A Wellnifty Place

Something to brighten a grey day..

2011-11-07T15:29:00.001Z

Hi there

What a cold miserable day it is today and as it's my day off I thought I show some summery baby cards I made.
The first three I made for Freddie my great nephew who was born back in the spring.
This was for my Mum to give. Rachel & Alex hadn't decided on what to call the baby & Mum was impatient to give the card. So it had no name on it

made this one for My sister to give Rachel & Alex, as you can guess we all knew she was having a boy.
Both used downloads from the clipart fairy, along with ribbon, decoupage and embellishments from my stash.

The stork card was from us, I knew his name by the time I'd made the card, shame I didn't know the spelling, it should be Freddie...never mind it was too late too change it.Don't know what happened to the photo, I must have squashed it somehow, lol...

I made this card back in May last year for a friend, using the same stork decoupage. It's an image which I use quite a lot, I've had it for ages I think it was from Barbara Clooney, not sure though.

Would love to know what you think...if you pop by..

Hello again..I love fairies..

2011-09-09T15:21:00.004+01:00

Thought I put up a fairy or 2, seeing as I've not posted for a bit. I love this fairy and found it very difficult to part with her, but as it was for my sister birthday, I let her fly away.... sob sob...but I made myself a bigger one to keep....lol..in different colours I'll post her when I've taken a photo. The gorgeous fairy is from Craft Creations Plus Enchanted CD, the artist is Linda Ravenscroft and I've just treated myself to the latest CD which is the POW on C&C.

I played around with the decoupage a bit and gave her lots of fairy dust in the form of crystal glitter and silver stickles. A bit fiddly in places but worth it I thought.
The gorgeous flowers were from Hobby House, and I must admit I love them, added a bit of glitter to them as you do. Punched the leaves added more glitter.

The greeting I did on the pc on white card, cut the shape with my robo using a file that was a freebie from Birds Cards, I just changed the size and coloured it using dusty concord distress ink. Ribbon was white from stash,coloured with the same distress ink. Printed the backing paper which was a freebie from Making Handmade Cards, I changed the colour a bit to match the card.

Thought I have a go at the following Challenges..
Magical Monday Challenge: Anything Goes
and
Flutter by Wednesday No 170

Hope you like it,..
Would love to know what you think...

One I made for my Mum..

2011-07-10T10:26:00.000+01:00

Hello, to anyone that might pop by..

This was for Mums Birthday, although I made it before we went to Spain I didn't have a chance to post it. It's big, a large 8x8"card made from 2 A4 sheets, I used another Joanna Sheen Nostalgia decoupage sheet by Fay Whittaker, I love these, they are so pretty and easy to cut out. I used flower soft, guess where..lol..on the flowers and around the hats. Added some ribbon, glittered the flowers and leaves, matted the decoupage onto a lavender crinkle paper, then used a glue pad to stamp and glitter white card, punched along the side. The greeting was printed, cut with a nestie and inked around the edges.

The insert is from a Bearly Mine Designs CD, I altered the size to fit the card, then mirrored the image so it could be used to print the verse on one side and somewhere for me to write on the other. Used a quickie glue pen and crystal glitter to highlight the leaves, the bows and around the oval.
Hope you like it...

Would love to know what you think...

Hello ...Me again

2011-04-18T13:56:00.004+01:00

Thought I'd show the cards I made for my wonderful Mum and Mum in law for Mothers Day. Both are easel cards, the decoupage images I used were from Joanna Sheen Nostalgia by Fay Whittaker.
I really love these, they are so easy to cut out and look far better in real life.
The little girls were for Mum as she has 3 girls, and the boys for MIL as she has 2 boys, quite apt I thought.

A touch of crystal glitter on the dresses, red glitter on the bows, and red ultra fine flowersoft mixed with glitter around their hats. On the base I used some prima flowers distressed with Tim Holts ink. I know it looks cockeyed but it was just a very odd angle I took the photo, lol..

The base image is an insert from a disk by Donna at Bearly Mine designs, printed and decoupage, there are some lovely inserts on the cd, and wonderful service from Donna. By the way check out Donna's candy on her blog.

The story goes,I ordered the disk, about week later I still hadn't received it, so I got in touch with Donna who told me she'd posted it the day I ordered it, so it must have got lost in the post, without question she said she would send out another one to me..which I received within 2 days, guess what a few days later the original one she sent arrived,(it took almost 2 weeks to get here) I emailed her to let her know I'd received it, when I got home that night I had an email from her saying not to send it back and to keep it..but I'd already sent it back to her. I think I'll be buying more of her papers and inserts soon. Check them out here. As far as the post office is concerned well........... your guess is as good as mine as to where it was for 2 weeks..wasn't at the local sorting office as I phoned them to check.

Again on this one I used one of Donna's inserts, decoupaged it and used some small roses. The smaller image is the whole of the insert used on the card.

Oh guess what.... Whoopee.. I won the Ribbon Girls Candy,
thank you, gorgeous pink ribbons, some button & stamps all lovely, lucky me..

Would love to know what you think...

A Card for Tony

2011-04-08T13:56:00.000+01:00

Hi there, me again...last year we celebrated our Ruby Wedding, this is the card I made for Tony.
Got the shape from watching Nancy Watt on C&C. It ended up quite large and heavy good job I could hand it to him. I used the silver foiled hunkydory card mated onto silver mirri board, then on black pearlised card. Made the clasp from the circle nesties, added some ribbon & pearls and punched the edge.

This is it closed.

On the inside I decoupaged the lady and glittered her up a bit, matted it onto silver mirri then on black pearl card, then onto more mirri, then some white pearl card finally onto black pearl card again....phew..see what I mean about heavy..lol..

On the base I printed the sentiment and cut using nesties, and more of the silver foiled card.

Apologises for the photo's seems like I can never get them right...

Tony liked it, hope you do too..

Hi there...

2011-04-01T15:56:00.003+01:00

Hello to anyone that might pop by....thanks for coming...Well I love fairies, this fairy is from the Card Creations CD Enchanted, the image is by Linda Ravenscroft. Isn't she gorgeous..I played around with the colours a bit, till I got what I wanted, this was so fiddly to cut out, it took me hours, lol...I've made a few others from the cd I'll post them another time, all very time consuming on the cutting out.... but I love the fairies, not keen on the cd's interface though a bit fiddly, it's much quicker to view the jpegs in a graphic program.

I decided I wanted to make a easel card, and I wanted it to be round... had fun trying to make a rectangular image fit in a circle..by doing this I have decided I really need the Grand Circle Nestabilities, anyone know if they will fit my big kick?
I'm hoping they will as I don't really want to pay out for another machine at the moment.

I added some crystal glitter, a few charms and flowers, I printed the backing paper and mounted the image on some mirri board,

Hope you like it..Please let me know what you think.......

Now don't fall off your chairs!!!

2010-08-10T14:24:00.001+01:00

I'm posting a card...I'm back to blogging. Just spent a couple of days, blog hopping and leaving some comments, wow...did I miss a lot, so many beautifull cards, so to all my blogging friends if I haven't visited you yet I'm on my way.

I have no idea where I got the image from, but I thought she was such a pretty lady so I could bling her up a bit, 8" square cream pearlised card, so it was quite a large one. Love these papers, been waiting to find an image to use with them, charms, ribbons,pearls etc from stash, used an ink pad on the flowers to distress them a bit and gave her a little feather in her hair.

Well there is a first time for everything...Joanne a blogging friend of mine has just started a new challenge blog over at ....Craft Your Days Away, I thought it was about time I entered a challenge....then thought well in for a penny...I may as well enter a couple, so I hope I'm eligible to enter it into these..and that I've linked it right

Craft Your Days Away theme ... favourite things (vintage and charms)

Penny's Challenges #35 theme ... Anything Goes

Paperer play challenges theme ... 3Flowers, ribbon and a charm (Week 31)

Easy Craft Projects challenges theme....chocolate brown(Challenge 18)

Sir Stampalot theme..bring on the bling

2010-05-29T08:02:00.002+01:00

Hi everyone, well I still haven't got round to posting any cards, but I have made a few and are slowing getting back into it all again. I've been checking out most of the blogs I follow but haven't left many comments, this is just to say I still love all of your cards and congratulations to you all for always finding new ideas and thanks for sharing them.

I was just over at Jaks promarker tutorial site checking out her great tut on using the blender pen, she is offering a Promarker rubber stamping set 1, as Candy, please go check out her tutorial and her home site http://www.jakheath.com/site for some wonderful inspiration.

Hope to catch you all soon with a card, take care

A belated Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

2009-12-31T14:44:00.003Z

Well if anyone sees this I just want to say I hope you are all well. A belated Merry Christmas to you all and I hope you all have a great 2010. Building work downstairs almost complete I actually have a lounge again...yippee.......and the dust and mess is almost gone.

I've missed crafting and all my lovely blogging buddies and I'll catch up with everyone in the New Year... now things are in better order here and I've got space again.

Love to you all

Two for Tony

2009-09-21T17:26:00.010+01:00

Here a couple of cards I made for my hubby.

I never know what to do for him, I was going through some cd's trying to find something suitable, and found this on Joanna Sheens Fashion Boutique, no it didn't remind me of Tony, but I thought it looked a bit like Sherlock Holmes, and seeing as Tony always watches the old TV series, I decided to use it. Printed off the topper a few times and cut up the images to decoupage it. Backing paper and lace is from Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen range.

This card was for our Anniversary,

words cut on Robo, hope you like them, he did...well he has to doesn't he..lol...

