strawberries strawberries and more strawberries lol

was lucky enough to get some freebie ribbon, now i know these cards have been recieved and are on the website  i can show them here lol,
thanks to rozzy whos sketch i followed, susie for the mouse image and the strawberry image was from dulemba, lol

dissappointed

i made these atcs for my ebay group, and to say im disappointed is putting it mildly, the theme was vintage, i bought the digi image and love the image, i coloured them with coffee for the aged effect, covered them in pva glue for the shine and to make stiffer, used hair grips cut down (hard work)  had to send them off as i ran out of time to make others, im embarrased to show these but maybe it will be a lesson to me not to try something new for a swap or challenge. because they are in their cello bags you cant see the  curl on the wings. wont be trying the vintage look again i dont think, especially with coffee, dont drink it and i cant stand the smell. did try with old teabags but got a lighter effect.

christening card

well im full of a cold, got sore red raw itchy hands too.
anyways, was asked to do a none religous christening card for a 3 year old girl.
after browsing galleries and request for help quickly as i found out i had less than 24 hours to create it. this is what i came up with, and i learnt a new idea to use ribbon on the nellies, thanks to a lovely trimmy members gallery where i saw the idea in the first place, (thanks jennie) i lurve the  effect, in fact a group im in has also liked the idea so much they are going to try it.

doll and gems from pound shop (lol)

silver mirror card

nellie rectangles

ribbon  from crafty ribbon

text using pc

wasnt going to post this card here, as i wasnt very sure off it, but thanks to the comments from my trimmy freinds, have changed my mind,
stamp from little claires   (blooming lovely)
colours     promarkers
ink    stazon  (mistake)
beads adhered with dst  not sure what they are called  bought them abought for years ago and didnt have a clue what to do with them, untill i recently saw something similar on another blog.
image mounted on red patterned mirror card,
backing paper  by papermania, basic colossal pack , (basic pastel)
peel offs to finish.

card made for freind

emma requested a card for a school freind. last minute as per usual. thinking oh i will do a basic simple one, she goes "oh shes into horses".    so between us we found an image we both liked,then i was left to it. First lot of images came out in black and white so not sure what im going to do with those, might make up and see if collegue at work is interested in them lol. Anyways did this simple layer and mat card using handmade paper for the base and the obligatry ribbon at the side, have to say the ribbon was tightened this morning once glue had dried as i had to use pritt stick because i couldnt find the dst. greeting added by emma this morning as well. Little minx told her freind i only helped a little.

had my girls in stitches

after a weekend of having ellie, who had us in stitches when she suddenly called hollie  stupid and emma an idiot i had to try to work out what noncker meant, dare i go there, told my son who reckoned it was not funny when she called him a noncker instead of the king, i had my girls in fits of laughter when i told them what they came out with, i will leave these two to your imaginations and see what you come up with,
hollie  if she repeated  slippers off
emma      fork and knife,    
lets just say i had to make sure i rephrased those two before it got me into trouble.
anyway im now showing two cards i made for the animal chariety and ebay competition i take part in every month. theme was mothers day. I think i need to use bigger cards for these in future  found i couldnt find any bigger envelopes in my stash so had to use small and found i couldnt add the borders i wanted to add. not overly thrilled with these cards now i see them on the screen, but hey ho i know they wont win me the comp but im happy taking part and thats all that matters to me.

both are from the joanna sheen fashion boutique cdrom

there is a third card somewhere but i seem to have misplaced it after deciding it was ott and left no room for a greeting lol, once i find it i will post a pic as a lesson to myself

freebie available

http://instylestampsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/method-monday-oops.html

both lovely images, to find out how to get it, click the link

wish i was a bit more techy minded.

my first book card made for a lady on maternity leave from today.

only one person said it was the wrong type of card it should have been a leaving card, but she isnt exactly leaving she will be back after her maternity leave finishes

valentine cards

after taking a sample card into work using a digi stamped image from  the crafty pad, i got asked to make a number of valentine cards. all made similar to each other, the only difference was the backing papers those were all done in different colour schemes, this one im showing you was for our supervisor who didnt want flowery slushy or lovey sentiments, but then decided she wanted the heart brad added as i didnt add that  just in case.

