I have stamped with one of Francoise new Clear Magic stamps Heart and Home. I stamped it with Clear Snap Archival ink I used the green from the Tutti Fruitti Queue. This is a fast drying ink that will not bleed once dry, and as the name suggests it is very stable.

I really enjoy weaving paper and ribbon and here I have mised the two. I cut the paper into varying widths and then use ribbon in varying widths. The ribbon is RicRac, 15mm organaza, 15mm dotty organza, some gingham and 3mm double sided satin. The paper is from the London Collection.

I have punched the stamped image in a circle a then layered on to a scalloped circle.

I am not sure how many shades of green I have managed to use but it is nice and simple using just the one colour. Why not check out the rest of the girls green posts on the blog ?

The stamps are a new Woodware Clear Magic set designed by Francoise it is called Sitting Pretty.

I have stamped and embossed the image in blushing pink and then coloured in with Tombow brush markers.

The background paper is from the GCD 8 x 8 book Zen Garden and I have punched it with the Crafty Edger and the Tag Cassette.

I coloured the ribbon with the some chalk ink pads to get the shade of pink that I wanted.

I hope that you like my Sweetheart Card why not visit the Woodware Blog to see what the rest of the girls have been up to this week, and you can play along too.

This is another card that I made from the same set. It was for my daughter, Shona’s birthday. I don’t understand how she got to be so old!

Thank you for visiting see you soon.

]]> https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/woodware-challenge-hearts-for-my-sweetheart/feed/ 2 woodware witterings sweathearts sweathearts3 sweathearts1 ShonaBday1 https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/woodware-february-sketch-challenge/ https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/woodware-february-sketch-challenge/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:01:46 +0000 woodware witterings http://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/?p=599 ]]> Over on Woodware it is another sketch week

I have cheated this week and used lots of new goodies that are not available yet!

The floral stamp is from a new set designed by Jane Gill, it is being launched at the trade show in a couple of weeks so it will be in the shops very soon. I have stamped it with a new ink pad.

I used the Raisin Brown from this lovely new limited edition Queue, to stamp the flower.

The flower on the base card was stamped with the Wheat Grass from the same Queue.

The green paper from the London Collection was a bit too bright so I used my Stylus with a round white sponge and my new Mixed Media pigment ink Mossy green to knock back the bright colour and cover the white dots.

Okay  am finished showing off! The flower was coloured with a mixer of Tombow pens and a Sakura Stardust pen to colour the image and then added Glossy Accents to the centre of the flowers

The “thank you” is from a Stampendous Perfectly Clear set Wedding Words, and the ribbon is brown dotty organza.

This is the extra card that I made from the bits!

Thank you for visiting why not pop over to the Woodware blog to see what the rest of the girls have been up to?

]]> https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/woodware-february-sketch-challenge/feed/ 2 woodware witterings sketch-9 Sketch9 sketch9Q Sketch93 Sketch91 Sketch94 sketch9extra https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/woodware-challenge-week-36-3d-delights/ https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/woodware-challenge-week-36-3d-delights/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:01:11 +0000 woodware witterings http://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/?p=581 ]]> Over at Woodware this week the posting has gone on while I have been away, but I a,m back now and this post is late! as I fell asleep over my computer last night.

The theme is 3D and I have used the Mercart Metal and a Super Butterfly punch.

The punch is very simple so it lends it self well to decorating with the Mercart tools. The metal is aluminium which has a coloured coating on it I have used the teal I punched the butterflies and then decorated them

then you can sand back the metal to expose the silver of the aluminium underneath.

This one I have sanded with the wire brush to give some texture, after using a ball and cup tool to raise the dots.

I have stamped a background using Stampendous Butterfly Beauties and one of the new Clear Snap Twinkle Watermark ink pad. The paper is Magenta and is the back of Branches and Blossoms.

I then finished off with 3mm and 5mm Pearls in Mint.

I hope that you have had a look at the rest of the 3d Delights over on the Woodware blog this week, thank you for visiting see you soon.

I have used the Triangle Die Cut Mini Album

This can be cut from one sheet of 12 x 12 card.

I cut the template from dark red card and then used the triangles that are also on the template to cut the layers.

The papers that I used are all from the London Collection double sided 12 x 12 papers.