Thanks for looking, your comments are always appreciated

Disco Diva

2009-09-21T15:47:00.006+01:00

A bit of a fun card this one. As soon as I saw this flippin woman I knew exactly who I was going to make a card for using it. Our friend Bev, we met her & her husband in a bar on top of a mountain in Austria, during a snow storm, not much skiing took place that afternoon but we found a friendship that has lasted about 15 years. The first time we went to a round table ladies night with them she wore a dress just like this. The image so reminds me of her except for the ponytail..she's always the life and soul of the party. She loved it and immediately saw the resemblance.

The decoupage sheet is from La Pashe Flippin Women, although it doesn't show too well I used black and crystal glitter on each fringe of the dress. The disco ball was also glittered, I found the ball and the background on google images.

I really can't get used to this new blogger, images won't go where I want them to, and can anyone tell me where the spell checker has gone, 'cos I can't find it anymore, preview is nothing like what appears on the page either, I'll try again but think I'll have to switch back to the old one...

Thanks everyone for popping by and for taking the time to leave your comments, I really appreciate them

Another one a bit different for me and I won some candy..

2009-09-11T16:27:00.002+01:00

Hi everyone, I know it's been a while since I last posted anything, although I have been trying to keep up with everyone's blogs,.... if I haven't visited you yet I am catching up slowly and I'll get there soon...

I made this for Olivia, who loves drawing Manga characters, but as Ididn't have any Manga images I used the decoupage from a Rock Hard Fairies sheet, added a touch of silver stickles here 'n there and star dust on her wings. Printed the red sun burst and the greeting on photo paper, then used spray and sparkle over the greeting. Backing paper, black card and mirri paper all from stash. Coloured the little flower gems with permanent markers as I didn't have any black ones.

I know... I really should learn how to take a photo without making it look all wonky.

Hope you like it, Livvy did.

While I was trying to catch up I visited Jackie's blog Day's in the Life of...who is part of the LaPashe DT, saw there was a candy on offer, I quickly put my name down on Sunday, the draw was Monday and yippee I won it. Thank you so much Jackie and Jak. If you haven't visited Jackie before pop along to her blog to see her lovely cards and have a laugh at her posts about her granddaughter.
I received my candy today from Jak the Designer, you've probably all visited Jaks blog Crafters Kitchen but if you haven't it's a must see, beautiful cards and lots of free downloads too, fabulous..and she is showcasing some cards made with the new soon to be released sheets. I bought quite a few of the Remember when Christmas series last year, and love them now I can make more for this year, plus I won the whole set of the new Flippin Xmas, can't wait to have a play, if you want to have a chance of winning them Karen another DT member is offering candy till Sunday..I feel I'd be too greedy to go and enter, but why don't you go and see if you will be as lucky as I was.

Thanks for popping by..I really appreciate it..

For KT's challenge

2009-08-28T13:15:00.012+01:00

Well this is a first for me, as I never done a challenge before but I had to make an exception for this one. My blogging buddy Shells' little Katie wanted to set a challenge on her mum's blog. She provided us with a sketch and the theme was cute,cuddly and romantic...I don't normally do cute and cuddly so had to search for an image..found this one on GFC, printed it off a few times and decoupaged it up. Why not pop along to Shells blog and join in with KT's challenge. Good Luck with the challenge KT hope you get loads of entries.

Been slacking on the blogging again, I catch up,.. leave it for a few days, but as you all make such amazing cards and so many of them, it takes me hours and hours to look at them all, I intend to try and catch up again with everyone later this evening. I also want to say thanks to everyone for the lovely comments you left me on my previous posts.

Some lovely awards and a new forum

2009-08-04T14:00:00.020+01:00

I am so lucky to have such wonderful blogging friends, even though I've not been around much lately I really appreciate that my lovely blogging buddies thought of me when they handed out these awards and I would also would like to say thanks for all the lovely comments you leave.

The first one is the I Like Your Style award, from Lisa, thank you so much Lisa. If you love stamping and need some inspiration then Lisa's blog is a must, you can go visit her here Lisa's Stampin! Weblog

Well this award come with some rules, they are:

1. By accepting this award you recognize that the giver ‘LIKES YOUR STYLE’.

2. You agree to display this award proudly on your site, and include a post linking back to the giver.

3. And because there are so many bloggers out there whose style you like, you will share this award with them… however many that may be.

How can I possibly list everyone here whose style I like, I love all your styles or I wouldn't visit your blogs. As there is no limit on how many times I give this out, all I can say is... to all my blogging friends if you haven't already received this award and you read this post, please take it and pop a post about it on your blog, don't be shy...

I've received two lovely awards from Suzi, the first award, doesn't seem to have any rules attached to it, but isn't it pretty. Please pop along and pay Suzi a visit at Sugar n Spice you will be amazed at her work, she's only been crafting since January. Suzi also gave me the Circle of Friends award thank you Suzi for thinking of me.

I also received this from another friend Susie,thank you so much Susie, now if you need some inspiration please visit Sassy Designs By Susie at Die Cut Dreams, you must have a look at the beautiful albums Susie designs. Susie also sells her beautiful die cuts here, why not go check them out, also if you are into challenges why not pop along to Susie's and Vikki challenge blog here.

Believe it or not my lovely blogging buddy Liz gave me these awards too, thank you so much Liz, now you really have to go along and check out Liz's blog, Lace Ribbons Buttons & Bows she is the most amazing crafter, I love all her work.

With the circle of friends award there are rules and they are as follows

1. Make reference to the award and publish it on your blog...2. Share 5 things you like to do....3. Share with 10 blogs...4. Inform each blog

Here goes...my 5 things I like to do...

1. Having a good time with my husband Tony, my family and my friends

2. Crafting

3. Spending time on my PC.... blogging, blog hoping, checking out forums, facebook etc etc

4. Gardening only in the warm weather though

5. Living in our caravan in Spain and meeting up with all our wonderful campsite friends.

I think most of my blogging friends already have these awards so I'll passed them on to friends that I think might not have them yet if you do well your getting them again, lol

Shell....Lou......Myra........Silvia.......Debs.......Joanie.......Joanne....Lisa.........Nicola....Bea

A New Forum... Magicalcrafts

I recently found a link on Joannes blog to a new crafting forum run by Angel. Why not pop over to Magicalcrafts and give her some support in her new venture, I've already joined and have met up with some old friends and hope to get to know some new one too.

Just off now to let you know that I've given you the award

A card at last..

2009-08-02T17:00:00.004+01:00

Well I've finally got round to posting a card, lol.. I've nearly caught up on my blogging rounds, I've missed so much, wow you all make such beautiful cards. Here's a card I made for my niece Jessie, she has just graduated from Uni with a first class honours degree, I know she believes in fairies so I thought I'd make her a fairy card.

I've had the image for ages, found it somewhere on Google but don't know where. I think she's such a pretty fairy, I decoupaged her, (those circles were a pain to cut out), but I wanted the gold mirri card to show through them, matted and layered it, the backing paper is from a pad I bought at the range years ago, I loved the paper and couldn't part with it until now, lol..

Added a few roses and a charm. Jessie liked it,

Hope you do too

I have been so naughty

2009-07-24T23:16:00.005+01:00

Sorry people, I've been an absent blogger for too long, no it wasn't my garden or all the building work we have going on at the moment, (the dust & mess everywhere is driving me mad), the only room I feel comfortable in at the moment is my craft/computer room, I have made a few cards just haven't got round to posting them, why you might ask, well I found facebook, then I found the silly little addictive games, then I found farm town...and I have been escaping into my little farm, where money is easy to earn, houses are easy to buy..and no dust or dirt..lol.
But its taken over my life and I've got to stop, so this weekend I intend to try and catch up with all my blogging, sorry for my lack of comments to you all, will try and get round to everyone this week, and I'll post some cards soon.
I hope when I do start posting you will be able to leave some comments as I've had to change the comments settings as I've had some Chinese site spamming my comments, masses of comments on every post I've made, so I've had to sit and delete them all, now I've turned on comment approval and only registered users can comment, hope it doesn't cause you problems. Catch up with you soon

Hi everyone, a card and a few thank you's..

2009-06-19T15:30:00.004+01:00

Well, I've just about finished catching up with all the blogs I follow... I hope....I am amazed at all the beautiful cards you make, it takes me forever to get to see them all and leave comments, so if I've missed anyone out, sorry. I haven't had much time to keep up with my commenting recently, so I have to read through all the posts comments just to see if I've already left one, and when some have hundreds of comments ...it takes me forever,.... if anyone know a quicker way of checking it out, please let me know I would be so grateful. The garden has taken over recently, I've nearly finished all the planting, digging, and cutting back, I've only got a bit more jet washing of the paving, then I can start enjoying it, that's if the weather gets better. Have been so lazy, instead of making cards in the evenings, I've just sat a watched TV, just not used to all that gardening, I've also got a pain in the neck (no not my hubby) so I can't sit at the PC or my laptop very long either, don't like this getting old....

A couple of Lovely Awards.... it's taken me a while to post about these.....

Nicola kindly gave me the Blog support award and Sassy the lemonade stand award, thank you ladies I appreciated them so very much. Most of you will already be followers of these two very talented ladies, but if you haven't visited their blogs recently please go and check them out, you won't be sorry, they are both amazing.

As I've already passed on the lemonade stand award and as I truly appreciate everyone who visits and leaves me such lovely comments I'm passing these onto all my blogging friends, so if any of you would like to accept theses awards with appreciation and love from me, please take them for your blog.

