Lovely As A Tree Water Reflection In Spring

Brayered Scene of Trees Reflected In the Water

Supplies Needed:

• Lovely As A Tree Stamp Set, item# 128655
• Brayer, item# 102395
• Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder, item# 109130
• Chocolate Chip Stampin' Pad, item# 126979
• Marina Mist Stampin' Pad, item# 126962
• Old Olive Stampin' Pad, item# 126953
• Stampin' Sponges, item# 101610
• Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers, item# 131261
• Brights Stampin' Write Markers, item# 131259
• Subtles Stampin' Write Markers, item# 131263
• Blender Pens, item# 102845
• Whisper White Card trimmed to 143mm*100mm, item# 106549

The stampin' Write Markers can be bought in the full colour family (8 or 10 markers per pack depending upon family), you can buy the full set Many Marvellous Markers (131264) or certain colours are available individually. If you are getting them individually then you could use Real Red (item# 100052), Early Espresso (item# 119680) and Blushing Bride (item# 131265) as an alternative to the colours stated above.

Equipment Needed:

• Heat Tool , item# 129054
• Masks made from copy paper

To make the masks, stamp the image on a sheet of copy paper and cut along the line of the landscape.

You can watch me making this card on my You-Tube video.

The supplies for this project can be purchased online, Maria Kitching online store.

Feeling Very Stupid

I am having a blond day today.

I'm still not very good at this blogging carry on and I was messing around in my account this afternoon and I have somehow managed to

DELETE ALL OF MY COMMENTS FROM ALL OF MY POSTS BY ACCIDENT

I thought I was deleting the messages I had telling me I had a comment on my post.

Now I feel very silly, I had lots of great comments from lovely people and now I have none.

Let this be a lesson not to mess around with stuff when you have no idea what you're doing.

Exploding box

Exploding box keepsake

This cute little box "explodes" when you remove the lid.

Inside I've put a little pair of paper booties, which I made using a free printable template. Which you can find here Booties template.

They were pretty easy to put together and just a little bit fiddly. I used my cricut to cut the shapes and the letters (decided to use that as it's not seen daylight for almost a year and I was a bit short on time) otherwise a nice alphabet stamp would be lovely and a die cut shape. I used up some of my dsp's which have now been discontinued but I have some left so I want to use them.

A nice pool Party bow using the new die finished off the top nicely and the duck on the front is from the easy events set (sadly not a current catalogue item).

There are a lot of possibilities with this and it's a versatile deign which is easily modified to use what you have.

Stampin' Up! supplies can be bought from my on line store Maria Kitching stampin' Up! store

Supplies used:

Gift Bow Bigz L Die, 129977, £28.95

Decorative Label Punch, 120907, £15.50Pool Party A4 Card Stock, 124391, £6.25 Crumb Cake 12 X 12 Smooth Card Stock, 124274, £5.50Labels Collection Framelits Dies, 125598, £22.95Ovals Collection Framelits Dies, 129381, £22.95 Thank you for stopping by!!

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Christmas Cards, so easy a four year old could do them!!

These cards were super simple to do and my little boy just LOVES to craft!!

The background is stamped in silver with the gorgeous grunge set.

A piece of red tape was used to make the glittered line (I positioned the tape for him, this stuff is so sticky there's no room for error, when it's down it's down).

Take the plastic off the tape and cover with glitter use a scrap of paper to rub the glitter and make sure it sticks.

A few scrap pieces of silver paper (I cut these for him and he stuck them down).

Paper flower decoration

My poor Nan is in hospital and my little boy and I made this to cheer her up a bit.

The flowers are made with the blossom punch and the bottle is stuffed with some brown packing paper (which we all have loads of) shredded.

I'm not very good at flower arranging so I was very pleased with how this turned out.

Brayered Christmas

A brayered winter scene Christmas Card

This lovely Christmas scene was done using my brayer the lovely as a tree stamp set from Stampin' Up!

I love how it turned out and I made a little how to video which you can watch.

I used midnight muse for the background and chocolate chip for the tree. I used the glossy card stock, which sadly we must say goodbye to. It would work well with whisper white also.

Here is a closer look at the card.

If you want to buy the products to try this one out for yourself please contact me marianardone.mn@gmail.com you can also visit my site Maria Kitching Stampin' Up! where online ordering will soon be available. Woop! Woop!

Elegant Butterfly Card

Super simple card using the love blossoms stampin' around wheel.

The little bow is made from paper strips and it's finished with a pearl. I love the simple look which is emphasised even more with basic colours black and vanilla.

Sheer elegance!!

Bottle Tag

Wine Bottle Gift Tag

So my exam has passed, and hopefully so have I!

I just have to catch up on everything else that I put on hold so I can get some extra study time.

The boys nursery are having a fun day next week and they were asking for donations for a bottle stall and this seemed like a good time to get the ink out.

So I made this quick thank you gift tag to go along with it.

The colours are pool party and whisper white and it has a little brad and some linen thread.

Stamps used were hearts a flutter, En Francais and I also inked up a clear block too and added a few drops of ink. 

The 1 3/4" circle punch made the hole in the top so it hangs nicely over a bottle.