Quilted Card

This is my attempt at a 'quilted' card - don't look too closely at the stitching... it's a new machine and I'm still getting used to having an electric sewing machine dedicated to card making. My other one is a Singer with a treadle that I don't like to use on cards as it only does one stitch - forwards!! Anyway, I used some gorgeous K&Co papers - from the Amy Butler 'Belle' collection. They were a 6x6 pad, and are only £2.50 for 36 sheets! Needless to say I have quite a few packs sat waiting to be used :)

This is the sketch over at 365cards, and I made each square 4cm x 4cm, cutting some on diagonals and leaving others whole. I assembled them how I wanted them and stitched over all the joins - not the neatest job in the world, but these fangle-dangle machines are so FAST!! The blue is Core'dinations and I finished it off with some half pearls.

Thanks for looking!

Go bananas!

This card is another challenge entry, this time the Daring Cardmakers Challenge, and the theme is "feeling fruity". Cory is getting into stamping and in his collection he had this Hero Arts stamp, so I borrowed it while he wasn't looking (he's very possessive of his stash, a feeling I think most of us can relate to!)

I stamped the image with Stazon, and added the branch freehand. They are watercoloured and cut out using nesties, layered on a Core'dinations cs scallop. The challenge being fruit related presented a problem - nothing fruit related! So I found a clip art and made my own backing paper, and the sentiment was also created using MS Word. I decorated the inside of the card using the same papers and font, just to break up the yellow a bit. The sentiment on the front is finished with a 1cm brad, but I can't remember the brand.

Thanks for looking, and let me know what you think :)

Cory's Birthday Card

It's hard to believe that Cory will be five in a couple of weeks! He spotted this paper in the craft shop the other day, and I knew it would be perfect for his card as he is so into animals at the moment.... he's decided he wants to go on Safari - not sure if we're ready for that yet!

Anyway, here's the card:



It's another digi-stamp, this time from Grab-a-doodle-do. I'm afraid I cheated a bit and used the ready coloured image as none of my markers/paints etc were quite right. So, the background is Sandylion 'At The Zoo' and it is matted on dark brown Core'dinations cs. The strip is Sandylion 'Stripe' paper, again matted on cs. I printed the image and matted it before popping it up on foam pads, and added the ribbon from American Crafts. The sentiment is typed up in MS Word, as is the number 5 which I printed the outline only onto HOTP Wild Things Giraffe print paper. This I cut out and layered on a couple of nestie circles. Instead of using brads, I used some peel off stickers (or the negatives left behind on the sheet) as I could colour them to match with peel off markers.

This card will also be entered into the Charisma Cardz Challenge and Secret Crafter Challenge for this week.

Thanks for looking, let me know what you think :)

Digi-stamped card

This card was digi-stamped using 'Vicky' from Sketching Stamper, then the dress was paper pieced using K&Co Sparkly Sweet paper (close-up below)



I layered her up on Core'dinations CS and matted it on black. The background is the same paper again matted on black and to break it up I added the black Dovecraft ribbon. The image panel is popped up on foam pads and I added 3mm Artwork crystals to finish it off.

As it turns out, paper piecing is my favourite technique (this week anyway), so it fits in with the challenge over at Charisma Cardz: "My Favourite Things". Looks like I'll be entering my 2nd challenge in as many days!

Thanks for popping by!

Papertake Weekly Challenge Entry

Well, I've been saying for ages that I'm going to enter one of the many challenges I've come across, and here it is: my first ever challenge entry!



It's an A6 card for the Papertake Weekly Challenge, and it was to include 1 circle, 2 ribbons and 3 stamps. The circle is the nestabilities, the two ribbons are small but definitely there, and it gave me the opportunity to use my MFT Punny Farm stamp set which I love, but find hard to use (in a creative sense, not literally!). I paper pieced the hat and wellies using K&Co Sparkly Sweet DP, and used another sheet from the same block for the background layer. I coloured the rest of the image using Whispers markers.


Thanks for looking as always

Finally made something!

These are the first things I have made since before Christmas (!) and hopefully they'll be the first of many. Apologies for the terrible photos, the lighting was awful when they were taken and no amount of editing would make them look better!






The blocks were made for my nephew Ollie who was born in February. I used DCWV papers and some misc papers from my stash. The blue on the front is Core'dinations cs with some die cut letters I bought years ago off of eBay, coloured to match, and finally added the little blue hand and feet.








Next up is my Mum's Mother's Day card. I got the idea from the far superior card on Karen's blog, although I don't actually have the butterfly die/folder so I had to use one I was sent in a swap, hence the white! I also didn't have any bling that was small enough so I used stickles which didn't do a very good job of drying in the dots it was put on in. I made the card to match the present which follows.....













This is a recipe folder that I CASEd from Lauren Meader... in fact I downloaded her template from Papertrey Ink and using that as a guide, I just altered the number of pockets etc. I made the recipe cards myself using MS Word - 9cm x 19cm to fit in a 10cm envelope. There are 4 pockets, three on the inside and one on the outside of the fold IYSWIM, as well as a notes page (which is just another recipe card with the top cut off) and a jumbo paperclip for clippings. If you click on the pictures you'll hopefully be able to see more clearly than I can explain. I wish the photos did it more justice, as the papers (Laura Ashley) are really stunning in real life.

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I've been tagged - TWICE!

Wow, so I've been tagged twice..... does that mean I have to twice as interesting???

Thanks to Jane and Toni for thinking I might have something useful to say... I'm going to add my facts now and have a think over the next few days who to tag, as it's Jack's 2nd birthday tomorrow and I need to get things ready!

I have to share 7 random or weird facts about myself, and nominate 7 other blogs to tag. So:

1. I home educate my boys (with the help of their dad, and various family members) and would eventually like to train to be a forest school practitioner.

2. I have my ears, nose and eyebrow pierced and have done for about 10 years.

3. I don't have a TV (but I still watch Alias and Scrubs on DVD a lot!)

4. I can't swim

5. I hate the water, probably the cause of number 4!!

6. I spend way too much time blurfing, and end up not actually making anything

7. I hate, hate, HATE clowns and spiders

Now you know something about me!