Here's a card I made very quickly a couple of months ago, I got a phone call from my nephew Joe to say he'd passed his driving test, he never told anyone he was taking it and passed first time. I was seeing him the next day so had to make a quicky card. I printed the words directly to the card using GCF, decoupage the car which was a La Pashe sheet, also decoupaged the torn L plate. And if you're wondering what the next big challenge is....inside it said .....paying for the insurance....

Would love to know what you think....

Joe's 21st

2009-06-08T10:57:00.027+01:00

I find cards for men difficult at the best of times, and this one was for one of my very special nephews, Joe was 21 back in April, and I wanted something different for him, this is what I came up with, finished it at the last minute, and had to give it to him that evening, I've only just managed to borrow it back to get a photo of it.

The front.....
As a youngster Joe loved the Star Wars Movies, Tony & I used to take him to the West End to see the films when they were released, so I put a photo of him as a child into the banner as a character from Starwars. He's just bought himself a new Mini, so I used an online graphics program and put his photo on one, printed it off a few times then decoupaged it, with quite a lot of layers. All I needed was a background so put another photo of him on a graffiti wall. Mated and layered it all onto silver and black miri card.

At the moment Joe works in a pub and I need something for the inside of the card, I had two images in mind, but I couldn't decide which one to use, so I used both of them.

I decoupaged a barmaid from a sheet I had and on the other side I used one of the Flippin Men sitting on a beer barrel, which you could spin around to see his back.

I didn't like the checked cap on the man so coloured it using a felt tip. This was a big card, A3 folded, just trimmed down on the length a bit. Weighed a ton, good job I didn't have to post it.

Would love to know what you think...

Thanks Vikki & Val...and my poor plants...

2009-06-05T11:23:00.006+01:00

First some Good News, Look what I won...

I'd like to say a big Thank You to Vikki from Vikki's Albums, for the lovely candy she sent to me, Vikki has been offering a weekly candy draw and I was lucky enough to win it last week, even though her little boy was poorly she made time to send it out to me. Thanks so much Vikki, why not pop over to her lovely blog and have a look round and maybe enter this weeks candy.

More Good news...

A couple of months ago Val made a post offering to send 5 people one of her cards, so I put my name down..what a lovely surprise I had when I opened the post to find not only a lovely card but a shoe topper too. Part of the deal was you had to post the card on your blog when you received it, so here it is along with the topper, if you want to see more of Vals' lovely cards why not go and pay her a visit at Vals Craftroom.

Thanks you so much Val, they are lovely.

......Now for a Moan.. just me letting of steam...

As you know the weather has been lovely, so when I wasn't working or doing housework etc, I spent as much time as I could in the garden, I have loads and loads of pots to plant up, some of the large pots have half hardy shrubs in them which I keep in my little greenhouse over winter, they usually come into life in the spring, but something was wrong this year, had a dig through the soil of one pot and there were no roots on the plant. They had all been eaten, then I found out the cause, loads of horrible little SH**S called Vine Weevils grubs, aptly named I thought..(If you want to see the horrible things look here)

I had to go through all the pots, dumping the soil onto some plastic, picking out all the grubs and squashing them (a murderer I know but you have to destroy them) then I noticed the adult crawling along so I squashed that too., felt no guilt what so ever....so then on to the next pot, it was also infected..and the next and the next, in all I had about 7 very large pots that had been infested, one containing a beautiful climbing plant that Tony had bought for me in Spain as part of my Pearl anniversary pressie almost 9 years ago, they were also in half a dozen or so smaller pots which contained some large fuchsias.

I've bagged up the old soil, and hopefully made sure there were no grubs or adults in it, I'll have to treat it in some way before I dump it. I had an infestation a few years ago and lost a lot of plants, and since then have been using a chemical which you water into the soil to kill the grubs, but it doesn't seemed to have worked as this year they are back, so I'm on look out for something else to try, as it costs us a fortune to replace all the compost and plants.

...Moan Over...

As I'm not working today, I was going to check out the last few pots and go and buy some more plants, but it's raining, so I thought I catch up on the house work then go and visit all the blogs I follow, I'll be back later to post a couple of cards, see you soon & take care

2009-05-30T09:07:00.012+01:00

Well I haven't got round to posting any cards this week, the garden is taking over at the moment, and as it's another beautiful day here, I'll be out there digging and planting again.
But.. I have received two lovely awards and thought I'd make a quick post about them..

The first one is the Inspiration Award from the lovely Vikki, thank you so much Vikki, I really appreciate it. If you haven't visited Vikki yet why not pop along and see her fab blog and while you are there maybe you would want to join in her blog candy.

"The Inspirational Award" you can nominate as many blogs as you would like to receive it, put the award on your blog and leave a comment,.. BUT, this is the twist, you have to tell a fact about yourself that no other bloggers know and put it on your blog,
....well I don't think I've told you this before but I am a hoarder of memories.., I keep everything, to name but a few..I've got theater, film and concert programs with the tickets and some from clubs/disco's..going back years & years,.. beer mats, book matches, & serviettes from all the places we've visited, I keep all close family cards that I receive, so I have boxes and boxes of them. My Mum started me off on this., so I've even got some of my first Birthday cards, and of course I keep all the handmade cards I receive, I also keep drawings, letters and poems from my hubby and family, and I've still got all our old records..45's , LP's and some 75's .. just to name but a few of the memories I keep.....
and as there is no limit to the amount of people you can pass it onto I'll only name a few
Nicola...Nicola's Creations
Debs..Debs Bat Cave
Lisa...Lisa's Stampin Weblog

and I'm also giving it to everyone who reads this and would like to take it, as I think you all deserve it...I would pass it on personally but the sun and garden all calling.
..........................

The 2nd award is the Lemonade Stand award. From my lovely blogging buddy Lisa..It’s an award for bloggers that show great attitude and gratitude, Lisa certainly fits the bill perfectly.Thank you so much Lisa, I so appreciate you thinking of me for this ....please go and have a look at Lisa's lovely blog and while you are there why not enter for her gorgeous Candy.

Decisions, I am so bad at making them...but I'm passing this onto
Vikki....Vikki's Albums
Bea.. My Little Piece of Heaven
Sylvia...Craftycuttlebug
Liz..Lace Ribbons Buttons & Bows
Shell..Shells cards and things
as I don't think they have received it yet..and who all have beautiful blogs, with great attitude as well as gratitude.

The rules for this award are:make a post about it....cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog, nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude..link to your nominees within your blog post....comment on their blogs to let them know they received the award...link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation

Now I've just got to pop along and let you lovely ladies know you've got them.
Have a great weekend, I'll be back with a card soon.

Fairy for a friend

2009-05-22T11:57:00.011+01:00

Made this for a blogging friend, who has had a few stays in hospital lately. I know she's received it so can show it here now.

Edit...As Stef kindly suggested I've put it on Flutter by Wednesday.. well it's a fairy with 2 papers, just hope it's not too late..

Decoupage and glittered the fairy which is from Crafters Companions Flower Fairies CD, I chose her as I loved the colour and she is so dainty. I originally put her on a darker green background but didn't like it, then found the purple paper with the fern on it, so decided to go with the mauve, backing paper and velum from a pad I had.

Would love to know what you think..

I know a lot of you are experiencing the same problems as me with blogger, I've been trying to catch up on all the blogs I follow, sometimes the page loads, then IE says it cannot load the page, then I can't get to leave a comment, or I leave a comment and it doesn't show up, ......so if I've left you comments on the same card more than once, sorry, I just can't see the comments I've left, and it's not the comment will appear after approval thingy, and if I haven't left you a comment well I thought I had........ I wish there was some easy way that I could tell which posts I have commented on, or am I just cracking up.....will spend a few hours later checking on all the blogs that I thought I'd left comments on to see if they appear, by that time maybe blogger will behave.

Edit.... I've just realised why I can't leave comments on some blogs, it might help some of you too....google toolbar has a popup blocker on it, and depending on how the blog has it's comments page set up, the popup blocker is blocking it. I can't remember activating it, but I've turned it off now and can get to the comments page, now just hope this might be why I couldn't leave comments too. Now all I've got to sort is the IE problem, hope it cures this too.

Take care

I'm so chuffed, thanks Bea for the Gift of Love Award

2009-05-19T21:02:00.007+01:00

Look what the lovely Bea, from My Little Piece of Heaven has given me "The Gift of Love Award". Thank you so much Bea, I really appreciate you passing this on to me, well I'd really like to pass it onto everyone who pops onto my blog, but it seems like I've got to choose 5 people, so very difficult, and as the oven buzzers going, which mean dinner is ready (I know we eat late), I'll have a think and come back to it another time. Meanwhile if you haven't visited Bea yet , please pop along to her blog and take a look at her gorgeous cards.

I'll be back...

Well I'm back......I find this so hard picking blogs to pass awards on to as I love all the blogs I visit, I don't think the blogs I've picked have received this one yet, so I'm passing the Gift of Love Award onto

Sent with love from me to you..

For My Mum

2009-05-14T08:00:00.006+01:00

First of all I'd love to thanks everyone for leaving me such lovely comments, they are all really appreciated.

I know it's ages since I put a card on here but the weather has been so good lately, on my days off work I've been trying to sort out our garden... I've been slow in trying to catch up on all the blogs I follow, almost managed it last week but some of you are so quick, I never seem to have the time to catch up.... and I haven't had much time to go on the forum, but I have managed to make a couple of cards recently, I just haven't got round to posting them, still trying to grab one back to take a photo of it as I didn't finish it until the last minute.

I had a great day Saturday at a play day organised by a forum friend, we made a lovely stationery box and a beaded flower, will definitely make some more of them, I'll post some pics another time. She provided everything we needed for the makes, we had a lovely lunch and great company, it must have taken ages to prepare everything so well and taken a lot of effort. So I would just like to say to her, thanks a million for a fantastic day.
But for now here's a card I made for My Mum.......

