crafting in my kitchen: Tim Holtz Stencils

Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Special Birthday wishes for a special friend

Hello my crafty friends I hope you’re all well.fty friends I hope you’re all well.

I have to tell you I have been sitting on my hands with this cards so not to show you too soon I have been itching to share it with you but couldn’t as the recipient’s birthday is today!!!!

So Happy Birthday to a very special friend Sandra 65 today (she’ll kill me I know hahah) we have been friends now for nearly 10 years we met online through our blogs then we started to email each other and our friendship progressed from there. We call each other regularly and I go up to see her when our hubby’s footie teams are playing against each other.

So of course I couldn’t share the card on here until I knew she had opened it and ad today is her birthday tah dahh I can now show you

So for this card I have tried to make it more mixed media style and I also made a matching canvas (getting good ain’t I lol)

All the papers and images used are from Polkadoodles Belle papillon and so are the butterflies and flowers (even the one I made were made using the pares from the set.

I added lots of other bits from my stash (key, frames corners etc) and coloured with distress sprays and inks and also starlight acrylics .

The insert was made was made using the papers and one of the images then I added a verse to finish it off.

The canvas was made the same way as card using gesso to cover then texture paste and inks .

Hope you like it and I will see you soon

Links to find the downloads and all things me and what I have used

https://www.facebook.com/CookingupacardBespokehandmadeGreetingsCards/

https://cookingupacard.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/new-category/?sort=newest&page=1

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polkadoodles/

https://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/

http://www.imaginationcrafts.co.uk/imagination-products/starlights

Challenges

http://createsandmakes.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

https://digichoosday.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://unstampabelleschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ TIC TAC TOE FLOWERS BLING STRING

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

Happy Crafting

Jacki xx

Thursday, 19 October 2017

Hello my sweets I hope you’re all well and keeping warm. Wasn’t that such a weird sky we had the other day with that pink orange sun.

So today I have a card tp share that I posted a quick pic of last night. It’s using the, oh soooooooo adorable January this time using pocket of love and have teamed her up with papers from the Ula collection.

I distressed the edges of the papers and then added to the card , I also printed out a couple of extra sheets so I could make some rolled roses (I did have a die that did that for me but didn’t find it until after I had finished Typical)