Sunglasses at the ready!

I know, I know, this is soooo out of my comfort zone, these colours are just not me, I am a pink girly girl!! But, I had to make a card for my granddaughter Laura who is NOT a girly girl and cannot abide PINK! I think she will approve of this one, if not its just tough!!

It is of course another tent card, can you tell I am really into these at the mo? The base card is Bazill, the backing paper is Papermania Capsule Sunshine collection, Tilda is coloured with Promarkers. I have edged the aperture and edges with Distress ink Walnut Stain then added Star Dust Stickles.

Thanks for looking!

Guest DT for Cute Card Thursday Week 2

Well the challenge this week at Cute Card Thursday is Mono Mania and as I have been invited to be Guest DT for the month of April, this is my creation for week 2. I have chosen the colour pink as it's my most fave colour and I have made a tent card which seem to be very popular at the moment. It was very simple to make following a fab tutorial here, I love these cards, I think I shall be making more of these!

The base card is Bazill, the backing paper is Papermania Rose Garden and the stamps are of course Magnolia. The images are coloured using Promarkers, the edges of the card and the aperture are distressed with Walnut Stain distress ink and Star Dust stickles glue.

Hope you are all enjoying the lovely Spring sunshine, its so nice to see the sun after such a long, cold and dreary winter.

Thanks for looking!!

Little Footballer!

This little card I made for my grandson Sam who will be 7 this month. He is an avid MU fan so the colours had to be just right! This stamp is a Lili of the Valley, coloured with Promarkers and the sentiment I did on the PC using a free font download called 'Bend it'. The little footballs were a download from Cuddly Buddly, I re-sized the ball as small as I could, printed them off then punched them out, perfect!!

Crafty Milk Cartons!

I made these little Easter cartons for my daughters, even though they are all grown up and married I still give them Easter eggs, after all, your'e never too old for chocolate!

The carton template I jiggled around a bit to make the top bit a bit longer so I could add the sweet Magnolia sentiment. The double sided paper I have had in my stash for ages, I wanted to use it up and this project was ideal. The Tildas are coloured with Promarkers and a matching bow added to the mini clip at the top. Really simple and fun to make, hope the girls like them!

An Award!!

I received this lovely award from Kelly from Little K Smiths Crafty Corner, thank you Kelly. I now have to pass this award to 12 people including the person who sent it to me, so here goes!

Eileen

Chrissie

Heather

Kim

Tab

Debbie

Paula

Sue

Andrea

Fiona

Jilli

Kelly

Please take a look at their blogs, they are awesome! Hope you are all enjoying the Easter weekend, the weather is foul, good excuse to stay in and craft!

Cute Card Thursday Guest DT

I am really thrilled to be invited to be guest DT for Cute Card Thursday for April and this is my card for week one. As its Easter the theme this week is 'How Egg-citing!'

The sponsor this week is Tracy at Creative Treasures and the lucky winner will recieve a fabulous collection of this months blooms.

'Hop' on over and have a peek at the fabulous creations by the DT and get 'cracking' on your Easter creations!

Get Well Soon Card

This card is for a very dear friend of mine who is rather poorly at the moment after suffering a severe stroke. She lives in Cornwall so I can't even visit her so I made this little card to let her know she is in my thoughts and prayers.

The cute bear is of course a Penny Black, I have coloured him using Promarkers with a bit of Stickles glitter added to the flowers. I have no idea where the background paper is from, I have had it for ages, wish I did know, its really quite sweet and its double sided.

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend, hope the sun shines wherever you are and don't forget to put your clocks forward tomorrow night!

Easter Packages

I made these little packages for my grandchildren this Easter, I wanted to give them something different this year so when I received this lovely Lili of the Valley bunny and daffs stamp I knew what I was going to do with it. The clear cello bags contain a chocolate Easter bunny and a mixture of chocolate chicks, eggs, ladybirds, all from Aldi, their chocolate is delicious!

I have coloured the bunny and daffs with Promarkers and added a punched flower in the top corner to hide the staple! Hope they like them!

PINK BUG!!

Hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day and were totally spoiled like all mums deserve to be. I had a lovely surprise, a new PINK Cuttlebug!! As regular followers of my blog will probably know, I broke my lil bug a few weeks ago and decided I would like a new pink bug when I could eventually afford to replace it. My girls knew how much I wanted one and they clubbed together for my pressy for today, isnt that fab?? Totally unexpected, I am happy with choccys and flowers (which I also had in abundance) on Mother's Day so to receive that big box and wrapped so beautifully was amazing. Thank you to my wonderful family for all the cards, flowers. choccy's, smellies and best of all, my PINK bug!

LOTV Bear with Balloons (Hearts)

This lovely image from Lili of the Valley is holding balloons that say 'MUM' but I have masked the balloons and added punched hearts in their place.

I have coloured the image with Promarkers, the BP is Forever Friends Pink Parfait

and the punch is of course a Martha Stewart.

Lilli of the Valley Girl with Bouquet

Lilli of the Valley Girl with Bouquet

This card I made for a friend's birthday next week. I have coloured her with Promarkers and added lots of bling with Stickles Star Dust.