This was for Mums 82nd Birthday....before I started making cards I was never really bothered about the picture on the front of the card, I always concentrated on the verse inside, I still spend ages looking for a verse that will tell her how much I love and appreciate her...but don't think I can show it here..

Anyway..I've had this decoupage sheet for ages, I added some flowersoft to their flowers and hats, and printed the sentiment, the little angel pin on the sentiment was Mums, she was having a clear out, and asked me if I wanted it to use on a card.... now she's got it back... I wasn't going to add the little flower gems, but the border punch got stuck and I tore the corner of the punching so I put a little flower gem on it to cover it up, then I as I was sticking down the flowers I managed to mark the ribbon with the pinflair glue, I tried to remove it but it left a mark , so I had to add some more gems to hide the mark.... sometime things never go according to plan,

Would love to know what you think...

Thanks for the lovely award Liz

2009-05-12T23:47:00.004+01:00

Liz who has two lovely blogs gave me this award, thanks a million Liz, I really appreciate it. Please go and check out her blogs, the first one is for an ATC swap. Liz runs the Drayton Lady ATC swaps on the Trimcrafts forum, and has set up this blog to showcase them, maybe sometime I'll get round to making some ATC's, when I do, I know I'll find lots of inspiration here . Liz's other blog is for her card making and ATC's why not pop along and have a look here to see all her lovely creations.

Well as usual this award has got rules, here they are copied from Liz's blog.
You have to give it to a new blog that you have recently come across.
Let them know they have an award, then they must mention your blog when accepting the award .
Now here's the hard bit....you must pass it onto 15 other new blogs that you have just recently come across.
......Well this is going to take me a bit of time, but it's going to be fun finding all those lovely blogs..I'll post the new blogs here as I come across them and pass on the award,.. if I give you the award I'd love you to leave a comment to let me know you have accepted it.... they will be in no particular order, ...so I'd better get a move on and start looking...

Here goes....

I've have found a truly beautiful blog, if anyone reads this then you should really go and check out Anias' Blog, Poddasze her work is absolutely stunning and very different, it's all in Polish but who cares the photo's say enough, I just hope she can understand that I've passed the award to her.

No 2... I've found another lovely blog, fab cards and very entertaining , you've probably already found this one but it's new to me, why not go and have a look at Stefs, Glitterbabe Greetings, you won't be dissapointed.

Sophie

2009-04-27T12:10:00.002+01:00

Jake my nephew wanted a card for his girlfriend to celebrate the anniversary of their 1st year together. He arrived about 9 one evening, he knew exactly what he wanted, went through my stash, picked the flowers, ribbon, colour, and wording etc everything. Gave me some photo's, he wanted one in a heart on the front, and he wanted pages inside like a book, showing the photo's of their 1st year. OK I said when you you need it for?..........

I'll pick it up in the morning on my way to work if that's OK.......my jaw dropped...I'm not that quick at making cards at the best of times, let alone print the photo's, size them, frame them and and make a book... at 10 o'clock in the evening to be ready by 8 the next morning. So I explained it would take me a bit longer than that, he said OK I'll pick it up the day after. Well I did my best, had just finished it when he arrived at 8 in the morning to pick it up before he went to work, only had seconds to take a photo of the front, as he was running late, so I can't show the inside. He was well pleased with it, said thanks, gave me a kiss and rushed off to work.

The big red heart was cut with Robo from a free template by Silene on UKS.

Wow, wow, wow, look what I won

2009-04-26T21:41:00.004+01:00

Been so busy this week, haven't had a chance to show any cards, but have a few to post hopefully tomorrow, so please check back.

Well I turned on the PC this morning to have a quick peek and what a great surprise I had, LOOK WHAT I WON..

Isn't it fabulous....I was so excited I ran down to Tony, who was just finishing off building a brick wall at the time and said quick, you've got to come and see what I've won, (I think he thought I'd won the lottery by the way I was carrying on), then I told him I won some Candy, what's that he said, thinking why does she want to win sweets... I explained ...but he said he couldn't leave the cement in case it went hard, he did come up later though and said it was lovely and then went back to finish the wall. Doh....So I phoned my sister, and told her, as she is a crafter she understood why I was in ecstasy, great ..more goodies to share..

All I can say is thank you so much Debbie, for offering up this wonderful Candy, I am thrilled to bit that I won it. Please go and check out Debbie's wonderful blog Debbie's Place and take a while to browse her lovely designs.

I can't wait to get my hands on it all, he, he, he

Katharina's Elizabeth Bell Candy

2009-04-20T12:57:00.003+01:00

Katharina is giving away 2 lovely Summer stamp kits here, you've got till May 1st.

A card for Lisa

2009-04-16T17:13:00.004+01:00

I've been so busy lately trying to sort out my hard drives, I've just managed to catch up on the blogs I visit, I really don't know what eats up my time. Anyway here a card I made.

I wasn't really happy with this one. I'd really wanted these keepsake sheets so put them on my Christmas list and my nephew Joe bought them for me. I thought I'd better make one up.. then I couldn't decide if I like it or not so I took it down to my Mums to get opinions, my niece Lisa loved it and said she would love it for her Birthday card. I kept asking her if she was sure....

It's not what I would have chosen to make for her, it was just too mauve and dark for me. I tried to brighten it up a bit with some glitter, gems and flowers, but it still didn't ring my bell. I mounted it onto an A5 card so I could do an insert with some nice words.

She loved it though, and keeps asking me why it's not on my blog, so here you go Lisa..it's on here now.

Would love to know what you think...

Mums Card for Mothers Day..

2009-03-27T16:43:00.006Z

Made this for my Mum, I received the flower fairy CD just in time to make this. I just loved the image but I couldn't decide which colour fairy to use, so I thought I'd use two colours.

Then I didn't have any backing paper that matched and as I didn't want to use any from the CD I inked up some embossed card, which I matted on to Mirri card. I used 2 A4 cards joined together to get the size right. Then I decided I wanted to use the flowers inside the card too so I had to put the words on the back of the card. Cut the greeting with Robo. By the time I'd added all the mats and layers it weighed a ton, it was a good job I didn't have to post it.

Mum thought it was lovely. Shame about the photo's will have to take the again at a better angle.

Would love to know what you think...

Been Busy.. and thanks ladies

2009-03-27T13:37:00.010Z

Haven't had much time to keep up with blogging lately, I need to catch up on all the lovely blogs I follow and post some new cards, which hopefully I'll be able to do over the weekend.
Can you imagine my surprise to find that I've been given two lovely awards.

Lisa from the Ruberstampinzone, sent me this award, isn't it pretty. Thank you Lisa, I really appreciate it, go and check out Lisa's blog, I'm sure you will enjoy it as much as I do.

Anyway this is hard but I'm going to pass it on to

Louise Emma The Lou-natic Asylum

Shell Shells Cards & Things

Joanne Crafting Joanne

and to Everyone else that takes the time to visit my blog, bloggers and non bloggers, please take it, it's for you too.

Well the award says it all....really.. Thank you all..

The Uber award was given to me by Louise Emma, thanks Lou,
Now I've got to pass this on....it states that

Uber (synonym to Super) Amazing Blog Award is a blog award given to sites who:~ inspire you~ make you smile and laugh~ or maybe gives amazing information~ a great read~ has an amazing design~ and any other reasons you can think of that makes them uber amazing!

The rules of this award are:
Copy the badge and put the logo on your blog sidebar or post.
Nominate at least 5 blogs (can be more) that for you are Uber Amazing!
Let them know that they have received this Uber Amazing award by commenting on their blog. Share the love and link to this post and to the person you received your award from.
Come back and comment here so that your link could be added to the masterlist of awardees.

Well I'd like to give this to all the blogs I follow, how can I choose just 5.... very difficult..I know that some of the blogs I'd pass it onto have it already, so I'll try not to double up this time....anyway here goes....
I'm passing it onto
Joanne Crafting Joanne
Nicola Nicola's Creations
Joanie Joanies Corner
Karen KJ's Sumer Wine Corner
Carol Paperplay
All these ladies blogs fit the criteria perfectly & I love visiting them, so why not pop along and checkout how... Amazingly Uber... they are.....

Who's a lucky bunny then..

2009-03-18T20:29:00.004Z

ME... In the morning, if I have time before I go to work, I have a quick look on some my favorite blogs, I'll leave some comments or make a mental note to go back later. This morning I had a quick look on Nicola's blog, she had a link to some Candy from Susie at Sassy Designs by Susie at Die Cut Dreams, thought I'd go check it out, hoped over there, had a quick look around, did a link to her candy, the photo & link is on my side bar, and as I loved her blog I became a follower. Well I got home from work & thought I'd have a quick look at the forum I belong to, before I went out again, (I know no peace for the wicked)...only to find that I'd got a pm, it was from Nicola, telling me to pop over to Susie's blog, so I went and had a look, only to find that she had a surprise gift, for her 300th follow, and..well can you guess..it was me.

Here's a photo of what I've won.
Thank you Susie, for your generous gift, I am well chuffed, and thanks for your comment on my cards...

If you haven't entered for Susie's candy, you have until Saturday...and while you are there have a look at the beautiful cards and albums she designs too.

Art Nouveau Lady

2009-03-13T12:30:00.004Z

Made this for a forum friend, who had to have some hospital treatment recently, also to thank her for a lovely craft day she held a couple of weeks ago, where she not only supplied us with all the goodies to make a lovely card and a box, she laid on a lovely buffet, and was a wonderful tutor. I must get the photo's from my sister who came with me and show you what we made there. I can post the card now as I know she has received it.

