Free images are back

Meet Cally & Caiden, please save to your computer and print out at your leisure, all i ask is you remember to give credit to me as the illustrator if you use them on your blog, magazine or compitition entries.

Please let me know if you use them and show me your creations.

Blog candy winner

The winner of my blog candy was Rosietoes
However everyone who took part will also receive a little something so please email me your address so i can post it out.
Thankyou to everyone who took part.

Free Images

The free images will be back shortly they need a little editing.

Spiral whisper

Ive managed to get some time tonight to cover myself in diamond glaze and sugar coating.LOL!
here are a few creations ive made using my Lexie & Luke stamps which are available from Spiral Whisper.

supplies: basic grey paper, prima flowers, various bling and buttons, lace unknown, sentiment Making memories., stickles and liquid pearls, the image was coloured with WHS watercolour pencils.
here is a close up



Suplies: Junkitz papers, MM clips, Queen & Co anchors, Bella Baubles, stickles and liquid pearls.
Luke coloured with WHS watercolour pencils.

Suplies: DCWV cardstock, My Little Shoebox chipboard, zoomz, stickles, Lexie coloured in WHS watercolour pencils.

more news on Polly & Pip

For those of you who like the Polly & Pip stamps i have some good news for you, I have just sent off the art work for the new christmas stamps, they are just awaiting aproval and then it wont be long until they are on the shelves of your LSS, I also had a request off someone for a scooba diver so i whilst i was sketching i included a few every day images too (including the scooba diver).
As soon as they have been aproved i will include a few sneak peaks on here.
Now all my art work is sent off and finished i can concentrate on some cards ive got empty baskets all over and have had calls for more cards, so i must get cracking and get them all filled up, so be prepared to be flooded with all my creations. here are a couple i made over the weekend.

Blog Candy

This is the first time ive given away blog candy, and im doing so in celebration of the delivery of my Spiral whisper designs. All you need to do is leave me a comment, and link back to me on your blog with the info of the candy, i will pick a winner one week from today, the lucky winner will be walking away with 2 spiral whisper stamps a reel of east of india ribbon and a selection of buttons and blooms.

Ive also got a couple of sneak peaks for you as promised, the following pics are part of the christmas releases of Lexie and Luke, i do hope you like them.

and here is a finished creation

Its been so long

Its been so long since i last posted, I've been so busy with the end of term activities with the kids, Ashleigh decided she wanted to make little sweet gifts for all her friends in her class when she said she wanted what she really meant was mam will you make them for me! so on top of everything else i also had to make 23 sweet bag toppers like the ones I made for valentines day (look at my Feb 08 post).
Ashleigh has now left Primary school and to celebrate the whole of her year group had a party celebration at a local restaurant, they arrived in style in Limo's and had a great party, we have lots of pics to remember it by. ( i will upload them when i get a spare minute)
Ive also broke up from work for the summer although i do need to go in a few times to sort month end stuff and payroll.
Ive been busy with drawing more of my Lexie and Luke characters for Spiral Whisper so be on the look out for some new Christmas themes, i may do a few sneak peaks in the next week or so. You can get my current range now from Spriral Whisper along with lots of other cute characters and animals and other fab images, there are new releases every week so don't miss, and remember if you make anything with Lexie and Luke let me know by leaving me a comment so i can come and look.
Ive also been busy with some new Polly and pip images for Stamps Away, sure you will be seeing them soon too, again i will try and get some sneak peaks.
I will be really busy over the next couple of weeks as I'm planning on decorating the living room at the moment I've got squares of different coloured match pots all over the walls helping me decide what colour i want so id better hurry up and choose as i may get bored of the idea and it will end up like that for months until i get the urge to decorate again.
If i go missing in action again you know I've got the decorating bug.

July weddings

It must be that time of year when all the weddings are happening, ive lost count of the amount of wedding cards ive been asked to make for this month, i wanted to share one with you here, the brief was elegance and no bright colours, i like the finished result i hope the customer does.
the white card was embossed using the cuttlebug, the glitter paper is DCWV, i stamped the hearts and then added liquid pearls and stickles, to finsh i added the ribbons and zoomz.

i liked it so much i made an anniversary card very similar in a different colour way, the ingredients are exactly the same.

Im really busy making cards and gifts for the kids teachers for end of term, it is Ashleighs last year at primary school so shes really sad to leave.
Im also busy on more designs for Stamps Away and Spiral Whisper so you will be seeing some new releases soon.
for anyone wanting to know where i get the zoomz from they are available from the stamp galaxy

Blog Award

Ive been awarded a blog award from the lovely Ruth This was a great suprise to know there are strangers out thre who read and like my blog, so thanks Ruth.

I have to nominate 7 more to send the award onto these are the rules:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.

2. Link the person you received your blog award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs of the boys/girls you've nominated.

