Tag For A Friend

Good morning everybody.

First of all let me offer a very warm welcome to my new followers! I hope you enjoy what you see and that you come back for return visits. When I first started my blog in August I couldn't actually envisage anybody wanting to  follow it, so to now have 48 followers is really exciting. I think I might have to think about some candy!!

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I came across the flowers that I made using the Melt Powder and moulds that I got at the NEC and then started looking for some way I could use them. I found this card in my bit box and decided to make a tag with it because the flowers were a good match. I have quite a collection of rub-ons which were all the rage some time ago and thought this quote would  be a nice addition. There was also a flower on the page, which was a great match so that went on too. You will need to actually enlarge the image because what looks like a dirty smudge behind the sentiment is actually a musical stave. The ribbon loop looks very pink in the picture but in real life it is actually much more of a coral colour. The cream lace is from my stash.

Well that's it for today. I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Love from Christine xx

Celebrate

Good  morning friends and thank you for visiting. Well, today I am officially  older! Yes today is my birthday and so we will be going out for lunch later. I made a card yesterday and then  spent some time playing around with some of my new stash I bought at the NEC

 I used a Cheery Lynn die cut to make my card. This die isn't actually new, I got it last year to use on the wedding album I did for my sister and I haven't used it since. I saw somebody using a Cheery Lynne die in a demo and though the die was nothing like this one, and the card they made was nothing like this, it just brought it to my mind and so I got  it out and used it. Strange how the mind works.

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The die is Victorian Romance Flourish and I cut it three times. I cut the third one in half and removed the centre. The heart shape  in the centreis just two bits of the waste as they came out of the die. I used the smallest of the Resplendant Rectangles to die cut a label for the easel stopper and used a rub on that says Celebrate, but that doesn't show in the picture at all. I finished off with a few gems.

I then decided to try out the moulds and WOW Melt It powder that I bought. No, they are not sweeties, even though they do look a little like goodies!

 

These are the daisy and rose moulds I used.

For the pink ones I mixed Rich Ruby Red embossing powder with the Melt It. I can see I need  to use a much higher ratio of coloured embossing powder to achieve a deeper colour. But it's all trial and error, and I have never done this before. The others were made using WOW platinum powder which gives a sort of taupe colour. The beauty of this is that if you don't like it, or the flower is not as good a shape as you would like, then you can just melt it down and try again. I  did do that just to see if it worked - it does! I only wish now that I had bought some more moulds because this really is a lot of fun.

Well that's all for today. I hope you all have a good day!

With love from Christine xx