I was having a play with backing papers again, matted them onto brown pearlised card, then onto gold miri card. The image was from a sheet of wrapping paper I bought ages ago, which I cut up and decoupaged. Printed the sentiment in gcf, added some bits and pieces, oh and used my nesties.

Hope you like it.

Grown up fairy..

2009-03-09T08:30:00.002Z

I love fairies and thought this one was an adult one, so I decided I'd use it for my niece Rachel.

I've had this image for a while, it was a sheet by Audrey from The Lilac Garden. I increased the resolution and made the image larger, and added a few more layers to the decoupage, then gave her a touch of glitter.

Now I don't normally use backing papers, but thought I'd give it a go on this 8 inch square card. So from my stash of hardly used backing paper pads, I used a purple script paper and a blue floral paper which I inked a bit with a purple ink pad. Made the tag, printed the greeting on it, then coloured it using the same the purple ink pad. Added a few pearls, brads, ribbons and some flowers.

Hope you like it..

Anyone want a card made by me??

2009-03-03T17:14:00.004Z

I saw this on Vals blog... Valscraftroom. Now I don't normally go into things like this, as I never know if I'll have the time to commit but on reading the rules.. No 3 states sometime this year.. I know it say most likely in the next month so I'll warn you, I'm always late for everything but get there in the end...
I love Vals cards and so I thought why not give it a go, and I got lucky.

So here are the rules....
Quote:
The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you!
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make --- but I hope you do!
2- What I create will be just for you --- one of a kind!
3- It'll be done sometime this year (most likely it will be in the next month.).
4- You have no clue what it's going to be. Well, a pretty good bet it will be made of paper!
5-The catch?
Oh, the catch is that you must re post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog!
The first 5 people to leave a comment win a handmade card or gift (or both! - can we say Candy?) by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! So....who will be the first 5 people????? Please??? 5????Ready, set GO!who will the first five be?

Now I don't suppose anyone would want to take me up on this, but if you do, leave me a comment.

For the No. 1 Arsenal Fan

2009-03-02T11:15:00.001Z

My nephew is Arsenal Crazy, always has been, he's been working for them part time since he was 17, he coaches kids at the Arsenal on Saturdays, and at the Arsenal Soccer Schools during the school holidays and after school, so what do you do for his Birthday well it has to be an Arsenal Card.

I couldn't decide which image to use, so thought I'd make an A4 card and use both of them, did quite a few layers of decoupage & mounted them onto miri board. The verse I used on the inside was one Louise Emma posted on the imag-e-nation forum ages ago, I adapted it a bit for The Arsenal. Thanks for that Lou, I knew it would come in handy.

Oh and when it open it played Match of the Day, lol

He liked it, hope you do too.

2009-02-28T10:20:00.000Z

Wow, I got another 2 awards, from my Blogging buddies.

Shell passed this one back to me thanks Shell, you have got to go and look at Shell's Cards & Things.. her latest card is just beautiful, it's her first attempt at parchment craft, and it looks like she has been doing it for years. I love visiting her blog for both inspiration and to see what else she has been getting up to.

As I've already given this award to my best commenter's, I'll delay passing it on, you never know someone might just get it in the future.

Joanne, has given me this lovely award, thanks for thinking of me Joanne. You really should take a bit of time to go and look at her creations, I never miss checking out Crafting Joanne she always has something new and inspiring to see and her blog certainly makes my heart smile.

Sorry Joanne, you're getting it back.... also I'm giving it to

Shell, Louise Emma & Val as I love everything they do and always have to pop along to see what they have been up to.

Peejay for her beautiful flowers, her cards & her tutorials they are not to be missed.

Joanie not only for her lovely cards, but Joanie also shares some of the beautiful sheets she makes and gives us great PSP tutorials.

Joolse I've only just discovered Joolse blog , if you've got a Robo then you should go check it out, she shares her designs, has great tutorials, and has some super cards

Jak, Karen & Bev.. well what can I say.. except how can they not be in my top 10, if you have never visited their blogs you don't know what your missing, everything they do is just so stunning.

The rules:

1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 10 blogs.

4. Put links to their blogs.

5. Leave a message for your nominees.

OK I've done 1-4 just off to complete number 5.

What I used to make Mason into a cartoon

2009-02-27T10:43:00.003Z

Some of you here and on the forum wanted to know how I made Mason into a cartoon, well I spent ages using my graphics programs and doing tutorials, but didn't get one decent result, then I found BeFunky, an online cartoonizer, made the cartoon in that, then adjusted the result with Ulead PhotoImpact.

Hope you find it useful... go and have some fun...

Cartoon Time and a bit of a waffle

2009-02-25T17:00:00.000Z

Wasn't going to put this on here as the photo's are terrible, then thought what the heck.. Made this for Mason, my great nephew back in January. I'd got the flu and felt awful, got home from work about 4 and had to be at his party by 6. I'd finished the card, only had to print the insert.

1st attempt.... The paper slipped and I had to do it again
2nd attempt... It printed OK, then I realise I'd made it in portrait and it should be landscape.
3rd attempt... Re sized it, moved everything around, re did the border it looked fine...I printed the top half, looked good, folded it the other way printed it, went to stick it in the card then realised that I'd put the fold to the wrong side.... so the top of the insert was upside down.
Now your probably thinking why did she fold the insert in half to print...well I was using an A3 sheet folded in half as I've only got an A4 printer, and why did I do an insert, with so much on it, well....I'd got all these other images that I wanted to use..my brain was just not functioning, I got it right in the end though.

Now for the photo's, It was dark, I was already late for his party...I snapped away, with a light shinning on it, didn't have time to look at them on the PC, so it ended up with me not getting even one that was halfway decent, shadows everywhere or too light. I really shouldn't have got up that day. I'll have to ask if I can have the card back and try and get a better photo. Anyway I've put 2 pics on here one very light and grainy the other full of shadows and grainy, can't make up my mind which is the better of the two, it's a shame I never got a better picture.

Now Mason just loves Tom & Jerry and 101 Dalmatian's, so I thought I make a card with them on it. Found the images on google, decoupaged them, then I searched for a background I could use as I didn't want them to be floating around in the air.

I had a photo of Mason and he was laying in almost the same position as Jerry, so I tried to cartoonize (think that's a word) the photo, decoupaged it and put him next to Jerry on the card.

As it was an A4 card I had a bit of space left so I added a few more decoupage Disney characters. Designed the greeting with design Master and cut them with Robo from sparkly silver paper with a blue miri card mat.

He was well chuffed.. Look Mummy that's me with Tom... he love the inside too, so it was worth all the faffing about, and he's still got it on a shelf in his bedroom.

Here is the original photo of Mason,which I used to make the cartoon image with

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

I got an award

2009-02-23T17:10:00.005Z

My blogging buddy Louise Emma, has given me a Best Blog Comments Award, thanks Lou. I never thought when I started blogging that I would enjoy visiting all the blogs as much as I do. I wasn't sure about leaving comments on peoples blogs, as I didn't know them, now I know better... and I try to find time to leave a comment as often as I can. Now I've got to pass this on to 5 other people, well this is a bit difficult for me as I don't have many who leave me comments regularly,

So I would like to pass it to

Joanne

Shell

Val

Back to Louise

And I don't think Myra x has a blog but I would like to give it to her anyway.

Thank you Ladies for taking the time to comment, they are really appreciated.

Bookatrix Fairy

2009-02-20T12:00:00.003Z

My niece asked me to make a card for her friends little girl, as I hadn't made a bookatrix card for a while I thought I'd do one for Leila and it gave me the opportunity to use this lovely fairy, been dying to use the image but never had the right person to send it to.

This is the first time that I've used my nesties, I've had them for ages but never got round to using them, now I think I've figured out what sandwich to use in my big kick I think I'll use them more.

I can't wait to get my new camera then maybe my colours will come out right, it really was a pretty pink...I know.. a bad workman always blames his tools...
& I just can't decide what camera to get.

Hope you like it,
Your comments are always appreciated,

For MY Valentine

2009-02-15T12:20:00.000Z

I only send one valentines card, 'cos I've only got one Valentine, and he's been my Valentine since 1967, God, that's a long long time ago.....

Used Robo to make most of this card. Cut the sweetheart using a template made by emerald and the big white heart was a template made by Silene. The heart pocket was made from a template by Lindy Lou. All templates were freebies on UKS. Thank you ladies for sharing them.

The white perlised card used was by the glitter girls, I was surprised the Robo managed to cut through it as it was quite a thick card, had to run it through for four cuts but it cut well, now I know Robo will cut it, I'll use it again. The red perlised card was slightly thinner and only needed two cuts. Used a stamp for the flourish and the bug folder for the dots.

What do you think?

Who's a lucky blogger then

2009-02-15T11:00:00.000Z

Me, I've received 2 lovely awards

This one from my blogging friend Val, thank you Val. Please go and look at her blog Valscraftroom she makes wonderful cards and always has something new on there.

This award states:

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbon of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers.I would like to pass this onto the following people for their friendship and Inspiration.I would like to pass this award to...

I think it's amazing the friendship crafting and blogging create. I class all my fellow bloggers as my friends, even though we have never met. I know most of my blogging friends have probably received this award, so as I class everyone who takes the time to visit my blog a friend, please help yourself to this award.

This one Shell gave me, Thank you Shell. Go and have a look at her blog Shells Cards & Things, here you will find her lovely cards but she will also keep you amused with some great photos and a little look into her life.

