CARDS publication :)

I'm thrilled that CARDS magazine published one of my cards in their October issue, and thought I would share it with you here too.

I had such fun making this card...  I altered the die cut lollipop by cutting off the corner with scallop scissors, inking the edges, and adding eyes and a mouth. Fun. :)

I've yet to see the magazine... did any of YOU see it. :)

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Holiday Cards

Twopeasinabucket is hosting a Holiday Cards Weekends event throughout November, and I was thrilled to be asked to be a guest designer for Kristina Werner.  What an honour.

Kristina has made some gorgeous cards incorporating Christmas newsletters, and I made a couple of cards inspired by hers.

On this one I used Baby Reindeer, one of my favourite new Hero Arts stamps:

I adore Kristina's style, so clean and simple and graphic.

So I used the sketch precisely, but added a few of my own touches ;) Can you spot them?

Check out my other card and Kristina's projects HERE and play along if you get a chance.

Thanks for stopping by. :)
P.S.  Scroll down for another Friday blog post...

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Let's Get Merry

Hello!

Check out the GORGEOUS new 'Party the Penguin' stamp from Jane Beljo... isn't he CUTE.  

You can buy the penguin HERE, or go over to Jane's blog to be in with a chance of winning him for FREE.  You can check out all the other DT's work there too.
LOVE the yummy red saddlestitch ribbon too - it's from The Ribbon Girl.  So excited that they'll soon be getting silk ribbon too :) Yay!
Hooray for Fridays...

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Bling.

Mmmmm... love shiny things.

And LOVE these sweet ribbon sliders from The Ribbon Girl.  I thought they'd look nice on a wedding card as the main feature... so this is what I created.

The ribbons are American Crafts and Creative Impressions.

Hope your week is going well.  Mine is good so far :)

Happy Wednesday!

x

Yummy Buttons

Here's a card I made with lots of yummy PTI buttons... aren't they delicious.

Back to school for me this week... hence the short post.  Busy, busy, busy...

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Glittery Fishies

I love making fishy themed cards :)

So here's another... Lots of sweet fishies, glitter and goggle eyes - love 'em all. 

Happy Weekend everyone - have FUN.

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on the move...

Here's a card I made using some of my favourite My Mind's Eye products.  I really love MME at the moment... their products are so pretty and feminine and girly. :)

Hope you are having a good week.
Mine is flying by :(

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My lovely sister

I am blessed with a loving sister, who never fails to amaze (offend) me with her honesty. :)

After a long skype call, we turned the conversation to my cardmaking. She occaisonally browses my blog, like the rest of my non-crafty family, and tonight, happened to comment that one of my cards was the ugliest card she'd ever seen.

How's that for honesty.  :)

My husband comes a close second - he ALWAYS says exactly what he thinks.

Still - I guess it's all a matter of taste - how boring would life be if we all liked the same things!

So Emily - this one is for you. What do you think??  And don't feel you have to hold back on account of my feelings ;)  I miss you Emily - I really really do.

Anyone out there blessed with a sister who never holds back :)

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Birthday Girl

Happy Monday everyone - I am celebreating as I am on holiday this week. Yay.

Here's a birthday card I made recently, using some cute alphas and gorgeous patterned paper.  

I always fail miserably at vintage, however hard I try - but this is my effort. :)
Have a fun day.

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Big Flower!

Hello.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

I have a huge secret mission that I am working on - lots of work, but such fun too. :)  

So I thought I'd pop in and share a card I made a little while ago using my new Tim Holtz flower dies.

I cut the flowers from some My Mind's Eye paper (from the Be Loved range), inked the edges with Wild Honey distress ink, and layered them up.  The background paper is HERE.  I used Powder Layering Paper for the base, and punched the scallop with THIS punch.  Finally, the sentiment is from THIS set and the button is Papertrey ink (I adore it!).
Have a fab day.
x

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Christmas Star

Hi!  I have 2 cards to share today!!!

First, here's a little card I made using gorgeous Penny Black stamps.

On this card, I took only a tiny fragment of a much larger stamp to make a mini card.

Here is the stamp I used - Royal Greeting:

And here is my card!

See, I used JUST the tiny little bird on top of the post box. :)

I coloured the birds using Prismacolors, perched them on a stitched line, and added a sentiment from THIS Penny Black set.  I added a tiny bit of glitter with a Spica pen to finish.

And secondly, I LOVE this Penny Black stamp... So versatile.

It's the same one I used for THIS card. 

Here, I just stamped onto some Papertrey Ink paper, added a pool of Glossy Accents to the centre and added a pile of beads.  The sentiment is from THIS set.
I'm pretty addicted to kraft at the moment... and distress inks...

Penny Black are sponsoring the current Caardvarks challenge... don't forget to check it out HERE and make a card.  There'll be some awesome prizes!
HOORAY FOR FRIDAYS.
And holidays!  I have a whole WEEK starting NOW!!!

Jingle all the Way

It's time for a new Caardvarks challenge, and we are sponsored by Penny Black. Yay!

I had so much fun creating with some of the FAB hedgehogs from their 'Best Day Ever' set.  Love me my hedgehogs. :)

I added some ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, and a bit of Glossy Accents to make the bells shiny.

So head on over to Caardvarks to check out the challenge.  You have to make a card that's decorated outside AND in. :)
And you could win a TON of Penny Black stamps.
Good luck.

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 7

Welcome to the 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 7!   Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving different designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps!  You also might see some projects from the JustRite design team, using some of their newly released line of cling stamps!  You can find JustRite's new collection of cling stamps HERE.  This week, Spellbinders and Caardvarks design teams are joining in the fun, and I had to play along.

