Lazy Day

Thank you to all my crafty pals for your lovely comments on my male card, I am just about keeping in front of the ones I need, I do have 2 surviving brothers and also 5 BILs,  plus nephews etc and I am now starting to enjoy doing these male cards - lol, it really was a stash thing.  I am always enjoying the gift that is blogland as I love wandering around your blogs. You can imagine my shock when I went to my blog and it said “blog does not exist” – sorry if you heard my squealing expletive, lol - anyway it said to click on something and enter my phone number as someone had tried to use my blog inappropriately – the bloggy people  phoned me and gave me an unlock code and I was back in business. Phew!

Anyway onto my card and my usual bit of being distracted:-

I have been sorting through my dies and noticed that I did not have many border dies, I cannot use punches at all, as my osteoarthritis has taken away that ability (so glad I am not a horse), so I would love to produce what so many of you do with punches such as the Martha Stewart ones. Anyway I didn't find what I was looking for in the crafty shops, got distracted as we do, and I bought a gorgeous Memory Box die which is a butterfly border so my card attempts to make good use of it. This is a long die and I haven't used the full length of it. Did I mention I like butterflies!

Image - Penny Black Lazy Days 3782J and 

a LotV sentiment,

Paper and card - card blank is a 19 x 12cm made from Papermill card,

and backing is  Papermania Capsule Verde,

Dies used – Spellbinders Labels 28,

Lifestyle Lacy Square,

IO Butterfly set and

Memory Box  Butterfly Vine Border.

Baby Bo

Trying to chase a headache away here so I have had a little play with a digi image. I must say I'm enjoying using them although I will always love stamping. I think digi images are appealing to my need to store things and I have at least two shelves which are complaining noisily that they are overloaded - lol. I think I have a few boy cards in the box now so I am moving on to baby cards.

Image - Baby Bo  digi image teddybo_032

 coloured with letraset and copic pens

and the sentiment is from lotv and embossed.

Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen ,
  the backing paper is from my mixed up kid's paper pack

and the green card from the Paper Mill.

Dies used - Spellbinders squares and Designer labels

and the ribbon was a gift.

My Boat

After a bad night and dozing on the settee from 4am I woke to a drizzle day and pottered about with this card and now I am pleased to come on here and read the comments left by my crafty visitors.
Yet another little boy card on here today but my next card will have to be an adult one for a 65 year old male so I shall have to put my thinking cap on.  I was so please to find the twine I had mislaid I was determined to use it so I hope it looks ok. I do wish I didn't mislay stuff lol.

Image - By the River stamp from lotv 

coloured with letraset pens.

 Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen
  backing paper from a cd and painted with fairy mist paint,

watery card from my stash highlighted with sakura glaze pen.

Dies used - Lifestyle lace square, 

and spellbinder lacey and scallop circle.

X-stitch Mice

A fun challenge on the Joanna Sheen forum as it passes mid month again. This time we need to use a bit of stitching and although I can no longer do any real sewing I found a bit of embroidery thread and had fun. The piercing die made it easy and I will be on the look out for more of the same. I accept I need to put a bit of practice in taking photos of mirror card and it is on my list of things to do, but hopefully it looks ok. I am beginning to wonder about the number of favourite stamps I have, here is another one.

Image - .... Mice Day! (1651K)  stamp from Penny Black

 coloured with letraset pens

and sentiment from lotv set 10.

Paper and card - card blank is homemade
and backing paper is from an old 12x12 Paper Pack,

Dies used - Lifestyle nesting doily rectangles,

Sizzix - Tim Holtz embossing folder 'stitches'

and Magnolia Doohickeys Fairytale Tag,

bling, embroidery thread and mirror card from stash.

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Yellow mono fairy

I am so very happy to be receiving comments on my blog. I think I have managed to switch the word verification thingy off so please let me know if I haven't. This is all still very new to me. I am still in fairyland today but as I used a sakura stardust pen there isn't too much glitter about. I don't know why this little fairy slipped to the bottom of the box as she is such a sweetie and I enjoyed colouring her. I have made an attempt at keeping to a single colour choice so hopefully it has worked.

