All The Flowers - Shaving Foam, Frantage and Beadazzles

Hi Everyone,

Surprise! I wasn't needed for jury service after all ... just like they didn't want 79 others who received a citation too. So I live to be cited another day :)

Now, what has your day been like ... a good one, I hope.

March's swap challenge on UKPC required a card made using the shaving foam marbling technique so here's what I came up with.

I marbled some white card with a mix of turquoise and brown shimmer inks and the result was very nice. It's not too evident in the photograph but there is also a very pretty scroll with flowers and butterflies stamped in aqua on top of the marbling.

Before matting it on to a turquoise cardstock, it was sprinkled with various Frantage powders and sparkly/flaky bits from a turquoise encrusted jewel kit. Yes, after months of mixing my own powders I caved in and now have one beautiful kit. Love that the result is different every time.

The flowers were stamped, embossed and cut out of turquoise vellum - and that's Beadazzles in the centres - something else for me to love :)

Inside and back were decorated with the trimmings of the marbled cardstock.

Materials used:
Base: white Kanban A6 size card base; scrap of Core'dinations cardstock - turquoise textured - for matting
Background: smooth white cardstock, shaving foam, Luminarte Radiant Rain in Teal Zircon and Autumn Leaf for marbling; Tim Holtz distress ink, Peacock Feathers and Dimensions Crafts Butterfly Scroll; Stampendous Frantage Encrusted Jewel Kit - Teal
Topper: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Twenty-Five, Verve Stamps - All The Flowers, VersaMark, Heat-it-Up Gold embossing powder
Flowers: scrap of K&Company turquoise vellum, Dawn Bibby flower stamp from Flowers and Leaf stamp set, Personal Impressions flower stamp, Suze Weinberg's Beadazzles - Jazz
Ribbon: aqua seam binding from Ribbon Girl

It seems I'm going through my turquoise phase at the moment ... but it is a pretty colour that seems to be liked by most people. I once read that it is the only colour that suits everyone, whatever their skin and hair colour and I'm inclined to agree.

Because of the scraps of Core'dination cardstock and vellum used for the flowers I'm hopping and skipping over to Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 66 - and I'll stop by to see what Di has been up to today while I'm there :)

Right, methinks it is time for a cuppa.

Thanks for dropping in and do take care, sleep well and have a good day tomorrow.

Oh, and happy crafting too,

WOYWW - Wk 200

Hello Everyone,

This post for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday, of necessity, will have to short, sharp and to the point - because I am sooooooooooo late!!! And I won't even pretend that this is what my desk looks like now ...

... no, that's what it looked like late last night. But, you can be assured it hasn't improved much since. I was in the middle of altering that little heart-shaped box (smallest one of three - an Ikea find) to something pretty.

What you see are supplies used in the project. There's also a couple of painted canvases - well, I mixed up too much paint, it would have been a shame to waste it.

This morning, I persevered and here's the finished box:

After painting the box inside and out, I cut heart shapes from a dark blue Core'dinations cardstock and a Kanban embossed card in blue and silver and adhered these to the lid - see the first photo. The sides of the box have been stamped with VersaMark and embossed with Heat It Up silver powder. The turquoise rose trim (from stash)  has been attached using a hot glue gun - as has the flower and ribbon embellishment on the lid. The ribbon - which has been lingering in my stash for many months, is one of those that has a cord threaded through it - you pull the cord and, hey presto! ... you have a many-looped bow!

I feel and explanation for my tardiness is due, especially to Julia, our noted Head of Workdesks over on Stamping Ground. Well, I almost decided not to participate at all today. You see, it's just possible I may not be around for the next few days ... I've been called for Jury Service! Of course, it's just as possible that I may turn up at the court tomorrow morning and they might decide they don't need my services after all ... we shall see. However, it does mean that blog-hopping time may be severely limited so apologies in advance.

And apology follows apology. I'm sorry if I did not get around to visiting you last week ... family visits over Easter got in the way. I hope to make up for all this neglect over the next few weeks ... as soon as I get this jury thing out of the way :)

Happy WOYWW and happy crafting,

Rose Birthday Card - A Snippet Make

Hello Everyone

Happy Easter Monday to you.

I hope you have all had as good a holiday as I have - despite the cold weather! I had family over yesterday - my daughter, her husband and the two youngest grandchildren. They are not so little anymore, 13 and 9 years old ... where are the years going :)

So this is the card I was going to share yesterday ... it's for Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 66.

The topper is one of my own photographs, a rather lush old-fashioned rose.

The background is embossed with a lovely brocade patterned folder I have had for some time and never used ... shame on me! And I dug into the box of snippets for the fishtail pennant.

Strips of leftover embossed card decorate the inside and back - well,  it would only clutter up the snippet box otherwise.

Materials: Kanban A6 white card base; Scraps of the following:- smooth red card, Docrafts black/white patterned paper and S.E.I. Elegance Soul Mate embossed paper; Photograph of a red rose; Cuttlebug 5"x7" embossing folder, Kassie's Brocade; Hero Arts Classic Messages stamp set and Stampin' Up label punch; Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

Right, I'm off to see what Di has to say today and then hopefully do a bit of blog-hopping before tea time.

Take care everyone and happy crafting,