Cake Fun

I've been really bad at posting my scrapbooking especially as I have quite a few that I made at the retreat in March.

My niece gave me some super photos of the photo shot she had with her son, this was nearly three years ago that how behind I am on my scrapbooking. The papers I think are a Simple Stories pack but don't hold me to that.

The balloons are Penny Black dies that I've had probably as old as these photos.

I added the balloon to this page because the will be next to each other in the album. I also added one of my new Sizzix Dinosaurs I think the eye may be a bit too much but it was either that or a blind dinosaur.

Tree Frogs

My Brother in Law used to collect frogs and this gave me the idea for this card. I used Simon says Stamp Wood Grain card which I cut out the part of circle for the sentiment using Stitched Circles.

My frogs are Poppy Stamps Tiny Frogs and they were cut from paper that was splattered with green Oxides.

The sentiment is using Simon says Stamp Birthday Messages.

Spring Cleaning

Although this is image is called Tom Sawyer it reminds that each time spring comes round so does the garden painting start on the wooden fences and shed.

I've managed to get my hands on the Lawn Fawn Spring Fling for the pretty paper down the side with a touch of yellow with the yellow scallops die.

The sentiments are made with a couple of stamps  from Simon says Stamps It's No Secret. A bit of ribbon to finish.

Anything Goes

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for The Mood Board Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Concord and 9th this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

I've been wanting to owe this Winter Wear stamp set for ages and now I had a reason to add to my shopping basket. My only problem I still not 100% and Mr Mojo as up and left me .

So a very simple card using just the stamp set. I layered the scarves and hat, wouldn't be one of my cards if I didn't.

The pretty spotty paper is Doodlebug Simply Spring and the winter wear was coloured to co-ordinate.

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Spring Mood Board

I was gutted that I was once again unwell to post my Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge but I think I'm on the mend and I can get back to posting. We are using this fabulous Mood Board isn't it cute and showcasing Simon says Stamps.

I knew I wanted to use Simon says Stamps Picture Book Bunny and Lamb and the whole card evolved from that. Since its Easter this weekend there as to be an egg somewhere and I used Simon says Stamps Stitched Ovals using Doodlebug Simply Spring.

The sentiment is from the Simon says Stamps Sketch Tulip and I decided to use a brown inkpad since its not as harsh as black. Finally I used the Avery Elle Wonky Bow, there are two bows and this one is the smaller of the two but such a good size for cards.

Sorry folks thats all for now, fingers crossed I post tomorrow especially as I have some cards in the wings.

Butterflies and Blossoms

I was very lucky to receive the Lotus Frame from Simon says Stamp Blossoms and Butterflies, at first I wondered how I could use it differently then just layering on card.

So I cut a frame and coloured the stem and flowers using a blending tool and a couple dye inkpads.
I then smudged some colour on white large enough for green stems and leaves and another piece large enough flowers.
Then cut out another frame but cut off the stems and flowers, this way I had a perfect white frame.

I used the same inkpads to randomly coloured round the edges of the bottom mat. Using a stamp postioner  I stamped the sentiment from Simon says Stamps Thoughtful Messages.

Evan with iPad

I was going to give this card to my nephew because he was allowed Grandma's ipad after tea and his bath but have recently learnt he is not allowed anymore because it keeps his mind to active to fall asleep so a good old fashion storybook as taken its place.

First off it's not crooked you know it's my photo skills, didn't realise it looked so crooked. I've used Mo's Evan with ipad and kept to boys colours to match the Echo Park papers.

We all know that boys and mens cards are the trickiest ones so I kept it simple and used Spellbinders Nesting Stars. The frame is Simon says Stamp Stitched Squares and used up some bakers twine.

I had planned on a Spring themed card when I discovered a piece of white card on the photo and its too dark to take another photo. I planned it to let you know that Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge is back with a Spring Theme come and join us.

Tulips

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for Animal Antics and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

No Designer Paper

We are showcasing Picket Fence this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

I'm afraid I took the cheat way out and went for a CAS with plenty of white space. I stamped the Simon says Stamp Sketch Tulip Bouquet and made sure I coloured the leaves with some shading but I layered up the tulip heads.

