Father's Day

I have somewhat neglected the blog of late as I have been so busy doing other things. Mainly preparing goodies for Father's Day!

I have been hard at work with the trusty Big Shot and some gorgeous wood grain effect paper stock from Stampin Up, inking round the edges of a basic white card and adhering the letters with foam pads. 

I also found out some old quick cutz dies for the gardening tools and inked those up to the right shades. 

Leather floral brooch

I'm trying to master new skills all the time so I thought I'd try my hand at leather..turns out I found out a few things! Leather is very hard to hand sew,leather does not like sticking together and lastly leather is time consuming!
However,all that aside and once I'd mastered 'hidden sewing' I don't think my flower turned out too badly. See my other designs at redratdesigns on Facebook or visit my website on www.resratdesigns.co.uk

Caravan card

A customer asked me to make a card that included a caravan,for their Anniversary so after playing with various shapes I chose white and a mint shade with a brown Kraft style card to base it on.
I had wondered where to begin but it turned out to be a speedy make and all happened naturally!! I think I shall replicate it for www.redratdesigns.co.uk

See you soon!!