Spots Before the Eyes!

A while ago I was lucky enough to win a large box of Craftwork Card Candi from a magazine. They come in loads of different colours and they are one of my most used embellishments! I now see they come in a spotted design, so think I will have to add to my collection as I love the effect. The Craftworks blog has some great ideas for using them on your cards.

This card was made with Kaisercrafts Nans Favourites papers and loads of candy spots - the sentiment is a Craftworks one too - they are printed on lovely quality card with a slight sheen to it and always look great. As you can see I'm a bit of a Craftworks fan!!

Gorjuss Girl Birthday Card

Another attempt at using up my stash - I almost feel a halo over my head. Plus I sold 5 cards at the car boot sale this morning!

But I am likely to be visiting a nearby craft shop next week, so really I'm just making space for any new goodies that will fall into my basket!

a Bit of Baroque

Still trying to use up a bit of stash! The background paper is from the Gypsy Sister collection by Kaisercraft. This is a yummy set where the papers are almost too nice to use, some even have flocking to add texture!

The silk flowers were coloured by promarkers to match the card candi dots. I'm doing a car boot sale this weekend and will take a few cards along to see if they sell and will add this one into the pile.

Girls, Swirls & Butterflies

Another attempt to use up my stash - thats 2 sheets of paper down, only another 498 to go! I popped over to ICS blog to get an idea for a sketch and came up with this take on it. It also used up a Gorjuss topper, Tim Holtz flourish and some prima flowers as well!

A box of old photos.....

I bought a box of oddments at a local auction that contained loads of old black & white family photos.

I have used a few to make some ATC's for

vintage swaps but still have lots left - so decided to make some Thank You RAKS to send to the hosts of the atc swaps that I join. Seems a great way to use up some of my stash too!

Hanglar Skater Boy Birthday Card

I'm on a bit of a roll with masculine cards at the moment!

This cute Hanglar skater boy was teamed up with starry paper from the Forever friends range and a star shaped charm with brown voile ribbon. He is coloured with promarkers and highlighted with white gel pen.

I'm desparetely trying not to buy any more crafting stuff until payday - avoiding visiting any craft shops or even the Range until the end of the month. I have so much papers to use up I cannot justify buying any more!!!

Zooming off into the distance!

This card started off as a way of using up some of the card in my stash - the orange layer just matched the car sticker that was free with this months Papercraft Inspirations magazine. I then popped over to ICS blog for a sketch idea to put this card together and voila! a great card in time for my Uncles birthday!

A Couple More Nitwits!

I've made a couple more cards today using Nitwit downloads - It's not often you see an ostrich on a birthday card is it!

He is from the Hulabazoo collection whilst the cat is from the Me-Wow one . I was lucky enough to win a can of 'spray and sparkle' today - shall I wait and use it for christmas? Unlikely!!

Here Come the Boys

This card was made to enter a new challenge site called Here Come the Boys - for those hard to make masculine cards! The first challenge is anything goes! This card uses an image from a free Docrafts cd-rom that came with Creativity Magazine and the blue swirls are from a pack of bazzil die cuts.

I thought this would make a great card for my 12-year old nephews birthday.

Watch out for Tatty Teddys!

I made these 2 cards with the free Tatty Teddy stamp in the current Docrafts Creativity magazine and I really like them, but I am worried that I cannot use them on any cards that I make for charity.

Sarpreets blog explains that Docrafts have not yet negotiated an angel policy over their use and so at the moment the images cannot be sold! I hope this can be sorted out soon as there is a whole range of cute Tatty Teddy card making stuff just been released!

Pixie Dust Tag

This parcel tag was stamped with a one of my favourite freebie stamps from Craft Stamper Magazine. The bird is in a heart and is surrounded by scroll stamps.

It was then sprayed with gold and bilberry crush cosmic shimmer mists and highlighted with white gel pen.

I'm entering this in the Pixie Dust Paperie April Challenge which ends on the 5th May

I'm a bit of a Nitwit!

