Hope everyone is enjoying their Easter Break and haven't OD'ed on chocolate (like myself)...!:-( Have managed to get into my crafty space in the loft and use some of my new stash purchased at the NEC last week.

I used my new nesties, Craftwork cards sentiment, and Magnolia stamp on this one. The Martha Stewart border punch is fairly new too but purchased a few weeks ago somewhere else. I stamped her onto some new card I got from the Craftwork cards stand which was a dream to use my Copics on. You can only just about see in the picture but I stamped and heat embossed in Hologram powder some flowers on the backing paper. Now one of the trends of the moment is putting paper flowers on your cards.........well none of the local florist need worry ....I wont be setting up my own florist shop anytime soon......fiddle,faff, fiddle,faff......give up and just put one on each corner....bloomin heck ... these were meant to be little sprays of flowers with a bit of net behind...ha ha it wasn't happening on my card. So here is a close up of the one flower I used on the corner ( god knows why.)

Spent Saturday afternoon painting an old bucket with stencils and some twigs "off white"

below is the result.

I made it to hang Phoebes coloured in wooden shapes on and to put on the table for the little Easter party we had yesterday for the family.

This is the Easter cake that my eldest daughter decorated.....yum!

My proudest moment over the holiday was seeing my youngest daughter Phoebe learning to ride her  bike without stabilisers.......Go Phoebe.....well done.

Hope you all enjoy the rest of the Easter Break.

Easter Bags

Happy Easter everyone. Can't believe my weeks holiday from work has gone so fast. Went to the NEC Hobbycrafts show last weekend and had a great day with some great company and spent far toooo many pennies but got some really nice bits and bobs, new magnolia stamps, Sizzix die, distress ink pads, bling, sentiment die cuts etc, etc etc..see far too much. The highlight of the day was meeting with Chris, Kim P, Marlene and Sonia who I felt I'd met before but not sure where. All uber talented cardmakers check out their blogs and see for yourselves if you aren't familiar with their work.

One of my purchase's was a sizzix bag die. I love little boxes and bags, So I've made a few, a couple for my two girls and a couple for the neighbours children. Theres not much to the decoration, i've just used stickers that I had in my stash but they look cute. I've filled them with lots of choccy treats and of course a little easter chick in each one.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter

Mothers Day Gorjuss Girl.

Got myself organised and made a Mothers Day card for my Mum. Used this Gorguss Girl (Poppy Fields) and coloured her with Copics. Layered her onto Nestability ovals and then onto a card covered with backing paper (Daisy Plaid by Make and Create) and layered green ribbon and little white material flowers.

For the embellishments I punched the flowers  from white card and leaves from green card to match the flowers on the backing paper. I Scored each petal a little at the point and  pinched them up to add some dimension (a tecnique I saw in the Magnolia magazine - coz I never would've thought of it myself)  I added the green ribbon and bow, the sentiment (printed on PC) and glitter to the flower centres.

Below is a close up of the punched flowers

Well hope to be back soon with another post, Thanks for Looking

Gorjuss Little Star Girl

Aren't these stamps just so sweet. Made another card for the birthday box with Little Star Gorjuss Girl. I coloured her with Copics (still trying to get the shading business right) Covered the card with backing paper,both out the same book but forgot to look at what company it is from! (It's up in the loft) Will look next time I'm up in there if I remember and update then.

Added the punched stars, ribbon and sentiments to finish. I outlined the scalloped oval in white pen just to make it stand out a little more. The starflower shaped sentiment is from Craftwork cards and the Celebrate one was a freebie from a magazine.

Below is another picture of her taken with the flash on that  shows off her lovely sparkle.

  Hope your weekend hasn't flown by too fast like mine seems to have done!Thanks for looking,

More Mo's Digital Pencil

Ooohh I just love the beautiful images at Mo's Digital Pencil. Here's another one I couldn't resist, it's called Noelle Bearing Gifts.

I coloured her with Copics and then layered her onto oval Nestabilitys and stripey backing paper. I added the ribbon,button and sentiment from stash. Putting her in the card box for next Christmas.

Thanks for looking

Getting Ready For Christmas!

Sorry to bring the subject of Christmas up when we're all praying for Spring to come early, but I'm not,not, not going to have to buy any shop bought cards this year. So here's another for the Christmas box.

She's Holly Fairy from Mo's Digital Pencil Shop .Isn't she just lovely?  I downloaded and printed her off onto some copic card from Sir Stampalot which is fab with the copics, the colour just glides on to it. I just layered her onto a piece of gold mirror card, I didn't think she needed any backing paper as she's such a beautiful image on her own. Added the ribbon, sentiment and bell from stash. I've used some chrystal  laquer on the snowglobe and sprinkled some glitter into it for effect but it hasn't shown up on the photo. Just a quick post as I'm off to spend a loyalty voucher I have for a local craft shop (any excuse)....

Have a great weekend everybody

Boys Birthday Cards

Following on from the last post Phoebe has received two invites to boys Birthday parties. I will really have to buy some Boy style birthday stamps as cute really wont do! So all I have is a K and Co backing paper pad. Nice bright colours that I just added a sizzix tag, sizzlit letters, sizzix numbers, buttons and the sentiment stamp. I used creamy brown liquid chalk cats eye pad around the edges.

Below is another one that follows the same style with different papers.

Not totally over the moon with them ( really must get some "boy" stamps)

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Cute Birthday Cards

Having a 6 year old daughter means I have to have a stock of cute cards to hand for all the parties she goes to and at the moment thats one every week.  aaaaggghhhh! Costs a blooming fortune for pressies....but it also means I can make lots of cute cards that are going to get used. Below is the latest batch.

