17th Birthday

This card uses a pre-coloured image from Charmed Crafts

I simply mounted the image onto a piece of the orange card stock

Then used two other pieces as the background

Quick and simple but hopefully effective

This card is for the following challenges

Inspirational Destination Blog - Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge - Lets Celebrate

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Pooh Bear

This card uses a stamp from The Range that I have coloured with my promarkers

Finishing the balloon with a Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen

I cut Pooh out using my Brother Scan N Cut

The blue snippets where left over from some other project and just needed trimming

The sentiment came from the the same shop.

This card is for the following challenges

Pixies Snippets Playground - Use your snippets

Less is more - Use a least one Balloon

Pennys Papercraft Challenge - Anything Goes

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Thank you 

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Birthday Beer

This card uses an image from Pollycraft which I believe you can get from Little Miss Muffets

He is coloured using my promarkers and mounted onto red card

Then finally a couple of strips of yellow card onto the blue 

Finished with a tag and ribbon

This card is for the following challenges

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes
I love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Something Fun
Through the Purple Haze - Something Fun

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Secret Squirrel!

This card uses a really cute squirrel having fun on the leaves.

The image is from Karens Doodles

It always make me think of being children as we had a CB radio

 and my sisters handle was Secret Squirrel.  

I have coloured him with my promarkers and mounted him on some textured card that came free with my new Scan N Cut CM900 - I also cut the image and all the shapes out on this machine

This card is for the following challenges

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes with a twist of Monochromatic

Sketch Saturday - Sketch I followed

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DIY Hobby!

This card uses a great image I got from Just Ink Lined

I have coloured him with my promarkers and although it doesn't show in the picture

 I have added glitter to the water squirting up as well.

The papers are all from my stash using a splash of silver behind each piece to make it sparkle

The arc was cut out on my new CM900 Brother Scan N Cut

(I upgraded to the wireless version)

As I am staying looking after my friends house I brought the Scan n Cut as I thought I could cut anything out on it - hopfully this plan will work in the next three and half months!!

This card is for the following challenge

Passion for Promarkers - Sports or Hobby

Mojo Monday - Sketch to Follow

Crafting By Designs - Anything that shines

I Love Promarkers - Use Something New - New Scan N Cut CM900 and Silver card

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Special Birthday...

My friend asked me to do a giraffe based card for her sons girlfriend

She gave me the words she wanted me to use as well

Which were

'You not Special Because its your birthday,  you are special every day!'

I found an image of a giraffe and used my brother scan and cut to cut it.

Repeating the image so I could decoupage it

I also used the image on the inside and the envelope to pull it all together

The yellow paper I used an embossing folder on in my cut n boss and cut an oval out the star paper using my spellbinders dies in the cut n boss

She was really pleased with the card

This card is for the following challenges:

Inspirational Destination Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes

Crafting with Attitude - Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze - Anything Happy

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Christmas Cards - Planning Ahead

This is my Christmas jumper cards

I used a set of Christmas Jumper tags from Hobby Craft took of the loop and put and sentiment over the hole and then added some glitter tape at the top and bottom of the card

Inside I stamped a sentiment

Very quick and easy to make but I liked the effect

This is for ABC Christmas Challenge - A - Anything Goes

This card uses a decoupage image that I got from a Christmas pad cheap in The Range

The paper from from a 12 x 12 pad I got for £3 in Hobby Craft

This for the following Challenges

ABC Christmas Challenge - B - Something Beginning with B - (Bear/Blue)

Cute Card Thursday - Cool Colour Tones

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Snowflakes

Crafty Hazels Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas

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Baking

This card uses a great image by Bug A Boo

I have coloured her using my new Spectrum Noir Sparkle and illustrator pens

The back ground I use draw lines and colours

Then stuck a sentiment strip at the bottom

This card is for the following challenges

Sketch Saturday - Sketch I have followed
Naughty or Nice Challenge - Something New - New Image and Pens
Tuesday Throwdown - Favourite Medium - (My new Spectrum noir sparkle pens)

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Birthday Cream Tea

My sister asked me to make a voucher and card for her mother in law as they wanted to take her out for a cream tea with the family

I decided to make a teapot with a teabag as the voucher and a birthday card to match.

The teapot was cut using my brother scan n cut with a wonderful cutting file from SVG Cuts

The teabag is attached to the lid of the teapot so when opened the voucher can be seen

The details of the cream tea on one side.

I used the left over paper and some snippets from my stash drawer to make a birthday card to match

The picture is one of my sister with her mother in law which we couldn't resist using

This card is for the following challenges

Pixies Snippet Playground - Use your snippets

Simon Says - Anything but a card

Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

My Time to Craft - Something New (new cutting file of teapot)
Paper Creators Challenge - Anything Goes

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Wedding Anniversary

I made this card for the sisters and brother in laws 24th Wedding Anniversary

They tend to go to Disney every other year so I thought I would do a similar card to the engagement one I made my daughter and her fiancee

This time I printed the image directly onto the card and used word

 to curve the sentiment around the image

Finally I added a piece of red card with my bargain tape from

 poundland and bit of spotted ribbon

This card is for the following challenges:

Inspirational Destination Challenges - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

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Birthday for Adopted Dad

This card uses another image from The Little Book of Smudge and Mitten

I trimmed it down to fit the card and also the scraps off card I was using to mat and layer it!

This card is made totally from my scraps drawer

It was a quick and simple card but I am pleased with the effect

I made this card for a gentlemen called Peter who since the death of my own dad in 2008 has filled the space of Dad and Grandad to our family - not that he had any choice lol

This card is for the following challenges:

Cardz for Guyz - Happy Birthday
Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Happy Birthday
Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes


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What A Pathetic Year of Blogging - Now to Try Better and Greyhound keeping cosy this winter

Back to It and Belated Happy New Year

The picture above is my retired greyhound trying to ignore the fact that is has been snowing outside his idea is to cover up and ignore the weather

I was just looking at my blog for last year and realised how little I did on here

I am going to try harder this year although I have not got off to a good start with 2017

I went down with a cold between Christmas and New Year and do not seem to be able to shift it

I was signed of from work last week and am still suffering with a sore throat and cough

Just hoping it clears up by Monday or it will back to the Doctors

I have been making cards and will start getting some of the posted on here

I am also starting to plan the wedding invites for my daughters wedding in September

We have a very exciting year with ours and my sisters 25th wedding anniversary and a wedding

As well as looking after a friends cattery for three and half months whilst they are on a world cruise.

I do not promise to blog every week although that is was I would like to get back to but just to let you all know I am still here and crafting 

I shall upload some pictures later of the cards I have been making upto Christmas as I have not felt well enough to make any yet this year but I have lots of ideas just no energy to try them out

So like any good crafter I have had a sort of my stash and put some on ebay and ordered some new bits to help me along the away

Loving nosing around all you blogs and taking inspiration from your craftiness