Friday 8 November 2019

Card for my Brother in law


This cards uses an image from Mo's Digital Pencil
I have coloured him with my Trimarkers and Chameleon pens 
I then used my spellbinder dies to cut the image and sentiment 
I coloured the edges with my Tim Holtz inks and blenders.
Finally I used three strips of snippets as the background 

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Tuesday 5 November 2019

Happy Anniversary


This card uses a pre-coloured digi image
I then used my spellbinder square dies to cut the image
I had some left over copper card from an earlier project and as it was still on my desk I used it to cut a mat and three smaller squares 
These were simply mounted on to the card
I finished the card with the sentiment which I printed from word.

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Saturday 26 October 2019

Clean and Simple


I love this card and such a quick make.
The letters are wooden ones I picked up from Hobbycraft
They already have a sticky dot on the back
So all I did was run the card through my printer to add the word birthday and the stick on happy.

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Wednesday 23 October 2019

Holy Cow


This card uses a pre-coloured image from Dr Digi Stamps 
I used my spellbinder oval dies to cut it out
And also to cut the mat.
The paper are all kanban foiled ones in black and white.
I finished it with a sentiment I printed from word.

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Autumn Birthday


This card uses a great image and sentiment from Bugaboo
I have coloured him with my spectrum noir triblend markers
I then used some of my metallic cards as backing papers
Ans some snippets for the strips at the edge
Finally the card was finished with some square gems.

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Friday 11 October 2019

A Friend's Birthday


This cards used  a lovely clear stamp that was part of the set I won from Pixies Snippet Playground Challenge
I have coloured them using my new spectrum trio markers
All the papers are from my snippets box
I used some scalloped ovals dies to cut the shapes and make the image inlay into the mat.
The sentiment is a pre-printed one from Docrafts.

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Wednesday 2 October 2019

Anniversary Card


It was my daughters and son in laws 2nd Wedding Anniversary on Monday as they are expecting their first child in December I thought this image fitted perfectly.
It's a digi image from Redonkadoodles.
I coloured the image with my Chameleon pens 
The oval was cut on my Scan n cut as was the black oval behind.
All the papers are bits from my snippets box.
The sentiment was done in word and printed out then matted onto a small bit of the black card.

They thought it was a great card.

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Saturday 28 September 2019

Happy Birthday CAS


I used a tonic die to cut the shape from the white card.
I then cut the same shape from metallic shine purple card-stock.
Behind the white card stock I placed a piece of pink glitter card.
The I stuck the metallic shiny purple inside the whole so the card is all flat.
This is a really quick and simple card to make but I am quite pleased with the results 
and it uses some snippets up.

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Thursday 26 September 2019

Old Lady Again!


I did warn you I liked this stamp!
It's a digi stamp from Stamp on it I have coloured her with my Chameleon pens and used my scan and cut to cut it out.
She's then mounted onto a piece of snippet card.
The stars and pink cards are also from my snippet box.
The sentiment has been printed black onto yellow.
This is because my friend who this card is for is registered blind,
But she can read text if it bold and has a yellow background.
The sentiment inside was also done on yellow paper.
This is one of the best things about making cards.
Although I do wind her up by showing it to Ike her guide dog and telling him to read it, people do give us funny looks lol
The verse I used was the same as the earlier card which can be seen here

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Wedding Anniversary


This card uses a brilliant digi stamp from Bugaboo
I printed it onto white card and then
coloured them in with my Chameleon pens.
I then used a spellbinder oval die in my Big Shot machine
 to cut the pink swirl card in the corner.
The image was then mounted behind and 
it was all attached to the card front.
The sentiment was done in word and mounted onto a snippet of card, this I trimmed with the same oval die so it fitted perfectly.

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Updated Stamp Storage



I decided whilst I am looking after my friends house that I would sort the storage of my stamps out.
I had them all stored in plastic DVD boxes and the took up four of the above boxes. Some had got squashed and I didn't find it very easy to see what stamps I had, hence the decision to re-order them.
After much looking I saw these storage wallets on Amazon

I decided these would work perfectly and fitted in the plastic storage boxes I currently had the DVD cases stored in.
These boxes also come from Amazon and are available here
I then took some white card and cut it down to 13.5cm x 18.5cm.
I then used my Tim Holtz stamping platform to stamp my stamps onto each bit of card just using a black ink pad.

Once stamped I then laminated the sheet using an A4 laminator pouch. I then trimmed the laminated sheet and cut down the waste to 13.5cm x 18.5 which became my backing sheet.
Finally the stamps were stuck on to the back of the sheet and the backing sheet attached to protect stamps. 


Then this was slipped into the storage wallets and popped into the plastic box.
Now all my stamps fit in just two of the boxes instead of four and they are so easy to flick through to see what I need.
It's taken quite a few evenings but has been quite fun doing.
Now I have spare boxes I can get some more stamps lol

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Wednesday 25 September 2019

Some Advice For Getting Older


I am still looking after my friends house whilst they are away but have been off work for a couple of days as caught a bug.
So thought I would catch up on some blogging. 
This cards used a great digi image from Stamp on It
You are going to see a few cards with this image as I love it lol
She is coloured using my Chameleon pens
The papers are all from my snippets box
The swirls and flower were cut using some dies in my sizzix
Sentiment was done in word and printed.
The verse inside says:

If you get up in the morning and have chest pains
Don't panic just look down to check 
you are not standing on your nipples!

