Welcome little bunny

Good morning all and welcome to Friday. Hope you're having a good week and looking forward to the weekend. 

We have a family birthday this weekend, our 'little' brother is 35 on Sunday, so we are getting together tomorrow evening for too much food and drink, lol. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend of my daughter's, who had a new baby girl a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately she has been really poorly and there will probably be some struggles ahead for the family. But, she is now home with her mummy, daddy and big sister and is ready for lots of cuddles and kisses from new visitors.

The bunny image is from a Complete Cardmaking CD that I've had for ages. I printed it on to lightweight card and then cut it out with a circle die. 

The papers are a mixture from the stash, teamed with a dark pink Coredinations card. 

I wrote the sentiment on the PC and then cut it out with a smaller circle die. 

Then I added some sticky back lace, polkadot ribbon and some It's a girl ribbon.

Then I finished it off with three buttons, three little charms and some small googly eyes.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Merry Christmas with Skating Tilda and Edwin

Good morning and a very merry Christmas to you all. I do hope that you all have a very lovely day, however you choose to spend it. 

I must admit I have been really dreading this Christmas, as it's the first since we lost dad. But he wouldn't want us to be miserable, he loved Christmas himself so we are all trying our best to enjoy it for the sake of all the kids. 

Anyway, here is the card I made for my son and his girlfriend Staci. This is skating Tilda and Edwin from Magnolia stamps. I bought it a few weeks ago to use on Christmas cards and this is the only one I have made with it lol. 

I coloured them with Copics and cut them out with an oval die. 

The stamps are a Christmas set from Justrite Stamps, and have lots of different greetings on them.

I added some ribbon and tied bows on either side and then I finished them with little snowflake charms. 

The backing papers are cut with Grand Decorative Labels One from Spellbinders. 

Hope you like it and again, a very merry Christmas to all. 

See you soon, take care.

xxx

Ballerina girl

Good morning everyone. Hope you are well. Yesterday was my youngest granddaughters 2nd birthday and today's post is the card I made for her. 

I decided to do a round card for a change, just for something different.

The image is I Heart You by Saturated Canary. This one came on a cardmaking CD a few months ago. Isn't she cute? I coloured her with Spectrum Noirs and cut her out by hand.

I used papers from the Lili of the Valley Bonnets and Bowties 8x8 pad. I used Spellbinders Grand Stately Circles to cut the large fancy circle and then used the inside edge of the larger die to draw around to make a mat for it.

Then I used the standard stately circles for the centre circle.

I added some string beads around the edge and glued them on with Cosmic Shimmer.

The I die cut the sentiment and used Tonic Punches to make the little flowers. Then I finished the card off with a small bow and a couple of charms.

I think it turned out very pretty, just like Izzy Lou. Hope you like it.

See you soon, take care.

xxx

Sepia colouring

Good morning all, hope you are well. I've been a bit under the weather the last few days with a cough and sore throat, so hoping I'm starting to pick up now. :o)

For today's card I have had a first attempt at sepia colouring. I followed the instructions on the Spectrum Noir website and this is what I came up with.

The image is Honey by Saturated Canary. I used my Spectrum's to colour her with and then cut her out with Labels 29

I think she's probably a bit rich for a true sepia colouring but I don't think she turned out too badly for a first attempt. So I made her into a card.

I used a 6x6 card blank and some paper from a vintage pad, matted with dark brown Coredinations card.

I used some dark cream lace across the card and then added the Love die cut to the top.

I fashioned the big flower from some ready made petals and added the brad to the middle.

Then I inked up some cream roses and added theses to the bottom with a couple of fern leaves. I found that Gathered Twigs Distress Ink is pretty good for ageing things slightly.

I finished the card with a little envelope charm hung from the flower.

Hope you like it. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Sophia and flowers

Good morning all, hope you are all having a good week. I've been having a bit of a look around blogland for some inspiration this week and came across Digi Stamp Boutique from one of the blogs I visit regularly. Well all I can say is I ended up buying 9 new digis! lol. So today's card is made with one of those.

This is Sophia and flowers.

Isn't she a cutie? I coloured her with Spectrum Noirs and cut her out with Spellbinders Opulent Ovals. Then went around the edge with Scattered Straw Distress Ink.  

The papers are from the Kaiserkraft Sweet Pea collection and the yellow card is Coredinations. 

