Bicycle Girl

Earlier this week I met up with two of my lovely crafty friends for lunch at our local craft shop and was, of course, tempted with a little retail therapy in the form of some toppers by Hobby House.  I’ve combined one of these with die cuts – Stately Circles from Spellbinders and the larger circle was cut with two of the dies from Tonic Verso Decorative Bow Rings, all using Centura Pearl card.  The flower was made using a Marianne die and two X-cut punches, some die cut leaves were added. Background paper is a piece of pretty floral from my stash. It is nice to be working in delicate colours as a break from the Christmas cards and I don’t think I need any more of those for the moment.
                                    

I see this has come in with a wide margin which I don’t normally do – sadly I was unable to use the programme I'm really used to for getting pictures from the scanner to post on the blog which is a real pain. I’m still trying to work around my various options with programmes on the computer and obviously haven’t really got to grips with it yet – previously I could do it without thinking!!  I will persevere.

EDITED - I managed to get the picture to look as I'm used to but by a very circuitous route, just hope I remember what I did!!

Eat Cake!

I have another House Mouse design to share today - just love this little mouse tucking into the doughnut!!  The backing paper is not stuck on at a jaunty angle - that's the way it is printed as a sort of wavy gingham.  Border is an X-cut punch and the words were produced on the computer to fit this oval punch from Stampin' Up.  Have a good weekend - what's left of it.

Butterflies and Flowers

I used an X-cut cut and emboss folder for this card (very similar I think to the new Cuttlebug ones) which I've not tried yet.  The only instructions on the packaging are for the 'bug' and as I use a Big shot I had to do a bit of trial and error, eventually deciding I needed to use some card shim to get the levels right because one layer on the multi platform was too thick to go through and the next layer let it go through without cutting or embossing.  I sponged it with Distress ink and then added some flowers and  leaves (X-cut punch for leaves). The butterflies were cut using  Marianne dies.  I had to add some lace, pearls and glitter - the sentiment was layered up using punches from Stampin Up.