I'm still rolling.......Part 3!

Just a few more cards, starting with this cute little nurse of Kerry's. I admired her for quite a long time before I went ahead and made the purchase. I'm not all together happy with the layout of this card though. Its one for the box though!
At the same time I bought Janet's Get Well Millie stamp which I thought was really sweet too and here is my first card I've made with her. I've used K&Co papers combined with some bazzill cardstock.
The next card is one I've been asked to make for a friend. Its for her to give to a female friend who's a keen fan of travelling and camper vans. I got out my trusty camper van stamp again which I love to use. I was asked to make it using blue's so I decided to try and make it more feminine by using some blue swirly background paper and my Stampin Up scalloped border punch.

I've had a couple of these pink petticoat images sitting in my images box for a while now and decied that it was about time I did somethig with them! They were already coloured, I cheated and coloured them in in paint shop pro and then printed them out! I didnt really have any papers that matched them though until I saw this one from my Dovecraft set, which i've enhanced by edging all of the flowers in red pen. Originally the paper was just shades of grey.

And finally, a new baby card! I love making new baby cards. They don't need to be fussy. Just simple and elegant! I haven't really had to make many baby girl cards, so I jump at the chance when I get asked. Everybody I know seems to be having boys at the moment! We need more girls!

I'm going to get back to making some more cards now, before my inspiration runs out. There's just not enough time to make cards and blog them and follow all the other lovely blogs too.

Thanks for visiting and for all the lovely comments. They are all very much appreciated.

I'm on a Roll this week!

As the title indicates, I've had a pretty good card making week this week. I've made quite a few by my standards! First of all though I want to share with you my new ribbon/embellishment organiser! Its a rotating carousel, which has five layers which contain a total of 60!!! round plastic storage pots! Its fab. I saw it in a shop a couple of weeks ago but they had all sold out so I've had it on order since then. The moment I saw it I thought it would be perfect for storing some of my ribbons. It only cost £12.99, a real bargain!And here is one of the pots containing some ribbon! I've actually got about 10 metres of ribbon into one of the pots.

So to start with a few cards, here are a couple of the more masculine cards I've made this week.

I stamped and coloured a few of my new Edwin stamps to co-ordinate with these Laura Ashley papers. The layout just came to me in a flash of inspiration, which doesnt happen very often! and although at the time I wasn't all that happy with it, now I really quite like it. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and has been inked with green ink. Edwin is mounted on foam pads.I bought Harry the Fireman a few months back and this is the first card I've made with him. He is of course one of Kerry's fabulous stamps which you can buy from Spiral Whisper. I've used my trusty Stampin Up spiral punch again! The background paper is part of a DCWV stack but I thought it ties in quite well with the fireman image as it looks kind of watery to me! This card didnt go quite as I'd planned it either, but again I like the result so that can only be a good thing! I love this Camper Van stamp, I have the mini one too! The paper is again from a DCWV stack and i thought it looked quite retro and this is what led this card! I cut some circles using my nestabilities and then embossed them with my cuttlebug circles folder. The two circles are joined using an eyelet, but i've hidden it by tying ribbon through it! The stars are just punched card which I've put some holes in and drawn a line between, hopefully making them resemble buttons. That was the aim anyway!And finally, my lovely guitar playing Edwin. I coloured him in ages ago and he's been sitting in my stamped images box ever since, poor thing. So I decided to do the decent thing and put him on a card. The papers I believe are from the Basic Grey Archaic collection. The brown strip across the card is actually stitched leather! One of my good friends gave me what must be about a 5 metre length of it in a bundle of things she'd collected for me. Another quite simple card, but I really like this one too! I like it when I make cards that I'm actually pleased with. Too often I'm not happy with the end result so it makes a nice change.

Sorry about the quality of the last two pictures, the light has not been great here today!

I think I'll come back tomorrow and post some more cards as I've made more than I thought!

A Belated Merry Christmas & A Happy 2009 to you all!

Hello to you all! I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. I've had a bit of a break for the past few weeks as I was so busy before christmas that I think I completely ran out of inspiration! Back at the begining of December I was asked to have a little stall at the local pre-school Christmas Bazaar which I agreed to do, nervously! It went really well though and I sold quite a few cards and some of my card & candle gift sets too. I think I'll keep my eye open for some craft fairs and maybe do one or two throughout the year. Here is a little piccy of my stall!Santa was very generous to me this year! These are the crafting goodies he left for me! Mostly from my wonderful husband, Ian. I've got a few bits in the online sales too so I can't wait to have a go and get creating again! I will have to clear some of the washing and make the utility room my craft room again! Christmas was a bit more exciting this year, with Adam now being 2 and a half and quite enthusiastic about his presents. He was quite keen to open them himself but I had to help out where they were a bit too well wrapped! We had lots to open! Adam also started pre-school on Tuesday! My little baby is growing up! Where does the time go? He is only doing two short sessions a week to start with. The first one went really well, no tears, he just waved me goodbye and said see you later!

Here are just a few of my favorite cards I made leading up to Christmas.This is using one of Kerry's Stamps Harry Ski-ing. I've used some torn vellum as the snow and have added lots of glamour dust. I've used the swiss dots embossing folder and inked with my white stazon inkpad to make it look like snow. The snowflakes are cut using the cuttlebug die and I've added more glamour dust and an adhesive stone to the centre of each. I love this card! Adam gave it to his Daddy for Christmas!