I'm going to pass this onto Solent Annie, as she has just started her blog and already has loads of lovely cards on there so check it out.

A couple for the men

2009-02-13T10:23:00.001Z

Well what can I say about cards for men....not a lot...here are a few from La Pashe sheets.

This was for a friend who lovingly restored a 1930's AC car, his was white though with red leather interior.

For my brother in law,

who whenever you phone, is always in the bath!! he doesn't drink though.

Comments always appreciated...

It's Candy time with Crafting Joanne

2009-02-09T21:51:00.007Z

Joanne is offering some lovely candy, it's running until she reaches 10,000 hits, so you had better hurry, and she has an little extra something too, so go check out her blog to see what it is...here's a pic of the goodies

This is one of my favourite blogs, you just have to go and visit. I love everything she does and I'm an avid follower. Just like to say well done Joanne, so many hits in a short time this must tell you that we all think your creations are great.

For Louise Emma

2009-02-09T15:00:00.002Z

Made this for a lovely lady who used to be a member of a forum I belong to. Hope you had a great birthday Louise. Check out Louise's blog here, lots of lovely cards to see. Didn't want to post it here until I knew she had received it,

The sheet came from Nikky, have a look at her site here. I was a member of her group, but unfortunately I couldn't commit to sending her a card a month made from her sheets due to other commitments I had, which is a shame as she makes some lovely sheets. Anyway I checked with her and she said it was OK for me to still use her sheet, so thank you Nikki for the sheet, it made up lovely.

I wanted the dress to have more layers than the original sheet had, so I cut out a few more layers and added a bit of sparkle.

Hope you like it.

Been AWOL, but here are 2 the same but different

2009-02-05T17:30:00.000Z

Been neglecting everything lately, my blog, blogging and the forum, but have made a few cards, just need to put them on here. I've managed to flick through the blogs I visit, leave a couple of comments (I've slapped my own hands) have had a quick look at the forum and now have sorted a couple of cards for here.

Had to make a card for Dawns Birthday and one for a friend, I made the one with the blue mirri card first and liked it so I decided to make another card using the same image but with a purpley-pink miri card and glitter. Boy was the balcony fiddly to cut out, as was glittering all the feathers, fringing etc.

Cutting out the flowers was fiddly too, and unfortunately I chopped off a bloom on the pink one,I was going to stick it on but I lost it, hope they didn't notice.

Both were 8" square cards, with quite a few layers. Didn't put a greeting on the front as I thought it would spoil it, so did it on the insert instead. Shame about my photography though.

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

A few more Christmas cards

2008-12-24T10:17:00.021Z

La Pashe again,

The same but different

DON'T LOOK AT THE NEXT CARD IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY SWEAR WORDS...

Found the image on the web,

but I knew my nephew would like it....

Comments always appreciated.....

A couple of A4 Xmas cards

2008-12-22T16:44:00.014Z

Thought I'd show you a few more, from La Pashe,

I made the decoupage up in the normal way, but as I was going to use both of the sheets on A4 cards, I thought they needed to be a bit longer, so I roughly tore pieces of white card, and overlapped them onto the bottom of the decoupage backing sheet. I then added Snow Writer roughly over the white card and to the bottom of the sheets for a bit of dimension and as I can't seem to do Christmas without a bit of bling, I added Glamour Dust over the Snow Writer.

For the carol singers card I also added a touch of Snow Writer and glitter onto the trees, lantern, house sign etc. I used dark green Flower Soft on the wreath and swag, decorated them with Xmas Red Stickles for the berry's and the bows, also added a blobs of Silver Stickles and a few dabs of Glamour Dust. The brass door furniture and lanterns glows were highlighted with a Secura Stardust clear pen. It was matted onto silver miri card.

For the shop window I used Snow Writer and Glamour Dust on on the snow. Matted it onto a dark green card, then onto silver miri card, and finally onto the dark green card again.

Once mounted both were added to A4 cards which I bought from C&C. The greetings for both were made in Design Master, then cut with Robo from sparkly silver paper and dark purple miri card.

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

Cool Santa

2008-12-17T00:01:00.009Z

What do you do for a 21 year old nephew, traditional, robins, holly, religious, cute, no, no, noo....me I had no idea, went through all my sheets, Cd's etc. zilch...so I googled everything I could think of, sexy Santa girls, well I did that last year, Santa playing football, nothing..Arsenal Santa's nope.., cars.. now that might work, I finally found this little image, a bit 60's well yeah, A hippie sort of Santa and a cool Rudolf....plus a car..

I roughly cut up the image in my graphics program, and decoupaged it into a few layers, those antlers were fiddly, especially as I had decided to change the blade in my craft knife, silly me....grabbed hold of the blade and snapped it in two, the top part stuck right into my finger, ouch *###* so I had a plaster and sellotape wound around the top half of my finger to stop the blood going all over the card, every time I pressed down on the knife, it bl**dy hurt like crazy, but I persevered and this is what I managed to do.

After I decoupaged the image I glittered it up a bit. Then took an A5 topper from the Artylicious Seasons Greetings cd into my graphics programs and changed the colours a bit. Copied that into Greetings Card Factory and did the greetings and name. Once printed, I glittered the tree with black stickles then glittered the greeting, name and snowflakes with a glue pen and glamour dust. Added the image to the backing sheet and mounted it onto silver miri card. As it was larger than a folded A4 card, I cut down to size an A3 white perilised card, (Yes it's white) ...And managed to get no blood on it..

Hope you like it...

Comments always appreciated

Rembember When...Mum

2008-12-15T11:10:00.004Z

I first saw these Remember When Christmas sheets at Ally Pally and thought wow..so I bought a set of each, then I saw them on C&C, they were much cheaper on there so I got another set. I like to make my close family special cards so decided to use these sheets for them. I liked the tree sheets, made them up and showed Tony, he thought the tree was great but said he didn't like the background he suggested I cut the tree out and use it in front of the curtains from another sheet, so that's what I did.

Problem was I only had 2 sets of each and I wanted to make 3 cards similar, as I wanted to use the images for my sisters cards. Well Dawn came to my rescue, I swapped some of my sheets with her so I got another 2 pairs of curtains and another tree, she got a snowman, a fireplace and a shop, we shared out the kids, fair deal I thought.. as one of the cards was going to be for her anyway.

So here is the card I made for my Mum, the decoupage is A5 size but as I used 2 sheets it was longer and wouldn't fit onto a folded A4 card....I had to make a larger card.

I mounted the decoupage onto some red miri paper, then onto some silver holographic card, this was then mounted onto a holly embossed red card. I went down to craft creations and bought some A3 stardream opal (whitish)card and cut it to size. I used stardust stickles on the snow, the snowman and the tree, red and silver stickles on the tree decorations. I cut the Merry Christmas on Robo, using a silver sparkly wrapping paper and mounted it on to a mat cut from red miri paper, then added a couple of peel offs along the sides.

Once again the colours in my photo aren't quite right white is not white, red too red, I think I need a new camera, Santa???

Mum loves it, she even took a plate off a stand and put the card on it.

What do you think?

On the Loo..Flippin Men

2008-12-14T15:30:00.001Z

Well I've nearly finished the Christmas cards, thank goodness for that. So now, I should be able to post some cards on here. Mind you I was in so much of a rush to send them out that I forgot to take photo's of some of them, and I think I forgot to put names on some too, Doh...

But for now here's a man card...made for my sisters partner.

I love the image on this one, so easy to cut out. My great nephew who is 3 wanted to keep it, it kept him in fits of laughter for ages, he kept opening the card and cracked up as he could see a bum, he cried when he couldn't take it home, he wanted to keep it....

The sheet was from the La Pashe Flippin Men range, I bought the large white aperture card and the flippin men sheets from the Imag-e-nation shop.

When made up the decoupage is huge, A5 size. I used the big kick to embossed some brown card, to make it look a bit likes tiles. Made the greetings with my Robo, didn't add too much to the card as I didn't want it too fussy.

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

The Kitchen

2008-11-28T15:38:00.044Z

Who wants to have a look at our kitchen...this is for some of our friends who have heard all about it but haven't seen it yet..I know you want to have a nosey..... (and for anyone else who's interested) here are some photo's..

Tony did a fantastic job..I think he is so talented, he designed the kitchen, handmade everything and fitted it all in perfectly. Mind you... I picked the induction hob which I love and the other appliances and managed to persuade him to let me have the wall tiles, which change colour depending on the light.

I can't say it was plain sailing as you all know I like to poke my nose in now and again.... and poor Tony only had weekends to work on it. The only thing that was supplied and fitted by an outside company were the granite work tops.

I have problems trying to shape cards, but Tony can make anything out of timber, rounded cabinets, fancy plinths etc..no problem.
I know it's not massive but it's has got everything that I wanted....

Just to say thank you, Tony,
I love it and you..

..and I just....

wanted to show you all
how clever he is...

Well what do you think???....

I've been tagged by Val

2008-11-28T12:35:00.006Z

Val, a forum and blogging friend has tagged me, well it seems I have to write 7 facts that you may find interesting about me, well I'm not that interesting, but here goes...

1. I love holidays, any type whether it's in our caravan on the beach, in a hotel..skiing, (haven't skied for ages though)... sightseeing..... I don't care as long as I can keep going and we preferably drive there.

2. I hate flying ....although sometimes you just have do it... furthest place I've flown to is New Zealand, but we spent 3 months there, so I had time to pluck up courage to get on the plane again.

3. The most exotic place I've visited is Hawaii, and I loved it there.

4. I love roller coasters...and theme parks, especially the ones in Florida.

5. I've lived in Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Vancouver and a few more places but will always be a Londoner.

