Teenage Birthday

Today I have a teenager's birthday card to show you as it was my daughter's, cousin's birthday yesterday. The handbag has been cut using a Sizzix die and the background was created using a Cricut embossing folder. The dotty paper was found in my stash so not sure who designed it but it could have been HOTP. The 13 was cut using a Quickutz set of dies and it has been mounted onto a flower cut from a Cuttlebug die. I'm sure you will agree it is a simple design but does the job splendidly!

Artylicious Stamp Giveaway

Glenda is giving away some fab new stamps over on her Artylicious blog, this set is just one that happens to be my favourite, but go over and take a look, they are all fab

60th Birthday, Cricut Style

Hi all, hope you are ok, sorry haven't posted very much lately, it has been very hard coming up with creative ideas and then putting them into action over the last four months as my Mum has been ill. This card was made for a friend's 60th birthday that was just the other day. Again, not feeling very creative so didn't like to play around with the inks, so I settled on using my Cricut and tried to be a bit creative with the Cricut Design Studio instead. I used the Jasmine Cricut Cartridge and some patterned paper that I found in my stash, but have no idea who the paper is by.
Bye for now.......

Happy Easter

This is the card I made for my Mum. As she is in hospital I didn't put Happy Easter as it wont be that fantastic for Mum. We are going to visit this afternoon with some of my hubby's home made pineapple meringue pie, so hopefully that will cheer her up.

The card was made using a selection of Cricut Carts including Stretch Your Imagination and George and Basic Shapes. I hand wrote At Easter Time as time was of the essence and didn't have an appropriate stamp! The flowers have been finished off with a blob of crystal stickles and I found a shiny butterfly in my stash to add to the handle of the basket.

Mother's Day Card

Here is the card that i made for my Mum, a bit late showing it I know but here it is never the less! The heart in the middle was created by stamping into green hearty clay. I have used this technique before with this stamp and really love the result so here it is again. The stamp used was from Elusive Images. The same stamp was used in the background on the pink paper and the rose paper is from HOTP, the sentiment was printed from the computer and the little paper roses were coloured with pink rub on to tie in with the rest of the pinkness (if that is such a term!)
Hopefully be back soon.........ttfn

Autumn Tree ......in Spring!

I was playing around with my brayer the other day and came up with this simple card. I clear embossed the tree panel in the middle of the card, masked around the edges with masking tape and then ran the brayer over the top. The card was finished off with a piece of rafia threaded through some punched holes. I like this effect as it looks like there are three layers but there is just one.

Bring on the weekend.....yay.....hope you all have a good one.

Where did February go?

I can't believe I didn't post for the whole of February. I have been busy with visiting my Mum and a suppose life just became a bit more hectic as I haven't crafted at all. I have only made this card because a friend of mine's son is 9 tomorrow. The base card has been stamped with an Inkadinkadoo set in a blue dye ink. Happy Birthday was stamped with some Anita's alphabet stamps, the denim background was stamped using an Elusive Images stamp and the rest was cut on the Cricut using the Jasminie cartridge. I hope it wont be so long before I post again - ho hum!

Wooden Bangle

It's the end of January and my blog posting has been almost non existent! I will try and make up for it with this wooden bangle that I have customised. Nothing flashy as I am still experimenting, but I painted the whole bangle with a sage green acrylic paint and then stamped the design with black staz-on. The rubber stamp is from a set designed by Elusive Images. I found a black ProMarker was perfect to edge the bangle, much easier than fiddling around with a paint brush. I then added two coats of Glossy Accents to add a slight sheen and to protect the paint. I have a couple more of these to play with so I hope I can come up with something a little more adventurous for next time.

Dancing Queen

Hello everyone, here is a card that is similar to a couple I have done before but this style comes in very handy when I need to make a card for one of my daughter's friends. She is off for a birthday party sleepover tonight and needed a card and pressie to take along. The stamps used are from a set by Inkadinkadoo. I also made a matching box to make a box of sweets and a £10.00 note look a bit more special than just a thrown together box of sweets and some cash! The letters and numbers have been cut on the Cricut machine using the Jasmine cartridge, a dab of Dusty Concode Distress ink and embossed stars and hey presto a super quick card.

Thank You Cards

The free stamp from Craft Stamper magazine this month came in very handy to make my thank you cards for our Christmas presents. I stamped the lilac card with a script stamp from hero arts and the main swirl stamp which I think came from Galaxy stamps or something like that! I stamped the free stamp designed by Elusive Images into purple paper clay and cut around the image. When it was dry I went over the image with silver rub on to high-light the raised area. The sentiment has been printed from my computer and mounted onto a piece of silver mirri card which has had the corners rounded. To finish off I justed added some purple ink to the edges of the base card.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. I tried to add this message last night using my new mobile phone, but I managed to delete the message before I published it. It either had something to do with me still getting to grips with my new phone or having one too many glasses of wine, or maybe a bit of both!
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has left a message over the past year, I really appreciate your comments - ooh just realised my blog is one year old today as well, happy birthday blog.

Merry Christmas

Wow we have had alot of snow! Reading ground to a halt last night and my poor husband had to walk home as there were no buses - it took him 2 hours!
Never made it to the hospital to visit my mum so we are hoping there will be some sort of bus service later today as it's way to dodgy to drive the car.
After taking the photos the other day of Katie in the snow, I decided to turn one of them into a Christmas card for my mum. Hope it helps to cheer her up as she will be in hospital over Christmas.