New layout

Hello crafty friends , This is a short post , as you will see I have changed my layout and header . I might change again because it is so hard to choose and find out what works best . I found this vintage layout and header on vintagemadeforyou.blogspot.be . Just gorgeous !

Till soon ;

Hugs, Rosa

Lost files ........

Hello dear crafting friends , and readers ,...... when I wrote my last post and inserted my pictures of the cards I made,  I thought I missed some . And going through my camera I saw the missing cards and realized I must have uploaded them to a wrong map . In the mean time I have found them and here they are :


This lovely young lady in 3D file I glued on to  an oval frame that I first embroidered with 6 stars using a light glossy blue Madeira yarn . For the corner embellishments I used golden sticker corners and I used some glitter glue to brighten my background . Then I sewed a small jewel chain and little flower embellishments onto the background before attaching it to my card .

For this next card I used a little 3D winter scene and again used my Madeira yarn in golden thread this time .
I stamped my winter sentiment and adhered a lace flower , two silver snowflakes and pearls .                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                 

 The white circle on the following card was made using a special punch that allows to make two sized circles and then punch the border .The flower shape was made with my double do , and the postage  was cut  with a punch also . The heart was cut by hand as well as my 3D image . I love my MFT swirl and added a button and some snowflakes , a pearl and a ribbon .The trees on the background were glittered ,as well as the snowflakes ,  but it is not clearly visible on my picture .

  And more snow in this one , using  my double do again , stamped winter sentiment ,..stars and rhinestones , winter branches .

 I was asked to make a wedding anniversary card and I went to search the Internet for an idea , I do not remember who I have to give credit to , this is my take on that inspirational card : The black border is made with a spellbinders  insert die . The hearts are again cut by hand and the female one is embossed with a hand machine. Then glittered . I cut the female heart a second time also with a succors to give the upper part a female look . Then added flowers ,  pearls and a black lacy ribbon . The tie I made of a grey striped ribbon that I also used sideways on  the black die cut . I added a fabric rose .The tag was also cut with my double do and I added a silver sticker wish . And of course I added sticker rings and very small sticker parts to embellish the corners of my matted layers .

I have this stamp for quite a while and I am not used to colouring in stamps, it was just a fun thing to do ,a little difficult laying down on my side , but making cards is also difficult and  typing this text is too. I have a lovely person to  send it to : she adores owls . I took the picture after I wrote a message to her and you can see that between the opening space .

 

I am also going to use that owl stamp and a few other stamps for making about 30 cards as a gift to the whole staff  in the home where my mother is taken care of  as a thank you for their good cares .

So this is it for now , thank you for visiting ,

Hugs, Rosa

Falling leaves and winter scenes

Hello everyone, it is a cold and misty Friday over here . The leaves are falling and they cover the grass , trees and shrubs are displaying the wonderful colours of autumn , birds are singing a last song before winter comes along . I've had my garden cleaned up and the grass cut , I think for the last time this year and my cat Rocky sat there inspecting and enjoying the look ,  I couldn't resist taking a picture :

I'm saying goodbye  to the summer ( we even didn't have one ! ) with this card , made with two inked up doilies , a 3 D flower , a stamped birdcage , some lace , a heart hanger and gold sticker corners .

 And right into autumn with this ball of acorns , something I made about 6 years ago . Actually I made three balls , different in size . I have thrown one away last week and this one is on my terrace now for decoration .















Here are some cards I 've made in the last weeks :
Inspired by the autumn colours these leaves and bird are from a 3D file and I kept it clean and simple . I used glimmer glue on the leaves but it is not very visible on the picture . I just punched the corners a bit and decorated with rhinestones . I did not use ribbon because the person I made it for , loves simple and clean .

Next are some winter cards , I really love this delicate winter painting , the berries are made in 3D , all of my 3D files are cut by hand by the way  , and the background musical paper is a paper printable I found in my backgrounds map . I just added the flowers , adhered the small beads and some snowflakes . And a little trim of lace to finish it up .

