Cupcake Explosion

I absolutely LURVE this card. Definitely my most favourite one that I have made so far this year. I love the bold colours. I drew the cupcake freehand and then mounted it onto black card and cut round leaving a small, thin border. I then added foam pads to the back and mounted it onto pink square scalloped cardstock and then again onto black. I stamped the base card with a candle stamp from a birthday set I have and then stamped the sentiment. When I mounted the cupcake onto black card I then coloured it with cinnamon, blossom and pastel blue promarkers and then added the Glossy Accents to the cake part of the image and then added little sprinkles while the gloss was still wet. Yummy!

Faerie Dreams

I recently purchased this fairy stamp from a seller on ebay so I don't know who makes it but I really liked it (and it was cheap). I stamped the image with Lightning Black 'Brilliance' ink and then cut the image out with my circle spellbinder. I then stamped around the edge with the same ink, using my Lavinia leaves stamp that came with my tree. The basecard was stamped with flowers from a set that I believe was Hero Arts. The flowers and ribbons were then added to co-ordinate the colours. In case you were wondering, the blue flowers co-ordinate with the blue dots on the brown ribbon, although the blue doesn't really show up true on the picture.

Gorgeoussssss

Oh my god, I love this card (even if I do say so myself). Again, I used the main stamped image from a stamp set that was offered as a freebie in Card Making and Papercraft magazine. The background paper was also a freebie. I mounted the image onto white scalloped circle card and then layed it onto pink scalloped circle card. I then added the flowers in co-ordinating colours (the blue flower on brown cardstock in the middle of the flowers was actually a mounted BAUBLE that was on a christmas card that I removed and recycled as it was perfect on this card). Puppy was coloured with cinnamon, ice grey 1, pastel blue and blossom promarkers. The sentiment is something that I copy and typed from the dictionary.

Kitty Kandy

This card was made using some freebie stamps from Card Making and Papercraft magazine. The base card was stamped with the little teddy bear and another stamp that I had lying around from a flower collection (I then added glitter to the flowers).

The main image was coloured with Ice Grey 1, Forest Green, Bright Yellow and Blossom promarkers and doily punched. I then punched out a scalloped circle and coloured it with the same ink used for stamping the background and then stamped the sentiment and cut it out to decoupage. I then added the ribbon and flowers.

Time for Cocoa

I made this card for one of my work colleagues. I can't remember her name (hah, only joking). It's her birthday soon and I wanted to make a card that all the girls in the office could sign.

The letters have been done using a technigue I saw demonstrated at Alexandra Palace, where they stamp each letter with the same image as the main and then colour it and cover with glossy accents. I then used foam pads to decoupage them on the right. I stamped the image and coloured with (ruby, cinnamon, pastel blue and lime green) promarkers and then decoupaged the jacket, glove and cup. Added a ribbon and flowers to finish.

You don't bring me flowers

Oh wow, I love snow days.... I'm on a roll with my crafting. Here's the first of many. I bought this stamp from www.theglitterpot.com as they have a 50% off sale on certain stamps and I love Forever Friends stamps.

This card was originally intended to be a Valentine's card, but I didn't think it was special enough for my hubby so I added the birthday sentiment at the top. I mounted the image onto red mirri card and coloured it with my promarkers (cinnamon, ruby and amethyst). I border punched the bottom with my Martha Stewart Doily punch and the basecard is stamped with my Rhonna Farrer clear stamp. I then added the raffia and the flowers to finish. The parcel and his hands have been decoupaged.

New Year Waffle

Can't believe that the Christmas period went by so fast. Back to work for me tomorrow and Lianne is back at school too, Lewis is overjoyed as he has an extra day off as his school has an inset day tomorrow.

We have all had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to what the new year brings for us. It can't get much worse as 2009 wasn't a particularly good time for any of us. My husband, Steve, nearly died after having had 60% of his lung removed. Myself and the children have all been terribly ill with one bout of flu after the other for each of us. Rarely giving us time to get over the first illness before another hitting us. Swine flu, Chest Infections and various other infections. Let's hope that a new year will give us enough respite to build up a few immunities ha ha ha.

Steve has already gone back to work (finally), after having 10 months off to recover. He is doing a gradual return, one day the first week, two days the second week, three days the third week and so on until he is back on a full week. He's doing okay, despite the first day back being a snow day and although he was supposed to finish at 6pm he didn't get home until 10pm due to the terrible weather conditions and traffic delays.

And finally... I would like to introduce to you to the latest member of our family...HARLEY. He is an eighteen month old Border Collie. Full of beans and definitely a handful. Watching Harley play football in the garden with Lewis is like watching two hyperactive children wear themselves out!!! Definitely worth watching though as they are both loopy.

Lavender Flourishes

Another card using the same techniques as before on my first card of 2010. The Autumn Leaves stamp was stamped with my Metallic Pink Encore Stamp Pad onto the base cardstock. Then I cut out a piece of lilac cardstock for layering which I edged with Stayzon and cut a border with my new Martha Stewart Doily Border Punch. I then used my nestabilities to cut out the Forever Friends image which I coloured with Cinnamon, Forest Green and Ruby ProMarker pens. I then added some ribbon, a sentiment and some lilac flowers with gemstones to one side of the scalloped circle and added some glitter to the image. Hope you like it. It's not as busy as the previous card and much more simple, I think that's why I like it so much. I suppose I could have used a similar layout with a wedding cake stamped image and it would have looked just as nice.

Make a Wish

My first card of 2010. I made this card using my Autumn Leaves clear stamp by Rhonna Farrer on the base cardstock and then edged it with my new Martha Stewart Doily Border Punch. I stamped a Forever Friends stamp with Adirondack and then coloured it with Ice Grey 1, Blossom and Spice ProMarker pens. Before matting and layering the scalloped shapes and the Forever Friends bear I added glitter to the Autumn Leaves flourishes. Then I added all the layers and the lettering which was cut out on my BigShot with Cerise MirriCard. It's a bit busy for me, but Lianne liked it so I have included it on my blog for all to see. Hope you like it.

Welcome 2010...

Happy New Year everyone. Hope that 2010 offers you all that you wish for and so much more.