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Sunday 28 June 2009

Friendly Plastic

Something a bit different today. I have been having a play with some Friendly Plastic, I made the pendant from gold coloured plastic and the 'stone' is all the little scraps that get left on the mat melted down. The other piece is just 4 colours of friendly plastic melted and scraped with an old fork. I am sure that I can do much more with it than I am so as, and when I have time I shall be playing to see what I can come up with.

Saturday 27 June 2009

70's Inspired


This is a U-Mount stamp which reminded me of some wallpaper that my Mum had in the 1970's. I coloured the stamp in with Promarkers. Stamped and cut out some extra flowers to decorated the top edge of the card blank which I cut on a angle. I put a piece of gingham paper from Joanna Sheen behind the front and added a Happy Birthday peeloff. The muted colours and the retro flowers work very well together. I just wish I was a better photographer as the photo's don't do the card justice

Friday 26 June 2009

Symphony of blues


I have really been playing with colours a lot lately and having a lot of fun revisiting techniques I haven't used for ages. This card has backing paper from Glenda Waterworths Peacock Summer Party which has the most scrummy backing papers on it. The topper is made using a brayer with Kaleidacolour ink pad in Blue Breeze on glossy card stock. I then embossed in silver with a U-Mount stamp and embellished with blue and lilac gems. The girl image is from Sugar Nellie and has been coloured with Promarkers. It was lovely to do this card and lovely to be able to mess around and get really mucky!!

Thursday 25 June 2009

Dragon


Another scrap box special. A DL card in landscape, some scrap mirror card embossed on a Glitter Girls Keepsake board, some peeloffs and a dragon stamped onto gold mirror card and embossed in Japanese Lacquer Red. So simple yet so effective.
I have been tidying and sorting out my workroom and I have been using up a lot of those forgotten scraps. It is challenging but very satisfying to do. Many of my scrapbox challenges are finding their way onto my blog.
I'm not a great Blogger owing to pressure of time, but I do hope you enjoy looking at what I am getting up to.

Wednesday 24 June 2009

Pansies


A lovely card using a WS Design template. A doddle to make even for a numbskull like meself. The pansy decoupage was made a while back when I was having a snipping frenzy! I shaped the pansies with a 6mm ball tool and have layered it up with good old Pinflair gel. Just finished the edge of the apertures off with a silver peeloff.


Wow! Thank You Stampman

Treasure Trove for Somerset Crafters

Anyone in the vacinity of Taunton, who is interested in papercraft, needs to get themselves round to SJL Cardcraft in East Reach Taunton. What a fabulous shop it is, very friendly staff with an owner who has a tremendous passion for what she does. Cardmaking clubs, workshops and a sound knowledge of the products, makes this a 'must visit' place.
SJL Cardcraft
142 East Reach
Taunton
TA1 3HN
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Tuesday 23 June 2009

Dreamer


This is a lovely stamp from Sugar Nellie, which I have used to practice my colouring and shading with Promarkers. I am finding that the Promarkers are far more versatile than I would have imagined and they can be as bold or as subtle as you choose. I am still playing with colour combinations to get the shading right, but I am absolutely loving them

Monday 22 June 2009

Lazy Days


This cute little card is a real mixture. The background is from Cute Companions Volume 1 and the little fella is a Kars stamp coloured in with Promarkers. The glitter butterflies are from The PaperMill Shop. It was a quick card and has a multitude of uses, especially as the little fella has a plaster on his knee, ideal for my little neighbour who often shows me her "baddies" and where she has a "zaster" to make it all better.

Saturday 20 June 2009

Aw Bless


This is an image from a Kars stamp set, and coloured with my new bestest friends Promarkers. I have made a spring card and mounted this cute little image along with some mulberry paper flowers.

Thursday 18 June 2009

Holiday Card


This card is for a lady from the forum who is in Somerset on holiday. I am meeting her later for a cuppa. It is again scraps from my scrap box and a U-Mount Stamp from the Coast collection. I have coloured it using my new bestest friends Promarkers. I am delighted with just how subtle the colouring with these pens can be. Very versatile pens that give a lovely finish

Tuesday 16 June 2009

Parchment


This card is one of the projects on Christine Colemans DVD, Parchment craft for Beginners. I have gone right back to basics because I have acquired some really bad habits which were spoiling the look of my work. I worked through the project with the DVD to reawaken the 'correct' way of doing things. This project uses just basic embossing and just a little bit of colouring which I used just ordinary coloured pencils for.

Monday 15 June 2009

New Bestest Friends


These cute little stamps are from Sugar Nellie and they have been coloured with my new bestest friends Promarkers. I have added very small Googly eyes to the mouse and the knight which makes them rather humourous cards. All the matting and layering is from the ever bulging scraps box.

