind each planter.  I also die cut the butterfly in silver mirri and added that to one planter


There is also a ladybird in the die set but I used one from my stash as I have a small box full of them

The rose heads are also part of the set and a little of my left-over card was used for the those.  The 80 is from my stash, the sentiment was also stamped on kraft card and I cut the tails with scissors

The side panel is a crinkle light brown paper and I embossed it and added a little distress ink to the leaf pattern

DAD was die cut in silver mirri,  3 times for each letter and glued together prior to adhering to the panel and I added 3 tiny red hearts to each letter

On the inside of the card I added a photograph of the 'birthday  boy' then typed 'Happy 80th Birthday Dad' on cream paper.   At the top of the following page I typed 'Happy Memories' and adhered a photo of their wedding day as well as creating a frame around it, as this was personal I covered the photo which is why you can see a dark shadow behind the page below

Finally, and to complete, I typed a verse onto more cream paper and secured all the pages into place

INGREDIENTS:

• ivory card stock ~Craft UK
• black card ~ Creative Expressions (CE)
• kraft card ~ CE
• teal card ~ my stash
• Shadow Box - In The Garden Die Set ~ Sue Wilson/CE  CED9309
• Art Deco Alphabet - Upper Case ~ CE CED5423
• wood affect embossing folder ~ Crafter's Companion
• brick affect embossing folder ~ Cuttlebug
• leaf embossing folder ~ freebie from Crafter's Companion
• Berry Red and Dark Brown Felt Tipped Pens ~ Promakers 
• green card, silver mirri, brown crinkle paper and pink paper ~ my stash
• red hearts ~ my stash
• cream paper ~ my stash

My apologies for being missing a few days, all down to health problems, so when this happens again you will know why

I would like to enter the following challenges:

• Seize The Birthday/Ocean Colours

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I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message.

June x

TODAY'S POST

Hello and welcome...

Today's post is scheduled for 9am, hope to see you back then

June x

FOR SPECIAL FRIENDS ~ CARD COMMISSION

Hello and welcome...

I am at my 'wit's end' with the formatting of this blog!! lol  I can honestly say it has a mind of its own.  When I type a post, to how I want it to be shown when published, there are many times when I preview it it has changed the format etc etc!  Yesterday's post was the last example, before publishing it the format was showing how I wanted it to.  Hit the publish button and there's a huge void before any photo or text! grrrrrrrr.  OK, that's my gripe over and onto today's card that one of  my sister in laws asked me to make for their friends'  pearl wedding anniversary

This is an 8" square white on white card.  I actually made a very similar card to this several years ago, that time without the addition of a few coloured pearls, and thought it would be good to make a similar one.  I'd forgotten how laborious it was adding each individual pearl to the heart outline, worth it in the long run, in my opinion, but you do tend to get a little 'pearl eyed'.  I spent 4 days adding them and actually it is lovely seeing how it takes shape.  Hubby was very good in collecting all the ones that just shoot off the carrier sheet, you crafters know what I mean, they can be found in all sorts of, shall I say, unusual places! lol

I die cut a heart onto white card then drew the outline of it onto another piece of white card then fussy cut that out.  I then glued to two pieces together.  With a collection of various sized pearls, and a few coloured ones, I added the pearls to the heart.  I also put a dab of adhesive to the area to ensure the pearls would not come off.  I kept putting this to one side to continue with the design of the card.

Using two of the double pierced squares die set I added a piece of double sided adhesive to white card and die cut a border.  I removed the  backing from the adhesive sheet and sprinkled glitter jewels 'iced snow' over it.  I wanted the border to be raised but not by adding mounting foam so another four borders were die cut, glued together and the glittered border added to them

On the heart shape die I had used there were several off-cuts of other heart shapes and I chose three of them, added glitter jewels diamond snow to only  the middle one with mounting foam added to all three.  These, along with the sentiment, were put to one side until I assembled the card

I typed the sentiment onto the same white card and added mounting foam to the back.  This now brings me to the close of the front of the card, you would think it to be two different cards, it isn't, it was all the pure white as shown above, no filter etc etc had been used (I would know how to add a filter!) so it is a tad annoying when the images are not clean and crisp, and most importantly, looking as if they all belong to the same card!

close up of the same card!

For the insert I typed a personal message/verse onto a pale grey marl paper and to add to this, in one of the craft magazines last week, the freebie set was of a wine bottle and glass, so I die cut the glass twice and adhered these to the bottom right of the insert.  I added several tiny pearls for the 'champagne bubbles' then half covered the 'inside' of both glasses with Glossy Accents to give the appearance of liquid

Now with all the pearls added to the heart shape I glued the heart in place and glued the border in place so that I could add the sentiment and the hearts and that was the card completed


It really is a shame you are not seeing it in its true colour as it is rather a pretty card and, most importantly, my sister in law thought it to be lovely

Using Random.org Name Picker it has chosen

Sunnybec

 congratulations!

