It's a first

so i introduced my promarkers to my very first saturated canary image, the image is gorgeous, its so cute.

Im happy with the colouring but im not happy with the finished card, i was making this very late last night/early morning as i seem to be hit with the cant sleep bug. The lighting for night isnt the best in my craft room, so the papers dont quite go with the colours in my image, i think if i hadnt inked the clouds it would of been a better match. Never mind we all make mistakes, ill just have to colour her again. watch out for attempt 2 and 3 in the coming weeks.
The papers and quote are all We are memory keepers, the flowers and bead trim are all wild orchid crafts.
im back to work later today so no crafting for me till later, again in the poor light :(

April Showers

over on Lili's little fairies challenge this week the challenge is transport, that is using anything that can be used as transport fairy wings, cars, boats skates etc i chose a lili of the valley image that was free with one of the crafting magazines (i cant remember which) im sure the bunny flying with an umbrella is still transport even if its not conventional.
I coloured my image with promarkers, and then inked the cloud back ground (again!)

Ive used a mixture of pink petticoat and My Minds Eye papers they are all matted onto bazzill card, and the edges have been coloured with colorbox egg plant ink pad.

Ive used Wild orchid flowers, the sentiment is also lilli of the valley, the cabochon is from my old button box . As its April and its done nothing but rain on and off i decided to include a few rain drops on my image, i used stardust stickles for the rain and also covered each edge with them.

Ive entered this card in the following challenges:

Lili's little fairies - transport

simon says stamp - April showers bring spring flowers

papertake weekly - april showers (or water water everywhere)

papercraft star - umbrellas

On to a very sad note my uncle Harvey passed away last night, it was a blessing for him to be out of pain and suffering but heartbreaking for the family, thanks to everyone for your kind words. RIP Harvey 1939 - 2012 forever in our hearts xx

Thank you

I've made a couple of thank you cards in preparation to give to the nurses who are caring for my uncle in his final days, he has been in hospital since 24th February so we've built up a bit of a bond with them. I've made them quite simple inking and embossing with very little embellishments.
I'm hoping to post a little more often once things get back to normal, thanks for the emails of support and for listening to me ramble on x

Special delivery

I was asked to make a baby card for a friend who's daughter is expecting a baby boy any day now, so I inked up a lili of the valley stamp I've coloured it with promarkers. I've used a spell binder die for the circle and inked everything in walnut stain, the papers are first edition and they have been edged with walnut stain and stardust sticklers. Ive added a star button from my stash box and the flowers are wild orchid crafts. I've left a space for a sentiment as she would like the name and date of birth etc on it.
I was up real early this morning as I couldn't sleep so i occupied my mind with card making, I will have another to share with you tomorrow
Ive entered this card in the following challenges:
stamping for the weekend- teddy bears
simon says stamp - use your favoutite tool (ive used my cuttlebug)
Lili's little fairies - ribbons bows and buttons

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone, i hope you havnt eaten all of your choccy eggs already.
Im sorry its just a quick post from me today, things are still not good, im spending all day from 10am till 8pm at hospital because time is precious its draining and heartbreaking but it has to be done.
iIhavnt got any creativity to share today so i thought i would share a blog giveaway i found over on The Ribbon Girl you can win a gorgeous bling kit go and check it out, you have to be in it to win it.

Penny black

It's been a while since inking up this stamp, but it will always be an old favourite. I've coloured it with promarkers, the papers are old and I can't remember they could be making memories. Flowers are wild orchid crafts and as always edged in sticklers. not much else to share as my spare time is spent at the hospital,
Im entering this card in the following challenges:
I Love Promarkers - springtime
cupcake inspirations -

new lili of the valley

Im so excited i received my new lili of the valley stamps today, i was at work 7 till 12 and waiting in my craft was was an envelope of loveliness, i got one of the new releases and few of the older ones plus a set of sentiments. i couldn't wait to ink them up.

I used "Happy Together" and made a 6 x6 card in no time ive been making a lot of 8 x8 so this seemed to be finished in half the time.
I coloured the image in with promarkers the background was created using a combo of promarkers and ink pads, the clouds were done using a scalloped template., i then matted it on textured pearlescent card, available from suzicraft, the background papers are from October afternoon and making memories, ive used wild orchid flowers ribbon, pins and a cameo cabochon for embellishments. the sentiment is also lili of the valley. all the layers are finished of with a sparkle of stickles. m entering this card into Lili's little fairies challenge - anything goes

Im off to the hospital shortly so will probably craft some more when i get back to occupy my mind.

