Fizzy Moon With Flowers & MS Punch Around The Page Tutorial

Hello peeps,

I have a long post with loads of piccys for those of you who have asked for a tutorial for using the MS punch around the pages and framing cards using them.

Firstly I'll whizz on and share a little card I made while preparing the tutorial, I have at last got around to inking up a Fizzy Moon stamp Jodie bought me for Mothers Day which in the UK back in March, eek no wonder she thought I didn't like them as it's taken me so long to ink them lol.

Ingredients -

Image - Fizzy Moon

Medium - distressed inks

Papers - Wild Rose Studio

Flowers - Magnolia, Prima & stash

Martha Stewart punch around the page frame tutorial

Now for my very first tutorial so be gentle with me lol. I hope I've explained it all o.k, I've used loads of pic's to keep the waffle to a minimum.

Ingredients -

Card blank 5.12" square, a piece of card 6.75" square, Martha Stewart punch around the page, ink pad & cut & dry foam (both optional)

NB if you decorate the inside of your card you need to do this before adding the punched frame.

 This might seem really obvious to some but not everybody realises the corner punch has little "wings" that you pull out and can position the card accurately ready to punch out the corner.

 Punch out all four corners on the 6.75" piece of card

Line up the punched out corner directly over the part of the pattern you can see on the side of the central punch area. I've photographed it just below the pattern so you can see it properly

As well as lining up the punched pattern keep the card pushed up against the straight lip as if it isn't flush the next corner won't line up.

After doing your first punched edge move the card along and align as you would on an ordinary border punch until you get to the last run of card and align this with the pattern you've already punched along the edge, and also with the half pattern on the opposite side of the central punch area (as shown below) and continue this around the card.

 After a quick inspection by Georgie I knew it was lined up right lol.

You should now have a punched edge square and can ink the edges if you want to.

I then put double sided tape all around the edge of the inked front of the punched square, and on the front of my card blank.

I then line up and stick the FRONT of my card blank onto the BACK of the MS punched square, as you can see in the piccy of the back of the card it fits perfectly inside the punched frame.

You can adjust the size of the card front according to how much of the punched frame you want to have visible and also depending on the depth of the border of the MS punch as some do vary a little. For example on this card I have overlapped the punched pattern by making a card front 5.14" square and the space between the framed edges are 5.12" (14.1cm) across. Measure across the front of the frame from patterned edge to patterned edge to decide what size you want to make the front

 I have made up my card front already and now that the punched frame is stuck to my card blank I then take my made up card front and stick it to the front of the punched square frame.

 I don't always make up my card front separately but found it easier to show you by doing it this way and also if I'm using brads as the back of the brad that's been pushed through the card front will be hidden when the card is assembled, so build the card up whichever way you prefer.

I then get flowering and glittering and the card is finished except for the insert which is the very last thing I add & I always write it before I stick it inside the card using double sided tape as due to the frame when opened out the card does not lie flush which can make it difficult to write in.

I really hope you understood that, If not give me a shout :)

I'll be back shortly with my

Simon Says Stamp DT card as I'm playing catch up with everything now.

Thanks for stopping by

Tilda's Faithful Friend - Totally Tilda DT Card

Good morning peeps,

Yaaaayyyyy I've made it here!!!

We've had thunderstorms the past two nights and apart from me being a big baby and not liking it our Internet connection and satellite signal for the TV is playing up, fingers crossed it stays on long enough to at least let me finish my post. I kept trying to schedule my post yesterday in case the problem got any worse but lost connection so many times I had to give up in the end :(

Today is new challenge day at

TOTALLY TILDA

and this fortnight our challenge is

TILDA & HER CAT OR DOG

As always please remember you MUST use a Tilda on your creation, it doesn't have to be a Magnolia cat or dog, and can even be a photo of your cat or dog.

I've been having a rummage around in my Magnolia stamp collection and have so many sweet Maggie's I'd forgotten I'd bought and have never even inked up including these two, so I think I'm going to have to be really organised and stamp them and store the stamped images in a book or folder so I can see exactly what I've got as I have a couple I've bought two of, duh, lol.

Ingredients -

Images - Magnolia, Tilda with striped tights - Pink Collection 2008, Wilma with rose - Raising The Ceiling Collection 2010

Medium - distressed inks

Paper - stash

Flowers - Magnolia, Prima, The Works & Wild Orchid

Sparkle - crystal glamour dust & diamond stickles

Pearls - Blue Moon

Feather - Little Yellow Bicycle

The die cut I've used to make my card is a gift from our lovely Susie & can be bought from Susie's shop Die Cut Dreams when it reopens after Susie & her family have moved house.