Please email your postal details to:

poppyfieldcardcrafts@outlook.com

and your card will be posted to you

INGREDIENTS:

• white card ~ Craft UK
• grey marl paper ~ my stash
• heart die ~ Crafter's Companion
• double pierced squares ~ Sue Wilson/Creative Expressions (CE)
• individual pearls ~ CE and CraftStash
• double sided adhesive ~ Woodware
• glitter jewels 'iced snow' ~ CE
• glossy accents ~ Ranger
• wine glasses ~ Die-Cutting Essentials Issue 27/freebie gift
• Platinum Machine ~ Spellbinders



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I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message.

June x

Hello and welcome...

We have sunshine today and it reminded me of this card that I'd made when my Distress Oxide Inks first arrived!

The finished card is 6"x8" and I added a black panel and a smaller white panel and on this panel I stamped 3 lillies  with a Versa Mark Watermark Stamp Pad

At the bottom of the panel I then stamped the sentiment using a Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad.  I covered the sentiment then the flowers with  WOW CLEAR Embossing Powder and heat set.  If you immediately cover your stamped sentiment with a clear embossing powder you are able to colour over it without any colour change to it, then give it a little polish with some paper towel

I used 4 oxide inks on the background then spritzed water over the full panel and this particular time I dried it with my heat tool.  I was then getting a little 'carried away' with the colours, or enjoying myself too much and added yet more colour and spritzed again as well as heat drying it.  I added red line double sided tape to the back of it, adhered to the black then both onto the base card

To complete I randomly added several dots of NuVo Crystal Drops

INGREDIENTS:

• white card stock ~ Papermill Direct
• black card stock ~ Creative Expressions
• distress oxide inks/broken china, fired brick, fossilized amber, worn lipstick ~ Ranger
• VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad ~ Tsukineko
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad ~ Tsukineko
• clear embossing powder ~ WOW
• Nuvo Crystal Drops 'Morning Dew' ~ Tonic Studios UK
• red line tape ~ Woodware

Tomorrow's post will be available at 11am along with the winner of yesterday's card

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I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message.

June x

FRIENDS... SATURDAY SPECIAL FREEBIE CARD

Hello and welcome...

We have an 8" square ivory and black card looking for a new home

You may recognise the die from Thursday's card, this time displayed in a vertical position

The die and embossing folder are two of my very favourite items to use, I promise I won't be inundating you with them, unlike the baubles on the last 3 Festive Friday's cards!

I am going to be showing a video on how this was made, I think it will be on YouTube this Monday, I will confirm this later

I've not added a verse so the winner of the card can add their own to suit.  The card would also be suitable to go in one of the deep IKEA's frames and make a lovely present for one of your friends.  When you do receive it you will need to 'fluff up' the butterfly's wings again

 

Just leave me a comment on this post and the winner will be picked on Monday, you have until 9.30am to comment

As usual, we ship international plus it doesn't matter if you have won in the past, the draw is done using Random.org Name/Number Picker

We can't include you, in the draw, if you post as  'anonymous', so please leave some form of identification eg first name, nickname etc

INGREDIENTS:

• ivory card ~ CraftUK
• black card ~ Creative Expressions (CE)
• pearlised ivory card ~ Crafter's Companion
• Mystical Embrace Die Set ~ Spellbinders
• butterfly ~ Les Papillions/Spellbinders
• sentiment ~ CE
• insert paper ~ Hobby House

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I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message.

June x

FESTIVE FRIDAY 4

Hello and welcome...

It's quite alarming how the weeks fly by, 4 weeks ago I started 'Festive Friday'!

Today's card is actually a 'blast from the past' as I've had a busy week (not being well and we had the pretty 2 tier cake etc).  The card was also a commission

This is an 8" square ivory card, I cut a smaller piece of the same card and embossed it then added dries clear glue to the edges and sprinkled diamond snow glitter around them

I covered another piece of ivory card with a piece of  double sided adhesive then added gilding flakes and burnished the flakes in with a rubit scrubit.  As only a border would be showing I removed the 'inside' and will/would use it for another project.  The border is all the same colours, it's the angle of the card makes the top half look darker!

