I've had this flower shaped cuttlebug die for ages without using it - so thought it was about time I dusted it off and made a pot of yellow, orange and red spring flowers finished off with a bit of glitter in the middle!
Retro mono black and white birthday card using the great Mary Quant image and Carnaby Street sign from the Abbey Road collection from Kaban against a backing paper I have had kicking around for ages!
Yes, its that Jayne Netley Mayhew stamp of a wren again. This must be the 6th or 7th card I have made with it and this time I've teamed it up with the free Kate Knight papers from Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine which match the blackberries so well! I'm still getting to grips with the new designs on the docraft website, most things seem to take longer to do but there are more choices and flexibility on postings and searchings. If you have the time I recommend you hop over to the Cats Whiskers blog to look at the Just Magnolia Challenge - I love that bute little frog!
I think this vintage digi image of 2 small girls from Digital Two for Tuesday is just soo cute! I've coloured them with promarker pens and edged with distressing inks and finally layed against a piece of textured gold paper for a sweet atc.
I made this for a friend who is due to have her baby soon, I thought the elephant digi image was so sweet and coloured it with promarkers. I haven't done much crafting today as I visited my grandmother and did her shopping and then went for a 5 mile walk. I'm going to do a 8 mile midnight walk for my local hospice soon and need to get fitter!
This is another one of those Inkadinkado stamps - my mother and daughter have spent the day on Weymouth beach - lucky them!
These are just 3 of the stamps from the set - there are another 3 that I haven't had a chance to use yet!
Youngest daughter is off on a holiday with her grandma this weekend so I think I will use the time for a crafting session to play with the rest of the stamps.
I was pleased to see a card of mine featured in the readers gallery of Aprils Making Cards Magazine - as usual the family were a bit underwhelmed by it, but I loved seeing my name in print! Anyway this card was made with the free papers from that magazine and I thought I would give to my Dad for his birthday. I'm sure there is an old photo of him in a similar pose next to one of his cars somewhere!
This ATC was made with clear heat embossing of a fir trees stamp on a black card, which were then washed with cosmic shimmer watercolours then a round moon painted in the sky with pearlesant white comic shimmer, its difficult to get the shimmery effect in a photo!
I'm really enjoying the CRAFTRAK card exchange - I love being able to see how many miles your card is travelling on a map and the fun of receiving some lovely cards from new friends.This is my latest card that will go off on its travels with one of my favourite cat stamps. Check it out at www.craftrak.com
Isn't this a sweet little digi image of a dog holding a red rose between his teeth, I thought it was very cute! Today was my Mums birthday so I treated her to lunch and bought her some flowers. she loved the wren birthday card I made also. However I was beaten by my daughter Libby who made her Nannie 3 different birthday cards each with a cat on them!
Cosmic shimmer paints really do live up to their name, I love the shimmering effect as a background. These 4 atcs were made with the turquoise ocean, emerald gold and pearlescent watercolour paints and the 2 on the right hand side also had rich gold shimmer mist sprayed on. Unfortunately they do not photograph very well so you dont get the full effect!
I made this card to send to Ben, a child on the postpals website - they encourage you to 'post a smile to a sick child', just by sending a card to a seriously ill child and their siblings. You can help to make a difference to their lives and I encourage you all to join in if you can.
This fab vintage image is free from Digital Two for Tuesday site, coloured with promarkers and I have teamed it up with a metalic card run through the cuttlebug with my new Fleur De Lis embossing folder and also a oval nestie with swiss dots.
I treated myself to a new Cuttlebug folder yesterday - its called Jewells and has butterflies and swirly leaves on it, you can't really see much of it on this card, but I really like it and hope I will get lots of use out of it in the future!
