Lavender Breeze’s Crafting Blog

I am amazed and thoroughly delighted to have won 4th prize in Glenda’s Christmas Challenge, (entries),(results), this is the first time that I’ve won anything for crafting and I’m totally made up.

Many, many congratulations to Deby (1st and 2nd) and Cazzie (3rd) for your most beautiful pieces of work, and congratulations to everyone else as well – the entries were all lovely, which makes me feel very humbled to have won a place. Thank you to everyone who voted for me, I am so touched that you liked my card enough to do that, it means such a lot, thank you so much.

The winners have been given the chance to chose some stamps from Glenda’s new Christmas range, and for me there wasn’t a question as to which I would chose. They are all stunning themeplates, but the Tiffany lamps and beautiful snow scene on the ‘Hearth and Home’ plate stood out instantly for me when I first saw them on Glenda’s blog, and I am so excited at the prospect of playing with them soon. Thank you for such a generous prize Glenda.

Aside, I’ve been having trouble with a flare up of my Sciatica, and back things in general, so haven’t managed much crafting over the last week or so but will aim to post another card tomorrow. I hope that the heat isn’t getting you all down too much, at least it is slightly cooler now, if not as comfortable as we would wish.

Take care for now,

Jo

I needed a card for my friend’s little girl’s 3rd birthday, and thought that using Ann’s double pocket 6×6 card technique would fit the bill. I didn’t have any 12×12 card stock, so used some 12×12 pre-embossed white paper instead, adding pink card stock to the inner back flap to give the card back the necessary weight. The self adhesive ribbon along the pocket edges and the embossed fairy stickers are from a fairy card kit featured on Create and Craft a while back. I made the tags simply by applying 3 stickers onto more of the pink card stock, adding ties of gingham ribbon to finish. It doesn’t show on the photo, but there are little flying butterflies embossed onto the 12×12 paper.

I’m off to try and cool down now, boy it’s hot isn’t it lol?

Take care

Jo (more…)

I have the pleasure of being a member of a forum birthday list, for which I needed four cards for July, and so here I am showing you the first two.

I have used quite a few products from Joanna Sheen’s online shop, a link to which is opposite in the Craft Goodies section. Like so many people, I find Joanna’s products top class, especially the backing paper pads which are as luxurious as they are beautiful. I really like Joanna’s decoupage range too, as it is superbly printed onto nicely weighted paper, and the Flora Doodles range that Joanna stocks is fabulous ~ I mix and match between sets, as I have done here, making them even more versatile.

For this card, the background paper was taken from Joanna’s Art Nouveau Patterns pad, and mounted onto green Alchemy card. I then prepared the images and greeting from a decoupage sheet taken from Joanna’s Kate Greenaway collection and layered these onto green Alchemy card also, adding some tied Craft Fairy ribbon at either end of the greeting. Then I took some fabric mesh from my craft box and wrapped this around the first layer, adding the image and greeting using foam tape. Finally I attached some Daisy Box Blends Flora Doodles, using button brads, before attaching the topper to an A5 gold Alchemy card base, again with foam tape. The insert was made from plain cream card stock. 

I made this card in a similiar fashion:

Again, the background paper was from Joanna’s Art Nouveau Patterns pad, and the decoupage from her Kate Greenaway Collection. This time the base card was ivory and the layers matted onto pale pink.

I hope that you enjoy these cards and that everyone has had a good day and hasn’t been too uncomfortable in the heat. Take care everyone  

Jo

This is a card that I made for a crafty friend of mine. I set myself a challenge to think out of the box and use a colour combination away from my norm, the result being a card with a vague retro feel.

A wide pale blue fabric ribbon was wrapped top to bottom around an Opal Stardream DL card base. The topper was made from floral vellum taken from PM’s Exquisite Vellum collection, backed onto red-brown card stock, secured with brads. Butterflies, printed onto acetate from Joanna Sheen’s Victorian Companion CD set, were added, along with self adhesive pearls as the heads. The sentiment is some HOTP wording mounted onto blue cardstock. I added a simple vellum insert. I hope that you like it.

I’m so pleased that the sun is shining today, although I’m trying to fight off a looming cold so am not in the best of moods to fully appreciate it lol. Hope that everyone else is having a good day.

Jo

This is my offering for Glenda’s Christmas challenge.

I stamped and embossed (using Sparkle & Sprinkle Peacock embossing powder) the image onto vellum and mounted 4 decoupaged layers onto white hammer card. This was mounted onto an A5 card blank, made from white hammer card printed on both sides from the Artylicious Season’s Greetings CDs. I have added a vellum insert, and embellished with pastel self adhesive pearls and a white tassel.

Lavender Breeze

As a starting point, I thought that I would share a card that I made a few months ago for my mother in law’s birthday, themed on her cat who is featured in my blog header. As you can see, he is gorgeous – a Burmese / tabby cross, with the most amazing personality and loved by everyone he meets.

Beautiful Cat

The card base was a gold linen card blank I had in stock, dressed with a pricked sunflower vellum wrap, secured with tape and organza ribbon. The stamp is from Joanna Sheen’s Cats unmounted stamps sheet, stamped and embossed onto a piece of gold linen card, and also stamped into a triple embossed Stampbord piece, which was firstly coloured with chalk ink, and then edged with gold Pentouch. The paper sunflowers finally added were also from Joanna Sheen’s online shop.

Lavender Breeze.

…I’ve taken the plunge, and now face the challenge of getting to grips with this wonderfully weird world of blogging. I’m sure that the mist will clear in time, but while I decipher the technical stuff, please bear with me.

Lavender Breeze