Mel Stampz: Embossed Fresco Flowers (with a 5 petal flower punch & a Cuttlebug or whatever you have)

Mel Stampz: Embossed Fresco Flowers (with a 5 petal flower punch & a Cuttlebug or whatever you have)

Flowers To Print Freebie - Make Your Own Elements

A little freebie for you, print of the sheet and make some fabulous flower elements for your cards. Just right click on the image and save as, the file is in jpeg format.

Simply Flowers

Rain Rain Rain and more rain :-( I hope it doesnt go on for too long Im in desperate need of some warm sunny days.

So while we have been having all this rain I have been making a huge stash of my own flowers, hope you like it. I was inspired by Mels tutorial for making your own paper flowers if you would like to see her tut you can find a link in the post below.

I created a sheet of flowers in PSE and printed them out and then on the reverse side I printed a whole page of text using a flower poem, cut out the flowers and coloured in with promarkers on the text side. The picture doesnt show up the text very well, but the technique is very effective. Each flower is then shaped with a ball tool and seed beads are used for the centre, but you could use anything such as glitter or buttons and gems.

The leaves i just punched and the butterfly was embossed using the sticky stuff powder and the gold foil is then pressed onto the image, I love this technique as it gives such a lovely finish,  finally I coloured the butterfly with promarkers.

Using the same poem text in word I printed another sheet and made the ovals with my cuttlebug for the centre piece.

Click here for a flower freebie sheet

Mel Stampz: Caardvarks Photo Inspiration card (late late late out of date)

Mel Stampz: Caardvarks Photo Inspiration card (late late late out of date)

Mel Stampz: Fun Foam shapes for Big Kids: make stamps with your Cuttlebug!

After spending the morning browsing Mels blog I found another great idea and tutorial for making your own stamps, cant stop now im off to the craft shop to buy some fun foam lol, catch up with you all later, thats if
I can drag myself away from the craft desk long enough to post my makings.

Mel Stampz: Fun Foam shapes for Big Kids: make stamps with your Cuttlebug!

Mel Stampz: Book-page Mod Podge blossoms--(3D cherry blossoms à la Fred She Said)

If you like and use Fred She Said flowers your going to love this tutorial by Mel using the FSS digi flowers. What an amazing idea, Mel does have some pretty unique techniques to be found in her tuts, why not pop along and see for yourself. I cant wait to have a go at this idea and who knows I may even come up withmy own idea along the way.

So if you need a bit of inspiration on this wet and miserable day pop along here to Mels.

Mel Stampz: Book-page Mod Podge blossoms--(3D cherry blossoms à la Fred She Said)

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CRAFTS U PRINT

Help Me Top 10000

Well im almost at 10000 visitor's wow cant believe it, so I would like to say thank you to all my crafting friends and visitors who have taken time to visit my blog and leave me some wonderful comments and inspiration. I wanted to do some blog candy when i hit thgis mark but I cant at the moment due to some family issues and I asm not to well just now either. I started with a real bad cough about three weeks ago which is getting better but I am in so much pain in my chest with all the coughing, so I have decided to wait a while for when I can devote the time to get some real nice goodies together.

Well easter is nearly here now and spring is definately in the air and the clocks go forward this weekend which I am looking forward to, love the light nights like im sure you all do too, I am just not keen on getting my body clock back into gear as I am not the best at getting up early in the morning as it is lol.

Fred, She Said - Digital Design & Papercrafting Goodness: Third BLOG HOP Woohoo!

This months blog hop at Fred She Said, plus some fab new digis in store, think i might have to start hiding my purse in the hope i forget where i put it lol.

Fred, She Said - Digital Design & Papercrafting Goodness: Third BLOG HOP Woohoo!

Fred She Said Challenge

Yep! this is my third post for today, thats a record for me I think. But just wanted to post my attempt for the Fred She Said Challenge blog. The image is from Traceys fall range and coloured in and blended with Sansador, I used papers from Stampin Up Bella Bleu Range.

Friend To Friend Treat Pouch

Dinners all done and dusted so Iv'e been playing with these gorgous treat pouches by Monica (see video below). What a great little idea to give these away with matching birthday cards etc.