Here is my card:

I used the Christmas Nested Sentiments and Verses set on this card, combined with some old Basic Grey stickers, which I covered in Glossy Accents, and some lovely satin ribbon from The Ribbon Girl.

Hope you want to join in the fun.  Scroll down to see the blog hop list, or click HERE to go to the next blog on the hop.

Enjoy.

JustRite Inspiration Blog

Spellbinders Blog

Debbie Olson

Kimberly Crawford

Sharon Harnist

Beth Pingry

Amy Crockett

Kellie Fortin

Latisha Yoast

Becca Feeken

Lucy Abrams (you are HERE)

Sankari Wegman

AJ Otto  

Beate Johns

Heidi Van Laar

Kazan Clark

Julie Overby

Peet Roeven

Michele Kovack

Judy Hayes

Kathy Racoosin

Stephanie Kraft

Terre Fry

Angela Barkhouse

Holly Simoni

Heidi Blankenship

My new Prismacolors...

So when I was in America, I took the plunge and bought some Prismacolors.

WOW.  I LOVE them.

They were 50% off!!!!  I couldn't believe it.  England doesn't DO sales like that!  We don't even do vouchers. :(

And although my lovely friend Kathy said I should buy the big set, I resisted, and got the 78 pencil tin.  (If only I'd listened to her... I want MORE).

So today I had my first real play with them.  Delicious.

I used THIS Hero Arts digikit, printed it straight onto kraft cardstock, coloured in front of X Factor (yay!) and assembled.  Simple.  I added lots of white dots, a la Kathy, using THIS fab white pen.  Love the way it pops.
So thanks Kathy and Jennifer for forcing me to buy my Prismas.  I am DEFINITELY a happy customer. :)
Oh, and Kathy has an amazing giveaway HERE and Jennifer HERE.  Check them out.
Happy Monday.  This is a good week, as it's the build up to my half term holiday on Friday! Yay.

miss you...

My lovely lovely friend just left work on maternity leave. Excited as we all are about the baby, we're missing her already!

I made this card for my department to give to her.  The owls represent each member of my department (I'm the pushy little turquoise one at the front!)

See, we're all really wise :)

I had so much fun making this card.  I used THIS set of Hero Arts owls, and added THIS tiny one, stamping them onto papers by Papertrey Ink and perching them on some yummy Ribbon Girl twine.  The sentiment was typed and printed onto the kraft cardstock, then I added THESE Thickers. Love 'em.
Hope you have a great weekend.

Trio Challenge: Day 5

It's the fifth and final day of our blog challenge...  :(

And today we are using Penny Black's 'A Christmas Star'.

I stamped the image onto eleven colours of Papertrey Polka dot papers, cut out one petal from each, inked the edges a little and adhered to kraft cardstock with foam adhesive.  The sweet sentiment is from THIS Hero Arts stamp set.  I added a lovely vintage Papertrey button and twine to the centre.

I hope you have enjoyed this week as much as me.  I've had such fun seeing what Jennifer and Kathy have created with the same products, seeing their styles reflected in their beautiful cards.
I do hope they will consider another challenge like this in the future...
:)

Trio Challenge: Day 4

It's day 4.

And today we've gone digital.

We're using Hero Arts' 'Flower Faces' digikit, and here is my card:

I printed the image three times onto some digital polka dot paper, cut them out and inked the edges with Scattered Straw distress ink.  The background stamp is THIS one, of of my favourites, stamped in Antique Linen distress ink on Papertrey Ink's Rustic cardstock.  The sentiment is from THIS HA digikit.
Don't forget to check out Jennifer and Kathy's digi masterpieces now...

Wedding Card and Garden Love

OK, here's a little card I made for a lovely girl from the HA Flickr Family who got married yesterday. Tami Hartley organised a wedding card event, and loads of people joined in.  Click HERE for wedding card heaven...

Here's my little CAS card:

I used Hero Arts digikit 'To Have and to Hold', and typed my own font.  The flowers were paper pieced and covered in Diamond Stickles and little pearls.
On a different note...
Yesterday morning, I took a little stroll in the garden, and took a few photos to share with you all.  I can't believe so many things are still blooming...
This is my favourite - a new pair every morning.

and this rose just keeps on getting better and better:

Our fuscias are still going strong...

We have a whole load of these mini cyclamen under the tree at the back of the garden.  They are so sweet:

Coming down to a new carpet of these apples each day has been such fun!

And we get to eat whatever this little guy leaves us:

And finally, a early evening in Autumn shot.  Love the dappled sunlight...

And finally for today, the winners of my SRM stickers giveaway are:

Marilyn

and

 Lynn

I've emailed you both.

Have a great Monday.
x

Trio Challenge: Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of the Jennifer, Kathy and Lucy blog challenge.

Today's stamp is Hero Arts' Classic Holly.

I had fun with this card... although it took a while!
I stamped the holly onto some Papertrey Polka Dot paper, then added Crackle Accents.  These leaves were paper pieced onto the final card.

Lots of Hero Hues pearls, and a greeting from THIS Hero set.
I can't WAIT to see what Jennifer and Kathy do with the stamp...
CLick HERE and HERE to see. :)
P.S. You have to the end of the day to enter my SRM Stickers giveaway. Click HERE to see.

Trio Challenge: Day 2

Day 2 of the Jennifer, Kathy, Lucy blog challenge begins...

And today, we are playing with Lawn Fawn's CUTE whale stamp from the sweet 'Critters in the Sea' set.

Here is my card:

I decided to keep this card clean and simple, and added my own typed sentiment onto some Papertrey Ink grid paper. The whale is smothered in Glossy Accents and covered in turquoise glitter. Finally,  I used some sweet alphas to finish.
Now see what the fabulous Jennifer and Kathy have created with the same stamp...
And check back soon for Day 3!!