oh deary me

been extremly neglectfull of my blog for  allmost a year. i have crafted a few items over the time just not had time or facility to take pics.  im going to have to work out how to plan my time to allow some craft time and to get back to blogging.

wahooo

i bought a silhouette cameo a few month's ago now, sadly every time i planned to go near it, got it out, something happened to prevent me from using it, knock at the door, phone ringing or Ellie popping round for 5 Min's that turned to hours. i did create a card for Ellie,s birthday cant believe the minx is 5 going on 50 lol, i do have a pic on my fb page so will need to save it into a file before i bring it to my blog.
well after downloading many free files and being unable to open them i eventually sussed that i cant touch certain files as i need the silhouette designer edition, at £50 its a road I'm not prepared to go down unless i make that money selling cards created using the machine first. the other night i created this card using a free file from here http://shirleystemplates.blogspot.co.uk/. some lovely files to be bought maybe in the future once i learn more. well lets get to the card in question, made for my friend and colleague at work, she likes it, i deliberately left no greeting as in the past she has left my cards up for a year or longer, she said she may even frame this on.
because i was having problems cutting it on thicker card i cut it from thin coloured card and wrapped it round the white base card, added the gems and left it at that, a rarity for me lol.
all i need to work out now is to resize i would love this to have been bigger, but hey ho that's to come .              cut from a chocolaty thin card.

 highlighting the bling, from Joanna sheen's shop.

a challenge i just remembered about.

talk about brave, eeek theres a challenge over here, http://sandra-mummy-of-one.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/anyone-else-daring-enough-little.html
its a challenge to show your earliest card and your very latest, well then here goes. this is the very very first card i ever made, almost six years ago now. i so remember that trip to hobby craft and spending a load of money. the stamps were a see ds set and i stuck with my fav colours, pink and lilac. my best freind tells me she still has this card and allways looks forward to recieving my handmade cards.

. my latest is obviously the one i made for ellie.

but i have to admit my all time favourite is this one

made using a glitter girls board, this was a requested card, for my best freinds sons wedding, she wanted it to tie in with their colour theme.

well after a very long absence to blogging and crafting for that matter im back lol.
i recently purchased a sillhouette cameo and have created my first project.
it wasnt totally what i had in mind but thats what happens when i do anything.
i can see im going to have fun with this machine and hope i dont break it in my quest for learning its limits.
anyway, my granddaughter was 5 yesterday and here is the first project made using the cameo.

the two butterflies i intended in doing in different coloured card but due to bad light and time this didn't happen, after a nights sleep and mulling over what to do i spied my embossing powders so there was my solution, i inked the top layers in white ink then added embossing powder, one turquoise glitter and the other pink candy (i think). overall I'm pleased with the effect even if the outcome is nothing like the big plan

Ellie at 5 wasn't interested in the work that had gone into it, she took it out of the envelope and put it on the hearth, her other nan picked it up read the inside to her then put it on the mantle, ellie just went right back to her party bless her.

new year new start

hi all. firstly im terribly sorry that my blogs have been neglected, didnt realise how much time had elapsed, since packing my stuff up for the house refurb my crafting has been none existant. thats about to changeeven if i only get to make 1 item a month, im determined to put aside 1 night a week to do some crafting, starting with my christmas cards. they will be coming down in a bit so those im not keeping will be used to recycle make other cards with, gift tags and such, and the backs as said on another blog used as scrap for shopping list, im forever needing to do list for my on line shopping then promptly do it from memory and forget the most important item.
so this week before im still off work im going blog hopping so you may suddenly see a message from me lol. im looking forward to catching up. xxxx

ellies birthday card

this is ellies fourth birthday card. only remembered i had these flippen kids sheets after spending ages looking for an alternative idea as i wanted to use a digi image but my printer wont print despite having ink, and not being able to find my b plates to my cuttlebug. the dress to imp ress greeting was added after the perlen drops had dried overnight

my first time doing a easter bonnet, not how i originally planned it to be, but an impatient 3 year old and trying to cut out shapes with a cuttlebug that decided it didnt want to play ball did not mix.

ended up a mixture of mum, myself and ellie all having a play, and to top it all we all got a burn of the glue gun. after ellies initial just plonk it all in a pile she then wondered of and allowed us adults to race through placing and gluing it all together.