The next two are cards I made for my friends Son's & Daughter's. She has 5 children all together! Again I've used Kerry's stamps. Harry & Martha with Snowmen. I've combined these with Doodlebug Papers and cardstock. I coloured the snowman with my glue pen and covered him with more glamour dust! This next card is made again with Doodlebug Card & Papers and embossed the background with cuttlebug snowflakes. I've used this sugar nellie stamp so much this year! and I got it for a bargain of about £2.50 earlier in the year when it was on sale. I needed to make some quick and easy mens cards and whilst browsing one of my many magazines decided to go with a tie theme and luckily I just happened to have the making memories set that the used to make them in the magazine which helped to inspire me!This card was so quick and easy to make and I love it. I gave one to my cousin for his birthday and he was very impressed!And finally, here is a get well card I was asked to make for a lady. I've used Kerry's Martha Nurse stamp combined with some of the Summer Driggs papers.

My first order for this year is for a Mamma Mia themed card. Not sure what I'll do yet, but I'll see what I can come up with. We got the DVD for Christmas, its great! We've watched it twice already. We also got WallE which I really love and Adam does too!

Right, well thats about all for today. Hopefully I'll be back again soon with some new creations to share with you! I need to catch up with your blogs too!

Thanks for stopping by!

.....more Christmas Cards...a few for the men?

First of all I'd like to say a big Thank You to Kerry for the Freebie Christmas Tree which I've used to make this very simple card. Thank You Kerry! I started by printing out and painting the christmas trees. I tried putting them on other cards with other images but I thought I'd like the tree to be the main focus of the card. I've added a few red and green papermania adhesive stars to decorate and then stuck it down using foam pads. The strip of dotty paper is doodlebug layered onto some red doodlebug cardstock. I've then printed the sentiment on the pc, again onto co-ordinating doodlebug card and layered this too. I really love this card. I can't beleive how simple it was to make! One of my quickest so far!I got the idea for this card after seeing this card on Tara's Blog! I really love the holly wreath and decided to have a go at making one myself. I've used doodlebug again! Paper & Card! and I've embossed each holly leaf with the swiss dots folder. I wasnt sure what to do with the wreath once I'd made it and one evening I had a flash of inspiration! So I went straight into my craft room and cut out circle from the card and hung a large round sentiment in the style of a hanging bauble!I bought the Papermania Christmas stack a few weeks back in Hobbycraft as i thought the traditional papers would be ideal for some more masculine cards. I've used the free template to cut out the holly leaves and inked all the edges. For the lettering I printed off a few christmassy words and made my own card templates so I can re-create them. I've cut them out using the same paper as the background paper. The font I've used is called Madfont and I downloaded it from DaFont I had the Idea for this next card when I saw the Ribbon Tree stamp in a magazine. I cut out all the different pieces of ribbon and stuck them down and then trimmed them into a tree shape. I added a small star brad to the top of the tree. Then I got stuck! and didnt know what to do with it, so I've kept it simple and a bit manly!

I decided to have a go at making some Christmas Baubles using the Papermania paper pack again. I've cut out the baubles using my nestabilities and finished them with some gold ribbon and a few adhesive stones. I think they have turned out really well. Very simple and easy to make.

Back to the Men!

Just when I thought I'd finished with the mens cards, I was asked to do another couple for a friend. He saw my aeroplanes card I did the other day and really liked it so he asked if I could do the same for his Dad but with Trains. I think I like this one even better that the planes one.

Ive printed both the sentiment and the photos onto white doodlebug crisscross card and it gives it a real look of luxury and the photos look like the have been printed onto canvas.
The same chap also wanted a train related fathers day card to and suggested maybe Thomas the Tank Engine as a funny card. I've come up with this. I found the photo on the internet and worked from that. I wanted to make it a nice card with a slight hint of humor and I think its worked out well. Sorry about the pic though, my craft room was so bright with the sun I struggled to get a good photo! I'm not complaining...

I'm off to my mums and tots group again tomorrow and thought I'd do a couple of extra cards to take with me. I decided to go with the cuddly buddly images again. I've made the sentiment in paint shop pro and resized the image to fit inside. The papers are part of a kit I downloaded from Shabby Princess however I've recoloured them in paint shop pro to match with the cuddly buddly man. I really like the colours on this card.

And finally, Dude! Another one made using Kerry's doodle. He's been coloured in with watercolour pencils. The papers are from the Epsom site and I've printed the sentiment direct onto the paper.

I think thats enough cards for now. I have to come up with something for the weekend. It would have been my little girl Rebecca's 4th birthday on Sunday. I've ordered a nice heart shaped wreath to go on her grave and want to make my own little card to go on it. I'm not sure what I'm going to come up with yet but no doubt it will be pink and have butterflies on it!

Dude!

Last but by no means least here is what I've come up with using Kerry's Cool Dude doodle. I've done a couple of versions which were inspired by the Kirsty Wiessman papers I downloaded. If you haven't seen her site before take a look, she has some fantastic freebie papers and kits.

I think the top one is my favorite apart from the colouring! I coloured him using my Wispers pens but I think I prefer the watercoloured look like the one below, although I'm not very good at using them yet. I need some more practice. I created the sentiment myself on the pc as I never seem to have what I want.

Thanks Kerry for your generosity!

I can't wait to get my hands on a set of your stamps but I've been told I have to wait til the end of the month!

Kerry's Giraffe Doodle

I've been playing this evening and created this card a card using Kerry's Giraffe doodle, which she has very kindly allowed us all to use subject to her copyright. I've coloured him with watercolour pencils, although I admit to not being very good at it!

The backing paper is the giraffe fur paper available to download from here also thanks to Kerry for the link! I've cuttlebug'd some brown card using the Traffic Jam folder and threaded a large wooden button with a old faux suede lace. The leaves are a handmade paper I had in my stash and the brads are by papermania. I've inked all the edges in a brown ink which I think makes it stand out a bit more. I couldnt think of a suitable greeting for this card so thought I'd leave him blank so somebody else can decide what occasion he's for!