Team 1- Just buggin away-april challenge entry!!!

Hello everybody, hope you all had a good monday. I had such a nice weekend the thought of work was a bit urghhhh when I woke up this morning!!!!

So todays piccies are of my challenge entry for the april challenge. I am on the just buggin away team which is team 1). I absolutely love these challenges as they are just so much fun, I find it so much easier creating things when there is no pressure and I can just let my mind womble with ideas!! I set the challange this month to use the card function on any cart ( i did this a couple of weeks ago on the UK crafters thread so decided it would be a lovely one for aprils challenge too.) I wanted to do a altered project as I didn't want to make a card again, I wanted to broaden my horizons!!!lol!!! and my BIA has been gathering dust as I get frightened to use it!!! lol!!!!

I worked really hard on this one yesterday. I managed to get the inside ages made in the morning while dh was watching the failed grand prix!! and got the cricut bit cut out ( my big E sometimes disturbs mo at night so i tend not to use it if he is in bed!!)I used the cupcake card key from doodlecharms for this on and used my CDS to stretch it to 6x6, I popped a ribbon on it and attached some bling in the form of the little Anita's gemstones, they are tiny and very gorgeous!!! and made the tag on my computer,the big part of the card is mounted on foam and i stuck the cut out bits straight down onto the cover for a bit of depth, I inked,doodle dotted and stickled the cake before I glazed it.I used cereal boxes covered with paper for the front and back pages and some of my big one paper stack for the inner pages, folded to make pockets for the cards to go in!! the patterns are the same but the colours change. The month journally bits i did on my computer,lots of inking and a few yummy bits of ribbon on the spiney bit!! Phew!!! I think I remembered everything!!

Don't forget to watch this space and I will pop a link to everyones creations on here at the end of the month and members of the cricut mb get to vote for the best team. You should see the amazing things people make.

I really want to get brave enough to use my BIA more, I really should practice more on bigger projects as I struggled a little doing the binding and got some a bit squashy!!! (thankfully I couldn't see it once I had popped the ribbons on.) I want to try a paperbag album next but don't know where to find some nice paper bags in the UK!!!

Anyway, I have waffled on at you all enough so am going to go to bed now!!

Nighty night guys xxxxxxxxx

Vicki's hidden drawer card!!!

Hello!!!

well it is a glorious day here in lincoln, the sun is shining and it is warmish, to be honest just the sight of the sun shining cheers me up.

This is the box that I made for the little girl I used t nanny for. She is getting into crafting quite a lot now and loves dogs. She has a black lab so when I saw this stampI just had to get her it.

I found vicki's fab tutorial for this cute little hidden drawer card, heres the link:

http://angelstamper2.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorial%20-%20Hidden%20Drawer%20Card

I had to make it a tiny bit bigger to fit the stamp in and please bear in mind that I made this before I went to my stamping class today so it probably isn't the best stamping!!! The stamps are from the inkadoo dogs life clear stamps set ( the cutest dog stamps I have seen!!) I put a bit of 3d glaze over the dogon the front to make it look cute and shiny!!

I stamped with a browny colour as I love pink and brown together and inked the edges with a slightly darker brown to get everything working together nicley. I did a bit of doodling and computer printed the greeting ( I don't like my own handwriting much!!)

I put some decorative shred inside the little drawer and popped the stamp in on top of that.

Thankyou so much Vicki for your lovely tutorials xxxxx

Cuttlebugspot double embossing challenge!!!

Hello!!!

This is my entry for the cuttlebugspot double embossing challenge. I tried (....... and failed!!!) a few different ideas bit this i the one I liked the best.

For the base,I used my swiss dots folder first and then got out one of my little embossing borders and ran it back throughto get the little buttons on. Then I inked theembossed dots with a light blue and the edges of the card buttons in a darker blue and popped a little bit of glaze on them to make them show up. For the centre panel I used swiss dots again and then ran it back through with one of the little stamps embossing folders that came free with my cuttlebug!! I inked the dots with light blue again and the stamp embossed bit with the darker one. Then I popped a bit of glitter glue on the pram to help it stand out. I had a little scrap left from my dots embsossing so I used a corner rounder for the edges and popped it on the inside!!

The second time through sqiushes the first lot of embossing a little bitit still looks quite cool, I enjoyed this one, Thankyou Nilda!!!!!

Check out everybody elses gorgeous cards here:

http://thecuttlebugspot.blogspot.com/2009/03/challenge-24-emboss-it-twice.html

Thankyou for popping in xxxxx

My big little boy is 9!!!!

Hello everyone!!! I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend, I have got the dreaded coldy lergy again but have had a really,really nice day. We woke up early as always and still not able to take Little mo for his swimming lesson as he has had an awful ear infection and hasn't been able to swim without lots of pain.

So we all jumped in the car and went for a drive to nottingham to go to hobbycraft, I got a couple of tiny bits from there and the had a womble around the range ( i find it a bit muddled in there!!) and got myself some little quickcutz rockers to help me learn how to stamp! Then we spent the afternoon around our kitchen table maikng things, Mo had his bindeez, I was making my challenge card for the UK crafters thread on the cricut mb and scott and ryan were making an airfix plane they bought in hobbycraft!!! The weather was awful today so this was a nice treat for us all.

