Fairytale Wedding

Hi girls (and guys)
Just wanted to add a little card that I have made for a friend's wedding. Wendy and Kevin are getting married on Saturday 30th July and I was honoured to make all her wedding and evening invitations, her place names and her seating plan for her, so I wanted to make a really special wedding card for her.

I used two digital images, the magical, whimsical house (which I would love to live in) from Make it Crafty and the couple from Tiddly Inks (my favourite digiartist, Christie Croll is just amazing). I merged the two images together and added a free sentiment from Create with TLC and voila. I printed the image off twice so that I could decoupage some of it over the top and this is what I came up with.

I coloured the image with my promarker pens and then used my coloured pencils to add highlighted and shaded areas and give them more depth, I then went over the whole image with Gamsol to blend the pencil in with the promarkers. This is also good for 'setting' the image, sort of like spraying art work at school with hairspray. It basically stops it from smudging or smearing later from too much handling.

I then painstakingly cut out the 'vines' and the door and then the bride and mounted them onto foam pads to create some 'depth' to the image.

Here's an even closer version of the card so that you can see all of the little areas I had to cut out to create the desired effect. I am really pleased with it, but please note that the actual photographs are not doing the card any justice at all. I am not being big-headed here, but it really does look so much better in real life (so to speak).

Thank you so much for visiting me today and hopefully, you will take some time to leave me a comment. Good or otherwise. I'm good, I can take critisism. If you don't like something, let me know, it's all good.

Anyway, thank you for taking time out of your day to visit me, and I hope you will remember me and come back soon. Have a great day, hugs xxx

Thank You

Hi, just wanted to say thank you for your messages, texts and emails.

It was very funny, what happened but you need to know that the MRI results came back and it turns out that I have had a stroke! Fortunately, it was only a mild one so I'll be back on my feet in no time.

In hospital AGAIN!!!

What the hell is wrong with me??? Now I have a fractured skull and a suspected fractured shoulder!!! Gett your tena ladies ready girls, this will male you laugh! THE GARAGE DOOR FELL ON TOP OF ME!!!

Exciting News

Since Spring this year, Make It Crafty and Tiddly Inks have been craftily plotting the coordinated release of a collection of Victorian and Steampunk images. Doesn't that sound fabulishious???? 

 

Like all good things, creative genius takes time but on July 14, Zoe and Christy and their teams will release a delightful combination of images, and welcome us to anticipate the release of "Mix and Match with Make It Crafty and Tiddly Inks."

 

Don't forget to check their blogs regularly for sneeky peeks and enter a quickie competition over at Tiddly Inks as the lovely Christie will be selecting someone to receive FIVE new digis from the collection, THE DAY BEFORE GENERAL RELEASE. Check it out now.

Hugs and kisses xxx

Pick-You-Up

I work at a Catholic Secondary School and I thought this lovely little digi stamp from Tiddly Inks with her checked shirt was right up my school's street in terms of School Uniform. So I coloured the skirt in our school colours and added a little message.

My daughter wanted to make the card for a pupil at my school, who also happens to be a colleagues daughter, as she is having a tough time in Year 7, and she wanted to cheer her up. So she asked me to use the image I had coloured on a card for her to make her smile. Bless.

So anyway, here is the finished card.

Hope she likes it and thanks for stopping by. Hugs xxx

Forever Young

Hi ladies
Just a quickie as it's late and I have been editing cards all night and now I am seeing DOUBLE.

Anyway, here's a little card I knocked up in the week using a Forever Friends stamp for a very special lady, who is celebrating her 85th birthday this week. A colleague, Linda, at work asked me to make it; only specifications were to have her name, age and flowers on the front. Well... I figured it had to be special, as it was such a significant birthday (well as far as I am concerned it's a specific age), so here is what I created for her.

I had to make a box envelope for her too as these flowers are pretty BIG and stand some way off the front of the card. I also decorated the inside of the card, but neglected to photograph it before I took it into work to give it to Linda.

