Driving Me Crazeeeeeeee

This is definitely an 'Anita's' stamp and definitely, definitely one of my first purchases. I have used this loads but I'm sure you can probably tell by now from all of my other postings today that I have been clearing out the garage and have found a selection of stamps I'd forgotton I had. Lovely, it's been like Christmas all over again, finding them all and I've had great fun stamping with some old friends (not people...stamps!) I'm off to the funny farm now as Lianne thinks I have finally truely lost my marbles... ha ha ha!

You're Retiring

This is a House Mouse card. I don't own many House Mouse stamps but I loved this one soooooo much I had to have it. It colours perfectly and the grapes look great either in green or purple. This is a card for someone retiring! Doh! D'ya think?

Baby Love...

This is a great stamp and again, one of my very first purchases, I don't use it that much and thought about getting rid of it or offering it for a swap and then I made this with it, so I think I am going to keep it for a little while longer. I was going to add some pink ribbon to this card but decided to just add some cut out letters across the bottom instead. Not sure who made the stamp sorry. Will have a look later and add it afterwards.

Orange Blossom

Another great Penny Black stamp and an orange overload... I chose the orange background mainly because I really wanted to do something with it and finally get to use it and I thought that this cheerful stamp would fit perfectly. Added some orange flowers and the silver wording peeloff and some orange gemstones. Perfect to cheer someone up who's feeling a bit down (especially if they are leaving work!)

Hello Spring...

I love this 'Springtime' card. The image I'm not sure who it's by but it was one of my very first stamp purchases, maybe 'Anita's'. Love using this stamp although I haven't used it for a while, as there is so much you can do with it. On this occasion I have decoupaged the flower and have added glitter all over each of the boxes on the right hand side. I cut out the individual letters to read 'hello' and decoupaged them also. Lovely!

Treats for my Treat

A Penny Black thank you card using a card technique / design that Stamping Caz taught us at one of her classes at the Glitter Pot last year. I love making this style as it is perfect as an alternative to a plain square card and just right for inserting a gift card or token inside.

Stuffin' my Face

Another image received from Diane, bless her. Coloured him in and 3D'd the cake although this picture was taken before I decouped it. Added a pink background and layered onto white base cardstock. Added two little crystal gems in each corner (not an odd number I know but it seems to work). I also added a red gem on the cherry on top of the cake, but again, this was after taking the photo.

Piggin' Brilliant

It's Steve's friend Mark's birthday on the 16th February and this card just about sums him up. I received the image from an ebay friend so have no idea who makes it, in fact I have never seem it before but he was just too cute not to use one day, this one has been in a selection that I have had for a while and thought 'one day i'll get around to using that one' and then got filed away, I found this after the move when I was sorting through all my craft stuff. The image was coloured in with pencils and the flowers came from Tesco's. Mounted onto grey coloured card and then added to the pink cardstock, I know pink usually isn't a MAN'S colour but it suited the image and I'm sure Mark will understand...??? The handwriting below is my own.

Snowy Day

One last thing before I go... I just wanted to add this beautiful image of a snowy day tree that Lianne photographed in the week. The tree is across the road from my parents' house in the park and it just looked so gorgeous with the snow everywhere. I think she takes quite a good picture for a child of 11. Anyway, here's to snowy days and the beginning of Spring (hopefully)!

Home Sweet Home

This is my LAST offering today so you can see I have been busy lately. Again, another set of images posted to me from Diane, which I coloured in simply with pencils and mounted onto blue cardstock. Added blue and yellow flowers with mini gemstones and stones from 'Poundland'. I remembered Sarn's 'odd' rule and only added five flowers instead of my usual symmetrical collection of flowers to hopefully make this simple card more appealing to the eye as there is not much going on here. Just really simple and hopefully greatfully received.