A Little Bit of French Country

Afternoon All!
Today I thought I'd share a a little gift idea I made recently for a friend's birthday. I recently got hold of the Graphic 45 'French Country' papers ( an older line but new to me) and made this little notelet box and four notelets.

The box was made using the Envelope Board from We R Memory Keepers, and I decorated it with matching papers and embossed the Core'dinations cardstock panels with a Honeycomb Embossing folder. Finally I added Glossy Accents to some of the fussy cut elements to make them stand out.

Anyway, hope you like it - I'd like to enter it into the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly - It's All New (new stash)

Back soon
Karen x

Thanks a Bunch

After Birthdays and Christmas it is always good to have some 'Thank You' cards to hand to send out and thanks people for their gifts and cards. I created this card using the Sugar and Spice CD from Crafter's Companion.

The Card Companions on the CD are ideal for giving you a matching image, embellishments and a sentiment, and I teamed these up with some designer papers and an embossed background before adding quilled flowers, lace, pearl pen and glitter.
Hope you like it! I'd like to enter it into the following challenges:
Cards Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge - Spring Flowers
Best wishes
Karen x

Products Used:

Card Companion Design

Backing Papers from Sugar and Spice CD

Die’sire Blossom Quilling Die

Die’sire Fringed Flower Small Die

Embossalicious Ditzy Floral Embossing Folder A4

Centura Pearl, Pink and Orange Card.

Glitter, Orange Lace and Pearl Pen

Tweedies Trio

Well...it's the Tweedies launch day and I wanted to share three more of my crafty samples.
An Easel Box...

A Card Frame...

And a Handbag Shaped Card...

Tune in to Create and Craft today to get your CD and start crafting!

Best wishes and bye for now

Karen x

Tweedie Bag

Hi All!
Just wanted to share another sample I made using the soon to be launched Tweedies CD from Crafter's Companion.

This time I decorated a gift bag with the images in a shabby chic style - inking and tearing some of the papers and embossing one of the design papers with the Embossalicious Floral trellis folder, before finishing with gems, glitter and pearl pen.
Don't forget to tune in to Create and Craft on Monday 12th to get your CD!
Bye for now
Karen x

Tweedies Easel Note Holder

Morning Crafty Peeps!
Today I'd like to share a project that I've made using the Card Companions from the new Crafter's Companion Tweedies CD that is due to be launched as part of a 4 Day Deal on Create and Craft on Monday 12th.

I created an easel card but for the stopper made a little box for a memo pad - a great gift idea and card in one.

This is a lovely CD, with lots of fabric appliqué designed images, so if you have friends and family that like sewing crafts this would be perfect. That said, there are lots of different images that can be used for both males and females, young and old - a real 'All rounder'.

Hope you like my project - will be back soon to share some more crafty makes.
Best wishes
Karen x

Vintage Floral Notebook

Morning Crafters!
The theme on the Crafter's Companion Challenge blog this month is Shabby Chi/Vintage so I was inspired to make a little notebook using the papers and images from the Vintage Floral CD by Crafter's Companion.

I love my fussy cutting so there was plenty of images to layer up and use as decoration, and for added dimension I embossed one of the layers with the Embossalicious Floral Wonder embossing folder. I finished off with some Pearl Pen dots and added a couple of coats of Mod Podge to seal it.

Hope you like it. I think it would make a great Thank You gift so would like to enter this in the Papertake Weekly Challenge which is Anything Goes/Thank You

 The Try It On Tuesday Challenge which is Favourite Things - my favourite technique is fussy cutting, whilst over at Polka Doodles there is a Tic Tac Toe challenge - I have chosen the line with a sentiment, more than two layers, and dry embossing.

Anyway, back soon
Karen x

Pretty in Pink Calendar

Hi All!
Well, here we are in another new year and the its time to get those calendars out and start planning the year ahead!

I made this little calendar using one of the frame cards from the Crafter's Companion 'Sugar and Spice CD and added the Die'sire Chantilly Lace die - cut in half to give it shape, before embellishing it with flowers made with the Die'sire Forget me Knot and Lace Bloom dies coloured with Distress Inks. Finally, I added gems and ribbon and the little calendar to the front. Hope you like it!
Best wishes and bye for now
Karen x

I'd like to enter this in to the following challenges:
ABC Challenge - Anything Goes
Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes