New Season

Hello to my wonderful crafty pals, Thank You all for your lovely comments and I hope you are all well. I have no idea which season of the year it is, I am totally confused so I think my card shows it, lol. When I saw this bridge die it was one of those must have, living so close to the city which admires Brunel so much. So I had a wee play with colours and bits of scraps and had great fun. I was also very naughty and added  Grand Decorative Ovals 1 and the Grand Decorative labels 1 to my die collection, well a lass shouldn't get left behind should she, I must say I am impressed with them. The weather has slowed our building work down but come rain or shine we must get on with it. 

Paper and card - card blank is a 6" square 

dark backing card from my old photographic stash, 

 Dies used :- Spellbinders Grand Decorative Labels One, 

Memory Box  Marvelous Bridge, Orchard Tree Frame

and Lamp Post Frame .

Bits and Pieces

Thank you to all my crafty pals for your lovely comments on my decoupage, so very pleased you popped in to see me. I do so enjoy reading your comments and also visiting you. Welcome to my new crafty pals, pull up a chair and relax. I have really been enjoying our lovely bit of sunshine and I wanted to make sure I made the best of it just in case, so my wandering into bloglad is a bit amiss.

You will all be impressed that my March budget is still intact even though it has that extra bit in it, as March contains special days. 

I do quite often play with my toys and as a result end up with some bits and pieces so I thought to pop them on a card. The cogs mask made such an imprint on my silver paper that I decided to cut around it, then I daubed it with a bit of blue ink, and a card was born. 

Paper and card - card blank is a 6 inch square,

the dark blue pearlised card is from old photographic stock,

a couple of scraps of printed canvas paper,

and the silver paper is from a Range scrap box,

Dies used – Memory Box Loom Circle &

the centre of the Gothic Rosette and,

Creative Expressions Cogs Mask.

Spring Yesterday

Hello to all my crafty pals and thank you for your lovely comments on my wee bit of crochet. It is strange what I can remember from a couple of decades ago and I cannot remember what I am doing, from the time I go from the bottom to the top of the stairs. Maybe it is an altitude thing telling me I should start looking for a bungalow, lol.  Yesterday was such a beautiful day and today we are back to the grey. 
Decoupage is not my forte but I had made this up and I thought it was a shame to waste my cutting. I also used my "contempo border" die. I have had it a while and I hadn't quite worked out what to use it on and it had slipped my mind until I saw one of your cards. Hopefully this card will encourage a bit more of spring, but I might take things a bit easier on our next spring day. 

Image - Forever Friends decoupage and sentiment,

Paper and card - card blank is a 6 inch square from centura pearl ivory

and backing is  from stash,

Dies used – Memory Box Contempo Border &

part of the Butterfly Vine Border and,

Die-namics Let's Chat.

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.

My namesake

Hello my crafty pals and I am pleased I managed to get a bit of wandering around blogland , so many beautiful creations, I do wish I had time to comment on all but rest assured I am very pleased that you all show them . Hope you are all well. I couldn't ignore the arrival of my namesake - lol so here she is and I did have a lot of fun making this card. I had bought the Spellbinder's Diamond Strips and Accents as I thought it would be useful for my art deco cards, mislaid the pack so as I was very pleased to have found it I did have a play. Yes you may wonder how I can mislay a whole pack of dies. As always it makes me very happy when I have comments to read. Just realised I haven't put the sentiment on. 

Image - Crafter's Companion Toread Flora

Paper and card - card blank is a 19 cm square,

and backing is  from my stash box,

Dies used – Spellbinders labels 13 & Diamond Strips and Accents and

Memory Box Tessatina Border.

Old meets new

Thank you all for visiting my blog and leaving lovely messages. It is great to be back playing. As I moved some of my stash from A to B and left to right and back again , out poppet this scrap of work which may have been my attempt at t-bag folding. I took a piece of card I didn’t like and overprinted it as I needed to check if my printer worked in it's new position (I can now reach the ciss to refil it without acrobatics) and then played with my latest bit of stash. Well I have been quite good lately so deserved a treat – lol. It wasn’t the die on my wish list, as that one was out of stock, and I hummd and haaahd but it is definitely my sort of die. I cannot believe that the card candi fits perfectly in the centre. So I’ll pop it on here. Later today  I toddle along for a shearing in case I get mistaken for a dulux dog next time I go out even in a slight breeze. Enjoy your crafty fun and hope you are all keeping well. 

Paper and card - card blank is a 19 x 12cm made using overprinted card,
  the die cut paper is from annamarie designs 6x6.

