OOOh I love these!! More Grab-a-doodle-do's!!!

I have had a lovely day today. I caught up with one of my best friends (and probably one of my oldest friends!!) Leah, and had lots of tea and giggles, I love days like today. I don't have much but I am truly grateful for what I do have and wouldn't swap a thing about my life (lou thinks hard about that and decides she would definately change the size 14 that she is and be a 10 again!!!! lol!!!!) I even got 2 cards done tonight!!

I am so pleased that I wombled over to http://grab-a-doodle-do.blogspot.com/ one day!!

I love these Josh and Lilly's., Thankyou Sally-Anne xx

I used my new wild card cartridge for the Lilly one and did a pocket card for the Josh one. You can probably tell I am loving my new cats eye chalks at the moment too, I love the way that inking or chalking adds new definition to the card, it really makes a difference.I put 3d glaze on Josh's football but it doesn't come out that well in the photograph.

Grab-a doodle's Lilly.

Hello!!!!! oh i love these little images I have got from grab-a-doodle (link at the top right of my blog) his one is Lilly. I had a tought time deciding which one to use for this card!!!!! the choice is sooo hard as they are all so cute!! I chose this Lilly sitting on the present in the end ( I had to hide the rest under my card magazines to stop them looking at me!!!! lol!!!) This one is one of my cards for Kazz's carsd for claire house appeal ( I am on a last minute rush to get some more done for her!). She has soe glitter glue on her present and I cuttlebugged the scallop with divine swirls before giving it what I was hoping to be a grungy kind of inking look but I am not sure I pulled it off!! I used my white souffle pen to add some dooodledots here and there and a little bit of lacey sticker across the card and inside, I used my xyron design runner for the'Happy Birthday' inside and I bought the sentiment sticker in the sales!!!!

I am still learning how to use my design runner and still only have the little trial disc that comes with it but I am enjoying the ease of quickly popping a sentiment on a card.

Right now I am going to have a play with the cheekies I downloaded from pink petticoat (watch out Kazz, claire house could be getting some 'cheekie' cards!!)

Thankyou for looking xxxxx

grab-a-doodles Josh!!

Hello everybody!

I would like you to meet Josh!!! isn't he cute? he came as one of 6 images I got from grab-a-doodle (the link is at the top on the right) I saw him and fell in love with him, they are so cool.

The card itself was a bit rushed as it was a last minute birthday card but I hope it shows him off a bit.

I embossed the card with my happy birthday cuttlebug file and inked the edges, then I made 'birthday boy!' in word on my computer and put them on the card with foam dots to make them stand out. I glitter glued Josh's t-shirt to make it a litle bit blingy for the birthday boy and hey presto!!! a quick card done!!!

I feel so honoured & quite blubbery!! but in a good way!!

I got this from Enfys!!! I am just speechless. This is such a lovely surprise and I feel so honoured. I haven't had my little blog for that long and I really didn't think anyone would be that bothered about looking at it!!! I look today and I have 26 followers ( this is a lot for me!! I didn't think I would get any!!) Thankyou so much Enfys, I am honoured to have recieved this from you as you are one of the people who really inspires me and I love your blog.

I think that I pass this on now so here I go. There are so many I would love to pass it on to but I am going to do 5 people like Enfys did!! ( I will have to search for a different award picture for Enfys later as I don't want to give her the same award twice!!)

http://craftybuggersunite.blogspot.com/ This is Kate's blog, like mine it is quite new but she has some cool cards on there I love.

http://cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/ I lurve shelley's cards, there is no patterned paper available that she cannot match together perfectly and her cards are breathtaking, she is awesome.

http://huxtershouse.blogspot.com/ For my lovely Julie just because her cards are amazing and she is lovely xx

http://scrappindad.blogspot.com/ For Jason because he is a breath of fresh air between all us chicks and a fantastic scrapper and card maker.

http://susanbluerobot.blogspot.com/ There are no words to thank Susan for everything she does for everybody, I know her blog and the tie she takes to do tutorials and files have been invaluable to me and I love her blog.A very, very special lady.

There are so many more I love but this is a start!!

I am going now to do the hapy dance around my room for my blog award xxxx

My little cuttlebug trio!!!

