Spring/Summer Catalogue Tour

Apologies for the lack of posts lately. I appear to have lost my mojo. Fingers crossed it returns soon!

In the meantime here is a mini guided tour to some of the great features in the new catalogue.

Don't forget to contact me if you have questions or would like to order: blueangelcrafts at gmail dot com

Clockworks video tutorial

Enjoy my non-festive video today!!

 

Here is the finished card:

 

 And a close-up of the clock.

Stamp set: Clockworks

Inks: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, River Rock

Card: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla

12 Days of Christmas - Day 8

Hello and Happy Saturday! It's already the 8th of December and preparations are in full force around here.

Today's video is a quick make using a Bigz Two Tags die to make a gift card holder.

 Inside is a Very Vanilla panel with a penguin stamped and, although you can't really see it on this picture, there is gold shimmer too.

12 Days of Christmas - Day 1!!!

Welcome to my 12 Days of Christmas series! Easy and quick festive projects to give your home that handmade cosy feeling, plus gifts for neighbours, friends and family.

Today's project might give you a kickstart to make some Christmas cards if you haven't already.

This is the finished card:

 A close-up of the Shrinkle star...

 Here is the alternative card made using a cookie cutter as a template. You could also try large Die cuts such as butterflies, other festive shapes or circles for different cards.

 Am loving the silver sparkles!!

See you again tomorrow for Day 2!!!!

Emboss resist technique

It's Saturday again so here is my weekly video! This week I am showing you how to do a technique called Emboss Resist. This means embossing an image and then adding ink on top. A bit like those drawings we all did as children using white crayons and then washing over them with paint to reveal the picture we'd drawn underneath.

 

Here is a visual of the stamp set featured, Summer Silhouettes:

 And here is a picture of the finished card:

Have a great Saturday!!!

Flowery gift wrapping

At the beginning of the month it was my Mum's birthday. As I was at Convention during the celebrations I wanted to make her gift extra special:

 

Here is a close-up of the finished flowers:

I ended up hot-glueing the flowers to make them more securely fastened.

 Here is a video of how the flowers were made!! I hope you like it...

Scrapbook Club November 2012

Here is a short (incomplete and unedited!) video of how the page was created:

Below is the finished page:

 Here is a close-up of the bottom right corner. Am loving those buttons!!!

 To tie in with the patterned papers, a scrap is in the corner with some added bling.

 

So there it is. Just shows how versatile the Affection Collection stamp set really is.

 

Stamps: Affection Collection

Papers: International Bazaar

 

Check back tomorrow for another design with this fabulous set.

New Delicate Doilies Card

Hello and Happy Saturday! I hope you are having a great day. It's been a busy one for us with a family BBQ and cleaning, running and tidying already under our belt.

Here is a new Delicate Doilies video. The idea was to show how versatile the set it as it is portrayed as quite feminine in the Ideas Book & Catalogue 2011-12. The colours used are Real Red, Old Olive and Marina Mist. The sentiment comes from the set Trendy Trees.

I hope you enjoy and please add a link if you've made a card with Delicate Doilies that is not so feminine!

Creative Elements elegant card

Hello all! Here's a new video making a card using Creative Elements and the background stamp En Francais. Hope you like it. The original design was inspired by one on SCS.

The card also uses two types of embossing, one on the Big Shot and the other using Vanilla scented embossing powder. Yum!

What are you up to this weekend? We are going to be sorting out our jungle-style garden. It's amazing how fast it grows whent there's about 6 weeks of heavy rain and then tons of sunshine....