Another card for the may challenge

I had so much fun playing with my shimmer mist that i had to play again....

I cut the same butterfly and again spritzed it with the shimmer mists...the background was cut out of gold paper and was a file from the silhouette store but it didnt cut correctly due to a dull blade lol but i thought it would go with the tatty butterfly anyhow...i also cyt some smaller butterflies and misted them with the shimmer mist spray...the heart was sprayed with just the midnight blue shimmer mist..

I added a row of purple glitter and some ribbon...

Thank you for looking
Love debby xx

Cards for may challenge

So at the silhouette plus forum this month I am setting the challenge and the theme is glitz and sparkle!!

 Firstly I cut out this cute butterfly on my sil babes and then went to town on it with my shimmer mist sprays and cut out 2 of the heart frames that doodlingdebbie gave freely on the silhouette plus forum and sprayed the outer with shimmer mist and distressed the inner a little because this butterfly didnt need a perfect heart to land on as it wouldnt have been right...

 I then used a rhinestone template to layout the heart shape on my card.I used self adhesive rhinestones and it took me ages to do as it was my first attempt....

I also cut some smaller butterflies from the silhouette store and layered them for depth and interest..

Thank you for looking
Love debby xx

Nickys new home card

My beautiful daughter has moved into a new home with her partner so I thought I had best make them a card for the occasion...

I found the lovely little house in a scrapbooking kit at http://cajoline-scrap.blogspot.co.uk/ she has some fabulous kits and gives some lovely freebies....this house was in a free kit and i fell in love with it straight away!! After downloading the kit I opened my silhouette software and uploaded the house where i traced it and made it into a print and cut file...I also had the home is file in my pc and uploaded that and put into a print and cut file....

I used my crafaters companion ultimate pro to get the sizes for the square card. I had some pink digi paper on my pc from dreamies that i downloaded and cut several layers from....

I used a cuttlebug embossing folder to put the dots on the white layer and a few sparkles and ribbon finished the card off...

Thank you for looking
Debby xx

Another Peacock!!

Having made a Peacock in a frame for my sister I had the positive left as i only used the negative for her frame..The card i had used was Co-ordinations an expensive card not to be wasted..so i thought i would see what i  could do with it...

I found a bronze coloured card in my stash...I very carefully! transfered the cutouts to it and came up with this

In my transferance of the tiny pieces I had managed to get some glue in unwanted places so out came the cosmic shimmer powders and although you cant see it on here because of my camera work (im not good at photos) i used bronze,dark bronze,gold and red powders so it shimmers and catches the sunlight!

Not too bad for what basically would be the leftovers for the bin!! Now just to find someone to give it to?
Thank you for looking
love debby xx

Tissue rolled roses

I have been lacking in my blog of late and I apologise!! Ive been to Mums again its great going there to see my parents and i always feel happier when i have visited them.....

So I thought it was time to settle back into my routine when my darling son was taken to hospital...he is having an operation tomorrow so i maybe a little hit and miss with my blog in the next week or 2!!

Meanwhile I looked in my stash for something different to do and found 4 packets of tissue paper so thought i  would try to use some and did rolled roses...I wanted summery colours so that they would be ready to put up next month when the sun was out (hehehehe living in UK do I every really see the sun?)

I made around 40 roses in batches of 10. The colours i chose were Yellow, Light orange, Medium orange,Red and I made 5 slightly larger Blue ones as I felt that if i didnt break up the colours with a contrasting one then it would look more like a Poppy wreath than a summer one!

As the roses were made from tissue I was able to cut an oval out of card stock (I chose green!) to glue them to as it didnt need anything more substantual as they were light weight...I stuck the roses onto the card using a photo glue...I then had to decide where to hang the wreath and decided it would make a pretty light switch decoration....

I havent stuck it down it is resting there by pure gravity but i made sure it barely touched the light switch and there was plenty of air flow!! It just brightens a little piece of my living room and gives it a bit of bling!!

Thank you for looking
Love Debby xx

vinyl on canvas

I wanted to experiment with vinyl on canvas...knowing that vinyl needs a shiney surface to stick to i knew somehow i had to prime the canvas so i looked on various forum for the answers and the general concensus was that if you put a coating of gloss paint then the vinyl would stick to it....so i tried that and the only gloss i had to hand was a silvery grey one ....but when i tried sticking down the vinyl it didnt work and i ended up with a bit of a mess...so in the waste not want not view i then looked at the canvas in its wrecked state and wondered what to do now...and this is what i  came up with...

i decided the message of hope was appropriate for this canvas as some would have thrown it away as an experiment that went wrong but i  decided it was being reborn into hope....a sort of phoenix rising from the ashes...

The word hope i offset in sil studio to make a layer for it so that it would be a focus on the canvas...it is the first time i have tried to layer vinyl and i was very pleased with the result...In this picture you can clearly see the distress that trying to load the previous bit of vinyl left but i wanted that to show through as thats whats given this its theme of hope...

Then i added the 1 piece flower from the sil store featured in my previous post..just to pretty it up and it is the same colour as the pink in hope to conform the picture to the eye...but it still needed something else....

so i cut some leaves and swirls on my babes and put them around the edges...
I was left with something that looks a little like i meant to do this when i started out but is infact a cover up hehe

Thanks for looking
love debby xx

1 piece flower

Happy Easter to you!! I had no kids and no grandchildren here this year they were all busy doing other things so I had time to play!!! I decided to play with vinyl today just because its fun!! I found a file on silhouette store the other day and liked it and have  been thinking just what to do with it and so I thought i would try it today! There is 1 necessity for me to play with vinyl and that is transfer tape!! I have vinyled without it but boy its  so much easier with it and im glad i found some on ebay for pennies lol..

I chose to do this file in blue and put it onto a white background because it is reminiscent of the oriental drawings that appear on some china ware and i thought it looked clean and simple done this way...I have also cut this file in a dark pink to go on a canvas but as you have to prime the canvas with a gloss  or very shiney paint first for the vinyl to adhere to that maybe a few days in comming

Thank you for looking
Love debby xx