Beautiful Dreamer - Part 1

I've been playing with some of the Bo Bunny Beatiful Dreamer products, namely the 12" x 12" papers and Noteworthy die-cuts. Love the colours from this collection, the vintage icons with gold detail in lilacs,green, cream and pinks. Gorgeous! I ended up making 13 cards, I'm going to show you five of them here, the others I still have to photograph. I still rely on a little sunshine in my conservatory for photographing LOL Not ideal for sure.

 

The gold details is amazing on these Noteworthy Die-Cuts, You can see it better if the card is quite darkly lit:

Products Used:

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Imagine (reverse side used here)

 "Happy Birthday sign I made on the computer - email me if you would like it.

Tim Holtz Ticket

Lillibet Metal Butterfly

Basic Grey Brad used on butterfly

Lace

Pearls

Roses

Each collection have papers with gorgeous cut-outs, which makes it sooo easy to create:

 Products Used:

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper "Daydream"

Ribbon eludes me, will link when I remember

Resin Fairy

Edge using Martha Stewart Punch

"Treasures" metal sign by K&Co

The next card using another cut-out from the "Daydream" paper. This is a large card so you can see how versatile these sheets are, whether the size of card or layout:

Products used:

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper "Daydream"
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper  "So Lovely"

Rub-Ons

Lace

Pearls

Petals (own stash) 

The frame cut-out is just beautiful

I cut out part of the paper for my next card:

Beautiful gold detail on the Noteworthy Die-Cuts: 

Products Used:

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Memories (reverse side used here)

 "Dare to Dream" sign I made on the computer - email me if you would like it.

Bo Bunny Lace Trim

Resin Figure

The last card today uses paper from Graphic 45 alongside Bo Bunny's Beautiful Dreamer:

The chipboard I think was an old Kaisercraft one. I painted it with crackle paint, the sprayed it with Distress Stain "Tarnished Brass".  The sentiment is a Basic Grey Rub-on and I filled the star from the rub-on with Liquid Pearls.. On the frame itself I used Glossy Accents all over the picture in the middle to give an illusions of glass.

Products Used:

Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper "Daydream"

Graphic 45 Couture Paper "Classy" - the blue reverse side used here.

 "Dare to Dream" sign I made on the computer - email me if you would like it.

Petaloo Flower

Prima Rose

Metal Corners

Tim Holtz Ticket

Basic Grey Birthday Rub-On

Glossy Accents 

Tim Holtz Distress Stain "Tarnished Brass"

Liquid Pearls 

K&Co Flora & Fauna Metal Studs

I'll get the other seven cards photographed and on here in the week. :)

Marianna Design August Releases

August releases from Marianne Design have arrived and it's a lovely mixed bunch, with dies, stamps and papers:

Super cute collectable dies, autumnal and halloween themed creatable dies and beautiful autumnal cutting sheets for your centerpieces and "Canadian Fall" autumnal papers for your backgrounds.  There's a spider web stamp, plus more in the new Doodle range of stamp from Marianne. There are two fab "Bag" dies (see below).  Finally there are two metallic paper packs, plus  a super value set of winter product (dies, paper pad, decoupage sheets, stamps - all for just £6.99 - say what?!?!). Get them all here.

Beautiful example cards from Marianne Design:

 Love the new Bag Dies! How fabulous are these! Great for present bags espcially. A must have I think:

ATC Swap for September

We are taking a break from the swap this month but September's theme has already been set. Our lovely host Carmen set the September theme as follows:  "Your favourite phrase or saying - Be it funny, romantic, spiritual......Embellishments are up to you but I would like to see just one colour with different shades."

I like it!! Look forward to doing that. Come join us. These swaps are super fun and easy, you only need to make three small ATC cards and you will get three different cards back in return. Pop over to our forum and get your name down.

