Another Sassy card

I love this image but I'm not too sure about the layout of the card. So many of the cards you see on blogs and websites all have lacey ribbons and flowers on. SO I tried it have to work on the presentation!!!!!

Coloured her using my ole faithfuls- promarkers,

Been really busy

Where does time go? A few weeks off Easter and then we are almost into May. I wonder sometimes if I go to bed and get up a week later as the days seem to be flying by. Work is dominating my life as many card making is reduced to coluring in on an evening to calm my nerves.

Mind I have joined a Zumba class. It is such a stress reliever. You spend as much time laugh as dancing. Someone asked what it was like my best description is Bollywood meets aerobics. I have never felt some much like a brick as I do during these sessions. It is not muscle moving just sheer momentum when i try to shimmie.

This is one of my favourite Simply Sassy images. I coloured it with promarkers. The colours used on the skin weren't the usual ones I saw a tutorial that suggested sunkissed pink and burnt orange. When I first tried I thought the colours were really dark but they dried much lighter.

Simple Valentines

I tried to go for a simple look on some of the Valentine's cards I made this year. In reality I was aiming to use up some of the scraps of paper and card that I have accumulated throughout the past year.

Our local Art Shop in Darlington is selling off paper/card that was a fault on in batches of 12 sheets for 50p. Some of the card is double sided and really heavy quality. This black patterned card was one of those sheets. Not bad for 4p.

I stamped the words on to a piece of card that was left when I used a Spellbinders frame die.

The butterflies are also a Spellbinders die. I left them white accidentally as I had taken them out of the dies before I had coloured them!!! Typical

The ribbon is from Hobby Crafts Halloween selection. A bit worrying perhaps that I am using Halloween on a Love card!!

Cinderella.

I can never remember the names of the stamps I buy. Terrible I know! So I make up names for them.

For some reason this image always makes me think of Cinderella! Don't ask why just an indication of how troubled my mind is lol.

I went for red and black promarkers on this for either Valentines or an Anniversary.

The sentiment on this one is from Pink Gem, its a rather large stamp but very intricate. I used red ink and embossed it before cutting it using a spellbinders circle die.

The frame is also a Spellbinders die and I have matched it up with the corner frame dies.

I them tried again with purple and lilac and got a completely different feel from the image.

Instead of ribbon on this card I used glitter card.

The image flows out of the die cut using the technique of cutting round part of it before threading it through a die.

The sentiment is another of the Lili of The Valley digi stamps. So versatile.

Simply Sassy Ladies

I love these stamps and have really enjoyed trying to colour them in different ways. I was watching Create and Craft and saw one presenter use the Spellbinder dies in such a way as to get the image to come out of the die. Hard to example easier to show you.

I tried it with this card which i made for my husband's niece who has just turned 13 but is going on 19!! as all teenage girls are.

I cut out the bottom of the image and then threaded it through the die and simply put it through the cuttlebug.

The sentiment is a digi version of the Sentiments from Lili of the Valley. I was a little too slow to get the rubber versions but actually these are great as you can make them whatever size you want.

The flowers are from a set from MeiFlower. The set had about 6/8 of five colours.

The papers are from Nitwits which I love.

The ribbon is recycled from a Christmas food hamper we received at Christmas.

Busy Busy Busy

Hi


I can't believe its been a month since my last post. At the moment work is so busy that even my husband went to stay at his mother's as I was never in before 7.30pm every night sometimes as late as 9.30pm.

Having a nightmare getting my new camera to transfer my photos to the computer so left it and went to watch The Black Swan. Now I feel completely emotionally wrung out. What a film! Didn't see much of it as I had my eyes closed. Very very dark. I always like to try and see as many of the films nominated for the Best Film Oscar.

Saw The King's Speech a few weeks ago and was absolutely blown away by the whole film. Inception I thought was a modern version of The Matrix. I loved it but my husband said after about 10 mins he was completely lost.

I have actually been making cards but haven't got round to putting them as posts. Have enjoyed the 'colouring in' . At the moment trying to make as many cards as possible to sell as part of my fundraising for the London Moonwalk I am doing with 2 of my friends. It dawned on us on Saturday that it is only 13 weeks away and because of the weather we are still only managing to walk 5 miles on a night!!!!!!



I bought some of the new Simply Sassy Stamps and have enjoyed using my promarkers on them.

This is the card I made for my husband for Valentine's Day.

I tried out my new Spellbinders Ornate Tags and Hearts dies
The papers are recycled from packaging as I didn't have any black card!!

Finally a card in 2011

Finally I got a card made tonight. A few days at work that have had me wondering was I ever on holiday so to get my mind straight I tried a card for the Sugar Nellie Challenge.

There was a sketch to follow with the added twist of embossing. So I thought 'Hey why not try embossing by hand'. Over Christmas I had seen a number of cards on sites that had a criss cross embossing pattern on them. So armed with my Crafters Companion board I had a go. OMG what a mess is all I can say. It looks as if it would be easy!!!!!

