A birthday Card

Here's the Birthday card I did for Colin's Sister 3 weeks ago, I completely forgot to post it. The cupcakes on the table stamp is the perfect size for Tilda. The icing on the cakes has been glittered and they look so yummy.


This is the inside of the card, I was very please with the result and so was the recipient.

Supplies Used:
1. Card - SU Chocolate Chip

2. Papers - SU Tea and Crumpets
3. Stamps - Tilda by Magnolia and SU Crazy for Cupcakes
4. Glitter - SU Stampin Glitter
5. Ribbon - SU Chocolate Chip1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon

Something A Bit Different!

I am so pleased with the outcome of this card. I just love these stamps! The flower stamp is from the Mr & Mrs Set which I stamped onto White card stock using the Mellow Moss stamp pad, then coloured using the Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery Markers. The Butterflies are from the Happiness Always Level 3 Hostess stamp set. The dotted strip at the top is a border from the Love Stories Simply Scrappin' set. I'm not a green person at all (except when it comes to Steph's Triple Stacker Unit!!) but I think these greens and pink go so well together.

Supplies Used:
1. Card - SU Pretty In Pink Card Stock, White Card from Stash
2. Stamps - SU Mr & Mrs, and Happiness Always stamp sets
3. Colours - SU Mellow Moss, Certainly Celery, and Pretty In Pink
4. Buttons - SU Soft Subtles
5. Ribbon - Mellow Moss & Pretty In Pink Tafetta Ribbon
6. Brads - SU Sift Subtles
7. Border - Love Stories Simply Scrappin' set

DCM - Give It Some Heart

I just had to jump right in when I saw what this weeks dare was over at Daring Card Makers. I had the perfect stamp to use, and what is even better, is it's from a freebie stamp set. This must have been the quickest and easiest card I've made in ages.

Supplies Used:
1. Card - SU Real Red Textured Card & White from Stash
2. Stamp - SU Polka Dot Punches Sale-A-Bration Stamp Set
3. Colours - SU Real Red Stampin Pad and Marker
4. Ribbon - SU Real Red 5/8" Gosgrain Ribbon
5. Button - SU Bold Brights
6. Other - SU White Stampin' Emboss Powder
7. Punch - Crafts Too Heart Punch

2nd Baby Card

Well here's the other card I said I had, it's Blue of course! Very similiar to the card I posted yesterday except this one was my first attempt but I made a few mistakes on it and that's why I ended up doing two. Mistakes can easily be covered up but sometimes they upset the balance and the card just doesn't have the same affect anymore. I'm not one for doodling but I had a go and it's not too bad.

Supplies Used:

1. Card Stock - White from Stash, SU Bashful Blue

2. Stamps - SU Nursery Necessities

3. Ribbon - SU Bashful Blue Tafetta Ribbon

4. Stamp Pads - SU Bashful Blue

5. Other Items - SU Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder

Just another .....

...card to share. I know I said I would use a different colour next time but I just couldn't help myself. I really enjoyed playing with these stamps! Watch this space as there will be some pink baby cards arriving in the next week or so.

I didn't use any patterned papers for these cards, I stamped some white card stock for the background used on both cards. The letter background I stamped using the Jumbo Wheel onto white card and then went over it with a marker. The doodling was done with SU Markers and what fabby markers they are too!

I've got another card to show but it will have to wait as I can't get a decent photo at the moment. Oh and guess what colour it is!

Supplies Used:
1. Card Stock - White from Stash, SU Bashful Blue & Certainly Celery
2. Stamps - SU Nursery Necessities
3. Ribbon - SU Bashful Blue Tafetta Ribbon

4. Stamp Pads - SU Bashful Blue

5. Other Items - SU Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder

More Candy!

Christine's also got some equally amazing goodies to giveaway. Go on and take a look at the fantastic RAK she has and some stunning cards on her blog Creative Journey to go with it.

Ribbon Share

Do you Love ribbons, need them, want them, or just simply have to have them? Whatever your reason here's an opportunity to have all the Stampin' Up! ribbons at once. The cost is £23,50 including P&P. All you have to do is e-mail me (link is on top right hand side) to join the share.

