Meet Walter!

Well I promised something a little different for my next blog post, and here he is!  In my 'spare' time I bottle feed orphan lambs!

Meet Walter!

(Please excuse the colour of my husband - I promise he is not really this yellow, I think it was the lighting!)

 
Walter is an orphan lamb that I will be taking on shortly.  I have 2 horses and I keep them on a working farm and they are in full blown lambing, which is always amazing!  For the last two years I have cared for the orphan lambs, bottle feeding them until they are ready for the big wide world.  It is hard work but very rewarding.  At the moment there are 3 orphans for me to care for which should be a doddle compared to the 13 I had last year, but having said that lambing is not yet over so this could all change!

Well that's all for now. 

love

Ginny xx

Retro Roses

Well I hope everyone has had a lovely Easter.  I have had a very quiet few days and also been looking after a friends horse, so that has kept me out of trouble!

 

I have a weeks holiday this week so am hoping to get some crafting done, so watch this space!

 

This week I am sharing yet another card I have done with Julia Watts, and I think this is one of my favourites ............. I am always saying that aren't I!

 

Anyhow for this card we did some colouring using the Tim Holtz distress markers applied with a watercolour brush,  which I really like.  I enjoyed the colouring far more than I thought I would and it was great to use the Stamps to Die For Retro Roses which fits the Sydney die.  The background die is also one of the new Spellbinders card creator dies.

 

The recipe for this card is as follows:

Foundations cardstock - coconut white and milk
Spellbinders Card Creator Deco Lux
Sue Wilson Dies - Delicate Fronds, Orange Blossom Closed Petals, Sydney Die
Retro Lavish Sentiments stamps
Stamps to Die For - Retro Roses
Archival black ink
Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Jewels
Watercolour pens
Tim Holtz Distress Markers - broken china, evergreen bough, shaded lilac and cracked pistachio

I hope you have enjoyed this card, and will hopefully have something a little different to share with you next time!

Until then

love

Ginny x

All White!

Well another card from last weekend - I love this one!  I always think the white on white cards look so stylish.

This card actually took quite a lot of work, as there were lots of elements to it.

 

 

 

Firstly, I cut the Sue Wilson Classic Weaving die and did the weaving that is at the back of the card - I love this detail and was the first time I had used this die.  Next I cut the Ornate Pierced Squares and layered elements of this die up, followed by the New Zealand Hamilton die.  Finally we cut the Orange Blossom complete and open petals and arranged them with the Laurel Leaves.

Finally I heat embossed the sentiment from the Petite Lavish Sentiments in silver. To finish it off I placed white 8mm white pearls on the flowers and in the corners of the card.

 

I hope you like this card as much as I enjoyed doing it!  White on white is definitely one of my favourites ;-)

 

Well that's all for now but thank you for stopping by to share my creations.

 

 

Take care

 

Ginny x

 

 

 

Shaving Foam!

Yesterday I attended a class with Julia Watts, and as per usual I had a fantastic day!  We made 3 cards in total but today I am going to share just 1 and will share the rest later in the week.

The last card of the day used the shaving foam technique for the background paper.

This is how I used the shaving foam technique:




Firstly we put some shaving foam into an A4 box and then sprayed inks onto the foam.   For this colour combination I used Decadent Teal and Decadent Grape.

Then we took a pricking tool and swirled it around in the foam to mix the colours together - it had to be enough to make the colours flow into each other but not to much so they lost their definition.

Then we placed our cardstock (in this case coconut white) face down in the foam mixture, and made sure that it all came into contact with the foam by pushing down on it gently.  Remove the card from the foam mixture and with a ruler  remove the excess foam and this leaves an imprint of the ink.

Next we cut out the striplets into the cardstock 4 times, layered this on the cardstock above and then made a frame from the pierced rectangles.

We then stamped the sentiment and cut these out decorating with the leaves and flowers.

I can see that this will be a technique I use time and time again as it is very effective and I could have some good fun playing with lots of colours.

The products used were:

Cardstock - Foundations Coconut white & black
Sue Wilson Pierced Flags
Sue Wilson Double Pierced Rectangles
Sue Wilson Butterfly Striplet
Sue Wilson Orange Blossom Flowers - Open Petals
Sue Wilson Orange Blossom Flowers - Complete Petals
Sue Wilson Faux Quilled Leaves
John Lockwood Pierced Flag Sentiments
Creative Expressions Spray Mists - Decadent Grape & Decadent Teal
Shaving Foam
8mm White Pearl
Small Black Circle Dazzlers

I hope you have enjoyed this card and will give it a try - it really was great fun to do!

Until next time.

Ginny x

Thanks!

Well today I made a very quick thank you card.  As it was for a man I decided to use navy blue and white, which I always think looks clean and nice.

This is the first time I have used the dragonfly die and really like it layered with the two colours - I did think about using glitter but wanted to keep it low key, but felt it needed a little something so went with some pearls.

For this card I used:

Foundations Coconut White cardstock
Navy pearlescent card (from my own stock)
Spellbinders dragonfly delight die
Intricutz Dies Thanks die
Navy organza ribbon
White pearls

Hopefully you will like this. 

Until next time

Ginny x

A Crafty Week

Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the Craft Hobby and Stitch International show at the NEC at Birmingham.  This is a Trade show and I attended on behalf of my work as we run craft clubs for blind and visually impaired people

It was a great opportunity to network with businesses and we made some really good contacts, and from a personal perspective I got to see all the new things that are due to be released in 2016 ................... exciting times ahead!

Also, last week I went to Make It in Farnborough with two lovely friends, Trudee and Jo.  I purchased lots of new goodies so hopefully you will see some different things from me soon.  I am always lured by Lavinia Stamps but have never been that great at using them, so have promised myself to have a good go with them this year.  I also love the stamps and sentiments from both Inkylicious and Honey Doo, so treated myself to a few of these.

Finally, I used a set of Trudee's Chameleon pens last week and fell in love with them, so managed to find a second-hand set on ebay .................. so excited about these!

So now my credit card has well and truly been placed back in my pursed and will not see the light of day for a while to come.  Anyhow, here's a quick glance at my new craft stash ............. watch this space!

 

 

Hopefully by the next time you hear from me you will get to see some samples of my new purchases.

 

Until next time

 

Ginny x