Happy Friday

Good morning friends,
It is a lovely sunny day with blue skies, but a freezing wind that feels like it has come straight from the South Pole.   BRRRR!!!!.

The message on my card today says it all...that is my wish  for you.
I saw the watercolour technique on a card by Jennifer McGuire and really loved it, so decided to use her idea for my card.

 
 






For my sentiment I used words from various stamps, embossed with white EP, and then did the watercolouring technique.

 The butterfly is from Joy crafts, cut twice. Coloured the bottom one and put some glitter on the top.

The pearls were coloured with  copics. Didn't have green pearls. I don't really colour with them, but they are great for colouring pearls etc.







On the inside I decided to make a pop out flower. I used a Marianne Design Collectable die and cut 6 of the medium flowers. Stamped a design on them, folded and glued together. The flourishes are from Joy crafts









I will enter the following challenges:
Incy Wincy Design challenge...Things with wings
Milk, Coffee challenge...Emboss it.
Crafting by Designs...Anything goes
Inklings and Yarns...Anything goes
Paper Pretties challenge #267...Toung Tied?..Sentiment must be focal point
Rhedd and Rosies challenge #11...Anything goes
LEJ Designs challenge #62...Anything goes
Through the Craftroom Door...Anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown #156...Anything goes
Kaboodle Doodles challenge...Any embossed work
Melonheadz Friends challenge...Emboss it
Squigglefly...Emboss me
Daring Cardmakers ..
Paint effectsCreative Fingers challenge...Anything goes
Bloggers challenge...Things with wings

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I will be watching the last days of the Toure de France..the weather is ideal for being snug in front of the TV. Thanks for popping in and hope to see you soon.

take care.

Love Ursula

A fancy fold card

Good evening friends,
The weekend has arrived and with it very cold weather forecast for the weekend. I suppose it is winter, so we shouldn't complain...but we will anyway.
The card I am showing today was made as a sample for a workshop I did a few weeks ago. It is another version of a shutter card....there are quite a few different ones out there.

I decided to use no patterned paper, but did some embossing on the inside.
The front was decorated with mainly Marianne Design dies..doily, flowers and leaves. The vintage picture is also from Marianne Design, cut out with a heart die. Added lace, metal corners, and pearls
On the inside, I used a Joy flourish die, Marianne Design corner and heart dies and added little tags cut with the Cricut.
The sentiment is a local stamp, which I stamped and then tore around the edge.Finished off with a bow and a pin and pearls.
Everybody loved it, although the folds certainly were a challenge for some.

I am entering some challenges:
Just Add Ink..Pearls
CCEE Stampers..Creat a card with a vintage feel
Papertake Weekly..Anything goes
Try it on Tuesday..Anything goes

That's my story for today. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I will be back soon..take care and have fun.

WOW. What a day!!!

Hello friends, Hope you are having a great week. The weather is just glorious and I would just love to be outside more at the moment, but I have had a lot of preparation to do for classes, so hope the weekend will be equally glorious.
Today I did a class for 10 ladies at Country Crafts in Johannesburg and it was all so exciting as we had a very special guest. Non other than Marianne from Marianne's Designs in the Netherlands. I think many of you are using her dies already. She is such a lovely lady and it was an honour to have her sitting in on the class.

This is the card that we made, with a small variation in the class. I saw the picture on Jennie's blog and really liked it, so asked if she would mind me using it. I think the original came from one of the Stampartic design team, but couldn't find it there.

This is what I used for the card and the box:

Paper: Kaisercraft...English Rose collection

I used a selection of dies from Marianne Designs, Nellie Snellen and Joy crafts to cut the hearts, flourishes and flowers using scraps of shimmer paper and various bits and pieces.

Finished off with some seam binding on the front and a few pearls.

    When once I had worked out the idea it was actually easy to put together.

I also  made a box for it to go into. This is just a basic "pizza" style box, that is also so easy to put together.

Altogether the ladies loved it.                       

I am entering this in some challenges as well:

Anything goes..die cuts/punches or both

Top Tip Tuesday.... Use DP and handmade flowers

Hope you all have a good week, have fun and  enjoy what you are doing. Will be back soon.