Afternoon ladies, the card I have to share today is a birthday card made using a stamp set from Inkadinkadoo. The main image has been stamped and embossed on a spellbinders die cut which I layered over a black die cut. The feather and swril from the same set has been used for the background and Distress Ink sponged around the edges.

I made this card some time ago so have forgotton the exact details as it has long been sent but thought I would post as it has been quite sometime since my last blog entry......oh hum. I wont make any excuses, but will just aim to post a bit more which is always my aim but never happens! Does anyone else feel like that, honestly meaning to do something but really never getting on top of the task?

Thanks for looking and will (hopefully) be back soon.

Happy Halloween

Hello crafty bloggers. Hope you all have a happy Halloween. I made these two cards along the theme of Halloween using a set of stamps from Chocolate Baroque. Really love the set as they are not tied to Halloween and can be used anytime you need something a bit creepy. The inks used are all distress from Tim Holtz apart from the tree in the howling dog card which was some silver Brilliance. I love the howling dog as the silhouette could easily be that of our dog, Ellis, thankfully he is much more well behaved than the dog in the picture!

Butterfly Tree

Hi bloggers, hope your Tuesday afternoon is going well. The card I have to share with you today is this butterfly tree birthday card that I made for one of my daughter's friends recent birthday. All the main images have been stamped using a set from Little Claire. The happy birthday sentiment is from a stamp set from Stamp Addicts and was cut out using a spellbinders die. I coloured the stamped images with promarkers and sponged some pink distress ink around the edges of the top layer and the happy birthday. Its hard to see in this picture but I have added some crystal stickles glue to parts of the tree and main butterflies which adds an extra little sparkle to the card.
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Oriental Lady

Hello everyone. The card I have to share today is a something I made for a friend as she is off to China tomorrow and it was her birthday last week. I think the lady is Japanese but I thought it was close enough and I think my friend appreciated it.....lol.
The stamps I used are all from an oriental set by Michelle Marsden and they have all been coloured with Promarkers. The red ribbon is just a strip of card coloured with the red promarker used in the main image so that it matches. The Happy Birthday sentiment was stamped onto a spell binders die cut and the coins were stamped onto gold card and then cut out with a small spellbinders circle die.
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Introducing Ellis

Hello blogger folk. Big apologises for not posting anything crafty for nearly a month but I have a reasonable excuse this time lol! Bloggers that are not Facebook friends will not know that I am now the proud owner of a rescued collie cross called Ellis. We have had him for five weeks now and the time has gone so quick. He is a fantastic little dog but just needs some work when he is out on walks as he is not sure how to greet other dogs. He runs up to them and gives them a doggy sniff but then quickly runs away again while the other dog looks on thinking what a loon! He also loves jumping up at people if they happen to glance at him to give him a friendly smile. Ellis takes this as they want to play and doesn't think to check that this is ok with them before he goes and bounces on them......very embarrassing!

Ellis does not like his photo taken and he does not like the hoover. In this picture he is hiding at the top of the stairs away from the hoover and I go and make it worse by taking his pictures so he is not looking very happy. We can only take pictures of him while he is asleep because as soon as he sees a camera he will look or run away. Obviously not going to be a model then......

One Stroke Painting

Good afternoon. I have something slightly different to show today. These two projects are my first attempts at one stroke painting. I spent the day at Brushstrokes in Wokingham yesterday and this is what I was taught. The first project we did was the picket fence painted onto the front of an A4 folder. I am quite pleased with the way it turned out, however the butterfly looks a bit surprised by something and seems to be trying to stop in mid air lol! The second project we did was the gift bag and it seems the butterfly on this is not much better, but over all I had a good day and picked up some new skills.

Afternoon bloggers. The card I have to share with you today is a boys birthday card that was coloured using Promarkers. The car stamp was a freebie from a card magazine but I am afraid I can't remember which one it was :-(. The back ground has been created using a That Special Touch Mica Mask which I ran through my Cuttlebug to emboss the paper before colouring with distress ink.
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Hope everyone is enjoying the bank holiday weekend. In keeping with the bad weather we have been having recently I thought I would post the last of the cards I made using the Stamp Addicts, April stamp set. To make it look like actual rain drops I dripped diamond glaze onto acetate and attached it to the card with brads. The scalloped edge around the main image has been created by stamping the little solid umbrella stamp from the set.
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Evening folks. Haven't blogged in ages I know but I do have a reasonable excuse as it is the school holidays and we have also been organising our new family member's arrival. He is in the shape of a black and white border collie cross called Ellis that we have got from the local rescue shelter. I will post a couple of pictures later but for now I just have this anniversary card that I made a while back for a friend's 50th wedding anniversary.

Lets go fly a kite.......

Good afternoon. The card I have to share with you today is again made with the April set from Stamp Addicts. I just used the kite and umbrella stamp. As you can see I have used the umbrella stamp to form the butterflies by just inking up the main umbrella part and wiping the ink from the handle and tip of the umbrella to form each wing of the butterfly. The kites have been decoupaged and both the butterflies and kites have been coloured using promarkers. The background was created by using a colour duster brush and stippling blue and white ink onto the card to form a sort of blotchy sky effect. The Thank You sentiment is from a different set but also from Stamp Addicts and has been stamped onto a spellbinders diecut. The sky background was mounted onto a scrap of card that I coloured with the green promarkers around the edges to match the rest of the card and the tail of the bottom kite has been replaced with some wire that I beaded and then attached to the reverse of the kite. To finish off I just added green and purple stickles glitter glue to the butterflies wings and to the kite.
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April Showers in August

Hi folks. Hope it's not too wet where you are. It's raining here so thought it appropriate to post this card made with a set of stamps from Stamp Addicts titled April. The background has been created by stamping the little solid umberella stamp in a pale blue and then over stamping with a darker blue. The little girl has been stamped with black memento ink and then coloured with promarkers. A pale blue was brushed around the little girl and then the darker blue was added on top of the pale blue with a scrunched baby wipe. The topper was layered onto a piece of card that I edged with the red promarker that I used to colour the hat and wellies so that it matched exactly.The card was finished off with a little red and white gingham bow which I tried to match with the little girls ribbons by coloruring them red and then dotting a white marker pen onto them. There you have it, hope the sun comes back soon!

Hello ladies. Just back from my hols so thought I had better do a quick blog post. This is another of the many 13th birthday cards I have had to make. The main stamped image along with the chalk sprays used for the background were free gifts for subscribing to Craft Stamper magazine. The Happy Birthday is from a set by Stamp Addicts and the 13 was cut using a quickutz die set. The wooden butterfly charm was covered with distress ink before being glittered using stickles glue. The same stickles was used to highlight the butterflies on the main stamped image and there you have it, another 13th birthday card.......