Cards and layouts from the newest members of our DT

Shabby Cards by Lindy

Here’s a collection of shabby cards that can be used for any occasion…

All the cards have been made without any Pattern paper

If you would like to see the technique I used just read on..

I took two sheets of cardstock natural colour and cut four cards.

Card 1.

Sew around the card, spray some glimmer mist on an old dress pattern or tissue, piece of black lace and brown ric rac. Cut some die cut out of scraps of cardstock one larger than the other.

Tie a bow on a piece of organza ribbon. Attach the sprig of flowers and tie some camera charm and a half penny charm with some Baker’s twine.

Card 2.

I embossed with the cuttlebug and a scrap of green card and ink with Ranger distress ink Tea dye,

cut a strip of blue felt ribbon and embossed with clear embossing, punched a couple of circles and stamped a flower with Autumn leaves flower stamp on the edge of a circle,

using some scraps stamp and cut out the bird from the Prima stamps,

using another piece of scrap stamp a sentiment and ink with Ranger distress ink Tea Dye,

added some bling at the top of the circles and finally thread the organza brown ribbon through a butterfly charm

Card 3.

Using 2 different coloured cardstock mat one on top of the other and distress the edges.

Cut 3 different ricrac’s ribbon bright pink pale pink and yellow and another piece of natural and blue colour scraps.

Stamp the edge with Autumn Leaves stamp on the natural and the flower stamp on the blue scrap.

Hand write the sentiment on some scraps, place some small flowers I used white and ink them placed on the side with Ranger Liquid Pearls raspberry gold and plantium in the centres. place some thread in 3 buttons and place at the top.

Card 4.

Ink a piece of white card with the prima stamp

cut 4 flag in blue cardstock cut a strip of Bakers Twine brown and white, charms Little girl love key

and Musical Note, felt ribbon on the edge then Buzz and Bloom frills ,

punch a brown circle distress the edge and using the Scrapware Butterfly paint the clear picket fence crackle paint, for the sentiment use the Carolee’s creation alphas

And from Geli ...

Not using any patterned paper was a challenge for me, but the felt stands out so much better on a plain paper.

First, I used some glimmer mist for a bit of shine on the cardstock and stitched around the edge twice with my sewing machine, adding a few rhinestones wherever the stitches cross.

I framed the photo with the cute white scalloped felt frame and glued on strips of the white and silver rhinestone chain and a pink rhinestone heart.

I love the contrast of felt and rhinestones.

I had half a paper doily left from another project, so that went under the frame and then I glued down the pink and white stemmed star flowers.

The cute felt heart with a charm and an organza ribbon bow hides any glue bits and the gorgeous little camera charm inspired the title.

Thanks Geli and Lindy

We hope they have inspired you to create something today

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And thanks to everyone for the Birthday wishes - I had a great day no children, breakfast out, shopping and finished off with some wine (thanks mum I had a great day!)

and what are the odds !!!

Geli and I both share the same birthday (I am just a couple years more mature than her PML)

Hope you had an awesome day too Geli

Have a great week everyone

Christmas and New Years Eve Layouts

Starting off the new year with Wendy ...

Just a quick LO to share today ...... one I did last year (LOL!) using one of Tracy's Christmas embellishment tutorials last month .... I really really love this Bakers Twine!!!

I have used some Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas Delight Papers, ’ Tis the Season Stripe-Starry Night’ for the background and ‘Peppermint Mix-Frosty Mint Fa La La’ for the green panel. I have wrapped some Bakers Twine ‘Maraschino Red & White’ around the green panel and tied on a My2Angels Christmas tree charm.

Next I took a Scrapware Mini Fence (one of my absolute fav embellies!) and painted it using 'Ruby Red' Liquid Pearls, then I inked the top of the fence with white ink and added some Ranger White Embossing Puffs for some snow! I also inked and Crackle Accented a Scrapware Mini Holly and used the ‘Ruby Red’ Liquid Pearls for the berries.

My title and the snow flake are die cuts and I used Kindy Glitz on the letters and Diamond Dust on the snowflake! The ’10 for the date are Sassafras ‘Apple Jack’ Glitter Stickers.

For the red candy lollies I have used an idea Tracy put on the blog a couple of weeks ago, only I didn’t use the lollipop charms, I just used the Bakers Twine and some punched circles. The stems are some My2Angels Silver Acrylic Chain with Rhinestones .

So easy to make and yet so effective.

Thanks for looking!

Catch you again soon

Wendy x

And from me Tracy,
Starting my year off with a bang! 4 layouts to share with you ....