6. I was married in St Paul's Cathedral.

7. I was a Mod in the 60's..a Hippie in the 70's ...now I'm just getting old and wanna be young again.

Now it seems I've got to pass this on to 7 other blogger's, once again I'll have to have a think about this and will post them up later..

Wow.. I got 2 awards in a week

2008-11-28T10:57:00.008Z

A BIG THANK YOU...to Joanne and Val,

who both sent me a Proximity award... they are really appreciated.... especially as they came from two very talented ladies. If you haven't visited their blogs yet, why not spend a few minutes and go and have a peek at some of their lovely work, just click on their names above and you will be taken to their blogs.

This award states that:

This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY- nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers.

The award also states that I have to award it to 8 more blogs,

Now being a bit behind at the moment, I know most of the blogs I visit probably have this award already, and no doubt I'll be doubling up the awards to some of them.... so I'll have to put my thinking cap on and will let you know who I come up with....

A Few Thank You's

2008-11-27T16:54:00.004Z

I don't know what's happened recently, haven't had much time to update the blog, visit the forum, or leave comments for anyone. I'll put it to rights soon...

This is a quick thanks to Val and Joanne for the awards, I will post more about them later.

Well what have I been doing.....I've been making a few Christmas cards, thought I had better make a start on them, but can't show them just yet...and made a couple of Birthday cards will post pics later. On my days off work, I have been trying to get some Christmas shopping done not been very successful with that either. Then... although I joined Facebook ages ago, I never used it, but lots of my family are on there now so I thought I'd give it a go, so I've been trying to figure that out...also I don't normally watch much TV but Spooks is back and I know I'm sad but I just have to watch I'm a celebrity..
Anyway I am going to make an effort to catch up with my blogging and to get back into the swing of things....

Oh Yes..one more thing thanks to everyone that leaves me comments, I really appreciate them all..

2008-11-15T12:45:00.004Z

As some of you know, it was my Birthday recently, I received loads of lovely cards and 3 of them were beautiful hand crafted cards. I think they are all gorgeous, and I really appreciate the time and effort that went into making them.

This one was made by my sister Dawn,

she knows I love it 'cos I told her,

This one was handmade by our Friend Kate.

Thanks Kate a lovely surprise it's gorgeous, I just love the image.

and finally,

This was from my forum friend Louise Emma, it's such a beautiful card, when I opened the envelope it was a lovely surprise, I had no idea that Louise had taken the time to make me a card...

Thanks a Million Lou, I'm well into these Deco Ladies at the moment.

Come back soon we all miss you.......

If you want to see more of Louise's cards pop along to her blog The Lou-natic Asylum

and check them out, she has made some stunning cards.

My sister Dawn and my friend Kate make lovely cards, but they never post them anywhere. Please leave them all some comments, so they know you love the cards as much as I do.....

A4 Anniversary Card

2008-11-02T11:45:00.004Z

This one was for my Sister and Brother In Law's 26th Anniversary.

Used a full size white A4 card, glittered around the edge, and yes the glitter was white, the card was white and the sentiment all silvery.... just my poor photography... card was bought from C&C, I had quite a to do with them about delivery and about £3.00 in phone charges...trying to get it all sorted... but that's another story.

The couple were printed on to glossy photo paper, then decoupaged, quite a few layers on this one. I used Crystal Glitter around the frame, in the trees and on the dress. A silver Pentouch pen on the dress, hat, earrings and beads, and some black peewee glitter on the dress and hat. Matted it onto a glossy black card. Added a couple of black marabou feathers which I've cut the edges off in the photo, a ribbon the same colour as the dress and a little bow, made on the bow maker. The sentiment and names were cut on Robo from glittery silver wrapping paper.

I love this wrapping paper for cutting sentiments, in real life it so smooth, silvery and glittery, and cuts like a dream especially with fiddly bits on the Robo, the settings I used are.. Select film, pressure 17, blue cap, cut twice might be OK with one cut if you have a new blade.
If you have a Craft Robo try it, it's from Clintons, on a roll.

As far as the insert is concerned, still haven't figured out how to print one on folded A3 paper, but have wasted loads of paper trying, so I took Joanne's and Louise's advise and just printed it onto a single A4 sheet, and stuck it onto the card.

Hope you like it,

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

I got a Trojan....OK here is a long RANT..

2008-11-01T17:34:00.010Z

I haven't posted for a while, as a couple of weeks ago I picked up a Trojan on my main PC. I took me about a week to get rid of it fully. It was a real nasty one and wouldn't go away. Anyone who knows me, will confirm that I am a computer security freak.I have hardware and software firewalls, anti-spyware, antivirus, everything always kept updated, you name it I've got it...all protecting our PCs at all times. I didn't download anything and didn't let anything in...
BUT...

I didn't like the way my post preview works on blogger, it didn't (and still doesn't) show the page correctly on preview, so I went Googling for an answer, I was clicking on links from Google, being taken to other blogs that give how to's on blogger, don't know which blog sent the Trojan but it was definitely from a blog. My firewall popped up asking if an exe file could have access to the Internet, I was immediately suspicious and said NO. I thought I stopped it in it's tracks, the exe file was in my temp folder, I blocked all Internet and networks and deleted the contents of the temp folder and cleaned out everything else. Ran a virus check, and a spyware check using spybot,adaware and A2, they all found the Trojan and couple of other things it had added and deleted them, but on every reboot it was back again, I didn't get the popups etc but on every scan it was back again. I keep searching for answers on how to get rid of it, finally I read on a antispyware forum about a program called SUPERAntiSpyware free edition, I was a bit wary of downloading it, but I bit the bullet and installed it. Glad I did, it removed the Trojans. It's free and I can recommend it. I have a clean PC again. I've been using the net since the early 90's and have never been infected before..AND I DON'T WANT TO BE AGAIN...

What bothers me though is, being new to blogging, was it just a malicious blog or did someone put a Trojan on an innocent blog, if so, how I can prevent someone hijacking my blog, can't see why they would pick mine though don't get enough traffic, guess I'm back to Googling to try and find some answers, but I've gone back to prompt for active x controls and plug-ins which is a pain in the *** and only let it run on blogs and sites that I trust.

Just like to add, what SCUMBAGS these idiots are that write Viruses and Trojans, who hijack peoples blogs and websites, and waste my time when I could be crafting..what kicks they get from it is beyond me..and A BIG THANK YOU to all the clever people who write software to combat them (especially the free ones) and the forums that give help to remove them.

OK had my rant, back to crafting now....

Birthday Card for George...

2008-10-06T12:52:00.001+01:00

Made this for my Uncle using one of the La Pashe Remember When decoupage sheet, thought it might bring back some memories for him as he is 86, and still wears a flat cap in the winter. It's the first time I've used the La Pashe sheets and I must say they are great, they have so much depth and allow you to position the characters wherever you want them.

Used an A3 card in Maroon, folded to A4, full height but I adjusted the width to suit. The decoupaged image was matted onto a beige/brown distressed paper then mounted onto the card. I made up the sentiment plaque using my photo editing program, printed it, then matted it onto the same paper I used for matting the image. Attached it to mat with brads. I got the memories ribbon as a free download from a scrapbooking site, adjusted the size to fit the card printed it and attached it along the bottom of the card with foam pads.

I felt there was something missing on the card, so just before I gave my Uncle the card I decided to edge it with a gold Pen Touch metallic pen, I love this pen, the gold is well...sooo gold...bought both the gold and the silver pens at Alley Pally last weekend from Stephanie, who demonstrated how to cut a slit in the nib of the fatter ones so it edges card perfectly. I didn't have time to take another photo so you can't see the gold, but it finished the card nicely.

I had a bit of a problem with the insert, as I've only got an A4 printer, I tried folding the A3 sheet in half to print out each side separately but my printer didn't like it, kept squiffing the paper as it fed in, so I had to print on 2 A4 sheets and stick them together, I must try and figure out a way to print on A3 paper as I'm making some A4 cards for Christmas, might try sticking the fold together temporarily..

If anyone has any tips for printing on A3 paper using an A4 printer, please let me know.

Hope you like it, he did...

I would love you to leave some comments.. if you have time

Thinking of You

2008-09-29T09:40:00.000+01:00

This was for another member of the forum I belong to.

I wish I could get white to show up white in my photo's, no matter how many photo's I take the colours never come out right.

I used an A4 pearlized white card and did a funny fold, I don't know what the fold is called though. The Poppy Flower Faerie, was free in a craft magazine last year year she was decoupaged and highlighted using a Clear Sakura Stardust Pen, matted her onto red card and used the Sakura Pen to outline the mat, then popped a little gem in the center of the poppy. The poppies along the bottom and down the edge were decoupaged using a Duflex sheet, which I cut up so I could get some to use along the edge of the fold. I printed the sentiment and the insert directly to the card using my new toy, Greetings Card Factory, took a bit of playing around to get it lined up but I got there in the end.

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

Thinking of You

2008-09-24T09:15:00.002+01:00

This was made for a member of a forum I belong to, she has recently undergone a serious operation, she never fails to make me smile when I read her postings... I hope this made her smile when she received it.

I used a green gold two tone paper for the top half of the card which was embossed using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Folder. The flowers petals were made from the same green paper and a dark gold paper using the Majestic Keepsake Board, popped a gold gem in the centre of each flower. The The paper used for the lower half of the card was from Paper Pizazz Heritage, although it doesn't show in the photo I highlighted the leaves with Stickles Icicle. Added a ribbon along each side and two layers of ribbon across the centre, a couple of little daisies with a gem in the middle to finish and a peel off for the sentiment.

