Stamped Picture.

As I've been neglecting my blog again I thought I'd show you what I've done instead! I've been having a little play with my stamps and brayer (not making Xmas cards, oh dear) and came up with this picture which I've given to my Headteacher to remind her to slow down!! We've just had a mini Ofsted inspection and she's been tearing around everywhere! I brayered the background although you can't see it much. The trees are Crafty Individuals 'Hug a Tree' stamps and the flowers are from a Graphicus Wild Flower themeplate. The birds are a Clarity stamp. I used a Big and Juicy 'Foliage' inkpad. The sentiment is computer generated. I wish I'd done it on glossy card but I was quite pleased with the result. She has it hanging on her office wall!

Retirement - Put Your Feet Up!

This card was made for a friend who is retiring on her 60th birthday. I used my Penny Black 'Kickin' stamp again and coloured and decoupaged it as before. I mounted it on Nellie Snellen ovals again (I do like these!) The backing paper is Basic Grey. I've glittered the Prima flowers, used Lakeland gems and printed the sentiment on the computer.

Quacky Birthday!

This is the card I made for my friend's birthday. She is a fellow crafter too so I wanted to make it a good one! The image is a Penny Black stamp called 'Duckling' which I coloured with Promarkers, Glossy Accents and decoupaged. I mounted it on my Nellie Snellen ovals and Nesties again onto some yellow cardstock edged with ribbon and a scalloped Martha Stewart punch. Prima flowers, Glitter, Pearls and Lakeland gems embellish it. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards

Graphicus November Challenge - Resistance Is Futile!

Well, I thought as I haven't made many Xmas cards yet I'd make this one do for a challenge as well. The Graphicus November challenge was to make something using resist technique and 'metallics'.

I have used the 'Following Yonder Star' themeplate from Elusive Images and resist embossed the words and star onto glossy card using versamark ink. I have brayered over this with a speedball brayer and a 'Big and Juicy' Waterfall ink pad. The Kings image was embossed in gold and then watercoloured with Derwent Inktense pencils. I cut this out and mounted it on corrugated card. The card has been embellished with ribbon, gold card candy 'rivets' and gold snowflake punches.

I've now made four Xmas cards so far this year!!! Oh heck, please hold back Xmas for me!! lol

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #74

Thought I'd enter a challenge this weekend so have made this card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge. The challenge was to make a card linked to a song title/lyric. I have called this:

'Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon'

which was a track by Queen on their 'Night at the Opera ' Album.

I used a stamp called 'Kickin' and decoupaged my image three times onto two Nellie Snellen Frames which I cut in my Cuttlebug. These are great dies and half the price of Nesties. I coloured it with copics. I added a greeting from Craftwork cards. I finished it off with a Prima flower and some ribbon and flatbacked pearls.

Blog Candy Winner!

Well, I'm back from my holiday and I am thrilled to see so many of you entering my blog candy giveaway. Thank you all and I know I'm going to have fun browsing through your blogs.

I have used a random number generator to draw the winner and the lucky person is........

No 63 Jan Robson.

Well done Jan, I'll leave my email address on your blog so that you can let me know where to send it!

Blog Candy Giveaway! Now Closed - we have a winner!

Well, here goes let's hope this works as I'm not too hot at blogging and linkey's!! To celebrate my 2000th hit (a little later than it happened) and my birthday next Sunday (18th Oct) I have decided to post some 'Blog Candy'. Now I'm not that brilliant at this so I do hope that it looks ok!! To qualify all I ask is that you link this back to your blog (if the linky thing works) and put up a post or a notice on your side bar and then leave me a comment (so as I know who you are). It would be nice if you would become a follower of this blog ( I don't get many) but that's up to you! I'll leave this post at the top ( somehow!!) and will close the candy on Sunday 1st November. I won't be around for the last week of Oct so I'll randomly chose the winner after this date. Good luck everyone - there's all sorts of bits and bobs included ( Paper, flowers, a little selection of stampboard and brooch backs, a little square of acrylic to stamp on, some stickers/peeloffs, brads to name a few.) Now off to see how to make this stay on the top!!

Catty books Display!!

Whilst tidying the school library I noticed that we had quite a few cat books/stories so I made a little display with them with some pawprints. Someone keeps treading on my mousehole though, painful, lol!! I've hidden a little mouse in the library too for the children to find. He's in the Mammals section but no-one has spotted him yet!! lol..... shh don't tell!!

Autumn Library Display.

This is a quick display I made for the start of the Autumn term to coincide with Roald Dahl Day. I made a big Wonka Bar (on the left) in which I collected votes for the children's favourite Roald Dahl story. The winner was 'The Twits'!!

(I quite like this one too, although I voted for 'Danny Champion of the World'. I loved the bit where they put the sleeping tablets in the raisins!)

Finished!

Well, that was all my latest cards. I have two urgent ones to make now so must dash off and start them. I will be posting something exciting this week on here when I get my act together so please keep popping back and checking!! Watch this space!!

Sympathy card for a young girl.

This was a hard card to make and I must admit I had a little tear when I finished the verse inside. I had to make this for my hubby to give to the family of the young 14 year old girl who died in Coventry after having her cervical cancer jab. How distraught must her parents be. Her stepdad worked with my hubby for a while. I didn't want to make it too black and morbid but wanted to keep it simple so chose my Penny Black 'Fanfare' stamp, embossed it in black and watercoloured coloured the flowers pink. I printed the sentiment on the computer. I hope it will be ok.

Dottie, New Job!

I had to make a card for someone starting a new job in the policeforce so I remembered I had a Dottie download from Charmed Cards and Crafts. I coloured her with Promarkers again and used DCWV papers for the backing. Black and silver peeloffs and silver glitter dots finish it off.

National Cardmaking Day!

I made a card for Paulinexx over at Docrafts for National Carmaking Day. I used a Miss Anja image from the Rain, Snow, Shine set, coloured with Promarkers and Copics. I mounted this on Nestabilities ovals and decorated the edge with a Sakura pen. The Bp is from Basic Grey which I over stamped twice with two shades of pink and a Personal Impressions flourish stamp. The middle layer is coloured with a Whispers ink pad and embossed with Snowflake dots. I used a chipboard flower which I coloured and glittered to embellish it with a brad. Letters from DCWV and glitterdots from Papermania. The middle band is a piece of ribbon from Crafty Ribbons (a great ribbon shop online.)

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Docrafts September Friendship Card.

I made this card for 'Handmadebybianca' for the September card swap over at Docrafts. I used my 'His and Hers' collection Cd from Pink Petticoat to print on both sides of the card. I used my Housemouse stamp 'Give you my heart' which I coloured with watercolours. I glazed the tulips with glossy accents. The edges are a Martha Stewart punch - scalloped dot. The sentiments were from a mini set I got somewhere (possibly Dovecraft)!! I threaded ribbon through the corner eyelets. This design was inspired by Peter's (A man alone) cards on Docrafts.

Gardening Card/Thinking of You.

A friend wanted a card for a friend who likes gardening but has just had an operation for cancer

so she wanted something special but not too ott. I used a stamp of garden tools which I've only ever used once before and watercoloured it this time. I glazed it with glossy accents - not quite dry in this pic so looks a bit cloudy. I used my SeeD's Morsels to stamp around the edges and finished it off with Prima flowers and a butterfly charm.