Blue Birdy

Whoooo!! what a hot day it's been! Mr Binxz....... all he's done all day is sleep in the garden. Know how he feels, I would have loved to have curled up in the stone sink all day too, but I just know I wouldn't have fit in there! So I decided to make this card instead. Its Kay & co papers and a stamp I bought last time I was in Nice, France. They have a few craft shops their & some great different kinds of bits & bobs. The make is Toga, there was this bird cage & 4 little bird stamps in it. At 5 Euros I thought it was a good buy. Its only a little card 12.5 x 10.5cm, I used up some scraps to make it. Except for the sentiment, that was from a freebie from a monthly mag I buy.

Hope you all have a great BBQ weekend if the weather keeps up, fingers crossed for outdoor crafting!

Lavinia

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Fancy Envelope

Hello Folks! I want to thank everyone who Left me a comment yesterday on my very first post for the "What's On You Workdesk Wednesday Blog" I was so chuffed to receive a warm welcome by so many uniquely talented and wonderfully gifted crafters! I look forward to my creative journey & having a good old nosey at whats on your desk's too! And from what I have already seen you all have lots of great ideas going on & lots of fab stash would love to own! So I will just have to shop more from now on!!!

And now for a mystery? I posted a card on this blog the other day using a Dawn Bibby card set purchased from QVC, my post is still their, but the picture of the card has gone? I know I posted it but its no longer visable, dose anyone know what could have happened? I would love to know where its gone? Or what I have done, did I press something i shouldent have? OOoo help!

Anyhow, finally on to today post, Anna Griffin, I love her stamps, got loads! Here is a fancy envelope I made a while back for a little invite for a party I had! I made the outside of the envelope with parchment paper stamped in Duck egg blue & gold with Anna Griffin ink. And did the inside with a rose design. I put the little embossed gold invite inside and tied it up with a nice bit of ribbon, I liked the end result & will do another one I think! Well time for bed, got to rise early tomorrow. Warm regards everyone!

Lavinia x

Kinetic.....what's that???

It's one of these!!!......y'know the foldy, numerous page thingy cards!!! This is my 3rd attempt at doing one of these kind of card folds. Its drove me mad trying to do it, I hope you like it? I just wanted to do something different on the colour front, donno if you can pick up the front of it but I used an aperture cut with my Slice using the Vintage Findings MS+ design card. Its a change to what I normally do, which is good at the moment as I feel I am still in a bit of a crafting lull. Made quite a few cards of late but most of them just not good enough to post! Well enjoy & have a good day!

Lavinia

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I have Joined in! WOYWW.......dare you?

This is new, yes for me, miss please don't look at my mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is hard for me, honestly, I like things tidy. So here's my desk today on this first for me "whats on your work desk Wednesday!" Been working on my 3rd attempt a at kinetic card! They have drove me a bit mad to be honest with you. Maybe this one will make the blog? On desk to is, my trusty x-cut trimmer, cant do without it, tried loads of others but this is the best for me. Paula Pascual's stamp sets, love em always delving in to them too!.........and other bits & bobs. Took this pic with my phone, so please forgive my rubbish first attempt! I will do better next week I promise! Hope to make some new buddies through this as I am in a crafty wilderness, never been to a crop never been to a workshop or mixed with other crafters ever.......yet!!!!!! See you next week with another go!!
Lavinia
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Bibby Kit Card

Hello Everyone! Firstly let me thank Carol for commenting on some of my cards, I only just worked out how to view comments people make.....lol....things are still new to me ! You have really made my day & spurred me on, I was so chuffed to find them!! Thank you!

One from Dawn Bibby's Woodland Creatures Kit today. Something I got as a TSV on QVC a while back. I tend to make kit cards when I am a bit stuck in creative slump, not that I think they are easy or fill a gap or anything, it's just that they are sort of done for you, if you know what I mean. I do love some of the images she has created in this kit & it was excellent value for money too. I tend to use all kits I buy for elements in my crafting, either papers with stamps or altering or maybe toppers form one kit & papers I like from another at the time, mix & match kinda things! Off to have a blog hop myself now!.... have a great day folks!

Lavinia

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Letterpress Again!

More Letterpress, I do like it though. Even though the dry embossing looks great & inking too, I wanted to add something a bit extra to each card, my own take! Which is what it's all about, for me anyway. I added the black branches & then uses a tiny stamp from Paula Pascual's All Year Round stamp set to finish off the ends. The sentiment stamps from American Crafts. The Letterpress Printing plate is from the Wedding Set 1 & the birdie is from the Wedding Set 2.

The first turquoise card I used three printing plates from the Wedding 3 set. I misted the paper with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls and Inkadinks in Beany Green & Bluebell mixed in Mini Mister's. Then I inked the plate up using a mixture of Teal Green & Navy. Pressed it through my Cuttlebug and then Die cutted it out using Spellbinders labels 8 die. I matted it on Kanban Gold foiled Acetate. I took the pictures in the garden today as it was a really nice day & the light was ok outside. I hope you all have a good weekend and if anyone manages to get away this bank holiday have a great time! Take care all!

Lavinia

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Hello! Thanks for stopping by!....well today's a 2 blue offerings so to speak! I do love blue tones, especially mixed with old sepia tones. The first card is made up of Kay & co papers along with a few different Anna Griffin & Cavelli & co stamps and I computer generated the sentiments & gave them 3 coats of UTTE and the sister card is a lovely cosmic looking Hero Arts stamp I have had for ages, but used little! Shame really forgot how great is looks! Short & sweet today, but more soon!

Have a great Day!

Lavinia

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Big Flower

Today's post is this Big flower card! I made the layers using my Slice from the vintage findings MS+ Design card. Then run them through my cuttlebug swirls folder & then inked them & gave each layer 3 coats of UTTE. Finally finished of by edging the layers with platinum stickles. I like the white embossing on the card too, the paper is from Kay & Co. Then finished off using a few peel offs on the middle prima paper flower & corners & a big jewelled brand to hold it all together.
Just received my new slice this week as my original one went a bit mad when I tried to update it with a new MS+ design card. For some reason it would not calibrate anymore so everything I cut came out wonky all the time. Anyway now I have a new pink slice in its place complete with already installed speed boost & upgrade. Hope to show some stuff made this week with all being well, although I do have new letterpress creations to show too! Anyway check back soon & hope your out in the garden at some point today, I am sat out doing this as its a roaster today, must be at least 80! Enjoy!
Lavinia
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Oriental

Finally turned my hand & head in another direction, a little look towards the orient for inspiration today! Must have been that take away I had for dinner!...lol....The pale turquoise is made up from a Hunkydory kit & some background paper by Cordinations, its a simple card with nice colours I think & maybe ok for a male birthday?

The second red card is a mixture of a free stamp from Craft Stamper magazine last year I embossed in black and coloured with Sakura Gelly Roll pens & the patterned paper panel comes from some very expensive Japanese Washi paper I had squirreled away for SPECIAL use ONLY!!! The little brass charm was from The Bead Shop in Afflecks Palace in Manchester, great sparkly shop!!!! Wonderful warm day today here & apparently its going to be even better tomorrow, so a garden day I think! Need to put my bedding plants out now it getting a bit warmer. Hope your all well & thanks for looking today. Enjoy this weekend whatever you do!

Lavinia

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