A few randoms ....

Good evening

Well its Saturday 5th January already, where is the year going!!! lol

Have had a very chilled out day, spent most of it in our jammies, until I had to go food shopping, booooo.

I have been finishing off a couple cards, writing one, which is now going to be late as I forgot to post it yesterday!!! eeek

I have been colouring all week, during my lunch breaks lol, its great, I have all these images I can now use without having to really think about it!! get me

I am going to post some cards that I had made in December, so they are christmassy and then one I made a couple days ago and then today :)

 The one above is the one I finished off a few days ago, using a gorgeous Magnolia stamp I purchased off my friend on Facebook.  I used some papers I have had in my stash for a year, lol, and some of my christmas pressies :) MFT Loopy Bloom, sooooo cute, all I did was cut the felt and made this a different flower, so cute and versatile, I cute the H using my new MFT Hi Rise alphabet dies, and then finished off with these two cute buttons which are from a huuuuge bag of buttons new out by Papermania, £3 for a mahooooosive bag I might add :)

 

 The card above, is the one I finished off today whilst watching a new film on my laptop lol.  Again I had a half coloured up Magnolia image, so picked my papers and finished off colouring her to match.  I did a little distressing around the edge to tie it all in with my papers and what I wanted to create.  I used my new MFT Loopy Bloom flower again, this time as it is meant to be :)  I then finished off using some black organza ribbon, loooove this card.

 Card above is one I made during December, using a cute second hand Whiff of Joy stamp I bought off a lovely lady on Facebook, I coloured soooo many of these in during December at work lol. 

 Can u see the gorgeous sentiment and die cut bow!!!! soooooo cuuuute - both are from MFT and I bought them from Dies to Die for :)

 Card above is the one I made for my sister and her boyfriend, love this so much.

 I made this for my christmas tree, using a digi image, coloured in with copics, of course.

 I absolutely adore the card above I made, using a snowman stamp that my friend sent me, thanks Di.  I used a very old stamp set for the sentiment, its a Stampin Up set.  I really like how this came out.  I used my Go Kreate Frilly Frame Dies that I bought absolutely yonks ago at Ally Pally I think!! tee hee - Hope you have enjoyed my trip through December lol :)

 

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to one and all, wow 2013 already where are the years going!!! lol - I am gonna have a 13 year old soon, a 10 year old and a 16 year old this year, OMG that is seriously frightening

Sooooo I have been creating and have been using some of my gorgeous new crafty items.

Here is my first card of the year for you to see:-

I have used MFT goodies, Document It, Captured Memories Clear Stamps and Cute Cameras Die-namics, so so so cute seriously easy card to make, I also used Darling Dots which was a christmas present to me from my lovely sister in law and brother, from My Mums Craft Shop.

I have even blinged up the phone!!! he he he

I am going to enter this into My Mums Craft Shop first challenge of the year :)

Birthday time ...

Here is the card I was asked to make for my partners mum, her birthday is at the beginning of January and I made this with some things I had on my desk.  Its very bright and so not christmassy lol. 

Nearly ......

Tis nearly 2013 and I have to say I really hope it is better than 2012!!!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas the girls and I definitely did, I more than made up for anything lacking in their lives.

Caty got her All Star Converses she wanted, Maddie got her Fliker she had had her eye on and Beth got a guitar, and she absolutely loves it, it looks really cool.

What did you all get??? anything crafty?? I did, I got a couple of MFT stamp sets, and then from my fiance I got some die sets, so very happy with these, very lucky girl.

 Soooooo, being in the crafty mood that I was before Christmas, I bought my girls a gift voucher for their favourite store, Primark, and decided to make them a special card to hold them.

This is said card:-

All the girls loved them and I had a blast making these using MFT stamps and dienamics :)

Cards for sale ....

Hi

Just a quick post from me today, to remind anyone that might read my blog, that all my cards are for sale, and I also do commissioned requests as well :)

I have loved making every single one of these cards and I hope that people would like to buy them, if not then I will be giving these out as my christmas cards lol

Christmas Poinsettias ....