Here's what you will receive:

1/4″ Grosgrain - 1.5m each of the following colours

• Whisper White
• Very Vanilla
• Pumpkin Pie
• More Mustard
• Real Red
• Elegant Eggplant
• Night of Navy
• Tempting Turquoise
• Certainly Celery
• Always Artichoke
• Chocolate Chip

5/8″ Grosgrain - 1.5m each of the following colours

• Very Vanilla
• Chocolate Chip
• Bravo Burgundy
• Real Red
• Regal Rose
• Brocade Blue
• Certainly Celery
• Old Olive

1″ Double stitched Grosgrain - 1m each of the following colours

• Rose Red
• Bashful Blue
• Chocolate Chip

Taffeta Ribbon - 1m each of the following colours

• Whisper White
• Very Vanilla
• Kraft
• Chocolate Chip
• Basic Gray
• Mellow Moss
• Bashful Blue
• Pretty in Pink
  

Gingham Ribbon - 1.5m each of the following colours

• Black
• Red
• Light Blue
• Light Pink
• Moss
• Caramel

Elastic Cord - 1.5m each of the following colours

• Silver
• Gold

And finally 1m of Linen Thread

Blog Candy Alerts!!!

Steph has got some amazing SU Blog Candy to give away, but you have to go and take a look at her blog Much Ado About Nothing to be in for a chance of winning it. You won't be disapointed.

Another Candy Give away is from Julie over at Julie's Japes. More SU Goodies.

Papertake Weekly - Dawny's Sketch #6

Here's my take on Dawny's Sketch. Can you tell that I just love, love, love this blue? This will be my last "Blue" card for a while, I have loads of other new yummy papers I want to get my scissors into.


Supplies Used:
1. Papers - Stampin' Up! Patterns Designer Series Papers in Bashful Blue
2. Images - Stampin' Up! Fun & Fast Notes
3. Gems - From Stash

Bashful Blue

I just love this colour, it's perfect in every way and there's nothing Bashful about it. The papers from this set are just scrummy but these two are my favourite. I am really pleased with the result of these two cards so much so that I can't stop looking at them. How sad is that!!

Supplies Used:
1. Papers - Stampin' Up! Patterns Designer Series Papers in Bashful Blue
2. Images - Stampin' Up! Garden Whimsy
3. Ribbon - Stampin' Up! Taffeta Bashful Blue
4. Sentiments - Stampin' Up! A Bit of Birthday Cheer

5. Gems - From Stash

Valentine Card

Aren't these papers just gorgeous? I'm very into Blue and White at the moment, as you'll see in my next post.


Supplies Used:
1. Papers - Pink Petticoat Pretty Doodles White
2. Image - from Pink Petticoats Old Fashioned Girl Kit
3. Ribbon - From Stash.
5. Gems - From Stash.
6. Card - Silver Mirri and Blue card from Stash

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

I had something completely different in mind when I started this card, it was going to be for another project but it changed into Week 31's colour challenge. I love this colour combo as I'm sure most of do.

Supplies Used:
1. Papers - Pink Petticoat Doodleicious Rainbow Kit (Milk Chocolate and Little Fluers Pink)
2. Image - Penny Black Gossamer
3. Ribbon - SU Chocolate Chip Taffeta
4. Gems - From Stash
5. Sentiment - from Hero Arts "A Great Big" Set

Anything But A Card...

That was the Challenge over at the Arty Girlz this week. I really had fun with this "Project" but have noticed a few things I'll need to do next time I make one. Not bad for my first attempt though. I should have made the bottom base a little wider and papered the inside.

I created the Calendar pages in CS3 and colour co-ordinated with the card stock I used.

Supplies Used:
1. Papers - Sorry I don't Know they are from my stash.

2. Image - Sugar Nellie "Choose" by Leanne Ellis
3. Card Stock - SU Garden Green, Ruby Red, and Really Rust from the Earth Elements Card Pack
4. Ribbon - SU Pumpkin Pie and Real Red
5. Sentiment - Foam Letters from Bit Box
6. Tabs - SU Round Tab Punch

The voices in my head...Lim's blog: Hanglar and Whipper Snapper Blog Candy.

The voices in my head...Lim's blog: Hanglar and Whipper Snapper Blog Candy.

This has to be the Candy of ALL Candies! What I wouldn't do to get my hands on that Sweet Stash. Lim is giving away 2 sets of Candy over on her blog.

The first is a Hanglar Set and she will ship worldwide (excluding Sweden & Norway):

• A Hanglar Boy Stamp from the Winter Collection.
• 100 Hanglars images
• 3 Rolls of ribbons (Red, Green and Brown)
• Some Prima flowers and buttons (different sizes and colors)

The second is a Whipper Set and this is for Sweden & Norway only:

• A Whipper Snapper Santa Stamp. ( Wood stamp)
• 100 Whipper Snapper Images.
• A snowflake punch from Martha Stewart.
• A pack of 6 glitter ( Winter Snow) from Martha Stewart. (Mica Flake, Snow,Crystal fine, Crystal coarse, carrara marble and carrara marble coarse) This set also include the glue.

