40th Handbag card ...

This is a totally different card shape for me. It just so happened I had noticed Tracy had a tutorial on her blog for a simple handbag card - have a look!

Lo and behold I was asked to do a 40th card with a handbag theme this week. I adapted her pattern to make a 6x 8 card base, I find this a good size for me to work on.

I used a printed hammer cream card with simple brown flowers from a box of assorted A4 card.

A pearlescent dark brown paper for a matt

Basic Grey Sugared papers to cut 40 and Arlene

Leather diecut flowers coloured with H2O's

DCWV Ribbon for handle and tie (attached on inner layer with a brad - threads through eyelet)

Some Basic Grey Sugared cardstock stickers to finnish on outside and inside.

I can see myself doing more of these - perhaps adapting shape a bit more - it was fun.....

Not long to go.......

C.R.A.F.T.Challenge starts Thursday 21st May

and as part of the new design team I am getting very excited!

Spent the last two evenings working on my entry, and I can't wait to see the rest of the Dt and everyone who takes part.

Tracy has secured some fab sponsorsand there is a great prise for week one, so make a date and come and join in the fun on Thursday......

Fab prize is thanks to Just Tracys!
I know I'd be entering for all these goodies......

Thanks so much Dawn!

Thanks so much Dawn for this award - it's much appreciated! I can thoroughly reccommend a visit to Dawns blog Creations by Dawn , she is one creative lady....not sure where she finds enough hours in the day!

6th Birthday cards for twins

Cards for twins Charlotte and Amy - to be the same but a little different was the request and to include a fairy! Meet Star Fairy one of my latest girls.

I used a shimmery pink paper for background, star fairy is paper pieced and then Sakura detail added. 6 cut on Pazzles and sentiment added in Sakura. Basic Grey Chipboard stickers and

rub ons.....

90th Birthday - Gran & Great Gran

A request for a 90th Birthday card for a Gran & Great Gran.

Oh I do so love Basic Grey Papers and the Whitewash Coredinations is becoming another favourite.

Two Scoops goes really well with the leather that I hand coloured using H2O's.

I used a hammered white card blank and inked edges in pink. Pearlescent dark brown paper layer as background. 90 cut in basic grey two scoops and coredinations whitewash, sanded and also inked. Handwritten sentiment using Sakura.

A few two Scoops cardstock stickers were added.

Diecut vines and flowers from the leather. Vines added with eyelets and the rest glued in place. Adding sparkly gems to flower centres.

60th Birthday RNLI

A friend has asked me to make her Dads 60th Birthday card - his only interest is in the RNLI!

It was different to do but I still enjoyed it...

Pearlescent Dark Blue card as base with a layer of DCWV photo real water effect paper inked at edges. 60 and DAD were cat on the Pazzles using coredinations orange gemstone and a blue Basic Grey paper from the Granola range.

Lifeboat is hand drawn and trimmed to fit through centre of 0.

Then I have doodled using Sakura pens to follow the picture through the card a little.Finnished with a handwritten Happy Birthday sentiment - Happy Birthday Zoe's Dad! x

ATCS - Drayton Lady - Daisy sparkle

Some sparkle Daisy's for the June Drayton Lady atc swap on Trimcraft. I love making atc's and am relatively new to it. Have so many card requests at the moment I feel the atcs are suffering. But then I do find that they are something great to do and use up all the wee bits from card projects. I love the principals behind them.......

Heather is 4!

A card for Heather - a wee change from all the boys cards I have been making recently.

White hammer card base with Basic grey pink paper as background, foreground torn coredinations gemstones and whitewash. Scalloped oval cut on pazzles in DCWV paper from a pocket full of posies paper.Swirl effect grungeboard painted with H2O's for flower centres, stems and leaves. Leather die cut hand coloured petals and flowers.

Gorjuss girl paper pieced and Sakura detail.

Basic Grey Rub on Princess.