thanks to my youngest daughter hollie i have started to collect things to make earrings,
these are my very first pair made for hollie and as a result have been asked by a collegue to make the same style only in another colour plan. so we have been haunting e bay and a trip to the chariety shops, and a lovely new comer to the forum on trimcraft sent me some lovely bits from sweden, THANK YOU MIA
hoping to make a fair few pairs while we are of work and school for 2 weeks, just need to organise my time so i can get a few hours free in daylight hours to permit this

award recieved

thanks kim and cath both sent me this award.

dont really know why hehehe

late night

didnt go to bed untill gone 3am, hopefully after a few days back at work it will tire me out enough to get to sleep at a sensible time. i managed to make two cards after my girls went to bed but i can only show one for now as i can,t let some of my followers know i made 1 as its a group competition. i can however show the other and here it is lol, this was made for a colour challenge over on cadc, pink/green and yellow. think i fullfilled that lol

blue christmas bear

over on my ebay group we do a challenge set regularly, this one was for a blue card,
i decided to do a blue bear as i was going through some old mags and found some free blue papers,  backing is dovecraft christmas paper, matting is the free blue paper, digi image coloured with promarkers.

this has been entered into the following challenges

creative craft world      a square card

lexies creations     a bear

one of those grr cards

ever had a project that just wont go to plan,
i decided to make a rocker card after finding a sheet i liked and tied in with  the trimcraft cupcake challenge.
this card was meant to be sooo easy to do. print, cut and assemble job done, what can so difficult about that.
well i printed cut and assembeled and stood the card up and what do i get, flop thats what. instead of standing and swaying from side to side it just flopped. so i dismantled what i could made it into a basic long card lol.
result

i will get to grips with the rocker style, will need to find my compass cutter and make the rocker out of stiffer card.

new digi blog on the block

came across this while blogg hopping this afternoon, go have a nosey,
im looking forward to seeing whats coming in the future


http://sylviazet.blogspot.com/

new technique, (well to me anyway)

i was bored and browsing the forums to see if anything caught my attention,
i had coloured my image in the colours for the challenge i was taking part in, pink and chocolate.
a post called cuttlebug quilting caught my attention, the rest is easy, i just had to try it but had to get some zzzzds first.
things didnt go arccording to plan very well, i was intending on doing a a4 in half size card, but my measuring and laying down went to pot, so had to chop the base to fit a smaller card.
cant say my colouring with promarkers is improving  but it looks worse when the pic is scanned
the image is a from fairy dust crafts,
another card for my sample box which my girls use for their freinds, hopefully next attempt will work out properly lol
challenge was set by craftysandra over on trimcraft,
does anyone remember caramac, when i saw the lighter brown card in my box it sooo reminded me of that, i loved it as a child, so i just had to use some lol

two cards lol

first card is a mo manning image, coloured with  promarkers, it was left in my card box for a few days as i didnt really know what else to do with it, a subject on trimcraft came up on how to use flowers, im a big fan of flowers but have no arrangement skills despite looking at loads of other peoples projects and being sooo jealous its untrue, so going on the easy route i opted for the three in a corner option, gems added after the pic was taken .
i have now decided that all cards unless made for a specific challenge as in say thanks and such will be left with noo greeting untill i know who and for what purpose it will be given lol

the second card is was for kims challenge on trimcraft, theme was a stamped image,

the stamp i used is a crafty pad stamp called belinda shopping,

again coloured with promarkers some touches with a clear glitter pen and the bags have been embossed to give a shiny look using a watermark pen and clear gloss embossing powder.

out came the flowers again, this time cream ones sprayed with purple violet cosmic shimmer mist,

how could i forget that stuff stains your skin, went into work with blue tipped fingers as i firstly prayed my mat and dipped the flowers into it but i wasnt happy with the effect, so i used my brain and actually sprayed the flowers instead. i love how each one has come out different shades.

