Tassel Flower Picture

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welcome to my little crafting place

I've more lovely new goodies from Spellbinders to share with you.  This time its new flowery dies from Susan Tierney-Cockburn's Serenity Garden collection.

You've probably realised that I am really enjoying making shadow box pictures just now, and these beautiful dies were a great opportunity to make another 3d project!

I made up the flowers with the help of Susan's wonderful videos - always worth checking out for her tips on how to make all the different flowers! 

I used Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock, then inked the die cuts in my chosen shades

I made the layout, leaving room for the words, then created the box frame to fit, I prefer to do it that way rather than fit the 'image' to an already made frame.

I wasn't familiar with Tassel Flowers so did a bit of research: 

"Tassel flower commonly refers to Emilia sonchifolia var. javanica ('Irish Poet'), a delicate, half-hardy annual with vibrant orange flowers popular in UK gardens, often blooming from summer through autumn. These 30-40cm tall plants attract pollinators, enjoy full sun, and make excellent, long-lasting cut flowers."

 

I found that in the language of flowers the tasselflower symbolises beauty,        resilience and enduring love. words which I thought would be perfect to complete the picture

I also decided this picture wold look better with a darker frame so used a square die to cut an aperture in a piece of blue card then trimmed to be just a bit bigger than the original box frame to add an extra frame.

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Die sets: 

 Poetic Foliage  S3-558
 

  Tassel Flower and Ladybugs  S4-1482

 

Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock

  

 Other

card for shadow box

Blue pearlised card for the outer frame

Piece of wood grain printed paper for the background

pc printed wording 

 

Just a Note

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 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Whimsical Shadow Box 2

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welcome to my little crafting place

I couldn't resist making a second shadow box collage picture using the Spellbinders' wonderful Whimsical Village collection designed by Vicky Papaioannou 

Last time I used pastel colours, but this time it's all much darker - with maybe a twilight kind of vibe

I chose 3 shades of deep pink and purple for the houses and flowers, plus a deep midnight blue for the background, all from the Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack  

Once I'd made some houses up, I embossed the background card and highlighted the swirls with a silver Faber Castel Gelato crayon and planned my layout.  Once I'd decided on that I cut the embossed piece to the right size and created my shadow-box accordingly. I use my phone to take a photo of the layout because I'll never get it right otherwise!

 Next I made the frame and adhered the background inside before starting to add the other elements, some are raised on scraps of thick cardboard, some have little matchbox cover type folded card behind them to give lots of dimension

 

The last touches were to add some stamped words from the lovely little stamp set plus a few 'bushes' made using one of the flower dies, and a little spotty dog! 

  

 I used

  

from Spellbinders

 

Whimsical Village collection by Vicky Papaioannou 

 

Whimsical Houses Etched Dies S5-746    

 

Whimsical Blooms Etched Dies S5-742   

Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166 

 

Village Companions Etched Dies S2-456    

   
Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set STP-270   

  

Or, if like me you love it maybe this is a better buy:

Whimsical Village I Want It All! Bundle BD-1061    

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

White Linen card for shadow box

WRMK shadow box punch  

 

Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Whimsical Christmas Wishes

 

Hello, 

Thank you for popping in to my little crafting place!

Well, I couldn't resist making a Christmas "from our house to yours" card when I saw the Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set - it just seemed perfect to pair with the fabulous Whimsical Houses! 

The Whimsical Village collection is designed by Vicky Papaioannou and available from Spellbinders and I love it!

 

 This time I started with a favourite dark teal coloured card base which it turned out was a perfecr match for one of the shades in the ColorWheel Cardstock Pack, so I embossed a square of the latter with the Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder. I wanted to highlight the embossing with white for a swirling snow effect.  But it turns out all my white ink pads have either dried up or gone a weird shade of ugh! So instead I used a Faber Castel Gelato crayon, then added some white glitter glue for some seasonal sparkle

I cut some Whimsical Houses using dark red and white card, the moon and little dog from the Village Companions die set and one of the 'trees' using the Whimsical Blooms set.

As mentioned earlier the sentiment is from Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set. The Glimmer sentiment is from one of last year's Christmas sentiment sets

To complete this sceme I added tiny punched stars and some tiny gems, plus a couple of free-hand cut elements - the wonky triangle tree and the tiny door decorations. 

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Whimsical Village collection by Vicky Papaioannou 

 

Whimsical Houses Etched Dies S5-746    

 

Whimsical Blooms Etched Dies S5-742   

Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166 

 

Village Companions Etched Dies S2-456    

 

Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set STP-270     
 

Or, if like me you love it all maybe this is a better buy:

Whimsical Village I Want It All! Bundle BD-1061    

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

Glimmer sentiment - I think its from the Barn Wishes set 

 

 

Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Welcome to Whimsy Street

 Hello, 

Thank you for popping in to my little crafting place!

Welcome to Whimsy Street, with its pretty pastel-coloured houses and very whimsical topiary trees, the sun always shines, and any clouds in the sky are definitely going to be pink!

I've found this new Whimsical Village collection designed by Vicky Papaioannou and available from Spellbinders utterly charming and full of inspiration

For this street scene I've used more of the Whimsical Houses I cut in the first batch (and I've still got some left!), this time I went with some pale pink houses trimmed in shades of aqua. All the card I've used is from the ColorWheel Cardstock Pack, including the card base and the pale est aqua colour used for the background.  Which of course is embossed with the Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder

The sun and clouds are made using the Village Companions die set as is the ginger cat, and I made the topiary trees from dies in the Whimsical Blooms set - they are meant to be flowers but its good to see things in a different way, isn't it!

I thought this would make a cute 'new home' card so I chose a sweet sentiment from Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set and aded it to a decorative strip made from colours I'd already used

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Whimsical Village collection by Vicky Papaioannou 

 

Whimsical Houses Etched Dies S5-746    

 

Whimsical Blooms Etched Dies S5-742   

Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166 

 

Village Companions Etched Dies S2-456    

 

Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set STP-270     
 

Or, if like me you love it all maybe this is a better buy:

Whimsical Village I Want It All! Bundle BD-1061    

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 

Just a Note

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx