A few quick cards

Haven't felt much like crafting recently, had raging toothache last week, several visits to the dentist, a couple of prescriptions and quite a few pounds lighter, in terms of weight and money , I am finally pain free.
Had to make a couple of cards last week to ensure they got there in time, so used the opportunity to use some of my new goodies.

I made a quick wallet to send some Christmas money to my Niece. I cut a DL card, used my SU jumbo roller along the length of the card, after having a play on some spare card stock. The snowflake is a Cuttlebug cut and embossing die, cut on pearlescent card and finished off with Glamour Dust. I have long admired this die on other people's blogs and could resist the temptation no longer! I stuck a strip of card, decorated with the same roller, inside the card to slip the money under.



The image on the Thank You card is from Fourth Dimension, one used once..... Coloured with watercolour pencils. I have just noticed that the photo looks a bit washed out, it is much better IRL. I found some mulberry paper to mount the stamped image onto, obviously not used that for a while as it was quite far down on a pile of papers! I used my new SU scalloped circle punch and circle punch which works really well with the round sentiments from Cuddly Buddly.
I used to cut circles on my Cricut and try to stamp the sentiment in the middle not very successfully, however that is all behind me now, its so easy with these punches.




Thought I would try a pink and chocolate colour combo for my Niece's Christmas card. The stamp is from Funky Kits, think this image is really cute. Used my SU ink pads to watercolour the image, a bit of Glamour Dust added to the boots and ear muffs, and SU punches for the scalloped edge on the gold card and tab on the main image. The sentiment is Cuddly Buddly and have again used my SU punches to cut the circles. These punches are fab and so easy to use. I think there will be a few more in my craft room before long!!

Birthday crafting goodies

Finally, here are the goodies I got when we went out last Thursday. All I need to do now is unpack them and get crafting! Had some sad news at the weekend and my mojo has gone AWOL. Really need to pick myself up and get on with some crafting, as you can see a lot of the things are Christmas themed, so hoping to get some time out this weekend to shut myself in my craft room and make some cards. I did manage to make couple of cards for a DT call, I hope they are good enough, not sure, but as the old saying goes 'nothing ventured, nothing gained'

Still have my SU goodies to christen as well. There is a team training day next Saturday which I am looking forward to, get to meet some of the team, but I need to make some samples to take with me to do swaps with, had better get my skates on.....

Birthday card and goodies

Here is the gorgeous birthday card I received from my blogging and SBS21 buddy Heather. The card is really lovely, the image has a wonderful sheen to it which the photo doesn't do justice to, really must look at the user manual for my camera!!
She was an absolute sweetie and included some stamped images (2 of each - she must know I go over the edges...especially when I have had a drink or two!)from the Magnolia Winter collection.I particularly like the Edwin & Tilda on Ice image and everywhere we went today had sold out :-(

A big THANK YOU Heather for the beautiful card and the images, I will colour them very carefully and post the cards I make with them on my blog. You realise I will have to buy a flourish die or Cricut cartridge now!

Had a lovely day today, was taken to Crafts U Love, The Craft Barn, and The Glitter Pot, a round trip of about 200 miles, (and worth every one!) by hubby who didn't know what to buy me. It would have cost him a lot less if he had only listened to my not so subtle hints over the last month or so for a Bind It All ROFL. Will post a picture of my goodies soon.

Stampin Up! goodies have arrived!

My birthday came early this year - the DHL lady delivered my Stampin Up! goodies yesterday, yaay, the only trouble was it was 9.30 and I had to work until 4.30 knowing that all those lovely scrummy goodies were under my desk just waiting to be unwrapped and played with!!

I managed to unpack them and 'stroke' them but STILL haven't had time to play with them as its been busy here. I was showing a lady at craft club last night how to do medallion cards and had visitors tonight, hopefully tomorrow!

Crafty Day

I've had a very productive day, tidying up my craft room and finishing off cards. The only thing is it doesn't look any tidier now, but I have about 12 cards that I have completed today. I have even managed to fit in a couple of challenges!!

The first card is for the CCT challenge this week which is to include 'Snowflakes'
I used Bazzil Bling for the base card. The image is Funstamps, glittered and coloured with Sakura gelly roll pens, mounted on ovals cut with George & Basic Shapes cartridge. Snowflakes are cut using Punch Bunch cutter. To continue the snowflake theme I added a sheet of vellum to the inside of the card, which I stamped using white ink and snowflake stamps from Banana Frog.



The BP shown in this picture is from a pack from Dovecraft, last year I think. The snowflakes on the bottom right and top left are again from Punch Bunch punch, double layered and tweaked to give more dimension, attached to the card using brads from stash. Excuse the fingers in the photo but the card wouldn't stay closed!