Image - Dandelion Clock stamp from lotv 

coloured with letraset pens and sakura stardust.

 Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen
  backing paper is from a nitwit digi

and the card is from my stash.

Dies used - Memory box kaleidoscope butterfly ,

Spellbinders eyelet square and Lifestyle lace square,

bling from stash.

Challenge covered :-  Monochrome lili of the valley

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Baby Card

Sat here listening to "Queen" which didn't lend itself to making a peaceful baby card. Anyway my pals on the JS forum say it looks fine as I was about to start fiddling with it. I am prone to doing a bit too much fiddling about. I have had one of those annoying days having had the hospital phone me to arrange for my knee replacement on the 22nd August only to say 20 seconds later that they couldn't arrange a date as I had to see the consultant. Anyway "Queen" should blow away the annoyance. Enough waffling from me and here is my baby card.

Image - Heaven Sent stamp from lotv

 coloured with letraset pens.

Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen
and backing paper is from Annabelle's Meadow paper pack

Dies used - Marianne LR0202, spellbinders circle, 

 and a Memory Box die Woven Circle

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Saturday, 14th July 2012

Bling it up!

I cannot believe it is 4 weeks since I made one of my favourite types of card. Life does have a bit of a habit of getting in the way. I also had left my finishing bits of other cards undone so had 40 inserts , bagging etc to sort out. Also had to do exciting things like tidy up enough space to work in. Anyway all that is out of the way so I can relax and enjoy myself. This is a new stamp for me and I really enjoyed using it to make a fun card.

Image - City Girl stamp from Funky Kits
Also sentiment stamp from lotv

 coloured with letraset pens.

Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen
and backing from an "Isabelle" pack

Dies used - Marianne LR0111, and Spellbinders
also used plenty of bling.

Challenge Covered:- Joanna Sheen 'Going round in Circles'
                          I Love Promarkers - Challenge #125- Circles

Thursday, 14th June 2012

Way before the lark this morning


I don't often get a night's sleep and last night I gave up and mooched around but was too tired to craft so watched some crafting on TV instead. That is what I get for being stressy having left this card undone until the last minute yesterday. I used the brand new house die I received in the morning post and whereas I normally like to play first, but no, this was one cut and get on with it.

Important element - nudges from my pals on the Joanna Sheen forum 

to get on with this card

Image - Bella with Flowers stamp from Wild Rose Studio

 coloured with letraset promarkers and tria pens.

sentiment stamp from lotv embossed

Paper - 6x6 from the Bella paper pack

Dies used - marianne " Craftable die House-2", and 

one each from "Anja leaves" 2 & 4

- Go Kreate "Ornament Frilly 10"

- Spellbinders "Grand Labels 4"

Sunday, 10th June 2012

My favourite colours card !

I am easily tempted to use lilac and pink on my cards and this one is no exception. I also have a bit of a bad habit of tweaking my cards and adding a little bit extra bling, however this is another card which was just great fun to make. The unusual thing about this card is that I have not used any dies.

Image - Maisie Sitting Pretty stamp from lotv

 coloured with letraset promarkers and tria pens.

Paper, card bits and bling from my stash

Although I have not used my pens very much yet, I am enjoying doing so and have decided to pop this into the challenge.

Challenge Covered:-  I Love Promarkers - Challenge 120 - For a Little Girl

Friday, 8th June 2012

 A wee pirate card !

This is definitely fun to do. My only problem is that I start looking at blogs and start looking at items used and go to those sites and before I know hours have passed.
My card today is for a wee lad who has a great imagination, so I know he will like it and I thought I would also enter it in a challenge.

Image - Land Ahoy stamp from lotv

 coloured with letraset pens.

Paper - trimmed 6x6 but cannot remember the pack name.

Dies used - sizzix trunk.
I also used a pair of pattern scissors which I really should use more often. 

Challenge Covered:-  Lili's Little Fairies challenge One for the Boys