 And as I strolled through my winter 3D files ,  this beauty caught my eye . I used a die cut  I had lying around for some time and this time it fitted my image . I used some glitter glue and golden stickers to embellish my borders and corner . The white leaves around the hellebore flower with pearl are fabric and I used a little paper swirl die cut .

Now  I know one of my friends likes horses very much , so I looked through my 3D stash and came up with this card

I  really seem to be in a winter mood , whilst I have always hated winter and still do ! but I stamped a strip with blue snowflakes and curls and that was the start for my next card . I neatly cut out the all the elements with succors and used foam tape to raise some of the images , not clearly visible on the picture .I secured a gold glittery sticker line on the edge of my stamped strip and I covered the 4 sides of my card slightly with gold ink ( pad )

I hope you are all doing well where ever each of you are , have a nice weekend and take care !

Hugs , Rosa

Hello everyone, it's been so long since I've posted !

I've had a hard time due to my health problems and I still do ,but I managed to make some cards , with great difficulty ,during the past six weeks and I like to share them with you . I am pleased to see my audience stats and I want to thank all of you out there in you're own  part of the world for your visit ! It is much appreciated !

So on to my cards : This card I made in august after my last post , for a 25th anniversary . It's a zigzag card , with a belly band .

 

I forgot to  take a picture from  the inside of the flap ! ( I was in such pain and couldn't stand on my legs for  too long  ) But on the inside I stamped some swirly  curls in brown on the page that was meant to write the message on .

                                                                                                                                                                

Next :  a baby card .

 And a baby word card . I downloaded the alphabet letters from the Internet and re sized them , then made the letters come together to form the word . This is the result :

A few autumn cards cards with 3D files. I love my MFT flourish , you will see it again in the next cards ! And  I also used a beautiful autumn green glitter glue . I love the background paper ! It came in a 30 by 30 cm paper pad . ( 12 by 12 inches ) I didn't use a sentiment , so I can adjust to the occasion .

 And I was hooked when I saw these cute 3D squirrel files :  I used one of my flower dies  , my MFT flourish die , all cut with my double do . Leaf remnants of another punched die ,small  fabric flowers , glitter glue .

I also made a couple of winter cards : this  one with a spellbinders borders insert . And I did some recycling: The image , upper border and small die cut flowers were cut from an existing unwritten old card .
The image was adhered with foam to uplift , but it is not visible on the picture . The sentiment is stamped in black .





 and here I again used my  MFT flourish die , punched leaves and snowflakes . I stamped the sentiment from my winter collection .

 

 Now for a friend of mine who asked me to make some male cards , which I find extremely difficult to make , I went out of my comfort zone , and made the next  ( all 3 D files )




 For the corner I used leftover card stock and a  gold sticker . Two tags : one adhered to the card , one fits in the pocket .

 Now back to what I'm used to : This image is a sticker adhered with foam pads layered and matted on die cut frames . I used ribbon, golf sticker line, buttons and stamped the birdcage and bird .

 And two more cards with the MFT flourish !

That's it for now .

Take care ,

Hugs Rosa

60 th wedding anniversary cards part 2 and new die

Hello again , fall is gently coming on its socks , although we didn't have a summer. Just these last few days we have had some sun . The fruits of my vine are turning from green to darker and  purple . The cold nights from September should give it the sugars . I tasted one but it was still sour .

I have made some cards I would like to share with you .In my last post I said I forgot to take pictures of 2 other cards I made for the 60th wedding anniversary of my upper neighbour. This one is a belt or tab card . I used a 3 D cutting file and added some silver stickers - wedding rings and corner embellishment - white  and silver coloured lace trim . A fabric butterfly , a metal heart hanger and sheer ribbon . My backing papers are free printable .

This next one is a swing card  : very simple , but it took me some time to make the template according to the size of card I wanted ( 14 by 21 cm ) The beautiful roses 3D file is so gorgeous I didn't want to add much , just the pearls and stickers.

