Baby Note Card and Pastel Pencils for sale

One of the Mums at Freya's school was due to have a Baby Girl during the Easter break, this is the card I made...It is a note card style, I got the inspiration from a card in an old issue of PaperCrafts magazine,
The image is from the Stampin' Up! 'Year after Year' set, coloured with Copic markers and highlighted with a clear Spica pen, paper is from a Tinker and Co download, the Ric Rac is Making Memories as is the Safety pin, I cut a notch to hold the front flap and put a little clear bauble on.
The inside is below....
The little round image is one from a set that Stamping Caz designed and offered on the Cricut Forum ...some time ago now! Thanks Caz
The Sentiment is Pink Petticoat , oh and the cardstock is Bazzil
I like this card , just not sure about the fact it doesn't stand on it's own, it needs propping

I have been sorting through my craft stuff and in an attempt to make some space I have found a few bits to try and sell, I have a set of 24 Derwent Pastel Pencils...
I don't think I ever used these pencils ! I had to sharpen the blue one (third from right) as the lead ( or whatever it's called!) was broken when I got them home. You can read more about them here.
I am offering them for £14.00 + £2.00 p&p, I can accept payment by Paypal, email me if you are interested or with an offer.
Thanks for stopping by
Nicola

Happy Easter

Another post ! I hear you say, yes you're right this is unheard of recently,

but I have a couple of cards to show so why not!!
Here is the first...
I based the layout for this one on this sketch over at Splitcoast stampers,
The patterned paper is from Funky Fairy,
The cardstock is Stampin' Up! and the image and tag is from Pink Petticoat.
I've coloured the chick with Copic Markers and then cut and matted it with Nestabillities.
I've added some ribbon and a bit of glitter and stitched round the panels , oh and the scallop edge was cut with my SU corner rounder punch.

Here is card number 2...This is also based on an SCS sketch you can find here , I altered this one slightly to fit with my design,
The cardstock base is SU, the patterned papers are by DCWV from their spring glitter stack, image is as previous card and I've just added a flower and rhinestone to finish off.
Well that's it for now, hope you all have a lovely Easter,
Nicola

Hello again! and a card

Yes it is me, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, well not yet anyway!!

I'm sorry it has been so long, we seem to have had so much going on and then to top it all off the girls and me have been poorly, first Evie, then Freya and now me, I think I'm on the mend now but I still don't feel great!
For a couple of weeks we had been hard at work on our garden ( I say we, my role was more supervisory!).
A couple of years ago I had the idea to get rid of the grass and have one half filled with play bark and the other gravel, I thought it would be easy to maintain but let's just say it was not my greatest idea ever, soooo, we decided to have the garden turfed again!
Here are some pics
The before with the play bark taken up
And the new turf, we will be adding in stepping stones later
And a cute one of Evie 'helping'!
Now I just have to try and keep the girls off of the garden for a couple of weeks, not Good timing with it being Easter Hols!
Anyway hope I haven't bored you with that! I do have a card to show as well...

The image is by Pink Petticoat
and I have coloured it with Copic Markers (love these things!!)and then cut it out and matted it using Nestabillities dies. The papers are a download from Tenivo this lady has a gorgeous selection of papers you must have a look!
The ribbons are HOTP and the little baubles are from my local craft shop.
I have added a little sparkle with some glamour dust and also inked most of the edges
Hope you like it!

These last few weeks I've realised that I don't have time to blog as much as I first tried, I struggle to find time for my cards since I started my job, so from now on I'm going to try posting weekly and see how it goes but please don't give up on me , I don't get that many visitors here but the occasional comments I receive about my cards are so nice as I don't have many crafting friends to bounce ideas off!!
Thanks for stopping by
Nicola

Valentine Card

Well here it is, the Valentine card I was making but couldn't show before.....

This card is Pink Petticoat through and through!, everything I have used is from the Sweet Cupcake Collection.

I was a bit concerned that the card was a bit pink and girly for my Husband! but by inking all the edges with Black Soot distress ink, I think it has taken the edge off the pink, I hope!! , let me know what you think.

The only other thing to mention is that I have added Diamond Glaze to the cherry on top, I don't think the picture picks that up though!

Anyway I hope you all have a lovely Valentines Day

Nicola

Paper Nation Fisherman and Copics!

This is a card I have made for my Dad's Birthday and it is also my very first attempt at Copic colouring!

I have stamped the Paper Nation Fisherman onto Stampin' Up! Whisper White with Brilliance Graphite Black and coloured with my Copics ( I love the shading effects you can get with them, I need more practice yet though!!)

All other papers are by Pink Petticoat as are the sentiments, I've inked nearly everything with Ranger Distress ink in courderoy.

I used the Splitcoast Stampers Card Sketch challenge no. 159 for this card, I love sketches!!!

