Sweetheart

I have no idea who I have made this card for so I guess it will just stay in my craft room! Anyway I got this Sarah Kay stamp for Christmas from my mum, I think its really sweet that she went to the glitter pot site and chose some Penny Black stamps and this Sarah Kay one as a surprise for me, I think she is getting bitten by the crafting bug and will soon be 'stroking papers' that are too good to use!

The stamp is called A Kiss For Chloe and I have watercoloured it with Whispers Brush Strokes pens on watercolour paper. The paper and card is again by DCWV and is from the love card kit. The flowers are a mixture of prima, a bead one and one from my blog candy from Jill. I have used a pearly button in one and brads in the other two. the button in the corner has lace tied through it (and I think I stuck it a bit high up on the card). I also used my new oval nesties that I got for Christmas from my brother and his fiance (he could not understand what they were or why I wanted them and thought I was mad). I have added a string of pearly flowers to the bottom corner of the oval and a sentiment sticker from the DCWV kit.

Its such a sweet stamp, I love the whimsyness (did I just make that word up?) of the image and distressed the papers and card with a brown ink pad to give it a vintage feel.

Braveheart

This is my first card as guest DT member of Sugarnellie. I used the sugarnellie stamp braveheart which can be bought here from Funky Kits, isn't he so cute!

The sketch is from this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge blog.

I spent ages trying to find a sentiment to go with the stamp, and eventually found 'Courage does not always roar- sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow' Author unknown. It think it goes perfectly with this little scaredy cat. I made it into word art in MS Publisher, then went over the roar in an orange glittery gel pen.

I decorated the inside with some cat footprints, patterned paper and an orange gem in the corner.

The papers are from Summertime Designs Boy Oh Boy kit, the image is coloured with whispers pens, flowers are prima, ribbon is from chatterbox, circles are cut with nesties and xcut shape cutter.

Happily Ever After

For this card I've used the Elzybells stamp Knight and Princess, Making Memories papers from Multipack Maddi, yes I actually managed to make myself cut up the papers instead of just admiring them and putting them away again for 'something special'. flowers are prima, sentiment says happily ever after and has been coated with gloss which is why it doesn't show up well in the photo, as is the knights sword and shield. The circles are cut using nestabilities, I have punched a hole in each of the scallops.

This is my second post of the evening so please be sure to take at look at Daniels card in the post below.

Ice Skating Snowman

Good afternoon to you all and thanks for dropping by.


I have made this card for the a spoon full of sugar sketch challenge


I used papers from the nitwits Winter Wishes Collection. The image is from PCCrafter Cold Hands Warm Heart2 collection by Laurie Furnell, watercoloured with whispers pens and mounted on nesties scalloped and plain circles.


I also just want to say how impressed I am with the service from the glitter pot I ordered a papermania acrylic album yesterday lunch time and its arrived this morning! I am so surprised its here already! I'm going to use the album to make a calendar for myself, and will upload pictures when I complete each month.

Christmas Comes Early

I thought I'd upload a Christmas card today as I have been trying to make a start on them early this year (this is early for me).

I used Penny Black's Xmouse Ornament stamp which i got for £3.50 at Ally Pally, what a bargain! Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder on DCWV card stock then I went over the embossed part with a nail buffer so the white core shows through. Xcut and fiskars snowflake punches coated in doodlebug sugar coating and with a gem in the middle. I also glittered around the edge of the card with glitter glue.

I think I'll make these little nesties cards for my work friends this year.

Second post of the day.

I just wanted to upload this card I made with my new stamp from Funky Kits designed by Elisabeth Bell called Pen Pal, water coloured with whispers. The paper is Homespun by A Tanabe and was downloaded a while ago, unfortunately i cannot find a link for it now. Flowers are Primas, the charm is from an old bracelet.

I think it needs a sentiment on the bottom left corner but cant decide what to put so will wait until I have a use for it and then decide what to put there.

Penny Black For a Spin...

I used my new Penny Black stamp that my mum bought me to make a card for my docrafts image swap partner. I think I might have over embellished it a bit but I love detail on cards and don't do minimal, what do you think?I used whisper pens to colour the image. The flowers are made from templates and inspiration from Scrap This! I glittered the edge of the nesties and 3D'd the image on foam pads, I also glossed over the tyres. The papers are from Summertime Designs energy kit. I've also added a little pocket in the inside to put the stamped images into.

New watermark

The noise here in my craft room is absolutely horrendous at the moment due to some bright spark from the council deciding that in order to avoid disruption to traffic they would close the road outside my flat and resurface it between the hours of 7pm and 7am Friday, Saturday and Sunday!!!!! They only started an hour ago and I'm already nearly tearing my hair out, its so loud, I have the windows shut but they have 4 diggers and god knows how many pneumatic drills going, and this is gonna go on all night for 3 night!? I think someone may have a full inbox of complaints to deal with on Monday morning.

Anyway to take my mind off the noise I've turned my music up and have been having a play with a making a watermark for my pictures. I made the card below a few days ago because I wanted to use my new stamp. I think the watermark on this picture is too bright

So I've made it a bit more transparent on the below images and a bit smaller and think it looks better.The card is made using a CC design Glam Girl Frankie stamp, water coloured with whispers markers, the paper is from DCWV Teen Prints Paper Stack, the ribbon is some old sticky ribbon that the stickiness had dried up on from papermania, the flowers i made from punches and then shaped with an embossing tool, the sentiment is from a digikit I downloaded (but I cant remember where from- sorry).

Howdy

Here is a card that I have sent to Rachel for the docrafts friendship swap, I hope she liked it. I got a lovely Tilda one from her.
Ive used papers from Summertime Designs, the stamp is Cowgirl - Hat by Alota, the flowers are prima and I've inked them with brown ink, the card is cut on my cuttlebug with my nesties, the sentiment is computer generated by myself using a frame from a didgiscrap kit. The brads, ribbon and eyelets are from my stash.


Bev has some fab Whiff Of Joy blog candy on offer on her site so go check it out.

Papertake challenge

Here is my entry into the papertake weekly challenge, which this week is Autumn Haze

The mouse is from PC Crafter Laurie Furnell Country Mice, watercoloured with whispers brush markers. The papers are a download kit from Simply Clean Digi Scraps, flowers are prima, ribbon is from Chatterbox, scalloped squares cut with nesties. The sentiment is hand made on my computer, I secretly quite pleased with myself with how it turned out! x

Ballerina card

I had a lovely bank holiday weekend visiting my brother and his fiance in Wales, I got to go to The Range which I've heard about on the do crafts forum but we don't have any down here. I got 2 Making Memories 24 sheet 12x12 paper pads that had been reduced from £9.99 to £2.49 and one DCWV 72 sheet 12x12 paper pad reduced from £9.99 to £3.99 so that made my weekend! I also go a pack of purple ribbons and a flower punch. I also went to Ikea whilst I was there and got some more storage jars for my buttons and bits and a rail with 5 baskets hanging from it that will hopefully store my ribbons, I just have to wait for my dad to come round with his drill to put it up for me, I did ask to borrow the drill to do it myself but I don't think he trusts me with it (I cant think why!)



Here's a quick ballerina card I've made with my whipper snappers Ballet Brielle stamp, stamped on to watercolour paper coloured with whispers pens, cuttlebugged background panels with swiss dots folder and used nesties for the center circles.