Make a wish

I made this card a few nights ago, i was sat in my craft room with music pumping through my headphones wondering what i could do, my mojo was lost!  but with the help of the music and a few sheets of websters pages my mojo curse was broken.

Ive used websters icons and graphic 45 papers ive also used liquid pearls to add swirls to the background.

Theres nothing like music being good for the soul, a great pic me up, with a few favourite tunes you can tackle everything (including finding the elusive craft mojo)

Little bears and Stamping bella

Where has the time gone, it feels like only yesterday i made my last post, but 'twas Friday, i have been crafting but unfortunately i havnt had the time to update my blog, ive been busy doing my real 9-5 job (or that should read sometimes 6.30 am till 6pm),you know the one that pays the bills and lets me indulge in my craft hobby!

So i managed to get all the teacher Thank you cards finished, they were not all the same, some were similar here ive shown another 2 of the 8 i made.
The teddy bears are Lili of the valley stamps that my very sweet kind craft buddy sue jimson bought for me.

The yellow/green floral  card is made using create papers and my little shoe box flower die cuts. 

Now onto the 21st card, ive used my favourite stamping bella stamp, and all the papers are making memories SAM collection, lots of stickles, glossy accents and liquid pearls. All the cards have some element of distress inks on them and of couse ive used my trusty SplodgeAway mat, its the only way to get such suble results from your blending.

Thanks so much

Its almost the end of the school term so time to get cracking on the teacher thank you cards and gifts, this year I've gone for something quick and simple, each year i seem to have to make more as i cannot leave anyone out and as well as making things for my sons Teachers and TA's  i also make them for my nephew and nieces Teachers and TA's too.

I will make different variations of the card shown except for the only make teacher i will have to think of something else, something sporty as he is big on sport.

 For the gifts i plan to make decorated planners/journals. I bought some plain craft A5 planners so i plan on decorating them very similar to the cards although the flower will be on a tag attached to ribbon on the spine of the book so it Can be used as a book mark, because if the flower was to be attached to the front of the book it would be too bulky when writing in the planner.

Once I've got them finished i will post them on here for all to see. 

The leaves are cut on the cricut , the rolled flowers are diecuts from my little shoe box, the card is from suzicraft, the sentiment is stampin' up. ive also used my splodgeAway mat with walnut stain distress ink, and as always ive edged elements in stickles and liquid pearls.

Same die different card

I love that dress form die from spellbinders and just knew it would look gorgeous in a retail therapy themed card, ive also got an idea of a boutique shop window with the view into the shop and all those dress forms in the window, that will be my next card.

Having lovely papers always makes a big difference to your cards and these first edition papers are just perfect for the look i was after.

Ive edged the dress forms and card stock with diamond stickles and ive dotted around the centre cardstock with baby pink liquid pearls. 

The Quote is a digi download that i purchased a few years ago from charmed cards and crafts called Girls About Town

A Mammoth Task

Whoa......... where did the time go?

I cant believe how little I've blogged the last couple of weeks, the reason behind that is I've had a lot going on, I've been teaching a class at suzicraft so i had some prep to do, and this Saturday i have a demo day at suzicraft so again i have been prepping for that too. Also some of you may be aware splodgeAway could quite possibly coming to a certain crafting TV channel!!!!!! so I've been doing a little behind the scenes work making card samples, of course i can't show those on my blog so whilst my blog has been quiet i have been the very opposite. 

Today i had an earlier than expected finish from work so i took the mammoth task of tidying my craft area, Boy that was some task and it took a while, but on the plus side because it was all tidy it made me want to craft, as its my mam and dads anniversary tomorrow i thought id better get a start and make their card. 

I used some gorgeous websters pages and lots of matting and layering later i produced this lovely card.

Because the papers are so beautiful you don't need much else to create a gorgeous card in no time, the only other thing I've used id a little lace, bazzill cardstock, liquid pearls, heart pearls and stickles.