Red,white and blue callenge card!!!

Morning everybody!!!!!

Over on the cricut on the UK crafter thread we are having a red,white and blue challenge set by enfys. I love doing fun challenges, i love the fun aspect and the sharing afterwards!!!

I have to be honest, I have never set out to you red,white and blue together on a card before so this one was great fun.

I had a thankyou card to make so the challenge helped me get that sorted, Thanks En!!!!!

I used teardrop for the sentiment and used all the colours on it by using red for the background, wite for the top and blue ink around the edges with some blue dots and sparkly chalk on the butterfly, also a little bling on the butterflies body!!!( I can't resist bling!!)

I cuttlebugged a white scalloped card with some blue chalk on it, there is some lovely sparkly blue chalk on the sentiment and the butterfly but I can't get a picture of it to come out!!!! tried a close up and you can just see some tiny sparkles here and there!!!

Now I just have to finish off Lewis's doctor who card, start 2 mothers day cards and 2 birthday cards and my work will be done for this week!!!!!!!

Have a lovely day everbody xxxxxx

Love notes meander book!!!! Tag-a-riffic team 2 march challenge entry!

Hello everybody!!!I have had such a lovely sunday, the weather has been gorgeous today. I spent the day playing with my boys in the garden and finishing off my entry team 2's march challenge on the cricut mb, we are called Tag-a-riffic Team 2. Here is the link where the gorgeous entries from the team I am on are going, please check it out as there are some beautiful cards on there already!

http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=4124072&mpage=1&#4199835

And this is my meander book for my entry towards the team!! I am calling it love notes because of the way I wanted to decorate my alternate pages!!!

The pages of the book are made out of my 12x12 sheet of double sided cardstock, I made my covers with ceral boxes cut to 4x4 size. They are covered with my find at my local d.i.y. store (B&Q) and got a scrap of leathery looking wallpaper to cover the cereal box squares!!! it even had false stitching on so I used that for a 'ribbon' to go across the outside of the book.

The tags inside are made out of some left over burgundy pearlescent card I had in my box of cut offs, I inked the egdes, added a bit of leathery string for the pulls and drew journalling lines on the backs with a gold pen.

The heart stamp came free on a magazine and the embossing is my cuttlebug script embossing folder. I inked over the embossing with a charcoal ink pad to bring out the detail.

I don't know what I will use it for yet but my almost 9 year old has his eyes on one being made for him now!!!!

I have 4 birthday cards to make for the weekend and my uk crafters thread challenge on the cricut mb to do for tuesday so I will be a busy bunny!!!

Thankyou so much for popping in xxxx

Leather and Lace pink petticoat cheekies!!!!!

Hello everyone!!!!

well I couldn't get on the mb so I am posting my challenge card on here instead!!!! Me ,Kat and Nicki set ourselves a challenge to use our cheekies from pink petticoat!!! lol !!! that was easier said than done but here is mine!!!! lots of sparkle on the frills but I can't get a good piccy of it!!! grrr!!!!! the black paper is my B&Q wallpaper that I get for my other mb challenge!!! it is so cool taking scraps and making them into something pretty!!!! I loved this leather looking wallpaper so got it in brown and black!!!! going back this weekend for more !!lol!!!!

If you can't see it in the picture the sentiment says:

Leather and lace.... (outside)

....will make his heart race!! (inside)

Thankyou for popping in!!!

Making my first real scrapbook!!!

Hello everyone!!! I have not posted for a few days as I have been feeling quite poorly, I am feeling much better today but have a little black cloud feeling over me I can't shake off!!! I am putting it down to the dreadful weather and having been poorly!!!

Anyway, I have been attempting my first real scrapbook for the last couple of days. I was desperate to use m bind it all on it and it i for a secret mission that I won't pop on here incase the person it is meant for sneeks a peek at it!!! (anyone who goes on the cricut mb might know its purpose but for everyone else I will post some pictures when it is finished!)

I used some co-ordinating starry paper from my stash and mixed in some white pages that I am not sure what I will do with yet!!!! Some lovely people who have been helping me have suggested some strips of patterned paper on them to stop them being so white though as normal for me I will be inking the edges!!! lol !!!!

Anyone who is good wih their bind-it -all will notice that I made a major boo-boo when I first tried to put my binding holes in but me being me decided to hide the boo-boo by telling myself I didit like that to thread some co-ordinating ribbon ( lou tells off the voices in her head for trying to make her think otherwise!!! lol!!!)

The beigey coloured page is a pocket page for popping bits in like tickets or notes, one of my lovely friends from work showed me how to do it as she has been to a bind-it-all class.

I am going to put little diamontes or pearls in the centres of the little stars on the front of the book but it is a work in progress and a little out of my comfort zone!!! My theory is I will not learn unless I try so I plod on!!!

I hope everybody has had a lovely weekend xxxx

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