both cards have been backed with a paper from a dcwv pad but i cant remember what it was called,
my son reckons the backing is old fashioned, what do you think lol
he said for once i have created lovely cards apart from the backing.
well im off to have a play with my alcahol inks or maybe my cuttlebug cant decide just yet,

none slushy valentine card

we all know that men are not big on recieving those slushy valentine cards,
a few collegues ask me to make some last year but apart from a few specific requested i never got round to doing some
having joined another forum just for a nosey and found some fabulous digi images and tutorials
here is one of the those images used to make a basic simple none slushy card

created a card yeah

used a lexi image and its meant to be pink, the pink coat has come out slightly orange grrr,
background paper is a dovecraft pink christmas paper, the earmuffs and scarf were coloured in cool grey 2 promarkers then gone over with a clear glitter jelly roll pen as were the bags, the glitter stripes are dst and chunky glitter,mage then mounted onto a piece of pink handmade paper, greeting stamped on a piece of lilac scrap card and embossed in pink, not brilliantly cut i know i need new scissors i think. im somewhat glad to get away from the christmas theme. lol

this is going to be entered into lexies pink winter birthday.



first time with distress reinkers

i recently bought 5 bottles of tim holtz distress reinkers, after loads of video watching and joining the splitcoasters site i found a tutorial that appealed to me.
the base card was embossed using a papermania folder then coloured using shimmery eyeshadow, the tag was stamped directly on the dried inked photo paper then just mounted onto the base card, this will go into my first offs box hence it not being embellished.
i can only get better at using these inks from here on says i lol

my theme for a challenge

after winning  kims first christmas card challenge over on trimcraft i was to set the theme for the third challenge.
i decided on recycling and boy did i have fun with a very simple card but did it give me a headache. first i used stiff clear plastic sheet from some packaging luckily it was around a4 size and after cutting the edges off i got two sheets, used my now broken trimmer to cut out squares avoiding the scratched bits lol.
i then got one piece and embossed it with the craft too baubles folder, on the debossed side i originally coloured  the baubles using my promarkers but didnt like the effect so off it came with a bit of hot water and washing liquid,
a quick rummage and i found my glass paints, so after a few false starts i got going, after each bauble was painted before paint dried i sprinkled with glitter, i then painted surrounding area with pva glue and randomly scattered the mixed excess glitter all over.
although it still needs the sentiment and the ribbon on the edges  they are in larder underneath the mound of stash i have got.
but here is the almost finished card, oh it was also mounted onto card that i originally had a decoupage image on but found something had gone wrong so dismantled it,
i have got a few more squares of this plastick left so watch out for some more creations like this, as although its messy and time consuming its great fun. they can only get better lol, i did assemble this still slightly damp hence the in real life slight faults but hugely visible after being scanned lol

i won a challenge lol

over on trimcraft,
kim aka ditzy set her first challenge, project had to have a christmas tree on it,
well after not long purchasing the pepper and freinds christmas range the image stamped and coloured sat on my desk for best part of two weeks. i had made another card for this challenge and was going through my peel offs for that little extra bit when i found the sheet of stars. then out came the bug and here is the result, its still not fully sank in that i won it.
thank you kim for setting the challenge up, it has got me started on my christmas cards lol.
first the winning card image coloured with promarkers and a touch of green glitter added to tree not that you can see it lol, cut out using my mega nesties. adhered to textured red card a4 folded in half, stars randomly stuck on, once i get out my christmas text peel offs the greetin will be put on the left hand space.

 second card made using the free embossing folder from craft mag, coloured using shimmer eye shadow and a light spray of hairspray to fix. paper was from a sample paper pack i bought from jasmines cards, so i dont know what pack it is from, again greeting will be added once i have got them from the christmas stash storage. can see i will be making more like this as they are super fast lol

emmas birthday card

emma is 14 today yikes, spent last night searching for decent jls and justin bieber images but nothing printed out well, remembered i had a pyrimid sheet sent to me some time ago, because of the lateness i guess i wasnt concentrating too well and not paying attention to what i was doing, now its up on screen i can see my faults. will i leave things to last minute again probably lol

lets see who can spot 1 big error i only noticed after seeing it on the pc.

latest card

yesterday collegue asked me how much i charge for my cards, usual reply £1 upwards. wants basic simple card for 1 year old today grrr do wish they gave more notice. mulling over what i could do and a rummage through my stash i found this diecut from a lovely e bay seller, it was a freebie , then the tag was coloured with eyeshadow and fixed with  cheap hair spray, as it was for a 1 year old  i decided not to add any other embellishments in case she was given them to play with lol.

