I just loved these papers so much I had to find a project to use them. I painted the box first in champagne gold acrylics paints then added the papers and some lace, die cut flourishes and pearl stones.

The large flowers are some sort of moulded plastic and came in pink, pink or pink, so I just coloured them in with some promarkers

The top was finished off using more papers from the same collection and distress inked around the edges



Tom's 21st Birthday

What to make for my sons 21st Birthday? Well it just had to be Sir Tim.! I had a lovel pad of 12x12 papers which were ideal.

I took a whole sheet which I trimmed down to make the card. Then cut out some embellishments from other sheets within the stack. The whole lot was distressed with rust and mahogany distress inkpads. The letters are assorted metal from my stash and are distressed using alcohol inks, unfortunately my copper had gone a bit lumpy and althought I mixed it for eternity it still had a few lumps in it which in this case really didnt matter because it added to the distressed look I was after.  The 21 is stamped using numbers from Ink & the dog range by paper Artsy stamps and embossed in detail gold.

The hands on the clock are Tim Holtz spinners and the key and key hole are brads that I cut off the legs and glued with pinflair.

Not much time!

Not much time for blogging recently hubby been too poorly! However I had to do some cards for two of my grandaughers who both had birthdays within a week of each other. The first one was Iysha who was 2 and my crafty stash just didnt have any suitable rubber stamps so I turned to a cd to find something. This one is done from one of the MSC paper craft library Cds



I used a whole topper which I then decoupaged. I even managed to do the name for her then added a few pearly doodles to finish it off. I just couldn't leave it without any embelishment lol!

The next one was for Jasmine who was 12 and absolutely loves pink!  I found a lovely stamp of a little girl which was one of my random e bay purchases so I dont know who the manufacturer is but I saw it and thought how lovely it was.

I stamped in Wild Plum Adirondak dye ink pad and then used a water brush to add a colour wash. For the flowers I used various punches and some pink sequins for the centres.

the message and branches were hand drawn using a fine black pen.  I then added some ribbons to finish off.

Not exactly grunge but it filled the brief and she loved it!