Because it is so late and the light was so bad You can't actually tell that I managed a piece about 15cm by 8 cm after an hour!!!!!! SEN group or what?

The image is Sugar Nellie Simple Sassy -coloured using promarkers

DP from FQB at Nitwits.

Sentiment is from pink Gem inked with Ink it Up Cherry Red

Pins and flowers from stash as are the gems.

entering it for

http:sugarbowlblog.blogpsot.com embossing

Blog Candy at Sweet Magnolia

Earlier this month as I have already posted I joined the Feline Playful Give a comment and Receive a comment. It has been a delight as there have been so many amazing sites that I have visited. Reading their profiles has been fascinating. The reasons people have for coming to crafting are so vast and the sheer strength of some people as you read how hard they are fighting different illnesses,, physical and mental both in themselves and their families. One of the sites I came across was





http:// sweetmagnoliarose.blogspot.com


She has now used her passion for crafting to start her own business. As she is celebrating the opening she is offering the most amazing candy.


The link is:





http://sweetmagnoliarose.blogspot.com/2010/12/cricit-expression-give-away.html

She has a Blog Candy for a Cricit Expression with 3 cartridges and a Cricit Cake Candy.

Pop over and have a look at her site.

Looking forward to the weekend to start making some cards. i have stamped some Simple Sassy Images and I am trying to colour them with my Promarkers can't get the hang of the colouring tried Youtube but by the time I get to mine I have forgotten the colours they used lol!!!!

Mind got up early and got some of the new Lili of The Valley stamps, mind even at 7.00am the site was going sooooooooo slow it was amazing, just goes to show how many people were waiting for them.

Back to Work

Oh when was Christmas? It seems so long ago.

I went back to work this week and haven't had time to even go into my craft room and I'm getting cross I feel the need to cut and stick!!!!!

I have however managed to get online and read the comments etc on the Blogs on Feline Playful. They are running a scheme called 'Give a comment, Receive a Comment' each day you visit blogs and leave comments become a follower if you wish. There are some amazing blogs out there. One that has really blown me away is that of Tessa, she's 12!!!!! OMG is all I can say. The cards she makes are amazing.

http://tessaskaarten.blogspot.com/

Go and have a look she is an inspiration.

Anyway whilst looking at the sites I somehow made a link to

http://jacquesmagnolias.blogspot.com/

On her December 31st post she is offering the most amazing blog candy.

I most get some of these flowers everyone seems to be using them.

Off to start my training for the London Moonwalk in May. 26.6 miles through the night to raise money for breast cancer. Did the Edinburgh one in 2009 so decided to do London this year. Oh the pain and blisters to come what bliss.

Catch you later.

keep smiling.

Happy New Year

Hi

Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy New Year and say thank you to all those who have become followers. Thank you it means a lot as I have only just started making cards and venturing into Blogland. Here's to a creative 2011.

LOTV Challenge hubby's card

When it came to making my hubby's card I was as usual in a rush and at a complete loss as to what to do. Surfing the sites I found a great sketch on the LOTV site.

I used one of their die cut image squares.

The sentiment was from their Christmas range. I was too slow to get the rubber stamp versions and this is a digital version.

I used a fiskars edge punch on both sides of a strip of silver mirror board to create the two stripes.

The image is matted on a spellbinders die.

The snowflakes were from stash and the backing paper too.

I also used the sketch to make my Dad's card for my Mother.

On this card I embossed the strips and used a Martha Stewart Corner Punch to add to the ends.
The image card was softened using a corner punch. This allowed it to fit inside a spellbinders die cut label.
The snowflakes were made from red pearlescent card with white pearlescent paper flakes stuck on slightly twisted.
I added a pearl gem to the centre of each.
The sentiment was a digital version of LOTV sentiments.
I added a heart charm with a red ribbon

Blog Hopping

Well it's over. Where did it go? Is it because I am getting older that it seems the run up over takes the day? Maybe its because I am actually a big kid and would like Christmas to go on for longer. I think sometimes as a woman Christmas isn't a holiday. You fly round on Christmas morning making sure the dinner is one presents are out etc and everyone is happy then collapse! I think the 26th should be Women's Christmas day!!! Should we start a campaign? Gosh I sound like a real gringe, but I love Christmas and it seems to just fly by so quickly.

Anyway I should be in work this morning but thought I would check out craft sales whilst the hubby is out!!! I came across 'Bev's' card on her site All the Things I Love. As always its gorgeous! Do you think she is the Delia or as The Vicar of Dibley calls her St Delia, of the card making world? Well I digress(again) and she used a sketch from Friday Sketchers to showcase a Sneak Peek of some soon to be released LOTV stamps. They are having a Blog hop with some great candy including LOTV vouchers and hanglar stamps!!
Check it out.

Friday Sketchers http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/

Pretty Pressings has some LOTV candy on hers. http://www.rosaswelt.blogspot.com/

WoW

Over at Sugar Nellie they have a challenge to do a White on White card, the prize is a Spellbinders Grand Caliber as my cuttle bug is playing up I though I would give it a go. It has proved to be sooooooooo difficult. It really tested my ability to mix. The resulting card looks like this.