I used the same two bauble dies that were on last week's card to die cut and emboss in gold mirri

A rope style gold ribbon was attached to the top of the baubles and secured behind the gilding flakes border

I typed a personal sentiment on white paper (should have used ivory/cream) and adhered it to the centre of the larger bauble

I also added a personal verse to the inside

INGREDIENTS:

• ivory card ~ Craft UK
• embossing folder ~ 'sprigs of holly' Crafter's Companion
• cosmic shimmer dries clear glue ~ Creative Expressions (CE)
• diamond snow ~ glitter jewels CE
• gilding flakes ~ 'mulled wine' CE
• double sided adhesive ~ Woodware
• rubit scrubit ~ Ranger
• baubles ~ CE (2016 collection)
• gold rope ribbon ~ my stash
• platinum machine ~ Spellbinders

Thank you for taking the time to visit, I hope my designs have given a little inspiration.

I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message.

June x

NO WORDS....

Hello and welcome...

I love this Spellbinders Die!! 


It is called 'Mystical Embrace Die Set'

There are 3 dies to this set and I think that when you use the main part of the set  you don't have to do very much to create a lovely card

The colour theme is black and ivory with the little pop of red

I die cut and embossed the largest die in a pearlised ivory card stock and adhered it to my A5 black card using a spray adhesive

I then die cut the centre piece on the same ivory card using the two smaller dies and repeated this 4 times and glued them together to give me a raised border

The final die cut was on black card for the oval shape in the centre

I am also in the middle of a commission and some of the off cuts from the heart shape die that I'm using for that card produce these lovely shaped hearts, so I die cut and embossed on red card stock to get 2 hearts for this card

INGREDIENTS:

• black card ~ Crafter's Companion (CC)
• pearlised ivory card ~ CC
• red card ~ CC
• spray adhesive ~ CC
• die ~  Mystical Embrace Die Set/Spellbinders
• Platinum machine ~ Spellbinders

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I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message.

June x

SENDING YOU SMILES

Hello and welcome...

 We have a very sparkly purple card today.  I apologise for the background!

The card is a white A5 size and I began by die cutting the background die from the Indonesian Collection.  There are 5 dies in the set and I used dies 1 and 3, these do not have an outer cutting edge

I cut a piece of purple card stock, slightly larger than the die and covered it with a piece of double sided adhesive, then placed the two dies onto it and ran it through my Platinum Machine.  I ensured the adhesive sheet was not covering the border as I wanted that plain

Once die cut and embossed I removed the adhesive sheet and sprinkled Glitter Jewels Diamond Snow and burnished it in.  I can't enthuse enough about this glitter!  If anyone is interested I do have a few pots remaining in gold, silver, rose pink, red and a blue, they're £3.50 each and no p&p!

If you click on the card you'll see the gorgeous sparkle from these glitters

I used a spray adhesive to secure the die cut to the base card then, using another stamp from yesterday's stamp set, I stamped it onto purple card using Versafine Onyx Black Ink.  I covered the sentiment with another piece of double sided adhesive I die cut it with one of the Stitched Flags from the Frames And Tags Die Set


I removed the backing and sprinkled Diamond Snow over it then added mounting foam to the back and adhered it to the card base


I made a small white satin bow, added a 'dollop' of 3D glue to the side of the tag and placed the bow on top.  I added 5 tiny pink roses around the bow and to complete I glittered a white butterfly with Diamond Snow, added two pink pearls to the spine and adhered to the centre of the main focal point

INGREDIENTS:

• white card stock ~ Papermill Direct
• purple card stock ~ Creative Expressions (CE)
• Indonesian Collection Background Die Set ~ CE CED14001
• Frames And Tags Stitched Flags ~ CE CED4317
• Glitter Jewels Diamond Snow ~ CE
• sentiment ~ John Lockwood
• pink roses ~ Wild Orchid Crafts
• white satin bow ~ my stash
• butterfly ~ my stash
• Versafine Black Onyx Ink Pad ~ Tsukineko
• 3D glue ~ Crafter's Companion
• pink pearls ~ CraftStash 
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More tomorrow....



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June x

Hello and welcome...

We have a top folding notelet size card for you today.  The finished card measures 10.5 x 14.5cm, I cut a smaller black panel then a smaller white panel, the white panel is the one being decorated today

I used one of the stamps from a set designed by John Lockwood when he was with Creative Expressions, I don't have the name of this set and it doesn't appear to be on Creative Expressions Web Site.  I stamped the sentiment using a Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad

The embossing folder was a freebie in a set by Crafter's Companion and I think I bought this several months ago.  Any embossing folder will work but if you don't have a thin oblong folder you just need to be careful positioning your card and folder before running it through your embossing machine

I positioned the e/f above the sentiment and ran it through my Platinum Machine.  To add a little extra detail I scored two horizontal lines above and below the embossed area, although it isn't necessary to do this


The flower spray is yet another freebie from quite sometime ago and stamped with the same ink pad


The insert doesn't have a verse but I did stamp it with the same flower spray stamp as well as adding this to the envelope and embossing the back of the envelope

Stamps by John Lockwood

Embossing Folder/Crafter's Companion, ink pad,
 WOW embossing powder, rose spray stamp

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I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message.