I'm sorry for the lack of posts recently, I've been a bit off colour and haven't really felt like getting all my craft stuff out of an evening but hopefully I'm getting back to it now!

Hope you are all well and have had lovely weekends, back soon....

Nicola

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.....

At last, a post!!!

Apologies (again!) for my abscence, I have been hard at work with my Christmas cards, why oh why do I leave things so late! I now only have a couple left to do, luckily not ones that need posting!
Well here goes...

These first 2 use papers and image stamps from Pink Petticoat, the tree is coloured with Stampin' Write markers from Stampin' Up!.
I have tried to stick to a basic design to speed things up and just vary the papers and images, I have also added plenty of glitter, I think that and ribbon are the 2 things I use on nearly every card!





Next Up is this card which is decorated with Dashing DP and Real Red and Old Olive Cardstock from Stampin' Up!

I added a corner of Old Olive to the top right under the DP which I then folded back and secured with a sparkly Brad to reveal the pattern on the back.

I Cuttlebugged a strip of Real Red and highlighted with glitter, I cut out and matted the image which is from a David Walker font, with my Nestabillities Dies and mounted with Stampin' Dimensionals, I have tied an organza ribbon around the embossed panel.



And last for today this one uses an image from Pink Petticoat, coloured with Stampin Write Markers, and mounted on Real Red and Old Olive cardstock,the background is Dashing DP and the red strip is Real Red Cardstock which has been Cuttlebugged and torn and again highlighted with glitter.
Hope your Christmas preparations are going well and you're a bit more organised than me!
Anyway I'm off now 'cos it's nearly time to fetch Evie from Preschool, see you soon.

Another quilled card

Hello ,

Hope I'm not boring you with these quilled cards!

This is one I made for my daughter's friend, it's her 6th Birthday today and we are off to the party later on.

I used my new Nestabillities dies for the circle and scallop, I love these things I want all of them, NOW! hehe!!

The papers are by Pink Petticoat as is the little sentiment, flowers are prima and I added some sparkles with the ribbon and brad.

I based this card on a sketch I found here

Thanks for stopping by,

Nicola

Baby Feet ??

Hello again,

What a few days, we all seem to have been poorly in my house, first my 2 daughters with a sickness bug, then my husband had a virus, and now me with a bad back, phew! I'll be glad when we are all back to normal!!

For this reason I just don't seem to have found time to finish a card, so I'm posting this one I did a few weeks ago, and I have to ask a question, can you tell the quilled shapes are baby feet?

A few people I showed them to before I put them on the card weren't sure what they were!!

Paper is HOTP as is the ribbon, the tag is Pink Petticoat and the Congratulation strip is done with a label maker.

On another note, I sent off my Stampin Up! forms last Thursday and they still haven't received them.. aaargh, I've sent some more off today by Special delivery!

Happy Brrrm-day

Hi, I made this card for my husband's friend, left it a bit late, his Birthday is on the 10th! why do these dates seem to creep up on you!

I love some of the layered styles I've seen on some blogs so I tried to replicate the style, I'm quite pleased with the card but it still doesn't look as good as the other cards I've seen somehow, I must need more practice!

The image is by Pink Petticoat as is the little tag, the PP is some I've had for ages from some kits by TLC, the embellies in the top right are circles of paper I punched out and then covered with Diamond Glaze ( I used this on the car as well) to look like brads.

We are off to Parent's Evening tonight, it will be interesting to find out how Freya is getting on in Year1, hope it's positive !!

Speak to you soon.

Deck The Halls!

I've only just finished this one, I ended up doing the housework whilst Evie was at Preschool, she really cried when I left her, she only started in September and had just settled in when they broke for half term!, I hate leaving her like that but I know she's fine after I've gone!

Anyway back to the card!, another Pink Petticoat image coloured with Prismacolor Pencils, the PP is Basic Grey, the CS a mixture of Provocraft and Bazzill, I really like rich, warm colours for Christmas so I enjoyed making this one.

I added some Stickles glitter which hasn't dried yet, hence the photo rather than scan!, I do love sparkle and shine, It's very rare I make a card without a bit of bling!

That's it for now,

Nicola

Prismacolor - 1st attempt!

Well, here is my first attempt at colouring an image with Prismacolor pencils, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out!

The technique was more time consuming than I thought but hopefully as I practice more it will get easier and quicker.

The image is a Pink Petticoat one, I love this range , there seems to be an image for every occasion! , the PP is DCWV and the CS is Bazzill, I stitched round the base layer and then doodled (did I spell that right, it looks wrong somehow?) round some of the edges.

This card will be for sale on my site TheLilacladybug .

I'm going to try and get some more craft time in tomorrow 'cos Evie is back at Preschool, so hopefully I'll have something else to share soon ... Nicola