 I made 3 of these to keep things going for a while. The clear stamp is by Tina Wenke and is called "Mouse-Bird-Ladybug-Cupcake". and is coloured with copics. Layered onto blue card (whick I got from Papermill, lovely shade of powder blue that you don't ofter see) and pink patterned backing paper. I added ribbon,flowers,button, sentiment and Stickles glitter glue. Hope you all have a great Sunday with plenty of time for crafting if you want it.
Thanks for looking

Penny Black Saturday Challenge wk 84

Decided to get my act together and enter the Penny Black Saturday Challenge wk 84, which is a colour challenge. It is to be a Penny Black stamp and then use the colours Blue,Cream and Gold. What a lovely colour combo that is. So below is my entry:-

I stamped the image in Gold and heat embossed with gold powder. I then coloured the flowers blue with Copics and layered onto blue and gold card. I used my Martha Stewart doiley punch down the edge and layered a piece of gold card underneath. I then added ribbon, flower and sentiment tag. I distressed a little here and there with a creamy brown  liquid chalk pad.

Off to link this up now - I'm so out of practice. Thanks for dropping by.

Wow A Post At Last

Happy New Year Peeps.... Hope you all had a great Christmas too. Have been busy doing other things (mostly eating chocolate and watching TV ...shame on me!) Haven't done any cardmaking since before christmas hence the lack of posts. So this is a catch up post to show you some of the cards I made previously and a couple of beautiful cards I received from other lovely people. In my defence it has been very cold here as I'm sure a lot of you are experiencing  too and  going up into the freezing cold loft which would take a weeks wages to heat before I could get in is out of the question. So to start us off is the beautiful card I received from my blogging friend Nadia aka Diana Scarlett.

Isn't she lovely...I love the style of this card and the lots of layers, the swirls are on acetate layered over the backig papers, beautiful .. thanks so much Nadia. Nadia had also taken the time to decorate the inside and the back of her card.Do check out her blog via the link above she makes beautiful and original pieces.

Next up is a lovely card I received from my youngest Daughter Phoebe. Phoebe made the card at school and I think it's a lovely fun christmas card. Well done Phoebe.

The next 2 cards are Christmas cards I made for my daughters,  both with Magnolia Tilda stamps

I love this stamp and I think it will always be a favourite. I coloured her using copics and the little hanging heart ( below) is also Magnolia.

Here ( below) is a close up of Tilda herself...

Here is the other card again coloured with copics.

..and a close up of the Magnolia sentiment embellisment that I added stickles glitter glue to.

Last up is the Birthday card I made for Phoebe.

Well thanks for looking and I hope everyone has a great start to the year, hopefully it will warm up a bit soon and I'll be able to get up in the loft where my craft stuff is.(I can hear it calling to me..lol)
Bye for now.

Christmas Skaters

Love this sweet little image of a couple skating. Its a rubber stamp by Beach Bum Stamps. 

I stamped it in versafine and layered onto green card and DCWV backing paper. Added ribbon sentiment, punched snowflakes and bling in snowflake centres.

Have Just updated my blog editor (its probably been available for ages....i'm  soo slow on the uptake) so just having a little play.

Have a good weekend

thanks for peeking

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Wk 74

The challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge this week is to make something which is based on a Song Title/Lyric. So out came one of my all time favourite Christmas Penny Black Stamps ( although I think I say that every time I use a PB stamp)Here is Jingle All The Way.

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Stamped image in versafine ink and coloured with Copics. Added Glitter glue for twinkling snow. Layered onto doodlebug card and then on to DCWV backing paper. Over stamped backing paper with white liquid chalk snowflakes. Added punched out snowflakes (beautiful Martha Stewart punch) and added buttons.




Here (above) is a little close up to show the lovely Doodlebug backing card and the large snowflake is the Martha Stewart punch

Thanks for looking

A Couple of Lil' Christmas Cards

Here's a couple of cards I made last week towards my Christmas box.(still need to do a lot more to catch up though)
First up is this little Penny Black stamp that is just soooo cute. Stamped and coloured with copics and layered onto green card and DCWV backing papers. Added glitter, ribbon, buttons and the Stamps Away sentiment layered onto a nestability circle.
This next card is also a Penny Black stamp that I've had for a long time. I stamped and coloured with copics cut the wreath out and put Chrystal lacquer on it to make it shine. I layered it onto the front of the card and just added the ribbon and sentiment to keep it simple.

Have a nice day

Santa stamp

Made a few cards this last week, so hopefully will get around to posting a few of them this coming week. Here is the first and probably my most favourite. Its a stamp by Rubber Stampede called Santa Collage. I stamped him in versa colour vintage sepia,picking out some detail with a bit of glitter and then layered onto gold mirror card (it is for Christmas!) the backing papers are DCWV and the sentiment is Stamps Away which is also a favourite of mine. I added some sepia inked swirls to the backing paper and picked some out in gold glitter too plus ribbon to finish.

Thanks for looking,have a good Monday

No Cards but here's why!

The Count and I



Mummy Wrap Game Chaos


Uncle steve who actually came as dracula but turned into a bad Harry Potter as the night wore on!!!!!


Some of the coven (Aunties,Phoebe and my Mummy)


The Rat catcher AKA cousin Charlotte


Ouch!


Phoebe after Mummy wrap game


More of the coven ( my cousin and auntie)
We had a Halloween Party on saturday - what a laugh- I usually throw one every year. So i've no cards to show but thought i'd share a few piccys of the evening.
Hope you all had a good night too
Louby xxx