Book Card

On Sunday I went to a Bristol Craft day - it was organised by the fabulous Sue and was the first of the big Bristol playdays, with 19 insane crafters in one room, laughing, making and eating! it was fantastic - it's been agreed on that it should become a regular thing, so if you fancy joining in the fun on the 2nd Sunday of the month head over to Sue's blog (Playingwithpaper) for more information!

Anyway, this month's project was book cards - now some of us in the room *will mention no names* had been playing with the project prior to the session and so put us all to shame on the day by not only completing the project but making a card everyone wanted to take home! Me, on the other hand, was chuffed to have got all but the inside panel and the box made!

Now, I claim no originality in the design - I saw a card of similar design somewhere and it was stuck in my memory, so many thanks and kudos to whoever it was that created the original. Nevertheless, it was a design my mother would love so this is my card to her for mother's day!

Box cover and card in box base

Front

Back

Inside

If anyone wants to know the project ingredients specifically, let me know but they are pretty much as you see them!

I hope you like it, I hope my mother likes it, but most of all thanks to all the fab ladies who were there on Sunday!  it was a fantastic day - I loved learning a new project and here's to the long and ongoing success of the Bristol Playdays x

Just Magnolia - Anything goes with Glitter

Hi everyone. Another Challenge card, this time for Just Magnolia and Hanglar - which is anything goes with the additional option of glitter.

So obviously its a Magnolia image - I thought this little girl needed an airing and her pinifore is so much fun to glitterfy (possibly not a word) but  the photo's don't show it up too well sorry. Papers are from K&Co pads, buttons from stash.

Hope you like, I really enjoyed making this one.

$Thanks for looking and Happy Crafting x

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Late

Evening all,

Have you ever had one of those weekends which, whilst fab, left you achieving nothing of the growing list that needed to be done? well that was mine! Oh well - I just about managed to get this card done and it's not even that complex! lol

So, the essentials: this card wass for Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge this week; however, I'm too late to enter it - ooops! and the image is by the fabulous Mo Manning and is called Chickies. It's coloured with promarkers and everything else is from the scaps box. Boarder punch is Martha Stewart and the pips are from stock.

Like a said - small, simple and sweet

Hope you like it! thanks for looking and happy crafting x

Crafty Catz - One for the boys

Hi everyone! this one's for the boys...... well specifically my cousin but it'll do for Crafty Catz challenge this week too, which is one for the boys!

The stamp is one that came free with a magazine and I can see getting some serious usage. the layout is one I created and i've been using over recently (remember the valentines card with Edwin?) Image is coloured with promarkers, papers are from a K&Co pad and that's about it. Really simple but I think it works. I hope you agree!

Take care and Happy Crafting x

Creative Inspirations - Plain and Simple

Hey everyone. I hope you're all well, it's been a long week hasn't it? or is it just me that feels like that? anyway, todays card is for Creative Inspirations challenge of Plain and Simple. I used my new butterfly stamp again to create my mum's birthday card

The image is stamped with stazon black ink and then coloured with my watercolour pencils. The die cut is nellie snellen edged with stickles and the paper is from stock, a freebie pad that came with one of the many card magazine's I buy. The sentiment is printed off on the computer and the gems are from stash.

That's it! thanks for looking and happy crafting x

Just because....

Hi guys,

This one's a just because. I brought this stamp just after Christmas as a treat to myself and I wanted to play. It's not a great card but it was more experimenting with the image, but I thought I'd share anyway.

 

Hope you like it, the stamp is coloured with pro-markers, shape is a die from Nellie Snellen and paper is from stash. Think that's about it.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting x

41 days into 2011 and what feels like 41 problems

Hi Everyone, sorry i've got nothing fun to share with you today but I needed a moan. So 2011, we're 41 days into the new year and i've had what feels like 41 different issues, problems or pieces of bad news.

To start the year I find out my uncle has been diognosed with Bone Cancer, shortly followed up with a dear friends Gran passing away from her long term battle with cancer.

We follow this up with the announcement that English Heritage are going to have to find 75 more job cuts at the same time that my boss is desperately trying to find a way to give me a permenant contract. And of course the 30+ rejection letters.

Adding stress to an already bad start to the year, my brother was involved in a multicar pileup on the motorway (thankfully, other than some bruising he is fine)

Then I start getting water into flat through my kitchen ceiling - plumber comes out and thinks he fixed the issue - next thing I know its back and spread! infact its so bad its coming down in damp patches through my walls now and there's nothing I can do except run up the electricity bill and play host to this:

Oh yes, an industrial dehumidifier - and I have no idea how long for as the entire flat above me is saturated in water and some bright spark decided instead of leaving air gaps between the floors, to fill the whole lot in with concrete!

 

Water damage in my flat

And then, to top it all off, my mum phoned to tell me the company they had hired to change the boiler and overhaul their heating has gone into liquidation. Thus causing them to loose thousands of pounds!

Oh yes, 2011 is a great year.

Not

Rant over xx