More paper Roses

As promised here are some more of my paper roses which are ready to be used on boxes, cards, frames or whatever. The smaller ones are made from ordinary weight paper and larger ones from various weights up to 160gsm paper/card and one in grunge paper. Some are ready printed papers and some I have printed using various CDs and so on. I spotted some similar ones by Prima while I was out shopping yesterday.

Bah Humbug 13

Bah Humbug challenge 13 is Labels and Tags and I've been really busy since this was issued so I opted for a quick card this week to be sure of catching the deadline (I'm trying hard not to miss a week). I've used background paper, some tags and a sentiment from Polkadoodle Jingle Jangle Christmas collection. Edges were sponged with Broken China Distress inks and I felt that the sentiment went well with the little house on the tags.

I'm Back!!

My friend Anne was concerned as I'd not posted anything for a few days so here is a photo frame which I decorated with hand crafted paper roses. The frame was a lucky find in the shop where everything is one price and the photo is one which I printed from Joanna Sheen's CD by Jane Netley Mayhew. The swirl is a Sizzix die cut and the petals of the roses were made using paper from Artylicious cut with various sizes of six-petalled punches - the smallest ones with a 7/8 inch punch and they were fiddly to make.

The main reason I made these flowers was to demonstrate at a local Hobby and Woodworking show where I have demonstrated before and wanted to come up with something a bit different this time. I will show you some more of the roses tomorrow.

Bah Humbug Challenge 12

This week's challenge on Bah Humbug is to use embossing of any kind for the Christmas card. I've used the digital embossing feature on the new My Craft Studio Pro programme for the background, some heat embossing on the main image using a Versamark pen and enchanted gold EP (this doesn't show up very well on the scan) and I also heat embossed the cut out bow with Versamark and clear EP to give a shiny look to the ribbon.

For Brian

A friend asked me to make a personalised birthday for her partner so I went to Joanna Sheen's Victorian Companion CD for inspiration and decided upon this image of a steam train with background papers to match. The sentiment was computer generated and for the numbers I used Xcut dies both were mounted onto Nestabilities shapes. The corner was a Sizzix die cut and the card used for layering was pumpkin pie from Stampin Up.

Peel-Offs

Challenge for week 11 at Bah Humbug is to use peel-offs - something I don't actually use very much currently although I do have loads of them!! For this card I used the negative pieces left over from one of the trees on the sheet, popped onto some card and sponged ink around before removing the bits and discarding them. I then put two peel-offs from the sheet onto card, cut all pieces out and mounted onto gold mirri. Background papers are from Papermania and the peel-off sheet which I've had for a few years was by Woodware

Polkadoodles Challenge 12

The challenge at Polkadoodle this week is to make a card following a sketch and also to use black and white with just one other colour. Background paper, border and image are all from Back to Nature and I also used Nestabilities, Cuttlebug embossing and a Stampin Up punch for the sentiment. The cute cow was printed out in a reduced size and layered onto the circles - various punched flowers and gems were added to complete the design.