The pin was a plain pin from Whiff Of Joy and I added some beads and a small blob of glossy accents to keep them in place, and the wired ribbon was from a craft show

I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Fairy Fun Fridays - for the girls, Secret Crafter - dust off your stash (stamps), Just Magnolia - anything goes, Miami Doodles - lets get girly, Ink It Up - embellish it, Crazy 4 Challenges - flowers, 7 Kids College Fund - April showers bring May Flowers, Craft Us Crazy - mum / flowers, Papertake - anything goes, Top Tip Tuesday - open challenge, A Spoon Full Of Sugar - white + 1, Ladybug Crafts -                going dotty,  Oldie But A Goodie - say it with flowers

I am just finishing off the punch around the page tutorial and all being well with my Internet connection I will upload it tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by



Sweet & Flowery - Paper Play DT Card

Good morning peeps,

I can breathe a sigh of relief as I managed to finish the DT cards I needed to get done early and posted in one of my DT blogs, phew lol. I didn't manage to make it to blogland yesterday and post my Paper Play DT card or answer a huge amount of emails as I had such a busy day with appointments, visiting my stepmother, finishing my DT cards etc and as always the poor old shoulder is feeling the effects of doing too much.

This weeks challenge at

PAPER PLAY

is

SHOW US YOUR STYLE

  Nicole has set this challenge and we want to see your distinctive style, the style you are most passionate about and that reflects you at your best.

Ingredients -

Image - Magnolia, Tilda With Flowerpot, Butterfly Dreams Collection 2011

Medium - distressed inks

Papers - Magnolia, So Special Collection 2011

Flowers - Magnolia, Prima & The Works

Fancy Corner - E-Crafts

Pearls - Blue Moon

Tools - nesties, MS Deco Fan Shells punch around the page, Magnolia Romantic Lace doo hickey

Obviously I had to use a Tilda, a punch around the page and lots of lovely flowers & sparkle to show my style. I've gone for a pink & white colour combo as it's an old favourite but I am loving the blues at the moment.

I will post a quick tutorial over the next couple of days on how I make my card using the MS punch around the page as I have loads of emails requesting the info and it will be easier and quicker to explain by taking some piccy's as I make the card

I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

All That Scraps - anything goes, For Fun - flowers/Mothers Day, Really Reasonable Ribbon - Double Dutch!, Craft Us Crazy - for mum/flowers, Pear Tree - free for all, Stamps & Fun - hearts, Papertake - anything goes, Top Tip Tuesday - open challenge, Magnolia Mania - hearts, A Spoon Full Of Sugar - white + 1, Stamp With Fun - lace/ribbon, Sketch & Stash - previous sketch # 53, Timbroscrapmania - metal & lace, Magnolia Down Under - ribbon & lace, Dream Valley - flowers, Magnolia Stamp Lovers - flowers, Just Magnolia - anything goes

Hubby is working this weekend so I will be resting my shoulder, doing some blogging & having a play with the copics I have had sat in my craft room neglected for ages. They are another of those essential crafty items I "needed" and so far have been a mahoosive waste of a lot of money, so I need to check out some tutorials and get playing.

Have a fabby weekend, and thanks for stopping by

P.S I've just tried to access my emails to send some replys to people but can't access my hotmail at the moment for some reason so I will reply asap xx

Sunshiny Day - Simon Says Stamp DT Card

Good morning peeps,

Thank you so much for your lovely messages of support after my little rant, I will be round to thank you all but I just felt like having a little bit of time away from blogging which was just as well really as life has been really hectic and Jodie has been hurting my brain expecting me to think and help her with her college work lol.

Today is new challenge day at

SIMON SAYS STAMP

this weeks challenge is

PAPER PIECING /  PIERCING

My lovely teamies and I are showcasing stamps by MY FAVOURITE THINGS this week, if you have them we would love to see them but as always it's not compulsory to enter the challenge

Ingredients -

Image - My Favourite Things, Pure Innocence Sunshiny Day

Medium - distressed inks

Papers - DCWV, The Linen Closet

Flowers - Prima

Pearls - Hero Arts

Charm - Symbolize

Sparkle - stardust stickles

I was going to say how quick and easy this cute little image was to colour but I think it was the paper pieced shorts and t-shirt that helped lol. I've coloured the the love hearts and alternate strips on her shorts and added a little of the compulsory sparkle

As always our lovely Heidi is sponsoring this challenge with a mahoosive

$50 SPENDING SPREE

It was lovely having so many lovely visitors on the blog hop last week, I think we've all had problems picking the winner for our candy vouchers kindly given to us by our lovely Heidi & Steph as unfortunately there were a lot of peeps who didn't read the rules and obviously to be fair we had to double check the winners did qualify so I had poor old random.org doing overtime lol 

Our blog candy winners will be published on the

SIMON SAYS STAMP CHALLENGE BLOG

later today

I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Sketch Saturday - fabby sketch, Papertake - anything goes, Top Tip Tuesday - open challenge, Pear Tree - free for all, Craft Your Passion - anything goes, Stamp Magic - butterflies, Paper Sundaes - favourite hair colour, Stamp Something - wings, Fussy & Fancy - Spring, If The Shoe Fits - wings

Thanks for stopping by

Birthday Candy Winner & A Little Rant!