I added small flat backed gems to the centre of the flowers and then added flowers and leaves from the stash. 

I finished the card with a little gold heart charm. What do you think? Hope you like it. Take care and come back soon.

xxx

Merry Christmas

Good morning blog friends, hope you have all had a good weekend. Did you manage to get in any craft time, or has it all been taken up with Christmas shopping??? I have managed to do a bit of both, but not much of either to be honest. Oh well there's still another few weekends yet! lol.

 

This is a card I managed to make yesterday though. Very simple in black and white.

 

 

I tried to make use of punches for this one. So the corners are rounded using a corner rounding punch and the squares are another punch.

 

 

The scalloped circle is yet another and the final punch was used on two corners of the white background to give a bit of detail.

 

 

The reindeer was cut using my silhouette last year but I never used it so I used up some of the bits on this card.

 

 

Like this little Christmas tree charm,

 

 

and the shooting star. Like I said very simple but very effective IRL.

 

Hope you like it.

 

Thanks for stopping by again. See you soon. Take care.

 

xxx

 

 

Nicki and the Snowdog

Good morning all, hopefully by the time you read this I shall be tucked up in a nice cosy bed in the holiday cottage we have rented for the week lol. I am scheduling a few posts for this week as we don't know what the Internet reception will be like where we are going. That makes it sound like the back of beyond lol, when reality it is only southern Scotland. We are off to a little place called Southerness which sits in the Dumfries and Galloway area. We haven't been here before but do know the surrounding area quite well. Anyway if we get good signal we shall pop on and load some pics etc.

 

I'm afraid it's all Christmas cards from me at the moment, as we don't have any family birthdays, from middle of September until beginning of December it's a great time to concentrate on the Christmas cards.

 

Today's card, is using the lovely Nicki digi stamp from Saturated Canary. I have coloured her with chalks and flex markers! I know a right combination but I only used the pens for her skin lol. It's the first time I've coloured an image with chalks and I think it turned out OK for a beginner ;o)) I then set it with Iridescent Spray and Sparkle.

  

I have teamed Nicki with The Snowdog from Crafters Companion. He should be with The Snowman, (remember the film???) but I thought he was so cute he could be used with lots of different images.

 

I cut him out of white card stock and sat him with Nicki on to a piece of Centura Pearl card which I embossed with the Snowflake embossing folder. I cut this in to a curve and sat it on top of a coordinating piece of paper from the Snowman range.

 

I added a bow using Teal satin ribbon and a snowflake charm and then finished the card with a stamped sentiment, using light blue pigment ink and clear embossing powder.

 

Hope you like it. Take care and I'll see you soon.

 

xxx

 

Keyring gifts

Good morning all and happy Tuesday. Well that weekend flew by quicker than I can spend money on craft ;o)) OK not quite but it went pretty quick. As Jude said yesterday Joe has eventually moved in to his new home, so we spent the weekend getting things sorted for the move. I saw Jude for a few mins last night and she assures me she is fine:o). It will be difficult these next few weeks while Joe gets settled and Jude finishes packing the house up to come to ours. But we will look after her and when she gets too mardy I'll pull her back into line as usual. Lol ROFL, I've never been able to do that so don't think it's likely to start now lol. 

Anyway enough waffling, these are the little gifts that Jude asked me to make for Joes school transport driver and escort. 

 

 

This first one was for Margaret, nice and girly,

 

 

and this one is for Bill.

 

 

I also made a couple of little gift boxes to put them in.

 

 

I don't make boxes very often but with the help of my Ultimate Pro they are really easy. So think I'll make a few more for little gifts instead of buying gift bags etc.

 

Anyway that's all from me today. Thanks for stopping by.

 

See you soon.

 

xxx

 

 

 

 

Anniversary card

Good morning all. Hope you are having a good week. It's Wednesday, so half way through the week before a nice long bank holiday weekend (if you live in the UK) :o)) I can't wait lol.

 

Anyway today I thought I would share with you a card I made for an anniversary last month. It's really simple but still quite pretty.

 

 

The topper and decorations are from the Docrafts vintage notes collection.

 

I just added them with a doily to a 6x6 scalloped edge card blank.

 

Then to finish I added a couple of little charms with a ribbon bow.

 

What do you think? Hope you like it.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

 

See you soon

 

xxx