alot of fun but hard work lol

over on trimcraft rozzy set us a challenge to make our own stamps.
this is what i came up with.
marrianne butterfly die cut out of foam, glued to thick card, dst taped to acrylic block, hey presto a new stamp, also after reading ikkis post about a different way of using a die think it was labels i tried with my mega nesties as i had too much card either side of the image, used the next size die up but placed with what was the top and bottom on the sides, i think it worked well,  but as this will go in my keeps box no one will see any faults lol, hence my not decorating with gems like i would if it was going to be given to someone.

do you love promarkers

well you will love this blog candy over at pink gem designs.

 

ProMarker Pen Set 'Garden Design'


'Lenny Lion' stamp - Pink Gem Designs

'Peek - a - Boo Marvin' stamp - Pink Gem Designs
for full details pop over to   pink gem designs.
good luck

new projects

this image came from karens doodles
and i think its a lovely summery image so hope i did it proud.
both these items were made using free ribbon from crafty ribbon i was lucky enough to recieve
just had to wait for them to appear on the website, despite looking daily i must have missed them somehow. lol

latest cards

here are two of my latest cards.

i so love these images and just had to get them for my granddaughter who is three today

originally i was making a bookatrix got as far as the cutting out, stupidly i put them on the coffee table while i did the usual routine in a lets have a breather, loo and make a drink, hadnt long let the cats in for the night. on my return one of the cats was happily sat on the pages cleaning himself. all three pages had paw prints all over them and were unuseable. so one fancy card turned to two basic simple cards.

this one is coloured using promarkers, £1 shop glitter pens and some added gems

this one coloured with promarkers and shimmer paints with touches of glitter pen to the jewellary bits.

both the images are created by mo manning

lacie with ice cream and diva, both available to buy

they are great to work with

i do have two more projects to show that i created last week but untill i know they have been recieved i cant show them lol. you will just have to wait. i pray they were recieved as im actually very pleased with how one of the projects turned out

once i have checked out the pictures i took at ellies birthday party i will upload some, not including myself i hasten to add or i will scare you all away lol

recycling challenge

rozzy over on trimcraft set us a challenge to recycle three items to reuse. sadly i didnt get my three done but the ideas and tools are allready planned. i did however recycle a laundry tablet box, and what a chore this was, mainly because the paper was too thick, i knew i would need a stronger dst than my usual crafting one. on a visit to the pound shop i found wide carpet dst so luckily had it in my stash but noooo it refused to stay stuck down,  a thick layer of pva glue and being weighed down eventually did the trick. i did however learn that on my next box if i avoid papering the inside flaps it should work better.

my eldest emma has decided she now wants this box. this challenge i also made work for another challenge, a colour one, pink and brown, later on once i find my gems i want and that piece of ribbon that has vanished of my desk i can finish the box.

sooo we have gone from this

to this

strawberries strawberries and more strawberries lol

was lucky enough to get some freebie ribbon, now i know these cards have been recieved and are on the website  i can show them here lol,
thanks to rozzy whos sketch i followed, susie for the mouse image and the strawberry image was from dulemba, lol

dissappointed

i made these atcs for my ebay group, and to say im disappointed is putting it mildly, the theme was vintage, i bought the digi image and love the image, i coloured them with coffee for the aged effect, covered them in pva glue for the shine and to make stiffer, used hair grips cut down (hard work)  had to send them off as i ran out of time to make others, im embarrased to show these but maybe it will be a lesson to me not to try something new for a swap or challenge. because they are in their cello bags you cant see the  curl on the wings. wont be trying the vintage look again i dont think, especially with coffee, dont drink it and i cant stand the smell. did try with old teabags but got a lighter effect.

christening card

well im full of a cold, got sore red raw itchy hands too.
anyways, was asked to do a none religous christening card for a 3 year old girl.
after browsing galleries and request for help quickly as i found out i had less than 24 hours to create it. this is what i came up with, and i learnt a new idea to use ribbon on the nellies, thanks to a lovely trimmy members gallery where i saw the idea in the first place, (thanks jennie) i lurve the  effect, in fact a group im in has also liked the idea so much they are going to try it.

