Aunt's Birthday Card

This card was made for my lovely crafty Aunt for her birthday last weekend, I used a sketch to inspire me, I saw the sketch and had to try it, I just seem to be into circles at the moment!

I've not used pink and green before on a card together but I really like it!

Cardstock: Bazzill Swiss Dots, Stampin Up Old Olive & Stampin Up Pink Pirouette
Paper: Heidi Grace
Stamp: Penny Black - Merci - I just LOVE this stamp!

Circle: Creative Memories Circle Cutter

Nestabilities, Fiskars Apron Punch, Sizzix Alphabet

My Loving Nans Layout

I really loved this photo when I saw it, two very proud nans, look at Sharrons little moheacian!!!

I wanted to keep this very simple so I made a heart template out of scrap cardstock and used pearls spaced out equally to make the heart shape.

Pink cardstock is Bazzill Bling - I love this colour and have held onto it for a while! The alphabet is Doodlebug Loppy Lou stickers with glamour dust over to make it sparkle!

Shaz & Gramps

Here's another Layout for today....Awwww I do love this photo…. Look more orange! Hmmmmm Bo Bunny paper... OK I am slightly getting worried about my Orange addicition.... yes Orange is SLIGHTY growing on me LOL...

Throughout the orange paper you will see little gem stones, these are Swarovski crystal gems, they really sparkle… I know I've used quite a few on this LO but they are orange so I can live with parting with them!

The large scallop borders top and bottom are paper boarders by Bazzill & the alphabet areDoddlebug stickers.

Think I need to have a lie down now after all this orange.... I need more pink LO's LOL!

The Early Days In Lowestoft

Quite a rare find this picture, there isn’t many photos of Sharron when she was younger with her mum and dad together… just loving her mum’s 70’s dress!! The dress is what inspired me to use the flower and go for the orange theme.

Orange cardstock is Bazzill Bling, I have no clue why this was in my papers file I must have bought it ages ago because I don’t do orange!!

The spotty paper for the petals and the green stripes are yet again part of a new range by My Minds Eye drool drool!

Flower petals made using the cuttlebug cut and emboss flower die set and the font is the Cuttlebug Babyface alphabet.

I've left the centre blank so that she can add her own bit of journalling.

Daddys Girl

At long last I can now show these scrapbooking pages that I am doing for Paul’s sister’s 40th birthday, yes the camera cable has been found and Paul got told quite clearly to not tidy up and hide things away especially not where he had hidden it as there was no chnace of me ever finding it!

I’m really starting to get stressed about how little time I have left to get this done, 13th June is the date and I have so much to do yet and not a huge amount of time to work on it, just got another load of photos this weekend to sort out, just wish I didn’t have to keep nagging and pestering everyone for them!!

Anyway this is Sharron and her dad, such a lovely natural photo, don’t have many of them together like this so I think this photo is going to mean a lot to her and I don't think she has seen it before.

Background paper is the lovely flocked doodlebug paper; this was my last sheet after using so much on the Love Bo Bunny Word book I did for Valentines Day… I really didn’t want to use it but seeing as the album is 8x8 it means I get to keep a little back for stroking LOL!

Pink Christmas!!

Don't you just love pink christmas cards?! If I had my way I'd do all my christmas cards pink, I know it's not very traditional but I just love pink (if you hadn't already guessed lol!!)

Can't remember who makes this pink swirly paper but I bought it from the Glitter Pot, as soon as I saw it I knew I just had to have a few sheets as I'm into swirls in a big way at the moment!!

The sentiment is a Penny Black stamp and the snowflake is part of a Sizzlit snowflake die set.

Chocolate Limes

I've just realised looking at this card that the colours remind me of sweets we used to have as a kid, We were only allowed to have sweets once a year as a kid and that was for th annual trip to the Panto!! I think there were called chocolate limes or something like that?! They were green sweets with chocolate in the inside! hmmm chocolate!! lol

OK enough about food, here's my card for today... this card was quite close to going in the bin because I didn't like the spots i'd stamped... I'm still not certin if I like the spots on it, do you think it spots spoil the card?! I'm really not sure....

Anyway my other half told me not to put it in the bin and send it... so I did as I was told lol!!

The green & brown card are bazzill, the green is their scalloped range which I really struggled to cut into cause it's the only sheet I have lol! Bit of glamour dust around the edges of the brown bazzill and the 'thanks a lot' stamp is from a Hero Arts set.

Reindeer Christmas Card

Last weekend I stayed over at my friend Becky's for a crafting weekend, I always enjoy our weekends crafting as she gives me so much inspiration... Of course we had to pop along to a craft shop along the way, it would have been rude not to lol Never been to Artbase before but wow that shop is amazing!!

