Card candy flowers

Firstly I would like to apologise for not being around for the last couple of months. I have been making lots of things for customer orders and doing loads of craft fairs with Crafting With Love and also been on holiday and I'm sure everyone finds that sometimes everyday life  gets in the way and there just arent enough hours in the day.  Anyway hopefully I'm back to blogging a little more regularly and I have got loads of things to share with you.

 

I'm going to start by showing you some flowers I made today using Card Candy from Craftwork Cards. I saw a lady demonstrating at a papercraft show in Leigh over the weekend and thought what a good idea, as I have loads of card candy to use up.

 

Its quite addictive, once you start you cant stop and its really easy. My (10 yr old ) daughter made some too . I think I'll finish some of these with gems or glitter or something for the centers, but I didnt have any to hand before taking the pics.

Now all thats left is to use them on some cards or projects.

Thanks for looking!

Tatty bye for now and I promise to be back soon and share some more of my many creations. 

Hugs Sue x

I've got my assessment tomorrow - Wish me luck !

Here's a few cards I made today. Two of the thankyou cards are for the head teacher and class teacher I used to work for. I have been preparing for my assessment for Higher Level Teaching Assistant over the last few months and the big day is tomorrow. After interviewing and assessing me the assessor has to speak to these 2 ladies and hopefully they will big me up and tell him what a great job I do when working with the children. So I have made cards and got them gifts in anticipation of their kind words. I am very nervous so making these cards today has helped take my mind off tomorrow. I will only find out if I pass in about 6 weeks so 'Fingers crossed'.


These two are versions of Julie Hickeys 9 square design.


I got inspiration for this from a card by Emma Williams a design team member over at Craftwork Cards blog.
Most of the papers, cards, sentiments and card candy are all from Craftwork Cards.

A few of my latest cards

Anyone for Cocktails

Please don't adjust your screens, this is supposed to be black, white and shades of grey. Not quite sure how it came to be, the image I chose and coloured first was a pink poodle sipping drinks. Then I changed my mind and I stamped out Charlie 007, unfortunately my colouring makes him look slightly tatty and not at all 007.

Still I'm going to enter him into this weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge - midnight margaritas.
I followed the sketch on the Cupcake challenge- #65. Then coloured him in using Zig Brushables, I added a few sparkle bubbles above his glass with stickles. The papers are from Papermania, layered on black gloss card.
I didn't think that proper flowers really went with this card, so I made
the embellishments myself from a piece of the paper that had circles in different sizes on it, I cut them out sprayed them with water, scrunched them up and gently opened them out, then sprayed with a little silver glitter spray from Crafters Companion. Next I layered them up and put a silver faux brad (card candy from Craftwork Cards) in the centre.

I finished the card with a piece of ribbon and black gems from stash, and some wording. Not sure which company the wording stamp was from, it was just an unmounted one I picked up at Port Sunlight earlier this year.
Sorry but my photos aren't very good and although they look quite dull in my pictures, the card in real life looks pretty good and quite glitzy.

Sketch and Stash Challenge

I don't often get chance to do much crafting during the week, but as one of my collegues at work is leaving on Friday, I had to make her a leaving and good luck card. I decided to follow the sketch from the Sketch and Stash Challenge, but I twisted it around.

I knew that I wanted to use my Anya stamp, and I coloured her with Promarkers. My stash were the papers and card candy that I bought from Craftwork Cards at Harrogate in May this year and completely forgot about. I haven't put a sentiment on yet, not sure whether to or not. I might just finish it off with wording on the inside instead.



Recipe;
Stamp - Anya from The Greetings Farm
Inkpad - Memento Dew Drop Tuxedo Black
Promarkers
Papers and card candy- Craftwork cards
Flower layers - Punched and Flora Doodles
Punches - Ash leaves and medium flower

Happy Birthday Bear

Here's my take on this weeks Friday Sketchers #50 Beatrix's sketch. As the sketch looks like a tall slim card, I copied it and so I'm also entering this card in the Stamp for fun challenge #5, their theme is make a 4" x 8" card.
The image is one I received in an image swap, I coloured with Zig Brushables and added a touch of glitter around the edge of the hat. The papers, flower and ribbon are all from Craftwork Cards, layered with gold mirror board.
Sorry about the photo, it doesn't seem to matter where I take my photo's they always look dark. I put a daylight light on facing card and try to take infront of a white background, nothing seems to work, what am I doing wrong?... any help please!