They are so quick and simple to do, I guess it only took me about 30 mins and that was only because I didnt have the right punch for the tabs and the tags so I had to hand cut them, with the right punchies it would have taken less time. I love quick and easy.



For this one I used some stampin up designer papers which are from the Tea Party Range and the second one I used some patchwork papers which I downloaded from Cuddly Buddly's patchwork papers set.

Treat Pouch

, VideoI just had to share this with you, a great tutorial by Monica, Im of to have a play with this one so hopefully i will be posting my makes later today, once the dinner is done lol.

Stampin Up Set

I have just finished my first set of cards using my first stampin up set from the pocket silouhettes range. I recently joined Joanne's stamp 10 club and basically we have committed to make one order to the value of 15.00 per month for the next ten months, we all get a chance for 2 months worth of freebies, so that cant be bad. Really looking forward to getting my next order and i think the following month is my turn to get one of my freebies so roll on april.

Freebie Background Swirly Papers

I have some more free background papers for you in a few different colours with a swirly design. If you would like me to create something for you in a specific design just let me know and I will do my very best, I just cant get enough of designing in PSE lol its so much fun.

You have a choice of Pink, Blue, Lilac or Green in these freebie papers. They are in 300dpi so the print quality should be very good. As usual to download them just right click and save. One of these days I will set a way to download them from file saving website, but right click works just as easily.

The only thing I ask is, it would be really nice if you would leave me a comment if you download the freebie, I would really appreciate the time you take to do this, as it takes quite some time to create these freebies.

Fred She Said Fall Flower Card Gift Set

Wow what a gorgous mild spring day it has been today, I really hope this keeps up for a while yet, it feels like someone let me out of prison after such a cold winter. Hope you are all enjoying this lovely spring.

If you have been a follower of Fred She Said then you are probably a keen follower like me lol, if not and you havent seen any of her products then you are seriously missing out on a treat. Julie Stewart was featured on Traceys spotlight this week and I loved the gift set of cards she made so much I just had to make some of my own. Well actually I have been looking for some inspiration to create some really nice sets for a summer fete that i will be doing later this year in August. My idea is that is I start to make some stuff now and do a bit each week It wont be like a madhouse here come July. Well thats the plan anyway, weather it pans out well is another matter all together. So here is a peek at the gift card set using Fred She Said Fall flowers.

Fred, She Said - Digital Design & Papercrafting Goodness: SPOTLIGHT: Julie Stewart#links#links

Fred, She Said - Digital Design & Papercrafting Goodness: SPOTLIGHT: Julie Stewart#links#links

Freebie Vintage Floral Tag

Just a quick post for today as its getting late, but I wanted to bring this new tag for you. This is a vintage floral tag in blue, once again created in Adobe Photoshop. If you want to download it you may right click and save to your PC

Freebie Digital Tag

Ive been playing in photoshop again today, making tags. If you would like this tag you can click on the picture right click and save. Requests for different colours accepted, just leave your request in a comment.

Gift Tote Bag

At the end of January I signed upto a photoshop elements course, which is the reason why I did not do any blog up dates in February. I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and the possibilities are endless for a crafter. Here is a little gift bag I have created in photoshop, it is a bit scraggy around the edges but I will be improving on that and hope to put this up as a freebie. But if you would like to download the coloured version and not just the template then right click on the image and save.

I have printed this out and I will post a picture later on with the assembled bag all filled with chocolate hearts ready to eat hhmmmm - well not for me I am on a diet again!!!!!!

Gina Jayne Mothers Day Gift & Card

Its a lovely sunny day again today a sure sign spring is around the corner, I am almost tempted to go out and start sorting the garden out but I am not that well at the moment with a nasty chest infection and cold, so maybe not such a good idea just yet. I just hope the weather keeps up and I get outside at the wekend.

So in the meantime I have been busy with mothers day stuff. I have a box of chocolate hearts and I wanted to make a small gift bag of chocolates with matching card and here is what I came up with. The card itself was very fiddly to do but was well worth the effort.

The gift sack is a Gina Jayne Design which I downloaded from DAISIE just one of my favourite digital sites, I printed of a second sheet and used the rose to make the matching crad.

If you would like to see more of Gina Janes designs visit her site here