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Sunday 3 December 2017

slowly getting there


still making christmas cards, slowly getting to my target, this one is a mixture of lawn fawn and mama elephant goodies, and I adore my colour mix... all lawn fawn inks

Wednesday 29 November 2017

christmas wreath


Using up all of my scraps of Neenah solar white by stamping flowers and leaves from Lawn Fawn Penelope's Blossom stamp set - also loving the the tone on tone background stamp from MFT .

The sentiment is from Pretty Pink Posh and it just wraps up a simple card.
Monday 27 November 2017

glitter is awesome


sometimes when you have a patterned paper the card you make with it just has to be simple, this DCWV rockstar paper is one of those cases, so I've just used a simple neat & tangled die and a simple avery elle stamp set finish the card



Sunday 26 November 2017

so many thanks


still loving that concord & 9th turnabout stamp, and those winnie & walter in a word dies too

Saturday 25 November 2017

bright, but also blending in


more lawn fawn snowflakes, but that bright is just double sided tape cut and covered with glitter for this really subtle look

Wednesday 22 November 2017

purple, rhymes with murple


another christmas card, and more tone on tone stamping, but this time it has been lots of smaller stamps, everything is lawn fawn



Tuesday 21 November 2017

remember that promise...


despite my best intentions to keep up with my christmas cards I've done nothing since february... now the rush begins

using another of the winnie & walter dies stamped tone on tone with an mft stamp, the snowflakes are lawn fawn

Sunday 19 November 2017

turn this about


more use of my lawn fawn cube inks on this card and I am loving this turnabout thing from concord & 9th, this is one of the most innovative things I've seen in card making in years and feel it is likely not going to be my only stamp set of theirs

Thursday 16 November 2017

splats intended


making the most of all of those coloured ink pads I've gathered over the last year and using this fun ink splat card from wplus9 - with cards like this I positively feel adventurous

Thursday 9 November 2017

glitter & gems


I am so pleased with this card, my glitter tape background is magical and the perfect setting for the MFT butterfly, I even like my scattering of gems, its nice when a card come together as well as you had hoped



Sunday 15 October 2017

tipsy


clearly channelling being tipsy when you see just how wonky my wine bottle is, but these fun stamps are from a new company called hefty doodle who I supported through kickstarter

I've even used an action wobbler and googly eyes <3



Saturday 23 September 2017

bad light, naughty light


sorry about the bad photo, but there was just a few minutes for me to get my completed card entered to Birka's birthday blog hop... it required pink!!!

MFT zig zag die and SSS sentiment is the key to a fun card.

Tuesday 12 September 2017

tesselate is such a pleasing word


more use of those card scraps I refuse to throw away, this time a clean and simple card with a sentiment from wplus9




Monday 11 September 2017

friends from down under


These are images I coloured so long ago I fussy cut them because it was before I had the matching die... it also means they were coloured in promarkers (and not my more usual copics) because it was before I even bought my first comic marker...



Friday 8 September 2017

never throw a scrap away


I adore these Winnie & Walter 'in a word' dies - fun and graphic, perfect when combined with my scraps background. The finishing touch is a few papermania gems

Wednesday 6 September 2017

and now for something completely different...


this is really not my usual style, but it was fun messing with distress inks and the centre of the flower glazed in nuvo jewel drops 

Tuesday 5 September 2017

cat in the box


Pushing myself with some new colouring sets and stamps from neat and tangled, a company I haven't   got many stamp sets from, but there was something about this cutie I couldn't resist, and since it is the daily marker 30 day colouring challenge I did one of those 'colour everything and photograph it on the stamp set things' that I see and like so much.

The pop up is a lawn fawn die



Sunday 20 August 2017

can an octopus feel embarrassed?


Still loving all of my under the sea sets from lawn fawn... and even managing white highlights to give my cuties some dimension



Sunday 13 August 2017

peekaboo... would you have guessed it?


Another day, another lavender bag, I've used some multi medium matt to hold down some of the smaller segments, something I haven't tried before. The cat was partially die cut so that I could have enough felt so he was peeking in from the bottom corner.

Saturday 12 August 2017

birthday fishes


another mixed sentiment from lawn fawn - I've taken a pair of scissors to the 'best fishes' sentiment to make it easier to stamp - only lawn fawn on this one



Friday 11 August 2017

stating the obvious


another card using mostly lawn fawn critters down under, but that amazing comic book style sky is a super cute altenew set of circle stamps

Thursday 10 August 2017

matching set


making a matching set - although the lavender bag is much better than the card

Wednesday 9 August 2017

this card is jawsome


ok this sentiment is just the best...

and my cute little fishy card with the party hat and balloon is one of my favourite cards in ages

lawn fawn - duh-nuh, fintastic friends, year four, hat's off to you

Monday 7 August 2017

out of this world pop up


Jane's birthday always calls for a space card and this year's card is extra special and is my very first pop up box card - I've even got floating objects using little bits of acetate...

Saturday 29 July 2017

i believe in you


not happy with this one so no more to say

Friday 28 July 2017

happy but still blue

Not much stamping on this one but still lots of lawn fawn. Still using those American Crafts papers.