Hello peeps,
Why do some people feel the need to email me and leave comments saying they can't see the winners name? I did say I would announce the winner today or tomorrow, so my not in the least bit sincere apologies to the candy grabbers who are waiting impatiently for me to stop having a life and spending time with my family!!! Maybe I shouldn't bother to check if the person with the winning number is a follower of mine and has only entered once to make sure everyone had a fair chance at winning!

This is the second candy I have held where I have had people emailing me straight away wanting to know if they have won and to be honest it has put me off of holding another candy right now which I intended doing.

The people who have emailed me are followers who have joined in the past couple of weeks and will vanish when they see they haven't won, and unfortunately won't even bother reading this to know it's them I am naffed off with.

For my GENUINE friends and followers I will instead offer goodies at random as I enjoy hosting giveaways and sincere apologies for my little rant, I feel better for getting that off my chest, at least it wasn't as long as my last rant lol.

For now the winner of this little prize, and thankfuly it's not a candy grabber, if it had been I'd have drawn again!

as picked by Random.Org is
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Congratulations hunny please email me your full name and postal addy to
moominstacey@live.co.uk
within the next 7 days and I will pop your goodies in the post.

Sparkly Princess Tilda - ATS DT Card & Mini Tutorial For Sparkle Showing Tips!

Hello peeps,

Thanks to all of you who entered my candy, apologies for not making it round to all of you as I'm sure you can see there was a huge amount of entry's which I'm still checking for double entry's etc and will announce the winner in the next day or two.

These next few days are going to be extremely busy for me as I need to get an extra 2 DT cards made early and posted in the DT blog, so the post can be scheduled early due to holidays as well as my other DT cards that are due this week, oh heck lol. I don't know about you but I take hours to make one little card, am I really slow or is that normal?

Today I have a mini tutorial/tips, and  my

ADDICTED TO STAMPS DT CARD

to share, and this fortnight we have a recipe for you

3 FLOWERS, 2 PAPERS & 3 HALF PEARLS

MINI TUTORIAL / TIPS FOR MAKING SPARKLE SHOW UP IN PHOTOGRAPHS

Today I have posted lots of piccy's as I get loads of emails asking how I get my cards to look so sparkly and as there is lots of sparkle on my ADDICTED TO STAMPS DT card I thought this would be a perfect example to show you.

I am no expert with a camera and chop many a head off lol, I don't have a light tent or a special daylight lamp, but because I love a bit of sparkle I played around with how best to make it show up in photographs.

When I photograph my cards indoors I position a reading lamp with a daylight bulb in so the light is directly shining on the card. I use a daylight bulb because you don't get that yellowish glow that you do from an ordinary household bulb, and I also use this to colour my images when natural daylight isn't good.

On this card I have added the sparkle by colouring over sweet Tilda's dress and tiara with a quickie glue pen which I allow to dry a little so the glue is no longer blue and then I've sprinkled on my beloved crystal glamour dust by DecoArt .

I've 3 examples to show you and the first one below is taken with the lamp positioned so the light is shining directly onto my card which shows up loads of lovely sparkle

The next picture below is taken with the card turned slightly away from the light so it still shows up the sparkle but not so intense

 The third example below is taken outside which doesn't really show up the sparkle, it just looks bitty and rubbish to me although everything else about my card looks clearer and crisper. It looks bitty because I have used the glamour dust over a large area and on a very dark colour, if you look at the purple rose it doesn't look bitty like the dress but the sparkle just isn't showing up well in the natural daylight, although to look at the card directly in natural daylight and not in a photograph taken in natural daylight it is lovely & sparkly so for some reason the camera just doesn't pick it up.

 Below is a close up of a very intensely sparkly Tilda with the light shining directly on her, she's so pretty lol

 Again this one below is taken with the card turned slightly away from the lamp light

 and this one below is taken outside.

I hope that makes sense and has helped the lovely ladies who wanted the info and apologies for it taking me so long to getting around to sharing these tips with you.

Moving on here's my cards ingredients -

Image - Magnolia

Medium - distressed inks

Papers - Prima & Magnolia

Roses - Hobbycraft & Prima

Pearls - Blue Moon

Sentiment - Paper Make Up

Fancy Corner - E-crafts

Anything else from stash

I'm entering my card in the following challenges -

Totally Papercrafts - glitter, Magnolia Down Under - ribbon & lace, Timbroscrapmania - metal & lace, Stamp Magic - butterflies, Stamp Something - something with wings, Daring Cardmakers - by Royal appointment, If The Shoe Fits - things with wings, The Creative Belli - Royal (neglected - butterfly & ribbon buckle)  Magnolia Stamp Lovers - flowers, A Spoon Full Of Sugar - royal, Oldie But A Goodie - fit for a princess



I'm beginning to think I should stop telling Daisy Mae how beautiful she is as she's even taken to posing to look cuter for her picture to be taken lol. Just behind her on the left you can just see a tiny bit of the corner of my card which I was trying to photograph! I think she must have fantastic hearing as I shot downstairs to take some piccys when I saw her playing with Diddly in the field at the back of our garden so thought it was safe to click away, how wrong I was lol

Thanks for stopping by, and for those of us having yet another long bank holiday weekend, enjoy!