I cut out the letters and the numbers by hand, after printing them off onto paper and tracing them. I added some brown DP with pink glittered leaves and then cut out my stamped image using my circle cutter. I then added the flowers, the ribbon etc and then finally the numbers and letters over the top with foam pads.

Linda really liked it and apparently, so did Nancy.
Happy Birthday special lady. Congratulations!

Thanks for stopping by. Hugs xxx

A Splash of Lime!

Hi girls (and guys)
Hope you have not been too worn out by the 'heat wave' we have had today.

Just wanted to share a little card I have been making this evening for the new Baby Cremins. Hayden Thomas, who was born on 23rd June 2011.

I thought I would enter this card into the following challenges:

All Sorts - Lemon and Lime

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch #170

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge - Fancy Folds

As you can see, the card mainly consists of lemon and lime colours and I have used the sketch as requested by Cute Card Thursday and the image is one of Mo's, using an easel 'fancy' fold.

Hope you like the card.

Hugs xxx

Forever Friends 'Birthday Card' Challenge

Morning fellow crafters

Just to let you know that the new (fortnightly) Forever Friends challenge has begun.  This time, we are sponsored by Bizzy Bec's, who have a wonderful selection of digi stamps for you to choose from. When I was asked to select one for this challenge, I didn't know where to begin, I was truly spoilt for choice!

For those of you who know me personally, my choice will come as no surprise whatsoever. I have a weakness about anything and everything Burlesque, so my choice of Bizzy Bec's digi stamps just had to be 'Burlesque Betty'. So here is my card for the DT:

Thank you so much for your visit and I look forward to visiting your blogs to see what you have created this time. We had such a lovely repsonse to the previous challenge, I hope you'll come back again this time for the Birthday Card challenge, remember... it doesn't have to be a Forever Friends image, just an animal will do.

Good luck! Hugs x

Humphrey's Corner 'Birthday Girl' Stamp Set

Good morning, fellow crafters.
It's such a beautiful day here in Hertfordshire that I got up really early and started crafting. Mojo is back, internet is fully operational...finally and I have a small selection of cards for you that I have made using my new Humphrey's Corner stamps. I just had to have them as they are just toooo cute.

I have made two cards with my first stamp so far, using different colour schemes.

Here is the first card:

I coloured her in with my Copic Pens and mounted her onto red, yellow and blue coloured cardstock. I then filled a white piece of cardstock with co-ordinating coloured dots (using the same colours I coloured the image with) and mounted that too onto red cardstock. I then mounted the whole thing onto a card base to finish. Really simply but, I think, quite cute card that can be used for any occasion.

The next card I made was using the exact same image but different colours and this time, I stamped two of the images and decoupaged her dress to give it a slightly 3D effect. Unfortunately, the photograph I took doesn't really do either of the cards any justice as the colours look so much more vibrant 'in real life' so to speak.

The blue colourway is also really simple but I really like the Humphrey's Corner image so I think, whether you like it or hate it, you'll definitely be seeing a lot more of them on my blog from now on.

Here is the 'blue version'. You can see that I have added some pink, green and yellow, just to liven it up a little and I have mounted the whole thing onto pink cardstock which is slightly glittered, but again, unfortunately you can't see much of it in the photograph.  I have stuck the dress down completely at the chest so that it is only slightly raised at the base of the dress.  Hope you like it?

Thanks for stopping by and paying me a little visit.

Father's Day 2011

Hello again

Another little card that I have made recently.  This is a card I made for Steve, from Lewis, for Father's Day. I know that this date falls on different dates throughout the world, but in England, we celebrated it last Sunday (19th June).

Steve really liked it and loved the Lili of the Valley stamped image that I purchased simply to use for his Father's Day card. I coloured it the exact same colour as his MAZDA RX8.

Thanks for stopping by.