Exploding box - for a baby girl

As you can see this is for a baby girl.

I have used some baby stamps and pink card stock and embellished each square with some kind of baby themed stamp. I have coloured them in using whisper strokes pens.

The lid have used tea bagged folded papers and a pink teddy button for the center and I used shrink plastic for the dangling bits with some silver thread and pink and white beads.

For the top layer I decided to leave space for all the details, Name, date, weight and time.

To finish inside the box I was kindly given a template for the shoe and the idea to put the shoe in the middle from Fran.

Award

Thank you Patsy for my award it really does mean a lot to me,as it is my first one.

Now here are my nominees for their fabulous blog and creativity

and who are also my good friends:

Audrey
Emma
Gillian
Karen
Karin
Seona

Shaving Foam background technique

For this you will need the following supplies; Shaving foam, Pot, Paint brush or similar, Card stock cut to size (can use glossy if you prefer), Scarper (i used an old member club card) and any inks of your choice.

I also used a piece of kitchen towel (sorry not in the picture).

Take the dish/pot you have chosen and half fill the dish with foam.

Take you paint brush handle and flatten it out the best you can.

Now add a few small drops of your chosen ink and colours. Here I have used Alcohol inks (stream & wild plum). But you can try any inks you wish. (I have used Pergamano inks aswell in the past).

Take your paintbrush handle and gentle mix the ink into a swirl,

but don't over do it mix.



Next take you card stock and place into the foam and lift up and out at the same time.

Turn you card around until all of the surface it covered in foam.

This is what it should look like (a bit of a mess but don't worry!)

Take your scraper and scrape of the excess foam and put it back into the dish/pot.
Rub over the surface of the card stock to make sure all the foam has gone.

This is what it should look like, a pretty bright swirls.

You can do more than one in a batch of shaving foam,

the more you do, the lighter they become.

This was the 2nd one from this batch.

You can add more colour if you would like (here I added butterscotch)

but eventually they will all mix into one colour.

If you are going to try this please can you let me know how you find my instructions!

Thank you.

Have fun!

Circle of friend gift for july

For the background on all 3 I used marvy metallics gold and bronze. I used black stazon with some Paris themed stamps and used holographic embossing powder to cover the front of the domino and the moo card. Hope you like it Kaz!

Silver wedding candle

Silver wedding candle to go with the card below. I used the same swirl stamps I used for the card and added the champagne bottle & glasses along with the greeting. The back has got who the candle is from so when they come to look at the candle in a few years time they will remember who gave them it!!!!

Silver wedding pop out card

For the parcel I decided to use my quickkutz die cut machine which I havent used in a long time! A swirl stamp and silver embossing powder used with versamark. Greeting stamp again used embossing powder and versamark ink. The champagne bottle is vellum which I attached using silver mat brads. To finish I added some white/clear little gems and added the number 25 to the parcel. The inside I cut out a heart and edged with a silver pen and placed the same vellum i used for the front and put behind the aperture and used a different swirl stamp with versamark ink and silver embossing.

Alcohol inked domino

This is the first time I have used alcohol inks, I used wild plum, stream ink and silver mixative with blending solution. For the swirl I used a swirl stamp and veramark ink with silver embossing powder.

Backgrounds

I have created these backgrounds using shaving foam and ink, this is my first attempt at this.
Click on the image to enlarge for a better view!

Altered clear cd

This is from the top of blank cds/dvds, I thought I would have ago an alter one and see what it looks like. I used marvy metallics pen copper and gold and black stazon, and a set of trees and leaves stamps.

21st birthday

This card is using gold mirri board and pink card with gold embossing powder and gold decoration.

Wedding card

For this card I used papermania stamps and silver and black embossing powder, whisper pens watercoloured in and a horseshoe cake decoration.

18th Birthday

A card for a young lady who will be 18 soon, who I believe likes black.

10th Birthday

Here is a quick an easy card for grace who was 10.

Circle of Friends Gift

This is for my friend Gillian for my gift to her, as you can see she likes Daniel Graig!

I have done a small candle, a tag (which is image transfer), a moo card and a domino!

Butterflies, Acetate and vellum

For this card I used acetate and vellum for something different.

Oriental Kimono

This card was the first kimono I had folded, and I gave it to my mother in law.

Baby Boy

For this card I used blue metallic rubs ons and I stamped a teddy bear in black stazon on to acetate and coloured it in used crystal lacquer to get it texture, not that the photos shows it very well!

Shells

This is for my hubby for his birthday, I hope he likes it.

Oriental card

This was is for my Sister in laws. hope she likes it.

Fathers day cards

This is for Gary (top one)

This is for my Dad. (middle one)

This is for my father in law.

Xander's 3rd birthday card

I thought i would do Roary the racing car as he loves him. I have decoupaged it not that the picture shows you that!

Dragon card

This card is for my brother in law. I hope he liked it!

Tree card

This card is for Kaz for her birthday and as she loves trees too. The background is made by using h20's.

Candle for a friend

This candle if for a forum friend called kaz, she is absolutely Gerard Way mad, so I thought I would do her a candle for her birthday which is soon.

Anniversary card

This is for my Mum & Dad Anniversary card, which is tomorrow, hope they like it.

Circle of friends gift

This is for Karin for the circle gift for May, bookmark, tag and moo card.

Wedding candle

This candle is the first one with embellishments on it. I printed the names, message & date onto tissue paper. The rest of images are I have stamped.

Moo cards - beach/sea

I know Im a bit late but these are my first attempt at moo cards. When I saw the theme was beach/sea over at make a moo or two, this is what I came up with.

Stamps of a different kind!

This card is for my Father in law who collects stamps, so I thought I would google some Stanley Gibbons stamps & make a stamp card with them, It took a long time finding these stamps so im happy with the end result.