Sparkle!

Afternoon all,

Just a very quick card for Ooh-La-La's challenge this week of Sparkle! It's a really simple card, but it gives me an excuse to get the gems out - which is always a good thing!

This is Penny Black's Fantasy Tree stamp, stamped up with Tim Holtz distress ink - pumice stone and then highlighted with blue gems and pearls. I've embossed the edges with my hougie board and that's it.

I love how quick and effective this card is, I see many variations of this card in the future!

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Anything Goes in the Great Outdoors

Morning all,

How is everyone today? are you suffering from the cold as much as me? I almost cried when I saw frost on the ground this morning. It might be pretty but I am not a cold weather person!

Anyway, I guess it gives me an excuse to stay in and get on with some more crafting for my next stand - which is a week away..... eek! lol! So I shall be crafting my fingers to the bone, until 4:30 when I'll be off to stand in a Jacobean House lit by candles for 6 hours. Crazy? well yes I guess so, but it is work of kind and it's oh so pretty.

Onward's with the card. Today's card I'm entering into 2 challenges: Simon Say's - Anything Goes and DP2 - The Great Outdoors.

Yes, it's another book card - this time it's one I was asked to make by old boss for her father, who is apparently a fishing nut.

The image is Mo's wonderful image - Fishing, coloured with promarkers. I then finished with a  couple of matching pips, layered onto bronze shimmer card and onto the book.

Hope you like it, must finish the box for it now though so she can pick it up tomorrow!

Until then, take care and Happy Crafting!

Pirates a-hoy!

Morning all,

How are we all doing today? I hope you're all good - I've got another busy day of crafting ahead of me but before I do, I just wanted to share with you a challenge card for Tiddly Inks. They have an anything goes theme at the moment which is running for 2 weeks due to thanksgiving. I really wanted to take part as it's been a while since I've joined in and so this is the result:

Anyone think I'm a tad hooked on book cards at the moment? oh yes, me too..... anyway! the images are tiddlyinks pirate treasure map and priate fun. I then printed some backing paper with the lyrics to 'a pirates life for me' and got a tad carried away distressing it. Again, a couple of pips to finish the whole thing off. It's an age away (ie next march) but this will be going to my young cousin and i'm going to fill the pages with gold coins!

I do hope you like it and thanks for stopping by. Have a good day and happy crafting

Blue, Grey and White

Evening all,

Did you all have a good day? well i've been productive(ish) as i'm busy preparing for the 2nd of my two craft stands....anyone get the feeling that the phrase - here we go again - is apt? hmmm.....

Anyway, the card I want to share with you is for Creative Inspirations challenge of winter colours: Blue, grey and white. Whilst the logical answer would have been to produce a christmas card, instead I've opted for something a little different....

A book card with Alice. The image is, of course, by the wonderful Mo Manning and can be found here. All coloured with promarkers, highlighted with sparkles and mounted on an embossed background using my cuttlebug folder and a few pips to finish.
I hope you like it, I have to say it was lovely to make - but then again Mo's images are always so wonderful to colour.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting

Thank You - TPE#126

Afternoon all,

Just a very quick card to share today, which fit into the Pink Elephant's theme of Thanks. I have made a couple of these cards up as a little note of thanks for a couple of our friends at church that helped to do the drinks at the funeral reception last week. They worked so hard for us and ended up also doing much of the cleaning as well.

I printed the sentiment and then embossed the base of the card with a sizzix embossing folder (actually it's my mum's but shush!) and then I glued on some rose heads and buds. Clean and simple and one of the many cards that fit into my White on White range that i'm currently hooked on.

I hope you like it. I'll be back later this evening with another card. Until then, have a great day and happy crafting!

Anyone for cake?

Morning all, so as I promised - here are some photos of the finished Ark Cake my mum made for Paul (our vicar)

Hehe! it so much fun - the only thing I can lay claim to is the buntin..... wow that took forever for something so simple but the rest is mums handiwork. I hope Paul likes it, but we won't find out until next week as we're skipping church on Sunday (I know, so naughty) but that's what happens when you join all the services for 1 big service at 10:30.......

Anyway, I'm sure Paul will let mum know if it was appreciated on Tuesday when she sees him next. Until then, I hope you all like it and have a good day.

Take care and happy crafting

The Animals went in 2 by 2....

Hi everyone,

Well, this week is turning into a mild nightmare - did I honestly think it could get any worse after monday's funeral? well no..... but apparently fate has decided otherwise. On Tuesday my mums car key broke in the ignition - its not even 6 months old! 4 hours and £55 later it was fixed, just in time for us to get a phone call from the security company that monitors the church to say the roof sensors had been activated - some thieving little %~@!? were trying to steal the copper off the roof - again!!! so after that was resolved (ish) tuesday was over and then yesterday? oh, yesterday the internet packed in - yet again - right in the middle of me completing a time sensative online application form. Oh! how I hate this week so far. *head*hit*desk*

But with everything else going wrong it has meant the only thing I have been able to do is craft. Which is just as well as Mum's boss (the vicar of the church) turns 50 on Saturday and I promised mum I would make his card for her. Now the vicar's favourite bible story is Noah's Ark, so out came the high hopes images, scan then into the computer to resize to fit and mum's card for Paul is done:

Now that was all fine and dandy, but then I get handed the card our new curate had attempted to make for the whole church to sign... now I wish I had taken a photo but I didn't, so lets just say that our curate Manda really isn't artistic. She had folded a piece of mount board in half, but it had folded at an angle so it didn't stand and then added to it she had cut a 50 from Noah's Ark wrapping paper. Add on a hand written sentiment and we have the final card...... ummmm, no. So anyway, the card got given to someone else in the church to fix, who in turn (as usual) asked if I could rescue it.

Well I took the 50 off the front and started over. I cut the mountboard back to two 12"x12" squares, covered the insides with white paperstock, covered the front with blue - added a spine and then got a little crazy. After adding a black border to the 50 I dug out my trusty cuttlebug and cuttlekids animal dies and got going - so it's a strange mix but hey! I think it turned out really well in the end

So with two ark inspired cards done, all that is left is his birthday cake, which mum is making - but can you guess what it's going to be? lol! keep your eyes peeled and I'll upload photos of the finished masterpiece.

Hope you're all having a more fruitful week than I am and happy crafting!