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shoe card

Thought I had better update the poor old blog do here goes.

glitter and whimsy

Hello blog-land, I'm sorry for being a bad blogger but it is easier to post on Facebook or pinterset sorry to those of  you who are not on either of those. I do love whimsy stamps, it was so nice to get my copics out and to sit and colour  this, its a shame it took me so long to decide how to put the card together.

Happy crafting and hope you are all well xx

Pretty as a picture

Hello to my lovely viewers, I seem to be getting better at posting lately, but lets not shout too loud and tempt fate.  Hope you all watched Jenny Mayes from Hobby Art on create and craft tv this week, I do love her stamps, and will be putting in a large order, and not forgetting the lovely Julie Hickey from Craftwork Cards how spoilt were we this week.

My other love is lili of the valley colored with copics R80's with lili of the valley bow stamp om Martha Stewart punched borders with card candy on spellbinders Nestability die. Bye for now but hope to be back soon xx

Lili of the valley wedding couple

Hi everyone. I thought i would get one of my favourite stamps out again. The border at the bottom and the silver frame are from Memory box. The little married couple would not fit in the mirror frame so I cut it in half and added a section in each side to make it larger. I was really pleased with the finished card, nothing like I started out to do, Oh well never mind.

I'm off to a hen night tomorrow at a Greek restaurant with plate smashing etc that should be fun. Hope you all have a lovely weekend too.

a few flowers

Hi crafters, hope you are all looking forward to a lovely long weekend of crafting. Last week this is what I achieved, very different but I like them both.

These beautiful flower stamps are from imagination crafts.  I could not decide what to do....... watercolour with distress inks or copics do I done one of each.

hope you like the results, not sure which is my favorite. Happy crafting x

hair Grrrrrr

hello crafters its too hot to even craft in this heat......

 

I am really struggling to understand the hair techniqe.  Its not as

if i have not been shown enough. found a tutorial on line and going to practice practice practice. see how that goes. We are now having a thunder storm so hope it cools down a bit tommorow. happy crafting xx

crocus time

I love these products from imagionation crafts. Stamps, stencils, pastes etc.

This is a beautiful stamp of a crocus, the background swirl is also on  the set. the crocus was watercoloured  using my inktence pencils. A nice change from my copics. hope the sun shines for the weekend. Happy crafting.

Happy sunny sunday. Not many cards made lately, lots of stamping and a bit of colouring. so I thought I had better share.

Lili of the valley little footie bear, colured with copics. Enjoy the sun and happy crafting xx

alfies party

Not sure what happened here, I got two posts saved as draft, , perhaps something to do with the wind, ha ha. Here we are anyway.

craftwork cards alfie bear stamp and paper. coloured with copics. Hope you all had a lovely easter.

One for little Annie as promised.

Hello to you all on this cold snowey day.
I was playing with a little claire set of stamps also using up some craftwork cards papers there were quite a few small pieces I had so made a little patchwork and paper pieced the ties. And of course some card candy.

Hope you are all wrapped up nice and warm, perfect crafting weather Brrrrrrrrrrrrr. Just not looking forward to getting to work tomorrow.

Flitter glue and indigo blu

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas xx

I love the effect of using the guilding flakes but just hate the sticky flitter glue, it gets everywhere.

One for the girls

Happy Saturday all. Sat here surfing the blogs when I really should be getting on with something, think I can hear you all saying that!

Here is a card I made a while back that never got on my blog, I like this stamp it is one of the stamping Bella designs. Not very good pictures Im afraid, but you can get the gist.

Hope the weekend stays dry. Happy stamping all, better get on with some Christmas cards only 11 weeks to go........... Ops!

paper pieced snowmen

Hi all, shhhhh dont tell the weather man but the sun is out, he said it was going to rain today, but it has started to get chilly now.

I had one of those no mojo days yesterday, I really struggled to paper piece this francoise  snowman set, it was just not going right. I could not get me colours right. I fiddled a bit more last night and came up with the below, still not happy, but better.

Today I decided perhaps I was using the wrong colours and tried again with a much better result.

 

Hope you like my little snowmen off to add a touch of glitter and glossy accents to them and maybe some card candy. Hope you all have a good week xx

Little baby popcorn bear

Hello my lovelies on this wonderful sunny day - well it is here down south, hope the weather is behaving for you too. I have been making cards I promise, just not had time to load them on my blog.
A little baby gate fold card I recently made with the georgus popcorn the bear stamp.

 

 The papers were craft creations with a few quikutz die cut feet, the alphabet was a Cuttlebug but can not remember what it is called off the top of my head.

Happy blogging thanks for looking and hope to be back soon xx

Emma's wedding card

Hello to you all on another miserable wet day. I think instead of making cards  would be better building an Arc.

Anyway back to the card this card idea was inspired by dena I thought this was just stunning. However I have adapted it to make it my own and I did make the roses and added lots of stickles.

Hope you all have a lovely week and a bit less rain xx

Happy Fathers Day!

Hello All and a very Happy Fathers day to all the Dads out there. Here is this years selection I came up with. Good ole footie (Quikutz die) not sure where I got the layout from now? anyway I liked it. Papermania Dad stamp and Hobby Art Fathers day sentiment.

Penny Black London collection and lots of glossy accents.

Another Penny Black London collection with one of the cling stamps for the background.

All very appropriate for the Jubilee last weekend, what a shame the weather was not that good. Glad now the sun is shinning. See you soon and happy crafting xx 

Card for the Groom

Another challenge, people must love to see me pull my hair out. This was a challenge given to me by Emma, who got married on 16th May. I was given a photo of her hubby to be outfit for the wedding. With a personel poem to put inside. Any way after lots of um's and Argh's this was my completed task. I am so pleased he loved it.

The wedding was lovely and a lovely day the sun shone on the happy couple and I will post the wedding card next week. Just one big thank you to Jane Gill for the template for the suit xx

Hero Art Shoe

Rain Rain go away!
Ok so I know we need it, those of us who live down south already have a hose pipe ban. But I do wish someone could turn the tap off upstairs, just for a little while.
Anyway not wanting to go out and get wet I have been in making cards.  I enjoyed making this  embossing the squares with different folders and a bit of matting and layering. I stamped the shoe on to pink patterned paper then put clear embossing powder on it to make it shine as I do have a bit of a thing for black patent shoes, you only have to look in my wardrobe to tell.

Happy crafting everybody xx

Wedding Acceptance cards

Happy Easter to all, hope you have not eaten too many choccie eggs.
Recently I was asked to make a couple of Wedding acceptance cards.The first one was for a civil partnership I just copied how the  wedding invitation had been made then put a pocket on the inside to place the acceptance card in. The initials are P and R and this was done using a mirror card and a matt silver card using the Sizzix Serrif essentials alphabet.

On this I used the lovely Memory box heart cut in silver mirror card, with the date of the wedding and the couples initials.

Both very simple cards but effective. Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of your Easter break.