Happy Birthday

Hi folks, not started the year as I intended with my posts. Still, hope to improve very soon as I am currently decorating my craft room so that is will be ready to be fitted out with cupboards and worktops. Hopefully the man is coming on Monday so can't wait.
I made this card a couple of weeks ago for my daughter's friend. The main image is a Wild Rose Studio stamp that I coloured with Promarkers. The backing paper was made by masking squares off and sponging ink onto the paper and then stamping with a cake, present and happy birthday stamps that I found lurking at the bottom of a draw lol. The flower and 13 were cut using the Slice and there you have it, one birthday card. Will be back to show pictures of my new craft room (fingers crossed!)

Stamp Addicts Happy Birthday

Hi folks, I have just received my new set of stamps from Stamp Addicts and have to say they are fab. I needed a card for a friend with a birthday on Saturday so thought it was the perfect opportunity to try them out. All the images on the above card are from the Stamp Addicts sets except the Happy Birthday. A mixture of ink has been used but the ones I can remember are dusty concorde distress ink and Imperial Purple Versa Fine.
Thanks for looking

A New Baby

Evening all. I bumped into a friend today who told me that her 5th grandchild had been born the day before and it was a girl! She was so pleased so I thought I would make her a card to celebrate. The set of stamps I used were designed by Michelle Marsden and were in the Hobby Craft sale that I picked up for £2.99! Love a bargain. I used a mix of promarkers and distress ink to colour and for speed, made sure I just used double sided tape and sticky fixers to attach everything to the card so I didn't have to wait for any glue to dry before putting it in the post.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year all be it a few days late, lets hope I can blog more this year than last. Last year was a very difficult year for me as my Mum sadly passed away, so a fresh start for this year is very much needed. One thing I am looking forward to is my new craft room. I have arranged for cupboards and worktops to be added to the room I use to craft in and it should be ready by mid February. In the meantime I have to clear the room out, strip the wallpaper and then repaint!

The card I have for you today is just one of the cards I made to say thank you for our Christmas presents. I used a new stamp set by American Crafts, that I picked up for a bargain price of £1.99 in the Hobby Craft sale. On the base card I used green Memento ink and one of the border stamps from the set.I used a square post-it note to mitre the corners so I could get a more clean look. Mat and layered some light green and mid green card and topped the card with a flower cut with the Slice. The light green card and the cream flower have been sponged with Dusty Concorde distress ink and the flower was stamped with the Thank you stamp set using the green Memento pad. The card was finished off with four little purple flower beads that I found lurking in my stash.

Hope to be back soon, thanks for looking.

One more day to go!

Merry Christmas, hope you all have a fabulous time.
Here are the cards that I made for my husband and daughter. I always struggle to make a card for my husband, but the Cricut came to my rescue and some old Christmas papermania papers I found in my stash were very welcome. The stamp used for my daughter's card was designed by Wild Rose Studio and coloured with Promarkers. The background was courtesy of Jak Heath's Blog

I will be spending Christmas at home with my family this year so whatever you are doing have a good one!

Merry Christmas

Hi all hope you are all ready to put your feet up with a large glass of wine this Christmas, I know I am.

Here are a couple of Christmas cards that I made. The base card was coloured with red and green distress inks,then I cut some mirri card with a Spellbinders die and then embossed it with a cuttlebug embossing folder. I then rubbed a red and brown staz-on ink pad over the embossed mirri card and then mounted it onto the main card. The baubles and sentiment cards were cut using the Cricut and then stamped and coloured with distress ink. The card was then finished off with red and green ribbon and there you have it.

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas and best wishes for the new year.

Autumn Birthday Card

Hi there, hope you are all well. It's my husband's birthday today so I thought I would celebrate by making a late Autumn card, however I think I should have added a bit of snow and ice as it seems Autumn has come to an abrupt end judging by the ice and snow scattered around the country.
I was really looking forward to using these new stamps which have been designed by Sheena Douglas. The leaf plate is my favourite. I loved creating the colours for the leaves. I used yellow, green and brown Glimmer Mists before stamping onto the dried sheet of paper. I then sponged on some red distress ink to finish off the autumnal leaf look. The main image was stamped using Vintage Photo distress ink, then I brushed water over the image to create a water colour look. I also added some blue and green distress ink to the design to create a bit of depth.

The sentiments were cut using a Quickutz alphabet and then a silver rub on was added to highlight the ridges in the paper. A spellbinders nesting die was used for the centre design.

Hope to be back soon with some more designs. Ta ra...........

Birthday Girl

This flower girl stamp has been well used for all the girly birthday cards that I have had to make this year. It is a Wild Rose Studio stamp which I coloured with ProMarkers. The background has been stamped with lilac Brilliance ink, then highlighted with a white gel pen. The gel pen acts as a resist so doesn't take on the distress ink colour that I have added using a dry bristle brush.
The sentiment has been cut using a Quickutz alphabet and the hole card has been finished off with a Fiskars punch along the edge of the design which has then been threaded with ribbon. I always try and buy different widths of plain white ribbon and then dye it with Staz-On ink to match my colour scheme, which is what I have done for this card.

So there you have it - two posts in a week, oooh I have come over all faint, think I need a lay down. :-)

Belle Dame - Elusive Images

Hello all, just thought I would show the card I made using my blog candy win from Elusive Images.
I coloured the design with Distress Ink, but instead of applying the ink with a pad I used a large dry bristle brush. I found this to be so much easier as you can build the colour more evenly than using the cut and dry foam. I masked off the lady and then stamped the chandelier so it looks like it is in the background and the stylised flower that is around the edges is also from the same stamp plate.
Really pleased that my comment was randomly picked as the stamp plate is fab. Thanks once again to Glenda and her team at Graphicus.

Bird Canvas

Hello folks. The begining of another week and I am up to my eyes in decorating. I have stripped the wallpaper in our front room with the help of my husband and daughter and then it is down to me to paint and paper the room again this week. Need to get my act together as the house is upside down with the contents of the front room distributed randomly in each room.

Realised I haven't posted for a while so thought I would show this canvas. The backfround has been stamped using a waterfall big and juicy inkpad and then a couple of inkadinkadoo stamp sets have been used to create the main features of the canvas and there you have it. Just off now for more decorating .......

Rose Birthday Card

Hello hope you are well. Things are a bit grey and wet here so I think summer has finally gone. Just as a little reminder for the passing season I thought I would post a cheery rose birthday card that I made for a friend. The main stamp was a do craft stamp and the background was a Tea Rose stamp from Joanna Sheen.

I now have my craft room in some sort of order so am able to find things again. You would not believe the state it had got into. Have no idea how it happened it just sort of evolved until it was impossible to find anything lol. So now there is no excuse to get creative..........

Be back soon xxx.

Happy Anniversary To Me!

Today is mine and my husband's 17th wedding anniversary. We all seem to struggle over men cards and this was no exception. I started with a DL base card and created the backing paper using some light blue card to which I stamped the Hero Arts script stamp. I then stamped the stop watch and key designs (all hero arts and picked up super cheaply in our local Home Sense store)over the script and then sponged distress ink over the top. The glasses, frame and border are all from a clear stamp set from Personal Impressions and the sentiment was created using the computer. The card was finished off with little photo clips. I think my husband appreciated it......!