House Mouse Monday Challenge -#7- Tags

Here's my card for todays House Mouse Monday Challenge. I made it very quickly as I didn't have much time. I stamped this cutie mouse, watercoloured and added a touch of glitter to his hat. I cut my tag from some christmassy coloured paper and added ribbons. A couple of embellishments from my bits box and finished with some holly berry gem stones. Thats it! a very quick tag card.

Sketch Saturday Challenge

Here's my card for the Sketch Saturday Challenge, it's my first one for this challenge, hope its okay.
I used a Penny Black image, which I water-coloured and coloured in with Sakura Gelly Rollpens for a glittery finish. The papers were again taken from some free ones out of one of my craft mags (I set myself a challenge last week to start using up all the free gifts and bits of paper I already have). I finished off with a bit of ribbon and some Prima flowers with brad centers.

Penny Black Saturday Challenge- Seasons

Here's my Penny Black Challenge Card. Hopefully you can tell I chose summer. I used a combination of stamps off the Critters Party transparent stamp sheet and Art Impressions clear stamps. The papers are from the K & Co range with ribbon and Flora Doodles to finish it off.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge - 29

This is my entry to the Cute Card Thursday Challenge - 29. Lots of sparkle.
Sorry about the photo, this card looks better in real life.
I have been playing with some new embossing folders for my bug, so I used a couple of pieces of card,1 embossed with snowflakes and 1 with dots. I added glitter glue in places for added sparkle. The main image is a snow globe stamp, but I'm not sure what make it is. Inside I stamped a small snowman from the cute companions christmas range. I coloured in slightly and glittered the snowglobe base with a dark blue glitter. The whole image was sprinkled with snow glitter and crystal glitter and then thickly coated with 3D crystal laquer to give a real glass finish. Finally a couple of silver snowflake brads. I'm quite pleased with the finished look although my photography leaves a lot to be desired.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Here is my entry for Cute Card Thursday Challenge 28- Food on card. I have used Cheesecake Party, a Penny Black Stamp and some free papers that I got from a magazine some time ago. I usually use quite light colours, mainly pinks, but decided to go a little bolder for a change.

Penny Black Saturday Challenge- Week 14

Here's my entry for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge. Week 14; A Mans Card- No Blue.

This is one of my favourite PB stamps as its so versatile, any occasion ,male or female. Hope you like it.

Tilda & Co *Challenge 36* Chocolate delight

My first challenge in months. Its so good to be back crafting again.

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Heres my card for this weeks challenge - Friendship.

Its a very plain card for me, but I just fancied doing a touch of watercolouring and thought it is such a lovely image it doesn't need much fuss. I have put a drop of crystal laquer on the 2 ladybirds and a tiny fabric daisy on the main flower. Unfortunately the photo doesn't do this card justice, it really is quite pretty.

Blimey he's 10 already !

Here's the cards I have just made for my son's birthday tomorrow. As you can tell he will be 10, he seems to be growing up so fast, I can't believe how fast this years gone. The number card is from me and his dad, and the cool dude is for his sister to give him.

Blog Candy

Becky at Becky's Happy Crafting Place has got some great candy to give away. Check out her blog for details.
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Thought I'd enter my mini book in the Arty Girlz challenge 'Hint of Pink'

My 1st Mini Book

I was looking around some crafty sites at the weekend for a bit of inspiration and saw a tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers for what they called a meander book. They used the Bind it all machine to hold together. There is also a video demonstration on docrafts for a maze book which is very similar, but tied closed with ribbon.

This is my 1st attempt and I am rather pleased with the finished mini book. It is made with one sheet of double sided 12x12 paper, I used a sheet from the K & Co neopolitan range and two 3x3 squares of pearlescent card for the front and back covers.

I made a few tags that either slot in the top or the side, out of another sheet of the same K & Co paper.

I decided to use ribbon, threaded through holes punched through every layer using a crop-a-dile to hold it all together.

The majority of embellishments are again from K & Co, along with lots of ribbon.

The last page has a pull out list of words that describe my beautiful daughter.

I think its quite fun and when I showed it to her she said "mum this is really cooool" so I think she liked it and she can't wait to show it to all her class mates at school.

After I showed it to the girls at work they all said they will get their photos together and asked me to make one for each of them. Looks like I'm going to be busy for a while.

Blog Candy Quiz

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It's great to be back

At last I have managed to make a few things lately, fathers day cards and grandad cards, forgot to photo them though. Never mind they were all well received earlier today. I have also been decorating some jars that I keep my flowers in. I used co-ordinating papers and ribbons and decorated the tops with one each of the flowers they contain.
I have a few more to do but I am pleased with them so far. I am planning on decorating some pots and jars to keep my pens etc in and I might attempt some boxes too. I haven't done anything like this before, its quite addictive once you start. Oh dear another addiction, still could be alot worse. Anyway I'm off to raid the recycle bin for empty jars. Bye x