bride & groom

Just a quick wedding card, which I hope is neither twee nor frumpy. I used the DCWV pastel cardstack and the Quickutz Merry alphabet dies.

happy birthday dude

I found this cool Quickutz challenge blog sponsored by Crafts U Love, where I get all of my Quickutz dies from. The first challenge was ‘something summery’ to make up for the complete lack of actual nice weather.

So... I was playing around with my quickutz dies and the DCWV summer box (fitting, no?) from QVC. I used my surfboard die (one of the limited edition dies from last summer (KS0729)) and my palm leaf die (RS0171) along with the Moxie alphabet to make this cute card. The sentiment is by Pebbles Inc and I cut the tree trunk by hand. The surf boards were decorated with DCWV rub on doodles.

I’ve finished the wedding invitations... yay! Go me! I think for that I deserve a treat!

scrummy classes 007 aka scrummy clouds

every cloud has a silver lining.

Maria did a really great class on the Scrummy Stash Cafe blog this week. She used a mask for painting and some sewing and other bits.

I used Chatterbox papers, left over from July’s crop, Adornit tiny etched natural letters (which I have completely fallen in love with), Doodlebug lily white simply sweet cardstock stickers. DCWV adhesive cardstock and a Sizzix home sweet home die to cut the tree.

It continues to rain, but I can’t see the silver lining in that...

new home

I treated myself to a new alphabet die set, the Moxie skini mini dies by Quickutz. It’s such a cute alphabet, I’m really pleased with it.

I used the cards out of the DCWV Summer box I got from QVC for this card. The cards are a little thin for my liking so I’ve cut them up and used front and back. I also used a nestabilites die and a fiskars handpunch to cut the little holes.

I’m sick of all of this rain. My lawn is like a paddy field and it’s August!!!

cupcake

I have so much DCWV stuff, my latest addition to the pile was the pastel cardstock stack. There are some lovely colours in it, really filling in the gaps I think the other stacks had. I used 3 of the colours here, along with a studio G stamp set.

The image was coloured using whispers pens an finished with a touch of crystal stickles. Finally I used a piece of American Crafts ribbon.

funky baby

I love a bargain, and this stamp from Studio G was only 99p (and it was wood mounted too!). I didn’t do much to it just coloured it in and added a little bling.

I’m eating loads of Maltesers at the moment, I’m not normally much of a chocolate person, but right now I could eat Maltesers all day...

hi dreamy

Using my usual trick of using every last inch of papers this is my latest. I used the ends of my crop kit (MME Just Dreamy paper) and Bazzill in Marigold. The ‘hi’ was cut  using the Quickutz lemonade font.

I wonder whether I should be more chatty in my blog posts but I don’t really have a lot to say. I would complain about the weather and how my tomatoes are refusing to ripen. I’ve tried to grow a lot of my own produce this year and have been reasonably successful, I’ve hardly bought any salad leaves since May, and we are eating our own courgettes. The carrots are nearly ready and my strawberries were lovely (although there weren’t that many).

scrummy bling

Over on the Scrummy Stash Cafe Blog  blog this weeks challenge was to ‘bling it up’.

I’ve had another go, this time making a card again from the leftovers of the crop kit. It was the Just Dreamy Paper collection from My Minds Eye, papers that have really inspired me, so far I’ve made 4 pages and 8 cards!!!

I also used Adorn It bling and Karen Foster mini casual snap stamps.

buttons for you

The challenge on the Papertake blog this week was to use buttons on your project.

I love the simplicity of this card, I used Karen Foster mini snap stamps for the message and Bubblegum Button Bonanza buttons.

hearts for you

This was just a quick card made using the scraps crafters always end up with (including the branding band off some MME papers!).

The hearts were cut using the Folk Mini die from Quickutz, and the message was stamped using Karen Foster mini snap stamps.

scrummy bling

Over on the Scrummy Stash Cafe Blog  blog this weeks challenge was to ‘bling it up’.

This was not a problem for me who really can’t help but ‘bling’ everything I see up to withing an inch of it’s life.

Having just been to the crop I used the leftovers of the crop kit to make my page. It was the Just Dreamy Paper collection from My Minds Eye, papers that have really inspired me.

I also used Adorn It and Kanban bling and American Crafts LAX glitter thickers but the rest came in the kit.

scrummy crop - maria's class

I did the Scrummy Stash Cafe Blog  cyber crop and I did Maria’s Class.

This was my favorite class, although I have to confess I drew the acetate by hand. I used Basic Grey Sugared stuff, with American Crafts LAX glitter thickers and some American Crafts tags which I found.

Great class Maria. Thank you all at the Scrummy Stash Cafe for a great cyber crop.