June x

#194 UNDER THE SEA OR AT THE BEACH ~ CRAFTY CARDMAKERS' CHALLENGE. 'YOU'RE FINTASTIC'

Hello and welcome...

#194 Under The Sea or At The Beach

Our new challenge starts again at
 Crafty Cardmakers' Blog and

Judy is hosting our challenge today, the theme is either 'Under The Sea Or At The Beach'

This is my contribution to the design team

 

I used a white DL card and added masking tape around the 4 sides to leave a border.  I used several distress oxide inks to create the sea and sky/sunset then added some shells, adhering them with Collall 3D Glue (I bought these shells quite a few years ago!) I then used several elements from the 'Fillables' range of dies for the fishes, reeds and anchor.  These were die cut and embossed using pieces of left-over card stock

If you have a few minutes why don't you pop over and see my other 'teamies' inspirations, if you click on the link above it will take you straight there, and you may just be inspired to add a cared yourself :) 

'As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it's matches either of the two above themes, please remember our 15 total challenge rule'!

INGREDIENTS

• DL white card stock ~ Woodware
• broken china, fades jeans, wilted violet, worn lipstick Distress Oxide Inks ~ Ranger
• Collall 3D Glue ~ Crafter's Companion
• Fillables - Underwater Accessories Die Set ~ Sue Wilson/Creative Expressions

Random.org Name Picker has chosen

Pam Gordon, as winner of Saturday's card

please email poppyfieldcardcrafts@outlook.com

with your postal details
 

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I read all your comments and really appreciate you leaving me a message

June x

CARD & CAKE ~ HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY JESSICA

Hello and welcome...

I thought I would show you what has been happening this weekend in the Fletcher household

For more years than I care to remember I have made and decorated cakes and then when my ill worsened I had to stop (I have rheumatoid arthritis to name just one problem lol), and because I have this wonderful husband (don't tell him that ;)) who I have naturally trained to my standard, I can indulge, again, in the odd one or two celebration cakes/cupcakes

I was asked to make a two tier christening/first birthday cake for today and as the cake has been safely delivered I can now post a few photos of it

The DL size card was ideal to use, especially as I had previously used a Martha Stewart punch along the side of the card, and I thought the flowers matched some of the ones on the cake

I found this paper in my stash and it was a good match for the colours on Jessica's cake,

I didn't have a rabbit die or stamp and had to draw one, as you can clearly tell!

If you've managed to read to the end of this post I thank you and 'normal' services will resume tomorrow.  It will be a late post tomorrow as a new challenge restarts again at the Crafty Cardmaker's Blog so you will see my contribution to the design team as well as announcing the winner of the freebie card

Jessica's cake is a pale lemon.  The bottom tier is chocolate and the top lemon

Cake & Card

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June x

SATURDAY SPECIAL GIVE-AWAY CARD ~ BLACK, WHITE & GILDING FLAKES

Hello and welcome...

Thank you so much for your concern and get well wishes yesterday, it did mean a lot to me

I think I may have previously shown this card on here and if you would like to give it a new home all you need to do is leave me a comment on today's post.  You have until 9.30am Monday and then a winner will be drawn, at random, and announced later that day

We ship international so it doesn't matter where you live or if you have won previously

The base card is a pearlised white by Crafter's Companion and I added several layers, alternating with black foundation card by Creative Expressions and the pearlised card

The vase is one by Sue Wilson/Creative Expressions, I die cut and embossed this without using the outer cutting die on the white card panel

I covered the bottom part of the final black panel with a piece of double sided adhesive sheet, removed the backing and sprinkled a few gilding flakes/CE on it then burnished them in using a 'rubit-scrubit'
I did the same for the flowers, also by Sue Wilson, but used white card

The card is without a sentiment or verse so it would work as a 'get well soon card', 'just to say hello card', it's your choice

I added a pale insert paper by Craftwork Cards, their paper pads are excellent quality.  I also added some of the paper on the envelope and embossed the back of the envelope

I hope you all have a good and enjoyable weekend

inside of card

envelope

envelope back

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June x