Blog Page Gadgets and Some More About Etsy!

Hey there all... I just thought I'd let you all know that I have added a few gadgets to the blog page to make it easier for those of you wanting to keep an eye out for what cards I will be selling on my Etsy store. To the right of the blog page there will now be a little linkable gallery of some of the most current uploads in my store, just press on one of those and it will bring you straight to the Etsy post! As well as a clickable advertisement sign, stating that I have an Etsy store. This sign will bring you to my Store Home page.

Anyhoo... Just wanted to make this experience as easy as I can for people!

Xo Amanda

MY ETSY STORE IS NOW OPEN!!!

So Excited!! After Months and Months and MONTHS!!!! of hinting and promising I have FINALLY gotten my Etsy store open and started..

While still early, I will be adding cards to the store daily until all of my current stock is online so you will have to bare with me... and just keep on having to check back on it for progress!! ;) 

So if you have ever looked at any of my cards and thought Hmmmm, I really like that, and would LOVE to own one of my creations, please pop on over and have a look. :) 

You will find in my store many hours of love delicately woven into each and every item. I have a variety of Cards, all of my own design and creation, in an array of colours, styles, sizes and prices to suit your particular needs.

I will have a range of cards available including my OOAK (One Of A Kind) cards, my Limited Quantity Cards (Individually Hand Coloured cards that are reproduced up to 5 -10 times) while others are Digitally Designed and then hand assembled. 

Using a variety of mediums including Inks, Copics Marker and Polychromo Pencils before being decorated in high quality embellishments and Scrapbooking Papers the cards I create are never truly identical to each other, even of the same design. That is the Joy of being Handmade!

I will hopefully be adding Mini Albums, Decorative Wall Hangings and Name Plaques to the store just to name a few things, along with my cards so there will be plenty of items for you to select from. 

So come have a look at my store and I hope you enjoy what you see!

https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/CherryRoseCottage#

Happy Crafting!!

Xo

Amanda

Cherry Rose Cottage Crafts

Flying high with Mo's "Airplane"

Hi there... not going to waffle on today, as I'm feeling a bit under the weather, but REALLY wanted to post this card on here, as I super happy with it... 

The card features one of Mo's recently created digital images "Airplane" which can be purchased from HERE... as soon as I saw it I just HAD to have it!! I knew I would have a MILLION uses for this little gorgeous image. 

and the first use, seeing as it was recently the beautiful Mo Manning's birthday!! Who could resist a Bright cheery birthday card... 

Funny story.. (lol to me not waffling.. as if) I created a different card from scratch THEN coloured the image...sat it on the card, and the card looked SO PALE against the vibrant colours of the image, I just HAD to completely redo my card from scratch to make it suit better!! :) 

So here is the new and IMPROVE version of my Birthday card, in honour of Mo (Maurie) Manning!

 Card has been completed in my current Shadow box style, that I'm enjoying SO MUCH to make!! It just creates a depth and gives added interest to the card I think.... ohhh and aren't those colours soooo bright!!! Colouring has been done using copics!

 Digital Image "Airplane" by Mo Manning, colouring in Copics, with added White Polychromo pencil for accent

 As you can see by this photo, I have added a layer of Iridescent paint to the glass panels of his Goggles and Aeroplane, followed by Glossy Accents to give it a slightly glassy look.. :) hey.. I was having fun!!  I had to literally pull my hands away from the glossy accents to prevent myself from turning every balloon into a shinny little Glossy Accent ball!!! :) (Addictive Stuff)

 This Inside Panel, free of sentiment so that you can use this card in whatever manner you see fit.. As a birthday.. or going away celebration, or coming home celebration!! Completely up to you!!

(this card will eventually be for sale.. Once my shop is up and running... LOL.. EVENTUALLY!!!!.. Still working on things .. teehee)

This Cards Ingredients:

Digital Image: "Airplane" by Mo Manning

Coloured in Copics (sorry guys.. no list today) with added accents in White Polychromo pencil

Digital papers: (All except the wood panelling) are from NitWit Collections

Embellishments: Balloons and Clouds are from NitWit Collections Digital Scrapbooking Kits... I have enhanced some of there colours with copics to help match my image :) 

Adhesives: 3D Foam Dimensional Dots and Double Sided Sticky Tape, Ranger Glossy Accents

Paints: Reeves Iridescent Medium

Card base is pre made 15.5cmx15.5cm. 

Printed on a HpLaserJetCP1025nw colour Printer

Cut using my Silhouette Cameo. :) 

 So I hope you have enjoyed my card. :)

Happy Crafting

Xo

I've Been A BuZZy LIttle Beeeeeeee! ;)

So I promised you more cards in the last post didn't I!! well here they are. I have been busy playing and have created a few more shadow box cards as I build up a range of these designs to hopefully start up my Etsy Shop soon...

I'm really enjoying creating these beautiful cards using NitWit Collections Scrap booking Kits. I have always enjoyed digital scrap booking and so it's fantastic that I have found a way to combine my digital scrap booking skills, my computer skills and my paper craft skills to create these new and unique designs. I cannot wait till I have a few more designs ready so I can start selling!! SO EXCITED!! and then I can bring my customers cards ranging from One of A Kind (OOAK) cards, hand painted or coloured by myself or beautifully designed unique cards that I will be able to reproduce in some what number larger numbers... though still small enough numbers that they will be special. :) I'm also hopeful that I will be able to bring in the future products such as party invites, thank you notes, Birth notices, Shadow Box Name Plaques and a heap of other things!!!! but for now... I'll stick with just getting my cards started!! 