In fact I'm a big NitWit fan and as they have a bit of a sale on their collections at the moment, I couldn't resist downloading the Me-Wow, Farley & Friends and Hullabazoo collections.

There is also some free Nitwit papers with Simply cards Magazine this month so I have plenty to play with!

A Couple of Baby Boy Cards

My niece has just announced she is pregnant and although the baby isn't due until December, I felt inspired to make a couple of cards in advance!

She already has a 3 year old boy but feels it might be a girl this time, so I better make a pink one as well.

A Hat for the Wedding!

I just love wearing a hat at a wedding - the bigger the better and here is a photo to prove it from last summer.

As I haven't been invited to Kate & Williams wedding, I made this card instead using a vintage image downloaded from Digital Two for Tuesday site - they have some unusual old images on there and all for free!

Happy Easter Everyone!

After a few hectic days visiting friends, family and the Zoo, I'm looking forward to a quiet day at home today - who knows, if it is another scorcher, I might just have to come indoors and craft to get away from the heat!

I'm trying to make a few teal coloured cards for Scottishmisty over on DoCrafts to help raise funds for Overian Cancer so that is another good excuse to get the stash out, here is my first one.

Viva La Flora Photochips

I'm trying to avoid chocolate so I treated my self to these Darkroom Door Viva La Flora photochips instead.

They were a little pricy for some mono photos of flowers but they look very elegant layered onto black and gold. The gold cards I am going to keep as sympathy cards.

Just loving this Marianne Bird

This 'bird on a branch' has got to be one of my favourite dies. Its from Marianne Creatables and looks fabulous as a silhouette.

I know I have featured an ATC and a sympathy card made with it before on my blog but couldn't resist posting this latest birthday card for a male birdwatcher friend as well.

Easter Cards Galore!

The pack of free Docrafts Honey & Hugs papers that came with this months Papercraft Inspirations magazine seemed just right for Easter cards.

I know its a bit late, but I rattled off these 5 cute cards in just one evening. Each, very similar in layout and desigh but slightly different!

More Pampered Pets

Just a quick posting of my latest card using the Pampered pets range of papers - this time its a thank you card to be kept for future use.

I like to have a selection of different cards to hand just in case!

An inspirational Square Card

As usual I turned to the Inspirational Card Sketch challenge when I feel like doing something a bit different.

This time they had a square surrounded by 4 rectangles. As I had just treated myself to the Docrafts pampered pets paper pack, it seemed a great idea to dive in and use it!

Poppies Galore for Clarky J

The very talented Clarky J has put out a call for Poppy themed cards to help raise funds for the Poppy Appeal Fund at a do that her hubby is organising in October.

I dug out 3 different poppy stamps to make these cards for her. sorry about the rubbish photos.

If you can help, please hop over to her blog to find out details - the more cards the merrier for this great charity!

A Bird in a Cage

I've teamed up a free image from Making cards mag with some fab silver and black swirly paper from Red Hot Bed to make this birthday card for a friend. The birdcage is matted onto black and silver to really make it stand out!

Cats With Attitude

I treated myself to a set of Inkadinkado Cat Attitude stamps today and of, course, could not resist trying them out straight away!

So I've made these atc's to swap with any other cat lovers - I have a growing collection of cat stamps of all shapes and sizes, just like my pets.

There is the oldest tabby 9 year old Pangur, named after a cat in a 9th Century Irish poem. Then the brother and sister from the same litter - Millie a small black bundle of fur who is a little timid and likes to sit on top of the DVD player and watch what is going on.

Finally we have mad Moxxi, boisterous, fast and very nosey who puts up with loads of love and cuddles from my daughter. He and Millie are both 10 months old but Moxxi here in the photo is twice the size of his sister!

I'm a sucker for a freebie!

I cannot resist a free gift of stamps on a magazine and so had to get this months Cardmaking & papercraft Mag with these cute Adam Pescott pet stamps.

I then had a nice relaxing session colouring them up with promarkers ready for when inspiration strikes!

Pampered Pussy Cats!

I treated myself to some more of the Docrafts Pampered Pets range.

I especially like these smug looking cats!