New Beginnings

Good Morning all,

Today my card is for a friend who likes to run and for all those who are hitting the gym to get rid of the Xmas joy! And as I seemed to have been doing  lot of CAS cards recently I thought I would try something with a more busy look. Plus, with a lot of help from my cousin Lynn, I finally got to use my spellbinders with my Big Shot-I used them to cut out the oval shape for the sentiment.

This card is being entered into the 'New Beginnings' challenges at ooh-la-la-creations challenges and crafty boots challenges. Also for the sketch challenge at skipping stones sketches

Have a good and relaxing Saturday.

Used for card:
digi stamp form Stamping Boutique
Card and paper-papermill direct, stampin' up
Sentiment digi-Hero Arts
Ink-Tim Holtz brushed corduroy
Ribbon-stash

Friends

Hang on in there-it is nearly the weekend!

I was playing again with my new toys yesterday and made this card using my new rubber stamp:

The sentiment is from create with TLC. I added the sparkle as the sentiment got a bit lost next to the stamp-hopefully it stands out a bit more now.

I am entering this into the challenge at Colour Throwdown . Also I chose flowers, sparkle and buttons to enter it into the bingo challenge at Challenge up your Life.

Have a good Friday x

Used in the card:
card and paper-back to basics from Dovercraft
Flower stamp and gems-kanban crafts
sentiment-create at TLC
buttons from one of my old slippers (really!)
Bakers twine-'not on the high street'

New toys!

Yesterday was good and bad in my craft world.

Good because a delivery of new toys arrived-embossing folders, die cuts, buttons, jute twine plus my first set of Kraft cards.
Bad because I couldn't get the die cuts to work and a digi print I wanted to use just wasn't playing for me.
So the afternoon ended with no cards being made and me being frustrated.

However today is another day and I was determined to use some of my new toys to make a very simple card. My cousin Lynn's crd earlier this week inspired me to make this card-you can view her card here The Mango Boys and Me and also at the bottom of this post-you will see she is the pro!

This card is for Fresh brewed Design 'pink, kraft and white' colour challenge. This challenge gave me chance to use my new embossed folder-I love this swirly design, I don't think you need to add much to a card when you use it.
I also got to use my kraft paper and jute twine.

And here is Lynn's card:


Hope you have a good and productive day x

Used in the card:
Embossing folder and kraft card from Handy Hippo
Twine from Not on the high street
Button from stash
Sentiment from Wild Rose Studio

Purple shakes off the Monday Blues!

My card today is using one of my favourite colour combos-purple and green

Less is More challenged us this week to craft something 'predominantely purple' and here is what I came up with..........in the CAS style naturally!!

I used my Big Shot to emboss the background to give this dotty look and also to make the flowers. The rubber stamp is from a set I have had for a while but not yet used (can't remember the source). I have used memento tuxedo black ink to stamp this onto lilac card that I cut into this ribbon tag.

I liked the way this came out but think I am swayed by that colour combo!!

Blooming thanks

At last the sun is out so a walk in the park is a must today. Before I go I want to share with you a card I made yesterday for my Mum and Dad. This is a thank you for Xmas but also for everything they do for us all year through.

I wanted to play with my new Big Shot and experiment with felt-another new thing for me and this what I came up with:

The challenges on Fab n Funky and Freshbrewed designs were to use something new you got for Xmas, so I thought this card would be suitable as my Big Shot is my new toy!

Hope this is the start of a good weekend for you all x

Used in my card:
Hero Arts digi 'say it' sentiments
Flower sizzilits
Kanban gems
Kanban brad

Loving Thursday

It is yukky windy weather here in London and staying inside and crafting is a must.

So today I had a go at making my first card using felt. The idea for this came from the challenge this week on Just Us Girls. My Mum gave me some felt that she has collected over the years from old Xmas decorations so I have recycled this to make my card-making it an ideal entry to for re-cycle challenge this week at Cards for Men.

I used my Big Shot to make the red felt and the challenge on Colour Throwdown this week was to combine red, black and silver so this was the inspiration for my colour combo.

The silver netting and wordy rubber sentiment came from Joanna Sheen. I have used Versa Magic 'cloud white' ink for the sentiment. There are a few 'love' challenges around at the moment as we prepare for Valentines and I have chosen to enter my card into the one at Crafty Sentiments.

And finally the true inspiration for this card came from the Christmas card Callum gave me-it is a very big card but gorgeous, suits my Xmas colours and is now a new collection to my decorations!

Happy New Year

I am a bit late but a Happy New Year to you all. May it be one full of health and happiness.

I have been doing some Thank you cards. Today's cards are different designs using the same stamps-both rubber and digi stamps:

These are going into challenges at I Brake for Challenges and Clear it Out .

Before I go a few pictures of New Year's Eve. The first is of my Dad who BBQ'd a trout-he is Scottish so the apron was a joke pressie that he will probably burn before Burns Night on the 25th January!

 And now a picture of my Mum and Dad giving us a demo of their 'X Factor' number they performed on Xmas Day-the family had their very own X Factor competition. Mum and Dad are singing 'Who wants to be a millionaire' and naturally they had to dress up and act........a family of exhibitionists-no not us!!

Have a good day xx

Used in my card:
Hero Arts-handwritten script digikit
Rubber word stamps and memento ink-sorry can't remember where I got stamps
My Grafico funky typewriter digi print.
Kanban crafts gem