Painted Bag

This was one of  the last days projects on the 3 day Oyster Retreat that I went on. The workshop was run by BJ Crafts using Imagination crafts products. Time to get down and really get messy and have some fun. The first thing we made was this decorated bag using rice paper that we decoupaged.
This is what was left from the rice paper once I had selected and torn off the pieces I wanted from the design. It is quite easy to tear if you first soak a paint  brush in water and draw around the area you want to use.

We placed our finished layout onto the bag and lightly drew around the edges with a pencil and then removed the papers. The rest of the bag we painted using Starlights Metalic textile paint (making sure we did not paint inside the guide lines) and left to dry which didn't take long. We then glued our rice paper in place using fabric decoupage  glue and made sure that we covered over the top too in order to seal. The bag has a  lovely waxy feel to it on the decoupaged roses which are also very slightly wrinkled in appearance. Not sure if they are meant to be like that but I like the effect!!

Elegant Note Card

This was the second project that I made with Martine on the workshop at the Oysters Retreat that I recently went on.  We used Spellbinders diamond flourish pocket die to create our pocket for the front of the card. Die cut in white and silver (with the silver placed underneath and slightly offset to give thee shadow effect. We could choose the sentiment that we wanted and decorate the front with silver gems in our own design.

 Here is my finished card and below with the tag pulled out.

Quick and easy to make but very elegant looking and sparkles in the light.

Layered Butterfly

Another inspiration card to show you today for the butterfly challenge.
#79 Butterflies + L is for Lots  of Layers and/or the colour Cream.
I have used cream cardstock for the base card and layered up with two die cut frames using Crafts-Too rectangle dies in caramel and then coral to pick out the colours of the butterfly. The image is from Hundory's 'Little Book of Butterflies' which I have adhered to coffee cardstock and then attached to the cream card with 3D pads. The Butterfly has been fussy cut from another card with the same image and then adhered with a 3D pad to the front of the card. The wings have been bent to give a feeling of movement.  Bronze pearls in the corners are from my stash.

The challenge is running for another 2 weeks and closes on 13th June.  Hope you will have time to join in the fun.

Entering into the following challenges:
Create and Inspire #62 Anything goes.

Mistleto and Wine

Time again for the girls in the Christmas Card Club to show our next makes. The Theme was chosen by Rita who asked for Mistletoe and wine. Well I knew I didn't have any suitable used christmas card fronts in my stash  so a bit of head scratching went on until eventually I hatched a plan.

I found this digi by Justinklined  that I had purchased and never used in my digi downloads so that was the mistletoe element sorted. Then I remembered I had this stamp by Clear Impressions which had been free in a Creative Stamping magazine.  The sentiment is a Penny Black from their Wonder Collection.

Here is the finished card.

I used my promarkers to colour the mistletoe and the bottle of wine stamp.  The stitched frames are from my my most used Crafts-Too die set. Green and wine coloured cardstock along with white card to make the base card from my stash.
Thankyou Rita for making me really think outside of the box on this one. Hope you like.

Entering this card into the following challenge.
Scraps of Life By Scrappy Mo # Rudolph day May.
Crafty Hazelnut's Extra # anything goes.
Sweet Stampin Christmas # Anything goes christmas

Tag Book Card and Box.

This is the first project I made with Martine during the Heartfelt Creations workshop on the recent Oyster Retreat that I attended.
Tag book card with matching box using Heartfelt Creations Flowering Dogwood stamp and matching die set. This is the finished  front of the book which we decorated with vellum flowers that we stamped and die cut from white vellum. After heat setting with silver embossing powder we coloured the reverse side using a green ink pad. Flowers were moulded using a ball tool to create the curved petals.  The book was made using several layers of card adhered together.

The back of the book which I chose to decorate with a heartfelt border die in silver and overshadowing in white. 

The inside was made using more heartfelt border dies and decorated with a few left over flowers.

We then made up a box and decorated the front with more of the vellum flowers and  a fancy die cut background.

Photo showing the finished book and box.  I enjoyed making this as it took a lot of cutting and sticking which I like doing and Martine was fun to work with. We made another project in the afternoon which I will show on another post.

Courtyard Butterflies

It's the 2nd week already for the Butterfly challenge.

#79 Butterflies + L is for Lots  of Layers and/or the colour Cream.

Here is some more  inspiration for you.

Base card is made from green pearlised card stock and layered  up with cream cardstock then a green design paper (no name from my stash).The next two layers are a gold pearlised card embossed using Sizzix ' Courtyard' Texture Fades 659449. Image is by Hunkydory from their  'Little book of Butterflies'.
It is not very clear but the background on the image matches in quite well with the embossing folder pattern. Cream lace, gold sticker flowers and the sentiment sticker from my stash. Five layers this time and a further two if you count the sentiment which is cream card layered up with green card and attached to the front with 3D pads.

I used the oddments left over to decorate the inside of the card so that's  also 5 layers if you count the lace strip in too.
The challenge runs until 13th June.

Entering into the following challenges:
Artistic Inspirations #179 Anything goes.
Dream Valley #156 Things with wings.
Aud Sentiments #180 Anything goes + a sentiment.
Creative Inspirations #275 Anything goes.
Creative Moments #118 Anything goes with no twist.
Inspiration Destination #128 Anything goes.
A Bit More Time To Craft #44 Anything goes.
Crafty Catz #371 Anthing goes + two or more layers.
Creative Fingers #130 Anything goes.
Love To Craft #10 Anything goes.

Flower Box

This is the last project that I made on the craft retreat with Honey Doo crafts. A vellum flower using their products to create the centre piece. Flower stamp was stamped out several times in versamark ink embossed with white/white EP onto white vellum and then heat set. Each flower was fussy cut out and then coloured from the back using Memento Dew drops ink pads in two shades of pink. Each petal was sculptured and then applied to a flat disc of vellum to build up the flower shape. A few leaves were created the same way and tucked in behind the arrangement.

The inside surround for the box frame was stamped using Memento  Dew drop ink pads and we could choose which Honey Doo stamps we used to make our designs up with.  I chose a leaf scroll and a butterfly. We also stamped a square larger than the aperture to adhere the flower disc to and then put inside the frame.

A photo showing the finished frame which is 10"x 10" and looks really pretty IRL. I had to take the photo out in the garden to get all of it in. I will show what I made on the Heartfelt Creations retreat day later in the week.