Digital image and sugary flowers.

I love this Mo Manning digital image and these sugary looking prima flowers and brads from CCS

Paperplay Challenge "All creatures great and small "

Deirdre set the paperplay challenge this week with the theme " All creatures great and small " I love this stamped image and am delighted to have an excuse to use it.

To join in the challenge and be in with achance to win a fantastic prize all you have to do is link your challenge entry to the paperplay blog.

PaperPlay Challenge "Ooh la la Fashion "

I went back to the seventies for my Paperplay "Ooh la la fashion " card this week, the theme was set by Deirdre and I enjoyed making this card with digital images I bought ages ago but never had the chance to use.

To take part in the challenge and be in with a chance to win a prize all you have to do is take up the challenge theme and post a link to the comments section on the paperplay blog.

PaperPlay Challenge, Christmas in June.

Kate set the Paperplay challenge this week with " Christmas in June " I refused to bring all my Christmas stash to the surface or look around for snow scenes so I went with a Sunny Christmas in June using the traditional red/green Christmas colours =0)

To be in with a chance of winning a fantastic prize just link your challenge entry in the comments section on the paperplay Blog.

PaperPlay Challenge, Week 20.

Sandie set this weeks PaperPlay challenge with a sketch.

May Workshop Sneek peeks & PaperPlay Challenge.

A little sneak peek of some of the cards and products we will be using in the May workshop.

Paperplay Challenge

The Paperplay challenge this week was set by Mandy and is titled "Touchy Feeley"

The challenge is to create a project using fabric & ribbons. This weeks challenge is all about texture, to create something you can rub your hand over and enjoy the feeling of the different textures. You can use any other craft items too on your project, stamping, buttons,etc... but it must have fabric and ribbons on it somewhere!

Another Forever Friend.

Forever Friends

Bought my first Forever Friends stamps today , I have always loved the forever friends range so had to have them and am pleased to say I am happy with the results =0) I make a lot of Baby cards so this one will come in handy I can add a baby's name on the left if I need to.

Theme Thursday " Celebrate Girls "

Celebrate Girls..Theme Thursday.

For this card I embossed purple dyed linen paper and inked and embossed the edges with gold utee.I then embossed the edges of torn vellum and layered papers and the girl image adding a filigree charm to embellish.

Daring Cardmakers " Pretty Pastels"

The midweek Daring cardmakers theme is Pretty Pastels, For this card I used cuttlebug embossed butterflies to make a pastel background, a digital ballerina printout and some dotty organza ribbon.

Daring Cardmakers.

Daring cardmakers " Needles and Pins"

This weeks theme was set by Jane.

"I want you to design a card to any theme- but I want you to include pins or needles of some sort. Sewing needles, safety pins, dressmakers pins- any type of pin goes !:)"

This is one of my favourite rubber stamps and I use it a lot, I hope you can see the pin ,click photo for more detail =0)

HAPPY EASTER...

Some Easter cards made from Digital printouts,to add dimension I layered the images with foam pads and added diamond glaze for a bit of shine.

(Click small photos for detail)

Have a very happy Easter.

Wedsnesday Stamper "First letter First name"

"This week’s Wednesday Stamper challenge is to make some artwork with the first letter of your first name. That should provide us with very many different things. You are completely free to use this letter as you want, for example make a feature of the letter itself, or use a word that starts with the same letter as the first one of your name. We are very curious how this challenge will turn out" For this challenge I stamped a jester stamp with stazon then re stamped the image onto pink and green paper cut out and layered over images.The letter J( for Jackie) is a cardboard letter inked with stazon and the stitching is white gel pen, The text is computer generated and the embossing is a cuttlebug folder.

Daring Cardmakers " Red and White "

"This week's and next week's dare are team dares - and we've decided to go nice and easy on you guys, as the past few dares have been pretty tricky ! This week, we decided on a colour combination for a change. We want you to design a card using only RED AND WHITE on your cards- it doesn't have to be a Valentine themed card - it can be any theme- as long as use incorporate RED and WHITE on it. "

I made this little trifold card a few weeks ago and when I saw the Daring Cardmakers challenge this week I thought of it straight away because the theme this week is " Red and White ".

Theme Thursday " Triangles"

Theme Thursday!

This week’s theme is “triangles”! Create art in the shape of a triangle!

For this Challenge I embossed three triangle panels then chalked and gold embossed them ,I added a mixture of paper embellishments and rubber stamp images to the three sections and mounted them on a black tri -fold triangle card.

4x4 Friday " Textured Paper "

The 4x4 Friday theme this week is " Textured paper " For this card I dry embossed a piece of linen paper with a texture template. I stamped the lady image with vintage sepia ink and coloured with water colour pencils finishing off with pearly buttons and ivory organza ribbon.

Scrapwest "Christmas"

The Scrapwest theme this week is " Christmas " I stamped and gold embossed the Santa image, and added stickles glitter to beard and berries, I then mounted it onto contrasting card and embossed with the cuttlebug script template then onto the gorgeous new pop coulture 12x12 Lacy Cardstock. I finished the card off with sparkly diamond gems and white organza ribbon.

I finally found time to make a few christmas cards before last post tomorrow. I kept them very simple with the quote,

" Winter is a time to gather golden moments

and enjoy every golden hour "

-John Boswell

Mellow Yellow

I set the Scrapwest theme this week it was " Mellow Yellow" I made a card using soft yellow colours, I used rubber stamps for the bunny and paper bag then embossed the background and layered it on a textured card .

Stepping out !

Some more dry embossing, I love the effects I got on the pearl and metallic card . It really changes a plain card too without having to add another colour for a pattern. The top shoe I made using papers I got from Annamarie of The scrapbook store the white part of the shoe was already embossed.

Two very swirly shoes =0)