Twist and fold pop up mini album.

Hi there on this Wednesday afternoon. This is the project I thought I'd share with you today. I made it last Mothers day to give to my mother in law for a gift. l thought it would be a nice keepsake to keep all the precious memories of all her grandchildren in it....
Twist and fold cards are very popular at the moment so i decided to make this mini album version of  the card. I followed Helen Griffin's tutorial on YouTube if you go to the Helens website click on YouTube and look for twist and fold pop up mini album. ( click on Helen Griffin's link here ) the paper pad is forever friends Kraft notes.
I think it's a smashing tutorial and worth poping over. It takes a little figureing out, but when completed it is well worth the effect.
Next time on my blog I will share the twist and fold card that I made too.
Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!!
Lots of love
Sharon x

Daisy Delight.

Hi there on this Tuesday Morning. I thought I'd have a change today and share this pretty die-cut card with you. I made this card with the new dies from Lynda Chapman On this particular wreath die from lynda's new collection the flowers stay in the card and when pushed out, look fabulous. I like the idea of paper piecing the leave's back in too ( l would use a contrasting colour ) i also used Sue Wilson's double stitched rectangles for the narrow frame, because my dies are rectangle and my card is square i got round it by cutting stripes to fit my square card. I put a flower in each corner to hide the messy joins, the sentiment is from tonic studio's ( it looks nice if you drop shadow it too ). I really like the lemon and cream together it looks so fresh it reminds me that spring is just around the corner. The finished overall card size is 8ins square. I hope I have inspired you a little.
Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!!
Lots of love
Sharon
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Oriental chic.

Hi there. I hope you are well on this Sunday Morning. I would like to share a card with you  featuring the acrylic block technique, which I have shared previously with you before. It's such a easy technique and produces really quick results. I never get tried of making cards with this technique, each card never looks the same. I have done this technique that many times before, that you forget that their are new viewer's looking in, so for those of you how are not familiar with this technique i shall give you a quick explanation on what I did.
First of all choose the right size acrylic block for your card base then stamp directly onto the block with distress inks, ( broken China,  mustard seed and barn door ) spritz water with a spray bottle or sprinkle water onto your fingers and flick onto your ink covered block , then stamp onto the card, lift off and there is your background to stamp on. I used smooth white cardstock but i have used water colour cardstock and it looks equally as good. I stamped my stamps onto the card in archival black ink and coloured in the image with promarkers and added a sentiment. Have a go at this easy technique and you will achieve lovely results every time.
Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!
Love Sharon
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Wildflowers.

Hi there. Hope you are well on this Friday Morning. I thought  I'd share this card i made with you today. I like the idea of using embossing folders as the main focal part on a card and i thought this would be a good example to show you...this is how I made it.
I started on a piece of white linen card measuring approx 10.5 x14.5cm. I choose three colours of distress inks, which would work well together, starting with the top of the card i slowly blended the colours in, one by one. I sprinkled water on it to give a distress look then took my embossing folder and embossed the card. I took a piece of cut and dry with white ink on it and brushed it lightly over the raised embossed image and a little gold guilding wax to make it pop off the page even more. I matted it on black card, tied with bakers twine and an ornament. I backed it onto a piece of Kraft card 13.5x16cm, decorated with Tim holtz mixed media die and finished with a stamped message in black archival ink, were there was a lot of white space. I hope you like the finished card. I really like how it turned out.
Please leave a comment and happy crafting!!
Love Sharon
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Fairy wishes.

Hi there. I hope you are well on this Wednesday morning. I thought I'd share this card today featuring the backgrounds i made with the cosmic shimmer inks. I featured this technique in my post 'shimmer all the way' but this time i decided to make two cards the same, other than i used black archival ink on the first background and black embossing powder on the second  background. There isn't a great difference in the way they turned out, other than the embossed card is deeper in colour and is very glossy, but it depends on the look you like and what project you happen to be doing at the time, but I personally liked the inked one because it turned out better. The finished overall size is 15 inches square. I think that's it for now.
Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!
Love
Sharon x                                                    black ink

Embossed 

Brusho background card.

Hi there. I hope you are well on this Monday morning. I thought i would share another  brusho card with you, as promised in my last post... This card below was made by the sprinkling techinque as in my last entry.
First of all I Stamped my prepared background with a big butterfly stamp with versamark and sprinkled white embossing powder over the sticky versamark and heat set it with my heat gun. l repeated this until the card was covered, but with a smaller butterfly stamp, then trimmed to size and distressed the edges with broken China distress ink. I matted onto deep purple card, then onto my base card. To finish i stamped the sentiments onto the grand gala bunting from tonic studio's, the finished overall card is 15 inches square. I hope I have inspired you.
Please comment if you wish and happy crafting!
Lots of love
Sharon x

Brusho background.

Hi there. Brusho's are my favourite product at the moment. It's a highly pigmented water-colour crystal and when sprinkled onto card covered with water, bursts of vibrant colour explode everywhere to leave a colourful background....... There are so many different techniques you can try with this amazing product. I will be experimenting with these at a later date, but I have used the easy sprinkle techinque mentioned.
I should just mention about the pots they come in, it would be wise to poke a hole in the top with a push pin, to allow the crystals to sprinkle out in a controlled manner. The colours I have chosen for my background are brilliant red, leaf green and lemon. The dies I have used are Sue Wilson's checkerboard border, which doubles up as a daisy, which I have used it for on this project and the double stitched rectangles for the frame and faux ribbon strip. Hope you like my brusho sprinkle technique background card...
Lots of love
Sharon
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Love is in the air.

Hi there,  I thought I'd share this card creation with you to celebrate Valentine's day. I made this easel card using Marianne Design Anja's filigree heart in pink and white pearlesant card, trimmed with a bow and glitter dazzler.
Lots of love
Sharon x

Shimmer all the way.

Hi there. Here is a technique i have visited time and time again so be prepared to get inky fingers with this one. I made these backgrounds with cosmic shimmer mist a while back and made them into cards as you see below. I happened to saw Julia watts use the same product a few weeks a go and i couldn't resist getting my mists out again and getting messy with some more backgrounds which I will share with you on another post.
I started by priming my comic shimmer mister's by tapping them on my hand to disperse the mica inside, then I sprayed my card with two colours from the range ( blue lime and bilberry crush ) they will emerge to give a lovely effect on your card and the mica gives it extra shimmer on the surface. when completely dry stamp your image with versa mark and then emboss with embossing powder and heat ( I used gold embossing powder ) I cut the card to the size of my projects and Matt and layered on to my base card's. I added a stamped sentiment to finish. Here are the finished cards.....
Lots of love
Sharon x

Botanical bliss.

Hi There. Last year l bought a starter papercraft kit in the sale from hobbycraft. I give myself a challenge to use most of the items in the kit to make my cards with and to show you don't need lots of crafty stash to have fun... it's also great for beginner's that are just starting out on the cardmaking journey and to maybe give it a go first before they decide if they like it or not. I definitely got the bug! My inspiration for these cards have come from stamp'in up projects and the way they use lots of bakers twine to embellish. I have used most of the items in the kit apart from the inks, which i will use in other project's and I still have lots left over. What good value! Here are the cards...l hope they inspire you!
Lots of love
Sharon x

Paint play.

Hi there it's s been a long time since I did my last crafty post but I'm back with lots of new card idea's to share with you. I bought my first ever stamp'in up stamp sets last year and I'm very pleased with the way they stamped out. These cards below are made with the paint play set

Lots of love
Sharon