Saturday 14 June 2014

two recent makes

MMM first one was quite hard to make, not physically but emotionally as it was for a relative for their dad and with losing my dad this year i'd wanted to avoid the whole father's day thing.... selfish, I know..  

Anyway I used one of Sam Poole's amazing stamps... the lighthouse and the sentiment .... I also used an Andy Skinner stamp for the birds in flight.  Distress inks were used and then a brush with a touch of water.

I wanted some texture hence the hessian, the bottle was a bargain buy in a set of six  from 'the works' for 99p!!  For the driftwood and bleached effect seaweed I cheated and used some of a pot pourri set from Asda.  Nothing is safe when it comes to crafting lol.


The next make was a quickie using a Papermania kit from Do-Crafts which I got via Create and Craft at a ridiculous price...  It was just a matter of deciding on a lay out and adding a sentiment stamp in a colour to match the papers.  Of course I just had to e-mail in a piccie of the card to one of the  Do-Craft shows on Create and Craft.



9 comments:

  1. love both the cards ,the bottle looks good on the card.x

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    1. thank you so much, I really appreciate you taking the time to look and comment x

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  2. These are stunning. A beautiful blog and now following.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx
    http://lindasimpsoncraftypieceofheaven.blogspot.com

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    1. Thank you so much, I really appreciate it, just popping over to your blog now xx

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  3. Fabulous cards fab blog xx Jan

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    1. thankyou so much Jan, I appreciate you taking the time to look and comment, it means a lot x

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  4. Beautiful creations, the one so earthy and the other beautifully shabby chic.
    Hugs
    Desíre
    {Doing Life – my personal blog}

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  5. Both the cards are fab, great idea to use the pot pourri on the Father's Day card, and the Do Crafts card is light and fresh, great layout :) xx

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