Birthday rosette

I made this card for a wonderful person........ Tom along with his partner susan is the owner of suzicraft and today happens to be his birthday.last night I set to work on his card, I had to sit and think for a while as its a mans card the ideas don't flow so easy. I remembered seeing a card made on create and craft in the spellbinders hour and thought I would do something loosely based around that idea,ad I don't possess any of the dies used I had to improvise.i used the cricut and cut out 3 O's from the winter woodland cartridge I then embossed them and inked them before entwining them, I then threaded a paper strip through them. To finish it off I made a Rosette and used an inkadinkadoo sentiment. The papers are we are memory keepers. I'm so sorry for the poor picture it was taken last might on my IPhone.
Happy birthday Tom!
I've enjoyed my day off today I took my daughter on a little retail therapy before we popped into the craft shop, I did of course have to buy myself a few goodies. The day was just what was needed to take our mind of the the sad situation we have.

Freebies!

Would you like to own these goodies? Simply join in the April challenge on the Suzicraft forum. Really Easy.....simply add a card into the forum for each week in April...any card...Christmas, general, easter, ANYTHING! Please feel free to add this onto your facebook pages, blogs, etc x

The prize includes

spectrum noir pens, marriane swirl die, stamps from various companies, 5 packs of 8x sheets of pearlescent card, mirror card, hat pins, reels of ribbons, bows and much more.

Big butterflies

I've got another tilda Easter card to share with you today, isn't she cute.
I've coloured her with pro markers and I've lightly sponged the background with stamping' up ink and yellow chalk ink.
The flowers are by wild orchid crafts as it the pearl trim, the gorgeous big ribbon is from a seller I found on Facebook can you believe she had an offer on so it worked put at 15p a metre.
The papers I've used are from the first edition spring drop pad. Now on to that gorgeous big butterfly it's made from feathers and came in a pack of 9 from home bargains (a UK shop) they were cheap as chips so think I will try and get some more.
I will come back later and link it to some challenges, I know there are a lot of Easter themed ones this week
Magnolia down under - Easter inspired
Just Magnolia - springtime
simon says stamp - anything goes
i love promarkers - bead it
cute card thursday - easter
addicted to stamps - spring

On to a very sad note, the reason I haven't posted everyday is because my uncle is gravely I'll, I mentioned in one of my earlier posts about him having a very long operation well he has never recovered from it and we got the very sad news last week that he only has days left so I've been spending all spare available time at the hospital and comforting family, so I apologise in advance if my posts get few are far between in the next week or so.

Easter time

Im still feeling unwell but i couldnt resist using my new goodies.
As Easter is almost upon us and I wanted to make a cute card because I had some lovely Easter papers that were in the first edition spring drop pad, I used magnolia stamps and coloured them in promarkers. I saw a fellow blogger the lovely karen using cloud die cuts on her card and it looked lovely so i decided to give it a go unfortunately I don't have that die so I hand cut mine. I inked the edges with stampin up ink pads, then edged everything in stardust stickles. All of the embellishments including the pearl trim are from wild orchid crafts.
Im entering this in the following challenges
Cute card Thursday - Easter
Simon says stamp - anything goes
I love Promarkers - bead it

Feeling sorry for myself

Why is it when you've got so many things to do you never get round to doing them. I'm full of cold and although I've never suffered with hay fever i fear it may be starting, I've got pain in my nose and my eyes and nose are streaming so much you'd think I was crying eyes out. Being a woman though we just get on with it, I'm still going to work but don't feel up to doing much else, that was until today!
I received some parcels from the postman a lovely delivery from wild orchid crafts and some eBay parcels, I'm also waiting on some lush ribbons and my lili of the valley stamps, I'm going to wait until tea is out of the way then I'm going to get started on this new stash, here's a peek of a few of my new deliveries, I'm just loving the new cameos, in fact I love them so much I've ordered 300 from china so I will be sharing a few of them when they arrive just drop me a line and when they arrive I'll send some to you.

stepper card

Another bright card today again this is using one of my new stamps, i really do need some new flowers as im slowly running out so ive use dread on this card because i didnt have any yellow/orange left i know i could of stained them but my mind wasnt 100% on the job, ill tell you more about that another time.