This is what the card looks like when not held closed. I am really pleased with the way this has turned out.




This card is for the PTW challenge this week which has to be 'snow related.'
The stamp is from Whiff of Joy, coloured with watercolour pencils. Snow effect added to the snowman and the edge of Charlie's hat. BP is this year's Dovecraft paper. Panel on left of the card has been embossed with Swiss Dots folder and accented with white ink pad. Silver ribbon from stash and Xmas banner (bargain from Lakeland) added to complete the card.



Now my mojo has returned with a vengance, normal service should be resumed, so you should see a bit more of me!
Will be looking out for delivery man tomorrow, hoping he has my Stampin Up! goodies....

Latest makes....

Apologies for the absence this week, i've not been idle tho!!
I have had a couple of birthdays to make cards for, forgot to photograph one of them but here are the other two.

The first one for Adam's mate Tom who was 13 yesterday, he plays for Spartan Colts, the same footie team as Adam, so I coloured the footballer with the team colours.



The next card was for Chris, Ellie's friend who was 18 yesterday, he plays in a band called The Vision, hence the image for his card. I used glossy accents on the guitar to give it an extra dimension although its not to clear in the pic.



I have been hooked to watching I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, its filmed not far away from where we stayed when we visited Oz a few years back. I watch it in the lounge and can't get comfy crafting there, so have been busy knitting a couple of mohair scarves for crimbo pressies - only prob is they have made me sneeze sooooo much! Nearly finished them then got a waistcoat to remake.

Really have to get into my craft room and have a massive tidy up tomorrow as I am expecting delivery of my Stampin Up kit early next week - am sooo excited, just like a child at Christmas :-o

YIPPEE!!! I've been published........ and nearly missed it!!

I am totally lost for words, and for those of you who know me, know that this doesn't happen very often!!

I was feeling a bit under the weather today and decided to have a quiet day, DH was at work and the children at school and college, it's the first day I have had the house to myself for ages. I was having a quick flick through a magazine that I had already looked at, I usually do this and earmark items of interest. On one page I saw a picture that looked remarkably like a card I had made..... on closer inspection I realised it was a picture of my card that I had emailed in August. As I hadn't heard anything from the magazine I thought it wasn't good enough to be published. Its in the November issue of Cardmaking and Papercraft, top left corner of page 8. This has really made my day and given my mojo the kick up the backside I needed! All I need to do now is claim my goodies for being published.

Have been browing the Stampin Up catalogue again today and have finally decided which stamp sets I want, the form is completed and ready to be posted tomorrow.

Handbag charm

It was one of my best buddies birthday today and she really appreciates hand crafted items. I was a bit short on time so had to buy a present at the weekend but managed to make this handbag charm/keyring that she absolutely loved. Her daughter looked at me with the puppy dog eyes that were saying 'could you make me one?' so guess I had better get cracking, when I was making it my daughter also took a fancy to it, so thats 2 I've got to make. Will have to have a little look through my beads, I think I can feel a shopping spree at the local bead shop coming on...

Thank You card

Here is a thank you card I have made this evening. I would usually use a floral or cute image but as this card is for a man didn't think it appropriate, so decided to use this motorbike image, one of the stamps from the stash I was selling recently. The base card is snow white pearlescent from the Range, BP from a DCWV glitter stack, ribbon from Poppicrafts, shiny silver paper from stash. The sentiment is one from a set I bought from a Stampin Up party, really like these sentiments, the set includes friendship, celebrate, love and thank you. I have decided to sign up to Stampin Up, just perusing the catalogue, writing my wish list, before I send off the form for my kit.....

What a week!! SBS 21 challenge

I started this card for the SBS 21 challenge last Sunday, intending to finish it on Monday, ha ha..... I returned to work after the half term, to an assessment on Financial Management in Schools on Monday only to receive a phone call advising us that Ofsted were on their way - anyone who works in a school knows what that means, so I need say no more except that I was glad when it was Friday. Have spent the weekend catching up on jobs at home and finally managed to escape to my craft room this evening.

This challenge was to use something new, a product or technique, using the sketch provided. My new was a pad of DCWV Xmas glitter stack (last years) which was looking very lonely on the shelf last weekend when I visited the Range. It was reduced to a bargain price as it was the last one, so I couldn't leave it there!

I used some textured paper, for the background, which I thought looked a bit like fresh snowfall, then 2 different papers from my newly purchased stack. The ribbon (Dovecraft) also jumped into my shopping basket on the same trip. The snowmen are from Creative Expressions, I stamped them onto acetate and glittered with Art Institute glitter. The snowflakes are punched out of snow white pearlescent card, and attached with the ribbon to the card with papermania brads.

I am going to have a go at making another card using this layout with a red and green colour scheme, probably with trees at the bottom, sometime soon hopefully!!