I would love to win this as we all know that Hanglars are absolutely adorable and NOT available in the UK yet. Good luck everyone, you have until the 24th of January!

I haven't been blogging since the middle of December. Christmas and work pretty much kept me busy, but I have done quite a few things I've been meaning to do for ages but never seemed to have the time.

One of those is my Siggy, it's really easy to do but until you've actually done it, you don't realise how easy it is. I'm really chuffed with it! Another reason why it's taken so long to do is that I couldn't quite find the font that I thought best represented my handwriting. The one I finally used is called Liorah BT which actually slants forward. I managed to manipulate this in CS3 and voila I now have a backward slanting font that I'm really happy with.

Using my Siggy I've also created Brushes in CS3 to watermark photo's of my Cards and Photo's that I take. You can see the card stamp in the post below.

I've swapped my Craft room around, which was no easy feat. Everything on the Right hand side of the Room is now on the Left side of the Room. Only problem is that I have so much stuff in my room that I ended up moving everything around and around the room till they finally ended up where they were meant to be. The only thing I can think of that closely resembled what I went through is a Rubik Cube. It took me 3 day's! The room that is, not the cube.

I got so behind with my Christmas cards that I was still handing them to my neighbours on Christmas Eve. Well I've decided to do next Christmas differently. Instead of making different ones, I'm going to give everyone the same but with minor variations. I've designed the card already and the variations are going to be in size and colour.

Sugar Bowl Challenge #1

How fitting to kick start my 2009 challenges with this one for the Sugar Bowl and what a great sketch. Not only that but there's a chance to win not one set, not two sets, but THREE sets of Letraset Promarkers. I know I would love to have these. I used one of my new fabulous Leanne Ellis stamps that I bought just before Christmas.


Supplies Used:
1. A mix of Kay Miller Papers
2. Leanne Ellis Luvvie Stamp
3. Buttons from Stash
4. Ric-Rac from Bits Stash
5. Sentiment from Thank You Clear Stamp set

CPS #95

It's not often I'm first at anything so 3 times in a row has to be a record! I enjoyed this one. I'm trying to catch up on my Chritmas card list and have about another 8 left to do.

Supplies Used:

1. Forever Friends Christmas Glow Paper Pack
2. PM Ribbons Xmas Collection
3. Stamin' Up! Fun & Fast Notes Stamp Image coloured with Twinkling H2O's
4. Sentiment Die from Go Kreate

5. Brad from Stash

6. Real Red Stampin' Up! Card Stock

CPS #94

Here's another CPS sketch card. I enjoy doing sketches because half the works done for you.

Supplies Used:
1. PM Traditional Christmas Colossal Paper Pack
2. Forever Friends Christmas Glow Paper Pack

3. Ric-Rac from Stash

4. Penny Black T for Transparent - Christmas Critters Stamp Set

5. CB Snowflakes Embossing Folder

6. Festvice Bauble from Craft Work Cards

A Photo A Day - December 1st

Today is the 1st of December 2008, this is the first of 31 day's and 31 photo's for each of those day's. How appropriate to start it with a photo of the First Frost.

"First Frost"

(Click on Photo for a Close Up)

Supplies Used:

1. Ali Edwards Holiday Photo and Journal Overlays

2. 31 Days Circle Numbers Set

Blog Candy!

Fran has a blog candy give away, some gorgeous Whiff of Joy stamps. There's 2 chances to win so head on over to her Blog and check it out.

Whiff of Joy Advent Calendar

Oh Wow, Katharina is doing a December Advent Calender. Each day a new window will open with a surprise gift for one lucky visitor, the new window will be posted at 00.01 GMT everyday and the winner of the previous days gift will be posted at the same time.

Don’t forget to check everyday after 00.01 GMT. Go and check it out and have fun.

Journal Your Christmas

I've signed up for Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas, we get a prompt everyday from today until January 6th. My reason for taking the class is that over the years I seem to have lost the Christmas Spirit. Well I want it back! Now that I have a Grandson I think it's important that as a family we enjoy Christmas so starting with today I'm going to be keeping a Christmas Journal. In it, I will be writing something every day to remember the holidays of my past, enjoy the holidays of the present and dream about the hoilidays of the future.

This may seem like just paper and trivial scribbles, but not to me. I am taking back my Christmas, I am letting it be something I relish and enjoy, and most importantly I am giving at least fifteen minutes to myself, every day, no matter how crazy this season becomes. This Christmas I will be making things with my own hands, my own words and my own memories. This Christmas I will find my Christmas Spirit.