Our latest swap was "The Roaring Twenties" and I just received my three lovely cards through the post from our swap host.  My own cards were similar but different this time:

 I used mainly Graphic 45's Couture collection here.  The background paper is "Stunning" and I sprayed it with Prima Color Bloom spray mist "Soft Teal". The beautiful woman I cut out from the reverse of the same paper.  I also used elements from the Chipboard Tags and Banners from the same collection. Brads are Basic Grey. Paper ribbon K&Co. I used Glossy accents on the big flower on the middle card. Distress ink for edges etc and of course a few pearls.

 Super fun. Come and join us for the next one. We keep losing members on our forum to Facebook and it's such a shame.  Once a forum is teeming with members it's much more fun than boring old Facebook :)

FREE CLASS: Halloween in Wonderland Project Ideas

Our lovely design team member Cal Summers created a fabulous class for us using Graphic 45's Halloween in Wonderland products. Pop over to the main site to see the class:

What's Coming? Lots!

Heaps of lovely goodies are arriving soon, just take a look:

Graphic 45 (all available for pre-order)

Bo Bunny (all available for pre-order):

Kaisercraft: Ooh La la,
Kaisercraft "Frosted"
Kaisercraft "Glisten"
Kaisercraft "Silent Night"

 Special discounted bundles are available for Graphic 45 and Bo Bunny pre-orders.

ATC Swaps - Artist Trading Cards

Good Morning!!! My my, it's been a long time since we posted anything on here. This is the first post this year!! Hope we haven't lost you all with our absence.  What with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and what have you, it's hard to keep up!

Did you know that we have a forum where you can come and have a chinwag? We opened that before the advent of said Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and many people have left forums to be on Facebook instead, which is a shame I think because you can't beat the interaction we have in the forum.  NOT ONLY THAT, but we have crafty challenges too! Not so many as we used to I grant you, but our ATC swaps are still going strong. We would LOVE for you to join us (sorry UK only). Each month a theme is set and each person creates three artist trading cards for the swap, and will in turn receive three cards from three other members. It's super fun and really gets your creative juices flowing. The ATC's must measure no more than 2.5” x 3.5” so it's a super little challenge. You can make them identical, or you can make them all different. We make them thin enough to go through as a large letter size as it otherwise would be too expensive to post, so try not to add very bulky items.

In the picture above you can see some of the cards I created for our swaps.  Here they are again with some of our latest swaps:

The latest swap was themed "Scarecrows"

"The Lynx effect" of course refers to the effect Lynx deoderant has on females, or birds as we also call them here in the UK LOL That scarecrow should not have used Lynx if he wanted to scare the birds away ha ha.  Glossy accents were used on the scarecrow and birds for a 3D effect.

The next one is "April Showers" where the specification were "anything with water plus one blue brad":

 Here is used the fabulous "Voyage Beneath The Sea" by Graphic 45 - love love love this collection. The background paper is Karen Foster "Rippling Waves" and I added a beautiful  Imaginice blue Polished Pebble brad.  Glossy accents were used to highlight certain elements for a 3 dimensional effect.

The theme for the next one was "Autumn/Thanksgiving":

Here I cut a smaller card, embossed it with a leaf/flower pattern then coloured with Gelatos. A die was used to cut the branch, which I again coloured with Gelatos.

Here is one entitled "Vintage Transportation:

Here I made them all different. I used Graphic 45's "Come Away With Me" for this one.

Next up theme "Hollywood".:

I printed out pictures from the Internet and embellished with sentiments I just created on the computer and printed on red cardstock, plus gem stones and ribbon. I fussy cut flowers from Graphic 45's Mother Goose paper "Ring around the Roses" and highlighted the flowers with Gold Stickles.

This one was themed "What makes me smile":

Well kittens of course!! Can't recall where I got the image. Wings and crown were Spellbinders dies "Mixed Media Elements S5-085". Added lace, brads, and lots of doodling. As with all my ATC's I used Distess ink.

 A few other swaps:

Theme "Love"

 

Theme "Anything Goes":

 Theme "2016 - 2 colours - 0 ribbon -1 flower -6 buttons"

Theme "Flowers with a little Bling":

I hope I have inspired you to give us a shot. Come join us :)