From Me To You

 Hi Guys, I want to show you a MDF Trug from Calico Craft Parts that  I've put together which I think would make a lovely gift for anyone special,

 

I put it together then gave it all a coat of white gesso, when dry I went over with two layers of acrylic paint,

I took a stamp from my stash and randomly stamped a little text here and there on all four sides of the Trug,

I then took a Rose flower head stencil I have in my stash and with some transparent medium stencilled the Rose heads here and there too,

When all the media was dry I added this lovely MDF Ashleaf and twig keeping it in it's natural colour as a focal point for the front,

MDF - Trug 

MDF - Ashleaf and twig 

Happy Crafting!!

First hint of spring flowers

So after taking a little walk with our dog the other morning I noticed that the first signs of Snowdrops are starting to show in the ground, I love this first sign of new life in the New year and the first of lovely flowers to come,

So on that thought I've created some Foamiran Snowdrops, as my first post this year as part of the fabulous design team for Lady E Designs, using her latest Crocus die set and to remind me spring is on it's way!!!

Yes these we're the Crocus dies, I used the smallest of the set, die cut them out then held them against a luke warm iron for a few seconds, holding the centre with a skewer then gradually relaxing it from the iron so it started to cup the petals,

Place it then onto a foam pad (washing up pads are perfect) pushing down in the centre of the petals and scrunching the foam pad around it,

they all vary in how closed they look, so i added a little hot glue to some of the petals near the base to make them more bud like, this one has been left quite open towards the petal tips to appear fully open,

The lines you can see are part of the die and they have kept in the foam,

Here you can see how I created the different looks of the petals, I die cut some of the leaves from the set in green foamiran and lightly folded the lef along it length to give a slight bend, these I added over the wire then fixed on with some floral tape,

Snowdrops in real life, hang their heads down like this so I tried to do the same, lol I added them to a little pot from my stash with some tiny pebbles added over the base,

I hope you have a go, if you do let me know,

lady E Design - Flower 7 Crocus

Happy Crafting!!

So What!

Hi Guys,

Yesterday was like summer so warm, today's like winter it's bloomin freezing lol, just thought I'd pass on that useless bit of information !

Colour Create's challenge today is our lovely Julies choice and it's for 

Black,Pink and white with optional use of Tulle,

I've used a Lily of the Valley girl, had her ages but never used her before, smack my hand, but she just seemed to fit this challenge some how lol,

I've followed the fab sketch from CLP and used the Sizzix  dies as they seemed to go so well too, lol

She's coloured with Copics, the papers are Magnolia and Tim Holtz,

Challenges:

CLP ~ Fab Sketch

A Spoon full of Sugar ~ Tons of texture
Charisma cardz ~ wedding/ Anniversary

 The Paper Play  Challenge is

Critters Galore

use animal stamps on your projects,

I've used these adorable Digi stamps from Teddy BO,

love these,

It's my sisters wedding Anniversary later this year and I just couldn't resist them, 

again these are coloured with Copics,

the paers are BG from the Curio pad, yes I've used them again lol,

flowers are from various places, the hearts are made from a small punch the raffia was from The Range,

Martha Stewart Heart border punch was used too,

Aren't they so cute!

I used some small letter stamps I have, to stamp Love on the tags too,

Challenges

 The Crazy Challenge ~ Just add flowers

Timbroscrapmania ~ Tag and plaque

Look forward to your creations,
Have fun!
See you soon,
Hugs Liz xx