The stamps all come from a Francoise Clear Magic set Sharing a Cuppa. I have stamped and embossed with Stampendous Bark powder everything except the cups which I embossed with the Aged Copper. I used the USArtQuest Interference Mica palette.

I then tied it up with some gingham ribbon

These templates are fun to use and very versatile to use. You will find template ideas everyday this week I hope that you are inspired by them.

Check out the Woodware Blog. Thank you for visiting today see you soon

Well it is bling so who could resist it?

I have used the Stampendous set Butterfly Beauties and some gloss card I used direct to paper technique to colour the background. I used cats eye chalk ink directly from the pad to colour the background and then stamped randomly over the top with the same colour. I then sprinkled Kaleidoscope embossing powder all over the glossy card and heated.

The butterfly was stamped with the Clear Snap Watermark Ink Pad and Baby Blue Powder.

The thank you comes from the Stampendous perfectly clear set Wedding Words. The bling around the edge is Stampendous Glass Frantage Glitter in silver.

I am really pleased with my card, but it is not very wintery, sorry! Check out the rest of the girls on the Woodware blog this week, I am sure that they have got it right!

]]> https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/woodware-challenge-winter-wonderland-cool-cool-colours/feed/ 0 woodware witterings Dorothy Dorothy1 Dorothy2 https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/woodware-challenge-week-33-handbags-at-dawn/ https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/woodware-challenge-week-33-handbags-at-dawn/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:01:58 +0000 woodware witterings http://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/?p=536 ]]> Over on Woodware it is handbags this week, so lots of great stamps and stencils with handbags on, or even a template or two, but no I have been sewing this weekend so I got carried away, I am supposed to be making curtains with a deadline of Thursday, and all I have so far is a plan, and some fabric.

My handbag…

Really much faster than you would think the fabric that the bag is made from is silk that I had died years ago, so nice to use it and I have stencilled on some  lilac silk.

The stencil is one of my favourites from Dreamweaver Heart Whimsy. I taped the stencil down and masked off the hearts. Then using a dauber inked through the stencil with Colorbox Watermark Pad, and added the Vintage Olive embossing tinsel to the visible stems and leaves, and heated. Then clean off the stencil and tape back into position and ink again and this time I used Vintage Plum.

I hope that you can see the tinsel sparkle in the photo.

Did you know that you can use embossing powder on wearable art? Yes you can run it through he washing machine! Not that I will use the bag often enough to require washing but I will use it!

The bag pattern came from a book that I have misplaced, or I think lent to someone so I can not credit the designer.

Thank you for visiting today, you can tell that I am really happy with my bag, to see what the rest of the girls have been up to this week pop to Woodware.

Now off back to the curtains:( But before I do that I am going to enter this in the challenge over at Dreamweaver they have hearts as the theme so it should do nicely!

and here is my card

I have used craft card for the base card and covered a portion with the back side of the Magenta paper Robin’s Nest. I then used a strip on double sided sticky sheet. I removed the protective sheet from half of the sticky sheet and then added Frantage in Bronze and then removed the protective sheet and added Tranished Frantage mica flakes, I then sprinkled on Crystal Ultra Fine Glitter to cover any stickyness that was left exposed.

 The stamps is from Francoise Clear Magic set Babushka. I coloured in the image with Sakura Glaze pens.

The Babushka set has different sizes on it and I stamped a larger on to form my layer.

I hope that you will join in our sketch challenge for January. Pop over to the Woodware blog to find out how to enter.

Thank you for visiting.

]]> https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/woodware-january-sketch-challenge/feed/ 0 woodware witterings sketch-8 Dorothy Dorothy1 https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/woodware-challenge-week-31-thank-you/ https://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/woodware-challenge-week-31-thank-you/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:01:06 +0000 woodware witterings http://dorriesdoodles.wordpress.com/?p=523 ]]> Over on the Woodware blog this week we are helping to inspire the thank you cards that we all should be sending at this time of year.

I have used Francoise Owl Greetings Clear Magic set, the branches were stamped and embossed in Stampendous bark  coloured powder and the large owl has been done in paprika.

I added highlights with a Sakura Star dust clear pen. The speach bubble and the thank you are both from the same stamp set.

The base card is recycled card and the green layer is from a GCD 8 x 8 pads.

You can see what the rest of the girls have been up to over on the Woodware blog.

I hope that you have had a good Christmas and got some crafting goodies to start off the new year.