YOU’RE 4 TODAY – Happy Birthday Stephen
Today is Stephens birthday, and unbelievably he is 4 – where have those years gone. Stephen has grown up and changed a lot over the last 6 months, and we are entering a new phase in his young life and…
Ahoy there !!
This is just a quick post with a birthday card I made quickly for a 10 year old birthday party. It was the perfect opportunity to use the Imagine cartridge, Buccaneer. The images print beautifully, but they really come to…
Happy birthday Mum
For all the fancy folds and techniques and papers we have- sometimes the best creations are those simple ones. I love this card that Stephen made for the him and Tom to give to nanny for her birthday. Stephen chose…
Extended Folded Frame Card
As a follow on to the last post, explaining how to make the folded frame – here is the original card, that prompted me to detail the instructions. As a theme, I have tried to picture the seasons, using Tim…
Folded Frame Card
I have been busy trying something different, and working on some special projects for special people, and will share in time, so as not to spoil any surprises. I used stamps in this project that I have had for years and…
Pink Ribbon – Hope
As it is Breast Cancer awareness month, I wanted to share a couple of cards that I have made. It is such a worthy cause, and when you speak to people you realise how many people are touched by this.…
Silver Birch and sentiment
Just a quick card with a new set of Clarity stamps that arrived this week. I have been practising alot with the brayering technique that Barbara Gray teaches and demonstrates. I follow the online lessons that she gives and thoroughly…
Lori’s Garden & Elegant Edges Combined
I rarely make duplicate cards, but having made a set of 9 handmade cards to give as a gift to a neighbour I included childrens cards that I was so pleased with, I felt I should remake them. They were all…
Mums Cards
When I started this blog, I said it was to be all about sharing our crafty work with each other. So here is a sample of some of Mums cards. I think this first card is one of my all time…
Robot birthday Greetings
This card (well the Robots at least) were made in duplicate, you can see Mum crew here too. Isn’t fascinating to see how the 2 sets have different characters, even though the same colours were used. Mum things her Robots…
Brayered Birthday Card
Hi, although I have not posted in a fair while, I have still been making. Now that I am getting the school routine running well, I am planning to post again on a much more regular basis – and I…
Happy Birthday Tom
Hi again, the summer holiday has meant that I have neglected my blog for a bit. Tom has 10 weeks off school, and at the beginning it loomed ahead of us – can you believe now that he only has…
Memory Book
Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Elise & Country Carnival Chipboard book from stash Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Crackle Paint – Milled Lavender Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Milled lavender Embellishments from stash This project was originally goingto be a monogram birthday card for my…
Blue Cameo Card
Cricut Imagine Pattern Cartridge – Elise Cricut Cartridge – Heritage This card originally came about because I designed the flourish frame on the Cricut Gypsy. I then continued with the Gypsy to ensure that all layers of central piece…
Quickest Card Ever!
Kaisercraft paper for card base Robotz Cricut Cartridge JT Imagine Cricut Cartridge This card is probably is the quickest card I have ever made – but I like it, and Tom was pleased with it on first impression and happy…
From my Niece – Elena
This is a card that my 6 year old niece Elena, made for her Dad on Fathers Day. It is all her own work, with a tiny bit of help from Mum to tie the yellow ribbon. Its a beautiful…
Finally # 3 – From Me
I really enjoyed making this for Dad, I was able play around with my stamps and inks, the creating that I really enjoy. Apart from the tiny background newspaper print (printed from the Imagine country carnival cartridge), and the text…
With Toms help…
For some reason this card didn’t photograph particularly well, and looks much better in real life. I didn’t stamp the bottom images very well, i applied too much pressure so they aren’t as crisp as they should be. But I…
Second of 3 – Father’s Day, Tom’s Creation
Cricut Imagine Cartridge, JT & Country Carnival Ranger Alcohol Inks – Slate, Salmon, Latte & Silver blender This card is entirely Tom’s creation, and once he had been shown how to apply the inks he was well away. He even…
First of 3…From Stephen
Bazzill basic card stock – blue, yellow green Orange paper from stash White Shrink plastic Zooballoo Cricut Cartridge Wild Card Cricut Cartridge This is Stephen fathers day card, that I designed for him on the Cricut gypsy (my first project). I…
ABC,,, Layout
I have been wanting to get back to scrapbooking, and Stephen created the perfect opportunity for me the other day. We were drawing and making in my craft room, and Stephen was asking about letters and numbers, so I thought…
Visitors for the Day
This is not a crafty blog at all, but I just had to share our day with you. From about 8am this morning we saw a couple of stray donkeys wandering up and down our road. Around about 1pm they…
Commissioned wedding card
Haha, I have found a way to post on my phone. Forgive me if there are any mistakes, when the Internet decides it is going to work properly for me I will come back and make the corrections and alter…
Basic grey flower card
The challenge on crafty creations challenge blog this week is to create something with flowers, patterned paper and a ribbon. I have lots of flower stamps but wanted to try using the stamp in a slightly different way. Also…
Sheena Douglass – Stream of Life
I combined a few techniques with this card, and stamped the detailed stamp over a background created with muted alcohol inks. Because I still wanted to colour the stamp with promarkers I used the momento black ink. I tried to…
Lisselan Gardens
I have just started looking at blog challenge sites, and the theme this week on the 2 sisters challenge blog was anything garden themed. It just reminded me of the page I had created when we went for a walk at…
Easter memories
What a week it has been for bad internet connection, blogging services down for maintenance, this is the second attempt at this post, I had written it yesterday, and thought it was saved to draft, but when blogger went down…
Dude birthday card
As a follow up to the last post, I had kind ‘thanks but no thanks’ reply from Kaisercraft – perhaps i will try again next year. It will be interesting to watch this years designers, and perhaps learn from them.…
Kaisercraft Entries
I have been busy preparing my entries to apply for the Kaisercraft designer team. What with Easter and the boys being on school holidays, it has been a while since my last post. Not that I havn’t been crafting however,…
Mothers Day Card
I am particularly proud of this card, as it is one of those that actually turned out the way I imagined it. How many times do we all sit down with an idea in our head, and find that what we…
