A goodbye

Hello everyone :-)

Its Lou here just letting those of you that don't know that our lovely Ruby Tuesday has stepped down. She has been with MTDS nearly since it started and has taken on an exciting new venture recently which is requiring all of her time,so we are bidding her a sad farewell. She has been an amazing member of the DT family and will be hugely missed for her talent, warmth and humor. 

You can keep in touch with her via her usual blog Ruby 2 Shoes.

We wish you all the luck in the world Ruby,and will miss you lots and lots!

Mwah! xxx

A new team member is being chosen and will start very shortly-so watch this space!

Lou x 

Sending Prayers

Hello :-)

Today's card is a difficult one to get right. It is a sympathy card,for a dear friend.

I wanted to use Paper Smooches,as this is not often thought of for the bumps and rocks life throws at you-it is such a happy bubbly range of stamps,but it can be turned to for the other types of cards you sadly sometimes need to make.

I originally wanted to make it monotone white,but it didn't quite look right,so I used the stamps and the corresponding dies of Flap Happy (Ironic,I know). I die cut the butterflies in music sheet paper,then again in thick white card,using Jenny's technique from a few blogs back,to stamp and cut perfectly. The solid colour butterflies are embossed in white.They are all mounted onto the music sheet die cuts and focusing around a Prima bulb. 

The aim of the card is to symbolize that in times of crisis,family and friends come from all over to be together,to support and love each other,and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. 

Lou x

A royal Unity tag

Today I have a tag to show you on which I have used Unity stamps.

I cut the tag from scrap cardstock and then sprayed it with Dylusions ink sprays before stamping the "She is the Queen" stamp from Just Be You on to it using Memento ink.

I then sprayed some different Dylusions sprays on to another piece of card and then stamped the winged crown stamp, from the same stamp set, on to this and then cut it out.

I used the border from the "I make stuff" stamp from Better Somewhere Today to randomly stamp around the edges of the tag and used a fine paintbrush and the Dylusions to paint the leaves.

I then assembled the tag and added a few beads to the bottom:

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

On the Angle!!

Good Morning Crafters :0)

Jenny here and I'm popping by with a card I've made using Paper Smooches stamps.

I've noticed that having elements across your card on the diagonal seems to be popular in 

crafting at the moment so being one to usually trail behind the 

bandwagon, I thought I'd jump on it instead!!

My inspiration for this card is the photo at the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge blog
...  the colours and patterns just called to me :0)

Have you played along in their weekly challenges??

I decided on a sewing and fabric theme... the dotty strip is a border from 'Geo-graphic' embossed

 on blue card to look like ribbon across the corner of the card. The flowers and leaves are 

from 'Needle Little Love' embossed in white with a stitch made across the centre of each and 

the panel was de-bossed using a piece of hessian by running them through my Bigshot together... 

I think it looks similar to Aida fabric :0)

As always I don't have gems to match the deep turquoise colour but I do have a

bottle of Adirondack Pearlised Acrylic paint that does so after some practice runs on 

scrap paper I carefully made my own faux gems :0)

I really love the colours together and who knew that cream and white 

sit happily side by side too!!!

Just before I go...

.... did you see that we are having a design team call at Make the Day Special???

If you would like to join a bunch of friendly, crafty ladies (I'm bias of course)

 pop over to the Facebook page to find out more details here :0)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x

Paper Smooches stamps used : Needle Little love, Geo-Graphic and Simply Said (currently out of stock)

Floral Tag.........

Hi there.....

She here with a Tag to share..........

I am really sorry the set I have used 'Insightful Meadows' is out of stock......but any of the gorgeous floral stamps and a quote would work.....

I started with a cream Tag and used my Twinkling H2Os to create the background. I then used a couple of the colours on the flower stamp and stamped it randomly on the background...

The Quote matt was painted with a really pale colour and then I have just 'splashed' one of the darker colours over it....

I coloured some more card and did some stamping and then punched my flowers out...

A bit of ribbon at the bottom and twine through the top and I was done.....




Thanks for looking, I will try harder next time and use something in stock!!!!



She xxx

I'm here for you

Hello.

My card for today uses wplus9  stamps and dies.

To start i stamped images from Folk art florals onto white card.

I then used the  Quilt cuts die1 to make the flower shapes.

The sentiment is from heartfelt mix  which is out of stock.

I finished the card by adding some buttons and twine.

Thanks for looking.

Clean and simple

Happy Tuesday! It's Ruby here.  I think you might want throw tomatoes at me this week.  I haven't had time to make a card so am posting one I made a couple of weeks ago with my new fave set, Lawn Fawn Flutter By.  I know, I said I'd do something different but this set is soooo adorable.  Hope you forgive me!

The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler.  I think both sets are out of stock right now, maybe I've started a trend!

Have a fabulous week!