Dies used – Poppystamps(Memory Box) Grand Gothic Stained Glass,

Gypsophila flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

and a single card candi.

Pink Hair

Thank you all for your lovely comments and for popping in to visit my blog, I am so pleased. Todays card is fun and will hopefully appeal to my niece, she was born a beautiful redhead and I mean glorious red but is a gentle person, inevitable over the years the hair has taken on many other shades. I have never actually seen it pink but have been told.  This digi image stole my heart as soon as I saw it having a soft spot for anything fey and I can play with it to my hearts content.

Image - Little Miss Mouse digi from Elizabeth Bell

 coloured with letraset and sakura pens.

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

   the backing papers are from my special card/paper box.

Dies used - Spellbinders square, lattice rectangle & labels 23

 also Memory Box Bistro Label Die.

New Baby

I thought I'd make a quick reverse to my plan to put a few baby cards into the box. I have a few of these little elephant stamps and they are a real favourite of mine. I planned to make a quick easy card and then complicated it by having a die play - lol. I forget where I got the sentiment stamp but that's just life, if I remember I will add it later..

Image - Bella Sleeping stamp from Wild Rose Studio

 coloured with letraset pens.

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

   the backing papers is from the Bella paper pack.

Dies used - Spellbinders squares and

Memory Box Orchard Tree Die.

Couple

At this rate I will be starting my post with "Good Night" , I spent too long today just messing about. I bought this border die a while ago but once I received it I wasn't sure what to use it on. Today I have used it on a plain piece of pearl but it might lend itself to patterned paper also. I think I have only ever made one engagement card before but I had picked up this digi just in case and I hope it works ok.

Image - "Date" digi image from mo manning

 coloured with letraset pens

and the sentiment is from whimsy.

Paper and card - card blank is a 6x6 from Joanna Sheen ,
  the papers and bits of card are from my stash.

Dies used - Spellbinders squares and labels10,

Memory Box fringe border and Whimsy ticket die.

A little bit further

It has been a wee while and no real excuse, well I did misplace a small die and had to tidy my desk looking for it (should have had a whole work team for that job) , anyway I couldn't believe when I found it placed on the middle of the magnetic sheet holding my grand labels.
Patricia kindly told me where she buys her canvas paper so I nipped to that shop which is opposite the supermarket and picked some up. It would have been really rude not to use it so here is my recipe this time round :- I
painted a background on some plain paper
painted a  variety of die cut leaves and placed them loosely over the background
took a photograph
printed the photograph onto the canvas paper


then I started my card. Getting slightly better at photographing acetate, I hope I remember how I did it next time. I even managed to cut the slit in the acetate to slip the wee mouse through without any pain.

Image - part of Surprise! stamp (1649k) from penny black

coloured with letraset pens and pencils.

 Paper and card - card blank is a 19 x 12cm made using centura pearl card
  backing paper top layer (see above) and lower layer from my stash.

Dies used - Memory box Grapevine Wreath and

Spellbinders circle to cut the acetate,

Card Candi - Newsprint. 

I am entering this card into :- 

       Anything Goes Challenge Blog Challenge #74 Make Your Own Background

One Lazy Cat

I think I could slumber away today myself, it is bucketing down outside. I do need an occasional belated birthday card and I think this could meet the requirement. It is yet again a very favourite and well used stamp and gives me the giggles. The mirror card is actually pink and a good match to the rest of the card but my camera is determined to fib about it. I typed the sentiment.

Image - Uplifting Occasion (1738K)  stamp from Penny Black

 coloured with letraset pens.

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

Dies used - Spellbinders,  Die-namics Lets'Chat

and Memory Box Nestled Bird,

bling from stash.

Challenge covered :-    Penny Black at allsorts

Walkies

My goodness the thunder rolled on and on this morning. Decided against putting my computer on just in case although I think the lightening was being doused by the heavy rain. My kindle has gone to sleep so I'm charging it up and hoping it will reboot, it is still under guarantee. So it is a good job us crafters don't need technology, especially as I had the forethought (or luck) in printing the paper yesterday. So fun was still had this morning and although I didn't come up with a super photo I am happy with the card. I double stamped this image and layered it and although a bit finicky for me to do I like the result.

Image - Lead the Way stamp from Funky Kits

 coloured with letraset and copic pens with a bit of sakura stardust clear.

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

Dies used - Memory Box orchard tree frame, 

Spellbinders labels,

and Die-namics Fishtail Flag Stax,

bling and mirror card from stash.

Challenge covered :- The Sugar Bowl: Challenge 89 - Maria Therese's Sketch (Butterflies)
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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