I'll be sharing my journey as much as possible, this may or may not be on a daily basis depending on time as I have quite a few projects going this month and my main task is to complete them.

CPS #93

It's been such a long time since I did a CPS Sketch! I need to find a balance with cards, scrap pages, hybrid, digital, and projects. That way it won't take me such a long time to get back into things. Here's this week's sketch. I'm really sorry about the quality of the photo. This photo is slightly improved but now the colours out slightly.

Supplies used were Red and Green Card from Stash, Backing papers from last years Traditional Chrismas Colossal Paper Pack by PaperMania. Silver Snowflake from Stash, Ribbon is Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain from Stampin' Up!, and of course Tilda coloured with Whispers and some Diamond Stickles.

DCM - White Christmas and.......

I haven't done a challenge for ages but this weeks Daring Card Makers challenge suited a card I made on Wednesday night down to a tee.

Jane set the challenge this week....we are dreaming of a WHITE (and splash of pink Christmas!) I would love you to design a card which includes white mostly (ie: snow, snowmen etc ) and also a little splash of pink somewhere on the card. :)

Supplies used were Stamin' Up! Ribbon and some from stash, Festive Baubles from Craft Work Cards, Silver Mirri board, and some Pink Cardstock.

An Award

I got this fabulous Award from Wendy. Thank you! I think the words to this are very true and there are truely some amazing and wonderful bloggers out there.

This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

I'll be back over the weekend to add my Nominees. I'm just a bit short on time at the moment.

1. Katie
2. Gina
3. Lorraine
4. Terri

5. Linda
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Just thought I'd share a card with you. I was playing around with ribbons and this is what the outcome was. It wasn't at all what I was planning but that's crafting for you!

The Ribbons I used are all from Stamin' Up! Sorry I don't know the make of the stamp.

Sugar Nellie Blog Candy

Oh Wow, you really need to go on over to Sugar Nellie and have a look at the fabulous Candy up for grabs. I would love to win a great prize like that. Sugar Nellie's just signed up 3 new artists and their work looks amazing. I can't wait to see what their first stamp designs look like, be sure to check them out while your there.

Just Saying Hello!

Hi Everyone, I'm such a bad blogger at the moment. I've done quite a few cards and things but it's just finding the time to do all the other stuff like taking photo's and cropping and posting and thinking of things to say. I keep saying that I'll do it tomorrow and then it just all adds up.

I had an extra suprise in my parcel from Julie, it was my Mojo! I had lost it for a while but somehow it found it's way back to me. I'd concentrated on Digital Scrapping for quite some time and I was starting to get worried that I'd totally lost my crafting mojo.

Any way nearly time to place our next Stampin' Up! order and I can't wait, but just like you Sonia I'm having huge problems deciding what to get.

I had a PIF off Jane (ages ago) and I've not had a chance to do my part yet. I'll be getting around to that really soon now. I've decided what I'm going to be doing so I want to get a head start on it. Once I'm finished and it's ready to mail straight out I'll do a post for it. So keep an eye open for that if your interested in the PIF (Pay It Forward).

Stampers 10 Club

I've joined a club called the Stampers 10 Club over on Julie's blog. And I have to say the other members are both fabulous and friendly. I can't wait for the beginning of November, that's if I ever get my order in! I recieved my Stampin' Up! Catalogue from Julie yesterday, I've gone through it at least 4 times and still can't decide what to get this month. I'm being a typical crafter now because I want everything. If anyone is interested Julie has 4 places left for another Club to start.

This is how it works:

With a Stampers 10 club you have 10 members, and it runs for 10 months. Each month every member commits to ordering a minimum of £15 worth of product plus P&P, you order direct through Julie. Each month one of the members is selected as a "virtual" hostess and receives the hostess benefits which will be a minimum of a Level 1 hostess stamp set and £15 worth of free products. This is guaranteed but it could be more. This means that instead of having a party in your home we sort of have a "virtual" online party between the 10 members!!!

You'll receive a free copy of the catalogue and Julie will also be sending freebies and tutorials over the course of the 10 months. Stampers 10 is a great way of building up your stash each month without breaking the bank.

Let Me Introduce You To.........

Jessica Sprague

What can I say about Jessica? Well, Everything! For those who don't know her, she is an Amazing and very Talented woman and has taught me more about Photoshop and Digital Scrapping than any book possibly could. She has created an amazing community for us to go to to learn, make friends, ask advice from, give advice to. A place to share our photo's, layout's, designs and our experiences. With teachers like Jessica, Liv and Candice you cannot expect NOT to find some amazingly talented playmates.

