Sunday 19 June 2011

Birthday Card and Candle

 This card was made using my house mouse stamp
Coloured with my promarkers
I then cut it out using my Marianne Dies
Which gives a nice lace effect
The sentiment is stamped and is from a See D set
Buttons from stash
Ribbons was some blog candy I was sent and I ruffed it for effect
Papers came for a Docraft Goodie bag
 This box I made the old fashioned way with my craft knife and ruler
Finished it with a ribbon and some flowers

Inside the box is this candle I decorated
using the same House Mouse Stamp and the See D's sentiment
stamped onto white tissue paper
I coloured the image with my promarkers
Then used my heat gun to melt it in to the candle
using greaseproof paper to protect candle
as recommend by fellow bloggers

Thanks to all for the tip

This is for the following challenges


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x Nicky x




Fathers Day


This card uses a stamp for Papermania
I stamped on to piece of the backing paper and paper pieced the chair
The rest of the image was coloured using promarkers
The paper came for the 'Its a Man World' also by Papermania
Buttons from Stash

This card is for the following challenge

Inspirational Card Sketches - Sketch I have followed

Thanks for looking

x Nicky x

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Whats on Your Workdesk Wednesday - 105

 Its Wednesday so its time to nosey around the desks of the world again
If somehow you have missed out on this weekly fun
Pop over to the Queen of the Desk Julia's Stamping Ground
On my desk this week is my wonderful PIF from Bleubeard and Elizabeth
That winged its way all the way from America and arrived here Monday
It was so exciting to have package from abroad
and to joining in the PIF
its the first one I have done and it has been such fun
Thank you again Elizabeth its lovely
On top of my desk you can see two old books they are the manuals for my
1913 Rudge Multi Motorbike
unfortunately when we took it out at the weekend a bit fell off
So I need to get it repaired - oh how I wish I still had access to metal lathe
There are also some Christmas digi images from Pollycraft
that I brought as they are on offer at the moment
I have coloured these ready to make five cards for the
 Christmas Cards All Year Round Blog
Well as you can tell this has been schedule as I am back at work
Hope You All Have A Great Wednesday
I managed to visit everyone last week when off
but could not always leave a comment
I will try and visit as many as possible 

x Nicky x


Monday 6 June 2011

Wedding Celebrations


This card uses a digi image from Pollycraft
They are coloured using my promarkers
The papers I have used I won on the Pollycraft Challenge site
Like lots of new paper its take me a time to use them
I have to look at them first and admire lol
The sentiment came out of Docrafts goodies bag
The little wooden heart came from my local craft shop

This card is for the following challenges


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x Nicky x


ABC Christmas - K

 This card used a new digi image from Pollycraft
I brought this today as lots of there Christmas images are on special offer
He is coloured using my pro markers and then a little glitter glue added
The snowman paper I have had in my stash for ages
sorry cannot remember where it came from
The kraft paper came from a do crafts goodie bag I brought the other week

This card is for the following challenges


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x Nicky x

Wednesday 1 June 2011

Whats on Your Workdesk Wednesday Anniversary Week

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Whats on Your Work desk Wednesday
The brilliant nose around the world
If you do not know what I am on about visit Julia's Blog

 This week I am playing in the early hours of the Wednesday morning.
I am off this week so thought I would post this before going to bed
(still have to get up early to take DD to work)
and as it is now nearly 1.30am I really should tear myself away from my crafts
and catch to zzzzzzz's
A couple of people asked on my previous post how I did the candles
 The idea came from create and craft tv
Using tissue paper stamp onto it and then heat it onto the candle with a heatgun
the thiner the tissue paper the better
I have used it with white and pink and it dissappears into the candle nicely
I stamped Little Suzy stamp and coloured it using my peel off markers
Then just held it on a candle and heated it simple
Has to be as I managed it!
 I found the small candles like this one heat really quickly
but still work out ok
I think maybe if my heat gun had more than one setting
it would be a bit better
This is my Pif all wrapped and ready to go
Its the first time I have done one of these and
while trying to come up with ideas nearly gave up!

Hope you all have a great WOYWW

Thank you Julia for hosting it
I  enjoy my weekly nose through the blogs
Picking up ideas, items for my wish list
and friends along the way

x Nicky x