I had lots of cards to make today!!! I have my own little list of 'to do's' along with some cards that i need to make for Kazz from the cricut mb for claire house. I made a deal with myself to do one of my cards and then one for Kazz until I had got a bit further down my list!! I think in total I have made 14 cards today!!! I am pooped!!

Anyway this is my cute little cuttlebug trio!! The best thing is that all the bits came out of my stash so I haven't had to buy anything yet!!! The little teddy stickers came free on a magazine ages ago and the little button is one from a set of 6 my mum bought me for a present a while back.

The green one uses the happy birthday folder, the pink one is tiny bubbles and the white baby one is swiss dots (i love swiss dots for baby cards). A bit of inking, foam dots and ribbon and I was done!!! The insides of the cards are quite nice too but the only cuttlebugged one is the pink one and i used the 'with love' border folder for inside that one.

I still have more cards to do for Kazz as she assures me there are a cuople of weeks left yet, I had gotten myself thinking they had to be in for this week!!

Valentines idea's for rockers!!!

I made this card for my husband for his birthday, he got guitar heros on tour (yes, the drumsand everything, i was so pleased with 3 boys in the house......!!!) so I decided to make him a guitar shaped card!!!

I used indie art for the cut and welded 2 guitars together in ds, there are lots of little fiddly bits to it but it was great fun to do. I wanted it to look kind of real so I used silver metallic thread for the strings. The strings are attached with some 3d glaze. For the inside I used a bit of the left over cut so it didn't look too plain!!

I used double sided patterned cardstock as it made it a really easy way to get some colour into the guitar that was co-ordinated!!!!

I thought all it would need to make it a valentines card would be a change of sentiment to 'Valentine, you rock my world'

Lily-boo's boutique fairy.

Here are a couple of cards I made with one of my big sister sam's brand new valentine fairy image stamps ( this one is available to buy for just £1, which I think is around $1.40 ish!!).

I love this fairy, she is so versatile!! she perched beautifully on top of a rock on my hearts pop up cards (more valentine inspiration guys!! lol !!) and sat gorgeously on the edge of the polka dot card ( think that one is my fav!).

I can no way colour as well as my big sis but I am still pleased with my effort!! I added a little sparly 'fairy dust' ( ok, ok its glitter glue really!!) and the paper is funky hand paper, I think it is 'salt and pepper'

Heres the link for funky hand, the link will take you straight to the sat and pepper page!!!:http://www.funkyhand.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=25

And if you want to buy the image of the fairy (oh please do!!!!) click on the paypal link below. I have popped a picture of her uncoloured as she will be!!

Thankyou for peeking at her, she's so thoughtful sat there with her heart.

File will be e-mailed asap

The cuttlebugspot challenge entry!

I had so much with the challenge I am taking part in on the cricut mb that I decided to get brave and do another one. I went to the cuttlebug spot and thought I would have a go at that one ( you should see the designers cards,they are awesome) so here is my go at the challenge.

I used the spots and dots folder to emboss the party hat card that I designed on my cricut ds and found some 'manly' double sided cardstock in my stash. I liked it so much when it was done that I made another one, they are always handy to have incase a male birthday creeps up on me!!!!!

I hope it is good enough for the challenge, I am not really used to doing them so I am not 100% sure whats the done thing!!!! lol !!!

more valentines inspiration!!

well, I couldn't get my blog to load pictures last night so I thought I would try it before I go to work!!!!

****All credit for the bases of these cards must go to Susan, please click on the link to her blog in my bloglist on the right hand side (Susan blue robot). If you haven't been before she shares her knowledge of the cricut and some amazing cute files and is so giving, her tutorials are great and if you have any questions she answers them so quickly. She really is a lovely lady.

So here are some of the first cards I ever made when I got my cricut and downloaded the trial version of ds, I thought these cards had a 'love' feeling to them!!

The cute guy in the kebab card is my little mo but you could easily change the photo for a valentines greeting!!

grrrrr, can't upload pictures on my blog tonight!!

grrrrr, I have been trying to upload some more valentines ideas for you all but my blog just won't let me do it. I will try again tommorrow xxxx