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Wednesday 11 September 2019

Birthday Card


Crafting this month will be a little bit hit and miss as I am away from home looking after
my friends house, so between work and that I do not have much time to craft.
However I have taken all my stamps with me to sort out and organise in a new way.
I have spent an afternoon at home this week so made a couple of cards
This was a quick make using an image from one of the Hunky-Dory Little Books
I cut it down to a smaller size and matted it onto a piece of left over blue card.
I had used the centre of the card to die cut the sentiment so it matched perfectly.
This card was for a male friend of mine and the sentiment had 
flowers swirling from it so I just cut these off.
I then used a piece of left over red glitter card and a snippets of yellow to finish it.

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Tuesday 13 August 2019

New Home


A couple of friends who got married recently have been waiting for their first home to complete and it did today.
I wanted to give them a card so decided on a quick make.
The cutting file was brought from Esty
I then used my scan n cut to cut the shapes from some vinyl. 
I love the scan n cut for this as you just place the bits on the mat and once scanned in move the item to the right position and cut.
Once at l used some transfer paper to put the image Straight onto the card blank.
I am really pleased with how this turned out.

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Saturday 10 August 2019

Taggy Blanky


I had some squares left over from the quilt so thought I would make a taggy blanky for my friends baby as well.
These are basically soft blankets with lots of different textures.
Firstly I made the 12" x 12" patchwork square with the leftovers from the quilt.
I have a box that I keep all my snippets of ribbons in that I snip off from clothes, gifts etc.
This came into its own to attach lots of assorted ribbons to the square.
I backed it all with a piece of minky fabric that is so soft to touch.
Everything was secured into place by running a couple of rows of stitching around the edge.

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First Attempt at Quilting!


To go with the card I made in the previous post I wanted to make a gift for the baby.
I knew that the nursery was having a Dumbo theme.
I found some fat quarter's in Hobbycraft that were Dumbo and in pinks perfect.
I have never made a quilt before but had brought some fabric dies to use in my Big Shot Plus,
I cut out a number of squares from each piece of material and the worked out a pattern I liked. 
Before I did any sewing I found some help from 
Pinterest and You Tube!
I sewed the squares into 12x12 blocks, then joined the blocks into rows and fixed the rows together. Amazing what you can learn online.
I then watched some more tutorials and added the wadding and backing to the panel. Then I stitched each square to give the quilting effect.
Now come the how part finishing the quilt of with some binding.
I cut 2.S" strips of the backing material and joined them together.
I then folded it in half, ironed it and attached it to the quilt.
Again this involved watching some videos of how to do cornes etc
Finally I folded the binding over and attached it on the otherside.
It had taken me an afternoon and an evening but I am really pleased with how it turned out.

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Baby coming soon


This card was made for my friend, as she's just started her maternity leave.
The cutting file was brought from a great site called 
If you have cutting machine do visit as the have some fanstatic files.
The papers were all from my snippets draw.
I used my Scan and cut machine to cut the shapes.
Then mounted then onto a piece of white card.
I kept the card a soft pink as she knows she is having a little girl.


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Friday 2 August 2019

1st Birthday Card


This card uses a great digi image from Mo's Digital Pencil
This image always makes me smile
I have matted it onto some sparkle card
The sentiment was done on my Scan and cut
This was again matted onto the sparkle card
Finally I used some ombre card to put it all on to.

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Birthday Cup of Tea


I made this card for my friend who loves a cuppa.
The image is from Kanban and I have simply matted it
The bits of cards are all snippets
I finished the card with some bling and a sentiment.

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Tuesday 23 July 2019

Disney Castle Wedding Card


This card was cut on my Brother Scan n Cut
I used a SVG file I brought and cut it out of the Silver Sparkle card.
I then matted it with the purple behind which was the accent colour of the wedding.
Its a very simple card but I am please with how it turned out.

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Happy Birthday x 3


This card uses a great little bear which was part of the set that I won on
I coloured him using my chameleon pens then trimmed him down
The Happy Birthday was done using my Scan n Cut 
I then used strips of left over snippets to create the colours behind the word
I liked this style so much I made two more cards with different images and different coloured snippets



















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Fathers Day Card from Twins Boys


For this card my friend gave me the quote and 
asked me to make a card to go with it!
As it was from twin boys I decided to use a digi stamp 
I flipped one image so it was facing the other way.
Coloured them with my Chameleon Pens.
Then matted it onto some dotted card.



Friday 21 June 2019

Dinosaur Birthday


This card is made using a digi kit from Polkadoodles
called Sticks and Bones.
This is a perfect it for when my DS asks for a card for the next day!
It has coloured images as well as black and white ones.
Needless to say on this card I used the pre- coloured ones.
I used some of the frames and word to create the number 5.
As well as to encircle on of the sentiments from the kit.
I tha cat them all out using my Scan and cut.
Printed one of the background papers another put it all together.

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