Friday 12 June 2009

Thank You

I just love this cdrom from Joanna Sheen, every card is a winner. Its from her Elegant Fans Cd and it is just fabulous. Can you tell that I love it? the only addition to this card is a pink piece of glitter card the other bits all come from the cd. The fan is decoupaged and so is the blue frame around the lady.

Thursday 11 June 2009

Tag Card



A quick and easy parchment card. A little bit of embossing and cut work and embellished with tags from Red Hot Bed and a little bit of ribbon from the scraps box. The flowers are adapted from a pattern by Christine Coleman as is the border. The strong colour gives it a bit of zing and the peeloff complements the borders on the tags.

Wednesday 10 June 2009

Gorgeous Cat


Another quick but very striking card. I made this for my Nan as she is cat mad. It is from Joanna Sheen's Jane Netley Mayhew CDRom. The image has been matted and layered onto sage green card which matches the colour of the cats eyes. The edges of the mats have been done with a gold PenTouch pen and gold peeloff matted on to it. I was very pleased with this exceptionally quick card.

Tuesday 9 June 2009

Gents Birthday


I love this card for its simplicity. The stamp is from Sprinkle and Sparkle and I have just heat embossed it in gold. I have embossed a fancy edge with the Glitter Girls board and embellished with gems. It is on ivory card which I edged with a gold PenTouch pen, so simple but very pretty.

Monday 8 June 2009

A Messy Birthday


I do love this little chap from Joanna Sheen. This was a very quick card for a little girl who loves books. I printed one of the images from the pop out section and matted and layered it with red mirror card and a sheet of backing paper from the cdrom. With the addition of a peeloff the job was done in no time at all. A super speed card which was well recieved over the garden fence.

Sunday 7 June 2009

Messy Fathers Day





2 Stamped Messy images, coloured in with Lyra Water Crayons using a Koi waterbrush 1 sheet of backing paper and one sheer of images from the Messy Rabbit CDRom. I have also used the accesories from the Messy stamps to embelish. I keep all the sentiment boxes when I print off a sheet and were they are interactive I check my diary so that I always have loads of appropriate sentiments for the coming creations. I have pinched Sue Smiths idea of rolling the paper. I did have fun with these and I love having to create 2 different looking cards from the same products, it makes my brain cell work a bit harder

Friday 5 June 2009

Cottage Garden Card


This is a card from Joanna Sheen's Cottage Garden CDRom. I made this for my 'soon to be Mother in Law' for her birthday. It is all from the Cdrom with just the addition of scraps from my scrap box for the matting and layering. The image I chose came from the decoupage section of the cd.
Himself's Mum lived in a cottage very similar to this in Bossington West Somerset, so I am hoping that this card will bring back some happy memories for her.
At the moment I am not keeping too well, and I am having problems with my hands. I have been banned from using a craft knife and I can only type using 2 pencils with erasers on the top to press the keys. I went for some tests yesterday but they had to be 'aborted' as they couldn't get the results they needed.
I am still crafting, albeit very slowly and am discovering ways to do things so that I can still make cards. It is a nuisance but ' I will suceed' !! Funny isn't it? I can find ways to carry on crafting but finding ways to do housework, well thats not so easy !! lol

Wednesday 3 June 2009

Scrap Box Card



This is another of my 'use up your scraps' card. It is really just scraps of mirror card which I created a frame using the The Craft Room. The flowers are stamped on lilac card and coloured using Sakura Stardust pens and metallic pencils and then just a touch of Glossy Accents on the flowers. The stamp is from Sprinkle and Sparkle.

Tuesday 2 June 2009

Scraps Card



I don't know about you, but I always seem to have so much in my scraps box and unless I really force myself I don't use them up. This card was made purely using scraps from my box and Glenda Waterworths Damask Delights stamp which I embossed in silver, a peeloff which was in a bumper pack and a sentiment from a kit. I must challenge myself more often to use up my scraps.
I hope you are enjoying this wonderful weather

Monday 1 June 2009

Speedy Butterfly


A really quick card for any occasion. I used a deep purple card blank, edged it with gold PenTouch. I then matted 2 layers from a Papermill matting pack I then used a Versamark pad to stamp One of Glenda Waterworths Damask stamps which I then embossed with detail gold embossing powder, I then overstamped it and embossed it again. I trimmed it and edged it with the gold PenTouch. I then embellished it with a purple glitter butterfly from an Angel Envelope and some stick on crystal gems. A really speedy card which went in the post only 40 minutes after being started