Jessica has a new class starting and it's absolutely free. If you haven't discovered JessicaSprague.com yet now is the perfect opportunity.

Go on take a look, registration starts on Monday and I know you won't be disappointed. and while your there take a look at Jessica's blog, she has some amazing Photoshop Friday's.

A Post At Last!

I can't believe it's been nearly 2 months since I last posted anything and a month and a half since Charles, Becky and Ethan moved to South Africa. I really miss them and haven't felt very inspired these last few weeks. Life goes on though and you just need to get on with it.

I feel like I've neglected my Blogger duties lately and I have decided that even though I still surf Blogland and have a look at what everyone is up too, I really need to start letting people know that I do take the time to look. I can't expect everyone that has Live Traffic Feed to know that "Salford" with a British Flag means Jeannette was here. There are so many wonderful Blogs, and so many talented people that really do deserve the few seconds it takes to leave a comment.

Have a great Saturday everybody.

Digi: In Deep - Templates #2

We had to design another Template for our Course this week. I really do love creating the Templates. I find them easier than LO because you don't have to think about Colours, Papers, Titles or Journalling. I'm going to be signing up for another course next week called Type+Writer, so hopefully I'll feel differntly about Titles and Journalling pretty soon.

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We had to use a special Shadow effect on out Template which makes the corners look like they are curling up.

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Here's the LO I created with my Template. I know it's pretty plain but then again I like Pretty Plain.
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Supplies Used:
Template by Jeannette
Papers by Jeannette (That's Me! They're Mine! Woo Hoo!)
Hearts Brush from Jason Gaylor's Valentastic Brush Set
MCO Topper (From NWR Week 4)
Fonts are CK Little Al and CK Stacatto

Some More LO's.

Here's some more LO's I did. I just love these photo's of Ethan with his big blue eyes. I used a Kit that we got on our course from Oscraps called Moonrise Over Waikiki the Fonts are Pea Anderson and LD Phat.

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This next LO started as the Bottom one and then I made a change to it, but now I can't decide which one I like the most. I'm kind of leaning towards this first one but still not sure.
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I used a Template by Amanda from TaylorMade Designs Calleds Trilogy. I really like the look of it, nice and plain. I made some changes to suit my photo's and moved things down a bit. The Backing paper is my own (Woo Hoo) with the photo overlay.

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Photo Blending

I've neglected my Card Making and Challenges so much these past weeks and do fully intend to start again soon. I'm sure most of you will understand what it's like to get caught up in something new. I'm so enjoying my newly learnt Photography and Digital Scrapping skills and want to do so much but I just don't have the time to fit it all in. I'd like to share this last project I did. I just love the finished article, it reminds me of LP Covers and everytime I look at the word So in the Title I think of Peter Gabriel, I don't know if it's the same font but it's pretty close.

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If anyone would like to know how to create this photo blending effect take a look at TaylorMade Designs.

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Supplies used:

TaylorMade Designs - Fading Emotions Vol 2

Digi: In Deep - Templates

For our course we had to design and create a Template. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this and I learnt so much. While mine is slightly boring and simplistic, I Love it!

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If you would like this Freebie Template Click Here to download it. Please leave a comment to this post if you do.

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Here's the Page I created using my very own Template! How great is that to be able to create from your own creation. I think the ultimate satisfaction will be creating a LO from ALL your own items, Template, Papers and embellishments.

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Supplies Used:

Kit: Ship Mates by Manda Bean & Kay Miller from Sweet Shoppe Designs.

Fonts: Scrap Kids and LD Pirate.

Digi: In Deep - Assignment 2A

Well it's another week in our Digi Course but at the same time it's another week closer to the end. I'm learning so much on this course. This week we made our own brush and backing paper, how cool is that? It's the paper used for the Star. Isn't it fab?

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Supplies Used:
SP Lima background papers: From Monoblendz Paperie - Lima paper pack by Anna Aspnes
Rounded corner square die cut: from Border Templates pack by Katie Pertiet
Striped patterned paper: from Bohemian Garden kit by Mindy Terasawa
Dirty Journaler Label: from Dirty Journalers set by Katie Pertiet
Grunged Up Photo Block: from Grunged Up Photo Blocks No. 2 set by Katie Pertiet
Staples by Katie Pertiet

Fonts:

Alfredo Heavy at Fontage.com
Amerika at Dafont.com
Anarchy at Dafont.com