It was then I used the Picket Fence Happiness Belong to You and used one of the large sentiment with Simon says Stamp Antique Gold embossing powder so it would stand out of the green stem.

Then with a craft knife I cut the leaves and added 3d foam square cut down to fit the top of leaves so when I stuck it on a card it lifted the leaves.

The tulips heads were layered in the normal way and I added some sequins since all that white space annoyed me!

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Thinking of You

It was sad that I had to make one of these cards recently and I used Simon says Stamp Moments of Grace for inside and outside of the card.

I tried to colour my flowers lightly and layered the Thinking of You die several times to help it stand out. It's quite a simple card.

These are the beautiful words inside and is very true.

Short and sweet post, I'm off to the Bracknell Crop run by The Scrap Cafe today.

Hoppy Easter

I'm still can't decide if I prefer the photo of the card to be at a jaunty angle or straight bearing in mind my straight is wonky anyway.

I think I may have used all my favourite Easter images from Mo Manning, this one is called Valerie Bunny The papers are from LOTV that they were selling cheaply at the Make it Show, it such a shame they are no longer making them.

I've discovered an old template for tags in the days before cutting machines, you had to draw in the curves and fussy cut out. I also used the Crochet Border from MFT another old favourite that I haven't used for a while.

Sentiment came with the image and the flowers are unbranded dies or rather don't know whose.

Animal Antic

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for Anything Goes and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Animal Antics

We are showcasing Hello Bluebird this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

I decided to use the Hello Bluebird Otter Friends because I didn't have any otter stamps and it reminded me of the film Ring of Bright Water.

First I made my watery background with oxides and remembered I have some seaweed stalk dies from Memory Box that I coloured again with oxides. Along with the stamped bulrushes from the stamp set background done.

It was  just places the otters, two of them look like they were applauding so I stamped a birthday sentiment from Simon says Stamp It's no Secret.

At this point I noticed I had left a sort of white and blue border at the top so I added some Memory Box Puffy Clouds.

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An Owl Birthday

I'm pretty sure there was a sketch involved but I made this card a few weeks ago and I can't work out whose it was.

Of course my little owl is from My Favourite Things called Warm and Feathered Hugs and I did indeed buy the dies too.

My Owl is encircled with Simon says Stamp Stitched Circles and the sentiment is again a Simon says Stamp It's no Secret. Now the papers I'm pretty sure they are Doodlebug French Kiss.

To decorate I used the leaves from Simon says Stamp Circle of Leaves, the trio of heart are also Simon says Stamp but their Small Heart Doily, the first two hearts are from the smaller heart in the die set. The third and other hearts are from Holiday Shapes.

I had a great time at the retreat last weekend, tiring but fun. I made 11 scrap pages and yes I do count a double layout as two. Some worked out well, some was to record a memory and some I could've done better. Now I need to get back to my craftroom and start making loads of cards to fill up my drafts again.

Time for Coffee

I was at a Scrapbooking/Cardmaking Retreat at the weekend and it took till yesterday to make a card and I kept it very simple.

The papers are Carta Bella I think and of course my image is from Mo Manning called Coffee.

I have sort of used a Mojo Monday sketch but changed the the main image to a rectangle using Simon says Stamp Stitched Rectangles.

The flowers are a die I acquired with no name which is shame love to be able to tell you whose they are.

The sentiment is from Simon say Stamp but the tag was made using a Paper Piazza stencil that you draw round. This is what happens when you have to move things around to fit a large Gemini in your craft room, all kind of things turn up.

Anything Goes

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for Cute Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

We are showcasing Tim Holtz this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

Now while I have seen Tim Holtz Wildflowers Stems coloured in I fancied making a card just white and since I was short of time I thought this way would be quicker.

I also used the Wildflower Stems 2 for some of the leaves but the flowers were from the set above.

Normally I would use Simon says Stamp stitched Ovals but I always use them so for a change I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Rectangles.

I stamped possibly my favourite background stamp Quilted Hearts and embossed with Simon says Stamp Gold Embossing Powder.

Finally a sentiment specially for my Mum, using Best Mom from Simon says Stamp.