There are so many great blogs that i read daily its a shame i cant nominate more than 7 but here are the 7 ive nominated (sorry if you've already recieved one)

Anam

Kimmy

Kirsty

Monica

Annie

Jane

Anna

Ive also been making a few cards this weekend here are a couple ive mae using , circle nestabilities, DCWV papers and Magnolia stamps

the following 2 are for the men,

the snooker one i drew myself because didnt have a stamp which was snooker related, the cricket one is sporty george

1 more week

As the title says you only have one moere week untill the compition ends for the naming of my new characters so what are you waiting for, head on over here and check it out you are in for the chance of winning some fab stamps. Here are a couple of cards ive made using the images


the card stock is DCWV blossoms and butterflies, lots of stickles and zoomz.

Also due for release shortly are the next batch of Polly and Pip stamps, here is one of my pip creations this is pirate pip.
if there are any retailers reading this and you are interested in polly and pip you need to look here

Meet Charlie

Here is the first picture of martin with his first grandson,doesnt he look so proud.



We went to visit today and we had lots of cuddles all the family are doing fine and coping very well, it was a shame to go home after our visit but we had no choice as we had to go and pick the kids up from school. We would of stayed longer and asked my mam and dad to pick them up but yesterday mam had a fall and broke her elbow.
Yesterday teatime i got a call from my dad saying mam has fallen and her elbow was agony for her (mam has a really high pain threshold so it must of been agony for her) so i dropped eveything and went to the hospital with them, she got xrayed only to be told it was broken but as it was so swollen there may be more than one break that cannot be seen on the xray, the treatment was to put it in a sling and she was told not to move it and to go to the fracture clinic in the morning, she got no sleep what so ever. Today the doctor examined her and it was possible she may need an op but after a second opinion they have decided to put it in plaster and see how it heals, so mam is in plaster from here shoulder to her fingertips, so i appologise now if im AWOL for a while as she will need all my help.
For any Polly and Pip fans ive heard that Stamps Away will releasing more sometime next week so keep your eyes peeled for them, I know clever cut do a very fast delivery so give them a try, the link is in my sidebar

I am a GRAN!!!!!!!!

Its official we are now grandparents, its a cute little Boy and he was born this morning at 9.55, He will be called Charlie Alexander, he weighed in at a healthy 8lb 10oz!
I havnt any pics yet as we couldnt get to visit yet but will hopefully we will travel to see them tomorrow, I cannot wait to go and see him and give him lots of hugs and cuddles.

Home and Refreshed

Im home after a wonderful week in Devon, the kids absolutly adored it and we loved it too, we did so much in a week i will be talking about it for ages when i keep remembering little snipits.
Im still in the process of getting through all the washing 2 very big suitcases full, every year we normally go abroad to various places so i know all we need are t.shirts, swimsuits etc, but because we were holidaying in this country we had to be prepared for every eventuality so the suitcases were jam packed full, however we only had rain for one day so i could of gotten away with just packing the shorts and t.shirts.
Enough about the hols onto crafting things, here is a card ive made with one of my new images that will be available shortly over at Spiral Whisper

there is a compitition running at the moment to name my 2 new characters, you have untill 14th July to name them and there will be blog candy to give away to the winner so what are you waiting for head over to the Spiral Whisper blog to see what its all about.
Ther are lots of other sneak peaks too from lots of other talented designers and new stamps will be released often, pre orders for some of the new stamps will be opening on 14th July with the website going live and sending out orders on 21st July so dont miss out keep it bookmarked.

Another sneak peak

Just before i leave to go on my hols i have another sneak peak for you

They will be available soon from Spiral Whisper.I will post more sneak peaks on my return.

For all of you who have given into the temptation of Polly and Pip stamps made by Stamps Away, You will be happy to know there will be another batch released very soon so keep your eye out for them. so i will leave you with my latest Polly and Pip creation, This is Cool Pip

sneak peaks

For all you stampers out there i have some new creations coming your way, i have been aproached by Spiral Whisper to create some trendy characters to turn into stamps and i have a sneak peak ready for you as you can see

I have created a boy and a girl, im not sure when they are due for release but keep your eye here and all will be revealed, i do know we havnt got a name for the characters yet and whilst talking with kitty she mentioned she will be running a compitition on the Spiral Whisper blog, to name them.
Whilst doodling i also created this cute little couple, do you like?

PS I Love You

Oh my god have you watched this film?
I have been home from work ill with tonsilitus so Martin bought me PS I Love You, to make me feel a little better (im a baby when im ill and need lots of love and affection) i watched it this morning and i sobbed my heart out from 10 minutes into the film untill the end. Its such a fantastic film, a real chick flick and Gerard Butler is to die for(MMMMMmmmm) I would reccomend everyone goes and watches this film, in fact it was so good im watching it again tonight LOL.
Ive been feeling a little better this afternoon so i have made a couple of cards with my Polly and Pip stamps, one of the cards is for a special person whos birthday i forgot yesterday so Ali if your reading, this is for you expect to recieve it shortly with a special something in it!!

