card made with my docrafts mag freebie stickers!!

Urgh, I am poorly today, I have an infectiony virusy thing and have to go for some bloods next week when I finish my antibiotics, argh!!!
It took me until 10pm tonight to feel well enough to pop this card together for a friend at work.
I used the gorgeous stickers that came free on my docrafts magazine, I love them and will definately be buying some when I run out of these cute little guys.
I wish my head was more together but I feel blurgh so please excuse any ramblings!!!
I used my hearts cuttlebug embossing folder and inked it brown, I got a few smudges which I am a bit sad with but I don't think they are to noticeable ( she hopes!!) and the edges of the card. I put some lovely dotty brown ribbon across the middle of the card on the outside and inside to follow through and made myself some little mats for the front out of double sided patterned card ( I know this is a terrible cheat but its the only way I can mix colours and know they will go together!!!)
I inked the edges of those too and popped a little daisy on the front mat,I wrote 'amy' on the gift tag on the present with an ultrafine sharpie pen and doodled around the edge a little, then popped the daisy mat on foam squares to make it stand out a bit. I used some of the flowers on the sheet to decorate the edge of the card and on the inside there is the 'birthday wishes' sticker from the pack just above the ribbon but i forgot to take a picture of that!!!
I hope everyone has had a better day than me!!! lol!!!
thankyou for popping in xxxxxx

wintery happy mail for michelle!!!

Hello everbody!!!!

(oooh I have just worked out how to make my text bigger!! I like this size much better!!)

I hope everybody is having a lovely sunday. I am, it is a lovely sunny day here and warming up a little, I have got the back door open for fresh air and the dog is happily chomping away on his bone, while Little Mo plays in his sand table, I love days like this after all the gloom of winter.

I have had an email from Michelle saying she has received her 'happy mail' so I can share it with you now!!

For our 'happy mail' this month Michelle and I decided on something wintery, it took me a week or so to get going on this one!!! but once again I decided to use my lovely hallmark deluxe studio. I played around in the art studio part of it making the background paper for the book and pages and choosing and sizing clip art to put on it, all of the little embellies and pictues are in it too so although it takes me a longtime to do, it prints out all at once and then I just have to make it up.

The first 2 little verses on the pages I found on the internet under a gardeners poems search (Michelle loves flowers and gardening so that was important to me) but the last verse on the page I had to make up for myself so went for a kind of soppy one as it is the page where Michelles dh's picture is.

I inked all te edges of the book cover, pages, pictures and verses before I put it all together and then set to work putting pictures where I wanted them. I adhered the ribbon to the book cover before attaching the pages and popped 2 little eyelets in to thread it through.

I used some 3d glaze to make the snowman on the covers nose and buttons stand out and on each of the embellies on the pages. I went around the frames of the pictures with some glitter glue. I really enjoyed putting this book together.

I wanted to make a box to pop the book in so I turned to my TBBM cart and chose a little box with a window cutout. I ran the box through my cuttlebug with the snowflakes embossing folder and inked it with blue ink. Then I cut a little bit of acetate and ran it through my cuttlebug with the same folder and gently sanded it to 'frost' the snowflakes, I adhered it to the inside with a bit of double sided tape and attached some ribbon with a 'made with love' charm on it.

Thankyou so much for popping in to have a nosey, I love all my visitors and comments and will be having a little rak soon. I cant afford much but that is the joy of rak's I think, just to share a little bit of something with people who are interested in what you make and take the time to pop in and see what you have been up to I don't always leave comments on peoples blogs (i would be on my computer all day!!!) but I check everyday on my blog dashboard all the people I follow (its a lot!!!) and enjoy the inspiration they all give me on a daily basis.

I'm off to play in the sunshine now!!! Ta-Ta for now xxxxxxxx

Mel's birthday card made using capadia's cutfile.

wow, i love this cutfile from diane, heres the link to her blog, go visit,she's awesome. http://capadiadesigns.blogspot.com/

This card is for my lovely friend Mel's birthday. I used the plantin version of Diane's cutfile and swapped out the flowers and hearts for happy birthday and MEL in doodletype. I inked the edges of the card and cuttlebugged some flower borders that I chalked and inked and added a little bit of bling in adhesive pearls. I glazed the happy birthday and mel and then made myself a tag pocket with my tbbm cart along with 2 little tags to put my birthday wishes on and a little sentiment. I inked those too and popped a bit of doodle dotting on them.

I hope I have explained myself ok, its late here and I am soooo tired!!!

Thankyou for popping in xxxx

Little Mo's bookmark for nannie.

