Bow withdrawal symptons card

Good morning blog friends.

I didn't realise it was so late.. Don't you just get carried away with arty farty things. welcome to all the lovely new people that have visited my blog " welcome " and hope you will return.

for all my regular lovely ladies that visit me here. I have some news about Anthea. She saw her consultant today,and the treatment is very positive.

I made this card. Kept going back to it and finally finished it just gone midnight.

Products used:-

8X8 card from Anna Marine designs
C&C pastel pink Mirri card
Floral background paper, from Kanban, cleaning out the workroom, so thought I might as well use it
Sue Wilson Austrian collection- Vienna
Spellbinders- Fancy tags two
Spellbinders- Fancy labels tags one
Sue Wilson- Finishing touches- Classic rose
Marianne design- Creatables LR0229
Butterflies ?  will put up later
Creative Expressions- Glacier Ice


I hope you like this one.
Thank you for popping by, hope to see you all again soon.

Tina XX

SOMEONE SPECIAL

Hi to all my regular blog friends, and to those that just pass through, it's real pleasure to read all the lovely comments you leave.

Products used:-

Anna Marie designs 8X8 White card 300gsm, with box
Lilac pastel mirror card
Purple foundation card, CE?
Sue Wilson, Decorative frames set B
Sue Wilson, Californian Collection- Hollywood
Spellbinders, Fancy Tags Two
Cheery Lyn, Gardenia strip die
Sue Wilson, Finishing Touches- Classic Rose
Marianne designs, Creatables- LR0192
Marianne designs, Creatables- LR0229
Spellbinders, Les Papillions Two
Whoops forgot to put the embossing folder details:- Die'sire- Embossalicious
Also, what am I like, Creative Expressions glacier ice for the white rose.

 I really need to get the sack from this job

 I really like the spikey look of the Marianne creatable dies, it makes a nice a change from leaves. I hope you like it.

Love

Tina XX

ANTHEA

I made this card today for a for young lady, and a very special person in our lives. She is going through a very difficult time at the moment, but I know with all the positive thoughts and love sent to her she will know how much we think think of her and that we are here for her every step of the way.

Sent with love, A  XX

So Beautiful

Hazel, that was so beautiful, and I was so taken aback. After the tears had stopped they really did make me smile, and it was so lovely to talk to you in person. I can't believe!,   well I do now, what lovely people I am personally in contact with. I really enjoyed our talk today. I don't think my photography does justice to your flowers. Here are a few pictures, They are beautiful.

I took this in the lounge where the light is better, but decided to put them in the hall where everyone can see them, and when I come out of my workroom I can see them all day long.

Thank You Hazel XX

Different for me

Hi everyone, to my regular lovely's, and to everyone that just pops in.

Sorry I haven't been blogging for a while, not even on Sue's blog. Yet again we have had sad news, but about my daughters best friend Anthea who was Claire's Maid of Honor in April. She has been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. We are all in a state of shock, but we are all thinking positive thoughts. She WILL get through this.

I would like to say a big thank you to Steph, Margaret and Hazel for all the positive thoughts too on my email.

Thank goodness for crafting. I think of it as my comfort blanket, where I can escape difficult issues. What a luxury to have.

I have made this card with no bows or big handmade flowers and flouncy butterflies , I have gone down the stamping, embossing and Mica powders line, got really mucky but had a whale of a time.
I hope you like it.

Products used:-

8X8 white card Embossed with Tattered Lace EF
Background-: Tim Holtz distress inks.Wild Honey,Iced Spruce and Weathered Wood
Tattered Lace Butterfly EF
Ranger Perfect medium
Cosmic Shimmer clear embossing powder
Cosmic Shimmer mica powder Iced Blue sparkle & orange shimmer
Stamps away, Pilkington silhouette flowers
Hobby Art, Tuscany stamps
Spellbinders. leaves.
C&C mirror card Pastel Blue

A different kind of card for me. Hope you like what you see.
Thank you for stopping by.

Tina XX

Thank you Card

Again, Good afternoon  everyone. I promise this will be the last card for today, this is a flatter card from me, you know how I love doing quite Dimensional cards, but I guess it's good to make a flatter card to cut cost's at the post office, as this will fit in an envelope. I hope you like it.

8X8 Card
White card
Cosmic Shimmer- Flake & Glitter glue
Stampendous- Rose stamp
Craftynotions- Gilding Flakes, Verigated Green
Sue Wilson- French Collection- Provence
White seam bindind ribbon
Random rose mould
Marther Stewart- Crafter's Clay
Odd piece of green material for the leaves

I started with an 8X8 White card, then with a slightly smaller piece of white card I stamped it with
flake & glitter glue using the rose stamp. As Sue say's you must clean off your stamp before using the flakes, as the glue could damage your stamp. Sprinkle the flakes onto the glue and using a rubbit scrubbit pad move the flakes over the glue until covered. Then still using the rubbit scrubbit pad lightly rub to take away excess flakes and return to pot. I then cut  and embossed the largest of Sue's dies from the Provence set with white card and then used Tim Holtz Distress ink, I used iced spruce, wild Honey and also mixed the two until I had a suitable shade of green mix. I used a piece of cut and dry foam on all 3 colours to make a marbled effect. I then cut the rest of the Provence dies out and embossed them and stamped  part of the sentiment, ( For my Friend ) from Creative Expressions fanciful phrases, then layered them using sticky pads for a little dimension. I then made some roses with  crafter clay, cut a few leaves, tied a messy bow with  seam binding ribbon and attached the roses.

I hope you like this different one for me.

Tina XX

White on White

Good afternoon again everyone, I hope you like  the next exhibit.

8X8 White card
White card for matt and layering
Creative Expressions- Open vintage Floret
Marianne dies- Flourishes
Sue Wilson French Collection- Corner, border & Tag set
Sue Wilson Californian Collection- San Francisco
Sue Wilson Finishing Touches- Classic Rose
Sue Wilson Finishing Touches- Magical Butterflies
Creative Expressions Glacier ice
Clear gems from my sparkly stash
Ranger- Clear perfect medium
Cosmic Simmer- Clear embossing powder

I started with an 8X8 white card. Then with a smaller piece of white card I stamped it with clear perfect medium with the vintage floret stamp, and used clear embossing powder to give it a glossy look. I then did the same effect to two more smaller pieces of White card and  layered them with sticky pads on the back for dimension. For the focal point I cut 2 strips from the border die set and placed them back to back to make a wide strip, I then cut out the 2 smaller dies from the San Francisco set added sticky pads and layered them. To exsentuate the focal point I cut 2 of the corner dies from the french collection set and attached them top and bottom of the large center die. I then cut the tag die from the same French collection set and stamped the sentiment from the creative expression- Thoughtful sentiments and attached with more sticky pads for even more dimension. I cut a rose using the finishing touches- Classic rose dies then Glacier Ice for a bit of sparkle I then added the sprigs of leaves. Finally I cut a butterfly from Sue Wilson-Magical butterflies and added some gems to the body.

I hope you like it

Tina XX