Weddings, weddings...

 Must be something in the air, 'cause July has been a great month for weddings. Here are 2 cards and some weddingy bits I made recently.

 Card made using an assortment of MS punches and featuring the Swirly Butterfly from my Etsy shop.
Close-up of Swirly Butterfly from my Etsy shop.  This butterfly is available in 2 sizes and 6 colours.

 Another wedding card made using the Evening Gown from my Etsy shop.  I would like to enter this card in the Creative Inspirations
No flowers allowed challenge No 120.  If you look closely you will see that there are no flowers just butterflies on this card!

A collection of table sprinkles that I made for a wedding recently.  I used the Tim Holtz 3 D flower die and the Marianne Chinese rose die.  The colours, ivory, gold, silver and teal might seem odd but they were the colours I was asked to make the flowers in!

Hope you are all having a good summer!

Geraldine x

ATC card holder

Today while I was blog-wandering I saw Kate's blog here with her design for an ATC (artists trading card) holder to hold 3 cards.  It is a beautiful piece of work and it got me thinking.  I hosted the June ATC swap over at Cardznscrapz and was just going to post out the cards when I decided to make a little holder for the swap cards.  Each swapper was going to get 3 or 4 cards on the theme of travel and I made up a little 4 card holder for each one:

The outside of the card holder looks just like a bag-shaped card.  The hole for your hand was cut with a long rectangle Nestability.

 The inside of the holder opened out  flat to show the pockets for the ATCs.  I sewed the card rather than gluing it.

Close up of one side of holder (inside).  This was a great way to use up bits of card and paper.  If I had more time I'd have decorated the outside a bit more.  Its not as pretty as Kate's but it will keep the Atcs together while they are travelling. The holder fitted into an A5 envelope no trouble.  If anyone would like to try this and wants to know the measurements etc just let me know in the comments section.
Ger x

July's Challenge - Wings - at By the Cute and Girly.

Well, we are now in the middle of Summer and its time for a new challenge at By the Cute and Girly.  Hanna, our July host, has chosen "Something with Wings" as the month's theme.  You can use a bird, butterfly,bee, fairy, angel, dragonfly.....anything with wings on your project.  To see the rules, prizes (from Simon Says Stamp, Joanna Sheen and Digital Delights) and the Design Team makes just click here  You have a whole month to make your winged entry and you can enter more than once with a different craft each time.

For my 1st make I used two of the sponsor, Digital Delights, images: Sitting Honeypot Larry and Bizzy Bear to make a little wallhanging for the kitchen.  The template for the beehive is in the current Magnolia magazine.
The bees, flowers and sun are my own embroidered snippets.
Combining two digis and playing around with the sizing was great fun - I removed the flowerpot that Larry was sitting on but you can see the full digi in some of the other DT makes.
I am entering this wallhanging in the
Sentimental Sundays challenge Anything Goes
Allsorts Free and Easy July

Geraldine x

Garden Journal

Just a very quick post before heading off on my holliers to show you my 3rd DT make for the By the Cute and Girly "In the Garden" challenge this month.

I have covered a brown kraft notebook with fabric, stamped the images on calico, decorated the pencil to match and added some embellies.  The "garden journal" lettering is a bit of freehand embroidery and the calico patches are machine sewn on to the notebook.  Strange to say this is the first time I have used my sewing machine on paper-its usually occupied with fabric.  The bookmark is a length of ric rac trimming with a bead sitting on top of the knot.  Crochet flowers and bee are my own.
If you would like to enter the "In the Garden" challenge with your crafty make details are HERE.   Lots of prizes and Guest DT spots to be won.
Bye for now!
Geraldine x

Wedding card

First let me apologise - there is something wrong with Blogger and I've not been able to leave comments on most blogs I've visited in the past week.  I have managed to leave 2 comments as gerslittlesnippets and 1 "anonymus" after logging into my gmail account over and over again!  Don't you just HATE technology sometimes!
Now on to prettier things:  June is the month for weddings and here is one of the easel wedding cards I've made.

The paper is Love Letters (Trimcraft), Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and pearl sprays, MS lattice heart punch, butterflies and embroidered heart are my own makes.  Putting this in for the following challenges:
Digidoodleshop - Weddings
Pollycraft Monday Love and Marriage
Thank you
Ger x

Spring Strawberries-2nd make for BTC&G "In the Garden" challenge

June is flying by and its time to blog my 2nd make for  this month's the By the Cute and Girly challenge.  The design team were lucky to receive a package of gorgeous doilys from Poppy's cabin and a choice of images from Spesch stamps.  I used both in this garden party invitation.

                           

The  image is "Spring Strawberries" from Spesch stamps and I've coloured the white Poppy's cabin doily with a green inkpad and used a small part of another doily for the fence.  The flower is made from hessian spread with PVA glue to strengthen it, then coloured with glimmer mists, let dry and cut up with the TH Tattered flowers die.  A lot of dirty fingers after that bit of work!
There is still plenty of time, over 3 weeks, to get creating and enter your crafty makes for the "In the Garden" challenge.  Lots of prizes to be won ie gift vouchers from Simon Says Stamp and Joanna Sheen, a selection of goodies including doilys from Poppy's Cabin, digi images from Spesch Designer Stamps and Guest designer places.....
This card/invitation suits the Digital Tuesday "In the Garden/Outdoors" challenge.
Geraldine x

June Challenge at By the Cute and Girly

Its the start of June and time for a new challenge at the By the Cute and Girly Challenge blog.  This month's my turn to host and I have chosen "In the Garden" as the month's theme in the hope that we will get some sunny days and be able to sit outside and enjoy ourselves.  You can enter as often as you like, but it must be a different craft each time.  There are 4 great prizes to be won

A $20 Gift Certificate from Simon Says Stamp


A £10 Gift Certificate from Joanna Sheen

- Three digi images from Spesch Designer Stamps


- A prize package from Poppy's Cabin; lace, doilys,ribbon, charms...

So here is my 1st DT project which is also my 1st ever scrapbooking layout.  It features Mitzi, my mother's little pom posing in her back garden in the summer of 2002.  My mother and Mitzi are no longer with us but I have 100's of photo's of the garden and Mitzi looking as if she is in charge of everything!

The background paper is Websters Pages and I used an EK succes punch and some of my snippets.  Why not get going with some of your own garden-inspired makes this weekend and enter the BTC&G "In the Garden" challenge?  There are 2 or 3 Guest Designer places on offer as well as the prizes.
Geraldine