Chipboard diecut Heather & 4.....lots of inking at edges on everything!

Fraser the Robot - Colour create challenge

The last card for Fraser - well for this year anyway....Also for the Colour Create challenge this week which is blue and green and try to include paper piecing( my absolute favourite at the mo.)

Fraser the Robot is my own doodle digi stamp - he is drawn from a tin toy robot - I love tin toys!

Mostly paper pieced with 4 different papers ( sorry they are older papers think 2 are twelvebytwelve and a photo real water from DCWV but not sure about 4th)

Then I added a little Sakura and wired together Metal letters - a few screw head brads and thats it. I feel he is a friendly robot......

Celebration Blog Candy!

I thought it was apropriate to have a little celebration blog candy for my first DT position! I am thrilled to be part of the DT at the new C.R.A.F.T. Challenge blog which starts with its first challenge on Thursday May 21st!

To celebrate I am offering a little freebie that is "Madeline and her World" all that I ask is:

1/ you add a little picture of the celebration candy and link to my blog

2/ leave me a comment to let me know you have done it, if you want the file sending to you I will need an e-mail address ( its saved as a 300dpi JPEG but I won't say it's spotless - I'm still learning - it is free)

3/ it would be good if you could follow my blog but not part of the blog candy deal.....

4/ it will be available until May 20th

I am more than happy for anyone to use Madeline on their cards for their own use or to sell on handmade items but please give credit to myself for the art work. There are more girls on the horizon....so watch this space.

Lego Indi! Another card for Fraser...

Another card for Fraser - this time a Lego Indiana Jones.... I kept this one quite simple as I liked the effect. A hammered cream card base inked in burnt orange. Some Basic grey brown paper as background with No. 7 cut from a K&Co map style paper (using Pazzles) - this is a layer of 2 no 7's with foam tape. Indiana's whip is sandwiched between and he just then dangles on the card.

Indiana is just a drawn image.

Dip'n'Doodle

This is our most recent Dip'n'Doodle project. We are very lucky to have a fab ceramic painting studio in the Town run by a lovely lady Julie......

My kids put their handprints on this and alternate Monday evenings I pop into Dip'n'Doodle for a bit of me time....I love it. I have spent the last few weeks working on the inbetween bits.....I'll call it our healthy snack jar but a few sweets may stray into it!

Fraser and the Lego Power Miners.....

This week I have a pile of birthday cards to do including 4 for the same boy who will be 7 - he is a big Lego fan! These first two are for his parents and sister to give him. Fraser is a friend of my oldests Jacob who is also a Lego nut......I must admit so am I!

So for his "Birthday Son" card its mostly some drawing and colouring with a bit of die cutting for the letters and torn paper and inking for the background.
For his "Birthday Brother" card its alot of die cutting on the Pazzles using some lovely Basic Grey papers from the cupcake range with some chipboard shapes, stickers and rub ons also from the same range. Some great Bazzil Bling as a backing paper with sanded edges then inked - lettering and big 7 also inked.....
So now another two to do !

I'm Batty about you!

It's my Husband's Birthday on Saturday - 39 years young.... I am using the current challenge at the Basic Grey Challenge Blog to be inspired - Black, Grey + 1 ( one being any other colour!)

I have used turquoise as my extra colour.........

Irredescent black card base with a layer of turquoise coredinations gemstone.

The bat is from my pazzles cut in a grey Basic Grey paper from the Granola range and a turquoise whitewash coredinations. The lettering and leaves are again cut on the Pazzles using Coredination turquoise whitewash and a Granola print Basic Grey paper.

All edges are sanded and inked with turquoise .

The white lettering are rub ons, the turquoise is a whispers pen- handwritten. The bat closes with a fab Basic Grey magnet - they are cool.....

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge Blogspot - Design Team Call

CRAFT Challenge

I am very excited! I have just discovered that I have been given the opportunity to work on the DT for a new Challenge Blog that is assosciated with Trimcraft - Thanks Tracy!

