Hi everyone,

It is such a beautiful autumn day here today…and I have another gift set to share with you.
It is my very good friend’s birthday today and she just loves my gift sets, so I made an extra special one for her….it has taken me hours, but I am happy with the result! It uses the Hero Arts Stencils Flower cling stamp and the HA Envelope Pattern Woodblock stamp.
I am entering it into Joy Taylor’s inspired by challenge over at her blog, Less is More, where we have to create a project inspired by someone in the crafting world. Well I took my inspiration from the very talented Jill Foster. She is THE master at taking plain white card and turning it into a colourful masterpiece! This is her lovely card where my inspiration came from.

And here are my versions….yes there are quite a few photos!!

And one of them all together (sorry about the photo)

And to top it off I found a snazzy little box from my local Newsagent that they fit into perfectly!!

Phew….that’s it! As you can see I even tried Jill’s water splattering technique that she uses so often on her cards.

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts Stencil Flower cling stamp (CG194), Hero Arts Envelope Pattern Woodblock stamp (S5507)
Ink: Versafine Ink – Vintage Sepia, Tim Holtz Distress inks – Barn Door, Fired Brick, Dried Marigold, Borken China, Scattered Straw, Peeled Paint, Tumbled Glass, Worn Lipstick and Old Paper
Card: Regal Craft Card (white square textured single fold), X-Press-It Blending Card, White card
Other Supplies: Uniball white gel pen, foam dimensionals, Kaisercraft and TLC Quick Words rubons, Kaisercraft pearls – pearl, TH foam blending tool

Thanks for taking the time to look and ploughing through my mammoth post!

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Hi there,

Today I have a baby card to share with you using distress inks and some of Jane’s Doodles fabulous buttons! I love these buttons and they are highly prized treasures in my collection! The layout is the latest FTL #133.

I am entering this card into 2 challenges – Scrapbook Boutique’s button challenge (where at least 3 buttons are to be used) and JayGee Nook’s Challenge #5 where this is the inspiration photo. I was drawn to the beautiful turquoise, yellow and white.

And here it is…

and a close up of those lovely buttons and embossing…

I created the background by embossing a plain piece of white card with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and then using a blending tool and Broken China distress ink, I rubbed over the top and kept rubbing until I was happy with the coverage. I love how the inside of the flowers remained white.

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts “Envelope pattern” woodblock stamp (S5507)
Ink: Tim Holtz distress ink – Broken China
Card: Regal Craft Card (white textured single fold), plain white card
Other Supplies: Cuttlebug embossing folder – Caramelo, Cuttlebug, Jane’s Doodle buttons – pastels, Kaisercraft pearls – snow, turquoise and white ribbon, kitchen twine, Fiskars scallop border punch, computer generated sentiment – “Tinkertoy” font, Tim Holtz blending tool, foam dimensionals, glossy accents (to glue the buttons on with).

Thanks for stopping by,

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Hello! Hope that you have managed to squeeze some sort of craftiness into your day today.

Last night I had a chance to play with a new stamp that I recently received in the mail – the Hero Arts Stencil flower.

I am entering it into the Just Add Ink #51 challenge where the theme is monochrome. I have been watching this challenge site for a little while, but have been so busy…this is my first entry into this challenge. I am loving turquoise/teal colours at the moment and monochromatic themes are always fun to play around with.

Here it is…

A close up of the flower showing some of the dimension. I had fun making my own background paper using a sunshine ray stamp from the ‘You’re Dandy’ stamp set from Practicing Creativity. I alternated the colours using Tumbled Glass and Broken China distress inks.

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts Stencil Flower cling stamp, Practicing Creativity – Just Dandy
Ink: Versafine Ink – Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distress inks – Broken China and Tumbled Glass
Card: Regal Craft Card (white square single fold), White card
Other Supplies: Copic marker BG09 blue green, uniball white gel pen, foam dimensionals, White handmade button from Jane’s Doodles, Kitchen twine, glossy accents (to adhere the button), Fiskars cutting board and scoring stylus

Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you like it.

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Hi all,

I am very excited today! My card placed top 3 at CASE Study Challenge #13! YAY!!

Also last week another one of my cards placed 2nd at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog site! Pretty cool huh? My first two achievements since entering blogland 4 months ago….and boy have I had a lot of fun!

And just on another note….I have decided to tweak my blog name ever so slightly and call it Made Marion instead of Made by Marion….just for a little bit of fun and a play on words!

So no cards to share tonight, but I do have a really simple Christmas card to share with you really soon….as soon as I find time to photograph it!

Take care,

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This card has taken a few days to complete, but with a bit of thinking and tweaking, this is what I have finally come up with today. It is my entry to CASE Study #13 where the inspiration this week is a card by Heather Pulvirenti.

I used her layout and as she had 3 flowers I used 3 elements as well – baubles from the Hero Arts decorative ornament stamp. So now I can say my Christmas card count is now 2!! Better than none I say!

A close up of the ornaments which I embossed in a red pearlised embossing  powder so in real life they have a bit more of a pearlised shimmery look to them. I raised the babbles using 2 different thickness of foam to create dimension.

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts Decorative Ornament
Ink: VersaMark Watermark Ink, Versafine Ink – Onyx Black
Card: Regal Craft Card (white horizontal single fold), white card
Other Supplies: Embossing powder – enhanced Red pearl, Kaisercraft patterned paper from the Belle Collection – Natalie, Kaisercraft Christmas Stamp (sentiment), white ribbon – thin and medium width, Kaisercraft pearls, felt pen, foam dimensionals, herma dotto adhesive.

Thanks for all your comments recently…it has made my day!

 

 

 

Update Nov-10

This card placed top 3. Yay me!

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Hello there fellow paper lovers!

Well I think I am on a roll using the Hero Arts butterfly stamp from the Antique Engravings set. I love this little guy as it is so realistic looking and I love blending colours with my prismacolors and gamsol.

I have used the sketch from the current FTL #114 (and isn’t it a beauty!).

I am also entering the blue butterfly card into a new challenge over at JayGee’s Nook where the inspiration photo is this. I got my inspiration from the  gorgeous blue/turquoise colours!!

And here is it….

And just to be different from the blue butterfly card, I am entering the pink version into the Scrapbook Boutique Butterfly challenge where at least 2 butterflies need to be used in a design.

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts Antique Engravings
Ink: Versafine Ink – Onyx Black
Card: Regal Craft Card (white square single fold)
Other Supplies: Prismacolor pencils, gamsol, stubbs, Kaisercraft pearls, Wendy Irving ‘Hello’ and ‘Sending you a smile’ rub ons.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

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