I used A simply Sassy Image which was part of the challenge.

It was coloured using promarkers on Rymans card.

It was matted on paper embossed with cuttlebug folders = Swirls and Snowflakes.

The border strip was embossed using the cuttlebug buttons folder.

The pearlescent paper was corner punched with a Martha Stewart punch.

The flowers are actually white from Meiflower

The stars are on pins.

The sentiment was from a pack from stash.

Pink Sketch

I loved the sketch at Truly scrumptious and thought the fairy in this image would look great on the 'pink' extra twist that was added to the challenge.
The backing papers are from the Penguins pack from Docrafts.
I matted the image on Spellbinders labels die cuts.
The ribbons were also from the Creativity collection. The brads from Docrafts website.

http://trulyscrumptiouschallenges.blogspot.com sketch and pink
http://dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com Christmas

Blue Christmas

On blue these fairies really stand out.

The Navy card was cut using the corner punch from Martha Stewart Double Loop

Bps cut from the Spellbinders labels dies. The paper came with the Die Cut out fairies.

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com Blue

Red Fairies

The Die cuts are all a grey/ white colour so fit with must backing paper colours. Its the hair colour of the fairy that differs blonde, brown and red.

For this card

Red Create and Craft card

Martha Stewart Double Loop Punch - I started to use the punch but instead of using the corner punch I started in the middle by mistake so had to try a different look

OLS silver corner images.

The sentiment is from a set I purchased years ago from Lakeland Plastics.

Image LOTV

Red Create and Craft card

Martha Stewart Double Loop Punch Edger.

Pink glittery bp from the Papermania Penguins set - cut using Spellbinders Dies

Star gems

Sentiments from the same set.

I have entered these cards for the following challenges:

http://bellichallenge.blogspot.com/ R embellishments

http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/ monochrome

http://theplaydatecafe.blogspot.com/ red and white

http://aifactorychallenges.blogspot.com/ winter

http://paperromancechallenges.blogspot.com/

http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com red, pink and white

Fairies

I bought a set of Die cut fairies originally from LOTV. They looked gorgeous and when I got them they were really pretty and I thought I would make some girlie Christmas cards. School had a stall at the local 'Arrival of Santa' event in town. I have over the months been making cards to sell.

I used teal coloured Doodlebug glitter card as the base mat.

The bp is from stash.

The sentiment is from 'Lakeland plastics' and I have had them for a few years!

I used papermania brads and set it out using a sketch from

http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.com/ Sketch

http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.com/ snowflakes

http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ Christmas

http://2sisterschallenge.blogspot.com Sparkly Christmas

Card Two

This card was originally for the Sugar Bowl Challenge but what I realised when trying to upload it was I hadn't read the rules of the challenge properly. I read black, white and another colour but neglected to scroll down and see the sketch!!!!!! Hey I like the card

( Do you like the hand? Perhaps a career on Create & Craft lies ahead!!!!!!!)

The image is one of the Leanne Ellis images called Moon Beams from Sugar Nellie

Coloured using promarkers. and a Sakura 700 pen for sparkle.

The black die was the 'waste' or negative of a Nellie Snellen Circle die.

Snowflake embossed background was a recycled old card!

I added gold gems for effect.

I am entering it for the following:

http://acraftylittleplace.blogspot.com Anything goes

http://scrap-creations1.blogspot.com Anything goes

http://notimetostamp.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com Use black

Birthday Cards In December

Oh I feel so sorry for those people who have birthdays in December. The shops condense the birthday card amounts down to the bare minimum and crafters get caught in the frenzy of making Christmas cards. Well I had two friends with birthdays this week and was guilty of forgetting them so the extra time this afternoon has allowed me to make them one each.


The first I made using the sketch and colour combo over at The Sugar Bowl

Its the first time I have used one of my Simply Sassy Stamps. The challenge was Black, white and another colour allow without a sketch outlay.

The matts are simply black, white and red card that I punched using on old Create and Craft punch( it was so blunt it nearly went backwards into my hand I was pressing that hard,)

Image Simply Sassy coloured using promarkers.

The sentiment was from LOTV perhaps shouldn't have mentioned that on a Sugar Nellie Challenge!!!!

I have also entered it for

http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com birthday card

Snow Days

Like most of the country we have suffered from really heavy snow and freezing temperatures. As a result of staff living a distance from the school unlike the pupils our school has had to close. So after catching up on paperwork I managed to walk home early and in front of the fire made a card for the Lili of the Valley Challenge.

Image Lili of the Valley Die cut Cards

Backing paper form stash

Border - Martha Stewart Punch

White card embossed using the Papermania Snowflakes folder.

Challenges I am entering this for are:

http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com Yuletide

http://scrappyfrogschallenge.blogspot.com Merry Christmas

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com Sketch