Gobble Gobble

I know we don't have Thanksgiving in the UK, but it doesn't mean I can't make a turkey card...
Mr. Turkey turned out rather large, so I put him on one of my larger cards.
Got to love the paper as it 's Basic Grey again.

The inside of the card with embossed background.

Supplies:
DP: Basic Grey Indian Summer
Coredinations Cauldron cardstock
American Crafts white card
Martha Stewart border punch
vintage buttons
Cricut Create A Critter

Sweet

Finally a Cricut card. It has been a while, I know and I have all these lovely carts just lying here.
This card was made with Create A Critter and the images are just so cute.

 Supplies:

DP: We R Memory Keepers Tiffany's pad

Coredinations cardstock

Papermania pearls

Stickles Stardust

Tilda with present

I have been quite busy today. At least I got some useful things done, besides just crafting, which is also useful... The downstairs has been cleaned, laundry done and hanging outside to dry and my lamb stew is gently simmering for tonight's supper. This is my last post for today and if you like Tilda, well...

DP: Eline's Vintage Christmas

Stamps: Magnolia, Sei snowflakes, Woodware Retro words

Trees cut with the Christmas Cricut cartridge

Little one

Hi, A quick baby card to share, made with the Cricut Stamping Cartridge.

I used a pink cardbase with vellum as the background paper. I cut the elements out of pink Coordinations cardstock and changed the color slightly with Copics. I stamped black polka dot flowers on the sentiment. The pram is cut in Making Memories polka dot vinyl. I 'm not sure if the whole layout works, but at least I got my Cricut in action again. It has been a while...

Wishes in pink and blue

I 'm in the mood. It is so hard to resist Eline's Vintage papers.
I had to use them again. They are just so lovely.
When my DH saw this card. he said:" You're again using the same stamps." I replied that these are my winter/Christmas stamps. Then he said:" Ah, well then I need to get you some different ones this weekend." Isn't he sweet, the supporter of my hobby? So funny.

Here she comes... coloured with watercolors, one of my artworks that I prepared when on holiday.
Spellbinders Create a Flake 1, a button and some Viva pearl pen.
More posts should be following, but first some breakfast: hot coffee and a peanutbutter and chocolate cookie, home made, yummie! I found some Reese's peanutbutter cups and pulled a recipe of the web. Not good for my wasteline, but who cares right now?

Let me kiss it better

As I promised.... this one makes the change and is my last post for September.
I found October Afternoon papers in my New Forest craft shop, Emerald Crafts. Splendid paper!

Supplies:

DP: October Afternoon, Making Memories ledger paper

Stamps: Kanban

Colours: Copics and Distress ink

Embellies: flowers; Making Memories, button; Papertrey Ink, brads: Basic Grey, MS borderpunch.

Seriously...

... the next one won't be a Christmas card. I promise. Just sit this one out and the next one will be different. I do like this little snowman from Whiff of Joy an I am particularly keen on these papers. So this is a romantic one...

DP: Marianne Design Eline's Vintage

Dies: Marianne Design Creatables, Nestabilities

Stamps: Whiff of Joy, Hero Arts

Embellies: Petaloo flowers, Viva pearl pen, Distress ink and Fiskars label punch.

Coloured with watercolours from Cotman.

Warmest wishes

Just back from another late shift and just a bit too awake to go straight to bed. So I 'll post another of my Christmas cards. Yes, again. For me these are really usefull and also get well cards.

I tried with no stamped image and just a sentiment. 

Supplies:

DP: My Minds Eye

Spellbinders labels and snowflake

Stamps: Sei

Distress ink by Ranger

Embellies: lace brad and beadcap, Stickles

MS star border punch

Whiff of Joy - Snowman

Good morning,

A rainy Thursday, but nothing can spoil the fun, as I have the day off work.

I have another Christmas card to share and I 'm sorry if you 're not in the mood just yet...

I have a lot to make for this season and I haven't scratched the surface yet.

