More square doilies

Hey there (honestly, I have to think of a better greeting than hey there, but it's all I've got right now), so, hey there to you...

More cards that feature square doilies today. Are you liking them as much as me?

There are plenty of Martha combos that would look lovely as doilies. Vintage Lace for one. The one I've used below is called Eyelet Lace. They like having the word 'lace' in the punch names, don't they? And Vintage, they like that too.

Eyelet Lace, Vintage Lace, Lace Heart, Vintage Ornament, Vintage Doily, Vintage Doily Deep Edger, Doily Lace...there's a lot.

Here I've used a green Sullivans punch called Floral Romance, I think it is. Nope, Floral Wealth, it's called.

And the scallop is an EK Success one.

Here I've used different sizes of Petal from Sullivans (Kikyou from Carl) to make these scrunched flowers.

Mist with water, crumple, flatten a bit, pile on top of each other, poke with paper piercer, secure with brad, scrunch up again to make it pretty, spray with Red Velvet Glimmer Mist and let dry.

This last one uses the watering can punch from The Punch Bunch and the orange size of  the Floral Wealth punch.

Not sure if I'm a huge fan of the red doily on the red card, but the idea kinda worked. The concept's there, ie. a doily on the same coloured background, but maybe it's not the right application. What do you think?

I'll leave it up to you!

Square doilies and corrugator

Hi there, how are you?

Are you getting any crafting done? Or Christmas shopping done? Not long to go now...

Just wanted to share a couple of things today.

I'm not much for the punch around the whole page thing with the Martha combo sets, but I love these ones. I had some circular doilies that I was using and wondered if I could make a square one of a similar size. Out came the combos and I was good to go.

And they (the new square doilies) were good to go when they had Marshmellow Glimmer Mist sprayed on them. Oh yeah.

And here it is. Eyelet Lace combo - isn't it pretty? The instructions that come with the punches tell you what size you have to cut your card. Mine was 3.5" x 3.5" square.

The Marshmellow mist is on there, can you see it?

Another thing I wanted to mention - the flowers were run through my Marvy corrugator (paper crimper). I had the card and the doily and the flower, but the flower needed something. I looked around and noticed the crimper and thought, "Why not?" Worked!

And baker's twine. Need I mention the fabness?

Here's the same flower around a little box I made using the Sizzix XL Die: Box #2. Makes a cute box that would be good on a big tree. Might do that if I remember.

The paper ribbon around the punch was made using Martha's Infinite Loops deep edger. Went with the red and white theme and kept it plain.

I showed it to Andrew and he said, "How are you supposed to get into the box?" I said, "You slide the paper ribbon off" and tried to do it at the same time, but it didn't budge. I'd glued it on accidently! Don't do that if you make one, will you?

Okay, that's all for today - see you soon!

:o)

More googly eyes...

Hello!

How are you on this fine Wednesday? Not as hot over the last couple of days as it was on the weekend. Pheewwee, had a couple of hot ones there! Today is a nice summer day - Sunday and Monday were overkill. :o)

So, got a couple of new cards to show you today.

These aren't the new ones, showed them a little while ago... Just put them in so you'd know what I was talking about.

Had so much fun using the googly eyes and the Sizzix embossing folder sets on the ones above, that I had to make a couple of new ones below.

Note the use of a mouth on the sun...

Decided he, in particular, needed one (remember I couldn't decide if the jellyfish needed one or not?). It's not as huge as usual, just subtle and kinda there - like the way my hubby smiles actually. He has a lovely easy smile that I, well, love!

And here's the fish again...like him.

Remember to make him all you do is run the embossing folder through the Big Shot (or Cuttlebug) and cut him out.

I used two scallop square punches in this one. Can you see them? One's yellow and the one that's hiding is the orange one. It makes a difference on the card, needed a bit of orange in there.

Here are the links to the Sizzix embossing folder sets if you'd like to check them out.

Set used on first lot of cards - Sizzix Beach Bum embossing folder set.

Set used on second lot - Sizzix Summer Fun embossing folder set. (I've made some different types of cards using this set - will show tomorrow).

The Marvy Scallop Punches - they rock.

And of course - the Marvy Corrugator. Hello, how Australian!

Enjoy!