Anything Goes Challenge 95 Buttons Pearl and Lace

Welcome to my post for the start of the latest Anything Goes Challenge

Its one of my favourite challenge's

Button's Pearl and Lace !!

Our challenge is open for the next two weeks so please come and visit us and play along

I started my card with the beautiful Crafty Individuals stamp, cut her out using the smallest Spellbinder 5x7  card creator die and used Kaisercraft Lace stamp to fill in the top and botton of the die cut

I used black card for the second layer, using pink frantage and tarnished silver Cosmic Shimmer UTEE and the lace stamp embossed in white

I used a Marianne design heart to frame my pearl button and used cheese cloth and netting

The live love laugh stamps are this months Stamper's freebie 

There is also some home made music washi tape peeking through and

the back ground is a words stamp inked onto pearl card stock 

Many of the products used are available at the Craft Den, Lynne's on line shop. Check out my side bar for details of her classes, more coming soon!!

I would like to share my card in the following challenges

Fussy and Fancy - Button Up (28th June)

Live and Love Crafts - Birthstones (30th June) Pearl

Marianne's Design Diva's - Lace and Pearls (14th July)

The Hobby House - Anything Goes (27th June)

Country View Crafts - Die Cuts (30th June)

A Creative Romance - Anything Goes (21st June)

18 Birthday Tags and then some ... x

Happy Saturday 

Oh it is so good to sit and do NOTHING !!

Life is busy busy busy ....

I'm off to York in a few minutes for my Sister's 40th Birthday celebrations tomorrow

but first I need to share my 18 Birthday tags for Emma....

I used the scraps from Em's Birthday card for all the tags

Docrafts Gorjuss with some silver mirror card added - Cheap and cheerful from The Range

The tags and pretties are all cut from the Cricut Artiste Cartridge

The mini buttons are really cute and came free with Creativity magazine last month

The bows are already tied and part of the Gorjuss range

Each of the 3 different coloured Baker's twine reels are 20 yards long making it a really good way of decorating the tags and parcels

I love the 3-D bow from the Artiste Cart

This is everyone's favorite in our house 

I have finally mastered the pearl Cosmic Shimmer dots - so economical to use instead of a lot of gems or pearls

I got a butterfly punch out for this one

Em loves the jigsaw cut so we had to have a tag made with it

A different style of bow

I prettied this one up with Cosmic shimmer dots but then messed up the 13  !! !!

Tired now ?? !! ??

Love this one

My favorite flowers

Nearly there ...

Happy 18th gift bag 

Just when you think its all over...

...more with no numbers lol

Mustache for JoJo's presents for Em

and finally googly eyes on tags made from wrapping paper

Thank you for sharing my picture heavy post !!

FCCB Challenge #145 Sound of Music

Happy Monday !!

Today over at FCCB our challenge is 

THE SOUND OF MUSIC 

The challenge runs from 0800 Monday until 2400 Sunday, please hop over to FCCB and see all the DT projects and add your own to join in the fun.

My card was made after a really stressful day at work yesterday crafting really is the best therapy ever!!

I have used some of my fabby new supplies from The Craft Den 

The base of my card is an 8x8 white card blank with Pixie Glenn Prima paper distressed and inked.

I have finally purchased a Tim Holtz distressing tool it's fab. 

I then cut a square of mini patterned paper  from the pack and matted it with pink pearl card, repeated the distressing and pink and blue chalk inking and stuck it down with Pinflair glue gel after adding the pink spider web lace.

All my Cricut cuts are from Lyrical Letter's, I love how the two swirls have made hearts - total accident lol. 

I have decorated the cuts with Cosmic Shimmer Pearl Glue really nice for a change from gems and pearls.

The top left flowers have white flower soft and glitter sprinked on them and the bottom has Glossy accents picking out the tea cup.

Oh, nearly forgot I stamped a Kanban music stamp in the background too and sparkled it up with cosmic shimmer powder!! 

Looking forward to 3 days off next week and my daughters 22nd birthday, crafty times ahead!!

Sending lots of love your way x

A very good friend of mine just lost her sister -  here is the card I made for her ....... They are always so hard to get right....just hope I managed it for her

 xhugsx 

I used a 6"x6" white linen card blank, (lightly blending antique linen distress ink around all the edges) a really nice size and texture to say enough - but not too much!!

  I would have preferred a happier occasion to play with my new Fran-tage embossing enamels and fragments but special ladies deserve special cards so having decided to use this beautiful découpage cross from Reddy Craft (Crafter's Companion) I set about making it unique ....just like them x 

 The picture doesn't pick it up well but I glazed the cross and flowers and then matted them on gun metal mirror card. I added a little antique gold Fran-tage embossing enamel and grey pearls.

I cut the jute fabric to size, frayed the edges and sprinkled antique gold, antique silver and clear embossing enamels onto it adding some taupe fragments and fine glass glitter - it goes everywhere but looks fabulous as it melts.

I did the same to the bottom left corner of the card blank and assembled it.

I embossed the sentiment in a much lighter gold glitter cosmic shimmer's embossing powder so it was much more subtle than the rest of the card and matted on the "wonk" with 2 more pearls.  

Another friend is hand delivering my card tomorrow when she visits, (some of us are working as usual :-( !!) I do hate trusting them to Royal Mail .......x