My dear friend

The colours in this card just make me thinkof autumn - tilda coloured with promarkers and copics, MME paper, fabulous large sentiment from SU Occasional greetings set (a real multi use set with a stamp to cover most occasions,let me know if youwould be interested in purchasing it - you won't be disapointed)greeting and flowers stamped on SU dp, brads from stash and corners created with square scalloped punch again from Stampin'Up!

This card fits a fewchallenges too-

cute card thursday #123- include text

simon says stamp - going dotty

YAAAAY! UPS man just been!

You will can tell from the title of this post that it doesn't take much to get me excited!

The lovely man in brown has just been and delivered some more Stampin' Up! goodies, some for me and some for some lovely customers I have--new stamps, ribbon and d/p for me - looks like i may have to go and play....oooh the hardship!.........good thing i prepared dinner earlier in between stalking the delivery man from the window and pretending to tidy up! 

Maybe have something to show you later- ta ta for now x

Anyone for cake?

This is one of my all time favourite stamped images - ittranscends all age groupsaswe all like Birthday and most of us all like cake, and he is such a cheeky little chappie

Image has been coloured with copics and cut out with circle nesties, the dp is MME and cut with SU eyelet border punch, and the lovely grosgrain is  SU regal rose and a few faceted gems from my stash - i have a very dear friends Birthday in the next couple of days so this is going to be winging its way to her -

this little cutie fits a few challenges this week:-

ooh la la creations challenge-59 - Birthday

charismacardz.challenge #30- something with a tail

cinspirations challenge #71 animals

bythecuteandgirly - animal antics

stampinbschallenge -#69 birthday

rosie dees challenge#76 all creatures great and small

In the MOO'd for a swing?

This fabby image just makes me smile every time I use it  - and it is so quick and easy to colour too! The
image  is coloured with promarkers and copics, and die cut with nesties, the edges of which were distressed with SU pretty in pink and bordering blue inks, this blended in too a muted purple which blended in with the d/p i had chosen from my stash.  Oval  label cut with a nellie snellen die and SU grosgrain ribbon threaded through it to add a splash of colour

Animals were the Challenge theme over at cinspirations.#71

Flowers for you

This tilda stamp is such a mutli use stamp -covers sooooo many occasions  - just love her to bits and totally different depending on the d/p and colours you use . This image was coloured with copics, glittery dotty paper from stash, have aded some diamond dust to the roses - this is like crystal glitter - doesn't show up too well on piccie but sure makes the roses shine when the light hits them, sentiment from retired SU sale-a-baration set and some white grosgraon to finish it off

As i have gone Dotty with this card too - it fits in with the challenge over at

simon says stamp challenge

Sweet as Sugar

Bright,zingy colours for this little piece of sugar - coloured with promarkers and copics -  swiss dots embossing folder used on base card, olive paper - retired Su d/p and MME orange dotty paper. Used some of the delicious old olive satin ribbon from SU and added some matching prima flowers with little beaded centres .

challenges that this card fit are:-

sugar bowl blog challenge #40-do-it-yourself - great challenge this week as you were to pick your own choice of sketch ( i chose sketch #20) from the gallery(loads to choose from!) and  it was to be a do it yourself style of card

simon says stamps challenge - going dotty - they wanted you to go Dotty - did that with base card and paper

C.R.A.F.T challenge#61 -hot and spicy colours - hope these colours fit the bill

Tilda Has a pressie!

Love this Tilda image, as although she was a Christmas stamp, I think she can be used all year round, after all we all love pressies at our Birthday;s too - don't we?  I know i do

I have used Happy Birthday embossing folder and made the wording pop by rubbing over with SUpretty in pink ink,  edges around the nestie cut  image also coloured with pretty in pink ink, tilda coloured with copics and i also added some lovely SU striped pretty in pink ribbon to finish it off

I have enterd this card into the following challenges:-

cute card thursdaychallenge-123-texting-crazy

magnolia down under challenges~57 Birthday

creative inspirations challenge #39 Anything goes

dutchdare #83--anything-goes

 

Back with some challenges!

It's been a long time since i entered any cards into some challenges -so I have had a crafty day to myself and put some cards together to fit some challenges that are out there in blogland at the moment.

Here is the first card I made :-

image coloured with promarker,copics and distress ink, SU sweet pea designer paper, SU rich razzleberry ribbon, handmade flower and brads from stash.

 entering this one into :-

Sarah Hurley - anything goes   - sketch to follow

Sarah Hurley blog hop

Wow, How lucky am I!! - I joined in Sarah's blog hop at the weekend and i have been lucky enough to be picked as one of the blog hop winners and have won one of Sarah's new Crafty CD's - chuffed to bits and will stalk the postie until it arrives - can't wait to play with it

Teacher card

School holidays for our Scottish kiddies started at the end of June - so we are half way there now!

My daughter had a lovely male teacher this year, who seemed to bring out the best in her and all the other kids in the class too!  He made learning fun for them all - and unfortunately for our school he is moving on to pastures new - good luck to him wherever he ends up.  He had the kids learning their geography by bringing in Guitar Hero and having them do a wold tour - inspirational! the kids loved it

With this in mind, it made making his card a lot easier than it might have been!  I always find it difficult to buy for male teachers so incorporated a gift card pocket on the underside of my easel card and that let him choose a gift of his own - used my fabulous Su alphabet for his name and the 'U Rock' which was cut out with my circle punch........................he made a point of coming over to me at the end of school to say he ws delighted with his card and thought it was quite ingenious the way the gift card was hidden..........gold star for me then.....it feels so nice when a plan all comes together!

