A House Mouse Christmas

After being sent a Joanna Sheen House Mouse Christmas CD and seeing my crafty friends produce some lovely house mouse cards I decided to take a look myself and after days of choosing which toppers and papers to print and then a few more days of designing and finishing touches these are my results.

    

Although I prefer to make 8x8 cards due to postage prices and the amount of cards to send I made most of the cards A5 saving the 8x8's for close friends and family but I think the A5's are just
as lovely as the 8x8's.

 

A Visit To See My Crafty Friend Angela O'Donoghue

I Travelled Miles to go spend a week with my crafty best friend Angela, she is a great card maker and we had lots of fun crafty shopping, sharing die cuts, swapping dies and eventually making a card together! Angela is a great stamper and I am a ok stamper so we did a Torad Stamped Card so Angela could show me all the tricks of Stamping!

The Stamped \Torad Image was coloured using Spectrum Noir Pens just using colours from the 60 Basics set. We also stamped the pink back ground using a floral stamp from Kanban. I think we did a great job on this one! 

Busy Bee

It's been a busy morning for me already with my 3rd Valentines card of the day done and dusted! The Gilded Love Card is my fav today! I just love how the Gilding Flakes have taken to the Chip Board letters and I made so much mess (so much more fun) making my own bespoke coloured glitter mixing gold with a bright red to get this kind of rose gold / coppery colour :) Both of the cards below were made using Darice Embossing Folders and Bazil Basics Bling Card Stock. I have had a few questions about the card below so I thought I would add a guide so you too can make these too wonderful Love Cards :)

This is a 8" sq White Card Blank matted with Dark Gold Shimmer Paper at 15cm sq, I then cut down a sheet of the White Bazil Basic's Bling card stock to 14.5cm sq and put it in my Darice Regal Corner Embossing Folder and embossed one corner then turned is 180dg and embossed the opposite corner. Once embossed I wiped over with my anti Static bag and using my Quickie Glue Pen and went over the embossed design ready to add my bespoke colour glitter (red and gold mixed together). While my glitter was drying I got out my Chip Board Letters and Gilded them with Autum Rose Gilding Flakes and edge the letters with more of the glitter I had mixed. All that was left to do now was to put the card together using Collall Glue Gel for the Letters and adding a organza bow with a gold framed pearl brad in the centre. A card that looks amazing and complicated but yet so simple to achieve :)

This card was mading using a Scalloped 5 X 7" White Card Blank and matting it with Silver Mirri Board and Red Bazil Basic's Bling card stock, I then took a slightly smaller mat in the White Bazil Bling and embossed it using the Darice Ornate Heart Embossing Folder. I then matted the Embossed card on to more silver mirri board and using finger lift tape secured it to the card. I then drew round some chip board letters and cut them out of the same red card stock I had used for the mat and embossed them with ultra thick embossing enamel. I attached the Love to the card using Collall Gel Glue, added some red Gems, a red satin edge organza ribbon with a silver framed red brad in the centre and that was the end :)

With Valentines round the Crafty Corner I have started getting all my girly, romantic stash out and found all my lovely flourishes and hearts stamps.

I found myself using two of the mini flower stamps over and over again with different results. That is the beauty of stamping,you can use one stamp and produce many different looks.
So it has got me thinking that it is a good theme for a competition. So come on,why don't you all put you're creative heads on, choose a stamp from you're collection and see how many ways you can use it to produce a different look,lets say five or more times.Then post me a picture to show how you used it and the winner will be the person who has managed to use it in the most different ways.The prize will be a Popcorn Pals birthday hugs stamp set,so go and get started and show me what you can do,I look forward to seeing you're work. Winner to be announced on the 14th Jan

New Year and New Starts

Well its been awhile since I last posted and there have been some ups & downs but family, friends and crafting have kept me going :) I am back to good health and have been surfing the crafty sales and boy have I found some bargains  Like the Paddington Bear Card Crafting Kit for £1.97 from Create and Craft.

I made 12 Cards in total 2 TV, 2 Brief Cases, 2 Dimensional and 6 more cards using the leftovers from topper and decoupage sheets and the 2 backing papers it came with. All in all a great kit from great money!

Not only does Create and Craft have some amazing offers this Christmas/New Year week but so does Joanna Sheene with this beautiful embossing folder

Couture Creations Embossing Folders - Butterfly Hugs CO723150  -  £4.99 £3.99
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a even better New Year xxx

and my most fav purchase from this sale are these cute
Cup Kitties Decoupage Sheets  -  £9.99 £3.99 yes you do have to cut them out yourself but they are so cute and cuddly and warm and I have no problem spending a evening in front of the tv cutting out decoupage and am so pleased with the results :) I will make time in my busy crafty schedule to take and post photos of the finished cards!                                         .....and with Valentines just round the corner it is a busy schedule ;) I just LOVE Valentines (im sat here with a big smile on my face just thinking about all the cute girly pink hearts yay) 

Box Crazy!

Box Crazy!

Well this week I have gone box crazy trying out all different designs & types like a Note Box, Chocolate Box, Pillow Box, Exploding Box but there are so many more box's to be made and even more designs out there.

I use my Ultimate Pro from Crafters Companion with the Box Board and Evelopbox Board and the brand new Handbags & Box's Boards to create my box's trying out new idea's like giving the lid a fancy edge or making a box out of 2 sheets of A5 card in white and take one of the sheets and one of your favourite stamps and create your own patterned card & a very UNIQUE Box!

I will post some pictures later on in the week of some of my creations (when I find the charger to my camera lol) but what would be even better is if you showed me some of your pictures :) Show me your Box's & Creations! There is nothing better then sharing your wonderful work with other crafty people. 

Crafting Goodies!

Yes they have arrived! Look at what I treated myself to this week. Where to start....

Nope your not seeing things these are the 72 Core Set of Spectrum Noir Pens Set. I am just LOVING these Pens. There are no lines or patches when dry and blend just right even if you are not very good at colouring you will still achieve a professional result with these pens! Also they work perfectly in conjunction with my other new Crafty Goodies.......

Tina Wenke Stamps... They are so beautiful and leave a crisp clear image they stamps are nice and clingy and are quite thick with deep impressions and with lots of large spaces there perfect for colouring with my NEW SPECTRUM NOIRS! 

Here is a Picture of a Side Step Card with the Parasol Bear Stamped and Coloured.

So get ready to see more cards with these lovely stamps :)