And with that in mind... you'll probably want me to stop waffling on and show you my two new cards!! LOL... and the customer is ALWAYS RIGHT!!.. Teehee!! well... future customers... Maybe!! ;) 

 I LOVE this card... It's just so happy and sunny and CHEERFUL!.. plenty of sunny flowers and the most gorgeous bees collecting the pollen to make there honey... you can almost Smell the hay fever!! *AhhhhChooo!*... teehee

For my second card I still see spring, but instead, you have moved out of the sun, and walk down towards a lake, perhaps sitting under the cool shade of a tree and you see the insects coming out to enjoy the cool air! Ahhh.. just bliss!!!... 

Both cards feature shadow box, layering on the front giving the a 3D appearance, while the inside features a coordinating panel with blank area for you to write you messages to your loved ones. The cards have been left without Sentiment so that you can use the cards for any occasion you see fit. 

I hope you have enjoyed these cards and hope to bring more to you soon.

Happy Crafting.

Xo 

The Magical Restoritive Powers Of RESPITE! - And The Completion of My Wizard

So after some extremely stressful few weeks in my house I had the absolutely pleasure of going away for the first time on my OWN for the weekend, while some respite worker came in stayed at my house for two nights with my son... and boy did I not only need it, but it did me so much good... I have come back invigorated and refreshed and really understanding that this is what I need if I am to not only survive being a single mum with a child with multiple disabilities and behavioural challenges but to thrive... for his well being as well as my own, which is also challenging as my own health is also not good... but anyway... I had a marvelous weekend away at my parents on site caravan in the glorious bushland setting of Daylesford, in the middle of Winter and literally missed out on it snowing at my camp site by 5km!!! I was thoroughly ANNOYED!! I WANTED SNOW!!.. LOL

But anyhoo... 

You will ALL be probably happy to hear that in my time away I Got back on my pencils and managed to do a little colouring.. in between my eating of gorgeous local produce down at the Local Cider Mill, of course matching that with a bottle of their organically brewed cider, and getting my Tarot cards read... something I had never had done before, and was BLOW AWAY by how accurate this gentleman was...

but I diverge!!! ;) 

I got out my delightfully magical Wizard digital stamp called "Wiz" by Mo Manning, which you can purchase HERE, (oh, and enabler alert, Mo has a SUMMER SALE ON!!! 20% OFF ALL STAMPS)  I had started but not finished and decided he looked rather sad half coloured and that it was time I stopped procrastinating and coloured him up!!... So without further Ade!! my gorgeous Mr Wiz!!

The Digital Stamp is called "Wiz" and was created by Mo Manning

This image has been coloured by in Polychromo Pencils Only

No Blending solutions of any kind was used

No blending stumps were used

Just pencil on pencil blending

The paper is Arches 300gsm HotPressed Smooth Watercolour Paper

I'm Sorry but I cannot provide a list of colour for anyone as I did not keep track of them all... there were just tooooooooo many!

The sentiment is my own creation so please credit me after the sentiment (A. Jensen) if you use it in your own works, with a link back to my blog in your post if possible. I appreciate your honesty in this regard. :) 

Well that's all from me for this post... I might have something else tomorrow. I have been a busy little beaver!!!

Happy Crafting!!

And remember to check out that 20% off Summer Sale at Mo's Digital Pencil!!!

Xo

A Little Bit Buggy!!

Hey there.. Long time no Create!!

Well as promised in my last post, I had an inkling of motivation and a sprinkling of inspiration lately, and with a cleaner house than usual I sat myself down and created this super adorable shadow box style card. Now this will be my first card I think I have created without a coloured digital image on it and I LOVED creating it... so expect more of these. 

I know I mentioned many blog posts ago that I might like to try my hat at selling some of my creations and so these style of cards I have created I think will be a great addition to my list of cards I'd like to sell... "when I get my bottom around to it".. LOL... I'll definitely post about it when I do get my butt into gear and start selling these cards I make. :) 

Anyhooo I hope you like it. :)

If you haven't checked out NitWit Collections Digital Scrapbooking kits, then I encourage you to do so. I have created this card utilising images, background ect from there wonderful kits :)

Happy Crafting!

Xo

Amanda

MISSING IN ACTION!!!..... but still alive!!

Just a quick post to say I"M STILL ALIVE!! lol... I know I have been awfully quiet on the blog front lately since I left Mo's as a DT member. While my chronic illness has been "problematic" I've been dealing with it quite ok and if that was the only thing going on then I think I would have been back to my cards and painting and drawing already, but lately have been dealing with some family stuff and being a mum of a special needs teen is a whole lot harder right at this moment then it has been in quite a while, and I just haven't had the physical, mental or emotional capacity to do anything "extra" at the moment other then get up... get through a day... go to bed... and do it all over again. So all of my card making and art had been put on hold.

That being said, we are getting some wonderful supports being put in place and I have been reminded of the value and importance of keeping ME happy and healthy too...and so in these last few days I have started cleaning my house, one room at a time, all I can mange with my illness and even that, only on a good day... and I can actually say that I have cleaned up my craft stuff and have felt a tinkering of motivation!!!... so with my son going on some respite tommorrow, I'll see what the day brings...

Baby steps. 

To all those still crafting!!

Happy crafting!!

and to those like me who are unable for the time being...

Take some time to enjoy relax and do SOMETHING you enjoy... no matter even if its 5 minutes.. just something!!!

XO