Anniversary Card

Well I have a couple of wedding anniversaries coming up this week so the next couple of cards will be Happy Anniversary ones.

The first card is a simple design which involves cutting 2 of the Sue Wilson Shadow Box Lattice die, one in pearl icicle white and the other in pearl midnight blue. These were offset to create the different colour lattice work.  I added the Sue Wilson daisy flower cluster which were cut in icicle and the flowers in the midnight blue. The sentiment was one by Crafter's Companion.  I cut a large border in the midnight blue card  to add some serious contrast,

To finish off the card and to add a bit of bling I added some frosty stickles to the middle of the flowers, which looks a bit strange in the photograph but look much nicer in real life!

I hope you enjoy this weeks card and I will be back very soon with another anniversary card, which is one I have made for my daughter, but you will have to wait until the beginning of October for me to share that one as I can't share until she has received it!

With love and crafty hugs

Ginny x

A Smelly Tag!!!!

Back to cardmaking this week and sadly leaving my horsey antics behind!  This week I am sharing a tag that I made during a class I attended in Bristol.  It was made using pixie powders, shaving foam and alcohol inks!

Firstly I started by putting shaving foam into a container and sprinkled with sun yellow and peacock green pixie powders.  When they started to mix with the foam I then took a straw to swirl them together, I then laid the card onto the foam and removed it.  It was covered in foam and when you take off the excess with a ruler it leaves a very interesting pattern on the cardstock.  Once this has dried ............. and by the way it smells gorgeous! ............. I then cut out the tag and embossed it to add a little more texture.

To make the butterflies I stamped a Visible Image butterfly with matt medium and heat embossed it with black powder.  Once this was done I let it cool down and then took clover and sunset yellow alcohol inks and spread them over the back of the butterfly.  By putting the inks on now and cutting later I didn't have to be too careful with applying the inks!  Once this had dried I hand cut the butterflies and placed them onto the tag, folding them up slightly to add some dimension.

The back of the tag is clear to write a message and I thought it best not to put a sentiment on the front so it could be used for any occasion.

Finally I popped some ribbon through the top so there was something to help attach it to a gift.

For this tag I used the following:

Alcohol inks - clover & sunset yellow

Cheap shavng foam

Pixie Powders - peacock green and sun yellow

Heat resistant acetate

Visible Image Butterfly Beginnings stamp

I hope you enjoyed this project, so until next time I will leave with love and crafty hugs!

Ginny x

Carriage Driving

Well this week I thought I would share with you my horsey antics of last weekend!  As mentioned in my last post I went carriage driving for a couple of days.  25 or so years ago I used to drive a single pony but have hankered after driving a pair for the last few years so jumped at the opportunity to go on an instructional break with my friend Rita.

We found a lovely lady who lives local'ish to Rita who is near Ely in Cambridgeshire, called Claire Bourne.  Claire is a qualified LHHI (light horse harness instructor) and also runs her own business doing funerals and weddings.  She is such a lovely lady that I would highly recommend if anyone fancies having a go.

I was totally blown away when I got to drive a pair of Fresians, a pair of Lippizzaners and a pair of small ponies!  I had so much fun and it reminded me of some great times that Rita and I had share so many years ago when we used to compete!

Now for a bit of photo overload driving one of the pairs- I got to drive both on and off road, and finished by popping them through some cones which was great fun

It never ceases to amaze me just how much power there is with a pair.  I will admit that I am not great with large horses as I tend to 'do' ponies, but I enjoyed driving these more than I could have imagined!

This pair were much more up my street, even though they were nowhere near as experienced!  I can see that this could be a direction that my life end up taking! 

Well I could bore you with lots more photo's but this is a craft blog so had better stop!  Promise I will go back to crafting in my next post ;-)

Until next time

With love and crafty hugs

Ginny x

Another Christmas Card!

Well as we are well and truly in September I thought I would stop by and share another Christmas card - don't feel quite so bad saying that now!

This is a very quick post as I am about to dash off on a short break - a couple of days spent carriage driving.  Who knows my next post may include some photo's of other things I love doing apart from card crafting!

For this post I have done the same card in two colourways. I have gone for a very classic gold and black look, and then reversed it on the second card.

Both cards are fairly simple to make, with quite a few mats and layers.

And again with the colours reversed.  Which one do you prefer?

Unfortunately you cannot see much of the embossing in the cards as it doesn't show up well in the photographs, so here is a closer peek!  I really like this die set and think it really does not need much else to set it off.

For this card I used the following:

Foundation cardstock in black and vintage gold

Sue Wilson's Santa's Sleigh

Sue Wilson's Christmas Scene Mini Background

Sue Wilson's Pierced Rectangles

Until next time

Crafty hugs sent with love

Ginny x