Blue butterfly

By the time I finish this post it will be a very Good Afternoon to my great crafty pals. So glad you liked my little mice scene which gave me so much fun in the making, and enjoyment in the reading of your comments. 
Yesterday was a definite crafting no-no, I started thinking what I wanted to do , then remembered I was supposed to do some animal cards for the kennels so I changed my plan and at that moment mojo skipped out the door.
I haven't cracked the cd crafting thing yet so I got as far as changing my pdf files into jpegs and took a pause, I will try harder tomorrow - I think I feel that the cd images commit me to the colours I have to use even though I know I can change then before printing.
So I left the animal kingdom and played with my dies this morning and my much ignored embossing folders, still managed a bit of messing with the inkpads also. I was a little cross with myself for cutting the ribbon too short but managed to squeeze new tails in so I think I got away with that.  I think my card may need a greeting or a bit of bling in the bottom left but  I will have to think about it and listen to any suggestions which you may make.

 Paper and card - card blank is an A5 made from pearlescent card,

the backing card is mottled grey from the Paper Mill

and the paper and silver embossed are from my special card/paper box. .  

Dies used - Sizzix embossing folders Winter #2 and burlap

Memory Box Delia and Finn butterflies and

Magnolia Doohickeys Doily Flowers and Hellebores.

Art and Craft

Good Morning all, I missed you all yesterday as I was at the dental hospital. It was my first visit to the new hospital and of course they have given it a new postcode also (I really must get a modern satnav). Anyway I got there and more by luck than judgment ended up in the correct lane for the right turn across the dual carriageway. Phew. I slept when I returned home so that was my day gone. I have now been playing for some time on todays fun card of mice and a bit of washi. I put a bit of tissue paper under part of the small strip of washi so it looks like a bit of material for the mice to sew. Admission time - the extra mouse at the bottom right is a cover up as I had an embellishment there that didn't work out (tried to fiddle and it broke).
The rest of my card is made up from 3 separate stamps, I do love masking and and over stamping when it works , which is quite a task with wooden stamps but very satisfying. Anyway enough waffle, I hope you enjoy and thank you for your lovely comments on my layering card and I will play catch up today.

Image - some of my all time favourite Penny Blacks

Sew Much Fun - 1650L

Spoolin' Around - 1653E

Things to do! - 1683K also

1 mouse from Tea Cozy - 1680J

coloured with letraset pens.

 Paper and card - card blank is an A5 made with Centura Pearl white,
  the backing paper is from my special card/paper box. 

PS: no dies were used making this card - lol

Challenge entered :-    Penny Black at allsorts

Play at layering

Well I hope I am forgiven as I abandoned my crafty pals today if favour of a queue (so rude of me especially as you are all so kind to me), cannot say I enjoyed being in this queue as I flipped backwards and forwards from the timeout page, to the wait page and then to the trying to connect and for anybody who thinks I've completely cracked up the answer is yes. Anyway success was achieved and we will at some time next year be the proud owners of our Glastonbury tickets, this took 1hour and 30 minutes of constant clicking, and got there just 10 minutes before they sold out.
So to wind down from the amount of coffee I consumed I decided that it was high time I had a real go at layering, I am always very impressed with what crafty peeps achieve through their lovely layering. I resisted adding the butterflies I was going to add but did add a little corner of bling. Please feel free to suggest things I could add to the card.

Image - digi image teacupfairy from mo manning

coloured with letraset and sakura pens.

 Paper and card - card blank is an 8inch square

and backing paper are from my special card/paper box. .  

Dies used -Go Kreate XXL Square frames Frilly #7.

Lace Gift

Thank you my blogging pals for putting up with my tiredness and my playing with different ideas, I am so pleased you visit and leave comments. 

Today’s card started with a gift of some beautiful lace. I hope my card lives up to it to some degree. I am always tempted to cover every little bit of my card so I grouped my flowers into one corner perhaps a little too tightly but got close to what I was aiming for. I was tempted to start adding butterflies and bling but I resisted. 

Paper and card - card blank is an A5 made from Centura Pearl White.
  the backing paper is one of the versions of my painted background

from a month ago – I painted on some plain paper, painted a

variety of die cut leaves and placed them loosely over the background,

took a photograph – this time I printed it differently onto pearlised paper.

Dies used – Memory Box Bistro Label and Crealies 11

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

romantic but modern

Thank you all for your lovely comments on my first washi experience. It certainly looks as if romance is on the up and up as my last engagement card left the box yesterday and I needed to do one today - romantic but modern. Oh! I'm game to have a bash at anything.
This has been slightly hampered by one of these "do not do this please" - Yesterday morning I was cleaning the sticky from the back of a new spellbinder die, took my attention from what I was doing and the next thing I knew, well I'm sure you all heard me scream as I am such a wimp but the edge of the die cut right into the bend of my index finger. Every time I tried to do anything it split open again. I ran out of non-allergic tape but fortunately I'm not allergic to masking tape so I have a purple band round my finger.
Well I settled for something simple and papery with toned down buttons and a mix of pink and blue ribbon so here it is.

First Washi Play

Thank you all for your lovely comments on my little ski boy. I am pleased to be playing again so I got out my new goodies and did just that. I was going to put a topper on this card but I might leave it. So without further ado here is my play.

Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen ,

   the papers are from annamariedesigns bought at Westpoint.

Dies used - Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circles One (smallest die) for the background, 

also used Die-namics Bookmark, layered rose and Retro Squares

and topped it off with 2 black roses and 3 white from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I put the washi tape onto 160gsm Text and Graphics then cut it with the retro squares die, I separated the end piece which had a small piece of washi tape to use in the top right corner.

 

 

Ski Boy

Well that is enough lolling about especially as I have to rouse myself to leave the house in the morning. I think when we put the central heating on my brain just says "why should I go out into the cold?" lol. I've had a little play, but not with my new stash yet, and to be honest this card does actually look better in real life than in the photo(the wool is actually very white). Anyway I found a bottle of "fluffy stuff", it has no instructions and a blocked nozzle but that never stopped a crafter before so I put it on the snow balls but I now seem to remember I should have dried it with the heat gun. Hope you are all having fun and I am in awe at the number of beautiful cards, etc that I have seen when wandering around my crafty pal's sites. 
PS: I have coloured his hair now , it is a good think putting photos on here, you can see what you have missed.

Image - Ski Jump stamp from lotv 

coloured with letraset pens.

 Paper and card - card blank is a 19 x 12cm made using Paper Mill card.  

Dies used - Marianne Designables DS0914 for the background., 

also used Memory Box Fringe Border and Tall Birch.