Whiff of Joy City girl newbie

Another lovely purchase from the craft show was the Whiff of Joy city girl collection - i was lucky enough to get them all from theHobby House, where the lovely bev rochester was demoing- what a treat that was - her cards are even more fabby up close, Bev also showed me Jane's lovley mo manning card samples too - had to have a couple of those stamps as well!! wel how could i resist after seeong all the lovely samples - thanks Bev for all your help and advice - now have lots of lovely charms and centre pieces for my flowers and some lovely tattaered angels pearl spray to spray onto my flowers - wow i am going to be busy!

Made this card and she fits a fwof the challenges around this week, so i am entering her in

friday sketchers - jaques has gave ua a fabby sketch to follow

Whimsy Blog hop - delicious Carousel stamps - hop on!

Pop on over to the Whimsy Stamps and take part in their amazing blog hop - it runs from Sunday 14th until Wed 17th March - they have some of the delicious new Carousel images , ribbon and gems up for grabs - you have to check out all the DT's cards - they are all just superb and the difference in the cards using different colours is just a delight to see.

Lili of the valley Mother's Day Card

After a very successful jaunt to the Craft show at the SECC, Glasgow last weekend, i managed to get my hands on some of the lovely new rubber stamps from Lili of the valley (14 new stamps,woo hoo!!), so watch this space space for lots of them appearing on some cards, a fabby selection of stamps, that cover loads of occasions

Decided that the lili of the valley  challenge was a must this week - the challenge was an Easel card, they are so popular at the moment and so easy to make. loved the little bear with the flower and thought he'd be perfect for Mother's day,so made my mum this card, paper is papermania forever friends pad, and image coloured with distress inks, added a little glitter to flower and butterflies,made up some paper flowers, which were also inked with the new spun sugar distress ink, stampin up sentiment and doodled some faux stitching aroung my image.  Hope Mum likes it!

This card fits a few blog challenges this week:-

Lots of mixed requirements this week, cupcake craft looking for lots of flowers - so this fits the bill, cute daisy may are needing a card for Mother's Day, LOTV asked for the ever popular Easel card style, the cute and girly is after something with spring colours, the cercret crafter have launched some new stamp designs and their challeng is anything goes, which  is also the same challenge over at ooh la la.

lili of the valley #48 - Easel Card
cute daisymay - Mother's Day
cupcakecraft challenges- Flower power - floral paper,image holding flower and handmade flowers
bythecuteandgirly - spring is in the air
the secret crafter saturday challenge - anything goes this week
ooh-la-la-creations challenges#49 -anything goes

Handbags

A selection of handbags i made for a class which i had last night - really easy to make but quite effective when finished, used a woodware cherry punch to make my flowers, which are quite dimensional, Stampin up oval stamp and matching punch used for the sentiment and fancy handle is courtesy of the Martha Stewart double border punch - everyone seemed to like making these and just in time for Mother's day too - would be lovely with miniature toiletries or some delish sweeties in them! Think i'll leave my samples lying around and MAYBE(doubt it) some of my cherubs will put something nice in them for me!

Penny Black Tiny wishes Card

Made this card for a couple of challenges over on the docrafts forum - one was the Penny Black challenge which was to be spotty paper, PB animal image, and ribbon. the other challenge was the sunday stamping one and you were to stamp an image and decoupage it, stamped this lovely hedgie from the PB tiny wishes clear set 3 times and decoupaged it and added some glamour dust glitter,ribbon and sentiment - love the tiny wishes set as they are all a decent size

Some New Cards

Just made a few cards for fun - treated myself to the new cat stamp and thought i'd have a play - made this card for a friend i haven't seen in a wee while, just to let her know that i was thinking of her.

SALE-A-BRATION - the fun starts here!

Who can resist getting free stamps?.........Not Me and neither should you!

SALE-A-BRATION is HERE!!!!

Everyone can benefit during our Sale-A-Bration months January and February

CUSTOMERS - For every £45 you spend you can earn one limited edition free stamp set from a choice of 4 lovely sets and you can earn another set for each subsequent £45 spent

HOSTESS - Host a Stampin Up Sale A Bration workshop and if the sales are over £300 you will get an extra free Sale A Bration stamp set!

