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.

Ribbon and lace

Funky Fairy's challenge #34 is to use ribbon and lace on your cards, well the ribbon was no problem as I usually always put ribbon on my cards, but after rummaging through my ribbons bag the only bit of lace I had was brown. Now I have nothing against brown when used in the right place but for the whole card to be based around this brown bit of lace I was quite uninspired. Anyway I decided to use it instead of buying more and set about trying to find something to make it less dull. I found this gorgeous paper in the Funky Fairy's Blue Xmas download which i thought would work a treat with the brown lace.

The swirl is hand cut as are the base flowers, I then added primas on top of them. The letters are brown chipboard ones from a Brenda Pinnick scrapbook kit covered in brown sugar coating from doodlebug. The frame the text is in is also from the Blue Xmas kit from Funky Fairy's and the birthday text is from a stamp set (but I threw the packaging away so cant remember the manufacturer). The ribbon is from chatterbox.

Thanks for looking, as always comments are welcome.

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.

Shabby Chic engagement

I've gone all Shabby Chic at the moment and am adding pins and buttons to everything! My mum asked me to make and engagement card for her best friends son, who is marrying a girl I went to school with and haven't seen in years- so I tried my hardest to make it good! What do you think?

And the inside.


Papers are free downloads from Summertime Designs Beautimous kit, computer generated wording with the font ASL Script, ribbon from chatterbox, prima flowers, heart cut with a template from perfect petals from craftwork cards, glittered with an iridescent glitter (I love using glitter but end up with it everywhere so don't use it very often!) button and pin are from my stash, added a bead to the end of the pin so its not sharp.

I even decorated the envelope and back of the card!

Ribbon Storage

My dad came round yesterday and put up my pole to hang my baskets from, so i spent the evening wrapping my ribbon around old toilet rolls! I'm so pleased with how it turned out.
Here is a close up of the toilet rolls idea, i just wrapped the length of ribbon around and secured with a piece of masking tape to hold it, they fit in the baskets perfectly! (sorry about the blurry image, my camera is proper rubbish!) Here is some pictures of the storage jars I got at Ikea to hold gromlets, buttons and small embellishments.

No cards to upload today, I have to make some baby girl cards as my brothers fiance's sister has just had a baby girl, so I''l be doing that tonight.

Also thanks to everyone who has left comments or visited my blog, I cant believe I've gone international! I've had visitors from Canada, Spain, Ireland, America, Slovakia and of course the good old UK, its certainly improved my knowledge of geography!