If I have the same photo of the angels I make one layout for each of their albums, which is what I have done today

Here is DD's layout using the Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas Delight Paper Range

Lots of present charms under the tree and individually cut presents from LYB Christmas Delight All Wrapped up pp

which is also used for the background of my tree

If you are wondering how I did the tree well here are some photos which was going to be a step by step but Christmas got in the way then I started on the new embellishment range and ...

well time just disappeared on me (:
so here is a quick run down

Fold back, scrunch and ink
Using a sharp item (I used my most used tool a tailor awl) to punch holes for the glitter brads

Criss cross white organza ribbon around the brads starting from the bottom of your tree

Tie a knot at the top and cut.

The knot is covered by our felt star which is highlighted with stickles
Place your pattern paper behind and cover the bottom with presents

Here is Mark's layout using the The Girls Paperie Paper range (my fav for the moment LOL!)

I cut out a tree and added black cotton ric rac with diamond dust and topped it with a black felt embossed star highlighted with lime green stickles

Added present charms, ribbon charms and hand cut presents which I edged with stickles

Making two tags and adding black organza ribbon, christmas tree charm and white rhinestone chain

Happy New Year Layouts

Cutting out a star from corrugated cardboard and painting it white & pink (with a spray of Marshmallow Glimmer Mist) attaching it to the pattern paper
Our New Years Eve pins tied with black organza ribbon

Adding lots of metal textured stars and rhinestones
Made a little star out of painted cardboard then tied pink bakers twine and mini black gardenia with a double star charm around it

Scrapware Clock hand covered with stickles
Pink gardenia with a white tag for the journalling

Pink Paislee Twilight Dusk is the background pattern paper used with Pink Paislee Twilight Eclipse for the circle

Adding lots of metal textured stars and rhinestones
Made a little star out of black painted cardboard and tied mandarin bakers twine and with a double star charm
To finish attached one of our New Years Eve pins

I hope the New Year brings you lots of inspiration and time to create
See you soon

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Hope the New Year brings you lots of mojo and inspiration (not too mention lots of time to scrap)

OTP Christmas Canvas

I think all of this rain we have been having here has washed away any urge to scrap anything at the moment (or is it because I have been so busy creating a new range of embellishments to share with you in the New Year?)

But finally .... after starting my Christmas OTP last month, I have finished it!

Using a Canvas (the back part) as my frame and covering it with coffee dyed muslin here it is
my Christmas OTP ...

The cute houses are Scrapware Christmas Houses which come in a packet of 5 that I covered with my favourite christmas pattern papers from The Girl Paperie

Framing the canvas are the new Scrapware Alyssa Flourishes with our gardenias

Scrapware Merry Christmas on another piece of the Scrapware Alyssa Flourish

More scrapware ... mini grass and mini fence borders

One of my favourite parts - our brown felt stars match perfectly with cinnamon stickles and hanging from our brown rhinestone chain

From us all here at my2angels we hope you and your family all have a wonderful Christmas

Take care
Be safe
and see you on the other side of Christmas

PS For my sister, Alyce, over in Scotland & family in NZ here is this years Christmas Tree Photo (both of them wearing tee-shirts sent from family in Ireland)

The tree has been up for 3 weeks and I only got around to getting the kids to put the angel on tree today (Sarah made the angel at school when she was 7!)

PS Alyce, your mail I promised to sent to you (a christmas card) well ... umm ... whoops its still sitting on my desk!)
and thank you Aunty Helen for the Christmas Card, your card is .. umm ... well ... on my desk as well (:

Christmas Tags and Cards

Christmas Gift Tags
from Taryn

I adore making gift tags, they are sooooo easy, and I love how they really dress up a gift.

Here's a few I made using the Everybody Loves Christmas range from Echo Park.

If you want to learn how to make these little guys... keep reading.

So I took 3 sets of shipping tags, and inked the edges using distress ink.

Then chose some co-ordinating Christmas papers, and trimmed to just larger than the shipping
tag, pasted the shipping tag on top, and trimmed the corners.

I chose some decorations by cutting elements out of the paper, and using a punch, and also elements from the Everybody Loves Christmas Sticker Sheet.
Pleating some strips of paper adds some lovely texture to your tag.

To finish off, add some bling using pink rhinestones or oversized silver rhinestones and silver
ribbon.

And for another variation, use a combination of paper strips, and trims from the sticker sheet

And then trim with blue rhinestones and rhinestone chain.

The possibilities are endless!
Hope you get to create your own Christmas tags this year!

Taryn

From Wendy

Take your Card Base and ‘3 Items’ .....

Patterned Papers + Rhinestone Chains + my2angels Christmas Charms = Really Easy Chrissy Cards

I’ve used Little Yellow Bicycle and Basic Grey papers cut or die cut into squares, add a couple of strips of my2angels acrylic chain, stuck on with some PVA glue and a couple of Christmas Charms attached with brads.

Wendy