doll and gems from pound shop (lol)

silver mirror card

nellie rectangles

ribbon  from crafty ribbon

text using pc

wasnt going to post this card here, as i wasnt very sure off it, but thanks to the comments from my trimmy freinds, have changed my mind,
stamp from little claires   (blooming lovely)
colours     promarkers
ink    stazon  (mistake)
beads adhered with dst  not sure what they are called  bought them abought for years ago and didnt have a clue what to do with them, untill i recently saw something similar on another blog.
image mounted on red patterned mirror card,
backing paper  by papermania, basic colossal pack , (basic pastel)
peel offs to finish.

card made for freind

emma requested a card for a school freind. last minute as per usual. thinking oh i will do a basic simple one, she goes "oh shes into horses".    so between us we found an image we both liked,then i was left to it. First lot of images came out in black and white so not sure what im going to do with those, might make up and see if collegue at work is interested in them lol. Anyways did this simple layer and mat card using handmade paper for the base and the obligatry ribbon at the side, have to say the ribbon was tightened this morning once glue had dried as i had to use pritt stick because i couldnt find the dst. greeting added by emma this morning as well. Little minx told her freind i only helped a little.

had my girls in stitches

after a weekend of having ellie, who had us in stitches when she suddenly called hollie  stupid and emma an idiot i had to try to work out what noncker meant, dare i go there, told my son who reckoned it was not funny when she called him a noncker instead of the king, i had my girls in fits of laughter when i told them what they came out with, i will leave these two to your imaginations and see what you come up with,
hollie  if she repeated  slippers off
emma      fork and knife,    
lets just say i had to make sure i rephrased those two before it got me into trouble.
anyway im now showing two cards i made for the animal chariety and ebay competition i take part in every month. theme was mothers day. I think i need to use bigger cards for these in future  found i couldnt find any bigger envelopes in my stash so had to use small and found i couldnt add the borders i wanted to add. not overly thrilled with these cards now i see them on the screen, but hey ho i know they wont win me the comp but im happy taking part and thats all that matters to me.

both are from the joanna sheen fashion boutique cdrom

there is a third card somewhere but i seem to have misplaced it after deciding it was ott and left no room for a greeting lol, once i find it i will post a pic as a lesson to myself

freebie available

http://instylestampsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/method-monday-oops.html

both lovely images, to find out how to get it, click the link

wish i was a bit more techy minded.

my first book card made for a lady on maternity leave from today.

only one person said it was the wrong type of card it should have been a leaving card, but she isnt exactly leaving she will be back after her maternity leave finishes

valentine cards

after taking a sample card into work using a digi stamped image from  the crafty pad, i got asked to make a number of valentine cards. all made similar to each other, the only difference was the backing papers those were all done in different colour schemes, this one im showing you was for our supervisor who didnt want flowery slushy or lovey sentiments, but then decided she wanted the heart brad added as i didnt add that  just in case.

this next one was a real headache and the end result not what i originally wanted to achieve, but recipient is pleased with it so thats all that matters

the frame is the off cut of the card above before it went through the cuttlebug lol, cant really say i know a man who would like to recieve this as a valentine card but i did as requested and wont find out untill our return to school after the holiday if he was pleased with it.

awww ellies snowmouse

my granddaughter who is 2 helped hugely to make this snowmouse, her first view of a proper snowfall, she absolutely loved it and didnt want to go in, oh and its called poy after some programme on cebeebies. she is still adding to it  while her brother is chucking snowballs at my window

happy new year to all

just thought i would wish my followers a happy new year.
hopefully i will be better at blogging in 2010. due to printer probs not been able to upload my latest projects to pc and my girls have lost my digi camera.
hoping to get lots of crafting done in new year,

award recieved

thank you to trimgym who sent me this award, it certainly made me smile, thank you trimgym lol xxx

will figure out how to share these awards one fine day lol

made this card for my 15 year old grandson, who is 15 today, only found out yesterday who is fav wrestler is after i tried hunting the wrestler called the undertaker, my daughter gave me three names, this one is john cena or something like that. now to clear up all the bits and go to bed lol