Mum's Birthday today

It is my lovely Mum's Birthday today -

  HAPPY 65th  BIRTHDAY MUM!!
           from all of us xxxxxx

She eventually decided to retire this year, so lots more crafting time for her! - mind you since she came back her holidays, i think she has baked every day!!  The kids are loving it.......dad is too!!!!

Not going to put her card on here just yet - she might have a sneaky peek on here before i get over to hers! pop back later to see it.  will post my daughters teachers card for you to look at  for now

see you later xx

A vintage get well wish

Hi everyone,

 hope your weather is ok, its a bit up and down here, one minutes its rain then the sun comes out!

I made this card for a very dear crafty friend  - she had waited a little while to have a hip op and now she has eventually had it done and is no longer in any pain - hope it all keeps improving Marlene.  Picked the ever popular vintage vogue and used the rock n roll technique  - this must surely go into the new catty when it comes out  in October- it is so poular(and versatile!) I also used some of the fabby rich razzleberry ribbon(and cardstock) too and sentiment from the sincere salutations - this is a set i use almost daily - it covers soooooo many occasions and of course ......my scalloped edge punch

having fun with my butterfly punch!

Been playing around with my punches over the last couple of days,  and these flowers came about purely by accident!  I was punching lots of things out and just sitting them to the side and when i turned and looked again, 2 of the butterflies i had punched were sitting across one another, looked similar to another flower punch i have - but you could make these ones multi layered.  Rolled my sandy speckled roller on them and the centres were from the boho blossoms punch - really liked these when they were done!

items used :-

butterfly punch

very vintage roller

sany specles roller

sincere salutations stanp set

rich razzleberry ink

orchid opulence c/s

ex large bird punch - for the leaves

Mini Post-it note keyring

Great little gift to give away to friends, prospective customers and hostesses -  really simple and quick to make -

 here's how:-

make a wrap with some cardstock, add your post it note inside, punch hole  through the c/s and post it note with  a cropadile  and add a spltr ring to keep it all together - you can decorate the ring it with some lovely co-ordinating ribbons - i've used a punched scallop circle and the flight of the butterfly stamp set - hope you like it!

Dear Friend card

This is a card i made for a challenge a few weeks back,but wasn't able to upload because of camera problems, created my own background by using a couple of stamps and inks, the challenge was based around a sketch - hence the layout - the sentiment is one of my all time favourites, have also used the new rich razzleberry spotty ribbon on this too - aren't the new ribbons just delicious!

Vintage Vogue Gum Wrapper

Hi everyone, made this gum wrapper from just a few scraps and the vintage vogue stamp set and some old olive grosgrain ribbon - this could be adjusted insize to fit any type of gum you like, I wanted a wrap to fit the type of gum that came in a blister pack - certainly gets lots of nice comments when i bring it out  my bag!

oops just noticed - lost one of my flower centres - bet its at the bottom of my bag!

hello strangers

OOPS!  Did you think i had fallen off the edge of the planet?  Sorry - think normal service wil be resumed - with the kids off on school holidays and lots of activites on the go  - life has been a tad hectic! Took the 2 youngers ones to the Lake District for the week and stayed longer than i had originally planned - we had some great fun x I did mange to make  a few bits and pieces that i hope to show you over the next few days.

This is a cd wallet which i have made - great idea for Birthdays and Christmas and a much nicer way to give a cd.  I have used the Crazy for cupcakes set and the Baroque motifs and the eyelet border punch, think i will make a few of these to have on standby!

Sorry for going awol!

Hi all - long time no speak!!  Life been hectic with one thing and another and a few health issues thrown in to the mix too!!  Life is never dull!   Not only have i been awol on blogger but my camera appears to be MIA too - have lots of lovely things to show you and no bleeding Camera!  Of course a hubby and 3 kids know absolutely NOTHING about its whereabouts...........yeah right!  They were all told when they bought me the new camera for my Birthday at the end of the year....Hands Off..Its mine!!   Do you think they have listened?

Have been busy treating myself to some lovely Stampin' Up! supplies for my new venture as as SU demonstrator, have also had a couple of workshops with some lovely ladies and had lots of fun so far - promise i will upload piccis as soon as the elusive camera is found!

My kids(well the 2 that are still school age) are now off on their 7 week summer break - the fun begins!  So the 2 youngest and I are popping off to the Lakes for a week on Saturday - hope the weather stays good - leaving poor hubby at home to work! well somebody has to earn the pennies........off to hunt for my long lost camera...have a few things on my phone so may try and post them up later......sorry for being such a naughty blogger - speak soon!

 

Great News!

Welll.........my fabby news is.......that after some consideration I have taken the plunge to become a

Stampin Up! demonstrator, loved the stuff so much myself, that i decided it was time to share my love of  their products with everyone else.  My lovely upline 'mummy' is julie from Julies japes, who as been insprational and soooo helpful! thanks hunny!

  this is the card i sent to Jules to thank her for all her helpin getting me started - her help is so appreciated .  I have used the new vintage vogue set from the current mini catalogue and it has so many uses and stamps for lots of occasions - a great set at only £19.95

Josh's Christening card

My son David  asked me to make a Christening card for him to give to one of his best friends, Gavin's little baby's Christening.  I decided to go with the ever popular Easel style of card that is around at the moment and this is what i came up with. Sorry fro the poor photos - was taken in a rush as my son was heading out the door - it did look much better in real life - honest! 

 The mirror card was so shiny that it hasn't taken very well in the piccy- so reflective.   Cuttlebugged white and silver mirri card and edged with MS punch, used diecutter for the bible, cross and the wee ones name, Forever friends stamp coloured with copics and ribbon from stash, all layered onto pale blue card.