Back soon!

Hello, it's been a while....
Sorry for the absence, I will be back soon with some new cards, in the meantime just a quick post with one of my older creations,



another little Tear Bear he is quite a sweetie !
The paper is HOTP and I used dymo tape to make the label, the sentiment is a Pink Petticoat one and I've placed it in a Making Memories metal rimmed tag , hope you like it!


Oh and by the way, if you love Stampin' Up! (how could you not?) watch out for a special offer coming soon...... I'll keep you informed!

Thanks for stopping by
Nicola

Digital Layout

Hi,

Well I haven't made a card for a few days, I seem to have lost my mojo for a while, Oh well I'm sure it will be back!!! LOL

Instead I thought I'd post one of my old Digital Layouts, as I mentioned before I'm hoping to start scrapping again, but I always seem to find that I look at all the hundreds of pictures on the computer and just don't know where to start, I think I need a plan, you know, like a mini album with a theme or something, just to get me going! I'll have to get my thinking cap on!!

Anywhooo, here is one of the layouts......

Oh dear 2006! is it that long ago... I probably didn't do this in 2006 though, I certainly never was a prolific scrapper!

I'm afraid after all this time I don't remember the products I used, so my apologies to the designers, I know I did this layout as part of a Scrapgirls class on Brushwork, if you are interested in Digital scrapping, that site is an excellent place to start!

Thanks for stopping by

Nicola

Beatrix Potter Card

This is the second of the Borthday Cards I needed to make for the parties Freya has been invited to...

The patterned papers are Basic Grey, I inked the edges of the green paper with Tea Dye Distress Ink, the image is from a free magazine gift, I've also inked the edges of these to give a bit of definition, the die cuts have been shaped and then mounted with silicone glue. I've fixed a length of HOTP ribbon down the side and affixed my second attempt at a ribbon blossom to it, I still can't seem to get the really full look that Pam gets on hers, look at her tutorial here.

Overall though I'm happy with the card but I do need a second opinion, do you think it is suitable for a 6 year old girl, I'm not sure if the papers are a bit too grown up?, let me know what you think!

Enjoy your Sunday......

Will post card tomorrow!

I have managed to get my second Birthday card finished but I'm going to wait and take the piccy tomorrow so that flash doesn't spoil it!!

Hope you are all having a good weekend so far, I've been flicking through my Digital Scrapbooking mag, I used to digi scrap a lot but when we changed our computer a while back I didn't get PSE installed for ages, by the time I'd got it back on the new system and reinstalled all my brushes and the like I'd completely got out of the habit of it, but I really want to get started again, the children got my album out the other day, they love looking through it and it made me think how important it is to preserve memories for them ( and us!), maybe I'll dig out my discs and find one of my old layouts to show you......

Enjoy your evenings, and Thanks for stopping by

Nicola

No card to show tonight

I don't have a card to show tonight as hoped, Freya has been off school poorly, she's on the mend now but it's meant I haven't had much time to craft!

The weather has been awful here today, so rainy, recently my husband Michael went from being self employed to being employed, he's a bricklayer, so rainy weather meant no pay as he couldn't work, at least now he's employed that isn't such a worry! I hope none of you have been too badly affected by the recent wet weather, I know there have been a lot of flood warnings again, anyway I best go now as I feel like I'm rambling and I don't want to bore you !!!!

Thanks for stopping by....

Last nights card!

Well here it is...
The card base is Stampin' Up! Soft Subtles CS.
The image is by Pink Petticoat, coloured with Prismacolor pencils, I've matted it onto some red paper (magazine freebie, as was the polka dot paper!), I left a slightly wider border top and bottom and then added faux stitching.
I've placed some paper tabs under the ribbon, these were just strips that I cut and then rounded the corners, and I've added my usual sparkle with a gem on each tab!
The ribbon is my rather poor attempt at a ribbon blossom, I found a tutorial, by a very talented lady on her blog Indigo Studio, see the tutorial here, her cards are amazing and the ribbon blossoms beautiful, I need a lot more practice to get mine to look like those!!
That's it for now, back soon.....

Dead Batteries again!

Hi,

Just wanted to let you know that I will have a card to post tomorrow, it would have been tonight but my camera batteries are dead again!

I actually have a couple of cards to make in the next week or so, Freya has been invited to 2 parties, so that will keep me busy for a while!

See you tomorrow :-)

Fairy decoupage

Here is a card that's quite different to most I make, decoupage is not one of my favourite techniques, don't get me wrong I love the effect but it is waaay too fiddly for me!


I started supplying a local gift shop with some of my cards to sell and the lady who owns the shop told me that fairies and butterflies would go down well .... result, me frantically searching for fairy and butterfly images, this is when I purchased the set of die cut decoupage sheets that this fairy comes from...




I know, die cut decoupage is surely cheating but once it's stuck down who's to know the difference!!
I quite like how the card turned out, I like anything sparkly, pink or fluffy and this card ticks 2 of those boxes!
I mounted the fairy onto an opalescent holographic card and then layered this onto some torn backing paper, I inked the edges of the card base and added some Stickles highlights.

On another note, I've just looked out the window and the sky is sooo black, it looks like there is a big downpour on the way!

Hope you all have good evenings, back soon!

Oh my! Iam a bad Blogger!!

I can't believe my last post was before Christmas! Where does the time go...


Please don't give up on me, I will get back into some sort of routine soon! What with the children being off school and my work hours changing I feel like I've been all over the place, and now school has started we are trying to settle into that routine again, I really haven't done any crafting at all recently !!


I do have a card to show now though, I was asked to make a card for a friend, it's her Dad's 70th Birthday, I know he won't be reading this blog so I think I'm safe to show you the card!!
Here it is..
The gentleman in question enjoys gardening so I wanted to incorporate that into the card, hence the Wheelbarrow and Watering Can, both of which are Cricut die cuts.
I have used all Stampin' Up! Papers and Cardstock, the ribbon is by HOTP.
This card is a bit different for me because I ended up using Peel Offs, I don't tend to use them very often, I distressed the shiny finish a bit to tone in more with the style of the card and I'm now quite pleased with the effect. I have machine stitched the bottom of the blue panel and distressed the cream one with Ranger ink and the SU! distressing tool.
The layout of this card is based on a design I saw on this blog, it's one that I visit regularly for inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by :-)