RECRUITS- Thinking of joining our Stampin Up family?? If you sign up before the end of February you will get a FREE STAMP SET in your Starter Kit, OF ANY VALUE. Taking the value of the kit to over £270 for only £119!!!!!!A fabulous time to join the Stampin' Up! family, Please contact me for more info.

So happy for you

Bliss

Punch Bunch

Sweet Summer

Once you have earned the chance to have one of these sets, you can choose to order the above sets in either wooden mount or our new clear mount style.  How can you resist, the hardest part will be choosing which set to pick!!!  And check out the punch bunch set........we have punches for them all.......as the little owl will be getting a matching punch for you to purchase from the mini catalogue when it launches in april!!!! isn't he a cutey!

If you would like to place an order and be one of the first to earn a free stamp set drop me a line at evsline@hotmail.com

Incy Wincy's blog hop

Pop on over to incywincy designs they are having a fab blog hop this week and you have toguess what the sneak peeks on each of the 6 blogs are -one is def more difficult than others and will be interested to see what it is!  Play along and you could win some of the images - need i say more - go check it our for yourself xx

tilda kicks up a thank you for Creative inspirations sepia challenge

Creative inspirations are challenging you to make a sepia coloured card for this weeks challenge. I chose Tilda from the winter collection - coloured with distress inks, papermania capsule collection background paper used, ms border punch, gold mirri card sentiment and gems - not my usual colours and wasn't sure about the papers, but actually quite liked this when it was all put together, which is unusual for me!

gift bags

some gift bags made for class a few weeks ago - used lots of stamping and ribbons

Handbag cards

My friend and i run a craft class twice a month and this was one of our class projects from last week - handbag cards - various papers and techniques used - these were just a few of my samples- everybody seemed to enjoy making them - think we all know someone who would like a handbag card - they suit anyone from 8 - 80! 

Wendy's digi image challenge

 Wendy over at the clipartfairy set  a digi image challenge over on the Docrafts board. Anyone who wanted to take part was sent a digi image from Wendy, we all were sent the same image and had to create something with it, a card or anything you fancied.  It was a great image of a lady in the bath, i coloured her with promarkers and distress inks and made a 6x6 card and a little pocket bag to match which holds smelly bath flakes, went for a bold colour scheme of green and pink - hope it fits the bill - thanks for the image Wendy

Couple of Kanban quickies

these were 2 quick cards- just pick and stick really from a Kanban sheet - great for quick boys cards- shame both my boys are too old for them now - not really cool to be into pirates at 14 and 22 yrs old!! - going to pop them in my box and i am sure they will get used at sometime!

Miss Gorjuss

Just love the gojuss girls from Sugar Nellie and decided to have a go with this stamp, made an easel card - they are sooo easy and seem to be everywhere at the moment, this card covers a few challenges this week.

A couple of challenges on the Docrafts board this week - The SSC challenge#5 this week was to be based on a love theme, not necessarily valentines and no red or pink, it also fitted the GG challenge which was to incorporate text background paper on your card, blog challenges it fits are:-

charismacardz #5 - love you challenge

creativecardcrew #44 - valentines

bythecuteandgirly feb challenge- love
liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge #46 - valentine
papertakeweekly - love actually

Forever Friends says thank you

Really quick and simple card that i made for the weekly FF challenge over on the docrafts board - this week the remit was to make a thank you card and to use some fabby design paper.  The dp was from a free pack of MME papers which came free with a craft mag this month, the image was from a FF paper stack which i matted and layered and I have just taken collection of some new SU goodies, so had to use the oval sentiments and the scalloped oval punch. The flower was made from 3 paper flowers from a pack that i got in my local Poundland!!!! masses of flowers in the bag and all for a £1 - bargain of the week - i scored and folded the middle of the petals with an embossing tool and added some glitter glue -

i think it makes quite an effective flower and cost pennies to make -

even more reason to love it!