A Birthday Fairy Shaker Card

This was an 8x8 card made for my daughter's 10th birthday. She had previously said how much she liked shaker cards and she is mad about fairies, (can't think where that comes from!) so here it is!
The main die set is the Tonic Moonglade Wish set. I have used a sheet from the First Edition Dreamcatcher pad for the background paper and layered lilac paper on top of this. The main centre panel was a large square cut in purple paper, with the inner die sections only used to cut the shape and 'leave it in' the card. A piece of acetate was used behind the cut section to seal it. This centre panel was then mounted on foam to raise it up and create a space for the shaker glitter and sparkles to be added. The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley and has been cut and mounted onto a Spellbinders Lacey Circles die. The butterflies have been cut using a die from the Tonic Butterfly Purse corners set and some ink has been used through the die to highlight the embossing. Pearls to finish and done!

Tonic Fairy Birthday Card

I was lucky enough to be given a set of Tonic fairy themed dies for my birthday this year. I hadn't really used Tonic dies before, but I really like the way you can interchange them with each other. The die used here is called 'Moonglade Wish' and comes in 4 parts. This card is an 8x8 card, with the front card piece folded back on itself. The folded section was then cut using the die, but not with its matching edger (meaning that the aperture remains inside the cardstock). The outside edger was then cut out completely on some purple card and laid over the top to create a see-through lacy effect. The same principle was used for the panel on the other side, (rear card piece) although this was not left see-through, as I mounted a large piece of pink card behind it. The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley and has been stamped, cut out and mounted on card stock cut using a Spellbinders Lacey Circle die. Once attached to the front panel, a second lacy circle was applied to the back for neatness.  The fairy's wings were also highlighted by cutting a piece of glitter card and laying it behind the wings. Finally 6 diamantes were used for the corners and the stars on the front. The insert was made using coordinating card stock and placed on the inside of the card, behind the folded front section.

Lacey Engagement Wishes

This card was my first made using Tattered Lace dies. I matted and layered snow white Centura Pearl and lilac card stock onto an 8x8 blank.The centre piece I die cut twice top and bottom with the Tattered Lace Chantilly Flourish die. I then removed the cut pieces and put the main card section through an A4 Crafts Too embossing folder. The die cuts were then gently glued back into position and a matching piece of ribbon placed across the middle. The Lili of the Valley sentiment has been dry embossed in silver before being cut and mounted using Spellbinder Classic Circles Large and Lacey Circles. All the crossing sections from the embossing folders have had tiny gems added in matching colours, and a random dot/dash pattern has been doodled along the edge to finish it off.

Thank You Teacher

At the end of another school year it's time to say thank you to those amazing teachers who inspire our little rugrats each day, so I thought I would use Crafter's Companion Popcorn the Bear to help me! I have coloured him using Tim Holtz Distress Markers on watercolour paper and cut out. This topper has then been layered onto a Spellbinder's circle shape to make it pop. The sentiment is a LOTV one. The doily in the background has been coloured using Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink and layered onto some Hunkydory card with a strip of some orange paper I had in my bits box. The butterflies are actually the waste elements cut out when cutting a Spellbinder's Butterfly Circle die!                                                                                

Busy Fairies working their Magic!

Guess what...FAIRIES!! Ok, this may be a little repetitive, but this year my resolution was to make what I liked! Crafting is a pleasure for me and not a business, so why not! (although one day I would love to be part of a design team...here's dreaming!) I do have a few friends who are not so keen on flying folk though (boo), so will divert away from the theme for them!
This panel card was made using good old distress inks, to shade the background, followed by lightly stamping a flourish stamp in the same colour for subtle interest. The dandelions and fairies are, of course, Lavinia's. The flowers were stamped in purple and then I have used stickles to the stamens. The fairies and butterfly were stamped in black and then heat embossed with WOW glittery powders. The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

Party Girl!

A friend of mine at work is very excited about her birthday, and as she is a little bit of a party animal, this card was made especially for her! I had to (!) treat myself to some of the new Strawberry Kisses stamps, and as Crafter's Companion had some offers on the range for their birthday week, it seemed the perfect time! I have used some papers from a pad called 'Dreamcatcher' for the background and flowers. I have coloured the image using Promarkers and have used a mask to 'Spray and Sparkle' the shoe (although you can't really see it in the photo). Spellbinders have been used to cut the image and layer it. I hope she likes it on Monday! As the Crafter's Companion challenge is also about flowers this month, I am also going to enter this in it...