I have a few stamped images ready, all coloured with watercolours. Although I had a limited color palette, I think they came out alright. They have to look a bit vintage/ shabby.

Supplies:

Stamps: Whiff of Joy, Hero Arts, Sei

DP: Marianne design Eline 's Vintage blue & green

Color: Cotman Watercolours, Distress ink, Stickles, Shimmerz paint

Embellies: Viva pearlpen, MS borderpunch, Nestabilities, Making Memories ribbon, McGill branch punch, Kaisercraft flowers, beadcap, brad, Fiskars label punch.

Celebrate

Hi,
Just posting one of my 2010 Christmas cards. I meant to do them while on holiday, but the weather was good and I had too much fun outside.

Supplies:

DP: Marianne Design Eline's Vintage Christmas in red & blue

Stamps: Hero Arts, Autumn Leaves frame, Sei snowflakes

Dies: marianne Creatables, MS  borderpunch and fiskars label punch

Embellies: Kaiserkraft flowers, stamped with Distress ink and Sei stamps, Making Memories ribbon, Stickles, Viva Pearls and Liquid Applique.

I'm back!

Hello everyone,

My goodness, I haven't posted for more than a month!

I didn't think I was ever going to have a chance to craft again. Nevertheless, we had a wonderfull holiday in the Lake District. I took my craft box in case the weather would be wet and dreary, but we were very lucky and only had rain on a few days. Then I sat down to stamp and colour with watercolours, but didn't make a single card. I only managed to assble them yesterday.

I' ll post a card I was making before we left on holiday, but didn't manage to finish it.

A booklet card, cut with the Cricut Wild Card



The front cover



The inside panels

Another view

 And this is what we have been up to...

Fishing, kayaking, hiking, fell walking,....enjoying life.



Up Black Crag Fell; windy, with stunning views.



Walking in the Grizedale Forest

Catching pike



Walking round the unnamed tarn.



Walking around Grasmere Lake



On our way to Skellwith Waterfall



Taking in the view, behold the traffic...



At Skellwith Falls



Fishing at dusk at Coniston Lake



An old Quarry



Californian tree



Fishing from the kayak



Me, getting us around



On our way to Black Crag



Fishing in Coniston

Fish we were here again!

Best Wishes

Hello everyone,
I  would like to show you my first shaker card.
Using Spellbinders Deckled Rectangle Nestabilitie shape, I cut the acetate and paper. Instead of using foam, I used a clear silicone strip on a roll.
The only disadvantage is that the sides are also a little tacky and I should have put some powder on it to stop the elements clinging to the sides. Nevertheless, this still works.
I used punched paper hearts and some beads for inside the shaker card.

 The DP is from K&Co, the embellishments are pearls made with Viva! pearlpen and MS butterfly punch. The sentiment is a gold peel-off which I colored with permanent marker. The little girl stamp is from Personal Impressions and the background from Crafty Individuals.

The little hearts were made with the MS border punch that you can see here. I think K&Co have such lovely paper and this one has a real vintage feel to it. Click on the pictures for a larger view.

Thanks for looking.

Storybook owl LO for BBTB2

Oh,oh! I was in big doubt if I should put these LO on my blog. I'm putting it on the BBTB2 blog.
I think the pictures of me aren't very flattering, my head looks like it's going to explode. LOL.
So please, you can have a laugh, but just do it behind my back. Anyway, I said the purpose of my blog was: to be able to keep my crafty creations forever, even if the paper versions get destroyed or given away. -and also to share with others, because I enjoy looking at what all of you have made-.
Well then here it goes:

The big wise owl - whooo's head is bigger? mine or yours?- LOL

Not the best picture, but that happens on holiday when you keep trekking from one B&B to another, you see a lot, but get to tired.

I should have maybe laid the LO's down to photograph... well you get the idea.

Paper is from Papermania and K&Co, buttons from Autumn Leaves, little sticker owls from Paperchase.

I used different cuts from the Storybook cartridge.

