Happy Christmas Everyone

Happy Christmas everyone. I hope you have all got what you wanted for christmas.

I apologise for being very naughty with my blogging for the last few months, I have had a tough couple of months but I am hoping to get my mojo back and get cracking on lots of card making in the new year and look forward to entering lots more challenges.

Happy Christmas once again and a very happy new year to you all, thanks for looking x

Happy Halloween

Happy halloween to all you bloggers that celebrate, we don't tend to celebrate it much here in the UK although my 12 year old daughter Freya wanted to carve a pumpkin and put tea lights in it and put it just outside our front door but she has outgrown wanting to dress up and go tricking and treating.

We have had a fantastic day today, the weather has been so warm and sunny that we took a stroll on Bournemouth beach this afternoon, can't believe its the 1st November tomorrow as the weather has been so wonderful.

I hope everyone else is having a great weekend, thanks for looking x

My finished Pram

My finished pram, I am quite pleased with how it turned out, I have made a handful before but never with the pram bag and parasol. I think they finish it off really nicely though. My step mum Brenda told me the baby might arrive earlier than thought as she is breech so Sally might have to have a C-section. I had two breech babies so know how she feels. I hope Brenda will be pleased with it. I just need to make a handmade box for it now.

I have just seen that One stop craft challenge http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ theme this week is celebrations so I thought I should enter my creation into their challenge.

Thanks for looking x

No card today - I've been catching up on all your blogs

No card from me again today, I have been catching up with all your blogs, leaving comments etc. I am currently working on another one of my baby prams that my Step mum Brenda has commissioned me to make for her new Granddaughter due to arrive approx 5th November and will hopefully post a photo of it when I have done the finishing touches. I hope everyone is having a good week and those with children are not being to stressed out with having their kids at home this week as its half term, mine have been happy being on their game consoles and laptops today so it meant I could crack on with the pram. Thanks for looking x

A free cute digi over at Victoria Case Stamps

I hope everyone is ok, I can't believe how dark it has got, I hate it when the clocks go back and its dark when you get up and dark not long after the kids have got back from school. I am trying to get motivated to get on with some christmas cards and also a couple of card orders so will need to get my skates on with them.

Anyway for anyone that doesn't know there is a lovely cute digi freebie up for grabs over at Victoria Case http://victoriacasestamps.blogspot.com/2009/10/free-digi.html head over if you want to grab her.

Thanks for looking x

Waterslide card instructions - Can anyone help ?

I saw some waterslide cards shown on create and craft this morning although they weren't demo, they looked quite similar to waterfall cards, I'd like to have a go at one of these but don't want to pay Create and Crafts horrendous p & p charges, can anyone provide me with a link to a tutorial on how to make them. I have looked on google, yahoo, you tube, scs any ideas?

Thanks Julie x

Passion for promarkers meets Whiff of joy

I hope everyone had a great weekend, I can't believe the kids are breaking up again for half term at the end of this week, it seems like they have only just gone back after the summer hols.

I decided to sit down and make a card today which I am going to enter into 2 challenges, Passion for Promarkers http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/ and Whiff of joy http://wojmondaychallenge.blogspot.com/. I have followed the sketch on the Passion for promarkers challenge, this week you were able to use any colours. I used sandstone and caramel on Henry the mouse, a stamp from Whiff of Joy http://www.whiffofjoy.com/ and used pale pink for his nose and pale pink and antique pink on the cake, the candle was coloured using tulip yellow and pumpkin. The backing papers are both from a Forever Friends 6 x 6 paper pad called For You. I have gone around the 2 piece with gold peel offs.

The flowers are Primas with brown and pink brads in the centre of them, The sentiment is a claear stamp that I have die cut with my nestie circle die and backed that onto a piece of pink card which I die cut with my scalloped circle nestie die. Thanks for looking x

Nicks Birthday Card

I needed to make a birthday card for my Brother-in-law Nick this weekend and I have been dying to have a go at the easel cards I have seen so many people have made recently and I came up with this by following Crafters Companions challenge http://itsacrafterscompanion.blogspot.com/ sketch (I hope this card will count as the standing up bit was done following the sketch which I thought was a great layout) I turned it upside down so I could put the fish on the left hand side .

Popcorn the bear and the fish are from the Fishing popcorn set which I coloured in with Promarkers. The backing paper is a download I purchased from Scrapbooking Mad. The ribbon is from my craft stash. I have cut out a scalloped square with my nesties to put Popcorn onto. I have added diamond glaze to the little fish so that they look wet. I have added some black thread to the back of the rod and stuck a fish on the other end of the thread. I have embossed the bear and fish from the back so they look a bit more rounded and 3d. I have used a button with a bow using the same ribbon as on the right hand side to keep the card standing up and cut out letters to spell out Nicks name with my Cuttlebug Olivia alphabet.

I am also entering this card into Creative Card Crews challenge http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/ where the theme was to use scallops on your card somewhere which I have done on the square.

Thanks for looking x

My first baby card in ages

I decided to make a baby girl card today, my stepmother Brenda's Son Jason and his Girlfriend are having a little girl in a few weeks time so I thought I should get something made up ready to put in the post when the little bundle of joy arrives.

The card is 14.5cm x 14.5cm I have used 2 backing papers from the Forever Friends 6 x 6 Hugs and Cuddles pad, one with a pink gingham pattern and the other just has buttons on it. I have also added some pink card that I have embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The image is a Pink Gem Designs rubber stamp which I have coloured with Promarkers. The ribbon is from my craft stash and the buttons are from my local 99p store. I have computer generated the circle sentiment and backed this onto a scalloped circle cut with my nesties. I added gems on the ribbon which are made by Anita's. I have faux stitches around the image.

I am able to enter this card into 6 different challenges this week

1/ Sketch Saturday http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/ - I followed their sketch

2/ Cupcake Crafting http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/ with their theme Buttons and stitching

3/ Die Cut Dreams http://diecutdreams.blogspot.com/ with their theme Babies

4/ TCP http://dancinginpajamas.blogspot.com/ with their theme Buttons

5/ Creative Inspirations http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/ with their theme Family

6/ Paperplay http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/ with their theme use your favourite embellishment

Thanks for looking, Have a good weekend everyone x

One Card - 2 Challenges

I actually managed to get around to do a card for some challenges this week, the first challenge I am entering is ABC's http://trulyjulie1966.blogspot.com/2009/10/inkegrity-ladybirds-card.html, the theme this week was E for embossing and the second challenge is Stamp with Sarah Kay http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.com/ where there was a lovely sketch to follow.

So onto my card, the image is a Pink Gem Designs stamp , he is called Denny Dragon and I think he is really cute. I have coloured him in with Moss and Rose Pink Promarkers. The backing paper is from Dovecraft. The backing cards in pink, dark pink and green have been embossed with Cuttlebug embossing folders. The sentiment is a silver peel off on one of my new Spellbinder fancy tags dies which has been cut and embossed, The flowers are from 2 sizes of X-Cut punches and have been embossed from the back to make them a bit more 3D with a peel off in the centre to finish them off nicely and stuck onto the card with Pinflair.

Thanks for looking x