Monday was my 'big' little boys 9th birthday ( wow, time goes so fast!!!) so me and Mo have been busy making birthday cards. Ryan is a really big football fan so we went with a football theme. I have decided there is nothing more magical than sitting at the table with my 4 year old and making cards, he loves it.

A while ago Enfys made a football card with these football stickers and I loved them, I went and bought them and have been hiding them ever since!!!! For my card I used one of the footballs for the 'o' in son and cut an 's' and 'n' with my doodletye cart. The wording on the card is done on my computer using 'bend it' font from dafont (this has been one of my most used freebie downloads!!!!) and my first attempt at stamping is the footballs on the base card!!!!! ( i know, not great but I am going for a class next week!!) for the inside I printed out a picture of my mini Beckham!! he was very pleased with it.

Mo decided he needed to draw ryan playing football and put a birthday hat on it so it looked like he was playing 'goals' on his birthday!!!! I love his card, it is sooooo cute and he loves making things next to mummy, magic times for me!!!

Thankyou for popping in xxxxxxxx

Grrrrrr day with my glitter glue!!!

Do you ever have one of those cards that you thought about for a couple of days, totally loved making and then get a grrrrrrrr moment?!!!!

Well, that happened to me yesterday!! I made a card that I really like, its a little bit cheeky for my lovely friend ( who is also a little bit cheeky!!!!) I used my pink petticoat cheekies and decided I would glue the frills with irredescent embossing powder to make them sparkle (oooh pretty thought Lou...) it seemed like fab idea to finish it off. I had already glazed the basqe and pants to glitz them up a bit so though this would be a quick finish, I popped some tacky glue on the frills and put the embossing powder on last night thinking it would be dry for the morning, (sharon's birthday today....me thinks i cut it too fine with cardmaking!!!!) how wrong was I?!!!!!! it was still wet when I got up for work this morning and I needed to take it with me but I couldn't.

I felt so bad that I hadn't got it done in time but above you have the piccy of the offending card!!!! totally my fault.

I used my george and all mixed up cart (in shadow for the base and normal in the pink) for the card base and then my glittery sticky paper for the letters for a bit of girly blitz!! I then cut a slightly smaller rounded square for the front mat on the card and ran it through my cuttlebug with the happy birthday embossing folder (it looks really cool in real life but not so cool in the photo, as does the evil glittery frill,grrrrrrr, this card is jinxed!!!) and added a satin black ribbon and bit of adhesive lace with a little white inking on. Little bit of doodling on a couple of the corners with a metallic gel pen.

It says 'birthday suit?!......' on the outside and on the inside it says 'oooh la la!!'

So, sharon I am sorry this was late hunny but it is cute!!!!

Thankyou for popping in xxxxx

Mothers day cards!!!!!!

Helllooooo!!!!!

wow, I have had one of those weeks where my feet haven't touched the ground!!!!

I had serious lack of mojo for my mothers day cards until this morning. I had bought my super duper large pop ups with an idea in mind but it just wouldn't go anywhere in my head,(grrrrrrr, hate it when that happens!!)and I got them out and put them away several times this week!!!

Anyway, god must of been smiling on me last night because I woke up witha fab idea to use on of the swirly squares I had seen on my storybook cart for the back of the card and the it all fell into place. All the swirly bits are from the 7 key in various diferent functions and it made it so pretty. I love swirls but have never used them on a card unles it was my divine swirls embossing folder( have a bug for them now and think everything will be swirly for a while!!) I put some doodle dots on them with my white gel pen to jazz them up a little. I also used the birthday girl frame for the bit to write on and kept the middle,just turned it over so I had the contrast of the double sided paper!!! more pearls for this bit too (my mum is very special so she deserves lots of bling!!)

I cut the M U M using my doodletype cart in both shadow and normal, the pink glittery paper is adhesive, its a bit like vinyl but it cuts like a dream with my cricut, I used it for the front too. I cut 4 rectangles in george and embossed 2 with one of my cuttlebug embossing border strips, I can't remember what the folder set is called. I popped little pearls in the centres of the flowers. I did some inking around the recatangles and the card as I love the way it lifts the edges.

I found the verse on the web this morning and it was just so funny I had to use it!!! it is computer generated.

The little sticker is a forever friends one that came free on one of my magazines, (Little Mo chose which one to use, bless him!!!)

The little bits of ribbon on the top of the card and on the outside to tie the card are from my stash, as is the little made with love heart charm ( i love this charm,use it a lot on personal cards!!)

Phew!!! I think I remembered everything!!!!

Today has been gorgeous here, lots of beautiful sunshine. Scott took me and Mo for a womble around my favourite craft shop, Alicraft, in Lincoln and I bought myself a couple of stamps, my favourite being the tilda in the bath stamp!! and I am going to sign myself up for a beginners stamping lesson to learn how to stamp (I am not great at it!!!)

Right I am going to snuggle up with Scott and watch a film now so see you all soon!!! Thankyou for popping by xxxxxx

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