I'm getting excited.....

....'Cos I only have another 4 sleeps until summer holidays start!! YIIPPPEEEEEE!!!!!
6 whole weeks of joy...ie: not going to work! Can't wait!!!!

Anyway, I have been doing a little craftin' in these last few weeks... first up, I made a wedding acceptance card for an evening do... Dovecraft papers, really simple and classy - I think.




This watering can is an image I have had for a while and never used... and I popped on a craftworks card butterfly, with the sentiment "thanks very much". I matted and layered on a few colours, and drew on some faux stitching.




I made this recently for my friends birthday. I gave it to her while we were sat on the grass in the back gaden, while eating pancakes, in the sunshine on sunday morning. She loved it :) I used Pink Petticoat paper and added a little stickles, to give a little bit of sparkle here and there (hard to see in the photo though.)




I made this for Dads birthday... he has an old Austin and he used to work in a garage in his younger days, tinkering. It's from the "Remember When" series and was on offer on the imag-e-nation site while England were in the world cup...hence the offer wasn't on too long!




And finally....another image I have had for a while and never used. I think it looks like an american style image, and I love that look. I used the hearts paper behind, but haven't added a sentiment yet. (still pondering on that one) Thanks for looking...and any comments you wish to leave. xx

Allsorts!

A friend at work had her birthday coming up.... I know she likes hedgehogs and poppies. I made her a hedgehog card lat yr so thought I would work on the poppy theme this time... Hey presto!... this is what I came up with...





I really liked this card too.... so I made another! (see below) This time, I used a scallop edged card, and I doodled on the scallops. I used a download for the poppies and the papers...very lovely! I also made an extra feature of the poppies by using glossy accents on each and every one.. took a bit of time, but worth it when it all dried! Craftwork cards sentiment added.





Today is mym Mums birthday - and I made her this easel card. It's quite hard to photograph an easel card, cos of the angle it stands! My mum loves to bake, esp with my neice (her granddaughter) and she loed this card. Yet again, I used downloaded papers and elements, and good ol' glossy accents! (on the gingerbread men and the heart cookies) Mum loved it.





I was a little stuck on a card for fathers day - and then I remembered I got the La pashe man on the loo last yr. I hadn't used this yet, so had a play with it. I made one for Hubbys Dad too. They both had a good laugh at it... tho my Dad swore he bever wears his flat cap while on the loo!





Finally, another friend from work recently celebrated her 40th birthday. She loves trendy stuff so I thought I would make her one of my funky handbag cards. I think she liked it :)

Cards for men!

My friend has a birthday coming up...he is actually a few months younger than me, but I joke that he looks a lot older than me, so I thought I would use this sentiment I came across... I tweeked and twiddled with it on the Pc to get the right size for my card. I used dovecraft papers and the vines are a cuttlebug diecut that I cut using my aunties dies a while ago. It made him smile anyway. (yes...he opened it early!)





My friend also has a foster child, well - he isn't a child anymore, I guess...cos he is just about to turn 16. I really find it hard to do male cards, but teenage boys are by far the worst. Hubby got me some papers and elements and i used lots of them to make this card. I have decoupaged the button and the 16 and have used glossy accents on them too, to make them really stand out. xx

It's coming up to wedding season....

Yes... it's coming up for that time of year again... wedding season!

The first card is for my Aunt and Uncle... they are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in June. My twin sis and I were their bridesmaids...in pink satin dresses, with a big hoop underneath, and our hair was curled into ringlets. Oooh, those were the eighties!

Anyway, I generated the sentiment on the pc, and used a pink petticoat image, then matted everything on silver. I used glossy accents on the glasses, so they shine.





This card below, I made for a teacher at school.... she is now in Turkey, and is getting married on Wednesday. I used Pink Petticoat paper... called pretty doddles, matted on shiny black, and a ribbon tied around. Sentiment printed directly onto the card.





This is the other wedding card I made today... well, not strictly wedding, but a "renewing vows" card. Another Aunt asked me to make this for her to give. I hope she likes it!!




As you can see, this is not a wedding card... it's a card I made today for a special little girl who needs a bit of cheering up. The image is a gorjuss girl image...I love this one, with a cat. I have added some glossy accents to her red shoes, so they are shiny. I love little girls red, shiny shoes! I hope this cheers her up a bit. xx

Debs birthday and mural-type-thing!

Well, I have been wanting to put on these pics of our mural , since I painted it, but couldn't seem to get a good pic of it. (I's along a long wall in the hall, which is only a very long and thin hall so very awkward to get a good angle.) This will have to do - cos I have given up trying now! WE bought a huge "sticker " off the internet as we loved this sentiment. (we decorated our hall and living room in the easter hols) Anyway, as we were carefully trying to get it stuck into place, it all rolled up and stuck back on itself....it was like the worst (EVER!!) stciky-back-plastic. Nightmare!

So, Scott said we should have a go at doing our own! He made the banner on the pc and i chopped it up and stuck it all today, then we used it as a template for these words. I panted them by hand over a couple of evenings and hey presto! We are really pleased with it....and it's the first thing you see when you come in the front door. ....





Can you see that I have stuck some little gems to the wings of the butterflies and dragonflies? (and even a couple of o few of the letters pof the sentiment)





Then last week, I realised a friends birthday was fast approaching. She is an amazing crafter herself, and they are always the awkward ones, aren't they? heeehehe... She loves France, and sadly, I think she wants to move there, and when I saw this paper and image, I thought of her! Luckily, she loved the card...well, thats what she told me anyway :) heheheheee...xxx

Boot sale bargain again!!

We were up bright an early this morning (as usual for a weekend!!) and we went to three car boot sales. One one stall at one of the boot sales, look at what I bought... and all for the measley price of just £7.00!!!!!!





The bottom two punches are HUGE!!! I didn't really NEED any of them, but for the price I got it all for, I couldn't resist.




Here's the stamps in better detail... both lovely, I think.
The snowman stamp is unused, made by Anitas, and the other is alos unused, and made by Inkadinkadoo.





This stamp even came on an acrylic block! Again, it's unused ans made by Inkadinkadoo. The bauble stamp reminds me of a stamp I bought at christmas when we were on holiday in New York. This one I got today is made my Funstamps and hasn't been used.




.....and I just couldn't resist this paper pack. It ios complete and was part of my £7.00 deal. I used to love "forever friends" when I was younger, and have always liked the look of these packs...but not the prices. The price is still on this one!




I could have bought sooooo much more...she had loooads of punches, ink pads, colourbox cats eyes, christmas stamps, embossing powders and heat guns, card blanks, papers, rub ons, decoupage papers, brads, fiskars shapeboss, embossing stencils, marvy le plume pens....soooo much I can't remember it all ! As you can imagine, her stall was very busy - and I think I was one of the first to find all this lovely stuff, so I got the pick of the bunch. xx

And there's more....

It's my cousins birthday in a few days...and she's mad into owls. I try to make her a differnt owl card every year... and this is this years card. This is my first ever gorjuss girls card. Soooo cute, this image!! The papers are some I have on the pc...downlaoded them a while ago, I think! The sentiment you will recognise...from craftwork cards. (I love their stuff)





Then I had a play with another gojuss girls image...I love this cos of the cat! Think this card would do for a number of different occassions, so I didn't put a sentiment on it.





I bought this images ages ago, from pccrafter, and finally got round to putting it on a card...again, no sentiment as I can use it for differnt occassions. Papers downloaded.




This image is made from 7 different png images, which I sized and put together to make this picture. Thought it would be cute for a new home card.