Thursday 27 July 2017

the heart of the home


Another corrine lapierre felt lavender bag. The house and heart dies are from sizzix & doodlebug



Wednesday 26 July 2017

flowers on a card


Lawn Fawn stamps and pretty pink posh die with American Crafts patterned paper.

Tuesday 25 July 2017

a little bit blurry


Lawn Fawn stamps entirely from one of their little 2x3 sets 'get well soon' the lovely colour papers are from doodlebug.



Monday 24 July 2017

my girl


I've collected many many feet of patterned papers and I'm making an effort to use at least a few of them up. These papers are from American Crafts My Girl collection.

Dies are from Lawn Fawn and MFT with a punch from Martha Stewart.

Sunday 23 July 2017

a funny feeling in my stomach


I seem to be using a lot of layering stamps recently - making the most of the quite large collection of mini ink cubes that I've accumulated. I don't feel I've done a bad job matching the colours to this dear Lizzy paper either.

All stamps are from MFT.



Saturday 22 July 2017

i wish i could fly, right up to the sky


another day, another lavender bag, this time embroidered, not bad considering most of it was done on a moving bus on my journey to and from work.

lawn fawn blue skies stamps were used as the template

Friday 21 July 2017

you're fintastic


Another graduation card and you just have to adore this punny sentiment from lawn fawn even if I had to source it from more than one set.

Thursday 20 July 2017

i'll have a blue heart without you


When I cut these lavender bags I use a lawn fawn square die to do so which gives me a perfect square every time. The heart I've shaped using another lawn fawn die all of the sequins are from pretty pink posh.

Wednesday 19 July 2017

C He M(n) I S .... you'd think you'd be able to spell chemistry with a periodic table


It's coming up to graduation and I always make my students cards... I've used all sorts of sets from lawn fawn and mama elephant for this one

Tuesday 18 July 2017

lavender inside


So I've been sewing with these really cute dies from mama elephant - I think they are supposed to decorate favour bags but I bought them to make lavender bags. The felt is from corrine lapierre and is a lovely wool viscose mix felt.

Thursday 22 June 2017

do i say awesome too much


Using those lawn fawn fab flowers again, and I think they look really classy with the strip of grey and a sentiment from neat and tangled.

Monday 29 May 2017

my eyes...


This is the outcome of what happens when you find a box of LEDs and think 'I know what I could do'... the die cut is a quickutz die and the stamp wplus9.



Sunday 28 May 2017

hello flowers


I'm still playing with my fab flowers stamps from lawn fawn and have even managed to make a card with nuvo drops without sticking my finger in the wet dots.

mostly lawn fawn, the patterned paper is from studio calico and the edge die from mama elephant.

Saturday 27 May 2017

i love my mum


My mum loves making cards as much as I do and so trying to make something and it be a secret is really difficult. This mum die cut is from docrafts not normally a brand I buy much of but this was just too cute. The butterflies are from Lawn Fawn fab flowers and the other dies from quickutz.

Friday 26 May 2017

flutterby


The good thing about collecting lots of mini ink cubes is you can make such pretty cards.

The stamps are two sets from MFT finished with a few sparking clear sequins.     

Wednesday 24 May 2017

big toothy smile


I love how you can mix and match the lawn fawn critters, and I love the way you can gather the little background elements from the different sets.

Here I've used, critters in the arctic, fintastic friends, happy happy happy, and mermaid for you



Tuesday 23 May 2017

one, ah, ah, ahhh... two, ah, ah, ah... three, ah, ah, ahhh...


A friend's little girl is 3 in a few days, so you have to have three on a card, and an impression of Count Count...



Saturday 20 May 2017

pretty


channelling my inner pretty with the lawn fawn fab flowers set again and bringing in the happy happy happy for the sentiment - simple but a satisfying little cluster.


Friday 19 May 2017

pretty in pink


That's a lot of pink for me, but when you nee a birthday card for your mum sometimes pink is the way to go.

I used the new Lawn Fawn layering stamps Fab Flowers and Happy Happy Happy stamp set along with some Mama Elephant dies to perfect my girly masterpiece. Pretty Pink Posh sequins finish it off.

Thursday 18 May 2017

smash smash smash smash boom


It has been too long since I last posted but I've been busy knitting. Anyway, I just love the Lawn Fawn Year Seven set with this cute little piñata - I've coloured him using prismcolors and just have the highlights of these colours on the card.

I've even stamped a background using the super useful little sweet stamp set and lawn fawn ink. Finished with a couple of pretty pink posh sequins and I have a finished card.



Thursday 20 April 2017

haven't I seen that before?



It's been a couple of weeks since I posted a card because I've been busy sewing and mending, but I liked the previous card so much I tried to emulate it here in other colours, I used the MFT inks from cube set 16 (I love ink cubes so much, so many colours in such a little space) Persimmon, Spearmint, and Lemon Chiffon.

The dies are again Hero Arts with a die from Mama Elephant. This time I didn't have the perfect colour and so I coloured some silver glitter with a comic marker.

Friday 3 March 2017

pretty colours


I love these colours - and I was quite impressed with my attempt at an ombre ink... go me!

The stamps are all hero arts from their stamp and cut range, the die cut is Mama Elephant and the finishing touch is the glitter card which came from Tiger.

Thursday 2 March 2017

make it a good one


this is my 900th post! so I'm please I like this card