Saturday, 2 May 2015

ANOTHER GIVEAWAY- NOW CLOSED

NOW CLOSED -Hello there,
To celebrate the Birth of the Baby Princess I have a GIVEAWAY for you!
All you have to do is leave me a comment. 
It can be about the New Royal Baby or one of the other posts you have read on my Blog! 
I will put all comments and names in the draw and pick out a Winner on Monday 4th May 2015! (so don't forget to leave your name)!
Good Luck

I also have more freebies on my Facebook page!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Birdcage-Craft-Studio-by-Sue-Ralph/508067685909077

Giveaway Goodies
Forever Friend Celebration Digital Designer
Tonic Scissors
Stampin Up Stamp Set and VersaFine Mini Black  Ink Pad, Mini Doilies,

Plus an assortment of Baby Girl Embellishments.


Welcome to the New Princess

Congratulations to William and Kate on the birth of their Baby daughter this morning!
Welcome to this Big Beautiful World.............................................?
So what do you think she will be named? Possibly have her Grandmothers (Diana) name in there somewhere?

I sat down to make a Baby Boys card this morning, its for my niece so I can't show you yet, but here is a Baby Girls card in honor of our new Princess!





I had planned to do a giveaway on my Facebook page today as I have nearly reached 400 likes before I heard the news of the Royal Baby, so now to celebrate the New Princess I will also give a few things away on here as well!
Please leave me a comment below and I will choose a couple of people to send some goodies out to on Tuesday, Thanks for stopping  by!

Friday, 1 May 2015

Just one Layer

Hello there,
This week I decided to enter the IndigoBlu Challenge, creating something with 'Just One Layer' so I decided to do something other than a card and this is what I came up with!
If you would like to join the fun, check out IndigoBlu for yourself at http://indigoblublogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/




I had managed to get hold of a couple of wooden disks when I went to a scrape-store some time ago which were crying out to have something done to them, so thought I would use one to make a Home Deco Plaque!

The wood was a bit rough to stamp directly onto even-though I painted it with gesso, so I decided to stamp onto thin card first. 
First of all I stamped a Daisy flower (from a free IndigoBlu set) onto the card, masked it off then stamped over the flower with the Flutterby Dinkie, using different coloured inks. Once this was done I masked off the Butterflies and used Pan Pastels in Blue & Green make up the background colour!  


The next stage was to build up the design so I left the masks on and stamped with the Blazing Poppies using black Versafine ink to pick up all those lovely details.                                                                   





The next step was to mask off the poppy heads so that I could use the Ickle Poppy stamp and I also added a sentiment from the Hocus Pocus set!

I took all, but the butterfly masks off and used the Honeycomb Background stamp and FlitterGlu to add some Gin and Tonic MegaFlakes.
 
Next step was to add colour all these lovely images so I used the English Cottage Paints, watered down as they keep their intense colours! I just love these paints!! I think I may have used all the colours Lol.



I went around the Butterflies with a brown and black pen to add a bit of shadow and depth

Cookie deciding to get in on the Photo Shoot!Thank you for stopping by. Let me know what you think.Happy Crafting and Bank Holiday Weekend xx