Polly and Pip part 2

Here are a couple more from Polly and Pip, this time i am introducing you to Polly'big day, Polly the hippy and Polly the cowgirl. I'd like to give a big Thanks to Ali and Paul of Stamps Away for taking me on board as a designer of Polly and Pip.

Meet Polly and Pip

Here the news you have all been waiting for, i am the designer of a new collection of acrylic stamps called Polly and Pip, these stamps are made by Stamps Away and are available from good stockists, they look fantastic on the website and look even better adorning a card or craft project and the even better part is they only 3.25 each, now that's value for money.
You'll never believe how excited i was when i was asked if i would design a range of stamps, i was jumping around the room like a lunatic it all happened so fast. There are 12 Polly and Pips on the website at the moment and more are in line waiting to be turned into acrylic cuteness.
Keep checking in as there is also more news on the horizon.
I will leave you with a card using Pip the Chef.

Party time & WOW

Tonight im off to a party at my Mam & Dads, they moved into a new house in March and now its all finally finished and perfect so they are throwing a house warming to say thank you to everyone who helped get them moved in, ive been busy all day helping her prepare the yummy food for the occasion. Whilst we were in th middle of preparing things my younger sister called in to give us some help and also announced she is expecting another baby WOW!!! her youngest is 3 years and will of just started nursery when this new bundle arrives, her partner is a twin and last time they escaped the twin thing but this time he is convinced they will be bitten by the twin thing, she says now way but he is convinced so its more babies in our family.
On another WOW i had a fab parcel from clever cut today but i dare not say more yet, check back as i may spill the beans soon.

What an exciting week

Oh wow what a week, i have so much to share but at the moment im keeping tight lipped. I will however let the cat out of the bag as soon as everything is finalised, and it has rolled of the production line (oh theres a clue). Its so amazing what a diffence 24 hours can make.

Do you like my funky boy card?

Watch this space.

CUPCAKES and BLING

just got a quick card to share at the moment i will be back soon with a longer post

Ingredients:

Stamping up cardstock, stitched together.

Bazzil card stock for the hand cut and pieced cupcake, topped with a button, embellished with Stamping up chalks, perfect pearls and stickles.

Hero arts stamped sentiment, and finished with bling candles from me and my big ideas.

Loving My Circles

I received my circle nestabilities last week from here and ive been going circle mad ever since as you ca see from my 2 cards above.

The Tilda card was made using the largest circle then i cut out 6 medium circles and placed them to make a large flower. Embossed and coloured with chalks, tilda was coloured with WHSmiths watercolour pencils.

supplies: DCWV card stock (brights), SU chalks, Cuttlebug paisley embossing folder, ice stickles, butterfly (fly) stickers, and various ribbons.

The butterfly card.

I used a template for the butterfly from papercraft inspirations, chalked the edges then dotted stickles all over, i used various sized nestablilities circles and covered them with stickles or a butterfly (fly) sticker and added faux stiching.

Now ready for a rant, i went to the dentist on Friday and ended up having to have a large filling which was a shock but not as much shock as the bill, 44.60. That was the end of my stash shopping i had planned for the weekend.

Its DS 13th birthday tomorrow so we will be busy shopping with him all day he is after a new phone which we are buying him but then he will have lots of birthday money too so i can see it will be a long haul day.

Wallet card

After reading Tracy's blog last night i was stunned to see a wallet card that she had made, i knew it would be perfect for Fathers Day, so i could include gift vouchers, IOU for various treats etc. Tracys blog links to the papertrey ink blog, i have bought a few sets of these stamps and often broused the blog, i think from now on i should browse more often as there are some fantastic ideas on there. If you look to the left hand side of this blog you will see wallet card, clicking on this will lead you to the instructions.

This wallet card i have made for my Cousins Son, he is 14 so a lot of things are not cool at that age but im sure this will be a hit especially as there is money inside.

Thanks to everyone visiting my blog and leaving a comment its much appreciated.

Cards, Cards and more cards

Above are some cards ive made over the weekend

I also volunteered to make my cousins birth announcement / thankyou cards and im all crafted out (LOL) i had to make 25 so i made them nice but simple, as you can see, i have used the cuttlebug to emboss its a boy and then i glittered it and added the thank you sentiment.

i also had another 3 commissions to make all this weekend, as well as make cards to top up the boxes i keep at work and in another place.

I do however love doing the cute die cut cards they are so quick and simple yet the finished card looks brill, as you can see from the cute little duck card, i have used my Nestabilities to cut out a circle in the centre of the card then cut out a blue frame again using 2 sizes of the nestabilities to create the frame, i added a little chalk and painted highlights to the duck then placed him over the frame, after this i surrounded the frame with assorted buttons and finished off all over with ice stickles.