I know this isn't made by me but I love it and am so proud I had to share it!!!!
This is the bookmark my gorgeous little boy made for his nannie today, he was looking through one of his 'little boy making books' as he calls it, (it is actually my yellowmoon book but it is for little people and where most of his crafty bits come from!!!) and he saw a bookmark and decided he wanted to make it for nannie, I didn't have any bookmarks ( am a bad mummy!!!!) so I cut him a bit of white material. He made some little snips in the bottom to make it lok like the one in the book and I helped him to sort out the letters for 'nannie' (he is only 4 and doesn't know all his letters yet and the ones he does know are lowercase, whereas these stickers were uppercase!!!) I love the way he placed then down the bookmark, proud mummy moment as I thought he placed them really well. Then I gave him his puffy glitter fabric paints and he decorated around the letters (another proud mummy moment as he was so cute and careful with his little tongue popping out the side of his mouth and he didn't want to get paint on the letters,awwwww...!!!)
Thankyou for popping in for a peek,I will tell Little Mo you looked!!!xxxx

Whoop-Whoop!! I used my bind-it-all!!!- Vicki's one sheet pocket book.

Hello everyone!!!!

This week I have been desperately trying to rid myself of my 'use my new bind-it-all' fear!!!! This happens to me with anything new!! I get it, open the box, get excited, read the instructions and then put it away again!!!!! lol !!!! i even did it withmy baby bug and my big E!!!

Anyway at the weekend I decided I needed to get the bind-it-all out and have a go so I went on a blog womble and found vicki's tutorial for the one sheet pocket book, here's the link:

http://angelstamper2.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorial%20-%20One%20sheet%20pocket%20book

It was lovely to follow and here is my book!!!! It is a little bit naked as I haven't had time to fill it in or decorate it too much yet,just a little adhesive lace and circle folded in half for the front and back so far and a bit of inking, I quickly slipped a little tag in there to show the pockets but I will post another few pictures when I have done a bit more to it.

I just want to thank vicki for sharing this fab tutorial, I love it and will be making lots more!!!!!

Matthew's 18th birthday card....argh I must be getting old!!!

Hello everyone!!!!!

I have had a very busy february so far!!!! lots of birthdays to make cards for!!!

This one is for Matthew, who i used to nanny for. For anyone who follows my blog you will see that I have made 4 cards for children I used to nanny for in my posts!!! they are Elliott (football/soccer ball shaped card), Natasha ( shopoholic teen card!), Tiffany ( the girly football/soccer card) and last but not least Matthew, whose card this is, who is 18 tomorrow.

They are all brothers and sisters and they were my first nannying job. I love them dearly even though it has been a good 10 years since I stopped being their nanny and they are very special to me. I cannot explain the bond I have with the children I have nannied for, I have 2 others, Hugo and Claudia, from another family and I feel the same way about them. I try to get to see them all or email them to keep in contact but wish I could see them all a little more often than I do, I have all these plans and then life happens!!!!! lol !!!!!

Anyway, for matthews card I used this tutorial from splitcoast stampers

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ee/index.php/resources/tutorials/freestandingpopupcard/

I rounded the edges of my mat and tag and inked them then I popped the tag bit through my cuttlenug to get the happy birthday embossed on it. Then more ink (lou is beginning to think she may have an inking addicition.........!!)

The little wooden square stickers are from my stash and I love them, I got them so long ago I dread to think what I will do when they run out!! I inked them a little too to distress them a little. I mounted them on a bit of black cardstock I had left over from cutting the card base and mats and adhered it to the card so that when the card is open it is just standing up from the edge of the card.

I used my doodletype cart to make the 18 in shadow then in normal function. I inked the edges of the numbers ( ...see I do ink everything.....arggghhhh......!!) and glued them together, then using a bit of tacky glue ( my tape and other glues refuse to adhere to my chalk inks so anita's acky glue is the answer!!!) I adhered them to the bottom piece of my tag so they pop out when it is fully open.

I used a little bit of my leathery lace string to tie around the front and through the eyelet to pull the tag up, I decided this is more manly!!!!!

I always find mens cards a bit tricky and now Matthew is 18 it had to be a man card!!!!!

I am just fininshing off my happy mail for my lovely friend Michelle, the a cup of tea before I head of on my EYFS course for the day.

Thankyou so much for popping in, hope you have a lovely monday xxxxxx

Soccer card for a girl!!!!

OOOH another busy week in the Daubney house!!!! I have just got time to pop this cad on my blog before I go back out to work.

I have had a lovely day today. Dh took me for a ride to doncaster to check out 'which craft?' which was lovely, I had a budget of £10 and got myself some super duper pop-up cards (will make one to show you soon!!) and a new card mag called 'creative cardmaking' that I am going to read tonight while I am at work and some rings for making a tag book for Mo.

Anyway, a few details about this soccer card I made for Tiffany who I used to nanny for, she loves football and plays for a team so this cad was what I decided on for her this year!!!

I used my soccer solutions cart for this one, I welded a blackout of the soccer girl to the picture frame on the cart and thencut another blackout and a normal one to go on top to get a layered effect. I popped the top layer on foam dots to get it to pop up a bit from the card.