Hope you like it

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

A Birthday Card for Tony

2008-09-14T11:44:00.023+01:00

Here's the cards I made for Tony's Birthday, but with all the problems with my PC I never got around to posting it.

For the lower half of the card I used a navy blue stardream paper, embossed with the Perfectly Paisley Cuttlebug folder. Although the folder was too small for the length of the card, I managed to line it up and run it through twice, it turned out OK, you could hardly see the join (I hope).

For the top half of the card, I cheated a bit, it was a wallpaper sample I picked up from B & Q, it had large embossed hearts all over it, so I cut a strip of four hearts from it and stuck it onto the card. Used the Robo to cut out TONY from my favourite sparkly wrapping paper and matted it onto dark blue mirri paper. Did the same for the Happy Birthday. Added a some blue and white ribbon across the center,with a few diamond and blue gems. I made the embellishment with pearl strands that I had cut from some silk flowers that I had, made a little satin blue bow, and cut a tiny heart with the Robo which I glittered. Then I added a ribbon across the top, and attached a pretty dangly thing with a diamond brad. I bought the dangler with quite a few others at Ally Pally but I hate using them.... I like them too much, but this one was going to a good home...

My sister Dawn made this for Tony.

No..he's not a bricklayer but.... it's very apt as he is building our extensions at the moment and has been bricklaying for a couple of weeks.. We both thought it was a great card..

Hope you like them,
Would love some comments

I had a bit of a disaster on my PC

2008-09-08T15:08:00.015+01:00

Well I've had fun and games this week with my main PC.
It all started when I downloaded the new version of Picasa. I got a message pop up in Picasa up saying one of my hard drives didn't have enough space on it.. funny I thought, so I had a look in my computer, and noticed that my C drive only had 500 MB left on it, strange as I had over 2 gigs free on it earlier. Nothing is ever installed onto C, it is kept purely for Windows. I delved a bit deeper into it and found out that the Picasa database lives on the C drive, and mine was over 2 gigs in size, I thought no problem, I'll just move the database to another drive but apparently Picasa doesn't have an option to put the data base anywhere other than the C Drive.

I decided rather than fiddling too much, I would repartition the drive I moved 5 gig over to C from another drive, and had no problem at all. Then I noticed that on my second hard drive, one of the partitions with all my avi files was running short of space, so I decided to give it some more space too. It seemed to be taking a long time so I left it going and went to bed. I started the PC the next day, went to my computer and my drive with all the videos had disappeared. Disk management, showed the partition but had no drive letter assigned to it, I gave it a drive letter, then... I noticed all 70gig on that partition was free, all my video files on it had gone......

Oh dear, I hadn't backed it up since July.. I bet you can guess I was not happy...I remembered a program that I had used years ago, to recover lost data, I found a newer version of it, and let it scan the drive, it was taking hours, so I went to bed and left it running. When I got up this morning, I opened up the program and it had found all the deleted data on the drive, even things that I had deleted years ago. I restored the videos I hadn't backed up, and I was a happy bunny again.
I have always backed up files, in fact I have backups of backups, but I got lazy,....and left it too long...I've promised myself that I will back up more regularly, and definitely backup before I re-size any more partitions.... I was lucky it wasn't my windows drive that got wiped.
For anyone that interest in the program it's freeware and it works.. I've added a link in Nothing To Do With Crafting.. the program is PC Inspector File Recovery, they also have a program Smart Recovery that they say will recover deleted data from camera cards, have a look on their site for it.

Amazing Blog Candy

2008-09-01T08:46:00.014+01:00

I've just discovered Blog Candy, Wow... some great things on offer, I can see I'm going to be spending some time checking out all the great blogs with fantastic give-away candy.

Here are a few I've found....more will be coming...

Kreativ Kirstin is giving away some great Magnolia Stamps and other goodies, she is going to pick 2 winners just visit her blog and follow her instructions.

Closing Date: Monday 15th September

If you go to Karen's Creation you could win these goodies which include 12 Dovecraft birthday 8x8 papers, eyelets, fibres, buttons, other embellishments, some Studio g stamps.

Closing date: Sunday 14th September

Good Luck

Our Anniversary Cards

2008-08-31T13:15:00.020+01:00

We celebrated our Anniversary a couple of weeks ago, I find men's cards difficult to do at the best of times, but cards for Tony I never have a clue. Anyway this is what I came up with.

This was made from 2 sheets of A4 card, It was a lovely shimmery champagne colour unfortunately it doesn't show well in the photo, it seems to have taken on a grey hue, just me, not a very good photographer. Used the Cuttlebug Embossing Folders again, I'm getting quite addicted to them. Put a brown ribbon across the card, to hide the join. The hearts are a die that I put through the big kick, I just reversed the colours, and added a few gems. For the sentiments I used Design Master and cut them out with Robo.

We received 2 lovely hand made cards..............

The one on left was made by my Sister, Dawn, the one on the right was made by our friend Kate, I thought both of them were lovely, it's great to receive a hand made card.
If you see this, thanks to you both. xx

Hope you like them,

Oooo... I've got an Arte Y Pico Award

2008-08-27T09:48:00.033+01:00

Liz has kindly given me an Arte Y Pico Award, my very first award, thank you Liz, I really appreciate it.

Now I have to send this to five other bloggers who I think deserve an award, and hopefully they haven't received it before.

so here goes ummm........

OK, Here's who I've decided to send it to

Joanie ..PeeJay.. Nettie.. Carol.. Karen

Just found out about the award and rules from PeeJay......

The "Arte Y Pico" (Art & More) is given to bloggers who share their art and creativity making their contribution to the blogger world.

The rules

1. You pick five blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribute to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and the link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4. Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of the Arte y Pico blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5. To show these rules

Another 2 cards

2008-08-24T12:16:00.017+01:00

A happy one and a sad one.

Sadly a friend of ours passed away, so I had to make a Sympathy Card.
I've never had to make one before, and hope it will be a very long time before I have to make another one. Amethyst Stardream card embossed with the Cuttlebug Birds & Swirls folder, which was matted onto purple mirri card, onto a Ivory pearlescent card, made a small bouquet of flowers for the embellishment, with some purple ribbon and punched the corners.
I tried to keep it simple.

On a happier note, a Birthday Card, cut & embossed using the Elegance and Fantasy Board by Keepsake, Anthracite Stardream Card for the base, for the segments I used the Centura Pearl Embossed Spiders Web card in Platinuim, added some peel offs and some gems, made a couple of little flower posies and a double bow to finish it.

Bye for now

Babies

2008-08-22T17:29:00.020+01:00

Had to make a couple of baby cards, why do I never have the right colour accessories when this happens..... here's what I managed to make.

Used Cuttlebug heart blocks folder on crystalline shimmer card and mounted the decoupaged image onto it, added a bit of crystal glitter, used peel offs for the name.
I border punched some gingham card and wrapped it around the back of the card, added ribbon along the card and made a little bow. Added some peel offs and a couple of bought embellishments.

I think it would have been better if I'd left the embellishments off.

Used a Bookatrix board for this one. Added a feather, ribbon and bow. Baby image decoupaged, with a bit of glitter. Designed the name in Design Master and cut with Robo. Mat was cut using mirri card, top cut in white card and glittered with glamour dust. Added a bought satin teddy, and dress embellishment.

As far as the Blog layout is concerned I still haven't been able to resize the header but I've got rid of the box that surrounded it and I've added a few more blogs to my list that I visit.

Getting there slowly..........
Hope you enjoy looking,

A couple of more cards, Deco Ladies

2008-08-20T17:42:00.030+01:00

Well I managed to sort out a graphic for the header, I'm not really happy with it, but it will do for now. I've been try to get it to stretch across the screen, but it doesn't want to grow, so I thought I'd leave it for now and put on a few more cards for you to look at, I'll try and sort it out another time.

I love using these Deco Ladies, both are from a sheet of wrapping paper.

The blue lady was decoupaged, then some crystal glitter was added for a bit of sparkle. The large peel off down the side was one from the Glitter Girls. I rounded the corners on the card with a corner punch.

I didn't decoupage this lady, just added some glitter. Backed it onto card then using silicone matted on a thick silver embossed card. A peel off down the side and a lovely marabou feather to finish.

Names and sentiments on both cards were made using Design Master and cut with Robo.

Hope you like them,

Here goes... My first attempt at loading some cards

2008-08-18T11:23:00.081+01:00

You will probably guess this was for my Mum's Birthday.
I wanted something a bit bigger than the normal A4 gate fold card, so I used 2 A4 cards. The heart was made using a keepsake board. The sentiment was cut using Robo, this was the first time I'd really used the Cuttlebug embossing folders...........now I've fallen in love with them.

The heart on the box was the original card I made for Mum but once I'd completed it I just didn't like it, thought it was a bit OTT, and I didn't like the colours, I would never had sent it to anyone, so I thought I'd pop it on the box.

I enjoyed making the card and liked the way it turned out, as I had to make a few anniversary cards, I thought I would use the same format, this is what I came up with...

The names and sentiments on both cards were cut using Robo and welded using the Design Master Software.from. The photo's are not very good, as the gold one looks a bit washed out, and the Ruby was in fact a white ice card from Keepsake.

These are the boxes that went with them.

The bow on the Golden Wedding box was made using a keepsake board. The hanging triple heart on the Ruby Wedding box was cut from a template someone shared on UKS, sorry I can't remember who designed it.

Phew....I've still got to get my head around the layout process, hopefully I'll do better next time.
I'm going to try and add some blogs to the list next, and I want to change the graphic in the heading.

Hope you enjoy looking and I'd love some comments...