WHOOP WHOOP -I WON A PRIZE !

I entered this Valentine card into a  vintage card challenge over at craft creations ,As a previous winner there I had to enter into the winners category ,I was thrilled to see that I had won again !

Now I have £25 to spend in their store - I always use craft creations card stock as it is excellent quality and very reasonably priced-now if only I had waited another week before ordering nearly £40  worth of stuff  . . .

I made the easel card shape with SCAL on my cricut . the roses are a die The pearlescent paper was just perfect for making these they hold the shape so well , the key and locket were also dies and the words cut with SCAL too

I'm Back !

Hello , long time no see - I have been neglecting my blog and now I am back to it - I will try to keep  up to date with my cards .I try to take photos of all of my work but as they are usually for somebody who may see them on my facebook page or on here before they are meant to ,I try to hold back on posting them up .Then I forget about them !
Here is the card I made for my niece for her 21 st , her birthday was Thursday just gone so I'm ok to pop it on !

I used my beloved cricut machine for this one and Kate's ABC's cartridge .I cut two of the black out shapes and glued them together just at the top edge. decorated the front with the layers and voila ! a shaped card

My first stretchy card

I saw some stretchy cards being demonstrated on C and C and thought how good the style looked even though the designs used did nt really appeal so i got my thinking cap on an worked out how they were made and this is what I came up with .

I chose this image specifically to tie it in with our I ♥ promarkers challenge this week  which is -"things with wings "
I cut the words and the stars on my cricut with SCAL2 .

Anything goes

I adored this stamp as soon as I saw it and could n't wait to use it .The perfect opportunity to show it off came with this week's challenge at I ♥ promarkers  because ANYTHING GOES - last time we did this theme we had over 240 entries  so I need to knuckle down and keep up with them this time !

I made my card shape from an A3 piece of card and cut the scallop card shape from Wildcard  cart on my cricut .I cut it at 8" cos I wanted it to be huge !I have finished it off with a sentiment circle from our sponsor this week -SENTIMENTS FOR YOU ,these are brilliant because you can size them to fit inside your nestabilities perfectly

A couple i made using Scal2

I have nt made many cards lately with my cricut and I had forgotten how much fun they can be . I was asked to make a card with a  Springer Spaniel on and as i dont have one on any of my many carts I decided to use the trace function on my SCAL programme .I drew a picture of the spaniel from a photo of my friend's dog, scanned it into my computer and then opened up the scal programme . I clicked the trace image button and added my image file and voila ! here is "Bramble" the Springer spaniel

Then  I made this cute Kitty by using a clipart image ,that I altered slightly to look more like "Crumble" the ginger Persian

3 in one day !

Lol , I'm on a roll ,I made this one today too and  wanted to share - I probably won't post again til next Wednesday now !
This is done in ivory as it's for a couple's second marriage .I used my cricut -sweethearts I think ,cuttlebug divine swirls embossing folder and sizzix and cuttlebug dies  for the foliage

WHITE ON WHITE

This week's challenge at I ♥ promarkers is sponsored by Digi doodles shop and you could win $10 to spend in their store .
We want to see white on white cards or projects ,where the only colour is to be your image ,no coloured ribbons,flowers brads etc are allowed -ok !
I used the snowmen which were part of the christmas assortment , i used my cuttlebug to emboss the background panels , the trees are a sizzix die  and the snowflake a concoction of different die cuts all on top of each other .
I am also entering this in incy wincy's challenge which is also white on white

Happy Birthday Hannah !

Today is my daughter's birthday and we celebrated it by spending it sitting in the ante natal dept of the local hospital .Her first  baby is due today and it has been a rather difficult pregnancy for her , her visits to the midwife have been aplenty as the baby is not growing as well as he should be . After another monitoring  and measuring session , they sent her home . Much to her relief - she has said all along that she did nt want to have him on  her birthday as thats her day !

Here is the card i made for her- so that it will encourage her to get her figure back - not that it will take long thanks to the small bump !

I made the template myself , the lace is a Martha steward punch and the Tattoo is a rub on 

This second card is for the i♥ promarkers challenge , this week is a Christmas theme . The challenge this week is sponsored by Digi doodles and i have used the Ragga mutts Play ball image , I loved the little dog as he reminds me of my dog Hovis 

Paper pieced projects

These first two are for the same person so i had to keep them different , i have used the same colours so that they still work well together . The other one is not for anybody in particular ,i just liked it . I added stars with  a holographic foiling sheet and glue pen . I have left a space in the top corner  for a name or greeting later on .

 All of these are made with paper piecing templates from my scrap chick, i love them  they are really easy to use as they are available as svg files so i can cut them on my cricut with SCAL .

a couple for lily-boo's

These were supposed to be  posted a while back ,only i only just noticed that i forgot ;)
The wedding card is for this months challenge at Lilyboo too , we want to see your shaped cards - any shape allowed as long as its not a rectangle or square  shaped one .
The other is to show off the cute new pirate collection at lily boo boutique

Polkadoodles -Animal Challenge

This weeks challenge at Polkadoodles is to make something with an animal on it .I had to make a card for my boss  for her 50 th birthday from all of us at work .She is a massive horse fan and has a horse called  Willie .
She likes to joke that she is going to ride her willie all weekend !

I  have used BTN for the  card , printing it at A4 , the rosette is made from papers on the cd ,cut out with Nesties .I had to add one of my little people the rest of them at work would n't have forgiven me if I had n't included her .

Happy birthday Ruth !

 It is Ruth , one of my Polkadoodle teamies' birthday next week - so the challenge we have set you is to make a birthday card .I just love the look of these scrummy cakes on the love and cherish cd so i teamed it up with the equally delicious cherry papers  on the sugar birdies  disc .
I  was very brave and added some stamping - not something i like to do .If you look close you will see why .
Yes I managed to blurr it !

Shape card challenge for polkadoodles

Polkadoodles are launching a fantastic new cd this week called Paper boutique . it has some fantastic shaped card templates and a scrumptious collection of papers . I have nt used the shape templates this time but i have used papers and decorative elements from the funky flowers collection . I made a few of the template cards as samples for the tv launch and i forgot to take pictures before i sent them off ! DURRR !
I cut the letter shapes with my cricut using SCAL2 and then cut out the card shape around them.
I had nt made one of these fold out name ones for ages , and seeing as its only 3 letters long it did nt take too long :)

NEW HOME

i am just enjoying the thought of two whole weeks off work - im only on day one and the time is flying by already !
I did manage to get another card done , this time i got my bug out , i've been neglecting it a bit lately in favour of digistamps and promarkers so i thought id dust it off and make use of a couple of cartridges , This one used AE for the flowers , HEA for the birds and SYI for the bug and the birdhouse . I welded 2 houses together in DS to make the card shape. I added the doodling with galaxy markers and added a rub on greeting through the hole

handbag card

I used Wildcard for this one with various sizzix dies for the embellishments , oh and indie cart for those gorgeous lips the brief for this one was "a 21 st card for a real girly girl " . You cant get more girly than a leopard print handbag !

for some reason the gold on the card looks a bit holographic but it is nt - strange !

the card itself is handbag shaped although it looks like its just mounted on a white card

megs bag card

MEGS BAG - THIS IS MADE USING THE WILD CARD CART AND DESIGN STUDIO , I JUST CUT 2 LARGE BAG ICONS TO FIT AN a5 PIECE OF CARD . THE LIPS ARE FROM INDIE CART AND THE LIPSTICK AND NAIL POLISH ARE FROMA SIZZIX DIE. THE LABEL IS COMPUTER GENERATED