Then I popped my card base through my cuttlebug with the happy birthday embossing folder and inked it with pink ( well, i needed some girliness!!!) and glued the frame to the top of the card.

Then a bit more inking around the edges of the card and doodling too (i have to doodle!!). The font for Tiff's name is 'bend it' from www.dafont.com.

Sorry this is a quicky but I have to fly, Thankyou so much for popping by xxxxxxx

Mini album for little mo.

I made this cute little album today for my little boy. He absolutely loves his pets and he is doing pet topic at nursery at the moment. They needed to take in some pictures of their pets and he has been taking in photographs but I decided to make him a little book with my hallmarks card studio deluxe, I love it as it is great for quick and simple cards and projects.

All I really haf to do was upload 3 pictures, journal a tiny bit,print it out then cut out all the parts to it and assemble!!

I went over all the edges with some terracotta chalk ink an popped some eyelets on it for the leathery stringy bit to go through ( i don't have a clue what to call the string as it is leathery but not ribbon so please excuse my description!! lol!!!) I am going to play and make another album in a bit while I wait for my lovely dh to come home from our 8 year olds football training with yummy veg pizza and potato skins....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......!!!!

Thankyou for popping in xxxx

Perfect card for a shopoholic teen!!!

Helloooo everybody!!!!!
I have had a cuople of busy days so no time for making a card (boo-hoo!!) so today I am sharing one that I made back in october. I made this card for the little girl I used to be a nanny for ( scarily, she is not that little anymore!!! ) and she loves to shop!! perfect for a handbag cards thinks me and gets out the tbbm cart. Then I decided I wanted it a little bit more personal so I made a cardbase in ds with the name welded down the side. I used double sided patterned cardstock ( this is my one big cheat!!! i am awful with the colour matching thang and this cardstock is my lifesaver....urgh, what happens when i run out of it?!!!.... panick sets in!!!)
I cut the bag, card mats, letters and inside mats for the card all on the same piece of cardstock, i just flipped the image on the parts that I wanted to be the plain coour and cut it all in one go.
I stck the letters onto the base, added a few white gel pen dots and glazed over the top to make them shiny.I ran the top mat for the card through my cuttlebug with the happy birthday embossing folder.
For the bag handle I just threaded some black seed beads onto a piece of wire,shaped it into the handle shape and popped it through the holes in the top of the bag where I would normally put ribbon. I popped a little pearl on the closure with a tiny reposistionable glue dot on the inside, I did that because I gave her money for her birthday and put it in the little bag!!!!

On an off cards topic, my new bind-it-all pink version from my gorgeous husband arrived yesterday!!! whoop, whoop!!!! ....as always with new things...I got it out the box and then put it away in fear!!!!! lol!!! I do this everytime I get something new!!!!!! but watch this space,I will pluck up the courage to use it soon!!!!!!

I love,love,love my wild card cart!!!!!

I really do love my wild card cartridge, it is so much fun. My favourite a the moment is the scalloped circle card on the setting where you get the lovely little cutouts aroud the edge.

This one is for my friend Vicky,I cut it at 5" and cut a 4" cirlce out of some lilac coloured coredinations card. I popped the 4" circle through my cuttlebug in the divine swirls embossing folder and sanded the top of the embossing lightly to get the core colour to show and inked around the edges with a couple of lilacy colours, one light and one dark and stuck it onto the card base.

I cut some flowers from george at 1/2" and inked around the edges of them with a whispers pen and popped a little diamonte on each one for the center. I threaded a bit of ribbon through 2 of the little cutouts and stuck the cute little flowers onto the ribbon with some tacky glue.

The gorgeous girl is one of grab-a-doodle-do's Lily collection, I chalked around her in light pink and put a shimmery creamy colour on her skin, a bit more pink blusher on her cheeks ( i may of been getting bit carried away!!!!! made myself stop when i started thinking about eye makeup for her!!!lol!!!)and added some glittery glue to her dress and bow to bling her up a bit.

The little wooden circle alphabet is one I picked up ages ago, I just inked the edges as it looked a bit lost when I first put them on!

I glitter glued around the edges of the card too and popped some doodle dots around the scallops and a little bow at the top and hey prseto she was done!!!

I didn't take a picture of the inside but it was a 4" circle of the patterned card,glitter glued around the edges with a little happy birthday from my design runner mounted on the plain lilac card and a few doodle dots here and there!!!

I have had a super day today. It was strangely warm this morning so Mo and I spent all morning spreading some compost in the back garden and playing then we had lunch which Mo prepared for us, chopped up carrots,cucumber,tomatoes and cheese (yummy!!) and I won a rak on the cricut mb!! it doesn't get much better than that!!!!

Have a lovely sunday everybody and thankyou for popping in xxxxxx