this next one was a real headache and the end result not what i originally wanted to achieve, but recipient is pleased with it so thats all that matters

the frame is the off cut of the card above before it went through the cuttlebug lol, cant really say i know a man who would like to recieve this as a valentine card but i did as requested and wont find out untill our return to school after the holiday if he was pleased with it.

awww ellies snowmouse

my granddaughter who is 2 helped hugely to make this snowmouse, her first view of a proper snowfall, she absolutely loved it and didnt want to go in, oh and its called poy after some programme on cebeebies. she is still adding to it  while her brother is chucking snowballs at my window

happy new year to all

just thought i would wish my followers a happy new year.
hopefully i will be better at blogging in 2010. due to printer probs not been able to upload my latest projects to pc and my girls have lost my digi camera.
hoping to get lots of crafting done in new year,

award recieved

thank you to trimgym who sent me this award, it certainly made me smile, thank you trimgym lol xxx

will figure out how to share these awards one fine day lol

made this card for my 15 year old grandson, who is 15 today, only found out yesterday who is fav wrestler is after i tried hunting the wrestler called the undertaker, my daughter gave me three names, this one is john cena or something like that. now to clear up all the bits and go to bed lol

atcs made

made 8 of these atcs using the image of silva in the previous post. theme was furry freinds, so couldnt resist after snapping the picture, two only showing as the other 6 have been packed up ready for posting on monday

awww this was taken yesterday after both our kittens

went to the vets to be neutered.

this one is silva and we hunted the house for him after we spotted he wasnt on the chair he had been sleeping on, panic stations , anyway as you can see we found him in the bathroom sink , when i first walked in he was curled in a tight ball, by time i ad got the camera he had woke and was stretching lol

i was left responsible for making our boss a birthday card, knowing she has and loves horses it was pretty easy to do really. and i think she liked it

sympathy card

i wasnt keen on making this card, my 15 year old step grandson asked me to make it for him, after sourcing the image and making sure it was what he liked , i edited the image to allow me to add the text on the first layer, printed the image 4 times and self decoupaged the lilly then mounted it onto black paper then mounted it all onto a a4 sheet of card folded in half, then edged it in gold straight peel offs. even my daughter in law thought it was a great make from me this time. hoping to get back into making cards next week time permitting.

testers needed

http://handcrafted-gina.blogspot.com/2009/05/testers-needed-please-apply-here.html
look here for more info what a fab idea and would be great to see what the winners come up with.

new family member

meet tigger, our new member of the family, he is six weeks old, has been hand reared after his mum died when he was two weeks old, owner keeping one, my daughter in laws best freind has got the other called tiddles, he has more white on his chest than ours.
tigger has claimed my desk top as his daytime sleeping area despite having a roomy basket with nice touys attatched to the handle, he is a little livewire and needs carefull watching as cables seem to be a favourite chewing pastime given the chance

few hours on my own

my eldest emma has had her first trip by tram to our shopping precint to spend a few hours with her school freind, she has never got the tram by herself before and boy was she nervous even though she will be on the tram for less than 5 minutes. I took her to the stop got her ticket waited with her untill the tram left and will meet her on her return, she is supposed to be coming home around 4,
the youngest hollie has gone to her freinds house as well, her dad drove her there and told her he will pick her up when she wants to come home, grr hate the girls not having a time frame to work within, she could still be out at 7 8 9,
you would think that not having the girls around would mean i would get on with some chores, crafting or gardening, but nooo i cant settle, took a trip to b+q got some seeds and a desk lamp for pc table in the hopes of be able to do my craft cutting without the added shadows from my main light.
guess i better shift myself and aim for an hours chores and a hour in the garden, as my son has requested my babysitting services for tonight as well. havent given him an answer yet, going to make him sweat it out like he does me when i ask him something, hopefully i might get a craft project underway tonight.