Magenta Style cards

Hi there,
I treated myself to 2 new craft books last Saturday. We took a trip to Brighton and had a lovely day. Glad we spent the day close to the sea, because that made the heat bearable. While wandering around through Brighton's lovely shopping streets, I spotted 2 books for £2.99 each. Bargain!
One is Magenta Style papercrafts and it gave me the ideas for my next 2 cards. I used 2 Crafty Individuals stamps. I hadn't used the letter background yet, but I must say I really like it. The whole Magenta Style has got an Eastern/ Indian feel to it -at least that is my opinion-.

This time no sentiment and I used gold peel-offs, can't remember the time I used to use these. I still have stacks of them. The bird image is stamped on 4 colors of Coordinations cardstock and then cut out and framed. This one is colored with Whispers Strokes brush pens. All images have been embossed.

Here I used Sakura gelpens to color the peel-offs. This style might not be a permanent thing for me, but I will keep trying it once in a while.

Happy Wishes from Smookie

A little dragon stamp, its name is Smookie, from Nellie Snellen.
I got this stamp from my mom a while ago and never thought I 'd use it. Now finally I felt inspired to use it, mainly because I was looking for a small image and wanted to color with green. How funny is that?
But I like the way it turned out and it looks rather cute, specially with little mousy keeping company.

Again a lot of punching for this card, 5 different types were used on this card. I like this frame-creating with corner punches. I ran into a bit of bad luck this time as my -more than 10 year old punch- collapsed on me. The plastic frame fell apart and all the metal bits and 2 springs popped out. I put it back together, but even the thoughest Locktite couldn't hold it. A good excuse to buy another one...

A close up of the coloring, used a whole lot of different color Copics. The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts and the flower stamp at the back of it is from Making Memories. I used Marianne Design Eline's Vintage paper and flower centers are also MD's. Some Viva pearls to create the pearls and some Stickles for the fireworks.

I love the look of many of the Dutch products and they have won over the British market, so it seems. It is now very easy to find their products in almost every craft shop. Bring it on! I browse everything on the Internet and it's good to see some new stuff come over here.

I got to go now. I have the day off, but I 've got errands to run and need to pick up DH by 12:30 for lunch.

And it is raining today and a bit cooler. Think my flowers and the birdies will be happy.

Hello

Just sharing a little card made with a lot of punching and some Nesties.
I learned this technique from Becca Feeken, where she shows you in a video tutorial how to punch different shapes and sizes of mats with a corner punch. I used my pansy punch from MS.
Another technique is on how to punch around a circle with a corner punch. I used an old flower corner punch. Once you get the hang of it, it is really quite easy.

The paper is by Marianne design Eline's Vintage and inked with Shabby Shutters.

The sentiment is from Crafty Secrets.

Just did a whole lot of punching and enjoyed it and of course the trusted Viva Pearls.

Maybe a better picture without the flash, you can see the dimension in the card a lot better.

Birthday wishes

Hello,
Finally another card. The weather and work have been tying me down. At least we have a summer and it is getting to be a hot one too. Sizzles!
It had to be another Magnolia card. My! I love the way you can dress up these images, the more frillies, the better it is.
On with the card and I have used Basic Grey Kioshi paper. Lovely stuff.

Two main colors or three: lilac, peach and white. I love the discovery of the Viva pearl pen as you can see.

I even dug up one of my old roses border punch, not as good as Martha Stewart, because they will only punch through lightweight paper, but still very pretty.

Colored my white ribbon with Copics to match. The sentiment is from Papertrey ink, love the font.

Also couldn't live without my dear little Cuttlebug and Spellbinders dies.

Really if you ask me what my 3 favourite craft tools are; the Cuttlebug, the Cricut and my heat gun...

Favourite products? Lets see... BG paper, but then there are others, Crafty Secrets stamps, Copics for sure, all the Spellbinders products, Just Rite stamps, Stickles Star Dust, Viva pearls, rub-ons from everyone as I collect them,... I used to collect stickers as a child and still have tons.

What's your favourite?