I travelled very light with only the basic of crafty items and I was allowed to play with some of Becky's stash (she has some wonderful stamps)... she even allowed me to cut into her brand new papers... and now they are top on my wants list!!!

Anyway I had a fantastic time, sat up until 2am on Sunday morning making cards and talking... I managed to make 7 cards in total which wasn't bad going considering we only started crafting after around 8pm!

This is one of the cards I made, I LOVE this little Reindeer he is part of the new Studio G clear stamp sets, they only cost £1.50 and you get 4/5 stamps in a set.. BARGAIN! This set is another item on my wish list as well as these yummy papers, not sure who they are by but I believe they can be bought at Sugar & Spice.

Black & Lilac Flowers

Sorry I haven't been about for the past few days I've been away visiting OH's family... had lovely weather but no internet or crafting for 7 days and I'm itching to get crafty again!!

Here's a RAK card I made this month for a very talented crafter... I decided to go for a different colour combination for a change... I don't often use a lot of black other than to mount with but I quite like these two colours together.

The chipboard flowers are cut using the cuttlebug, the ric rac and the tag is by doodlebug. The scalloped lilac background is bazzill card cut with my fiskars large scalloped scissors.

Strawberries & Cream Challenge/DCM

This card was a challenge on a forum I go on, the challenge was 'Stawberries & Cream'.... make a card with the colours red & white.

I also noticed that on DCM their dare is 'To make a card with a frill'.... so I thought this was suitable for that too, first time I've taken part in a proper challenge!

I love red but I find it a very difficult colour to craft with, so I decided to make my card a christmas card which I find easier to do in red!

The snowflake is from a set I got at Craftwork Cards last year and I covered it with glamour dust to give it that sparkle!

The paper is by Pebbles Inc - Christmas Deck The Hall (Glitterpot) .... The scallopped edging is from the Doodlebug paper frills range. Merry Christmas is the Small casual Snap Stamps.

Lilac Spots!

I'm really into spotty backgrounds at the moment... I love these spot stamps by MSE, they are a clear set which makes it so much easier! The mouse stamp is by Penny Black, greeting is with my trusty snap stamps!

I made 2 more christmas cards last night, I'll get those downloaded later on. I have to say I am getting very worried with my Christmas obsession as I have made about 17 christmas cards in total after the ones I made last night! I never normally start until the end of September... Quite scary when you think about how close christmas is now....

Finally A Pink Card!!!

Ok… I know not enough pink cards being shown on here for a pink girl lol… I have been trying very hard lately to use other colours but I always come back to pink in the end!! Here’s a pink card I made for a friend.

Stamped cupcake image is Doodlebug clear stamps – birthday set, embossed background is the cuttlebug dots embossing folder on Bazzill Bling card (I found it so hard to cut into the bling!).

Lilac Flowers

I saw a card simular to this on a blog I visted a few months ago and I really liked the effect so thought I'd give it a go... If you happen to know who's blog it was please let me know so I can make sure that person gets the credit for it!

I cut the front on the card in half so that I could mount the embossed image behind. Cuttlebug embossing folder spots & dots inked with an inkpad and the 3 flowers are cut out of chipboard and covered with bazzill. The stems of the flowers are from the Doodlebug clear stamp range - flowers.

It's That Lime Green Again lol!

I know not much pink on these pages for someone who claims they are a girlie girl lol..

Green seems to have taken over my crafting... I used to hate green but at the moment I can't get enough of it lol!!

The cardstock is Bazzill Pizzazzill Dot... I wasn't overly struck with much of the Pizzazzil range but the combination of the spots and the green won me over!!

The scalloped circle is using the woodware super duper Scalloped circle punch.

The flowers are from the Doodlebug range and the large green brad is from Dovecraft, greeting using those snap stamps again!

Pink & Brown Cat Card

Just a quick cat card for fun... The cat image is a Hero Arts stamp & then I've framed it stamping the Doodlebug spotty frame on bazzill card stock.

The cat paw paper is from DCVW cat paper stack & tied onto the ribbon is a sweet 'hope' charm, they come in a pack of 6 from Capture The Magic but I can't remember who makes them - sorry!

My First Challenge Card!

This challenge was from Cheryl and this is what I came up with after a morning of head scratching!

I’d received the Heidi Swapp thank you stamps in the post during the week and been itching to use them, the flowers are stamped on Bazzill cardstock using the Blonde Moments stamps.

Slight confession here that I have had them sealed in their packet since March (oops)! Backing paper is also from Blonde Moments.

I’ve decided that I need to challenge myself to start using some of the stamps that I have bought and not actually used which if I am really honest is about 50% of my collection…Please tell me this is normal lol…