The images are cupcake kids by splodge away, available from suzicraft soon. Ive coloured them with both promarkers and distress inks, the stepper card is handmade just folded from a 5 x 7 card blank. ive used some really old basic grey papers, the sentiment is stampin' up the flourish was cut on the cricut.
Im sure i said i wasnt too fussed on orange and purple, then why is it ive made a glutton of orange cards lately???
Note to oneself i must not use orange for the next card

Although the sun has been shining today i havnt been sat out in it, im not one to really like sitting in the sun, give me a pool to lay in and im happy, but just sitting!!! (no thanks, id rather sit inside, am i strange?) That might explain why im a lighter shade of Pale.

spring has sprung

here is another of yesterdays makes, i was inspired by the gorgeous spring weather we are having, all the daffs are fully in bloom and the gardens are a sea of yellow, so i chose to transfer that to my card.

Ive used a lili of the valley stamp coloured with distress inks and edged with distress inks and stickles. the flowers are WOC the leave ribbon was from an old kit, papers are we are memory keepers, websters pages and first edition.

I am on my last day off today ive enjoyed a lovely long weekend with the family. It wont be long untill the next one the kids break up from school on friday for the easter break 2 weeks of fun, ill will share the long weekend but then back to work for me :(

Im going to have a browse now and see what challenges my card will fit.

I love promarkers - 3 different papers

Do you stack up - plaid

something to share and exciting news

after a famine of crafting ive finally had my feast today, i havnt made anything since tuesday and was nearly a little rusty lol.
The card im sharing today showcases one of my very own stamp designs (yay!! excitement) This is one of a collection of 10 called cupcake kids, they are supplied by splodge away and will be available from suzicraft soon.
The papers are all MME and have all been distressed with walnut stain and the edges glittered with stickles paprika and gold. The image was coloured with distress inks, the stars and sentiment cut on the cricut and the ribbon is east of India.

I will be giving you more sneak peaks of the new stamps in due course.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

Papertake weekly - BINGO diecuts, free and glitter
cute card Thursday - anything goes
Stampin for the weekend - anything goes

burnt out

I'm so sorry for not having any updates for you, just letting you know im still around lol, i think ive burnt the candle at both ends a little too often over the last week or so, i felt burnt out i havnt had any energy to do a thing, ive had a couple of days off work to recharge my batteries but not produced much craftyness although i have been on a crafty shopping spree, i visited suzicrafts and bought a few staples card blanks, card stock and stickles. i also went to hobbycraft (usually overpriced) and got a few bargains, flowers, adhesive and promarkers. Then ive had an online shop of card boxes, seam bindings, adhesive and stamps (please dont let the bank manager see this!)
with any luck after ive done lunch tomorrow im going to play in my crafty cubbyhole all afternoon and evening, fingers crossed ill have something to share x

lots of sparkle

I had a request for a large easel christening card, with only one days notice so i used my trusty LOTV image as i didnt have time to search through stamps for an alternative image. i worked on it until almost 11.00pm (and i had an early start at work the next morning) but it was all worth it when i was well received, i took the photos last night when i had finished as i didnt have time to wait until daylight, you always get a better sparkle at night but lots of shadows, during the day you get a crisp image but loose the sparkle. The picture was taken on the iPhone so its captured the sparkle but the image isnt as good quality as i prefer.

The papers are by first edition and have been distressed with walnut stain then edged in gold stickles, the image was coloured with distress inks, i will link it with some challenges when ive had a browse to see where it will fit.

Im linking it to Simon says stamp bit o green

Crazy for challenges - green
Im not sure ill have a card for to show you tomorrow as ive got an early start again in the morning so i may have an early night so that means no crafting :(

Next week there are some new release stamps at Lili of the valley so i had better save some of my pennies so i dont miss out on them

ship ahoy

I think im now on a roll with my magnolias, its like buses none for ages then they all come at once!

Coloured with distress inks using the new splodge away mat, every layer has been stickled and edges distressed with walnut stain, apart from the bazzill the only patterned paper ive used is a cloud one by WMK. the mesh is again from the pack mentioned in Saturdays post (from suzicraft) all the embellishments are cut from the cricut dress up dolls cartridge.
Sorry about the poor pic it was taken on my iphone.

