Crafty As L

  Happy New Year! This week’s post is a card I made for my Mum’s birthday a couple of months ago.  It was inspired by this fabulous card I received for my birthday from a complete stranger!  I’m a member of a birthday club in a Facebook crafting group who are fans of Lavinia Stamps and this card was from one of the ladies (Kirsty) in that group.  I was super impressed by this card and felt very lucky that someone had spent so much time and effort making such a beautiful card.  I hadn’t heard of the Scene-Scape papers from Lavinia but decided to try some out.  This particular one is called Midnight Magic. To begin, I blended ink to make some hills onto the scene to give some sense of depth to the scene. Next, I stamped the scene.  I’m not usually into fairies but I liked Seren (she was on another card I received from the group) so I went out of my comfort zone and bought her.  I added a little yellow ink to give the lamp some ...

  Whilst surfing around on Pinterest the other day, I saw a really cool easel card in the shape of a grand piano.  I was looking for ideas for an anniversary card for Mr L and was planning on using Stampin’ Up! Music From The Heart so this fancy fold was the perfect match.  Most grand pianos I’ve seen are black but I made mine cream, well Vanilla actually! After I’d cut out my card base and a 5½” square piece for the piano lid, I set to work making the keyboard.  I cut 10 pieces of Whisper White card ½” wide for the white keys and 7 pieces of Basic Black card ¼” wide for the black keys  I glued the white keys onto a piece of black card and then fixed the black notes on with foam strips as these would form the ‘stopper’ for my easel. Next, I repeat stamped the wavy keyboard image onto the top of the front section of my easel card base.  This would only really be visible when the card was closed. I stamped the treble clef, stave and some notes on a scrap...

Back in November, my Mum reached a milestone birthday which warranted an extra special card.  For some time, I’ve been meaning to try out an easel card and also to create a floral wreath using the Jar of Love so I decided to combine the two. For this project, I used: Stampin’ Up! Jar of Love stamp set SU! Everyday Jars framelits SU! Large Letters Framelits & Letters For You stamps SU! Number of Years and Large Numbers framelits (sadly retired) 11½” x 5¾” Blackberry Bliss card scored at 5¾” and again at 2⅞” on one half 5¾” x 5¾” Blackberry Bliss card 5¼” x 5¼” Whisper White card 5½” x 5½” and 5” x 2” pieces of Always Artichoke (retired but I love it!) A couple of pieces of Smoky Slate card Silver embossing powder SU! Inks in Blackberry Bliss, Blushing Bride, Old Olive, Garden Green A 5½” x 2⅝” strip of DSP (I used one of the Frosted Florals pack) A scrap of silver glimmer paper Layered Leaves Embossing folder I started off by stamping ‘MUM’ in Blackberry Bliss ...