Whilst I have been off after my operation, I have been sat colouring and cutting out, and I am in love with the Spellbinder's Poinsettia die, it is just absolutely beautiful, and you can do so much with it.

I have made a fair few cards recently, but not really felt like uploading them, and so because I am finding it easier to sit at my desk again, I thought I would upload some of them and hope that people find inspiration from them, as I do from others on the net :)

 I absolutely love this card I made, I think I will be doing more of this I just love it lol

 This was made using the Spellbinders Poinsettia Die, along with the Cherry Lynn's flourish, and gorgeous papers by Dovecraft, and to finish it off the beautiful sentiment by MFT, and gorgeous Olive Satin ribbon!!! just lush :)

 I had a good play with the above card, again using my poinsettia die, rubbed some gold rub on over it, to make it shine, and used some Sizzix snowflake die cutters.

 This is the Spellbinders Poinsettia die used the other way, my vote is out on this way at the moment lol, but again the beautiful sentiment is by MFT, same set, papers by Dovecraft.

 Whilst sitting on sofa recovering, I sat and put together some decoupage that came free with a magazine not long ago, and I made this card with it, its quite cute :)

I adore these bunnys that Cats Pajamas have, this was actually a digi download and I am so pleased with this card, came out exactly as I imagined in my head :)

Hope you have enjoyed some of my latest cards :)

Wahooooooo

another christmas card all made lol

I adore this image, and was very lucky to get hold of the stamp a while ago second hand :)

I used some gorgeous Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas papers, this one is Vintage, just beautiful colours.  I did my usual with Tim Holtz lol and coloured in my image using copic markers, finished off with lots of gorgeous stickles, a lovely intricate metal photo corner, and this luscious red satin ribbon, and dotty button again by Dovecraft! :)


I am going to enter this into a challenge!!!! wahoo, its Tilda's Town - Merry Christmas challenge.
Hope you like x

Wintering Sunday ....

Hi everyone

Well its 6.10pm on this wintery Sunday.  I am counting the days till my operation, so I get out of this pain every month, wahoo, can't wait.

A few weeks ago, I made this cute card, using the beautiful Fur Cones LOTV stamp, I do love this, I know I keep saying it but I do!!! lol

I used some kraft card for the background, cut out some kraft snowflakes and then stickled them.  I used the gorgeous Spellbinder Poinsettia dies and then used some Tim Holtz distress inks to make them a little more rustique!!!

Birthday Girl

Well, another year, and my eldest is now the grand old age of 15 years.  She is now 5ft 11 inches and towers over me now!!! lol  Lets just see its a challenge getting her shoes and jeans that fit her these days bless.

I am glad that all my side of her family remembered her birthday and sent her something to celebrate, shame that only one person on the other side could be bothered, but the person that did, it was so appreciated by Bethany she was chuffed to nuts.

I made Beth a very special card, like I do every year, for all my girls.  This year, Beth has been following a very funny chap on youtube, who puts on some very funny videos every week, and is gaining himself quite a following, including my daughter lol.  Now Beth has always liked Llamas, and this chap does as well it would seem.  I will show you the card and you can judge for yourself lol

This chap is called danisnotonfire and Beth thinks he is the bees knees lol, she also has this Llama hat that I had to buy from abroad especially for her birthday, I thought she was gonna bust when she opened it up, so was so happy.  She also got the Friends DVD 15th Anniversary Collection, she is a massive Friends fan, lol which means I can now delete all the episodes she tapes on my sky box!!!! mwaaha ha ha one of her pressies still hasn't turned up, so still crossing fingers on that one.

have a great evening :)

Tis Christmasssssssss .....

well, nearly lol.

I have made this pretty card using Lili of the Valley's Fur Cones cute christmas kitten stamp.  It is soooo cute, and very therapeutic to colour I might add.

I made using a lovely christmas designer pad called Winterland by Fancypants, beautiful muted colours, so pretty.

I made one of my poinsettias, again very therapeutic to make and added some beautiful red satin ribbon.  Lots of stickles glitter glue all over the branches for the snow and hey presto its finished :)

Hope you like, would be lovely to hear from any of you :)