They are still looking for a few others to take part , so if you are interested pop over for a wee look.....Now I am going to make a conserted effort to work out all the clever linky things!

Funky Hand Design Team Call....

I've noticed quite a few mentions of this tonight in blogland, so thought I would go and have a look....sounds really interesting and I am sure it would be alot of fun and a challenge is always good....

Wanted " Funky Design Gang Member"

Funky Hand have asked you to show a couple of your cards you are proud of and link it to their blog to let them have a look.

The more the merrier as it were.....

Anyone out there looking for a new challenge - give it a go!

And thanks for the opportunity Funky Hand!

http://funkyhand.blogspot.com/

Colour Create - Julie is 40!

One of my friends is 40 this month! Julie is a very creative person who run our local ceramic painting studio "Dip'n'Doodle". I have a few cards to do for her Birthday on the 13th. This first one is combining this weeks colour create challenge - cream, red and chocolate!

I have created a new image for this card "Daisy" She is tucked in behind the "0" but her skirt is like the petals of a flower .I have paper pieced Daisy using Basic Grey Wassail papers and added a little Sakura detail.
The 40 and Julie are cut on my pazzles using Coredinations whitewash card and are sanded at edges. I have used a hammer cream card base with well inked edges of dark red and chocolate. Layers of paper are a irredescent chocolate, bassil embossed swirl and some Wassail by Basic Grey. I coloured some leather red to cut the trellis ribbon and wrapped it around 0 securing with brads. Some more die cut flowers added with brads, larger flower at top left is swirl grungeboard painted with cosmic shimmer and edges inked red - then petals added.
Finnished off with a few Basic Grey rub ons.

Thanks Saskia !

Thank you so much for this Gift of Love award Saskia - along with all your encouragement to a novice blogger it is much appreciated. I would highly recommend visiting Saskias blog :

Saskia has a fantastic range of projects and is a Design Team member for the

Crafty Creations Challenge blog ( great challenges - alot of fun!)

David is a monkey! - Colour Create

The Challenge this week on Colour Create is to use Orange, green and brown.

David is going to be 3 tomorrow and he is a very lovable cheeky monkey - son of my friend Lesley. I have had these Creative Imaginations papers for a while looking for a suitable project!
Cut the double sided paper to create tree trunk and tree top. Cut out several of the circles to create layered effect. Cut monkeys from second piece of paper and the reverse side of this had the stripes used for the grass. Added a little orange (tangerine) colour box fluid chalk.
Leaves made from Tim Holtz grungeboard with a swirl, painted with green H2O and edges also inked. Card base cut away following shape of tree and large lettering added to inside of card.
A change for me - lots of fun.....

An Award - whatever next.....thanks Liz

Thanks so much Liz for all your words of encouragement and now an award.....also a big Happy Birthday for today - I recieved this from Liz over at
http://draytonatcswaps.blogspot.com/
Thanks ever so much - for anyone who doesn't know Liz she runs the Drayton Lady swap for atc's on Trimmcraft,and does a splendid job doing it I must add.

Now this bit I have copied from Liz's blog:
"This award has a few rules first of all you have to give it to a new blog that you have recently come across.Let them know they have an award ,then they must mention your blog when accepting the blog .Pass on to 15 other new sites that you have just recently come across.Please leave a comment when you collect your award Thanks These blogs are not in any order I love them all

My first award goes to Keryn - my first follower
http://mckinkle-poppydog.blogspot.com/
The second to Rozzy - multi tallented and lovely
http://rozzyb.blogspot.com/
The third to Susie - Die cuts to die for....
http://sassydesignsbysusie.blogspot.com/
The fourth to Dawn - really groovey
http://creationsbydawn.blogspot.com/
The fifth to Saskia - Very crafty blog....
http://lusaro-snippers.blogspot.com/

watch this space will add to the list as I discover them.....