My heart is full

 Hope this post finds you all well we have been very busy of late creating and just working it. Autumm is here and the interesting weather has arrived have had the opportunity to spend time outside in my garden, Autum planting complete already for the winter rain, knowing that come spring will be a delight.

 Today we welcome Debra to the blog for the first time with her stunning layout of herself with her daughter. Such a burst of flowers in this gorgeous project

 I used the beautiful Elegance Collection papers, which I have fussy cut, torn , inked and layered.

My photo is mounted on a fancy chipboard frame.

I embossed the leafy chipboard pieces and tucked them under the flowers I have added. 

I have added more texture to the layout using texture paste through a stencil, then added some Artstone for added detail.

The printed flowers on the paper I have glued gold microbeads for the flower centers so that the flowers pop.

Thank you Debra for sharing this special page with us

 thanks for the visit to our blog

Love Gauge

 Hope you are well this Sunday and the week gone has treated you nicely.

Today we get to welcome for the first time on the blog Sonia 

This month I have used.  Guage Large, to make two 3D Gauges.

The first one (purple) I painted all the pieces with purple paint and then silver embossed front and back circle and top of gauge piece. 

The paper used was from the Story Book Collection to create an interest on the front of the gauge. I cut a half circle from the Daydream paper using the small roses and leaves as my feature. 

From that same paper I covered the lower front section of the gauge and then ran it through an embossing folder which I had inked to create the texture. 

I used a small piece of paper from In A Castle (green side) and adhered that to the hole in the bottom section that was embossed. I added purple wax to the gauge pointer to make a deeper purple colour.

 Bling in the centre and an upholstery pin (I cut of the back of it), was also added to the front of the gauge. 

Finally to finish the front of I added 3 flowers so I had something to adhere the bee to. I love Bees and would normally do a Bumble Bee yellow stripped body. For this card I decided to do a Blue Banded Bee for something different.

As I did not want to put this gauge on a card front I made my own stand so I could stand the gauge up. Then I white embossed the square snowflake from Snowflake 3 chipboard and proceeded to decorate with flowers, leaves and a sentiment. I personal would love to give this to a special friend.

The second gauge I made was more aligned for giving to a male. 

The embossing was a copper glitter powder and I white and red embossed behind the gauge and added this extra piece in.

 Once again from the Story Book Collection, paper Chapters I cut out a piece of the black and white castle to put behind the bottom curved hole and I also cleared embossed it. Another upholstery pin was added and a brad to finish off the front.

Once again I made a stand and decorated the back using Steampunk Keys chipboard and a heart from Angel wings Petite. Wings of key painted a dark grey and all other pieces embossed.

thankyou Sonia for two awesome projects 

and thanks for the visit to our blog

A Dog's day

Today Iam sharing Tina's  rustic page layout she has created all about her and her dogs adventures

love the paw prints throughout. 

 I started with various chipboard including hat works and steam punk elements

I painted them with black gesso and then used various Finnaber waxes.

I then took the time warp paper and added some dog footprint embossing.  
I then layered various papers behind my photo. I then layered up the chipboard around my photo. 
I added some 49 and market bits from a sticker sheet. 
I added some splatters in black, white and teal. 
I then felt it needed something. so I ripped 3 pieces from the border and added some overcast behind these pieces and some staples. 

Thank you for looking and I hope you have a crafty day!

thank you Tina for sharing your fun layout