You may notice two photo of my card, mainly I'm getting tired of the wonky photographer and I took the photo laying flat, I may photo all my cards that way since you can see the one below I'm 5mm out all the time.

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Oh no not more Crocheting

Finally my Blizzard Warning Blanket is done, I've used a Flat Braid Join, the tutorial I used was from here. She used 3 chains which give a holely border but I've seen one for 2 chains which mean't be better. 

So on to my next blanket, this Seaside Winter Blanket vintage style, to be honest I was going to make another Helen Shrimpton design but it got throw across the room to many times to mention although at the time I wasn't 100%.

Just realised I haven't show my completed Lost Garden from Helen Shrimpton. Apologies for the wonky square its the angle and size made it awkward to photo, its a bit fuzzy too but that because the photographer as wonky hands.

I've subscribed to Crochet Now so I don't miss any while they do a CAL with Helen Shrimpton (can guess my favourite designer) and the gift was some fabulous Stylecraft Special DK to make it with. But I have an issue with Shrimp and that the rest of colours are solid apart from that blue fleck.

I also wanted it to be masculine rather than pretty colours so I've added Mustard instead of the pink and Storm for flecky wool. Yes I'm happy now, I think the my subscription copy comes early and should be this weekend.

Bunny with Basket

Yes it's Easter in my craftroom any excuse to use Mo's Bunny with Basket. I decided to use the MFT Stitched and matching Scallop die for edges, if you really carefully to can match the stitch line with the two layers did say a few choice words before they fell into place.

The papers are Echo Park Spring Fling and the daisies are MFT Upsy Daisy but not sure if they are made anymore. I think the leaves possibly are Cheery Lynn, all I know they are purple and my Gemini didn't like them much but I wasn't going to let a machine beat me. Lets not forget the LaLa Land Filigree corner again not sure if its still made.

Since I mentioned the Gemini I may as well let you know how I'm getting on with it. One thing I'm having to learn is patience it is quicker by hand but my shoulders are happier for not using my Big Shot. The only disadvantage I can see it when cutting out stamped images something I haven't done yet, oh there is another, its huge and as taken over my craftroom and with hindsight I should of gone for the Junior.

Falling Hippos

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Whatever the Weather and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

CUTE

We are showcasing Clearly Besotted this week. You don’t have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

Lets be honest if its cute you want you can find plenty in my craft room, I can remember when I first started cards, if you made a cute card serious card makers were horrified. Thankfully not today.

Once I got over which cute Clearly Besotted stamp to use I decided Rainy Day Play and you can see the new Mary Poppins film as influenced me since I my hippos are falling from the sky. Using Simon says Stamp Stitched Rectangle for my main image mat I inked the edges to give a impression of the sky and grass.

Usually when I colour I also chose my patterned papers this time I didn't and rather than spend ages to find one to match I made my own. I cut 1cm strips of some scraps of red, blue and yellow and stuck then onto thin card,cut down so the Simon says Stamp Scallop Frame from their Frames set to fit on top.

All that was left was to add a sentiment since I wanted a Birthday one and since the Simon says Stamp I'ts no Secret is fairly new to me I used one from that set.

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Christmas Cards

They've increased my pain meds and even with anti sickness tablets I was still being ill so I didn't spend a lot of time in my craftroom. Hopefully I will get in there after I've got my ipad repaired tomorrow especially as I reverted back to my old dose.

So I found this post in my drafts some cards made up with some left overs. The first one is the bauble from Simon says Stamp called Ornate Ornaments . Finished of with the fab Believe die and matching stamp set.

Papers could be anyone's  just using some left over strips.

I had this Outline Snowflake left over and I wanted to use it so I added to a piece of card the same colour and stamped the sentiment from Yuletide Holiday, with WOW Bright White Opagne embossing powder.

I had planned to use this Snowflake Tag die for my tags, never mind will use it this year and well in advance. I added the Rina Snowflake to give it a bit more interest and I cut the centre circle out of the tag die and fussy cut round it. I stuck one stem down and folded it to make a card and once again I used a sentiment from Yuletide Holiday.