Now there is another couple that is also married for 60 years , and I have just sent them my card : I did a lot of handstitching on this one ! You will see 50 on it but I have altered it to 60 after I photographed it !

The roses are 3D .

Now back to my normal size cards . My girlfriend brought me a 3D cutting file magazine a while ago filled with the cutest cats :  I used a doilie that I coloured with a red brown ink pad . And crocheted a double flower which i secured with a brad . I faux stitched the yellow background paper and distressed the other one . I embellished the cat with a small heart and pearl , leftovers from my stash .

Exceptionally I didn't use 3D , but used a gold  flower  sticker and attached it to some background leftovers and cut out , attached to a white paper base and matted on gold paper and adhered to my prepared card .

 

Next 2 cards on which I used a new double die , here I used one part of the double die to frame an elegant sticker and matted to a border punched background . Added a simple greeting , a flower made from paper and a small flower sticker attached to pale rose vellum and a pearl , and two pale green see through buttons .

 The die was used on a  leftover piece of wallpaper.

Here you can see the die better , i used  both parts and attached the frame with foam pads to up lift a bit .
I attached small flowers with tiny beads  to the frame.

As it is august ,the month of sunflowers I made this flip card doing a bit of recycling : An un written card bought long time ago .I didn't want to just throw away,  I loved the pictures and came up with this :

I want to end  my post with another 3D cat and kitten , lovely isn't it ?  I chose to stamp the sentiment Big Hugs

So big hugs to all of my readers and fellow crafters ,
Till next time ,

Rosa

60 th Wedding anniversary cards

Yesterday, my upper neighbours were married for 60 years . We are neighbours for about 31 years now and on the respectable age of 79 the lady is still very vital . She looks after her great grandson of 2 and every evening she comes to chat with me and rubs my feet with nourishing creme as I can't do it myself . She took care of me after my  ( failed ) back surgery in 2008 (I have no family ).

And so , back to their wedding anniversary , some of their friends asked me to make cards . Here are a few of them , from 2 of them I forgot to take a picture , but I will ask her to lend me these cards and picture them.

I first saw this kind of folded card on mariannespapir.blogspot.be about a year ago I think and I just had to try myself . So this is my card for them :

I made the belt from card stock , it closes on the back with Velcro . I hand cut the  hearts first out of a beautiful magazine of flower arrangements from the time that was my hobby . ( I can not do this anymore because I'm disabled . ) And a second time out of card stock and distressed and glitter glued  both . I added the big pearls and with my double do I cut the flower curls from MFTstamps dienamics.

I distressed the edges of the curls a bit .

I used big sized card stock to have a 15 by 15 cm card when closed  . I cut the sides with border succors and distressed them and cut my patterned paper to size and glued it to place . To embellish the 4 corners I used golden stickers and prima roses .For the white paper I used to cover the inside bits I used a border punch .

 For my card I used my rose border and corner punch, and some stickers .

For their daughter I made this easel card : sized 15 by 21 cm .

 I matted the 3D rose on patterned paper , a white die cut flower shape , that I pricked with my needle pen and some more  patterned papers . I used pearls ,  rhinestones , white small ribbon , a border sticker,  a LOVE word sticker and I cross stitched a dark red ribbon and tied it to a bow . In both the upper corners I stamped a sentiment and hearts .


 Opened it looks like this : Sorry for the bad picture , it was a very dark day . For the upper round part I used my rose corner and border punch . And a small leaf punch . To get a lacy look . See next picture .

My third card made for a friend of theirs : And again credit goes to mariannespapir.blogspot.be
You can find a tutorial on her blog .
I used a 3D file , a ribbon , a flower button , die cut flower curls a gold butterfly sticker , patterned paper and
for the two side panels I used paper from a die cut paper block and cut the card stock neatly with my scissor
all  around the die . And then added the pearls and the sentiment stickers .
Here is the card opened  :

 And this is what the card looks like when its shut .

I will post the others as soon as I can picture them .

Have a great vacation where ever you are headed and take care !

Hugs, Rosa