The lovely border is my new Martha Stewart punch which is a monster size!

Pink Bazill Bling cardstock, pearls and ribbon from stash.

Fairy Lee Birthday

This card I made for a friend for her mum's birthday.

I have used the lovely Fairy Lee digital image from the very talented Mo's Digital Pencil.

The image is coloured with Promarkers with Stickles glitter glue on wings and icing on cake.

I have coloured the pink flower with Promarkers and sparyed with gold glimmer mist.

The image and sentiment I have edged using Walnut Stain distress ink and Stickles glitter.

Lily of the Valley Bear with Bouquet

I just love Lily of the Valley stamps, they are so cute and easy to colour.

This one I coloured using Promarkers, I think I'm getting better with practice.

I wasnt very keen when I first started using Promarkers, I found it quite difficult to get the shading right. I watched a few really good tutorials on Youtube and I am pleased I did as I was ready to give up on them! Just one problem, there are so many

yummy colours and I want them all!

Penny Black Teddy Collection

This is the card that caused the demise of my poor lil cuttlebug!

The image is Penny Black Teddy Collection, coloured with Distress Inks.

The embossing folder is Crafts-Too, Butterflies.

This is going to a friend recovering from surgery, hope she likes it!

Boo-Hoo!!

Can't believe I have done it, but I have broken my Cuttlebug!! I am really cross with myself, I should have known I was pushing it a bit too far, I could feel it resisting but thought it would be okay, its always been such a sturdy little machine, I thought it was invincible!!

I think the problem was I was using a Crafts Too folder for embossing which I figure are slightly thicker than the CB folders, so if you use these folders in your bug, just be careful and use less shim. I forgot to remove some of the shim that I normally use with CB folders.

Well, the side of the bug flew off and it made a horrible grinding noise and bang, the whole thing fell to pieces! I am saddened too because it was a leaving gift from my colleagues at work when I retired 2 years ago. I shall have to save my pennies now for another one, luckily I have a Wizard so I can use that until I can replace my trusty old friend.

Had a little browse this evening and guess what I found, there is actually a PINK bug, now that I HAVE to have!!

RIP my lil friend !!

New Baby Girl Card

This card I made for my daughter Katie and son-in-law Gareth to congratulate them on the birth of their beautiful baby daughter Evie Lily Mae.

The background paper is pebblesinc, I think its called 'My Baby Girl' and of course the circle shapes are cut using Nesties. I took about 100 photos before I found the perfect one!

Circular sentiment is printed on PC using Wordart.

Nappy Cake

This is my first attempt at making a nappy cake. I followed a tutorial on Youtube and had great fun collecting the bits and putting it together. Its quite heavy as there are quite a few goodies in there, 2 packs of nappies, 2 blankets, 1 baby towel, 3 facecloths, 2 dummies, 2 comforters, 1 baby powder, 1 lotion, 1 teething gel, 1 gel teether, brush and comb, 8 pairs of socks (rolled into roses), 3 bibs, 1 sponge and 1 baby bottle!

This is our gift to our new granddaughter Evie, its a shame to take it apart but it has to be used!

Our New Baby Girl!!

Our gorgeous baby granddaughter arrived yesterday weighing 7lb 13oz! Her name is Evie Lily Mae and her big brother Samuel is really thrilled that she is here at last. Both mum and baby are both fine, Katie had a planned section which was just as well as Evie was breech which Katie was totally unaware of. So when the midwife examined her last week and said her head was down it was in fact her butt she could feel!

Evie is our 11th grandchild, 9 girls and 2 boys! We have very strong female genes in our family!! She will be spoilt, no doubt about that.

Blog Candy Give-Away!!

ABC Toys and crafts is having a sale on all Martha Stewart items in the store including punches, thats right you will receive 15% off all the punches you order. So go check out the over 100 punches to choose from. This is only a limited offer and the sale ends on 22nd January 2010.

There are 3 of these fab punches up for grabs and all you have to do is:

• Become a follower of ABC crafts
• You must put 1 of these sets that are being given away on your blog with a link back to ABC blog. (post the one you want the most to your blog).
• Leave a comment.
• Use Mr Linky to link.

Draw will take place on 25th January, good luck!!

You gotta be in it to win it, worth a go!!

Cupcakes, Fairy's and Pink!

This card I made for my daughter Donna's birthday, she loves cupcakes, fairies and pink so the card was tailor made for her and pleased to say she was delighted with it!

The image is a download called 'Sugar' from the very talented Mo's Digital Pencil. I was always a bit reluctant to try digital images because I have always found that the printer ink smudges and bleeds and as I use Prismas and Sansador for colouring it was a problem. However, I invested in ink fixative and hey presto! it works! There are some really gorgeous images to choose from, I have quite a few of them on my wishlist! You can click on the link above or on my sidebar, if you haven't seen Mo's work before, go take a peek, you won't be disappointed.

Hope you are all cosy and warm in this freezin cold weather, we have had snow all day today, not heavy, just small light flakes, nothing like it was last Tuesday! Hopefully by weekend it will start melting away and we might even manage to creep beyond nil celcius! Roll on Spring!!