LPoCF #252 Patties Creations

 Hello again,

Wishing you all a Happy Easter. Autumn has arrived here in my part of Australia; the trees are starting to get their Autumn colours. We have three street trees, beautiful flowering cherry trees, the local council sold to each house that wanted them nearly 50 years ago, the next streets have Maple trees. As new houses or neighbours have moved in, so they have added the same trees for continuity in the street. 

Today brings us to another all new Anything goes challenge with my team mates over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends our lovely sponsor this fortnight is Patties Creations who kindly gave each of the design team an image to work with, I have used Pansies in Pitcher to make my card.

I fussy cut the Pitcher and poked it through the lacy circle die so it is all one piece, cutting along the table edge Pattie has drawn.

Patties Creations

Prize 3 images

Here is my card

What I used

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
Patties Creations Pansies in Pitcher
Daiso woodgrain paper
Magazine freebie paper
Kaisercraft template 'tiny triangles'
Distress Oxide Antique linen and Ground Expresso ink

Mauve cardstock scrap

Marianne Design Die 'punched butterflies'
Nesting lacy circle dies 
Faber-Castell coloured Pencils

Fiskars scissors

Stanley knife

Cafe embossed die (CCD) 

White adhesive pearls

Adhesives Double sided tape, PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in
Polkadoodles Challenge 5 week 3 Anything goes
Alphabet Challenge A is for Alphabet- F is for Flowers
Double D Challenge Springtime Flowers
Crafter's Cafe #318 Anything goes optional Feminine 
Patties Creations Design Challange #229 Anything goes with stamped or digital image
Paper Rocks Scissors #3 April Anything goes 
The Neglected Stuff Challenge- Kaisercraft stencils first outing, bought more than 5 years ago, Daiso paper was bought 6+ years ago...

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week

Megan

p.s. Many Thanks to my kind blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Pansies

Hello again, 

Two posts in one day! It has been a while since I have managed to do this... 

I recently brought home two new baby budgies who are seemingly the easiest to finger tame to date, once they have settled in and are less scared, I will try and get a photo of the two of them, Pip has a lovely lilac body and dark wings, and Dusty has a powder blue body and white wings... they weigh less than 35g and it is like playing with a little butterfly, once they are able to come when needed, I let them out to stretch their wings and play outside their cages.

Tourists abound as the schools have broken up for the Easter holidays, they have the next two weeks off. Living in a tourist zone means we get busy roads, add to that our area has been advertised on television as a wonderful place to view Autumn leaves... cue the tourists stopping traffic to grab the perfect photos.

My second card with homemade embossing paste uses a new set of dies from Paper Rose Australia called Etched Pansy 2 and Nesting Arches, I was pleasantly surprised that the embossing paste survived being die cut. I chopped the rounded edge off the arch to make a vase shape for the pansies with my trusty scissors; some are glued flat others have some foam dots added to lift them.

I had planned on adding a sentiment, but the set I was looking for has gone AWOL. I will add it later, when I find them... 

Here is my card:

scraps I used (some for the earlier card)

What I used
Embossing folder Kaisercraft Flourish
Yellow silk paper, purple, green x2, off white, and pale blue card
Paper Rose Etched Pansy 2
Paper Rose Nesting Arches
Memory box Lorelai Branch
My Favorite Things Stencil (I cannot remember the name)
Homemade embossing paste
Clear flat backed round gems
Adhesives: Double sided tape, PVA glue and Foam dots
12.6x17.8cm card blank

I would like to enter this card in

Group of Seven Gallery Embossing Paste

Snippets Playground Anything goes with snippets

I.D.E.A.S with Darnell D is for Dies

NBUS 73 arch and pansies dies are NBUS

Addicted to Stamps and More 490 Die cuts and/or Stencils

613 Avenue Create Anything goes with a touch of colour

Paper Rocks Scissors 3 Anything goes using paper and scissors

Thank you for looking in... 

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. Many thanks for all my kind blogging friends and visitors who stop by and take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Embossing Paste with Stencils

 Hello again, 

We are enjoying some lovely Autumn weather here in Australia, clear blue skies, and great weather for the local fire brigades to do some preventative burn-offs of the undergrowth. We currently have three fires burning in the valley on the north side of the village, in our case the Grose Valley, which is more fire prone at least in our area due to wind and conditions in summer months. 

I am again joining in with the lovely ladies at Group of Seven this month's product is Embossing Paste, I have one art store nearby who knows how to charge accordingly, Christine had a recipe to make your own embossing paste which is very similar to the one from Shaz in Oz.

I mixed embossing paste

20g Baby powder
20g White Paint
10g PVA glue

mixed in an empty yoghurt cup until smooth, adding water as it thickened slightly. I used old plastic gift cards to spread the embossing paste over the stencil.

I did not plan on storing this so used it until it was gone. I managed to make 13 pieces and used some plain as is, and others used Distress Oxide re-inkers to add colour.

My first card has a mix of three distress oxide colours added over a leaf stencil from a magazine set called fabulous foliage. I added clear embossing powder after removing the stencil and heat set it a couple of hours later.  Sentiment layered in black and the same dark green cardstock.

What I used:

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank

Fabulous Foliage Stencil set from Magazine

Homemade embossing paste

Distress Oxide re-inkers, Mustard Seed, Festive Berries and Ripe Persimmon

Elizabeth Crafts Happy Birthday sentiments

Black, Orange leather-grained and Dark green cardstock

Green flat backed gem

PVA Glue, Double sided tape

I would like to enter this card in: 

Group of Seven Gallery Embossing Paste

Allsorts Challenge Blog Stencils or Masks

Aud Sentiments Challenge Embossing Wet or Dry and/or Flowers + Sentiment

Crafts Galore Encore 134 Anything goes

Creative Knockouts 544 Embossing Delights (Heat embossed over the texture paste)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

p.s. Many Thanks for taking the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all.