Im entering this in just magnolia challenge - green
The shabby tea room - flags, ive been inspired by the colours duck egg blue/green and ive included a flag
Simon says stamp - bit o green

Not too sure

Yesterday I was pottering in my craft room I started pushing bits of paper around on a card but nothing was coming too me, it just didn't look right so after 20 minutes of staring at it bingo it hit me, the problem was the size of the base card, I changed it from a 5 x 7 to a 6 x 6 then it all just fell into place. I think I over did it on the strong colour for the background , next time I use black soot I will make sure it's more subtle, I think it's all came together pretty well to think at the beginning I was going to give up. The moral of this story is if in doubt change the size lol
Im enetering this into the wild orchid crafts challenge - Bingo, ive used gems, flowers ribbon/lace

Happy Mothers Day

wishing all you mams (moms, Mums) out there a very happy mothers day. I was so busy making everyone elses mam a mothers day card that i only got around to making my mam one last night.
Again i used the sweet tilda with parasol and made an 8 x8 easel card i distressed it, glittered it used MME papers as well as the freebie websters papges, i used rafia for the bow this was a bargain from suzicrafts, the pack contained 2 pieces of material hessian, rafia, magic mesh type etc in 2 different colours for only 75p needless to say i bought a few diffrent ones. the image was coloured with distress inks.
Im going to be back later to link it up with a few challenges.

here are the challenges im entering this week

simon says stamp - bit o' green
cute card Thursday- 4th birthday celebration
Just Magnolia - green
Today im planning on visiting my mam (i visit her every day so thats nothing different) get a few bits and bobs from the shop then relax and craft, Ashleigh bought me a craft magazine as part of my mothers day pressent only it was one i already had but i was still over the moon as it was the one with the free websters pages and the rate im using them up i will be into the 2nd pad in no time.

crafty afternoon

Today i was working a short early shift at work 7 till 11 so when i came home i had my cuppa, some lunch and quick chat with martin before he went and got some shut eye (he works nights). I then had the whole afternoon to craft as i didn't even have to go and pick up sam from school.

I decided to make an easel card using a magnolia image tilda with parasol, ive coloured her with a mix of promarkers and distress inks ive also edged everything in a mix of brushed corduroy, tattered rose and walnut stain flowers and also prima chiffon flowers, the centre of the flower is actually a snowflake button from dress it up, the leaves, corners and butterfly were cut on the cricut, the greeting wqs generated on the computer and everything is edged with a sparkle of stickles. Im going to enter tis card in the following challenges

simply magnolia anything goes
cute card Thursday birthday or celebration
Do You Stack Up favourite colour

Papertake weekly one for the girls

Im going to visit my local craft shop tomorrow (suzicraft) as ive got the whole day off to get crafty, i shall be a happy bunny :)

House Mouse

My house mouse stamps have been very neglected of late, so ive dug one out for this mothers day card, i love house mouse and have done since i first started crafting, they were hard to come by in the uk so i remember spending a small fortune ordering them from house mouse in America, unfortunately i gave up crafting for a couple of years and sold almost all of my stamps but im in the process of building them back up again.

Ive coloured it with promarkers and distressed with tattered rose ink, the papers are websters pages, again from the freebie with the magazine, hand rolled flowers and seam binding which ive pleated along the bottom, everything is edged with stardust stickles.

Im entering this in the following challenges:

make it monday anything goes
papertake weekly one for the girls
cute card thursday sketch
I ♥ ProMarkers

Mother's Day

one of the many cards ive made for mother's day, this one has a vintage feel to it, ive used a LOTV stamp and this time ive stamped it in memento London fog as i wanted a more softer outline rather than the harsh black, i coloured it with my trusty promarkers and edged everything in distress inks walnut stain and stickles, the leaves were a negative from some leaves id cut from the cricut and i simply put patterned paper behind it, its a good use for something i would of thrown away. The patterned papers are websters pages, as are the handmade flowers.

Im entering this into the following challenges
make it mondays -anything goes

Papertake weekly -anything goes

stampin for the weekend - shabby chic
Simon says stamp - mothers day